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Galerie filmposter.net always intented to be more than just another vintage movie poster shop. The masterplan always was to turn the place into a sort-of movie poster and pop culture art gallery.
With that in mind, I created THE DARK CARNIVAL in 2023, a rather unique installation of vintage movie and circus posters, original poster art (for both circus and movie posters), folk and outsider art, pop culture icons, and personal memories.
Today, I sold another US Onesheet for THE WARRIORS. I first saw this movie on the big screen in the summer of ’79, when I was 15 years old and it has stuck with me ever since. The film even has a character named ‘Cowboy’… Somewhat similar to the Postercowboy, he goes widely unnoticed most of the time.
One of my favorite pieces in the exhibition (and also one of my favorite possessions) is an original 1979 US Subway Window Card for this film, here’s a link to my Google 360° view:
The Subway Window Card was a format used exclusively for display in the trains of the New York and Los Angels subway systems. As you will remember, the subway plays a central role in the movie, and this is the perfect size as well. This size is by far the rarest and (in my humble opinion) also the most desirable movie poster made for the film.
But it gets even better: The poster is signed by pretty much everybody who was somebody in the movie. And these are original 1979 signatures, not something collected at fan fairs or collector shows decades later.
I bought this on ebay maybe 20 years ago, and it has been framed and displayed ever since, first in my home and now at the shop. The ebay seller told me that she had found this at a Salvation Army yard sale. That’s the kind of event that has the goods on one side of the yard, and a chain that separates them from the potential buyers. When the chain is lowered, everybody jumps forward and tries to grab his favorite piece(s). The seller told me that she had had her eyes on the poster from far away and she immediately secured it. I did not ask her, but she probably paid a dollar or something. I absolutely wanted this, so I put in a VERY serious bid. Imagine my delight when I won this at a lousy $170!
Here’s a more detailed view of the signatures:
