Original Armitage, George Movie Posters

George Armitage movie posters are defined by two of the most underrated American genre entertainments of their decades — both sharing a tonal precision and character intelligence that places them well above the genre filmmaking they superficially resemble.

Armitage began at Roger Corman's New World Pictures, directing exploitation fare including Private Duty Nurses (1971) and Hit Man (1972) — films whose theatrical materials reflect the vivid graphic traditions of Corman-era drive-in advertising. But his most significant work came later. Miami Blues (1990), with Alec Baldwin as a psychotic petty criminal and Fred Ward as the detective pursuing him, is a crime film of genuine wit and formal sophistication, its tone — violent, funny, oddly romantic — uniquely its own. Orion Pictures' theatrical campaign matched the film's confident eccentricity.

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), with John Cusack as a hitman attending his ten-year high school reunion, is one of the finest American action-comedies of the decade — its satirical intelligence and its 1980s soundtrack generating a cult following that grows with every passing year. Its Hollywood Pictures campaign presented the film's tonal complexity with graphic elegance. Original US one-sheets from Miami Blues and Grosse Pointe Blank are now scarce in fine flat condition.

Buy original theatrical prints from these cult genre gems — films that operated at the margins of the mainstream while developing the genre intelligence that gave Armitage's career its distinctive character and lasting cult reputation.

Browse alongside cult cinema posters and gangster film posters. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.