The Villain, a Hal Needham live-action version of Wile E. Coyote, was very poorly reviewed in 1979.
https://i.imgur.com/f520LOw.jpg
This may or may not be why it was rebranded as Cactus Jack and given a Jack Davis poster for Australian release.
https://i.imgur.com/ATVwx9u.jpg
(the latter has linkrotted from three years ago. as they say, hueg villain, [url=https://i.imgur.com/A15blSt.jpg]hueg cactus.)
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
cactus jack Davis poster is an amazing relic of a thankfully lost age, dang davis was good at that stuff
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
you can't fault his attention to detail: he even got freckles in Ann-Margret's cleavage.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
somehow made schwarzenegger entirely recognizable in a cowboy costume without overdoing any element of his signature look
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervan_(film)#/media/File:Supervan-film-poster.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
Grisso posted a Hannibal Brooks poster a while ago, but the Winner/Reed/Clement/LaFrenais joint had multiple variations and foreign alts. This is the best one, imo, and tragically this seems to be the largest version on the internet:
https://i.imgur.com/JUaClSO.jpeg
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 11 April 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
larger version found on ebay
― visiting, Sunday, 11 April 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
there are loads of that SUPERSOLDIER IN THE SUPER ADVENTURE! variation :) there's a vertical left-justified of the "I'm the hero" one that doesn't work as well, plus this one, which is a good-but-not-as-good take on the joke and cuts off more of the image.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
Loved that movie as a kid. I'm guessing it's not good.
― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Monday, 12 April 2021 07:38 (three years ago) link
Richard Lester's How I Won The War (1967) poster was so claustrophobic that it crammed its two lead soldiers into one tin pan hat
https://i.imgur.com/MbWDCKL.jpg
hueg
For some reason, the French didn't care about Crawford, the young star of two of Lester's previous four films, and decided to focus on his colleague, who'd merely been an ensemble lead in the other two.
https://i.imgur.com/mzvs3rP.jpg
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 12 April 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/710a8YfSXcL._AC_SY550_.jpg
Dear Brigette, 1965
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 02:42 (three years ago) link
^^hueg
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
Stewart in a Cinemascope screwball seems so promising, but him in anything post-1959 is a warning - and the wiki is larded with quotes from the co-screenwriter about how poorly-conceived the project was from option to premiere.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Jimmy...
https://www.limitedruns.com/media/cache/83/9c/839c37ee19937a99a1c616362114ad2f.jpg
The Magic of Lassie, 1978
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
RIP Richard Rush
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREfr0UjB3eBnrlkAyhEeotctEsnKryNapYo1_SAoA8gwEiPuE5HnOBiBwHl-zQvxjFFzutv9CX&usqp=CAc
Psych-Out, 1968
https://mikestakeonthemovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/freebie-poster.jpg
hueg VHS cover
Freebie and The Bean, 1974
The paperback was posted above the fold by me (now linkrotted) and uses the caricature element from the poster
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
oh man those are both great, plus the VHS
here's a huge Psych-Out and a completely different painting in the same layout for Spanish release
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 05:03 (three years ago) link
all of the styles in The Magic of Lassie poster, but especially the simpler line drawing people just above the title, were ubiquitous in my childhood, especially in children's readers assembled between, oh, 69-82... they need names and coffee table books.
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HFkRyPb.jpg
Young Americans (1967), the only film to ever have an Oscar rescinded
(the titular choir were found to be lip-syncing test screenings in one theatre in North Carolina were deemed to count as a release in the previous year)
larger
the horizontal version is better but you are looking at the largest version that appears to exist on the internet:
https://i.imgur.com/HxPbyNa.jpg
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
the Danny Cannon / David Arnold / Harvey Keitel remake took substantial liberties with the plot iirc
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
Doc dropped the first Morecambe & Wise film four years ago, with some classic big-head-little-body action, but they were just getting started.
https://i.imgur.com/ikg16B1.jpeg
That Riviera Touch (1966)
(a little larger)
vertical version, clearer colours
alt version:
https://i.imgur.com/WyqaC7a.jpeg
(alt hueg)
other takes on the alt
more info: http://www.artofdiving.co.uk/2016/04/two-of-kind-that-riviera-touch.html
Their one-a-year film career dried up after
https://i.imgur.com/IDwvoiV.jpeg
The Magnificent Two (1967)
which sadly doesn't seem to exist larger. here's a three-colour version that looks great (but is just as small)
And this poster with an alternate title looks like an Italian adaptation of The Spirit
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 23 April 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
Retweeted by Ned:
🥩🍤🫑🍖🍝🥘🍰🌶🍸🦪🥗🍲Hello. I will regularly be posting recipes from this Celebrity Cookbook from 1981, so either bookmark or mute this thread as necessary, thank you🥩🍤🫑🍖🍝🥘🍰🌶🍸🦪🥗🍲 pic.twitter.com/Fmv9b0o3Uy— Ben Boyer (@sleezsisters) April 26, 2021
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
lol wow, that's great.
i recognize Fawcett, Savalas, Streisand, Allen, Hope, Coburn, Montalban... not sure about the others. I suppose the blonde with the big hair has to be Dolly Parton though it's not a great drawing. maybe Peter Lorre? Lucille Ball? Fred Astaire? Not sure about the others.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
lee marvin in the middle?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
I think the Peter Lorre-looking one might be Jackie Gleason?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
Sammy Davis Jr?Gene Kelly top left?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
oh yeah, Marvin, not Coburn. had considered Davis and Kelly but wasn't sure.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
i'd say:kelly, montalban, astaire, streisand, savalasfawcett, Marvin, Davis JrHope, Parton, Allen, Gleason, Ball
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
excellent work! now we just need to try all the recipes.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
Can't speak to Kelly, and couldn't get Montalban on my own, but that looks right to me
(agreed that it's a terrible Dolly, if Dolly it be)
xp
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
now we just need to try all the recipes.
"John Cassavetes Minted Beef Balls"
what's yr take onminted beef balls
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImage/A1S7_1_201806241657230054.jpg
Unbeatable Harold, 2006/9
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
beatable
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
zoomed in on the signature:
Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)Grandma's Boy― ͼѾͽ (sic), Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:35 AM (seven years ago)
― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)
Grandma's Boy
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:35 AM (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/QW5Ss8f.jpg
(2006, man-sized)
Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)detroit rock city?― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:18 AM (seven years ago)
detroit rock city?
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:18 AM (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/n9Pmesn.jpg
(space-man-sized)
Another throwback:
https://i.imgur.com/e3k9VOs.jpg
Chillerama (2011)
(big chill)
one of a few alts:
https://i.imgur.com/bnM1FST.jpg
(chilleramascope)
A remake throwback in reference to the JD og
https://i.imgur.com/IVySG28.jpg
Bad News Reboot (2005)
(big bears - doin' thang)
Adapting the style for
https://i.imgur.com/m0biu7C.jpg
The Last Shot (2004)
The plot of The Last Shot is loosely based on the true story of an FBI sting operation code-named Dramex. Dramex was run by FBI agent Garland Schweickhardt, who recruited aspiring screenwriters Dan Lewk and Gary Levy to participate unwittingly in a sting operation aimed at ensnaring mobsters and Teamsters union officials in a bribery scheme. Under the pretext of producing a movie, the FBI planned to catch people taking bribes in exchange for promising not to make trouble when filmmakers used non-union truck drivers and non-union crew members.Shooting actually occurred in several cities including New Orleans and Las Vegas, while in other major cities, evidence was obtained without using an actual crew made up of FBI personnel. As the investigation progressed from city to city, sealed indictments were obtained and only unsealed when the operation was concluded. Many actual events happened during the shooting that were more hilarious than the movie portrays. At one point, the crew was stranded in the desert between LA and Las Vegas by a broken down Rolls Royce.Arriving at the location in Las Vegas, they found a genuine crew already there shooting Nasty Boys (Which, ironically, was about undercover police officers). The grip truck ran into an elderly lady's car the first day of shooting in New Orleans and the crew wound up paying off the woman with hundreds peeled from a roll of bills. The operation eventually led to indictments against five individuals, several of whom were convicted. The movie itself was shut down before serious filming started.Lewk and Levy have yet to make a full-length feature film. They were, however, associate producers on The Last Shot and had cameo roles as 'Hollywood Boulevard Types'.
Shooting actually occurred in several cities including New Orleans and Las Vegas, while in other major cities, evidence was obtained without using an actual crew made up of FBI personnel. As the investigation progressed from city to city, sealed indictments were obtained and only unsealed when the operation was concluded. Many actual events happened during the shooting that were more hilarious than the movie portrays. At one point, the crew was stranded in the desert between LA and Las Vegas by a broken down Rolls Royce.
Arriving at the location in Las Vegas, they found a genuine crew already there shooting Nasty Boys (Which, ironically, was about undercover police officers). The grip truck ran into an elderly lady's car the first day of shooting in New Orleans and the crew wound up paying off the woman with hundreds peeled from a roll of bills. The operation eventually led to indictments against five individuals, several of whom were convicted. The movie itself was shut down before serious filming started.
Lewk and Levy have yet to make a full-length feature film. They were, however, associate producers on The Last Shot and had cameo roles as 'Hollywood Boulevard Types'.
(big shot)
Also responsible for Hot Dog ...The Movie, The Trouble With Spies, and likewise from the tail-end of the original run of the style
https://i.imgur.com/3RsMJnk.jpg
Hamburger (The Motion Picture) (ooh la la) (1986) (written and directed by the writer of Hot Dog)
(whopper)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link
wait, directed, not written? had the man not earned his stripes
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:12 (three years ago) link
wait again
https://i.imgur.com/PKb3jLR.jpg
Stripes (1981)
(large ordinance)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/dgFqQEaBTz4hQJLIU7FddrYkOCx.jpg
Moving Violations (1985)
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
Another throwback that would have been better off fully committing:
https://i.imgur.com/YzyVBA3.jpg
Vice Principals (2016)
(pitched and unsold by Jody Hill and Danny McBride as a movie, sold instead to HBO and made as an eighteen-part serial. take that, Twin Peaks!)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/wr5i0gSVPm3GY5mCteO3qreDlvl.jpg
Student Affairs (1987)
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Friday, 30 April 2021 04:03 (three years ago) link
fuzzy but it looks a bit like will elder in little annie fannie style?
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 05:56 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0057/3728/3618/products/4b752a84f018c697d27559350d3baa0d_93098d2a-48be-4bca-beff-0c2bd31bca8e_480x.progressive.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 30 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
http://originalvintagemovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wrecking-Crew-4487.jpg
The Wrecking Crew (1969)
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
watching The Silencers last week made me think of doing a run through the posters of all the Matt Helm flicks, so letting forks' post prompt me:
https://i.imgur.com/LYuVZKD.jpg
(big & tall)
https://i.imgur.com/L5Ig7cu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nXdudOX.jpg
(going blue)
The Silencers (1966)
The first Martin-starring, Bond-spoofing, barely-adapting version of a Donald Hamilton book was such a hit that the second came out in the same calendar year. Dino made riding a gunbarrel look so good on two of the original posters that Ann-Margret got in on the action for the sequel.
https://i.imgur.com/XmwfMud.jpg
(more size)
She didn't quite get it right every time.
https://i.imgur.com/91L7ZRS.jpg
(ghost ride the grip)
Murderer's Row (1966) Cracking them out so fast meant the first one could even run as the second's B-feature. They took a leisurely 12 months before the third one (and 14 until The Wrecking Crew, by which stage Dean is barely bothering to take steps onscreen, let alone run or duck in action scenes).
https://i.imgur.com/qb3NgRr.jpg
(enlarged to kill)
Another take on the same painting, and a bold statement from the Ontario Board of Censors:
https://i.imgur.com/jZ5neyS.jpg
The Ambushers (1967)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
speaking of 1966 Bond spoofs with large, impractical beds in them, Doc's posting of Our Man Flint upthread has decayed, so let's look at a few options:
https://i.imgur.com/5BgSMc4.jpg
(hueg) / (alternate take)
https://i.imgur.com/zTo5eff.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XJ9u0tH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/VK1XH88.jpg
(hueg)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTM4MTRlOWQtN2YwZi00M2Y2LWJjMGYtYjc1YTdhNTFjYjUzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX800_.jpg
No Deposit, No Return (1976)
― visiting, Sunday, 2 May 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
good hunting there sic
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
Here's an interview, with loads of great art, by the guy who painted one of the Silencers posters, and one of the Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo posters.
One fun oddity is that he was commissioned to do a new, action-packed Raiders Of The Lost Ark poster while the UK original was up all over the country, because that was deemed to be too dull
https://i.imgur.com/IdeqCKx.jpg
And this seems-to-be-unused poster for The Apple (1980), under the title Star Rock:
https://i.imgur.com/bUafZU1.jpg
Original art and roughs for some 80s Bond posters in there, too.
His busy-ish caricature poster for The Castle (1997) does to the photographic Australian original what the pullquote says the film does to an Oscar-winner.
https://i.imgur.com/dLmdi0j.jpg
(hueg's the serenity)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 3 May 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
The Wrong Arm Of The Law, 1963― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 8:34 PM (three months ago)
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 8:34 PM (three months ago)
this seems to have been a deliberate riff on another Sellers / Jeffries / Cribbins crime comedy:
https://i.imgur.com/ABXKHNl.jpg
Two Way Stretch (1960)
alt painting from Australian release, less-cropped DVD
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
Here Come the Tigers (1978)― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, April 1, 2019 9:23 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, April 1, 2019 9:23 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Alternate poster:http://rarefilm.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Here-Come-the-Tigers-1978.jpg
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
one of the most obvious "make it look like THIS poster" examples we've seen
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 6 May 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link