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  Death Race 2000

  £295.00

  “In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It’s The National Sport!”

  “Death Race 2000” parodies so many things it’s hard to know where to begin. America-centrism (the government blame the French for everything), professional sports, pro wrestling (the drivers are badly acted “theme” types), Big Brother, and just about everything else you could name. At the same time it panders to the blood lust of the audience with camp cartoon violence. David Carradine as ‘Frankenstein’ in full on anti-hero mode gives a solid performance and Sylvester Stallone is hilarious as a driver with the mannerisms of a 30’s gangster, practicing on his accent for the Rocky movies. The artwork to promote the movie in the UK was the work of Tom William Chantrell’s artwork, and (in my honest opinion) one of his best. A true personal favourite with striking futuristic imagery, that was exclusively used for the British cinematic release. This beautiful, first year of release, 1975 UK quad film poster for Roger Corman’s cult offering is offered rolled (as issued) with vibrant, strong colours set against a bright white background and minimal handling wear. In this high grade condition it represents an extremely desirable and rare movie poster from a genre and decade that is fast becoming increasingly sought after. A very COOL poster from the 1970s.

  Trivia: Explaining why he took the role of Frankenstein in this film, David Carradine said “I started that picture two weeks after I walked off the Kung Fu (1972) set, and that was essentially my image, the “Kung Fu” character, and a lot of people still believe I’m that guy. The idea actually was: No. 1, if you walk off a television series, you better do a movie right away or you might never get to do one. And the second thing was to do something right away that would create the image of a monster to get rid of the image of that little Chinese guy that I’d been playing for four years. And, you know, it did kick-start my movie career.”

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  Death Race 2000 (1975)

  £95.00

  “In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It’s The National Sport!”…Beautiful Country unique example of this original 1977 Japan B2 film poster featuring Sylvester Stallone (in a very early pre-Rocky role) amd combining elements of the excellent US One sheet. This is truly INVESTMENT GRADE QUALITY being originally rolled with unfaded deep rich colours and stunning imagery make for an extremely desirable and rare movie poster from a genre that is becoming increasingly sought after.

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  Death Race 2000 (1975)

  £150.00

  “In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It’s The National Sport!”…David Carradine is featured in one of his best remembered roles on this original 1975 US One Sheet movie poster for the cult sci-fi film “Death Race 2000….A Cross Country Road Wreck”.

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