Movie Poster Collecting: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Chungking Express 1994 dir: Wong Kar-Wai Style E Hong Kong Poster

Chungking Express (1994) - (dir: Wong Kar-Wai) Hong Kong one-sheet

This is a 27" x 37.5" poster for the 1994 film Chungking Express written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai and starring Tony Chiu-Wai Leung as Cop 663. Plot summary: The film tells the stories of two cops who have each broken up with girlfriends.

Cast and crew: Wong Kar Wai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow, Chen Jinquan, Lee-Na Kwan, Zhiming Huang, Liang Zhen, Songshen Zuo

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The Amazing Colossal Man 1957 Glenn Langan US one-sheet

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) - (Glenn Langan) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster made to promote the 1957 Bert I. Gordon film The Amazing Colossal Man based on a screenplay by Bert I. Gordon and Mark Hanna and starring Glenn Langan as Lt. Colonel Glenn Manning. Plot summary: Lt. Colonel Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast, which causes uncontrollable growth in his body size. By the time he reaches 50 feet in height he loses his mind.

Cast and crew: Bert I. Gordon, Mark Hanna, George Worthing Yates, Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor, James Sea, Frank Jenks, Russ Bender, Hank Patterson, Jimmy Cross, June Jocelyn, Stanley Lachman, Harry Raybould, Jean Moorhead, Scott Peters, Myron Cook

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Lone Star 1996 Chris Cooper US one-sheet

Lone Star (1996) - (Chris Cooper) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 40" single-sided poster made to promote the 1996 film Lone Star written, directed and edited by John Sayles and starring Chris Cooper as Sam Deeds. Plot summary: In the early 1990s Sam Deeds is Sheriff of Rio County Texas. He finds the buried body of murdered Sheriff Charlie Wade, [Kris Kristofferson] who forty years earlier had been the boss of his father, Sheriff Buddy Deeds [Matthew McConaughey]. The film tells the story of Sam's investigation.

Cast and crew: John Sayles, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J. Lang, Oni Faida Lampley, Eleese Lester, Joe Stevens, Gonzalo Castillo, Richard Coca, Clifton James, Tony Frank, Miriam Colon, Kris Kristofferson, Jeff Monahan, Matthew McConaughey