Concorde Affaire ’79 movie posters
Italian movie poster
From IMDb user Michael Elliott:
Entertaining non-sense from director Ruggero Deodato is an Italian rip-off of the American film The Concorde Airport ’79 but this here is actually much, much better. The wild plot deals with a crazy businessman (Joseph Cotten) who plans to take down every Concorde plane that he can so that it keeps him in business.
As noted above, this movie pirates on a movie from the same year, with a similar name: The Concorde… Airport ’79, the last episode in the Airport sequel (Airport, Airport 1975, Airport ’77). To add more variation/confusion, the movie was released under various similar names in different countries: Opéracion Concorde, SOS Concorde, S.O.S. Concorde, Das Concorde Inferno, Concorde Affair etc.
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Of all the alternate titles/posters shown on the IMDb website, this Hungarian poster with its diagonal composition deserves to be highlighted. Artwork signed Miklós K ’80, typographer unknown. For the title, the Compact style of Antique Olive is paired with Thorowgood Sans Shaded.
On closer look, this appears to be lettering based on New Zelek, and not a direct use: the letterforms are bolder than in the Mecanorma original, and the numerals 7 and 9 were cropped.
The sans used for the small text on both posters is not Folio. With that oddly narrow A and the pompous R, it should ring a bell. Can’t think of anything close though.
Looks like the 9 was cut vertically in a later (?) version.