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Darktown Strutters - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for the Blaxploitation picture Darktown Strutters (1975). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

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Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Good Glue, Isn't It? Opening shots here reveal a three-year leap in the narrative, villain Lemorne (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) sees the poster, then Rex (Gene Bervoets) chasing a clue with new girlfriend Lienexe (Gwen Eckhaus), in George Sluzier's original The Vanishing, 1988.
Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Wait In The Car Tour de France on the radio, Rex (Gene Bervoets) decides girlfriend Saskia has been too long fetching snacks at the highway rest stop, querying the cashier (Caroline Apperre) among others, in George Sluizer's The Vanishing, 1988.
Vanishing, The (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Really Beautiful Scream After an earlier sinister cameo, the first scene featuring Lemorne (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), and introducing his daughters (Tania Latarjet, Lucille Glenn) and wife Simone (Bernadette Lesache), early in Geroge Sluizer's The Vanishing, 1988.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) The Bride Screamed Murder First appearance of Jodie Foster (as "Audrey"), after school in Tucson with Tommy (Albert Lutter), who then joins mom Alice (Ellen Burstyn), at the diner where David (Kris Kristofferson) is making his first offer, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Virtual Space Industries Opening the world wide indy hit from director Brett Leonard and producer and co-writer Gimel Everett, barely based on the Stephen King story from which the title came, Pierce Brosnan as a virtual reality scientist and Mark Bringleson his boss, and an experiment with a chimp about to go wrong, in The Lawnmower Man, 1992.
Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) You Have The Best Games Having quit his virtual reality chimp-research job because of its military applications, frustrated Dr. Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is inspired to recruit his dimwit yard man Jobe (Jeff Fahey), which leads to him getting hooked up on gaming gear with the neighbor kid (Austin O’Brien), in the indy hit and tech sensation The Lawnmower Man, 1992.
Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) It Works With A Human Subject Jobe (Jeff Fahey, title character), increasingly hunky, intelligent and egotistical due to training and virtual reality experiments, stands up to his tormentor Father McKeen (Jeremy Slate), while scientist Larry Angelo (Pierce Brosnan), who’s behind his transformation, asks his former boss (Mark Bringleson) for access to better tech, in The Lawnmower Man, 1992.
Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Doing Penance All Night Introduction of co-star Jeff Fahey as Jobe who, we learn, is a marginally functional adult living in a maintenance shed behind a church, looked over by his older brother (Geoffrey Lewis), the character loosely derived from the Steven King story which was the basis for the title, if not the story, in the virtual-reality sci-fi thriller The Lawnmower Man, 1992.
Three Daring Daughters (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Never A Serious Divorce Sisters Jane Powell, Mary Eleanor Donahue, and Ann E. Todd visit publisher Nelson (Edward Arnold), guarded by his secretary (Dick Simmons), in the mistaken belief that he employs their father, Jane's song "Passepied," attributed to French composer Leo Delibes, in Three Daring Daughters, 1948.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) The Hogs Ate Her! Rough day at the diner, Flo (Diane Ladd) with Mel (Vic Tayback) and Vera (Valerie Curtin), David (Kris Krisotfferson) at the counter, as Alice (Ellen Burstyn) finally warms to her colleagues, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Cheap Detective, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) We Couldn't Bend Her Writer Neil Simon opens the follow-up to the parody Murder By Death, with schtick for San Francisco cops Vic Tayback and Abe Vigoda, with loose Maltese Falcon elements, setting the stage for Peter Falk, leading man in the Bogart tribute mash-up The Cheap Detective, 1978.
King Kong (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Thrill Of A Lifetime! Adventure movie-maker Denham (Robert Armstrong) is about to leave New York for the tropics, determined to hire a girl as the love interest for the picture he won't explain for anyone so, with no one willing to take the risk, he finds Fay Wray ("Ann Darrow"), early in the original King Kong, 1933.

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