The 50 Most Iconic Movie Posters of the 1970s
Back when movie posters were an art form.
By Tyler Coates
Movie posters used to be an art form—back before movie studios started Photoshopping famous and attractive faces on one-sheets. And there was no better decade for the movie poster than the '70s, when the Hollywood system finally began to crumble and the counter-culture crawled into the mainstream. Here are some of the most famous and memorable movie posters of the decade.
1
20th Century Fox
M*A*S*H (1970)
2
Paramount Pictures
Love Story (1970)
3
Warner Bros.
Klute (1971)
4Warner Bros.
Dirty Harry (1971)
5Cinemation Industries
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
6Paramount Pictures
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
720th Century Fox
The French Connection (1971)
8Warner Bros.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
9Paramount Pictures
The Godfather (1972)
10Warner Bros.
Super Fly (1972)
11Allied Artists
Cabaret (1972)
12Warner Bros.
Deliverance (1972)
13Warner Bros.
The Exorcist (1973)
14Warner Bros.
Badlands (1973)
15Warner Bros.
Mean Streets (1973)
16Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Westworld (1973)
17Universal Pictures
The Sting (1973)
18Universal Pictures
American Graffiti (1973)
1920th Century Fox
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1974)
20Paramount Pictures
The Conversation (1974)
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