This is a 29" x 43" Argentine poster for the 1952 William Berke
film The Jungle written by Orville Hampton and Caroll Young and
starring Rod Cameron as hunter Steve Bentley. This was India's first
science fiction film. Plot summary: At the suggestion of royal
adviser Rama Singh [Cesar Romero], Steve Bentley and Princess Mari
[Marie Windsor] go into an Indian jungle with a team of soldiers and
trackers looking for the cause of a rash of wild animal stampedes that
have caused many deaths. The princess, Singh and the local people
believe a herd of wild elephants is to blame and the jungle probe's
mission to destroy the herd, but Bentley thinks something else is
stampeding it.
Cast and crew: Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero, Marie Windsor, William Berke, Orville H. Hampton, Carroll Young, Ruby Mayer, M.N. Nambiar, David Abraham, Ramakrishna, Chitra Devi
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy
film Labyrinth based on a story by Brian Froud, Dennis Lee and
Jim Henson with screenplay by Terry Jones and starring David Bowie as
Jareth the Goblin King. According to Wikipedia, the owl in the film's
opening sequence is the first use of a realistic CGI animal in a film.
Plot summary: When 15-year-old Sarah's [Jennifer Connelly] father and
stepmother [Shelley Thompson and Christopher Malcolm] leave her at home
to babysit her little brother Toby [Toby Froud], she tells him a story
in an unsuccessful effort to stop his crying and put him to sleep.
The elements of her story come to life when Jareth the Goblin King
invisibly emerges from her fantasy world, steals Toby and hides him in
a castle surrounded by a labyrinth. Jareth then appears and gives
Sarah 13 hours to navigate the maze and bring Toby back out. With
unlikely help from a host of unusual beasts and bizarre characters,
Sarah finally solves the maze, evades the deadly, grossly flatulent
Bog of Eternal Stench, overcomes Jareth's guard corps, recovers Toby
from Jareth's warren of anti-gravity stone stairs and neutralizes
Jareth by announcing to him he has no power over her.
Cast and crew: David Bowie, Jim Henson, Dennis Lee, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Terry Jones, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm, Natalie Finland, Shari Weiser, Brian Henson, Ron Mueck, Rob Mills, Dave Goelz, David Alan Barclay, David Shaughnessy, Karen Prell, Timothy Bateson
This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Roxie Releasing poster for the 1998 Nick
Broomfield documentary film Kurt & Courtney featuring archive
footage of the late Kurt Cobain and interviews with people familiar
with the circumstances of Cobain's death. Synopsis: This film is a
wide-ranging retrospective through archival footage and Broomfield's
interviews with former associates on the lives of Kurt and Courtney,
motivated by the shock of Kurt Cobain's death. On April 8 1994 Kurt
Cobain's bloodied body was discovered by an electrician who was there
to install security lighting, next to a shotgun in the greenhouse
above his garage. He was estimated to have died three days earlier on
5 April. The film explores at length claims Cobain was murdered, even
though the coroner ruled his death a suicide, and probes his
relationship with his wife Courtney Love. Some of the film's subjects
say they think Courtney had a hand in her husband's death. Courtney
Love was opposed to the film, refused to be interviewed for it,
refused to license Nirvana's music for use in the film and threatened
to sue the Sundance Film Festival if they screened it. Kurt and
Courtney are strong personalities and the emotions this film conveys
from the people who knew them are powerful and heartfelt. For me, this
emotion is an element of tremendous interest that overcomes the fact
that I have never liked Nirvana's music. I have never been able to
remember one of their songs well enough to hum it, but I can at least
acknowledge they were always in tune and had substantive lyrics that
obviously meant something to a lot of other people.
Cast and crew: Nick Broomfield, Dylan Carlson, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Al Bowman, Jack Briggs, Dylan Carlson, Chelsea, Victoria Clarke, El Duce, Eldon Hoke, Mari Earle, Larry Flynt, Tom Grant, Hank Harrison, Tracey Marander, Rozz Rezabek
This is a 23.5" x 35" Iranian poster for the 1973 Hossein
Ghassemi-Vand film Brother-in-Law [bajenaq] starring Sirus
Afhami as Yadollah. Plot summary: Yadollah [Sirus Afhami], the
neighborhood tough guy and garage owner, has two wives and nine
chidren. His brother Ibrahim [Manuchehr Tayefeh] lives with him. One
day one of the neighborhood bullies named Reza Shangul harasses the
sister of Ahmad Kolupoz and Ibrahim rebukes him. Reza Shangol
intervenes and Farideh [Leeda Daneshvar], the niece of one of
Yadollah's neighbors, comes to their home. Both brothers become
infatuated with her and each of them prepares for marriage. Each
brother thinks the other brother supports his marriage, but in the end
it is Ibrahim and Farideh who turn out to have a mutual interest and
become engaged.
Cast and crew: Sirus Afhami, Leeda Daneshvar, Hossein Ghasemi-Vand, Fereydun Gole, Manuchehr Tayefeh, Hamideh Kheirabadi, Dalileh Namazi, Hengameh, Nastaran, Malihe, Mayani, Abbas Eftekhari, Rahim, Arash, Zaree, Koorosh, Soheil, Amir Rezaee, Saaghee, Amir Taji, Asghar Aghajani, Ali Akbar Mehdavifar
This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1965 Billy Wilder
film Kiss Me Stupid from a screenplay by Billy Wilder and
I.A.L. Diamond based on a play by Anna Bonacci and starring Dean
Martin as Dino. Plot summary: In an unexpected detour the pop singer
Dino finds himself in Climax Nevada, where he meets a pair of amateur
songwriters Barney Milsap [Cliff Osmond] and Orville J. Spooner [Ray
Walston]. The two invent a reason to keep Dino in town for a night so
they can try to sell him some of their songs. Orville invites Dino to
stay over with him and his wife Zelda [Felicia Farr]. Being
compulsively possessive and jealous, Orville has second thoughts
because he fears Dino will try to seduce Zelda, so he drives her out
for the night and brings in a prostitute from the Belly Button Road
House named Polly the Pistol [Kim Novak] to pose as his wife. In a
bizarre turn of events, that night the fickle Orville tosses Dino out
so he can sleep with Polly, who has also fallen for the idea of being
a married woman even if just for a night. Dino goes to the Belly
Button and meets Zelda, now a temporary occupant of Polly's trailer.
He thinks Zelda is Polly and finds it easy to seduce her because she
is already a fan; she also sells him one of Orville's songs.
Cast and crew: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Anna Bonacci, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper, Skip Ward, Doro Merande, Bobo Lewis, Tom Nolan, Alice Pearce, John Fiedler, Arlen Stuart, Howard McNear, Cliff Norton
This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet for the 1981 William A. Fraker
film The Legend of the Lone Ranger based on a screenplay by
Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Michael Kane and William Roberts, adaptation
by Gerald B. Derloshon and starring Klinton Spilsbury as The Lone
Ranger (John Reid). Plot summary: Law student John Reid is riding as
an observer with a party of Texas rangers, including his brother Dan,
when it is ambushed and massacred by a ruthless outlaw named
Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish [Christopher Lloyd], a dishonorably
discharged former major in the Union Army. Reid, wounded and left for
dead, is the sole survivor. Tonto [Michael Horse], his childhood
Comanche friend (and trail guide and mentor later on in the arts of
riding and shooting), finds him after the outlaws leave and helps him
recover from his injuries over the objections of his fellow tribesmen.
After that Reid and Tonto dedicate their lives to a two-man vigilante
crusade against evil, beginning with the rescue of President Grant
[Jason Robards] when Cavendish takes him hostage, even though his
brother Dan had told him of his low opinion of Washington politicians
before he was killed by Cavendish: "In Texas, robbers are outlaws. In
Washington, robbers are elected."
This film is an admirable effort to
add a historic backstory to the mysterious legend of the Lone Ranger
and also to replace the American public's silver screen idea of the
Lone Ranger as popularized by Clayton Moore in his television role as
the masked rider; its promoters made a financially devastating error
and generated massive negative publicity for the film when with
litigation they tried unsuccessfully to ban Moore from appearing in
public as the Lone Ranger.
Cast and crew: William A. Faker, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Michael Kane, William Roberts, Gerald B. Derloshon, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Jason Robards, Klinton Spilsbury, Juanin Clay, Matt Clark, Jason Ro0bards, John Bennett Perry, David Hayward, John Hart, Richard Farnsworth, Lincoln Tate, Ted Flicker, Marc Gilpin, Patrick Montoya, David Bennett, George W. Trendle, Fran Striker
Pictured here is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1955 Charles
Lamont film Lay that Rifle Down, written by Barry Shipman and
starring Judy Canova as Judy Canova. This was the last of a series of
13 films Republic films released starring Judy Canova. Plot summary:
While working as a maid at her aunt Sara's [Jacquline deWit]
Greebville Hotel, Judy decides to enroll in the Continental
Correspondence Charm School; the people running the school turn out to
be pushing a real estate scam, trying to use Judy to swindle her aunt.
Posing as an Army general, a confidence man pretending to be a General
Ballard [Robert Burton] tries to talk Judy into selling some inherited
property at a price well below its market value.
Cast and crew: Judy Canova, Jacqueline De Wit, Jil Jarmyn, Tweeny Canova, Barry Shipman, Robert Lowery, Jil Jarymn, Jacqueline deWitt, Richard Deacon, Robert Burton, James Bell, Leon Tyler
