Movie Poster Collecting: Bert I. Gordon

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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Food of the Gods 1976 Marjoe Gortner Egyptian poster

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Food of the Gods (1976) - (Marjoe Gortner) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film The Food of the Gods based on part of the H.G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth with screenplay by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner as Morgan. Plot summary: On a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island a professional football player named Morgan and his friends are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. They find hostile giant chickens in a barn and then gradually come to the realization that the entire island is crawling with giant animals of various types. Among these are giant rats gathering to attack the intruding humans. The growth of these oversized creatures has been stimulated by an edible substance mysteriously bubbling up from the ground, which a pair of local farmers named Mr. and Mrs. Skinner [John McLiam and Ida Lupino] have begun using as lifestock feed and are planning to market as dog food through a company owned by Jack Bensington [Ralph Meeker].

Cast and crew: Bert I. Gordon, H.G. Wells, Marjoe Gortner, H.G. Wells, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, Ida Lupino, Jon Cypher, John McLiam, Belinda Balaski, Tom Stovall, Chuck Courtney, Reg Tunicilffe

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

King Dinosaur (1955) - (William Bryant) US insert

This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1955 Bert I. Gordon 53-minute black-and-white film King Dinosaur based on the story "Beast from Outer Space" by Bert I. Gordon and Al Zimbalist, with screenplay by Tom Gries and starring William Bryant as Dr. Ralph Martin. Plot summary: In 1960 four astronauts travel to a planet called Nova known to have plant life that has just entered the Earth's solar system. They want to determine if the new planet would be suitable for a new colony of humans. They encounter an atmosphere similar to Earth's with comparable vegetation; after taking off their space suits and making themselves at home, they are attacked by a crocodile and then have to fight giant insects and other outsized creatures such as a snake, an alligator, an armadillo, some prehistoric wooly mammoths and the king dinosaur himself, a giant iguana the scientists compare to the prehistoric tyrannosaurus rex; briefly, with no role to play in the film at all, we are also treated to a glimpse of the bizarre-looking South American mata mata turtle. It took a week to make this film using borrowed equipment and stock footage. The poster, which has become popular among collectors, is quite a bit more interesting than the film.

Cast and crew: Bert I. Gordon, William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson, Patti Gallagher, Marvin Miller

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Food of the Gods (1976) - (Marjoe Gortner) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster designed by Drew Struzan for the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film The Food of the Gods based on part of the H.G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth with screenplay by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner as Morgan. Plot summary: On a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island a professional football player named Morgan and his friends are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. They find hostile giant chickens in a barn and then gradually come to the realization that the entire island is crawling with giant animals of various types. Among these are giant rats gathering to attack the intruding humans. The growth of these oversized creatures has been stimulated by an edible substance mysteriously bubbling up from the ground, which a pair of local farmers named Mr. and Mrs. Skinner [John McLiam and Ida Lupino] have begun using as livestock feed and are planning to market as dog food through a company owned by Jack Bensington [Ralph Meeker]. However the growling monster rats get Bensington before the plan can be implemented.

Cast and crew: Bert I. Gordon, Drew Struzan, H.G. Wells, Marjoe Gortner, H.G. Wells, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, Ida Lupino, Jon Cypher, John McLiam, Belinda Balaski, Tom Stovall, Chuck Courtney, Reg Tunnicliffe