Australian Daybills Original or Reissue

Many collectors are not aware that three different Australian Daybill Movie Posters were printed for the original release of Raiders of the Lost Ark. There has been some speculation about the order in which these daybills were printed. As a result collectors have relied on anecdotal evidence and logic to make a best guess about when each daybill was printed.

Three different original Australian Daybill Movie Posters were printed for the 1977 release of Star Wars. There has always been some speculation about the order in which these daybills were printed but the fact is that the is nothing definitive to prove the sequence.

Blackbeard’s Ghost is one of a number of Disney movies produced in the 1960s that had re releases in the 1970s.

Original Australian Daybills for Marilyn Monroe’s films are generally very rare. So rare, in fact, that some daybills have never been seen despite the fact that they must have been printed.

Collectors love to speculate on the print runs of various posters. They often have a vested interest in trying to push up the value of posters in their collection by saying that the print run for a particular film was miniscule. However, the fact is that no amount of guesswork is proof unless you have the evidence to support your theories.

Harold and Maude is a much loved classic and original Australian daybills are highly desirable but quite scarce.

Original Daybills for Bullitt are amongst the most sought after of all daybill movie posters from the 1960s but there has always been some confusion about the chronology of the pink and the orange styles.

The Taming of The Shrew, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and was the fifth of eleven movies in which Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred together.

The Parent Trap was released in 1961 and featured the very popular Hayley Mills playing a dual role as twin sisters trying to reunite their divorced parents. The two daybills, pictured below are both full colour and both rare. However, when you look closely, the daybill on the left carries a notation in small print …

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Saturday Night Fever was first released in 1977/8 with an “R” rating in Australia due to some language that was regarded as offensive and some risque scenes. . Paramount purchased the soundtrack and was keen to attract a wider audience to the film so they edited six minutes out of the original film, giving it a PG rating. T

The Overlanders daybill that is pictured on the left was generally thought of as the first release but when another version turned up, some collectors questioned whether the more common daybill might have been a reissue. An original Press Book was recently found and that proves that two styles of daybill were produced for the …

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