Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Giant of Metropolis (1961) - (Gordon Mitchell) Argentine one-sheet

The Giant of Metropolis (1961) - (Gordon Mitchell) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine poster for the 1961 Umberto Scarpelli film The Giant of Metropolis [Il gigante di Metropolis] based on a story by Gino Stafford, screenplay by Sabatino Ciuffini, Ambrogio Molteni, Oreste Palella, Emimmo Salvi and Umberto Scarpelli and starring Gordon Mitchell as Obro. Plot summary: In 20000 BC the people on the lost continent of Atlantis have developed an advanced civilization and are ruling the earth. A powerful man named Obro is sent by his father [Mani Meniconi] to the capital city Metropolis to oppose its godlessness and hubris; the scientists in Metropolis are trying to subvert the process of death but their evil efforts are only causing destruction. They do not see that only love will be able to prevail as the source of life, and so they use their scientific powers to deprive all the people of Metropolis of their free will. When Obro and his group enter the Valley of Metropolis King Yoh-tar [Rolando Lupi] orders his henchmen to unleash the magnetic whirlwinds of death against them. Only Obro survives the attack to be brought before King Yoh-tar; the two immediately get into a hot verbal confrontation vowing to destroy each other. Thus begins an epic tale about a life-and-death struggle between the forces of good and evil portrayed on a huge futuristic set that looks as if it was built for a Buck Rogers film.

Cast and crew: Umberto Scarpelli, R. Nichols, Sebatino Ciuffini, Ambrogio Molteni, Emimmo Salvi, Oreste Palella, Gino Stafford, Gordon Mitchell, Furio Meniconi, Liana Orfei, Bella Cortez, Rolando Lupi, Roldano Lupi, Marietto, Omero Gargano, Mario Meniconi, Carlo Tamberlani, Luigi Moneta, Ugo Sasso, Renato Terra, CArlo Enrici, Leopoldo Savona, Liana Orfei



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Monday, June 29, 2015

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) US one-sheet

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken written by James Fritzell, Everett Grenbaum and Andy Griffith and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: In Rachel Kansas, Luther Heggs, a typesetter aspiring to be a reporter for the Rachel Courier Express, is assigned the job of spending the night alone at the Simmons mansion, the site of a murder-suicide 20 years earlier. With the help of his friend Kelsey [Liam Redmond] Luther is able to determine exactly what happened on that fateful night long ago and who the killer was before the mansion can be torn down by its owner, Nick Simmons, who has just returned to Rachel for that purpose.

Cast and crew: Don Knotts, Dick Sargent, Liam Redmond, Joan Staley, Alan Rafkin, James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles Lane, Jesslyn Fax, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg





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Sunday, June 28, 2015

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (1976) - (Lee Marvin) US one-sheet

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (1976) - (Lee Marvin) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1976 Don Taylor film The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday written by Richard Alan Shapiro and starring Lee Marvin as Sam Longwood. Plot summary: Sam Longwood has been looking for his ex-partner Jack Colby [Robert Culp] for the last 15 years. It seems Colby absconded both with the gold from their mine and with Longwood's girlfriend Nancy Sue [Elizabeth Ashley]. Sam and his other two partners Joe Knox [Oliver Reed] and Billy [Strother Martin] finally find Colby and in the process, at a brothel they also kidnap Thursday [Kay Lenz], a young prostitute who is happy to be abducted. Complications develop when Thursday's employer [Sylvia Miles], a jealous lesbian madame named Mike, goes after them with firearms in her motorcar.

Cast and crew: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Don Taylor, Richard Alan Shapiro, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin, Sylvia Miles, Kay Lenz, Howard Platt, Jac Zacha, Phaedra, Leticia Robles, Luz Maria Pena, Erika Carlsson, C. C. Charity, Ana Verdugo





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The Great Mouse Detective (1986) - (Vincent Price) US one-sheet

The Great Mouse Detective (1986) - (Vincent Price) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 40" US one-sheet poster for the 1986 Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener and John Musker film The Great Mouse Detective based on the Basil of Baker Street series of novels by Eve Titus and starring Vincent Price as the voice of Professor Ratigan. This film was the beginning of a Disney renaissance and includes an early example of the studio's use of CGI animation for a chase scene done inside Big Ben. Plot summary: The main characters in this story are all mice and rats living in Victorian London. In 1897 Olivia Flaversham [Susanne Pollatschek] is a young mouse about to celebrate her birthday with her toymaker father Hiram [Alan Young]. Suddenly Fidget [Candy Candido], a bat with a peg leg, barges in and spirits Hiram away to see Professor Ratigan (a character based on Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes stories); Ratigan orders Hiram to create a robot who mimics the queen of the mice, which will enable him to rule England. Abandoned, Olivia is suddenly left with the task of locating her father. To do this she enlists the services of the Great Mouse Detective, Basil of Baker Street [Barrie Ingham].

Cast and crew: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Diana Chesney, Eve Brenner, Eve Titus, Peter Young, Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, John Musker, Alan Young, Basil Rathbone, Laurie Main, Shani Wallis, Ellen Fitzhugh, Walker Edmiston, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo





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Saturday, June 27, 2015

The Great Adventure (1975) - (Jack Palance) US Window Card

The Great Adventure (1976) - (Jack Palance) US Window Card

This is a 14" x 22" US Window card for the 1976 Gianfranco Baldanello film The Great Adventure (Italian title Il richiamo del lupo) in the style of the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London with screenplay by John Fonseca and Elliot Geisinger starring Jack Palance as William Bates. Plot summary: In the time of the American Gold Rush an orphaned boy named Jim Chambers [Fernando E. Romero] and his wild dog Buck help save Dawson City in Yukon Canada from the evil machinations of its gambling boss, William Bates.

Cast and crew: Gianfranco Baldanello, John Fonseca, Elliot Geisinger, Jack London, Juan Logar, Jesus Rodriguez, Jack Palance, Joan Collins, Fred Romer, Elizabeth Virgil, Harold Spiro, ManuelDe Blas, Elisabetta Virgili, Remo De Angelis, Ricardo Palacios



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Friday, June 26, 2015

A Goofy Movie (1995) - (Disney Animation) US one-sheet

A Goofy Movie (1995) - (Disney Animation) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 40" poster for the 1995 Kevin Lima film A Goofy Movie based on story by Jymm Magon, screenplay by Jymm Magon, Chris Matheson and Brian Pimental, additional written material by Curtis Armstrong and John Doolittle and starring Bill Farmer as the voice of Goofy. Plot summary: Max Goof [Jason Marsden] the son of single dad Goofy, has a tense relationship with his father in the town of Spooneville. After receiving a call from Max's school principal expressing concern that that Max could end up being sent to the electric chair, Goofy decides to take Max on a fishing trip to Lake Destiny. While they are en route Goofy inadvertently lures Bigfoot to their camp by casting a piece of meat in front of him with a fishing rod; then Max secretly changes the mapped destination of their trip to Los Angeles, where a concert is to be held. At the concert Goofy and Max sneak into a dance on stage with the band Powerline; this impresses Max's girlfriend Roxanne [Kellie Martin], who watches the concert on television from her home in Spooneville.

Cast and crew: Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Jim Cummings, Kellie Martin, Rob Paulsen, Wallace Shawn, Kevin Lima, Jenna von Oy, Frank Welker, Florence Stanley, Jo Anne Worley, Brittany Alyse Smith, Robyn Richards, Julie Brown, Klee Bragger





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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Good Morning Vietnam (1987) - (Robin Williams) US one-sheet

Good Morning Vietnam (1987) - (Robin Williams) US one-sheet

Adrian Cronauer: "I'm from Queens!"

Vietnamese English student: "What are queens?"

Adrian Cronauer: "Tall thin men who like show tunes!"

This is a 27" x 40" US one-sheet for the 1987 Barry Levinson film Good Morning Vietnam written by Mitch Markowitz and starring Robin Williams as Airman Second Class Adrian Cronauer, on whose real experiences the film is loosely based. Plot summary: The year is 1965 and Adrian Cronauer is a new disk jocky shipped to Vietnam from Crete to add humor to Armed Forces Radio. The troops love him but the army brass are outraged by his disregard for regulations, his irreverence and his willful deviation from scheduled army programming. Cronauer's problems increase when he sees a Vietnames woman named Trinh [Chintara Sukapatana] and tries to develop a relationship with her.

Cast and crew: Robin Williams, Barry Levinson, Mitch Markowitz, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, J.T. Walsh, Noble Willingham, Richard Edson, Juney Smith, Richard Portnow, Floyd Vivino, Cu Ba Nguyen, Dan Stanton, Don Stanton



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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Hand of Death (1962) - (John Agar) US one-sheet

Hand of Death (1962) - (John Agar) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1962 Gene Nelson film Hand of Death written and produced by Eugene Ling and starring John Agar as Alex Marsh. Plot summary: In his desert laboratory, research scientist Alex Marsh develops a potent form of nerve gas he hopes will keep its victims in a hypnotic state after they recover from the initial paralysis. When he is accidentally exposed to it himself he slowly turns into a grotesque toxic monster and kills anyone he touches, beginning with his own lab assistant Carlos [John Alonzo].

Cast and crew: Gene Nelson, Eugene Ling, John Agar, Paula Raymond, Stephen Dunne, Roy Gordon, John A. Alonzo, Jack Younger, Joe Besser, Butch Patrick, Norman Burton, Fred Krone, Kevin Enright, Jack Donner, Chuck Niles, Ruth Terry, Bob Whitney



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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Guyana Cult of the Damned (1979) - (Stuart Whitman) US one-sheet

Guyana Cult of the Damned (1979) - (Stuart Whitman) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1979 Rene Cardona Jr. film Guyana Cult of the Damned AKA Guyana Crime of the Century written by Rene Cardona Jr. and starring Stuart Whitman as the Reverend James Johnson. Plot summary: This film is a dramatization of the events of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre that took place in the jungles of Guyana under the leadership of cult evangelist Jim Jones. In the film's narrative, the Reverend James Johnson moves his San Francisco congregation of 1000 to Guyana so they can create a utopia in a new "Johnsontown" commune, untainted by the corruption of the civilized world. Life there soon becomes unbearable for the settlers, who are subjected to cruelty, torture and sexual abuse at the hands of their domineering charismatic leader. These harsh realities gradually become known to the outside world when a congressman and a team of reporters go there to investigate allegations of criminal behavior.

Cast and crew: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Rene Cardona Jr., Bradford Dillman, Mel Ferrer, Jennifer Ashley, Yvonne De Carlo, Nadiuska, Tony Young, Erika Carlsson, Robert DoQui, Hugo Stiglitz. Cartlos East, Eduardo Bea, Juan Luis Gallardo



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Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Gun Runners (1958) - (Audie Murphy) US one-sheet

The Gunrunners (1958) - (Audie Murphy) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1958 Don Siegel film The Gun Runners written by Daniel Mainwaring and Paul Monash based on the Ernest Hemmingway short story "To Have and Have Not" starring Audie Murphy as Sam Martin. Plot summary: In this third film adaptation of Hemmingway's story, in the early days of the Cuban revolution Sam Martin is the captain of a charter boat caught up in a gunrunning scheme for some of the revolutionaries.

Cast and crew: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Daniel Mainwaring, Paul Monash, Everett Sloane, Ernest Hemingway, Don Siegel, Gita Hall, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Birch, Jack Elam, John Qualen, Edward Colmans, Stephen Peck, Carlos Romero





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Saturday, June 20, 2015

The War in Space (1977) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) 7 Mexican Lobby Sheets

The War in Space (1977) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Seven Mexican lobby sheets

These are seven 16.5" x 21" Mexican paper lobby cards for the 1977 Jun Fukuda film The War in Space (Japanese Wakusei daisenso) based on a story by Hideichi Nagahara and Ryuzo Nakanishi and starring Kensaku Morita as Miyoshi. The principal design element of each card is the huge heavily armed "space battleship" Gohten built by Earth's team of scientists to fight the invaders from Venus. Plot summary: When earth is attacked by an alien spacecraft from Venus, Japanese scientists build the space battleship Gohten to use in trying to save humanity. At first the request to build the battleship is ignored, but when an alien tries to kidnap Professor Mataso Takigawa [Ryo Ikebe] everybody realizes the Earth is under attack and efforts are mobilized to build the battleship, which easily destroys the attacking enemy fighters and then moves on to Venus to hit their base of operations.

Cast and crew: Jun Fukuda, Hideichi Nagahara, Ryuzo Nakanishi, Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano, Ryo Ikebe, Masaya Oki, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Hideji Otaki, Katstoshi Atarashi, Akihiko Hirata, Goro Mitsumi, Isao Hashimoto, Shoji Nakayama, David Perin, William Ross



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Head Over Heels (1979) - (John Heard) US half-sheet

Head Over Heels (1979) - (John Heard) US half-sheet

This is a 22" x 38" US half-sheet poster for the 1979 Joan Micklin Silver film Head Over Heels AKA Chilly Scenes of Winter, based on the novel by Anne Beattie, screenplay by Joan Micklin Silver and starring John Heard as Charles Richardson. Head Over Heels, the title of the first version of the film, had a happy ending. The title was later changed for the rerelease to Chilly Scenes of Winter with a new melancholy ending to match the book. The rerelease was more successful. Plot summary: Charles Richardson meets Laura Conley [Mary Beth Hurt] and falls in love at first sight. He is not deterred when he learns she is married, and she eventually moves in with him. However she later moves back in with her husband Ox [Mark Metcalf]; Charles continues to dream of getting her back.

Cast and crew: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame, John Micklin Silver, Ann Beattie, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame, Nora Heflin, Jerry Hardin, Tarah Nutter, Mark Metcalf, Allen Joseph, Frances Bay, Griffin Dunne, Alex Johnson, Beverly Rowland, Oscar Rowland



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Friday, June 19, 2015

He Knows You're Alone (1980) - (Don Scardino) US one-sheet

He Knows You're Alone (1980) - (Don Scardino) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1980 Armand Mastroianni film He Knows You're Alone written by Scott Parker and starring Don Scardino as Marvin. This Tom Hanks feature film debut is credited as being one of the first films inspired by the 1978 horror classic Halloween. Plot summary: A man who has been rejected murders the woman who rejected him on her wedding day. Years later, another bride-to-be is stabbed to death while she is watching a horror film in a movie theater. Her killer Ray Carlton [Tom Rolfing] then follows bride-to-be Amy Jensen [Caitlin O'Heaney] and in the next few scenes her friend Joyce [Patsy Pease] and Joyce's boyfried Carl [James Rebhorn] are also stabbed to death. By this time Amy has noticed the man who was following her standing in her yard while she is telling her old boyfriend Marvin [Don Scardino] about second thoughts she is having about her forthcoming marriage to Phil [James Carroll] while Marvin insinuates to her that he wants to rekindle their relationship. Later Amy and her friend Nancy [Elizabeth Kemp] meet Elliot [Tom Hanks], a psychology student, while they are out jogging in a forest. During that outing Amy sees Ray Carlton shortly before he kills Nancy during an interval when she is away from Nancy's house on a brief errand. When Amy returns and finds Nancy's severed head Ray also attacks her, but she gets away, phones the police and has another rendezvous with Marvin.

Cast and crew: Armand Mastroianni, Scott Parker, Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, Patsy Pease, James Rebhorn, Tom Hanks, Dana Barron, Joseph Leon, Paul Gleason, James Carroll, Brian Byers, Curt Hostetter, Robin Lamond





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Haunted Honeymoon (1986) - (Gene Wilder) US one-sheet

Haunted Honeymoon (1986) - (Gene Wilder) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1986 Gene Wilder film Haunted Honeymoon written by Gene Wilder and Terence Marsh and starring Gene Wilder as Larry Abbot. Plot summary: Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle [Gilda Radner], performers on a radio program called Manhattan Mystery Theater, decide to marry. To cure Larry's panic attacks and speech impediments his uncle Paul [Paul L. Smith] devises a "fright cure," but at the couple's wedding party, which takes place at a castle-like mansion of Larry's choosing, something even more sinister and surprising awaits them.

Cast and crew: Gilda Radner, Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Terence Marsh, Jonathan Pryce, Bryan Pringle, Peter Vaughan, Eve Ferret, Paul L. Smith, Julann Griffin, Jim Carter, Jo Ross, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Billy J. Mitchell, R.J. Bell, Ann Way



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Harry in Your Pocket (1973) - (James Coburn) US one-sheet

Harry in Your Pocket (1973) - (James Coburn) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1973 Bruce Geller film Harry in Your Pocket based on a story by James Buchanan and Ronald Austin and starring James Coburn as Harry. Plot summary: This is a film about professional pickpockets and their gangs, with technical jargon provided by film advisers who were themselves former pickpockets. Ray Houlihan [Michael Sarrazin] is an amateur thief who is taken in as a protege by a "wire mob"--a team of itinerant professional pickpockets--and tutored in tricks of the trade. Ray and his girlfriend Sandy Coletto [Trish Van Devere] meet Harry, a skilled professional pickpocket, who gives them money for better wardrobes and trains them to play parts as members of a coordinated team of pickpockets that specializes in preying on the upper classes. Tensions develop when Ray and Sandy begin training with Harry's senior partner Casey [Walter Pidgeon] and start developing superior skills that allow them to operate independently of the gang. The film contains the prophetic line from James Coburn's Harry: "If anything money'll disappear and we'll all be a number in a giant computer." In 1973 he was almost 45 years ahead of his time, but in 2015 what he predicted has already begun with the war on cash that is now being waged by a lot of banks.

Cast and crew: Bruce Geller, James Buchanan, Ronald Austin, James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Walter Pidgeon, Trish Ven DeVere, Michael C. Gwynne, Tony Giorgio, Michael Stearns, Susan Mullen, Duane Bennett, Stanley Bolt, Barry Grimshaw, Wesley Uhlman, Robert Antrim, Dorothy Antrim, Jack Mitchell



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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Harry Black and the Tiger (1958) - US one-sheet

Harry Black and the Tiger (1958) - (Stewart Granger) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1958 Hugo Fregonese film Harry Black and the Tiger starring Stewart Granger as Harry Black based on the David Walker novel Harry Black with screenplay by Sydney Boehm. Plot summary: Harry Black is a professional big game hunter on a mission to kill a tiger in the Indian jungle that is threatening a nearby village. During the trip he interacts with Desmond Tanner [Anthony Steel], now married to his first wife Chris [Barbara Rush].

Cast and crew: Hugo Fregonese, Sydney Boehm, David Walker, Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush, Anthony Steel, I. S. Johar, Martin Stephens, Frank Olegario, KamalaDevi, John Heller, Tom Bowman, Allan McClelland, Harold Siddons, Norman Johns, Gladys Boot, George Curzon, Archie Duncan



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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978) - (Barbara Eden) US one-sheet

Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978) - (Barbara Eden) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1978 Richard Bennett film Harper Valley P.T.A. based on a story by George Edwards, screenplay by George Edwards and Barry Schneider and starring Barbara Eden as Stella Johnson. Plot summary: The story is inspired by Jeannie C. Riley's hit song (written by Tom T. Hall) with the same title, in which Stella Johnson, a widowed single mother, exposes the hypocrisy of Harper Valley, Ohio townspeople at a meeting of the P.T.A. after they have criticized her fitness to raise her 14-year-old daughter Dee [Susan Swift] and threatened to expel her from school in an official letter denouncing her social behavior. Stella retaliates by exposing some of the town's embarrassing secrets, causing lines to be drawn in bitter feuding in the valley where Stella ends up becoming P.T.A. president.

Cast and crew: Richard Bennett, Barbara Eden, Susan Swift, Nanette Fabray, Louis Nye, Pat Paulsen, Ronny Cox, Ron Masak, Audrey Christie, John Fiedler, Jeannie C. Riley, Tom T. Hall



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