This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Sami and al-Thaghr Khamis for the 1988
Robert Zemeckis film Who Framed Roger Rabbit based on the 1988
novel of the same title by Gary K. Wolf, screenplay by Jeffrey Price
and Peter S. Seaman and starring Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant. Plot
summary: Toon star Roger Rabbit [voiced by Charles Fleischer] hires
detective Eddie Valiant to check up on his wife Jessica, whom he
suspects of playing around. Roger himself soon becomes a murder
suspect.
Cast and crew: Sami, Gary K. Wolf, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman,
Robert Zemeckis, Gary K. Wolf, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna
Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern, Richard
LeParmentier, Lou Hirsch, Betsy Brantley, Joel Silver, Paul Springer,
Richard Ridings, Edwin Craig, Lindsay Holiday, Mike Edmonds
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1991 Burt Kennedy
film Suburban Commando written by Frank A. Cappello and
starring Hulk Hogan as Shep Ramsey. Plot summary: Shep Ramsey is an
intergalactic superhero who is forced to park his space ship on earth
during a repair session. On earth, his targets for doing good are
offenders of less significance such as muggers and bad drivers.
Cast and crew: Burt Kennedy, Frank A. Cappello, Hulk Hogan,
Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Larry Miller, William Ball, Jo Ann
Dearing, Jack Elam, Roy Dotrice, Tony Longo, Michael Faustino, Mark
Calaway, Laura Mooney, Dennis Burkley, Luis Contreras, Nick Eldredge
This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet for the 1981 William A. Fraker
film The Legend of the Lone Ranger based on a screenplay by
Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Michael Kane and William Roberts, adaptation
by Gerald B. Derloshon and starring Klinton Spilsbury as The Lone
Ranger (John Reid). Plot summary: Law student John Reid is riding as
an observer with a party of Texas rangers, including his brother Dan,
when it is ambushed and massacred by a ruthless outlaw named
Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish [Christopher Lloyd], a dishonorably
discharged former major in the Union Army. Reid, wounded and left for
dead, is the sole survivor. Tonto [Michael Horse], his childhood
Comanche friend (and trail guide and mentor later on in the arts of
riding and shooting), finds him after the outlaws leave and helps him
recover from his injuries over the objections of his fellow tribesmen.
After that Reid and Tonto dedicate their lives to a two-man vigilante
crusade against evil, beginning with the rescue of President Grant
[Jason Robards] when Cavendish takes him hostage, even though his
brother Dan had told him of his low opinion of Washington politicians
before he was killed by Cavendish: "In Texas, robbers are outlaws. In
Washington, robbers are elected."
This film is an admirable effort to
add a historic backstory to the mysterious legend of the Lone Ranger
and also to replace the American public's silver screen idea of the
Lone Ranger as popularized by Clayton Moore in his television role as
the masked rider; its promoters made a financially devastating error
and generated massive negative publicity for the film when with
litigation they tried unsuccessfully to ban Moore from appearing in
public as the Lone Ranger.
Cast and crew: William A. Faker, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Michael Kane, William Roberts, Gerald B. Derloshon, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Jason Robards, Klinton Spilsbury, Juanin Clay, Matt Clark, Jason Ro0bards, John Bennett Perry, David Hayward, John Hart, Richard Farnsworth, Lincoln Tate, Ted Flicker, Marc Gilpin, Patrick Montoya, David Bennett, George W. Trendle, Fran Striker
