AMERICAN GRAFFITI 1sh R1978 Movie Poster
- 1978
- Mort Drucker
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27 x 41 inches ~ (68 x 104 cm)$75
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $210 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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American Graffiti, the classic 1973 George Lucas (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) teen coming-of-age high school graduation romantic comedy ("Where were you in '62?"; "It was the time of makin' out and cruisin', going steady and playin' it cool it was the time of your life, the time of American Graffiti."; "Written by George Lucas and Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard (billed as "Ronny Howard"), Paul Le Mat, Charlie Martin Smith, Candy Clark (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams, Wolfman Jack (real life radio disc jockey portraying himself), Harrison Ford (in an extremely early role), Kathleen Quinlan (in her first credited role!), Bo Hopkins (wonderful as the leader of the Pharaohs), Suzanne Somers (in her first movie, as the blonde in the T-Bird who haunts Richard Dreyfuss throughout the movie), Johnny Weissmuller Jr. (in a bit part as one of the tough guys who steal the car!), and Linda Christensen (as the girl who rides with Harrison Ford early on in the movie). Note that this classic movie was George Lucas' second movie. His first was "THX 1138" from 1971. That movie flopped at the box office, and he came up with the idea of this movie, and his friends Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (with whom he had written the script for "Messiah of Evil", a movie that was started but not completed in 1971) wrote a 15-page story treatment. Lucas presented that treatment to United Artists, who gave him $10,000 to write a full script. He wanted Katz and Huyck to write that full script, but they were busy on Messiah of Evil, and he hired Richard Walters to write it, but Lucas rejected it. At this point, Lucas wrote a script himself, but United Artists turned it down, because it consisted of four separate stories that had no connection! Lucas rewrote the script again and submitted it to Universal, who agreed to finance it up to $750,000. Lucas then asked Huyck and Katz to rewrite part of the movie, especially the Steve and Laurie portions. At this point, the script was called "Rock Radio is American Graffiti (Saga of the Low Riders)". It is noted as the "second draft" from "10 May 1972", and the writing is credited to George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck. There are scenes in that script that do not appear in the final version of the film as shown, and the relationship of the characters is not as intertwined as it was in the final version. Those changes were made over the year the movie was in production before it opened on August 11, 1973.
