Here's a selection of "fab," International (mostly Italian, I believe) posters for ITC's feature film compilations of episodes from
Gerry Anderson's first live-action science fiction series, 1970's
UFO, all of them featuring
Ed Bishop's Commander Straker. I love how some of them look like James Bond spy movies, while others have a very 50's pulp "alien invasion" vibe - which, now that I think of it, is a pretty fair way of describing the program.
Back in the early days of this blog,
I wrote about these
UFO "movies" and posted some art from a couple of the film releases, but I knew there were a lot more of them. I've been hunting and collecting scans over the last year or so, and here are the results of my various Google safaris. Gorgeous, aren't they?
BEST.
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Tex
(who wishes someone would do a book of these)
It would be a very thick book (and impossible to complete) , I tried to compile images, but there are over 48 fotobustas and thats just from Italy (they have Locandinas & Mephesto posters as well) - I recently got an Egyptian 'UFO - Prendetli ViVi' poster so how many more are there?
DeleteBased on the poster alone I would like to see UFO Distruggete Base Luna.
ReplyDeleteThat second to the last one is kinda racy. I like it.
ReplyDeleteExquisite. These great posters almost excuse the butchery required to produce the compilation films.
ReplyDeleteYou should also check out the UFO fotobustas!
ReplyDeleteThe Italian fotobusta is like a FOH/Lobbycard still but is printed on paper and is as big as a poster. And there are usually 8-12 of them for each 'film' , they are also interesting as they seem to be a 'compilation' of images so you see something that was never in the 'film' another 'oddity' is they seem to be colourise b/w images so Strker' hair and clothes change colour from one to the other