Margot Abascal


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My Dinner with Andre - Movie Poster
My Dinner with Andre - Movie Poster
The Stunt Man - Movie Poster
Here is an original movie poster for The Stunt Man (1980), starring Steve Railsback and Peter O'Toole, and directed by Richard Rush. This poster is a variation of the standard One-Sheet, but printed on a heavier stock and sized at 40" x 60".

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Movie Clip

The Big Doll House (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Long Time Woman The song, credited to Les Baxter sideman Hall Daniels and heard frequently in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, is performed by Pam Grier, appearing in her first speaking role (as inmate
The Big Doll House (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Green, Scared And Pretty After a lewd body-cavity search on intake at the third-world (unspecified, though shot in the Philippines) women's prison Collier (Judy Brown) meets cellmates Grear, Alcott, Bodine, Ferina and Harrad (Pam Grier, Roberta Collins, Pat Woodell, Gina Stuart and Brooke Mills), in producer Roger Corman's profitable New World Pictures release The Big Doll House, 1971.
The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Work For The Germans? With Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) now shot as well as ill with fever, his Belarusian resistance comrade Rybak (Vladimir Gotyukhim) hope to persuade stranded mom Demchikha (Lyudmila Polyakova), whose kids let them into her house, to help, during what the Soviets called the Great Patriotic War (World War II) against the invading Germans, in Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent, 1977.
The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Shoot Pretty Good Dispatched from their starving fugitive band of partisans, fleeing Nazi patrols in 1942 Belarus, Larisa Shepitko directs Vladimir Gotyukhim as voluble Rybak and Boris Plotnikov as his relatively-new comrade Sotnikov, hoping to reach an isolated homestead where they found help once before, in The Ascent, 1977.
The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) We've Got Partisans With Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) now shot as well as ill with fever, his Belarusian resistance comrade Rybak (Vladimir Gotyukhim) hopes to persuade stranded mom Demchikha (Lyudmila Polyakova), whose kids let them into her house, to help, during what the Soviets called the Great Patriotic War (World War II) against the invading Germans, in Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent, 1977.
The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Punishment Squad Artful opening of Ukranian-born Soviet director Larisa Shepitko's celebrated final feature, a band of partisans in 1942 Belarus emerge in flight from German occupiers, from the novella by Vasili Bykov, briefly introducing Vladimir Gotyukhim as Rybak, from The Ascent, 1977.
Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) What Exactly Is Your Game? In 1930s Italy, Pasqualino, a low-level Sicilian thug, kills a man who disgraced his sister. Pasqualino pleads insanity and manages to escape imprisonment by joining the military, but he decides to go AWOL when things get too heavy. Unfortunately, he finds himself stuck in a concentration camp. Pasqualino vows to do anything in order to survive even if that means seducing an obese, female German camp commandant or ratting out his own pals.
Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) The Word Of Pasqualino! Joining a flashback from Italian WWII POW Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini) to earlier days in Naples, where he castigates one of his seven sisters (Elena Fiore) over her cabaret act and her manager, early in the feature that made Fellini-trained writer-director Lina Wertmüller the first woman ever nominated for the Best Director Academy Award, Seven Beauties, 1975.
Seven Beauties (1975) -- (Movie Clip) That's Okay, German Lady! Still wandering Alpine southern Germany avoiding Nazi patrols, escaped Italian POW Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini, in his Academy Award-nominated role) discovers a household presumably effected by wartime circumstances, no other actors credited, Lina Wertmüller directing from her original screenplay, in Seven Beauties, 1975.
Lost In America (1985) — (Movie Clip) If Liberace Had Children Executing on their new liberated lifestyle, on their first night out of L-A, neurotic yuppies David and Linda (co-writer and director Albert Brooks, and Julie Hagerty) have parked the RV and decided to splurge on a Las Vegas hotel suite before renewing their vows, meeting Michael Cornelison then Radu Gavor, in Lost In America, 1985.
The Big Doll House (1971) — (Movie Clip) All Men Are Filthy First addict Harrad (Brooke Mills) does a heroin dance, then Sid Haig as low-life Harry (Jerry Franks his sidekick) bartering treats with inmates, extracting nasty compensation from “Grear” (Pam Grier), whom he’s tricked with a letter for Erica (Pat Woodell), Judy Brown and Roberta Collins also in lockup, in Roger Corman’s The Big Doll House, 1971.
Omega Man, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) There's Never A Cop Around Everything’s cool as Charlton Heston cruises downtown LA, which we soon realize is improbably vacant, Boris Sagal directing, in the second movie version of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend, The Omega Man, 1971, co-starring Rosalind Cash and Anthony Zerbe.

Trailer

Who'll Stop The Rain (1978) -- Original Trailer Promoting the high-brow thriller, directed by Karel Reisz
Firm, The (1993) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for producer-director Sydney Pollack’s hit adaptation of writer John Grisham’s The Firm, 1993, the first film based on a Grisham novel, starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley and Paul Sorvino.
Group, The (1966) -- Original Trailer No doubt attributable to producer Charles K. Feldman, who invested heavily in the book by Vassar graduate, novelist and political essayist/agitator Mary McCarthy, the luxurious trailer for the partly autobiographical The Group, 1966, with commentary by all the members, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Mary-Robin Redd, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Joanna Pettet and Candice Bergen.
Living Daylights, The (1987) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer introducing Timothy Dalton as the fourth James Bond in the original series, in the 15th feature, The Living Daylights, 1987, with Maryam d’Abo, Jeroen Krabbé and John Rhys-Davies.
China Syndrome, The -- (Original Trailer) A television newswoman (Jane Fonda) stumbles onto deadly secrets at a nuclear power plant in The China Syndrome (1979).
Protocol (1984) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the Goldie Hawn Washington D.C.-based contemporary rom-com Protocol, 1984, co-starring Chris Sarandon, directed by Herbert Ross.
Risky Business - (Original Trailer) A high school student (Tom Cruise) practices his business skills by turning his suburban home into a bordello in Risky Business (1983).
Capricorn One - (Original Trailer) The government fakes a Mars landing then sets out to kill the astronauts involved in the thriller Capricorn One (1978).
1941 - (Original Trailer) Panic sweeps Hollywood when a Japanese invasion is suspected in Steven Spielberg's gigantic farce 1941 (1979).
Reservoir Dogs - (Original Trailer) When a jewelry heist goes wrong, the surviving crooks turn on each other in Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough film Reservoir Dogs (1992).
Eyes of Laura Mars - (Original Trailer) A fashion photographer (Faye Dunaway) develops the ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978).
Color Purple, The - (Original Trailer) Eleven Oscar nominations went to Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple (1985).

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