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

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

Although it turns out an early Galton/Simpson might have invented both that and the "photo-head-on-cartoon-body" variant of other Britsitflicks, as seen here and then further modifed here

Not fitting any of these patterns, but worth being bemused by their design choices: the two Death Us big-screeners.

HEAD, being an acid film, is likely fairly unique among tv to movie adaptations in basically all respects. nothing really to do with the in-universe premise of their show but everything to do with the real-world premise of making the show. and if it has a plot, it's an allegory for them making the movie and escaping the show.

i mean maybe true of "Rising Damp" as well, haven't seen it

Is it just a combo of printing quality and jpg compression, or does it look like this Galton/Simpson joint was repainted for different territories?

https://i.imgur.com/X6BvqBb.jpg

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


https://i.imgur.com/Aqo0ikt.jpg

The Spy with a Cold Nose, 1966

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2MxNjI1MzMtMjE1NS00NmQ5LTg5YTctOGFiNDFhODM2ZDBjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzU0NzkwMDg@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

The Wrong Guys (1988)

the movie that had to be made

"Hey, can't wait for scouting to get a taste of the same medicine they gave the police and the army"

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODVhNjIwMTItZjJhOC00NzE0LThmMTUtNTRhZWI4MmMxNDkwL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats AKA Heartbreak High (1981)

Wrong Guys is an impressively late entry, and also makes me wish Hard Ticket To Hawaii had one of these.


(the Kinky Coaches have been here before, linking to the exact same file, to give credit to Grisso)

One last (early) Galton/Simpson joint, with a different approach to busy and caricature, just because it's charming:

https://i.imgur.com/5SLnMB1.jpg

The Wrong Arm Of The Law, 1963

whoops

https://i.imgur.com/5SLnMB1.jpg

the Kinky Coaches have been here before ... sorry, i usually search but i was sure i hadn't seen that one here before.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDU3ZDQ0YWQtNGMzZS00MmE3LWJiMWEtMWM0ZTc2NjA2N2RkL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

Gus (1976)

there are more disney ones in this style... especially claustrophobic:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjY3MTE1YzEtODI4My00NGI1LTk2Y2QtMTE1MjBmMjE0ZDMxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTBjYjliNmItZDk5My00MWZiLWFkYzMtOTI2MzVkMzA0MzE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDMxMjQwMw@@._V1_UY1200_CR62,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

Irish Whiskey Rebellion, 1972

Sorry, horse in a grey flannel suit, I will only join in on a 60% fun-in

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/cinderella2000_465_690_int.jpg

Style is naggingly familiar. Looks a bit like Fastner & Larson, with Ron Embleton's colour approach?

A couple of alternate posters here, at least one apparently by Gray Morrow:

http://weirdposters.blogspot.com/2008/04/cinderella-2000-1977-usa.html

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/375/0810/26/night-robbed-big-berthas-pressbook-75_375_3e8054d98b78f2b5a377d4e0559428dc.jpg

The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's, 1975

Cinderella 2000 wasn't the only sexy Cinderella released in 1977

https://i.imgur.com/8c6pmIt.jpg

Cinderella (1977)

which, to avoid and/or create further confusion, was re-released as

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

The Other Cinderella (1977)

Cinderella of Sexness

At the ball, the Prince indulges in a blindfolded orgy with every willing woman in his kingdom, but finds himself bored by them all until he encounters Cinderella's magical vagina. He falls instantly in love with her, but before he can learn her true identity, the clock strikes midnight, and the Fairy Godmother rushes Cinderella away with the full court in pursuit ("Oh, A Snapper!").

The following day, the Prince must have sex with every woman in the land in order to identify his beloved. By the time he reaches Cinderella's house, he is so exhausted that he must be brought in on a stretcher, and Cinderella must approach him cowgirl style. Recognizing "the snapper," the Prince declares Cinderella to be the girl he loves, and the two depart for the palace.

um spoilers much?!???!!

my partner collects tapes and we're always on the lookout for these but mostly it's the same crap from the format's peak years in the late 90s. best chance sadly is really long-established video stores that never updated their stock doing going out of business sales. ive posted abt this before but I once got really wistful at one of these finding an ollld, pre-clamshell disney tape, think it was a herbie movie. yellowed cream background, always-yellow 70s font, still frame of the movie. what my childhood looked like.

― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, September 29, 2015 2:20 PM (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/qGsM9M3.jpg

a herbie movie, 1968

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

This re-release poster for The Love Bug was less busy and made the claustrophobia more confusing

Betting that the punctuation was a late note to the designer here.

https://i.imgur.com/lP5tYJe.jpg

Herbie Rides Again, 1974

This seems to have had a whole series of non-caricature but delightful cartoony posters

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0057/3728/3618/products/6e55ba84678ec20a0985e5fe4185162a_2f4d466d-1bbc-4bef-af0e-11ffcbd6cb62_480x.progressive.jpg?v=1573591502

What a cast

Unfortunately, they are in a terrible movie

A movie that would be bad even if Peter Sellers wasn't in yellowface.

DID YOU KNOW

(because I didn't)

that the first two Herbies are from the same writer / director pairing as

https://i.imgur.com/HO4IapH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TVAh0mk.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/3CZ2IUs.jpg

The Absent-Minded Professor, 1961

AND THAT Herbie Rides Again is a sequel to both that, and to The Love Bug, and to

https://i.imgur.com/iFGKT0B.jpg

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

https://i.imgur.com/L0r5QEi.jpg

Son Of Flubber, 1963.


Which was Disney's first sequel ever, and apparently also inaugurated a previously unheralded FLUBBER CINEMATIC UNIVERSE?