post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWNhZGY5NWUtMzc0Yi00YTQzLWI5YzEtZTMzMWZmOTNmZTQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTA0MjU0Ng@@._V1_.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/The_Ritz_1976.jpg/220px-The_Ritz_1976.jpg

The Ritz, 1976

even more claustrophobic:

https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/JamieF-EW/ritz-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(1).jpg

better view of the Hirschfeld on the VHS poster:

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/newsite/movies/1970s/1976/reg/ritz_vid.jpg

Speaking of baffling punctuation in pullquotes:

https://i.imgur.com/zhc9hF0.jpeg

The Doberman Gang, 1972.

hahahahaha

entertainment for exciting families only

Is your family STAID and BORING? Would they be SHOCKED to see a MAN TORN APART by TRAINED DOGS beneath a PEACH-LIKE ASS in TIGHT PEACH HIPSTERS? Then STAY AWAY from THE DOBERMAN GANG, lame-o!

Rated PG.

Folks were hardier back then.

They toned things down for the sequel, presumably to make it more accessible.

https://i.imgur.com/kCxA1ik.jpeg

(The Daring Dobermans, 1973)

tbqh i was not really expecting the dobermans to be running for office

maybe they do that in the first one

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pszbJ-KTL._AC_.jpg

In 1976, one of two posters leaned away from both (human) caricature and carnage, in order to focus more heavily on amazing doberman action.

https://i.imgur.com/d0B86qh.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/vU4TDmN.jpeg

Evidently this didn't work, as they re-released it two years later under a new title that disregarded dogs completely.

These doberman movies are fucking me up. It was doberman mania in the 70s I guess.

there was a tv movie sequel as well!

oddly this franchise never quite seemed to win over americans' hearts like Benji.

four flicks ain't bad tbh

plus from C.H.O.M.P.S upthread

'(Joe) Barbera recalled that (Z.) Arkoff's son Louis suggested that rather than a Doberman, the dog would have to be a non-threatening dog in the Benji mold. Barbera attributes this change in focus in the story to the film's lackluster performance at the box office. In his autobiography, Barbera wrote that the film "did okay... but it never made the splash it should have." Because of this, the future film deals between Hanna-Barbera and AIP were canceled.'

Also from wikipedia, it was originally released as a PG film in American summer, then edited for dog profanity and reissued as a G at Christmas.

No way am I not taking that new-DN bait.

Better still...

Ok, I'm in.

https://i.imgur.com/JoXN3QL.jpg

The dogs look much friendlier there than on the posters

Fred Astaire: can't sing, can't act, can dance a little hold on to three dobermans.

does anybody remember laughter?

https://i.imgur.com/5JQ4JMp.jpg

Please Sir!, 1971

(full movie)

https://i.imgur.com/gQffGxE.jpg

Father, Dear Father, 1973

https://i.imgur.com/uhF4tAa.jpg

Love Thy Neighbour, 1973

before we leave Dobermania behind, i just want to note my disapproval of the spelling on the blurb for The Daring Dobermans, declaring "the hip-est heist in history."

sorry Doc, get on the bus or get left behind!!

https://i.imgur.com/3Wi8p6H.jpg

On The Buses, 1971

https://i.imgur.com/iwT3xvU.jpg

Mutiny On The Buses, 1972

https://i.imgur.com/5nCsS9n.jpg

Holiday On The Buses, 1973. Great variation on the theme here tbh.

The artist clearly used the same photo ref for Blakey on both caricatures. Also, bring back age ratings as genial as that on Mutiny imo.

NB that the first On The Buses film was cracked out in between a 13-episode Series 4 and a 15-episode Series 5, in 13 months. The two creator/writer/producers finally got a bit peaked and had another pair write the last two episodes. The next series started seven weeks later and ran seven eps, all written by those guests and another two-man team; the second film was out two months after that, less than a year after the first. 35 eps and two hit feature films in twenty months total. (Probably twenty laughs total across the lot of 'em.)

while we're riding, here's a clearer version of The Big Bus than previously posted itt

https://i2.wp.com/moviesandmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rottweiler-dogs-of-hell-1982-greek-vhs-cover.jpg?resize=308%2C505&ssl=1

Wow, between the doberman and bus cinematic universes this has been a banner day for you, sic, and for this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z82WA-Xk408

Now that's what I call a DOG Day Afternoon!

Rising Damp: The Movie (1980)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/%22Rising_Damp%22_%28film%29.jpg

Porridge (1979)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/716J11VLyqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

wow can't believe both those can't miss titles had never been used before - obvious box-office magnets both

I am all for a thread on the shitty, pointless movie versions of classic British sitcoms tbh. Were there any that were any good? Not sure I can face Rising Damp without Richard Beckinsale, and I'm sure all suffer for the lack of a laugh track.

Would rep for the Porridge movie, was on just before Christmas and despite it’s extended length didn’t waste any of it.

Can’t say I’ve seen Rising Damp, but yes, no Beckinsale must affec5 it.

The Ritz is kinda... good? many xps

Don’t want to derail thread, but this may be of interest https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/great-british-cinematic-sitcom

mutiny on the buses poster has strong cover connection vibes with this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Miles_Davis_On_The_Corner.jpg

both came out in 1972 with the miles record a few months after the film

Porridge movie is totally up to par iirc (from one TV watch in the 80s): directed by Clement as well as being written (like all the episodes) by Clement & La Frenais. Also, curiously, is a mid-quel: came out in 1979, over a year after the Porridge TV sequel Going Straight, and jumps back to Fletch in prison, set in 1976 - the series had only aired a Christmas special that year.

wow can't believe both those can't miss titles had never been used before - obvious box-office magnets both

always love Doc Casino being bemused that these adaptations of sitcoms were successful despite using the title and stars of the sitcoms :)

but FPing snoball for using some shitty sub-sub-Tom-Sharpe-paperback 21st century DVD cover.

https://i.imgur.com/JZ8KhDM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0eJ2n7n.jpg

especially when this double-feature existed:

https://i.imgur.com/x6EXkEH.jpg

The yellow poster appears to be a Canadian distributor's attempt to lol-up the grimy shot-in-a-real-prison vibe btw

another vote from me for the Porridge movie. Can't say I ever caught the Rising Damp one though.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/583c906ebe659429d1106265/1610144103944-JGYO5C723KRFWUNO8D6B/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kEnSoHYDKc1Vb9Qqmmey2VkUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8GRo6ASst2s6pLvNAu_PZdJA-hHPFKvWHM3688Ee3tjINDaQYaMWp0yx7wQKbhGMduisrcZzh-9kib3P9MhVpjo/tumblr_o70xc35BsJ1tqyfuro1_1280.jpg?format=750w

Sheena Queen of the Jungle, 1985

(RIP Tanya Roberts)

ty for link Dan W - Not only structurally but also economically, the sitcom is a format that, despite a few notable American examples, rarely translates.

idk if I can think of any US sitcom conversions at all, let alone successful ones (not counting parodies or reboots like Brady Bunch or Addams Fam. wait! The Nude Bomb, which sucks.)

I have already been trying to imagine an Inbetweeners movie poster with painted big heads / tiny bodies, but had forgotten it was at the tail end of a renewed boom in sitcom flicks post-Bean.

the Miles cover actually connects to the Love Thy Neighbour cover better imo. white women restrain their friend's husbands from punching their own husband over being called a "nig-nog" like this.

idk if I can think of any US sitcom conversions at all, let alone successful ones

https://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/criterionposter2_orig.jpg

but FPing snoball for using some shitty sub-sub-Tom-Sharpe-paperback 21st century DVD cover.

The DVD cover / Canadian poster fits the 'busy/claustrophobic caricature style' of this thread better.

The Porridge movie is really good, mainly because it's written by Clement & La Frenais as more or less an extended episode of the TV series, nearly all the regular cast reprise their roles, and they're all on top form.

The Rising Damp movie is shit. It's worse than the Steptoe & Son movies. Actually I think it might be even worse than the Are You Being Served? movie (which I saw one rainy holiday afternoon on TV in the 80s).

XP

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TFLwp5PgL._AC_.jpg

Thought about Batman (great movie conversion, not a sitcom rly), Monkees might count - are there settings or premises that exist in both, though?

The Steptoe And Son movie posters are a bit caricaturey and busy, and by the last one here are adopting that bobblehead/chibi style to fit in with their peers. (1972, 1973)

https://i.imgur.com/31nUvN0.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/W1JH8gs.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ftGk9CD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/L0p5ipP.jpg