Original Radley Metzger Movie Posters

Welcome to the official Film/Art Gallery collection of original Radley Metzger vintage movie posters from his critically acclaimed catalog of timeless cinematic contribution.

Radley Metzger was an American pioneer filmmaker and a film distributor. He was known for artistic, adult-oriented films that include Camille 2000 in 1969, The Lickerish Quartet in 1970, Score in 1974, and The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann in the same year, The Image in 1975, The Opening of Misty Beethoven in the following year, and Barbara Broadcast in 1977. One of the film reviewers stated that his movies are highly artistic, have gorgeous cinematography, and the other reviewer quoted, it has lavish design and a witty screenplay.

In 1950, he worked as a film editor and was employed in editing trailers for Janus Films. He was also an associate of Local 771 of the IATSE. His first directorial movie was Dark Odyssey in 1961, and it was favorably reviewed by The New York Times and others.

Metzger's film in 1977, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, received Best Direction and Best Film for the first Adult Film Association of America Awards and Best Actor for Jamie Gillis. It also won X-Caliber award for Best Direction.

Metzger's movie project was subject of a retrospective in Boston, Massachusetts in 2001. The following year, his film The Opening of Misty Beethoven won Best Classic, released by the Adult Film Association of America on DVD in 2002.

Metzger also received Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2010, where he served as a judge in 2011. In 2011, his movie project was subject of retrospective at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2014.

His film and audio works have been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modem Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Film/Art Gallery’s collection of original Radley Metzger movie posters include a 1 Sheet (27x41) poster of the pseudo-documentary Dictionary of Sex, from the sexploitation director. Also included in the collection is a Radley Metzger poster for the 1960 Japanese sexploitation movie The Weird Love Makers, distributed by Audubon Films.

Film/Art Gallery movie posters are original prints and film poster collectibles. These are original movie posters. We do not carry any movie poster reproductions or reprints of any kind.