I have wondered about the white poster with the central image for some time.
I had maybe a dozen or so of them and I never
kept one so I can't access it, though I can look at the picture
of course when I listed the poster the first I
checked the other sites for added info and as
noted in Tommy's post - it doesn't seem any of us
really know when it came out, though Tommy does
make good observations noting it is most likely a re-issue
Rich
At 08:49 AM 6/27/2015, Tommy Barr wrote:
The issue of authenticating and dating movie
posters having recently been shown to be
problematic in some (possibly many) cases I
would like to invite discussion on another
British film, The Wicker Man, 1973. I am
indebted for much of the information on this to
the excellent book, Inside The Wicker Man : How
Not To Make A Cult Classic by Allan Brown.
The original British one sheet with the Lion
International imprint seems to be above
reproach, but that is not the case with the USA
one sheets. There appear to be three different
one sheet posters, 1 from Warner Bros depicting
the wicker man and 2 showing the Nuada sun god
image, both the latter  having different
taglines. One is a Summerisle imprint and one an
Abraxas imprint. Auction houses have treated and
dated the posters differently, and often there
is no consistency even within the same company.
Heritage, for example, over the years have
sometimes listed the Warner poster as National
General, though they went bankrupt before they
could release the movie, with a 1973 and a 1974
dating, and dated the Abraxas one as both 1979
and 1980. More interestingly, emovieposter have
listed the Summerisle one as an original 1974
release. (I have been in touch with them and
they have promised to research the matter and
communicate their findings with previous
purchasers.) I bought a Summerisle one from
MoviePosterBid where it was listed as being a
1975 release (not complaining, Rich, Iâm happy with the poster).
Having consulted Brownâs extensively
researched book the following are my best
calculations of the various postersâ actual dates.
Original U.S. release Warner Bros., image of
wicker man, âFlesh to touch . . .Flesh to burn!â 1974.
Summerisle re-release Nuada sun god image,
âThe residents of Summerisle invited Sergeant
Howie to their traditional May Day festival. He
didnât expect to meet . . .â - film due to
open in November, 1978, but postponed until
January, 1979. However, Brown states that prior
to scheduled original release date âSummerisle
Films had collaborated with Craig Millar . . .
on a publicity campaign involving posters,
badges and a lavish press kitâ, so poster seems to actually date from 1978.
Abraxas re-release Nuada sun god, âPure,
brilliant, spine-tingling funâ opened 26th
March, 1980, so poster date of 1980 seems reasonable.
By coincidence, both HA and EMP had Summerisle
posters listed in the same week very recently.
Heritage had a folded, fine- , dated 1980, which
sold for $50, and EMP had a rolled, good to very
good, dated 1974, which sold for $300. It is a
fact that the Summerisle poster is the rarest,
which brings me to a question I had asked
previously in discussions about the Third Man
poster, though I was not referring to that
poster specifically but in general. It is this -
is a rare re-release poster worth more than an
original release poster which is fairly easily
obtainable? Just something else for MOPOers to think about.
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