PETULIA 1968 Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain US 1-SHEET

Original U.S. 27 inch x 41 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1968 Richard Lester Romantic Drama PETULIA, based on the novel by John Haase and starring Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill and Shirley Knight.

Swinging 60s San Francisco-style, in which a zany British girl Christie, unhappily married to anaemic Chamberlain, has a mad fling with dominating surgeon Scott.

The poster art is by Robert "Bob" M. Peak (1927 - 1992). Bob Peak is best known for his developments in the design of the modern American movie poster. He was born in Denver, Colorado and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California in 1951. In 1961 United Artists hired Peak to design the poster images for the film West Side Story. The success of Peak's work on that film led to work on posters for designer Bill Gold, including the big-budget musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot. In the mid-1970s Peak's style would become familiar to fans of science fiction films when he created the poster art for the futuristic film Rollerball (1975), which was followed by the first five Star Trek films, Superman (1978), Excalibur (1981), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Spy Who Loved Me and other James Bond concepts.

The poster is in very good folded condition.