Original Paramount Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Jeffrey Young college life drama, BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME (1971) starring Barry Primus, David Downing, and Susan Tyrrell. Based of the popular novel by Richard Farina, this film is a series of chapters in the life of a fairly unlikable young man in college in the late fifties. He experiments with drugs and free love, proceeds to party all the time, and disregards every rule. If the film had originally had better theatrical distribution or had been shown on TV more, it probably would have become a cult classic for its wonderful satire of some of the late fifties and early sixties “archetypes.” Richard Farina was an interesting character in the history of the counterculture. Charismatic in his own right he married into folksinging royalty – twice! First to Texas folksinger Carolyn Hester and then to Mimi Baez, the beautiful younger sister of Joan and Pauline Baez. Farina only wrote one novel, but recorded with his second wife as Richard and Mimi Farina for Vanguard Records. Richard Farina was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1966. This original one sheet poster is in fine plus condition.

Original Universal Pictures Style D One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the John Rawlins war drama, WE’VE NEVER BEEN LICKED (1943) starring Richard Quine, Noah Beery Jr., Anne Gwynne, and a young Robert Mitchum (only in the second year of his film career). Much of the movie was filmed on the Texas A&M campus in College Station, Texas. The scenes of life in the Corps of Cadets, the mascot Reveille, and the “Aggie War Hymm” played by the Fighting Aggies Marching Band are all extremely interesting as an example of what life was like on the campus in the early forties. Indeed, for many years after the film was made Aggie Cinema would show the film to every incoming freshman class at the outdoor cinema, The Grove. The blatant anti-Japanese message now categorizes this film as war propaganda, but you also have to remember that the attack on Pearl Harbor was still fresh in the audience’s mind. Robert Mitchum supposedly hated his performance so much that he bought as many of the existing prints as possible and burned them. Arch rivals at The University of Texas refer to this film as We’ve Never Been LIKED! This original style D one sheet poster is linen-backed and in very fine condition.