Posters in Films

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Wonderful! Thanks so much Hugh. You put a lot of time into doing this and all the other uploads, but they are very much appreciated.

Especially if they're Dirk

[theuofc]

Especially if they're Dirk

Absolutely, definitely. Thanks again.

[bruiser15]

In Wolf Rilla's The World Ten Times Over, as William Hartnell trudges around Soho he passes a cinema showing the 1961 Shock Doc/Drama West End Jungle [note Member's Only cinema to get around it's 1961 ban]

[bruiser15]

Another from World Ten Times Over, a bit of advertising this time for Double Diamond...oh and Edward Judd.

[Gerald Lovell]

Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder during the opening titles of Loot (1970):

Loot was filmed in the latter months of 1969 and the poster on display for the Roxy is for Ray Harryhausen's The Valley of Gwangi, which was in first release then. I'm afraid I can't make out the second half of the double bill.

[Rick C]

Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder during the opening titles of Loot (1970):

Loot was filmed in the latter months of 1969 and the poster on display for the Roxy is for Ray Harryhausen's The Valley of Gwangi, which was in first release then. I'm afraid I can't make out the second half of the double bill.

The other half was one of the many Burt Kennedy westerns "Good Guys and the Bad Guys", Gerald. General Release ABC Circuit 23 November, 1969. Judging by my local Midlands presentations the lead film was swopped round here and there to promote which was thought the bigger draw (as in Western, geddit?) which might explain why in the Loot grab the promotion looks like two 40" x 30" posters stuck together. (Which it is).

Moviegoods only seem to have the American version of the poster on their site, and of course no double-bill extravaganzas, so I'll pass by the Rick C newspaper archive later in the week and see whats in there for putting on here.

[Gerald Lovell]

The other half was one of the many Burt Kennedy westerns "Good Guys and the Bad Guys", Gerald. General Release ABC Circuit 23 November, 1969. Judging by my local Midlands presentations the lead film was swopped round here and there to promote which was thought the bigger draw (as in Western, geddit?) which might explain why in the Loot grab the promotion looks like two 40" x 30" posters stuck together. (Which it is).

Moviegoods only seem to have the American version of the poster on their site, and of course no double-bill extravaganzas, so I'll pass by the Rick C newspaper archive later in the week and see whats in there for putting on here.

Many thanks for that information, Rick. It would be great to see the poster in more detail.

[theuofc]

I'm only bringing this forward. It was posted a while back in another thread before this thread existed:



A bit of wit here in Cubby Broccoli using a Call Me Bwana poster in From Russia with Love. "007 and Ali Kerim Bey are about to assassinate the character Krilencu. A window opens in Ekberg's mouth in the poster, and as Krilencu exits through it on a rope, he is shot, followed by a droll comment from 007, "She should have kept her mouth shut". Cubby Broccoli produced Call Me Bwana the same year that he produced From Russia From Love.

[Rick C]

Many thanks for that information, Rick. It would be great to see the poster in more detail.

Here we are Gerald, as promised earlier in the week. From the Rick C newspaper archive of 1969 confirmation that the Burt Kennedy western "Good Guys and the Bad Guys" was the official partner for the Valley of the Gwangi double-bill. If you look at the two cowboy heads appearing above the title logo on the ad, you will see it corresponds with the same positioning on the poster seen in "Loot".

Contrary to what I might have thought earlier on, the selection of "Good Guys" as main film was not a Birmingham phenomenon after all; this advertisement on show here is for the first-run London presentation and all the others I have (with the ABC logo) have this A and B feature this way round.




Would be interesting to know which was the Roxy this presentation was on at the time. Maybe the canopy listed things the same way round and by chance we've discovered a unique advertising promo!

[Gerald Lovell]

Excellent stuff, Rick. Very much appreciated! I think Loot was filmed in Lewes and Brighton, but no sign of a Roxy Cinema there now.

[jimw1]

A scene From "Dead Mans Shoes" enter the Dragon poster

[steereomono]

Bowie and Pink Floyd from another Paddy Considine movie.
24 Hour Party People (2002)

[Sgt Sunshine]

In Wolf Rilla's The World Ten Times Over, as William Hartnell trudges around Soho he passes a cinema showing the 1961 Shock Doc/Drama West End Jungle [note Member's Only cinema to get around it's 1961 ban]

"West End Jungle" had to wait 47 years before it got its certificate......they passed it uncut and gave it a "15" in Nov 2008.
It could be seen in some cities outside London, such as Cardiff Coventry Leeds Newcastle & York......
Cheers
Sgt S

[Rowdon]

The Lovers! (1973). Not an accidental choice of poster - as they never are.

The Lovers! poster.jpg

1967_The_Taming_of_the_Shrew.jpg




(How do I get rid of that "Attached thumbnail" with the previous poster ... or is it only visible to me, like a ghost?)

[Steve Crook]

(How do I get rid of that "Attached thumbnail" with the previous poster ... or is it only visible to me, like a ghost?)

With difficulty

When I edit the page and then Go Advanced there's a button to "Manage Attachments". I'm not sure if you'll see that

Steve

[Rowdon]

Cheers Steve. I never go advanced - I am so very 'umble.