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| CLICK ON IMAGE | TITLE | SIZE | CONDITION | DATE | PRICE |
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ADVISE AND CONSENT | U.S. 1-sheet 27"x41" | Excellent linen backed |
1962 | £400 |
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Design by Saul Bass. Bass's partnership with Otto Preminger peaked in the period 1957 to 1965, seeing eight film collaborations that raised the bar of graphic design in posters and title sequences to what is still the gold standard. | |||||
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BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE | U.S. half-sheet 22"x28" style B. | V. Fine+ | 1960 | £125 |
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The early 1960's were the last great years of American Sci-Fi film poster art. Toho Studios, creators of 'Godzilla', were the first to export Japanese cinema to a worldwide audience up until the industry-wide crash of 1972. | |||||
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BEDAZZLED | U.S. insert 14"x36" | V. Fine | 1967 | £125 |
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Wonderful image at top of Dudley Moore as Nun in sleazy bar, consoling himself with ciggies and whiskey. The film was sadly Cook and Moore's one and only true cinematic triumph. | |||||
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THE BEGUILED | U.S. 1-sheet 27"x41" | V. Fine - | 1971 | £95 |
| Striking graphics for Don Siegal's unique Clint Eastwood Civil War psycho-melodrama. | |||||
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THE BIG EASY | UK Quad 30"x40" | V. Fine - | 1986 | £65 |
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Remember a time before Photoshop? This is a good reminder from the last days of real poster artwork. Only on the UK quad. | |||||
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BIG WEDNESDAY | Spanish 1-sheet 27"x40 | Fine + | 1978 | £120 |
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The entrancing cinematography on the film was by Bruce Surtees ('High Plains Drifter', 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' and 'Pale Rider'). | |||||
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BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN | US 1-sheet 27"x41" | V. Fine - | 1967 | £95 |
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The Harry Palmer series crashes and burns in the hands of Ken Russell. Archetypal 60's British pop-art design though by Alan Aldridge, whose 'Beatles Lyrics' book illustrations and great album cover for The Who's 'A Quick One' are instantly recognisable. | |||||
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BLADE RUNNER | Australian 1-sheet 27"x40" | V. Fine | 1982 | SOLD |
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This artwork, with its unusual colours, is unique to Australia. Beyond the lower cityscape, none of the character shots were used on the U.S. poster. | |||||
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BLOW UP | Italian Photobustas 19"x27" | Excellent | 1967 | £various |
| Click on thumbnail image to see pictures and details of all the photobustas. The Italian paper is supreme on the film. | |||||
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CINCINNATI KID | French 23"x33" | V. Fine linen backed |
1974 | SOLD |
| The best poster on the film. Art By Georges Allard. | |||||
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CRY DANGER | Australian daybill 13"x30" | Excellent linen backed |
1950 | £150 |
| Beautiful Noir litho, amongst the best ever made. Former song-and-dance man Dick Powell turned hard-boiled after starring in 'Farewell My Lovely/Murder My Sweet', still the best Raymond Chandler adaptation. | |||||
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DARK STAR | British quad poster | V. Fine | 1974 | SOLD |
| The original release British poster for John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon's ultra-stoned sci-fi cult classic. "Instead of the most impressive student film ever made, we ended up with the least impressive professional film ever made." | |||||
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DR NO | Japanese 20"x58" | V. Fine | 1972 re-release | SOLD |
| Superior to the first release Japanese paper, this very scarce double-panel poster is one of the best from any country with the best image of Ursula Andress as well. | |||||
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ED WOOD | U.S. 1-sheet 27"x41" | Excellent | 1994 | £275 |
| Double-sided 1-sheet. Posters for Tim Burton's films are frequently a cut above most contemporary releases. | |||||
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ELVIS ON TOUR | U.S. 1-sheet 27"x41" | Fine | 1972 | £275 |
| One of the best of all Elvis posters. The Vegas era encapsulated in one phenomenal image. | |||||
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ELVIS ON TOUR | U.S. 3-sheet 41"x81" | Excellent linen backed |
1972 | £850 framed |
| The above - but nearly lifesize. Scarce and in unused condition. | |||||
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F FOR FAKE | Italian 19"x27" | V. Good linen backed. |
1976 First UK release |
£195 |
| Extremely scarce poster by UK arthouse designers X3, silkscreen in black, grey and metallic silvers. Welles's brilliant conjouring trick of a film was to be his final completed statement on his art. | |||||
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FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE | Italian 19"x27" | V. Fine linen backed. |
1965 | £300 |
| Scarce original Italian front-of-house poster with an archetypal image, one of the most famous of the director's set pieces. | |||||
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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS | Belgian 14"x22" | V. Fine Paperbacked. |
c.1950 | £175 framed |
| Beautiful poster for Sam Wood's 1943 classic Hemingway Spanish Civil War story. Stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman | |||||
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FRIDAY THE 13th | British quad poster 30"x40" | Fine |
1980 | SOLD |
| Conceived as a cash-in on John Carpenter's 'Halloween', 'Friday the 13th' outstriped it's predecessor at the box-office hit, sparking an endless series of imitators and sequels. The british quad is fairly hard to come by. | |||||
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THE GODFATHER, PART II | Italian double photobusta 36"x26.5" | V. Fine linen backed |
1974 | £750 framed |
| Even more than Part I, the poster campaign for Part II was otherwise poor. This outstanding, extremely scarce, double photobusta is THE key piece from the film. | |||||
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GOLD RUSH | U.S. lobby card 11"x14" | V. Fine | 1942 rerelease |
£95 |
| Scarce card from very attractive reissue set. | |||||
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THE GODFATHER PART 2 | U.S. still 8"x10" | V. Fine + | 1974 |
SOLD |
| Young Vito takes the irreversible step, with his assasination of the crude 'Black Hand' extortionist Don Fanucci. The gloriously rich colouration of the film is significant, as it was the last major US movie filmed in Technicolor. | |||||
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