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Vintage original 27 x 40.5 in. US single-sided advance "Style B" one-sheet poster from the classic 1980's action/adventure drama, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, released in 1989 by Paramount Pictures and directed by Steven Spielberg. In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery) goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
This single-sided advance one-sheet was issued for display at theaters before the film was released (He's Back in an All New Adventure. Memorial Day 1989). As indicated on the end of Harrison Ford's jacket sleeve, this poster was designed by Drew Struzan, who is one of the most collectible of contemporary movie poster artists. The artwork depicts a close shot of Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) wearing his iconic leather jacket and fedora as he holds a whip coiled across his shoulder while gazing directly at the viewer. This vintage original advance "Style B" one-sheet is in very fine+ condition without any pinholes, tears, stains, or other flaws.
When George Lucas met with Steven Spielberg to discuss a third Indiana Jones movie, he wanted to have it set in a haunted mansion. Spielberg had just finished Poltergeist (1982) and decided that he wanted to do something different. Lucas then came up with the idea of the Holy Grail, and Spielberg added the idea of a father and son substory. In the scene where Indy has to choose which cup is the grail, he picks the right one by saying "That's the cup of a carpenter". The Bible never says outright that Jesus was a carpenter, but since His Earthly "father," Joseph, was, in that culture, Jesus would have been raised learning the trade. Interestingly, as a struggling actor, Harrison Ford used a book on carpentry from the library to start doing odd jobs to earn a living. One of those jobs was working on George Lucas' house. Indiana's trademark hat, jacket, and whip currently reside in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. These items remained on display during filming of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), as they used numerous duplicates for their prop costumes. |