Being There 1979 Peter Sellers Yugoslavian Poster

Being There (1979) - (Peter Sellers) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19.5"x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1979 Hal Ashby film Being There based on the 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosinski, screenplay by Jerzy Kosinski and starring Peter Sellers as Chance. Plot summary: Chance, once a simple gardener with little knowledge of the world, becomes through a series of unlikely events a trusted confidante to an influential Washington D.C. businessman.

Cast and crew: Hal Ashby, Jerzy Kosinski (novel first ed 1970), Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon, Fran Brill, Denise DuBarry, Oteil Burbridge, Ravenell Keller III, Brian Corrigan, Alfie Brown, Don Jacob

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Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - (Burt Lancaster) Spanish one-sheet

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - (Burt Lancaster) Spanish poster

This is a 27" x 39" Spanish poster for the 1977 Robert Aldrich film Twilight's Last Gleaming based on the 1977 novel of the same title by Walter Wager, screenplay by Ronald M. Cohen and Edward Huebsch and starring Burt Lancaster as General Lawrence Dell. Plot summary: Lawrence Dell is a renegade US Air Force general who infiltrates and takes over an ICBM complex he once helped design. He then contacts the president of the United States David Stevens [Charles Durning] and demands a public admission that the US government fought the Vietnam war knowing it could not win, simply as a propaganda measure aimed at manipulating the Soviet Union. Cast and crew: Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch, Walter Wager, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Robert Aldrich, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Joseph Cotten, Roscoe Lee Browne, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Jaeckel, William Marshall, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Charles Aldman, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw, Morgan Paull

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The Tenant (1976) - (Roman Polanski) US one-sheet

The Tenant (1976) - (dir: Roman Polanski) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1976 Roman Polanski film The Tenant AKA Le Locataire based on the 1964 Roland Topor novel Le Locataire chimerique, screenplay by Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski and starring Roman Polanski as Trelkovsky. This is the last film in Polanski's Apartment Trilogy after Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Plot summary: Trelkovsky rents an apartment in Paris previously occupied by an Egyptologist named Choule who has attempted suicide. Trelkovsky finds his new environment a difficult adjustment because of the strange people around him; he begins hallucinating and taking on some of their characteristics.

Cast and crew: Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Shelley Winters, Roman Polanski, Roland topor, Gerald Brach, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin, Claude Pieplu, Rufus, Romain Bouteille, Jacques Monod, Patrice Alexsandre, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc

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The Changeling (1980) - (George C. Scott) Italian one-sheet

The Changeling (1980) - (George C. Scott) Italian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Italian one-sheet poster for the 1980 Peter Medak film The Changeling based on a story by Russell Hunter, screenplay by William Gray and Diana Maddox and starring George C. Scott as John Russell. Plot summary: After losing his wife and daughter in a traffic accident John Russell rents an old mansion in suburban Seattle where he hopes to settle into his work and recover from the loss. He soon realizes his new home is occupied by the ghost of a murdered young boy named Joseph Carmichael. Carmichael's father had murdered him and replaced him with another boy who eventually became a US senator [Melvyn Douglas]. At the ghost's urging Russell investigates the murder, finds the skeletal remains of the murdered boy and confronts the senator with the facts. The story is reportedly based on the actual experiences of author Russell Hunter while he was living in a mansion in Denver Colorado.

Cast and crew: Peter Medak, Russell Hunger, William Gray, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse, Madeleine Sherwood, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Ruth Springford, Eric Christmas, Roberta Maxwell, Bernard Behrens, James B. Douglas, J. Kenneth Campbell

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Hud (1963) - (Paul Newman) Australian daybill

Hud (1963) - (Paul Newman) Australian daybill

This is a 13" x 30" Australian stone litho daybill poster for the 1963 Martin Ritt film Hud based on the 1961 Larry McMurtry novel Horseman, Pass By with screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. and starring Paul Newman as Hud Bannon. Plot summary: This is a contemporary Western drama played by a core ensemble cast including Texas cattle rancher Homer Bannon [Melvyn Douglas], his violent alcoholic son Hud, Hud's nephew Lonnie Bannon [Brandon de Wilde] and their middle-aged housekeeper Alma [Patricia Neal]. Life on the ranch is disrupted by the discovery of foot-and-mouth disease among the cattle, a state ordered livestock quarantine and the killing of the herd by order of the state veterinarian. Other problems cause major conflicts in the family including a profound antagonism between Homer and Hud and Hud's abusive interest in Alma. Hud won three academy awards including Best Actress (Patricia Neal), Best Supporting Actor (Melvyn Douglas) and Best Cinematography (James Wong Howe).

Cast and crew: Martin Ritt, James Wong Howe, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell, Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde, Larry McMurtry, Crahan Denton, John Ashley, Val Avery, George Petrie, Curt Conway, Sheldon Allman, Pitt Herbert, Carl Low, Robert Hinkle, Don Kennedy

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