Movie Poster Collecting: Carl Reiner

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Summer School (1987) - (Mark Harmon) US one-sheet

Summer School (1987) - (Mark Harmon) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1987 Carl Reiner film Summer School based on a story by Stuart Birnbaum, David Dashev and Jeff Franklin, screenplay by Jeff Franklin and starring Mark Harmon as Freddy Shoop. Plot summary: Freddy Shoop is a gym teacher at Ocean Front High School who has to cancel his summer vacation so he can teach a remedial English class. Despite his initial reservations, he is unexpectedly successful.

Cast and crew: Carl Reiner, Stuart Birnbaum, David Dashev, Jeff Franklin, Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Patrick Labyorteaux, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Dean Cameron, Gary Riley, Kelly Jo Minter, Ken Olandt, Shawnee Smith, Richard Steven Horvitz, Fabiana Udenio, Francis X. McCarthy, Tom Troupe, Lucy Lee Flippin

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Saturday, July 25, 2015

The Jerk (1979) - (Steve Martin) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1979 Carl Reiner film The Jerk based on a story by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb, screenplay by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias and starring Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson. This was Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film. Plot summary: Navin personally narrates his story for the viewer. He tells us he is a foolish homeless bum adopted by an African American sharecropper who does not realize he is adopted until adulthood. He leaves home and hitchhikes to St. Louis looking for the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra, whose performance of "Crazy Rhythm" he has heard on the radio and liked. On the road he falls in love with Marie [Bernadette Peters], but Marie reluctantly leaves him because of the lack of financial security. Navin's fortunes take a turn for the better when an invention is a commercial success, so he finds and marries Marie. Then problems with the invention and a series of lawsuits reverse his fortunes; Navin is soon homeless again and abandoned once more by Marie.

Cast and crew: Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias, Bernadette Peters, Mabel King, Catlin Adams, Richard Ward, Bill Macy, Dick Anthony Williams, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick O'Neil, Maurice Evans, Helena Carroll, Renn Woods, Pepe Serna, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee"

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - (Steve Martin) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 40' one-sheet poster for the 1982 Carl Reiner film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid based on a story by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin and starring Steve Martin as private investigator Rigby Reardon. Plot summary: The dialogue and events of the film are assembled in a collage to make a new story from 18 vintage noir films, to which it both pays tribute and spoof. With the help of Phillip Marlowe [Humphrey Bogart] Reardon investigates the cause of the mysterious auto crash that has killed John Hay Forrest [George Gaynes]; he is hired to do this by Forrest's daughter Juliet [Rachel Ward], with whom he also falls in love. Rigby's affection for Rachel threatens to derail his professional objectivity as a criminal plot slowly emerges to destroy the world with deadly cheese mold.

Csst and crew: Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, George Gaynes, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold