The Naked Island (1960) - (dir: Kaneto Shindo) Belgian rerelease poster

The Naked Island (1754) - (dir: Kaneto Shindo) Belgian poster

This is a 14" x 22" Belgian poster for the 1960 Kaneto Shindo 96-minute black-and-white film The Naked Island (original Japanese title Hadaka no shima) written by Kaneto Shindo and starring Nobuko Otowa as Toyo, the mother. Plot summary: This is a film with no dialogue depicting the arduous struggles of a family of four, a mother, father and two sons, who are the only inhabitants of a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea. The family survives by farming and gets the water for its crops and animals each day by fetching it in a rowboat, four buckets per trip, from a nearby island's irrigation canals. Director Kaneto himself later admitted the film's premise of watering a crop manually by rowboat is false, because this would not have been necessary to support the sweet potato crop shown under cultivation in the film. Even so, The Naked Island won the grand prize in 1961 at the Second Moscow International Film Festival and according to the director's account as reported in Wikipedia, it was also a financial success which saved his company, Kindai Eiga Kyokai, from bankruptcy.

Cast and crew: Kaneto Shindo, Masanori Horimoto, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka, Taiji Tonoyama

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The Changeling (1980) - (George C. Scott) Italian one-sheet

The Changeling (1980) - (George C. Scott) Italian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Italian one-sheet poster for the 1980 Peter Medak film The Changeling based on a story by Russell Hunter, screenplay by William Gray and Diana Maddox and starring George C. Scott as John Russell. Plot summary: After losing his wife and daughter in a traffic accident John Russell rents an old mansion in suburban Seattle where he hopes to settle into his work and recover from the loss. He soon realizes his new home is occupied by the ghost of a murdered young boy named Joseph Carmichael. Carmichael's father had murdered him and replaced him with another boy who eventually became a US senator [Melvyn Douglas]. At the ghost's urging Russell investigates the murder, finds the skeletal remains of the murdered boy and confronts the senator with the facts. The story is reportedly based on the actual experiences of author Russell Hunter while he was living in a mansion in Denver Colorado.

Cast and crew: Peter Medak, Russell Hunger, William Gray, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse, Madeleine Sherwood, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Ruth Springford, Eric Christmas, Roberta Maxwell, Bernard Behrens, James B. Douglas, J. Kenneth Campbell

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Pumpkinhead (1988) - (Lance Henriksen) US one-sheet

Pumpkinhead (1988) - (Lance Henriksen) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 40" US poster for the 1988 Stan Winston film Pumpkinhead based on a story by Mark Patrick Carducci, Stan Winston and Richard Weinman, screenplay by Mark Patrick and Gary Gerani and starring Lance Henriksen as Ed Harley. Plot summary: Ed Harley is the owner of a small country store. One day some teenagers on a camping trip kill his son Billy [Matthew Hurley] in a dirt bike accident while Ed is away on an errand. Ed asks a local witch named Haggis [Florence Schauffler] to help him get revenge. Using blood from both Ed and Billy, Haggis revives a disinterred corpse, which turns into a monster called Pumpkinhead; the monster sets out to murder the teenagers. Ed witnesses the murders telepathically because the monster is partly made from his own blood; he realizes this is wrong and tries to stop the monster from continuing its rampage.

Cast and crew: Lance Henriksen, Stan Winston, Ed Justin, Mark Patrick Carducci, Jeff East, John D'Aquino, Kimberly Ross, Joel Hoffman, Cynthia Bain, Kerry Remsen, Florence Schauffler, Brian Breme, George Flower, Matthew Hurley, Lee de Broux, Peggy Walton-Walker, Chance Michale Corbitt, Dick Warlock

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My Fair Lady (1964) - (Audrey Hepburn) German two-sheet

My Fair Lady (1964) - (Audrey Hepburn) German two-sheet

This is a 36" x 46" German two-sheet poster designed by Bob Peak for the 1964 George Cukor film My Fair Lady based a the 1913 play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, adapted for the stage for musical production in 1938 by Lerner and Lowe, book and screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and starring Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle. Plot summary: Phonetics professor Henry Higgins [Rex Harrison] takes on the task of teaching proper English and making presentable to society cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle. Eliza turns out to be a good student who is soon able to pass as a person with royal blood. After a dispute with Higgins, Eliza tries unsuccessfully to return to her old life but finds she is now a misfit there. Higgins now wants her back! According to boxofficemojo.com, Mami Nixon dubbed Hepburn's voice in all her songs except the first one, Just You Wait.

Cast and crew: Rex Harrison, Bob Peak, Stanley Holloway, Audrey Hepburn, George Cukor, George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner, Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, John Holland, Mami Nixon

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My Dinner with Andre (1981) - (dir: Louis Malle) US one-sheet

My Dinner with Andre (1981) - (dir: Louis Malle) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet for the 1981 Louis Malle film My Dinner with Andre written by Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn and starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn as Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, although they have insisted they are not playing themselves in this film. This film consists slmost entirely of a long restaurant conversation between the two men about their lives, the way they see life and their sharply contrasting philosophies. Plot summary: Wallace Shawn is the practical playwright who listens critically as Andre Gregory recounts his extensive international travels, made up chiefly of theater workshops and spiritual exercises.

Cast and crew: Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler

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Gamera: Super Monster (1980) - (Koichi Maeda) Polish poster

Gamera: Super Monster (1980) - (Koichi Maeda) Polish one-sheet

This is a 26.5" x 38" Polish poster designed by Marek Ploza-Dolinski for the 1980 Noriaki Yuasa film Gamera: Super Monster written by Nisan Takahashi and starring Koichi Maeda as Keiichi, the boy who talks to turtles. Originally intended as a children's movie, this film makes heavy use of stock footage from previous Gamera films. Plot summary: The planet Earth is in despair because the evil alien Zanon has come to enslave it. The planet has three resident superheroes known as the Spacewomen, but they are powerless to stop Zanon. However they enlist the help of Keiichi because of his special inside channel to Gamera, a giant space turtle. After Japan's Air Force is sent to attack the source of mysterious rays emanating from Mount Fuji and is unable to prevail, Gamera turns the tide by winning all the fights in a succession of attacks from Zanon's monster minions including Gyaos (a huge flying petrosaur), Zigra (a monster shark), Viras (a space squid), Jiger (a giant dinosaur), Guiron (a knife-headed beast) and Barugon (a giant lizard); at the end after all Zanon's monsters lose their fights, Gamera self-destructs in a confrontation with the Space Ship Zanon, which destroys Zanon himself forever. Zanon's accomplice on Earth, Giruge [Keiko Kudo], finally changes her evil ways because she is moved by the fact that Keiichi has taken a liking to her.

Cast and crew: Marek Ploza-Dolinski, Noriaki Yuasa, Niisan Takahashi, Mach Fumiake, Yaeko Kojima, Yoko Komatsu, Keiko Kudo, Koichi Maeda, Toshie Takada, Hiroji Hayshi, Makoto Ikeda, Kisao Tobita, Osamu Kobayashi

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The Blues Brothers (R1982) - (John Belushi) Polish Leszek Drzewinski Art

The Blues Brothers (1980) - (John Belushi) Polish one-sheet

This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Polish poster designed by Leszek Drzewinski for a 1982 rerelease of the 1980 John Landis film The Blues Brothers with screenplay by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood Blues. Plot summary: After Jake's parole, Jake and Elwood Blues reorganize their band so they can raise money to prevent foreclosure of the Catholic orphanage in which they were raised. The film has some excellent music along with enough mindless car chases and collisions that the film maintained its own automobile body shop during filming.

Cast and crew: Leszek Drzewinski, John Landis, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jemes Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper, John Lee Hooker, Joe Walsh, Pinetop Perkins, Big Walter Horton, Donal Dunn, John Candy, Charles Napier, Henry Gibson, Donald Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie Hall, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy, Alan Rubin, Carrie Fisher

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