Play It As It Lays (1972) - (Tuesday Weld) US one-sheet

Play It As It Lays (1972) - (Tuesday Weld) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster by an unknown designer for the 1972 Frank Perry film Play it as it Lays based on the 1970 Joan Didion novel, screenplay by Joan Didion and starring Tuesday Weld as Maria Wyeth-Lang. Plot summary: At the age of 28 Maria Wyeth is a successful actress who has been institutionalized because of chronic depression. She has separated from her husband and begun spending time with her close friend B.Z. Mendenhall [Anthony Perkins], who is gay. Her daughter Kate [Jennifer Lesko] has brain damage and is being kept at an institution. Maria has taken to having affairs and using drugs.

Cast and crew: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Frank Perry, Adam Roarke, Joan Didion, Dominick Dunne, Joan Didion, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke, Ruth Ford, Eddie Firestone, Diana Ewing, Paul Lambert, Norman Foster, Chuck McCann, Severn Darden, Tony Young, Richard Anderson, Elizabeth Claman, Mitzi Hoag

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Duel (1971) - (dir: Spielberg) Australian Day Bill Stone Litho

Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill

This is a 13" x 30" Australian stone lithograph poster designed to promote the 1972 Steven Spielberg film Duel based on story and screenplay by Richard Matheson and starring Dennis Weaver as David Mann. Plot summary: David Mann is an electronics salesman from Los Angeles on a business trip in his 1971 red Plymouth Valiant sedan. Inexplicably, he finds himself in a deadly highway confrontation with the driver [Carey Loftin] of a 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck, who seems to be trying to kill him by running him off the road or leading him into collisions with other vehicles. The hostile interaction continues through several stops along the road and finally ends with a mountain catastrophe.

Cast end crew: Dennis Weaver, Steven Spielberg, Richard Matheson, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell, Gene Dynarski, Lucille Benson, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Shirley O'Hara, Alexander Lockwood, Amy Douglass, Dick Whittington, Carey Loftin, Dale Van Sickel

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Bailout at 43000 (1957) - (John Payne) Argentine one-sheet

Bailout at 43000 (1957) - (John Payne) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1957 Francis D. Lyon film Bailout at 43000 written by Paul Monash and starring John Payne as Major Paul Peterson. Plot summary: Major Paul Peterson is excused from a dangerous test flight of a new aircraft, but his feelings about it are mixed.

Cast end crew: Paul Monash, John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer, Constance Ford, Eddie Firestone, Paul Monash, Francis D. Lyon, Adam Kennedy, Gregory Gaye, Steven Ritch, Richard Crane

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