What A Difference A Few Years And A Printer Make.

HONDO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The above full colour image is taken off the original daybill printed for the first Australian release of The Gaxebo ( 1959 ) starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford printed by A. Chromo Print. The duotone image is taken off a  2nd printing completed between  1960 and 1962 by Advertising & Commercial. A definite decline in the artwork. The smaller secondary image above appearing on the duotone is even worse by turning the ugly woman into a male Robert Stack lookalike. I spared you the pigeon image. It appears to me the majority of duotone printed posters by any of the Australian printers were assigned to the B team of artists.

Matt

Oh dear.....and she turned into a four fingered man.

HONDO

 From the U.S. 3 sheet this is what the images on the Australian daybills should have looked like.

David

Quite funny really.

They must have traced over the trace over

HONDO

  Some more poor artwork from the Australian daybill. Any resemblance to the U.S. poster would be accidental. Note that the Australian image in the middle has non threatening non gun carrying thugs but onlt ones just being friendly and wanting to shake hands..

HONDO

 On the Australian first release full colour daybill pictured the thug is holding a gun and a knife similar to the U.S. 3 sheet although you can't make out a knife but that's what it would be. The artist for the duotone daybill for whatever reason, perhaps laziness, left the two weapons off the poster.