Movie Poster Collecting: Jack Elam

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Monday, February 18, 2019

Support Your Local Sheriff 1969 James Garner Japanese B2 Poster

Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) - (James Garner) Japanese B2 poster

This is a 28" x 20" Japanese B2 poster for the 1969 Burt Kennedy film Support Your Local Sheriff written by William Bowers and starring James Garner as Jason McCullough. Plot summary: When Jason McCullough drifts into the western town of Calender, he quickly gets into conflict with some local gunslingers, whom he gradually outsmarts, outshoots and defeats.

Cast and crew: Burt Kennedy, William Bowers, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Henry Jones, Bruce Dern, Willise Bouchey, Gene Evans, Walter Burke, Dick Peabody, Chubby Johnson, Kathleen Freeman, Dick Haynes

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Suburban Commando (1991) - (Hulk Hogan) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

The Way West (1967) - (Kirk Douglas) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1967 Andrew V. McLaglen film The Way West based on the 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by by A.B. Guthrie, screenplay by Ben Maddow and Mitch Lindemann and starring Kirk Douglas as Senator William J. Tadlock. Plot summary: In 1843 the widower Senator Tadlock leaves Independence Missouri and heads west on the Oregon trail in a wagon train along with his son William [Stefan Arngrim] and a large group of fellow pioneers guided by Dick Summers [Robert Mitchum]. Senator Tadlock assumes leadership of the group but his harsh ways cause clashes with elements of the entourage. The Serendipity Singers sing the title song.

Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, Ben Maddow, Mitch Lindemann, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Sally Field, Katherine Justice, Jack Elam, Stubby Kaye, Michael McGreevey, Harry Carey Jr., Connie Sawyer, Michael Whitney, William Lundigan, Elisabeth Fraser, John Mitchum, Eve McVeagh, Paul Lukather, Stefan Arngrim, Serendipity Singers

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Rio Lobo (1970) - (John Wayne) Turkish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Turkish one-sheet poster for the 1970 Howark Hawks film Rio Lobo starring John Wayne as Colonel Cord McNally, based on a story by Burton Wohl with screenplay by Burton Wohl and Leigh Brackett. Plot summary: After the US Civil War, former Union Colonel Cord McNally takes it upon himself with the help of some former Confederate soldiers to find a traitor who sold information to the South during the war. When they reach the town of Rio Lobo they find it has been taken over by a band of outlaws under leadership of the traitor they are looking for.

Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett, John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neal, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French, Susana Dosamantes, Sherry Lansing, David Huddleston, Mike Henry, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dean Smith, Robert Donner, George Plimpton

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) - (James Garner) Japanese B2 Poster

This is a 20" x 29" Japanese B2 poster for the 1969 Burt Kennedy film Support Your Local Sheriff written by William Bowers and starring James Garner as Jason McCullough. Plot summary: This film is a parody of the heroic sheriff of the lawless American west who tames the frontier town of Calendar Colorado, a town with a gun control problem, a traffic problem and no morals at all.

Cast and crew: Burt Kennedy, William Bowers, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Henry Jones, Bruce Dern, Willis Bouchey, Gene Evans, Walter Burke, Dick Peabody, Chubby Johnson, Kathleeen Freeman, Dick Haynes

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Gun Runners (1958) - (Audie Murphy) US one-sheet

The Gunrunners (1958) - (Audie Murphy) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1958 Don Siegel film The Gun Runners written by Daniel Mainwaring and Paul Monash based on the Ernest Hemmingway short story "To Have and Have Not" starring Audie Murphy as Sam Martin. Plot summary: In this third film adaptation of Hemmingway's story, in the early days of the Cuban revolution Sam Martin is the captain of a charter boat caught up in a gunrunning scheme for some of the revolutionaries.

Cast and crew: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Daniel Mainwaring, Paul Monash, Everett Sloane, Ernest Hemingway, Don Siegel, Gita Hall, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Birch, Jack Elam, John Qualen, Edward Colmans, Stephen Peck, Carlos Romero

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Rawhide (R1956) - (Tyrone Power) US title card

Pictured is a US 11" x 14" title card for a 1956 rerelease of the 1951 Henry Hathaway film Rawhide based on a story by Dudley Nichols and starring Tyrone Power as Tom Owens and Susan Hayward as Vinnie Holt. Plot summary: Rawhide is a desert stagecoach stop where Vinnie Holt finds herself and her niece stranded with the assistant stationmaster Tom Owens after stationmaster Sam Todd [Edgar Buchanan] has been killed by a fugitive murderer named Rafe Zimmerman [Hugh Marlowe] and his three henchmen. Tension runs high while the outlaws wait with their hostages for the next stage so they can rob it, but events take an unexpected turn. Jack Elam is especially good in this film in his role as the deranged outlaw Tevis, who takes an unhealthy interest in Vinnie.

Cast and crew: Henry Hathaway, Dudley Nichols, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Jeff Corey, James Millican, Louis Jean Heydt, William Haade, Milton R. Corey Sr., Kenneth Tobey, Dan White, Max Terhune

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Never a Dull Moment (R1977) - (Dick Van Dyke) US 40x60

Never a Dull Moment (R1977) - (Dick Van Dyke) US 40x60 film poster

This is a US 40x60 poster designed to promote a 1977 rerelease of the 1968 Jerry Paris film Never a Dull Moment based on a novel by John Godey and screenplay by Al Carothers, starring Dick Van Dyke. Plot summary: Actor Jack Albany [Dick Van Dyke] is mistaken for a murderer named Ace Williams [Jack Elam] and taken to see a gangster boss named Leo Smooth [Edward G. Robinson]. Leo wants Jack to do a job for him and Jack plays along because he is frightened.

Cast and crew: Jerry Paris, John Godey, Al Carothers, Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Joanna moore, Tony Bill, Slim Pickens, Jack Elam, Ned Glass, Richard Bakalyan, Mickey Shaughnessy, Philip Coolidge, James Milhollin