Original Russ Meyer Movie Posters
Welcome to the official Film/Art Gallery collection of original Russ Meyer vintage movie posters from his critically acclaimed catalog of timeless cinematic creations.
Russ Meyer was an American editor, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and film director. He is mainly known with his film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! in 1965, starring Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, and Susan Bernard.
In 1975, he produced the Supervixens that earned $17 million in the U.S. on a small budget of $100,000. It features Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, and Haji. He also produced the soft core sex comedy film Up in 1976. He also made his most sexually graphic film Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens in 1979.
Meyer first feature commercial success film The Immoral Mr. Teas in 1959 cost $24,000 and earned more than $1.5 million. It was considered one of the first nudie cuties. He followed his film Teas with the short film This Is My Body (1960) and The Naked Camera. He then later produced his second nudie cutie film Eve and the Handyman in 1960, starring his wife, Eve, and Anthony-James Ryan.
His next feature film were Erotica in 1961 and Wild Gals of the Naked West in 1962. Due to nudie cuties drying up, he decided to change. He did Europe in the Raw in 1963, a documentary film, and he also tried the comedy film in 1963, Heavenly Bodies!. He produced a historical comedy film in Europe, The Fanny Hill in 1964.
Meyer's work retrospective was given at the British Film Institute, which he attended in 1982. He was also honored for his work by The Chicago Film Festival in 1985, which he made a personal appearance.
Over a decade he worked on his huge three-volume autobiography named A Clean Breast, finally published in 2000.
Film/Art Gallery's collection of original Russ Meyer movie posters includes German A1 (23x33) poster of Muhoney, a first German release for the 1965 Russ Meyer film, aka "Rope Of Flesh". Russ Meyer poster collection also includes 1 Sheet (27x41) poster of Wild Gals of the Naked West, a rare silkscreen poster for one of Russ Meyer's earliest productions.