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Poster: Death of a Gunfighter

Another Western poster from 1969: the movie that marked the directorial debut of the late Alan Smithee.

As the story, or legend, goes, star Richard Widmark didn't see the eye to eye with the project's original helmer Robert Totten, a veteran director of television Westerns. Totten was fired, or left the film, and was replaced by Don Siegel. Once the film was completed, Siegel didn't want his name attached, feeling his contribution to the finished product didn't equal Totten's. Widmark didn't want Totten's name on the picture. A compromise was reached with the Director's Guild of America, and Alan Smithee was born.

As the movie's WikiPedia page notes, Smithee's debut earned positive notices from the likes of the New York Times and Roger Ebert.

And the rest is history.

Smithee "died" just before the release of Supernova (2000). But that's another story.

Poster: 100 Rifles

What I most like about this poster for 1969's 100 Rifles is the tagline, and its implicit critique of the tenor of much late-1960s American moviemaking (including, arguably, director Tom Gries's preceding Western, Will Penny [1968]).