Original Averback, Hy Movie Posters

Hy Averback movie posters are anchored by I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! — Peter Sellers's late-1960s counterculture comedy — bringing the facility and professional efficiency of a craftsman trained in multiple media to his theatrical film work.

Averback began as a radio announcer and actor before transitioning to directing, working extensively in American television comedy and drama before turning his attention to theatrical features in the 1960s and 70s. Chamber of Horrors (1966) — originally conceived as a television pilot and released theatrically — is a period horror film set in Baltimore that introduced the 'Fear Flasher' and 'Horror Horn' gimmicks, marketing devices in the William Castle tradition designed to warn squeamish audience members of particularly frightening moments.

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968), with Peter Sellers as a Los Angeles lawyer who abandons his conventional life for the hippie counterculture, is a sharper and more knowing comedy of its cultural moment — its theatrical materials capturing the psychedelic visual vocabulary of late-60s American commercial design. Where the Boys Are '84 completed his theatrical career in the spring break comedy tradition. Original US one-sheets from his 1960s work are now scarce and seldom found in fine condition.

Find original theatrical prints from his feature film career — spanning late-1960s counterculture comedy to genre entertainments shaped by decades of American broadcasting experience.

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