BB17-127 — OPEN SEASON
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YEAR: 1974
FILM STUDIO / PRODUCTION: Impala / ARPA Production / Columbia Pictures
TAGLINE: “Meet Ken, Gregg and Art. Two weeks each year they get away… with Everything!”
DIRECTOR: Peter Collinson
CAST: Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch, Alberto de Mendoza, William Holden
SCREENPLAY: David Osborn and Liz Charles-Williams, based on the novel by David Osborn
PRODUCER: José S. Vicuña
MUSIC: Ruggero Cini
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Fernando Arribas
GENRE: Thriller / Crime / Survival
POSTER PRINTER: Robert Burton Printers Pty. Ltd., Sydney
FORMAT: Australian Daybill

Open Season is a dark 1974 thriller about three men whose annual hunting trip takes a sinister turn when they abduct people and hunt them as human prey. Peter Fonda stars alongside John Phillip Law and Richard Lynch, with William Holden in a supporting role.

POSTER DESIGN FEATURES: Striking mustard-yellow, black and white Australian Daybill using photographic imagery framed through rifle-scope crosshairs. Portraits of the three hunters sit above the central image, while William Holden appears separately in another crosshair near the title. The stark photographic treatment gives the poster a suitably unsettling exploitation-thriller appearance.

COLLECTOR'S NOTE: Open Season is an unusually dark entry in Peter Fonda's 1970s filmography, casting him against type as one of the film's violent hunters. The combination of Fonda, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch and veteran star William Holden gives the poster crossover appeal beyond the film itself.

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