Description:  Movie Poster - CP
Item Description: Original; single-sided; Linenbacked; commercial poster; Style A; rolled
Year: 1976
Condition: Very Fine
Dimension: 23" x 35"
Genre: Drama

Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing

This poster is unused (just like all of our other posters), but after spending 25 years in A plastic tube, it suffered some creasing. The poster had to be linenbacked to remove the creases. The creases have been greatly reduced and will not be visible when the poster is framed. This is an extremely rare original 33 year old commercial poster.

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers; Directed By: John G. Avildsen

Synopsis:

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strong-arm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has given up on Rocky. All this changes thanks to Muhammad Ali-like super-boxer Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). With the Bicentennial celebration coming up, Creed must find a "Cinderella" opponent for the big July 4th bout -- some unknown whom Creed can "glorify" for a few minutes before knocking him cold. Rocky Balboa was not the only Cinderella involved here: writer/director Sylvester Stallone, himself a virtual unknown, managed to sell his Rocky script (one of 35 that he'd written over the years) on the proviso that he be given the starring role. Since the film was to be made on a shoestring and marketed on a low-level basis, the risk factor to United Artists was small. For Stallone, this was a make-or-break opportunity -- just like Rocky's million-to-one shot with Apollo Creed. Costing under a million dollars, Rocky managed to register with audiences everywhere, earning back 60 times its cost.