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June 2019

Allright you poster monkeys! We're officially a week into June, and there's no RA thread. Y'all should be ashamed! Okay, now that my pseudo rant is over, on with the excitement of my most recent purchases (or you could get up and go grab a snack. probably a better choice by far). 

Keeping with both the automotive theme, and also re-buying posters I've had before, I picked up this inexpensive 1 sheet for the cool, 40's woody family wagon at the top:

it happens every thursday 1 sheet

Continuing with the car theme, I guess this is considered a jumbo window card (20x28 inches - not far off a half sheet, really) for the first Cars movie. The only other Cars poster I have is a daybill, also from the first Cars, which was sent as part of a care package during some tough times by my (and many others') poster hero, Vesna, owner of the hugest heart in posterdom.  :)  Anyhow, here da poster:
cars jumbo window card

And lastly for now, a movie oddly similar in theme to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, but with radiation instead of aliens as the culprit, but also kind of a similar poster. This is definitely better than the US paper on the title:

30 foot bride belgian

That's it for now. I wish there was more, or something more exciting, but that's all I got. Thanks for lookin'! Now go out and buy some posters!

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  • Gee they're really promoting old Lou in 30ft Bride
  • Okay, so maybe that wasn't all I had. This one showed up in the mail today and reminded me. Sometime last year I bought a 2D 1 sheet for this title because I didn't have the 3D version, but now I do. There's lots of 50's 3D titles left to acquire, but here's another checked off the list.  :)

    glass web 3d 1 sheet

     B)  B)
  • Oh yeah Glass Web...legs!!!! Nice rock
  • Thanks, Sven! I still can't compete with VB's "wall o' legs©", but it's a start.  ;)

    Since total world domination seems a bit Pinky and the Brain, far flung and fairly difficult, I'll just shoot for TOTAL THREAD DOMINATION for now. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!! There aren't a whole lot of modern hot rod themed movies, probably because hot rodding has always been kind of a subculture of a subculture, so there aren't a lot of modern HR movie posters to collect. I posted the Deuce of Spades one recently, which looks much better in person than in a smallish picture on my monitor, so it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. This other movie has been around since 2008, and I'm just now getting around to buying a poster for it. I don't know if they were ever printed as an actual one sheet, but like Deuce of Spades, this one is 24x36. Visually it's kind of meh-ish, but I do dig the title:

    hot rod girls save the world movie poster

    With the likelihood of me finding a copy of the Danish poster for Dragstrip Girl (below, and thanks for the image, Bruce :) ) seeming pretty slim (but if you have one or know someone that does - I'm interested), I rolled the dice on a half-arsed way to get one. I snapped a photo of the DG Danish movie program I have, and ordered an inexpensive 16x20 inch canvas print of it online. We'll see if the gamble pays off. If it's not embarrassingly poor, I'll post the results here. This is the Danish (1 sheet?):

    dragstrip girl danish 1 sheet

    While on the subject (which I'm not remotely an expert on), are there other foreign/non COO movie posters for the 50's & early 60's hot rod movies like Hot Rod Girl, Dragstrip Girl, Dragstrip Riot, Hot Rod Rumble, etc, etc? I've seen Mex lobbies for Hot Rod Girl and The Choppers, but no Mex posters. I've seen a German poster for Hot Car Girl that doesn't look anything like it's US counterpart. I've seen a couple quads for titles I don't recall right off, but they seem pretty rare. If you run across any in your travels, let me know. It kind of sounds like it could be the subject for a separate thread, but also one that has the potential to sink like an anchor. Whaddya think?
  • Thanks,

    While on the subject (which I'm not remotely an expert on), are there other foreign/non COO movie posters for the 50's & early 60's hot rod movies like Hot Rod Girl, Dragstrip Girl, Dragstrip Riot, Hot Rod Rumble, etc, etc? I've seen Mex lobbies for Hot Rod Girl and The Choppers, but no Mex posters. I've seen a German poster for Hot Car Girl that doesn't look anything like it's US counterpart. I've seen a couple quads for titles I don't recall right off, but they seem pretty rare. If you run across any in your travels, let me know. It kind of sounds like it could be the subject for a separate thread, but also one that has the potential to sink like an anchor. Whaddya think?



    U.S.A. 1961 4 in 1 AIP poster advertising 1950's titles. The Roadracers is the only one out of the four films appearing on the above U.S. posters that received a theatrical release in Australia. The Road Racers ( 1959 ) daybill  is from the delayed 1965 Australian release. Note this title appears to be the only one out of the four titles that doesn't feature JD's.

    Amost all low budget 1950 films of this genre that were distributed by AIP, Allied Artists and other povery row studios were never released theatrically in Australia.  

    I have contributed here just is case a separate thread doesn't eventuate.
  • Thanks, Lawrence! I wasn’t aware that there was a Road Racers daybill. Not quite as colorful as the US posters, but still pretty neato.
  • @rockabilly777 Happens Every Thursday is just sweet! The colors and artwork! 
  • Glass Web!....ohhh la la.... ;)
  • Thanks, Mark!
  • love that Road Racers daybill!
    A few oddities, small size promo posters.
    dr No isn;t new but i saw one sell on Bruce's auction this week for a hefty price, much more than i thought this was worth. The some Like it hot is printed in australia, and has a nicer image than the daybill



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  • Nice stuff, Rick!
  • Aaaaaaaand here I am, back again. EXCITEMENT ABOUNDS on this poster Sunday! Well, except for the excitement abounding part. I lied about that. Anyhow, here's a few that have migrated in over the past week. First up, a slightly post 50's exploitation-y one. Good title, good art, if not a tad on the dark side color-wise, but has a couple condition issues I didn't notice upon bidding (totally my fault - easily seen in the pictures provided). On the upside, I didn't pay much for it, so no harm, no foul. Hang it up and enjoy it.  :)

    young willing and eager 1 sheet

    Next up, another exploitation-y title - this one a decade earlier. It's a 1941 film, but a R51 poster. I have a better copy of this one already, but it too was inexpensive, and I kind of like the well worn, been around the block more than a couple times look.

    under age lesser 1 sheet

    And last up for now, just a fun one, also in questionable condition, but I have a banner for Two Lost Worlds, so they'll go well together. 

    two lost worlds - unknown island 1 sheet

    Why the maddened mastodons would fight for the savage women kind of escapes me, unless the savage women would make a decent snack. Who knows. Not only that, but there seems to only be one mastodon on the poster, and he doesn't really look maddened. Just a little grumpy on his way to get his first coffee of the day maybe.  ;)

  • Woohoo! Scored this one tonight on EMP...


  • very nice!
  • Sweet pickups guys!
  • Sophia! Va va voom! What format is that? Still? Photobusta?
  • French medium...
  • You've stumped me on that one, but I don't get out much. Off to LAMP I go for enlightenment. 
  • It’s super rare - only repros I can find.
  • really need to watch these movies for good and really thankful for you guys here posting the posters here thank for sharing I appreciate it ….
  • Beautiful lady...loverly poster
  • A couple pretty predictable additions for me. While I'd like to acquire the handful of 50's delinquent/car/hot rod titles I don't have, like Hot Car Girl, Dragstrip Riot, Hot Rod Gang, Speed Crazy, etc, the prices of those are outpacing my poster budget. Normally, 60's titles aren't as desirable to me, but this one had the right title, okay-ish art, is a 30"x40" and wasn't multiple hundreds of dollars. I picked up a 30x40 frame on the cheap last weekend, so soon I'll be able to marry the two.  :)

    hot rod action 30x40

    Continuing the theme, my understanding and opinion of Benton window cards used to be that they were sort of like one step above posters printed for the consumer/commercial market. That they were sort of printed as needed/on demand and not reeeaaally genuine movie posters. My opinion has softened a bit over the years to understand that in probably most cases they were printed to advertise a particular movie(s) at the time of release. Not only that, but in cases like the one below, and similar to pressbooks, the art on them is different than is found on the standard posters for the title, and more like the ad sheets found inside pressbooks. Fortunately I have regular posters for both of these films, but this is a nice addition:

    dragstrip girl - rock all night window card

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  • Nice ones.  I feel there is an entire catalog of hot rod movies I have never seen.
  • If you’re any kind of cinephile, I don’t think you’ve missed much by not catching most of the 50’s delinquent/hot rod AIP type fare. Should you want to catch some at any point, I think a good handful are on YouTube. They’re mostly fluff with what the scriptwriters thought was the teen slang of the day, and of course some kind of moral message. As in many cases, the poster is usually just as good or better than the movie.  :)
  • edited June 2019
    Ok enough is enough.

    What sort car do you drive? Matt??? :D
  • Sadly, nothing vintage or hot rod-y, although the hope is that I can hop up my 1960 Metropolitan and get it on the road. Financing and doubts about my mechanical ability and stupid fears of making mistakes (that's called learning, right?) have prevented me from starting that project. Anyhow, to the question at hand. The vehicles currently in the stable are a 2008 Saturn Sky Redline:

    Galaxy 9 Pics 013

    A 2007 Jeep Wrangler 4 door:

    Galaxy 9 Pics 009

    And a white 2005 Honda CR-V that there's no worldly reason to have a picture of, which was actually my mother's, who no longer drives.
  • Make mistakes?  Er no offence to the other people in the forum, but I feel if anyone on here has a shot at restoring it would be you!  Mistakes are to be welcomed.  It's how we learn, absolutely right!
  • Ahhhh, if I could only tap into your optimism and confidence. Hopefully I'll get to the little Metropolitan someday.  :)
  • Cars aside, that view of the lake must be amazing!!!
  • I had to google 1960 Metropolitan...you MUST get this done!  YOU CAN DO IT!
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