Original Chinatown Movie Posters

Chinatown movie posters from Polanski's 1974 neo-noir masterpiece rank among the most influential items in 1970s cinema collecting, featuring original theatrical releases of this definitive detective story. Written by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, produced by Robert Evans for Paramount, Chinatown arrived at the height of American cinema's golden decade and demonstrated what the genre film could achieve when every element operated at maximum ambition.

Paramount's campaign for Chinatown deployed Richard Amsel's illustration-based artwork — Nicholson's Jake Gittes in private-detective mode, cigarette and bandaged nose, Dunaway in period glamour beside him — in a design that evoked 1930s pulp fiction while operating entirely within 1974's graphic sensibility. The campaign's period-accurate typography and warm golden-brown color palette are among the most admired in 1970s Hollywood design. US one-sheets are the primary collecting format; advance versions with different text arrangements are rarer. British quads use a horizontal adaptation of the same Amsel imagery; French grandes affiches carry the painting with characteristic continental graphic confidence. International materials from Italy, Germany, and Japan add further variants, each interpreting the film's noir credentials with their own visual traditions.

Available in US one-sheets, British quads, French grandes affiches, Italian foglio, and lobby card sets. Condition runs Fine to Very Fine.

Find original theatrical paper alongside Jack Nicholson posters, Roman Polanski posters, and Taxi Driver posters. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.