This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster designed by Averardo
Ciriello for the 1973 Sam Peckinpah film Pat Garrett and Billy the
Kid written by Rudy Wurlitzer and starring Kris Kristofferson as
Billy the Kid. Plot summary: In 1881 in Fort Sumner New Mexico
William H. Bonney AKA Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett [James Coburn]
have been friends for years; the friendship ends when Garrett
becomes Sheriff and is hired by some New Mexico cattle barons to kill
Billy.
Cast and crew: Kris Kristofferson, Averardo Ciriello, James Coburn,
Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Jason Robards, Bob Dylan,
Rita Coolidge, Sam Peckinpah, Rudy Wurlitzer, Barry Sullivan,
R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Richard Bright, Matt Clark,
Jack Dodson
This is a 14.5" x 21.5" Belgian poster designed by Vanni Tealdi and
Rene Ferracci for the 1975 L. Q. Jones film A Boy and His Dog
based on the 1966 novella by Harlan Ellison, screenplay by L.Q. Jones
and starring Don Johnson as Vic. Plot summary: After World War IV in what was once the southwestern US,
Vic forages the devastated post-apocalyptic landscape for food and
women with the help of his brilliant dog Blood, [voiced by Tim
McIntire] with whom he communicates telephathically. He finds food
for the dog, the dog finds women for him. With the help of a woman
Blood has located for him named Quilla June Holmes, [Susanne Benton]
Vic finds the portal to a sophisiticated underground society where
life as it once existed above ground has been mechanically preserved,
complete with artificial biosphere. Vic does not realize Quilla was
planted as bait by agents from the underground to lure him into their
world for use as a badly needed fertile male.
Cast and crew: L. Q. Jones, Harlan Ellison, Vanni Tealdi, Rene Ferracci, Tim McIntire, Alvy Moore, Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Alvy Moore, Helene Winston, Jason Robards, Charles McGraw, Hal Baylor, Ron Feinberg, Michael Rupert, Don Carter, Michael Hershman
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
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - (James Coburn) US one-sheet
My all-time favorite western directed by Sam Peckinpah, with one of the greatest western movie themes by Bob Dylan. There are a lot of different versions of this film and not all of them have the riverside scene with Slim Pickins dying while Katy Jurado watches with "Knock Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Door" playing. I thought Dylan's role in this was weak, but not his song.
Cast and crew: Sam Peckinpah, Rudy Wurlitzer, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Bob Dylan, R. G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Richard Bright, Matt Clark, Rita Coolidge, Jack Dodson
