These are two of the weirdest movies to come out of the UK in the 70s. I’m posting the Zardoz UK quad in memory of the late, great Sir Sean Connery, although in all honesty this is probably not the movie for which he would most like to be remembered! Zardoz was a sci-fi movie…
King Kong
The original 1933 King Kong has always been one of my favourite movies. I love everything about it, from concept to execution, and IMHO it still holds up nearly 90 years later. It was – and remains – a technical marvel of stop-motion animation. Animator Willis O’Brien managed to bring real pathos to an…
Live And Let Die/You Only Live Twice
One of these James Bond posters is an original, the other is a reprint. Can you tell which one is which? I bought these 2 posters together from a shop in Singapore, when I was living there. It was very unusual to find any places selling movie posters there, so when I saw these I…
La nuit du loup-garou
I thought I was done with buying movie posters, but this one I just could not resist. This is a French ‘moyenne’ (ie ‘medium size’) poster for the 1961 Hammer film The Curse of the Werewolf. I have already blogged about my Belgian poster for the same film here, which has now been supplanted as…
Crimes of Passion
This film is cinematic Marmite – you either love it or hate it. I am in the former camp, although quite what that says about me I don’t know. I remember going to see this while at university, with my friend John. We both really enjoyed it, to the point that he recommended it highly…
The Two Jakes
This poster is the US one-sheet for the largely forgotten sequel to Chinatown. Chinatown is one of my all-time favourite movies. It is a fabulous evocation of a place and era, with a terrific twisty storyline, wonderful performances all round and a real sting in the tail. Chinatown wasn’t exactly crying out for a…
Moonraker / A View to a Kill
Here are a couple of original posters for two of the lesser Roger Moore Bonds. Moonraker IMHO is a low point in the franchise – honestly, what the hell is James Bond doing in space? It seemed then and still does a rather pathetic attempt to cash in on the success of contemporary sci-fi…
The Deer Hunter
I’ve posted elsewhere about lousy films that were promoted with great posters. This is the other way around – great film, really awful (IMHO) poster! This is the UK quad original release poster. I’m not a huge fan of photographic posters in any case, but what really bugs me about this poster is that the…
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Here’s an original UK quad and a US re-release poster for this Steven Spielberg classic. I still have these, but neither are in the greatest condition, unfortunately. The UK quad is in the condition I bought it in – some tears and missing paper at the edges, which would be repairable if I were…
The Invisible Boy
This is another rare poster I own for a film I have never seen. I am not a sci-fi nerd in the same way that I love say Hammer horror, but I thought this poster was unique enough that it merited getting it framed. This is an Australian ‘day bill’ (almost the same size as…