This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1980 Marc Paul Chinoy
stop motion animation film I Go Pogo based on Walt Kelly's
comic strip and featuring Jonathan Winters and Vincent Price as voice
actors. Plot summary: Pogo has unwittingly become a candidate for
president under coercion from his animal friends in Okefenokee Swamp.
Cast and crew: Marc Paul Chinoy, Walt Kelly, Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg, Jimmy Breslin, Arnold Stang, Bob McFadden, Len Maxwell, Bob Kaliban, Marcia Savella, Mike Schultz, Skip Hinnant
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for a 1964 Hammer
Productions murder mystery directed by Freddie Francis called
Hysteria, written by Jimmy Sangster and starring Robert Webber
as Chris Smith. Plot summary: Chris Smith has been in an automobile
accident and emerged with amnesia. He has an anonymous benefactor
covering his medical and living expenses. After moving into the new
penthouse apartment provided by this benefactor, he is confronted with
a bizarre murder mystery he must solve with the aid of a small number
of clues.
Cast and crew: Freddie Francis, Jimmy Sangster, Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni, Peter Woodthorpe, Sandra Boize, Sue Lloyd, John Arnatt, Marianne Stone, Irene Richmond, Kiwi Kingston
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1977 Robert Sheerer
film It Happened at Lakewood Manor AKA Ants written by
Guerdon Trueblood and starring Suzanne Somers as Gloria. Plot
summary: The old dilapidated Lakewood Hotel is about to be converted
to a casino, but problems arise when swarms of deadly poisonous ants
invade the premises.
Cast and crew: Robert Sheerer, Guerdon Trueblood, Suzanne Somers, Robert Foxworth, Myrna Loy, Lynda Day George, Gerald Gordon, Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke, Karen Lamm, Anita Gillette, Moosie Drier, Steve Franken, Brian Dennehy, Myrna Loy, Bruce French, Barbara Brownell, Stacy Keach Sr., Rene Enriquez
This is a 29" x 43" Argentine duotone undated rerelease poster for the
1932 Erle C. Kenton film Island of Lost Souls based on the 1896
H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, screenplay by
Waldemar Young and Philip Wylie and starring Charles Laughton as
Dr. Moreau. Plot summary: Edward Parker [Richard Arlen] has been
shipwrecked. He is picked up by a freighter on its way to a remote
South Sea island with a shipment of animals. After a dispute the
freighter's captain tosses Parker onto a boat owned by Montgomery
[Arthur Hohl] and Dr. Moreau, who owns the island. After reaching the
island Parker witnesses Dr. Moreau conducting a strange surgical
procedure without anesthesia and decides to leave, but is headed off
by a group of beast-men men emerging from the jungle. Dr. Moreau
tells Parker that Lota [Kathleen Burke], a native woman Parker meets
in a controlled encounter, is the only woman on the island; Moreau
does not mention he has created Lota from from a panther. He
considers Lota his most nearly perfect creation and is pleased to see
her becoming more like a real human because of her attraction to
Parker. To make sure Parker does not go away, Moreau destroys the
boat on which he was to have left the island. Ruth Thomas [Leila
Hyams], Parker's fiancee, learns his whereabouts from the freighter
captain and sets out to find him on the island with the help of
Captain Donahue [Paul Hurst].
Cast and crew: Erle C. Kenton, Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells, Bela Lugosi, Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Paul Hurst, Hans Steinke, Tetsu Komai, George Irving
This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1956 Gene Kelly
film Invitation to the Dance directed by Gene Kelly, screenplay
by Gene Kelly and starring Gene Kelly, Tamara Toumanova and Igor
Youskevitch in three mime and dance vignettes entitled "Clown," "Ring
Around the Rosy" and "Sinbad the Sailor." The music is composed by
Andre Previn, Jacques Ibert, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Conrad
Salinger.
Cast and crew: Gene Kelly, Diana Adams, Belita, Claude Bessy, Daphne Dale, Tamar Toumanova, Igor Youskevitch, David Kasday, Clair Sombert, Tommy Rall, Belita, David Paltenghi, Daphne Dale, Claude Bessy, Irving Davies, Andre Previn, Carol Haney, David Kasday
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1964 Richard Wilson
film Invitation to a Gunfighter based on a story by Hal Goodman
and Larry Klein, screenplay by Richard and Elizabeth Wilson and
starring Yul Brynner as Jules Gaspard d'Estaing. Plot summary: Matt
Weaver [George Segal] returns home to Pecos New Mexico after the Civil
War and finds his farm has been sold and his fiancee Ruth Adams
[Janice Rule] has married someone else. Pecos is now full of Union
sympathizers who resent Weaver's service to the Confederacy; a banker
named Sam Brewster [Pat Hingle] who was also responsible for the sale
of Weaver's farm, brings a gunman named d'Estaing into town to shoot
it out with Weaver. D'Estaing's careful assessment of the town's
social dynamic plays a key role in his approach to the situation.
Cast and crew: Richard Wilson, Hal Goodman, Larry Klein, Elizabeth Wilson, Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter, Mike Kellin, George Segal, Clifford David, Pat Hingle, Alfred Ryder, Mike Kellin, Brad Dexter, Bert Freed, John A. Alonzo, Curt Conway, Clarke Gordon, Gerald Hiken, Strother Martin, Clifton James
Pictured above are a 23" x 34" Danish poster and a 27" x 39"
Spanish poster for the 1964 Alain Cavalier film L'insoumis AKA
Have I the Right to Kill and The Unvanquished written
by Jean Cau and Alain Cavalier and starring Alain Delon as Thomas
Vlassenroot. Plot summary: Thomas Vlassenroot is a divorced citizen of Luxembourg who has enlisted in
the French Foreign Legion. During the 1961 Algerian uprising he
deserts then teams up with Lieutenant Fraser [Georges Geret], a former
comrade in the Legion who is also a deserter now working for the OAS,
a group resisting the Algerian independence movement. The two kidnap
Dominique Servet [Lea Massari], an attorney defending Algerian
nationalists. Thomas falls in love with Dominique and helps her
escape to France. He later has another encounter with Dominique in
France, then makes his way back to Luxembourg.
Cast and crew: Alain Cavalier, Jean Cau, Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Geret, Maurice Garrel, Robert Castel, Viviane Attia, Paul Claven, Robert Bazil, Guy Laroche, Paul Pavel, Camille de Casabianca
