U.S. one sheet for the sexploitation / exploitation film HANDLE WITH CARE produced and directed by John K. McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy
made only three films. These sexploitation films were the forerunner of the modern adult film industry. Loosening sexual and racial mores in the early 1960s spawned fare such as this. God knows how awful the movie was, but the one sheet is immortal. Prudes will not think it funny. They will probably think it is IMMORAL , not immortal. We have several of these. Get ‘em while they’re hot. Average used condition with some distresses and small holes, graded as Very Good Plus to Fine.

U.S. One sheet for a French film, LES LACHES VIVENT D’ESPOIR (1961). This film was released in the U.S. originally as MY BABY IS BLACK, but later re-released as CHECKERBOARD, we believe in 1965. Racial exploitation film. The poster is theater used, and we have graded it as fine plus. There is a small chip out of the upper left corner and some distresses througout. We have a large selection of sexploitation and exploitation posters.

Original American International Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Bob Kelljan horror film, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973) starring William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, and Michael Conrad. This was the second film in the “Blacula” series about Manuwalde (Marshall), who was a prince who sought to overcome the slave trade but becomes the vampire Blacula at night. This time the prince met up with a voodoo princess played by Grier. The film has some of the scariest as well as funniest scenes in horror film history with lots of early 70s campiness. This original one sheet poster is folded and in fine condition, with one extra fold.

Original American International Pictures One Sheet Poster (1958) for the Edward Bernds teenage exploitation crime drama, HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS (1958) starring Yvonne Fedderson, Brett Halsey, Jana Lund, and Susanne Sidney. This film is certainly one of the classic exploitation movies of the 1950s. Good girl hanging around with the wrong crowd in order to fit it, plus add a little romance and some inevitable violence—it all adds up to the kind of drive-in movie you would take your date to in order to make out. Though unintentional, the film is hilarious in its depiction of juvenile delinquents, who is this case are a tough girl’s gang drenched in lesbian innuendo. This original one sheet poster is in very good condition. This poster is known to have color fading problems over time, and this example shows some of that fading.

Original Warner Brothers One Sheet Poster (27×41) for Allen H. Miner’s generation gap drama CHUBASCO (1968) starring Christopher Jones, Richard Egan, Susan Strasberg, Ann Sothern, Simon Oakland and Audrey Totter. This timepiece from the late 1960s very clearly focuses on a theme that was first put in motion with A SUMMER PLACE — young people in love and the adults who misunderstand them and everything they’re about. Christopher Jones (whose career burned fast and quick) is very much in the mold of James Dean here as the troubled young man desperate for understanding and a place in the world. This one-sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition with minor fold distress at the fold intersections.

Original American International One Sheet Poster (27×41) for Roger Corman’s crime drama, I, MOBSTER (1958) starring Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Lili St. Cyr and Yvette Vickers. Director Roger Corman, normally known for his science fiction, horror and exploitation film for American International Pictures, takes on a more serious tone with this jazzy genre flick starring the always-interesting Steve Cochran and a supporting cast including ecdysiant Lili St. Cyr. This is the tale of a young hood who rises from the streets to mob boss. He ultimately becomes the probe of a Senate Committee on criminal activities bringing about his not-unexpected downfall. The one sheet is folded and in very fine to near mint condition.

Original Warner Brothers One sheet poster (27×41).  Folded.

Original 20th Century Fox Window Card (14×22) for James Clavell war drama, FIVE GATES TO HELL (1959)– starring Dolores Michaels, Patricia Owens, and Neville Brand. This Vietnam War film has nurses morphing into guerrilla fighters. Every kind of atrocity is committed in this unredeemable mess. Besides lots of shootings, there is also rape, human boiling, crucifixion, and garroting (death by strangulation of an iron collar). The film was written, produced and directed by Clavell. This original window card is in near mint condition, with only a theater snipe for the Jefferson Theater in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Original PRC One Sheet Poster for William Berke drama, WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME (1945), a question the answer to which has never been fully understood except for their desire to get out there and go, go, go. The film is a dull, poorly plotted programmer from one of the Poverty Row studios starring Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard, Pamela Blake, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Paul Guilfoyle. But the poster is stellar stone lithography in the best B picture tradition: Lane sitting on a big question mark. The poster is folded, in very fine condition with some very minor flaws.

Original Worldwide Entertainment One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Gerald Seth Sindell action drama, TEENAGER (1974) starring Andrea Cagan and Joe Warfield. Charlie (Warfield), a demented filmmaker, tires to make a low-budget film about bikers in a small town. He wants his actors to totally relate to their parts; so, he encourages them to live out their characters in this town. Besides the director looking so much like director Roger Corman, porn icon John Holmes has a three-line part as a desk police officer. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very good condition.

Original c1960 Re-Release Poster (23×29) for the Tod Browning horror drama, FREAKS (1932) starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, and Olga Baclanova. Browning had been a member of a traveling circus in his early years, and much of the film draws from his personal experiences. He took the bold step of casting mostly actual carnival performers. In truth, the film is a sad and sympathetic look at the way “abnormalities” were treated in the early part of the 20th century. The two “normal” people are the real monsters who lie, steal, and kill—while the “freaks” are quite likeable and charming. The film really bombed at the box office and nearly ended Browning’s career. This re-release poster is probably a 16mm non-theatrical poster dating from the 1960s. This poster was probably printed by Film Incorporated, a non-theatrical distributor for colleges, military bases etc. The style of the poster was modeled after the only theatrical re-release (by Dwain Esper) in 1949. Condition fine plus. Unfolded. Minor ding in the top edge, minor rumpling.

Original Aquarius Releasing One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Lee Frost western war drama, THE SCAVENGERS (1969)—starring John Bliss, Maria Lease, and Michael Divoka. Set in the period just following the end of the Civil War, the story revolves around a Confederate unit who is never told that the war has ended so they can continue with their killing, raping, and pillaging. The director Lee Frost turned out to be one of the most infamous directors of exploitation films. We have not seen any poster for this film at auction under its original title or either of its alternate titles. Also reissued under the titles THE GRABBERS and TOMBSTONE TERRITORY, this original one sheet poster is folded and in fine plus condition—with general signs of use, some pinholes in the corners, a small waterstain – nearly invisible, and an extra fold. This is the best condition copy of this poster we have seen. Truly deserving of the moniker: a Cult Classic