This is a 20.75" x 33.25" Hong Kong poster for the 1976 Joseph Kuo
film The 18 Bronze Men based on a story by Hung-Yan Kuo,
screenplay by Hsin Yi Chang, Joseph Kuo and Chung Yen and starring
Peng Tien as Shao Lung. Plot summary: The son of a Ming Dynasty
general sequesters himself in the Shaolin Temple to prepare himself to
fight against the ongoing Manchurian invasion.
Cast and crew: Joseph Kuo, Hsin Yi Chang, Joseph Kuo, Chung Yen,
Hung-Yan Kuo, Peng Tien, Lingfeng Shangguan, Carter Wong, Nan Chiang,
Yuan Yi, Ping Lu, Yi Chang, Bao-Liang Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Chien Chin,
Kuang Hu, Wei Hu, Fei Lung Huang, Kuan-Hsien Huang
This is a folded original 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster designed by
an unknown artist for a 1973 rerelease of the 1972 Wei Lo film Fist of
Fury AKA The Chinese Connection AKA Tang shan da
xiong written and directed by Wei Lo and starring Bruce Lee as
Chen Zhen. Plot summary: Chen Zhen sets out to get revenge when he
learns his teacher was poisoned by members of a Japanese dojo.
Cast and crew: Bruce Lee, Yin-Chieh Han, James Tien, Maria Yi, Malalene, Tony Liu, Quin Lee, Nora Miao, San Chin, Wei Lo, Marilyn Bautista, Ying-Chieh Han, Kun Li, San Chin, Chih Chen, Chia-Cheng Tu, Tso Chen, Billy Chan, Lung Chan, Stephen Chang
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Heddat for the 1989
Rakhshan Banietemad film Foreign Currency written by Dariush
Moaddabian and and Farid Mostavi and starring Ali Nassirian. Plot
summary: Office worker Morteza A. dreams one night that he has
acquired $50,000. He goes everywhere trying to convert the dollars to
local currency but does not succeed. When he awakens and finds
himself without any dollars he cannot accept the reality. They take
him to a sanitorium.
Cast and crew: Rakhshan Banietemad, Dariush Moaddabian, Farid
Mostavi, Ali Nassirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jahangir Forouhar,
Mahtaj Nojoomi, Rasul Najafian, Ali Ramez, Ramin Poor Iman, Mohammad
Kadkhodai, Esfandiar Mavandadi
This is a 27.5" x 39.25" Iranian poster designed by Heddat for the
1985 Yadollah Samadi film The Man Who Knew More written by
Hassan Hedayat and Jamal Omid and starring Morteza Ahmadi. Plot
summary: A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard
life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he
will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the
right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a
newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war
between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing
essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much
higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks
with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him
he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the
wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster
and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of
death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities
and return to his honorable life.
Cast and crew: Yadollah Samadi, Hassan Hedayat, Jamal Omid, Morteza
Ahmadi, Ahmad Alinejad, Mohammad Barsoozian, Akbar Doodkar, Shirin
Golkar, Manouchehr Hamedi, Ali Rea Hedayati, Golam Japoni, Kiumars
Malekmotei, Malihe Nasiri, Shideh Rahmani, Enayatallah Shafii, Jafar
Vali, Mohammad Varshochi, Asghar Zamani
This is a 26.75" x 38.5" Iranian poster for the 1987 Naser Taghvai
film Captain Khorshid based on the 1937 Ernest Hemmingway
novel To Have and to Have Not, screenplay by Naser Taghvai and
starring Dariush Arjmand as Captain Khorshid. Plot summary: Khaje
Majed [Jafar Mohaddes] reports Captain Khorshid as a smuggler and the
smuggled cigarettes in his Persian Gulf launch are unloaded and
burned. A broker named Farhan [Ali Nassirian] comes into the port
wanting to move a few political fugitives across the maritime border.
He contacts Captain Khorshid. Captain Khorshid cooperates with him
thinking his launch will be seized.
Cast and crew: Naser Taghvai, Ernest Hemingway, Dariush Arjmand,
Ali Nassirian, Saeed Poursamimi, Parvaneh Massoumi, Fathali Oveisi,
Jawad Roshan, Ahmad Alinejad, Reza Babolian, Asghar Bichareh, Ali
Asghar Garmsiri, Ali Gharshasbi, Sadreddin Hejazi, Jafar Mohaddes,
Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Mohammad Namazi
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster for the 1987 Mehrzad Minui
film Manuscripts written by Behruz Afkhami and starring Shahram
Almasi. Plot summary: Hossein Motamed [Jalil Farjad] was fired from
his former job as a committee member because he violated regulations,
and he is now a taxi driver. His crime was that during a chase he
used a passerby's personal automobile, which later led to the loss of
life and property. A document was obtained from a team house showing
that plans had been made to assassinate Hossein Motamed. Shortly
before that a youth named Mansour Entesari had told him he was the
agent in charge of killing him, but since he had been discharged from
the organization he was unwilling to do this. His intent was to give
his information to Motamed. Motamed permits Mansour to continue his
role in the terrorist organization. The committee was following these
events and warned Motamed against interfering before the law took care
of the matter. The terrorist organization killed Mansour and arrested
Motamed and took him to a team house. The house was surrounded by
committee agents. Committee agents killed a number of people from the
outside, arrested the others and took over the house.
Cast and crew: Mehrzad Minui, Behruz Afkhami, Shahram Almasi,
Shapoor Bakhshayi, Jalil Farjad, Mohammadali Gohari, Monavereh Johari,
Reza Khalighi, Mohammad Negin, Behnam Shafiei, Amir Vatanzad
This is a 26.75" x 37.5" Iranian poster for the 1989
film Horizon written and directed by Rasool Mollagholi Poor and
starring Jahanbakhsh Soltani. Plot summary: A group of basiji and
revolutionary guard divers equip themselves to destroy the al-Amieh
Pier. A combatant named Nosrat is solely responsible for identifying
and photographing the pier. His fellow combatant Ahmad, who knows
Nosrat is sick, follows him. They are surrounded by the enemy. Ahmad
helps Nosrat escape but is himself arrested and killed. With the
information that Nosrat is in the hands of the combatants, the
Al-Amieh Pier is destroyed.
Cast and crew: Rasool Mollagholi Poor, Jahanbakhsh Soltani, Ali
Sajjadi Hosseini, Mehrzad Nooshirvan, Javad Hashemi, Hamid Salehin,
Habib Allahyari
