RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Italian 1p 1981 art of adventurer Harrison Ford by Drew Struzan!
An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian One-Panel (known in Italy as a "2 Fogli") Movie Poster (1p; measures 39" x 55" [99 x 140 cm])
Artist: Drew Struzan
Description: Raiders of the Lost Ark, the classic 1981 Steven Spielberg (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) World War II (WWII) Nazi treasure hunting romantic action adventure fantasy thriller ("Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of Jaws and Star Wars."; "Story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman"; "Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones), Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina, and Tutte Lemkow.
Important Added Info: Note that there used to be a mystery about Italian posters from this movie! It was first released in the U.S. in June 1981 and was re-released in 1982, and those R82 posters have the tagline "The Return of the Great Adventure." All of the Italian posters that we have seen for this movie have that tagline (in Italian), so we believed they were likely from the 1982 re-release, which is how we used to identify them. But we always wondered why we had never seen an Italian poster without that tagline. A collector helped to solve the mystery when he found an October 1981 Italian newspaper theater ad for this movie with the "Return" tagline, which proves that the tagline was used on 1981 Italian first release posters!
Overall Condition: very good.
An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian One-Panel (known in Italy as a "2 Fogli") Movie Poster (1p; measures 39" x 55" [99 x 140 cm])
Artist: Drew Struzan
Description: Raiders of the Lost Ark, the classic 1981 Steven Spielberg (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) World War II (WWII) Nazi treasure hunting romantic action adventure fantasy thriller ("Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of Jaws and Star Wars."; "Story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman"; "Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones), Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina, and Tutte Lemkow.
Important Added Info: Note that there used to be a mystery about Italian posters from this movie! It was first released in the U.S. in June 1981 and was re-released in 1982, and those R82 posters have the tagline "The Return of the Great Adventure." All of the Italian posters that we have seen for this movie have that tagline (in Italian), so we believed they were likely from the 1982 re-release, which is how we used to identify them. But we always wondered why we had never seen an Italian poster without that tagline. A collector helped to solve the mystery when he found an October 1981 Italian newspaper theater ad for this movie with the "Return" tagline, which proves that the tagline was used on 1981 Italian first release posters!
Overall Condition: very good.