Once Upon a Time in the West movie posters

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


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Posters for Sergio Leone’s epic 1968 spaghetti Western, with spectacular cover art by Frank McCarthy. The names of the actors are shown in bichromatic Sans Serif Shaded while the tagline is set in Goudy Heavyface.

There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her—and one to kill her.

In memoriam Claudia Cardinale. The Italian actor died last week at the age of 87.

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Half Sheet (22″×28″)

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For this Australian Daybill (13″×30″) poster, the text was drawn by hand. The letterforms are clearly based on Goudy Heavyface and Sans Serif Shaded.

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