This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1982 Ted Kotcheff
film Rambo AKA First Blood based on the 1972 novel by David Morell, screenplay
by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim and Sylvester Stallone and
starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. Plot summary: John Rambo
is a highly decorated former Vietnam special forces soldier visiting a
friend in the state of Washington. He becomes furious at an insult
from the local sheriff and goes on a rampage.
Cast and crew: Ted Kotcheff, David Morrell (1972 novel), Machael
Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian
Dennehy, Mill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbott, Chris Mulkey,
Mohn McLiam, Alf Humphreys, David Caruso, David L. Crowley, Don
MacKay, Charles A. Tamburro, David Petersen, Craig Huston
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by al-Thaghr Khamis and
Wahib Fahmy for the 1988 Peter MacDonald film Rambo III
AKA Double Crosser written by Sylvester Stallone and Sheldon
Lettich and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. Plot summary:
In Afghanistan the Mujahedeen are fighting the Soviet invasion and
Colonel Samuel Tarutman [Richard Crenna] has been assigned to lead a
support mission. John Rambo, one of Tarutman's former soldiers,
refuses his request to help because of his Buddhist commitments, but
when the colonel is kidnapped and tortured by the Russians, Rambo
changes his mind and launches a rescue mission in alliance with the
Mujahedeen.
Cast and crew:Peter MacDonald, al-Thaghr Khamis, Wahib Fahmy,
Sylvester Stallone, Sheldon Lettich, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge,
Kurtwood Smith, Spiros Focas, Sasson Gabai, Doudi Shoua, Randy Raney,
Marcus Gilbert, Alon Abutbul, Mahmoud Assadolahi, Joseph Shiloach,
Harold Diamond, Matti Seri
This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1981 film Body
Heat written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring William
Hurt as Ned Racine. Plot summary: In the midst of a Florida heat wave
and a passionate love affair, Ned Racine and Matty Walker [Kathleen
Turner] decide they want to murder Matty's rich husband Edmund
[Richard Crenna].
Cast and crew: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna,
Lawrence Kasdan, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Mickey Rourke, Kim Zimmer,
Jane Hallaren, Lanna Saunders, Carola McGuinness, Michael Ryan, Larry
Marko, Deborah Lucchesi, Lynn Hallowell, Thom Sharp
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1985 George
P. Cosmatos film Rambo: First Blood Part II based on a story by
Kevin Jarre, screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and James Cameron and
starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. Plot summary: John Rambo
gets a reprieve from a prison sentence so he can undertake a secret
operation to bring POWs back from Vietnam. The mission involves
conflict both with Vietnamese enemies and corrupt American officials.
Cast and crew: George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, James Cameron,
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff,
Julia Nickson-Soul, Martin Kove, George Cheung, Andy Wood, William
Ghent, Voyo Goric, Dana Lee, Baoan Coleman, Steve Williams, Don
Collins, Christopher Grant
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Saber for a 1990
rerelease of the 1988 Peter MacDonald film Rambo III AKA Double Crosser
written by Sylvester Stallone and Sheldon Lettich and starring Sylvester Stallone
as John Rambo. Plot summary: In Afghanistan the Mujahedeen are
fighting the Soviet invasion and Colonel Samuel Tarutman [Richard
Crenna]has been assigned to lead a support mission. John Rambo, one
of Tarutman's former soldiers, refuses his request to help because of
his Buddhist commitments, but when the colonel is kidnapped and
tortured by the Russians, Rambo changes his mind and launches a rescue
mission in alliance with the Mujahedeen.
Cast and crew: Peter MacDonald, Sylvester Stallone, Sheldon
Lettich, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith, Spiros Focas,
Sasson Gabai, Doudi Shoua, Randy Raney, Marcus Gilbert, Alon Abutbul,
Mahmoud Assadolahi, Joseph Shiloach, Harold Diamond, Matti Seri
This is a 27" x 40" US one-sheet poster designed by John Alvin for the
1989 George P. Cosmatos science fiction film Leviathan based on
a story by David Peoples, screenplay by Jeb Stuart and starring Peter
Weller as Steven Beck. Plot summary: Leviathan is the name of a
Soviet shipwreck found by a diver nicknamed "Sixpack" [Daniel Stern]
while working outside the deep sea station of an undersea mining
operation led by geologist Steven Beck. The crew recovers a safe from
the wreck containing the captain's video log, where the captain notes
medical problems the members of his crew were having. Sixpack dies
the next day because of mysterious lesions that appear on his back.
Another member of the mining crew, Bridget Bowman [Lisa Eilbacher], begins
to suffer from the same ailment and soon also dies. After she dies her
body begins to merge with Sixpack's body while they are being kept in
sickbay. It dawns on the miners that Leviathan had been a laborary
whose crew was being used as experimental subjects for mutagens;
Leviathan was scuttled when the experiment got out of control. The
mutagens have now begun working their way through the bodies of the
undersea mining crew. Then the crew members learn from a computer
network news report that their employer has written them all off as
accidental death victims.
Cast and crew: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, John Alvin, George P. Cosmatos, Amanda Pays, David Webb Peoples, Jeb Stuart, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Michael Carmine, Lisa Eilbacher, Hector Elizondo, Meg Foster, Eugene Lipinski, Larry Dolgin, Pascal Druant, Steve Pelot
This is an 11" x 14" US title card for the 1952 Harmon Jones
film The Pride of St. Louis based on story by Guy Trosper,
screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz and starring Dan Dailey as Dizzy
Dean. Plot summary: This film tells the story of the life and and
broadcasting career of Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean (1910-1974), pitcher for the
St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s and
television sports commentator in the years after foot and arm injuries ended his baseball career.
A major part of the film covers Dean's relationship with his wife
Patricia Nash [Joanne Dru]. In 1999 The Sporting News listed
Dean as one of the 100 greatest baseball players.
Cast and crew: Harmon Jones, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Guy Trosper, Dan Dailey, Joanne Dru, Richard Hylton, Richard Crenna, Hugh Sanders, Dizzy Dean, Hugh Sanders, James Brown, Leo Cleary, Jerome Herman Dean
Pictured is a US 40x60 poster designed to promote the 1973 Hall
Bartlett film Jonathan Livingston Seagall starring James
Franciscus as the voice of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Plot summary:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is alienated from the rest of his flock,
which does not accept him because he strives to perfect new flying
techniques. He sets out on his own to explore the world, and
eventually achieves the mastery of individual achievement.
Cast and crew: Hall Bartlett, James Franciscus, Juliet Mills, Phillip Ahn, David Ladd, Neil Diamond, Kelly Harmon, Dorothy McGuire, Richard Crenna
Watch excerpts on YouTube with Neil Diamond singing "Be" from the soundtrack
Egyptian poster for the 1972 Jean-Pierre Melville film Un flic (AKA The Cop, or Dirty Money) starring Alain Delon, a classic film which closely tracks the lives of a criminal played by Delon and the inspector who chases and eventually catches him with a clever ruse. Poster art by Sami, printed in Cairo by Arabic Cinema Printers (Hassan Mazhar Gasour). Cast and crew: Jean-Pierre Melville, Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve, Riccardo Cucciolla, Michael Conrad, Paul Crauchet, Simone Valere, Andre Pousse, Jean Desaily, Valerie Wilson, Henri Marteau, Catherine ERethi, Louis Grandidier, Philippe Gaste, Dominique Zentar