This is a 19.5"x 27.5" Yugoslavian poster for the 1965 Richard Lester
film Help! based on a screenplay by Marc Behm and Charles Wood
and starring the Beatles as themselves. Plot summary: Ringo Starr has
a sacrificial ring that is required by a cult, and he must return it
or become the cult's next sacrificial victim. The other Beatles try to
protect him but they have troubles of their own.
Cast and crew: Richard Lester, Marc Behm, Charles Wood, Beatles,
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Leo McKern,
Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear, Patrick Cargill, John
Bluthal, Alfie Bass, Warren Mitchell, Peter Copley, Bruce Lacey
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1975 Gene Wilder
film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother,
written by Gene Wilder and starring Gene Wilder as Sigerson
Holmes. Plot summary: In the year 1891 in London, Sigerson Holmes is
jealous of his more famous older brother, whom he derisively calls
"Sheer Luck Holmes"; he is looking for a chance to outdo him by
solving an important case.
Cast and crew: Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Albert Finney, Madeline Kahn, Roy Kinnear, John Le Mesurier, Leo McKern, George Silver, Thorley Walters, Douglas Wilmer, Nicholas Smith, John Hollis, Aubrey Morris, Tommy Godfrey, Susan Field, Mel Brooks, John Brennan
This is a 27" x 41" US AA one-sheet for the 1966 Fred Zinneman
film A Man for all Seasons based on play and screeenplay by
Robert Bolt and starring Paul Scofield as Thomas More. The film won
six academy awards and with sales of $28,350,000 was the fifth
highest-grossing film in the US in 1966. Plot summary: In 1529 as a
member of the Privy Council, Sir Thomas More refuses to go along with
Cardinal Wolsey [Orson Welles], Lord Chancellor of England, in asking
Pope Clement VII to annul King Henry VIII's [Robert Shaw] marriage to
Catherine of Aragon; later, after becoming Lord Chancellor himself,
Thomas More resigns rather than take an oath of supremacy declaring
Henry VIII supreme head of the Church of England. The king wants his
marriage anulled because Catherine is barren; he wishes to marry Anne
Boleyn [Vanessa Redgrave] so there will be an heir to throne. More is
imprisoned in the Tower of London for his refusal to take the oath.
This was John Hurt's film debut, in the role of Richard Rich.
Orson Welles as Cardinal Wolsey speaking to Thomas More: "You're a
constant regret to me Thomas. If you could just see facts flat on
without that horrible moral squint, with a little common sense you
could have made a statesman!"
Cast and crew: Fred Zinneman, Robert Bolt, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern, Nigel Davenport, John Hurt, Corin Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Cyril Luckham, Jack Gwillim, Thomas Heathcote, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls
