SLAYGROUND

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1983 Terry Bedford Crime Drama SLAYGROUND, based on the novel by Donald E. Westlake and starring Peter Coyote, Mel Smith, Billie Whitelaw, Philip Sayer and Bill Luhrs.

When a innocent girl is killed during an attempted robbery, her father hires a hit man to track down the killers and avenge his daughter’s untimely death.

Poster art by Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012). After studying art in Rome Arnaldo Putzu met poster artist Enrico de Seta in 1948 whilst doing illustration work in Milan. De Seta took him back to Rome to work at the heart of the booming post-war Italian film industry. In the early 1950s Putzu went freelance working for, among others, Augusto Favalli, a fine artist who had set up a commercial studio in 1946 employing several artists and collaborating with the production company Lux Film.
Around the same time John Davis of the Rank Organisation asked Eric Pulford, then creative head of Rank’s Downton Advertising, to produce some special brochures for their Italian office. Pulford flew out to Rome and worked alongside Augusto Favalli and his team of artists. When Favalli died in 1969 some of the artists, including Putzu, moved to London to work with Pulford, whose expanding company by then was producing poster art for several major film companies.

The poster is in fine unfolded (rolled) condition.