All the President’s Men movie posters
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One Sheet (27″×41″) poster
From Wikipedia:
All the President’s Men is a 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the scandal for The Washington Post. The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively.
While the tagline is set in red Franklin Gothic, the gothic caps used for the title and the actors’ names are trickier to track down. The unruliness suggests that it’s wood type. Not all glyphs have the same height. The second R has a larger counter than the others, and the two S’s aren’t quite identical either. It might be one of Hamilton’s “Plain Gothics”, possibly the No. 4050. What makes the identification difficult is the fact that these wood types can greatly differ from size to size – and also from year to year. According to Nick Sherman, it’s maybe a later cutting. He points out that “Hamilton got quite sloppy with their cutting some time around the 1960s”, see for example this butchering of Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed.
In memory of Robert Redford, who died today at the age of 89.
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Half Sheet (22″×28″) poster
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