Thriller (1974) Italian movie posters
Ray Cruz designed Fat Albert in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It was originally released through Schaedler, a phototype studio in New York. Cruz himself digitized all three styles – Regular, Outline, Shadow – in 2004 for Bitstream.
By 1974, the squarish sans somehow made it to Italy. There, Fat Albert’s Shadow style was put to bichromatic use for various posters for Thriller. From Wikipedia:
Thriller – A Cruel Picture (Swedish: Thriller – en grym film) is a 1973 Swedish rape-and-revenge exploitation film written and directed by Bo Arne Vibenius under the pseudonym Alex Fridolinski, and starring Christina Lindberg and Heinz Hopf. It tells the story of a mute young woman who is forced into heroin addiction and prostitution, and her subsequent revenge on the men responsible.
In the United States, the movie was also known as They Call Her One Eye.
The credits on this poster (39.25″×55″) are shown in caps from two widths of Compacta and Super-Grotesk.
This poster (13″×27″) features reversed caps from Venus Condensed for the credits.
