Movie Poster Collecting: William W. Norton

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Sam Whiskey (1969) - (Burt Reynolds) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1969 Arnold Laven film Sam Whiskey written by William Norton and starring Burt Reynolds as Sam Whiskey. Plot summary: Widow Laura Breckenridge [Angie Dickinson] persuades Sam Whiskey to retrieve $250,000 in gold bars from the bottom of the Platte River, where it has been submerged as part of the cargo of a sunken riverboat. Breckenridge's late husband stole the gold from the Denver Mint and she wants Sam to return it before the theft is discovered, so she can protect her family's name.

Cast and crew: Arnold Laven, William W. Norton, Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, Angie Dickinson, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey, Rick Davis, Anthony James, Del Reeves, John Damler, Robert Adler, Chubby Johnson, Ayllene Gibbons, Sidney Clute, Wallace Earl Laven

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Big Bad Mama (1974) - (Angie Dickinson) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster using art by John Solie to promote the 1974 Steve Carver film Big Bad Mama based on a story by William W. Norton and Frances Doel and starring Angie Dickinson as Wilma McClatchie. Plot summary: In the early 1930s Wilma McClatchie and her comely young daughters Billy Jean and Polly [Susan Sennett and Robbie Lee] go from bootlegging to bank robbery following in the footsteps of her deceased lover, then another criminal companion named Fred Diller [Tom Skerritt]. After that they try kidnapping, hoping to get a ransom for the beautiful daughter of a millionaire. This film is a veritable bad-taste cornucopia of robbery, mayhem, road collisions, gunfights and sexual conquests filmed over a bouncy bluegrass soundtrack supplied by David Grisman leading the Great American Music Band with help from Jerry Garcia on banjo.

Cast and crew: John Solie, Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee, Steve Carver, William W. Norton, Frances Doel, Robbie Lee, Noble Willingham, Dick Miller, Tom Signorelli, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Joan Prather, Royal Dano, William O'Connell, John Wheeler, Ralph James, Sally Kirkland, Wally K. Berns