''Dollars'', 1971, movie poster, art by Jano
by Movie World Posters
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''Dollars'', 1971, movie poster, art by Jano
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Movie World Posters
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Mixed Media - Movie Poster
Description
A vintage movie poster of ''Dollars'', 1971, is a American heist comedy film. Directed and written by Richard Brooks, the film stars Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn in the lead roles, with a supporting cast that includes Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, and Scott Brady.
The plot centers around a bank security expert, Joe Collins (played by Warren Beatty), who teams up with a call girl named Dawn Divine (played by Goldie Hawn) to rob three safety deposit boxes. These boxes contain $1.5 million in cash that belongs to three different criminals. The heist is planned to take place in a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.
Roger Ebert described the premise of the film as having "beautiful simplicity". It showcases safety-deposit vaults in Hamburg being used by various white-collar criminals to store money that they should not legally possess.
The movie presents a mix of comedy, crime, and drama elements, as the main characters endeavor to outwit the criminally affluent by stealing a substantial amount of money from a safe-deposit vault.
About the poster artist:
Francisco Fernández-Zarza Pérez (1922, Madrid – May 12, 1992), better known as "Jano," was a Spanish film poster artist, one of the most highly regarded of his time along with Soligó and Macario Quibus, aka "Mac."
The large number of artworks created by Fernando Zarza, known as "Jano," makes it complex to define the unitary aspects of his style. Lively, dynamic, and with intricate compositions, Jano is one of the favorite designers in the panorama of Spanish cinema. He created movie posters that are realistic and photographic and others more caricatured; he realized sensual female portraits but also conceptual images, characterized by few elements and characters.
What strikes you when you look at one of his works is the feeling of movement, dynamism, the vitality of his compositions. Scenes, settings, and protagonists fit together following different directives and vanishing points. The chaos of elements and colors makes Jano's posters a loud set of faces. But in this chaos, there is life, true action.
During the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, Jano worked as an illustrator for Republican magazines, which caused him to be imprisoned. In the 1950s, he worked as a comic book cover artist for publishers such as "Dollar." However, his skill in film advertising made him the preferred poster artist for many Spanish studios.
In 2006, Montserrat published a book featuring 221 actors painted by Jano. In 2014, an exhibition was held in his honor titled "Jano Movie Faces, 20 Posters to Remember". He also taught painting courses at the University of Madrid.
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