When Movie Posters Were Worth Looking At #3

THE BIG SLEEP (1978)

Not a very good remake or adaptation

of Raymond Chandler's detective classic.

The director, Michael Winner, decided to have this

version take place in then modern London.

It just did not fit the purely American character of

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.

Interesting to give a look at as a movie oddity,

but even more interesting and beautiful is the poster art

created by the late Richard Amsel.

Illustrated with a 1940s noir sensibility

with great stylistic lettering of that period.

A friend of THE FUTURIST! owned a copy

of this poster and had it tacked on his apartment wall.

THE FUTURIST! admired it each time he visited

and wanted to own it and give it a proper frame

to exist in forever and ever.