This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1985 Karel Reisz
film Sweet Dreams written by Robert Getchell and starring
Jessica Lange as Patsy Cline. Plot summary: Jessica Lange portrays
the life of Patsy Cline and her marriage to Charlie Dick [Ed Harris].
Cast and crew: Jessica Lange, Robert Getchell, Ed Harris, John Goodman, Karel Reisz, Patsy Kline, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, Gary Basaraba, John Goodman, P.J. Soles, Terri Gardner, Caitlin Kelch, Robert L. Dasch, Courtney Parker, Coulton Edwards, Holly Filler, Bruce Kirby
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1982 Costa-Gavras
film Missing based on the 1978 Thomas Hauser book The
Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice with screenplay
by Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart and starring Jack Lemmon as Edmund
Horman. Plot summary: The story is based on actual events during the
1973 military coup d'etat in Chile ousting President Salvador Allende
when journalist Charles Horman [John Shea] was killed, and afterwards
when Charles's Father Edmund Horman goes to Chile with his son's wife
Beth [Sissy Spacek] to look for his missing son. This film was banned
in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and both the film and
Thomas Hauser's book were the subject of a defamation of character
lawsuit by former US Ambassador Nathaniel Davis; the lawsuit did not
succeed, leading to the film's rerelease in 2006. The film won an
academy award for best writing of a screenplay based on another
medium. It also won the Palm d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, and
Jack Lemmon won the prize there for best actor.
Cast and crew: Costa-Gavras, Thomas Hauser, Donald Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi, David Clennon, Richard Venture, Jerry Hardin, Richard Bradford, Joe Regalbuto, Keith Szarabajka, John Doolittle, Janice Rule, Ward Costello, Hansford Rowe, Tina Romero, Richard Whiting
This is a 27" x 39" Spanish one-sheet poster for the 1978 Ted Post
film Go Tell the Spartans based on the novel Incident at Muc
Wa by Daniel Ford, screenplay by Wendell Mayes and starring Burt
Lancaster as Major Asa Barker. This film was well received by
opponents of the Vietnam war, who found it noble, realistic and a good
illustration of the irrelevance of the American presence in Vietnam;
Burt Lancaster's performance was seen as one of the finest of his
career. According to Wikipedia "The film's title is from Simonides's
epitaph to the three hundred soldiers who died fighting Persian
invaders at Thermopylae, Greece: 'Go tell the Spartans, stranger
passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.'" In the film a
French translation of the line appears as another epitaph at a
graveyard for 302 French soldiers; its Greek origin is recognized and
the line translated by Corporal Courcey [Craig Wasson].
Plot summary:
In the years before major American involvement in Vietnam a unit of
American military advisors is in an uphill fight against the Viet Cong
that reminds them of the experience of a doomed Franch unit at the
same location a decade earlier. Major Asa Barker, a veteran fighter
in his third war, is breaking in four new recruits and supervising a
small group of Americans attached to a South Vietnamese Army unit in
the deserted village of Muc Wa. Their aim is to retake the village
following its abandonment by the French a decade earlier. The VC
overrun the village and its outpost and kill almost all the American
personnel.
Cast and crew: Burt Lancaster, Graig Wasson, David Clennon, Dolph Sweet, Marc Singer, Wendell Mayes, Daniel Ford, Ted Post, Jonathan Goldsmith, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard, Evan C. Kim, John Megna, Hilly Hicks, Dolph Sweet, Clyde Kusatsu, James Hong, Denice Kumagai, Tad Horino
