Movie Poster Collecting: Mel Gibson

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Bird on a Wire (R1991) - (Mel Gibson) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Morteda Anise for a 1991 rerelease of the 1990 John Badham film Bird on a Wire based on a story by Louis Venosta and Eric Lerner, screenplay by David Seltzer, Louis Venosta and Eric Lerner and starring Mel Gibson as Rick Jarmin and Goldie Hawn as Marianne Graves. Plot summary: After helping to convict a drug dealing FBI agent, FBI agent Rick Jarmin gets a new idenity, but 15 years later his former fiance Marianne Graves recognizes him.

Cast and crew: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, John Badham, Louis Venosta, Eric Lerner, Bill Duke, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Severance, Harry Caesar, Jeff Corey, Alex Bruhanski, John Pyper-Ferguson, Clyde Kusatsu, Jackson Davies, Florence Patterson, Tim Healy, Wes Tritter

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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Mrs. Soffel (1984) - (Diane Keaton) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1984 Gillian Armstrong film Mrs. Soffel written by Ron Nyswaner and starring Diane Keaton as Kate Soffel. Plot Summary: In 1901 Kate Soffel is the wife of Warden Peter Soffel [Edward Hermann] of Allegheny County Prison in Pennsylvania. She reads bible scripture to inmates, including Ed Biddle [Mel Gibson] and his brother Jack [Matthew Modine], both convicted murderers sentenced to hang. She falls in love with Ed, helps the two brothers escape and then goes on the run with them.

Cast and crew: Ron Nyswaner, Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Gillian Armstrong, Trini Alvarado, Jennifer Dundas, Danny Corkill, Harley Cross, Terry O'Quinn, Pippa Pearthree, William Youmans, Maury Chaykin, Joyce Ebert, Wayne Robson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson