The Devils movie posters
British One Sheet (27″×40″)
From Wikipedia:
The Devils is a 1971 historical drama horror film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. A dramatised historical account of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed nun who incites the accusations.
A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, The Devils is in part adapted from the 1952 non-fiction book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, as well as John Whiting’s subsequent 1960 play The Devils.
The title on the posters is set in stretched Hoffman Caps. Other text uses various styles from the Cheltenham family. Hoffman Caps is an adaptation of an alphabet shown by Charles Jay Strong in 1917, made at Lettergraphics around 1967. The typefaces by the Californian type company were carried in the United Kingdom by Conways’ photosetting, London.
British Quad (30″×40″)
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Hoffman Caps was also used for a movie tie-in edition of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudon, published by Harper & Row in 1971.