Movie Poster Collecting: Ira Levin

Sunday, February 14, 2016

The Stepford Wives (1975) - (Katharine Ross) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1975 Bryan Forbes film The Stepford Wives based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Ira Levin, screenplay by William Goldman and starring Katharine Ross as Joanna Eberhart. Plot summary: When photographer Joanna Eberhart and her husband Walter [Peter Masterson] move from New York City to the quiet Connecticut suburb of Stepford, Joanna finds it impossible to establish friendships or find common ground with the other women, who all seem bland, submissive and abnormally obsessed with domesticity and pleasing their husbands.

Cast and crew: Katharine Ross, William Goldman, Ira Levin, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Patrick O'Neal, Carol Eve Rossen, William Prince, Carole Mallory, Toni Reid, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, George Cole, Franklin Cover, Robert Fields, Michael Higgins

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The Boys from Brazil (1978) - (Gregory Peck) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1978 Franklin J. Schaffner film The Boys from Brazil based on the novel by Ira Levin, screenplay by Heywood Gould and starring Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele. Plot summary: This film is a science fiction account of the appearance and activity of 94 Adolf Hitler clones (the boys from Brazil) created in Europe by the infamous Auschwitz doctor, Dr. Josef Mengele. The existence of these clones is unknown until a young Nazi hunter named Barry Kohler [Steve Guttenberg) in Paraguay becomes aware of some of the activities of their creator and notifies Ezra Lieberman [Laurence Olivier], a Nazi hunter living in Vienna, who investigates further.

Cast and crew: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier,James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Franklin Schaffner, Martin Richards, Heywood Gould, Ira Levin, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner, John Rubinstein, Anne Meara, Jeremy Black, Bruno Ganz, Walter Gotell, David Hurst