The Butcher 1972 Academy Cinema UK Quad Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Gregory Peck Fantastic 60s style

Fantastic 60s style

Actual size 22 1/2 x 32 1/2

where designers often treated posters as interpretive artwork rather than straightforward promotion

We love the extremely cool graphic design on the rare late 1950s French re-release poster for Godzilla

Poster Type: French Grande

The Butcher 1972 Academy Cinema UK Quad Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Gregory Peck Fantastic 60s styleWonderfully powerful and intimate design by Peter Strausfeld for one of Claude Chabrol's finest thrillers Le Boucher (The Butcher). Cologne born Strausfeld came to England in 1938. Whilst interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, he developed a close friendship with fellow internee George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering became the director of Londons pre eminent art house, The Academy Cinema, on Oxford Street and, disliking the studio