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

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.

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Young Americans (1967), the only film to ever have an Oscar rescinded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

the Danny Cannon / David Arnold / Harvey Keitel remake took substantial liberties with the plot iirc

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

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— Ben Boyer (@sleezsisters) April 26, 2021

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.

lee marvin in the middle?

I think the Peter Lorre-looking one might be Jackie Gleason?

Sammy Davis Jr?
Gene Kelly top left?

oh yeah, Marvin, not Coburn. had considered Davis and Kelly but wasn't sure.

i'd say:
kelly, montalban, astaire, streisand, savalas
fawcett, Marvin, Davis Jr
Hope, Parton, Allen, Gleason, Ball

excellent work! now we just need to try all the recipes.

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

now we just need to try all the recipes.

"John Cassavetes Minted Beef Balls"

what's yr take on
minted beef balls

https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImage/A1S7_1_201806241657230054.jpg

Unbeatable Harold, 2006/9

beatable

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)

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)

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'.

(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)

wait, directed, not written? had the man not earned his stripes

wait again

https://i.imgur.com/PKb3jLR.jpg

Stripes (1981)

(large ordinance)

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/dgFqQEaBTz4hQJLIU7FddrYkOCx.jpg

Moving Violations (1985)

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!)

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/wr5i0gSVPm3GY5mCteO3qreDlvl.jpg

Student Affairs (1987)

fuzzy but it looks a bit like will elder in little annie fannie style?

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0057/3728/3618/products/4b752a84f018c697d27559350d3baa0d_93098d2a-48be-4bca-beff-0c2bd31bca8e_480x.progressive.jpg

http://originalvintagemovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wrecking-Crew-4487.jpg

The Wrecking Crew (1969)

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)

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)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTM4MTRlOWQtN2YwZi00M2Y2LWJjMGYtYjc1YTdhNTFjYjUzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX800_.jpg

No Deposit, No Return (1976)

good hunting there sic

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)

The Wrong Arm Of The Law, 1963

― 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

Here Come the Tigers (1978)

― |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

one of the most obvious "make it look like THIS poster" examples we've seen

This has been brought up before, but I'm astounded at just how many Smokey/Bad News Bears/Animal House/American Graffiti knock-offs there where in the '70s.

The 1986 John Cleese vehicle Clockwise has an absolutely terrible poster, proposing that a huge image of a soggy, naked Cleese is all that's needed to get punters into cinemas around the globe.

Imagine if one of these pieces of concept art had been commissioned and finished, though:

https://i.imgur.com/WDhu5L6.jpg

(clock-size)

cited four years ago, but I can't find the image:

https://i.imgur.com/D7pcyOM.jpg

Hot Stuff (1979)

(I did discover that both stevie and joygoat have cover-connectioned Mutiny On The Corner years apart, though)

further context for Hot Stuff's place in cinematic history

Directed By Dom DeLuise!

Okay, that totally takes it to next level

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTVkOTEzMDAtN2Q0Zi00NzlkLWJhZTYtOTg4MTkyZGM1NDAwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_FMjpg_UX538_.jpg

The Gumball Rally (1976)

https://thedullwoodexperiment.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/masquerade.jpg

Masquerade, 1965

hueg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2UzNTI3N2UtM2U4Mi00ZmY2LWFlNjgtZDgwMTMxYjEwMGE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

Money Talks, 1972. Allen Funt's sequel to What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970)
https://resizing.flixster.com/LthghuUDtS1SRsgotbFnXNmDsZQ=/fit-in/1152x864/v2/https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/p6026_v_v7_aa.jpg

whoa a jack davis we haven't seen already!!

Lend it, spend it, legal tend it, save it, crave it, yell and wave it, steal it, peel it, wheel and deal it, nurse it, curse it, reimburse it, stash it, slash it, try to cash it.

Technologic

Arf. Great poster.

Why thank you

great find. those candid camera movies are supposed to be really bad iirc.

I was just coming here to post the Booksmart one - there's a higher-res view on Amazon, but it doesn't really increase the resemblance of anyone.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lionbeen-Booksmart-Movie-Poster-70/dp/B07SPHLCBK

I feel like a lot of the "retro" ones don't have enough stupid bullshit for the characters to be doing, or don't give enough visual room for it somehow. In the old ones it's like Where's Waldo --- if you were standing in line outside the theater staring at one, you could have really kept yourself occupied for a few minutes. Points for including a banner-flying biplane, though.