Original Disaster Film Movie Posters

Disaster movie posters from the 1970s represent a peak of large-scale Hollywood painted illustration — artwork commissioned to depict the end of the world in a 27x41-inch format and make it look like something you couldn't afford to miss. The disaster genre assembled the biggest stars of the decade in a single frame: Charlton Heston, Gene Hackman, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, and Ernest Borgnine appeared across Irwin Allen's all-star catastrophe pictures in combinations that no single non-disaster film could have justified. Irwin Allen's string of productions — The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), and The Swarm (1978) — generated one-sheets that are now the defining artifacts of the all-star Hollywood blockbuster era. International variants are a significant sub-category here. Italian 2-fogli for American disaster films are among the most visually spectacular items available in this collection — the Italian illustration style, more expressionistic and more saturated than its American counterpart, transforms the genre into something approaching opera. German, Spanish, and Japanese variants each commissioned independent illustration or photography, offering entirely different visual readings of the same films. Browse alongside our Adventure and Action collections for adjacent Hollywood spectacle material. The individual pages for The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno provide more detail on specific titles. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.