This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1972 Daniel Mann
film The Revengers based on a story by Steven W. Carabatsos,
screenplay by Wendell Mayes and starring William Holden as John
Benedict. Plot summary: John Benedict is a rancher whose ranch is
destroyed and his family massacred by a gang of outlaws. He recruits
a team of convicts to act as a posse and sets out to get revenge.
Cast and crew: Daniel Mann, Wendell Mayes, Steven W. Carabatsos, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Susan Hayward, Roger Hanin, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jorge Luke, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Arthur Hunnicutt, Warren Vanders, Larry Pennell, John Kelly, Scott Holden, James Daughton, Lorraine Chanel, Raul Perez Prieto
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Moaty for
the 1979 Stuart Rosenberg film Love and Bullets based on a
screenplay by Wendell Mayes and John Melson and starring Charles
Bronson as Police Officer Charlie Congers. Plot summary: Jackie Pruit
[Jill Ireland] is the object of both love and bullets as she is caught
in the middle during Charlie Congers's pursuit of mob boss Joe Bomposa
[Rod Steiger].
Cast and crew: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger, Henry Silva, Strother Martin, Stuart Rosenberg I, John Huston, Wendell Mayes, John Melson, Bradford Dillman, Michael V. Gazzo, Paul Koslo, Val Avery, Sam Chew Jr., Billy Gray, Jerome Thor, Joseph Roman, Albert Salmi, John Hallam
This is a 27" x 39" Spanish one-sheet poster for the 1978 Ted Post
film Go Tell the Spartans based on the novel Incident at Muc
Wa by Daniel Ford, screenplay by Wendell Mayes and starring Burt
Lancaster as Major Asa Barker. This film was well received by
opponents of the Vietnam war, who found it noble, realistic and a good
illustration of the irrelevance of the American presence in Vietnam;
Burt Lancaster's performance was seen as one of the finest of his
career. According to Wikipedia "The film's title is from Simonides's
epitaph to the three hundred soldiers who died fighting Persian
invaders at Thermopylae, Greece: 'Go tell the Spartans, stranger
passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.'" In the film a
French translation of the line appears as another epitaph at a
graveyard for 302 French soldiers; its Greek origin is recognized and
the line translated by Corporal Courcey [Craig Wasson].
Plot summary:
In the years before major American involvement in Vietnam a unit of
American military advisors is in an uphill fight against the Viet Cong
that reminds them of the experience of a doomed Franch unit at the
same location a decade earlier. Major Asa Barker, a veteran fighter
in his third war, is breaking in four new recruits and supervising a
small group of Americans attached to a South Vietnamese Army unit in
the deserted village of Muc Wa. Their aim is to retake the village
following its abandonment by the French a decade earlier. The VC
overrun the village and its outpost and kill almost all the American
personnel.
Cast and crew: Burt Lancaster, Graig Wasson, David Clennon, Dolph Sweet, Marc Singer, Wendell Mayes, Daniel Ford, Ted Post, Jonathan Goldsmith, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard, Evan C. Kim, John Megna, Hilly Hicks, Dolph Sweet, Clyde Kusatsu, James Hong, Denice Kumagai, Tad Horino
This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster using art by Giuliano
Nistri to promote the 1965 Mark Robson film Von Ryan's Express
based on a novel by David Westheimer, screenplay by Wendell Mayes and
starring Frank Sinatra as Colonel Joseph L. Ryan. Plot summary: A
group of American prisoners of war make an escape from the Germans in
Italy under the leadership of Colonel Ryan. Most of the soldiers
under his command are British and after making errors of judgment he
faces challenges winning their support.
Cast and crew: Mark Robson, David Westheimer, Wendell Mayes, Frank Sinatra, Giuliano Nistri, Trevor Howard, Rafaella Carra, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton, Edward Mulhare, Wolfgang Preiss, James Brolin, John Van Dreelen, Adolfo Celi, Vito Scotti, Richard Bakalyan, Michael Goodliff, Michael St. Clair
This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster using a design by Saul
Bass to promote the 1959 Otto Preminger film Anatomy of a
Murder based on a novel by John D. Voelker, screenplay by
Wendel Mayes and starring James Stewart as Paul Biegler. Plot
summary: Army lieutenant Frederick Manion [Ben Gazzara] is arrested
for the murder of a bartender. He claims he was defending his wife
Laura [Lee Remick] whom the bartender had raped, but his attorney Paul
Biegler realizes the defense will claim Laura was the bartender's
lover.
Cast and crew: Otto Preminger, Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker, James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Saul Bass, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Orson Bean, Russ Brown, Murray Hamilton, Brooks West, Ken Lynch, John Qualen, Howard McNear, Alexander Campbell
This is a US 40x60 poster designed to promote the 1974 Michael Winner
film Death Wish based on a novel by Brian Garfield and screenplay
by Wendell Mayes starring Charles Bronson. Plot summary: Paul Kersey
[Charles Bronson] is a New York City architect who becomes a street
vigilante after his wife is murdered by thugs. This performance made
Charles Bronson a major star.
Cast and crew: Michael Winner, Brian Garfield, Wendell Mayes, Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Kathleen Tolan, Jack Wallace, Fred J. Scollay, Chris Gampel, Robert Kya-Hill, Edward Grover, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Logan
Pictured is a US one-sheet poster designed by Saul Bass to promote the
1962 Otto Preminger film Advise and Consent based on the novel
by Allen Drury with screenplay by Wendell Mayes, starring Henry Fonda.
Plot summary: Scandals rage and mud flies as a president's [Franchot
Tone] candidate for secretary of state [Henry Fonda] faces a tough
Senate investigation to determine if he is qualified.
Cast and crew: Otto Preminger, Allen Drury, Wendell Mayes, Henry Fonda, Allen Drury, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Wendell Mayes, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer
