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The Goonies | 1985 | International | US One Sheet
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The Goonies | 1985 | International | US One Sheet

The Goonies is a 1985 film directed by Richard Donner who co-produced the film with Harvey Bernhard. The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus and is based on the story by Steven Spielberg. It stars Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Jonathan Ke Quan, Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano and John Matuszak. The storyline follows a group of friends who call themselves The Goonies. One night they are all in Mikey's attic and stumble across an old map which shows the location of the lost treasure. The map highlights the location of millions of dollars worth of gold which would be enough to save their homes from closure. However, what they don't know is that a trio of Italian criminals is also trying to grab hold of the gold. In the do...
National Lampoons European Vacation | 1985 | UK Quad
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National Lampoons European Vacation | 1985 | UK Quad

National Lampoon's European Vacation is a 1985 film directed by Amy Heckerling and was produced by Matty Simmons. The screenplay was co-written by John Hughes and Robert Klane, based on a story by John Hughes. This is the only instalment in the series to credit the family’s surname name as ‘Griswald’, instead of ‘Griswold’. National Lampoon's European Vacation stars Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively, Victor Lanoux, Mel Smith and Eric Idle. The storyline follows the Griswold family after competing in a game show called Pig in a Poke where they win an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe. They try their best to blend with the local people of Europe in traditional Griswold fashion but nothing ever goes to plan when the Griswolds are in town. Principle photography for Na...
A View To A Kill | 1985 | US Lobby Card
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A View To A Kill | 1985 | US Lobby Card

A View to a Kill released in 1985, is the 14th film in the James Bond series. It was directed by John Glen and co-produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. The screenplay was co-written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum. Although the title was adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film has an entirely original screenplay. A View to a Kill stars Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee and Christopher Walken. This was the 7th and final time Roger Moore played MI6 agent James Bond. The third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. The storyline follows James Bond on an investigation into horse-racing scam which leads to a mad industrialist, Max Zorin. Zorin prot...
The Jewel of the Nile | 1985 | US One Sheet
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The Jewel of the Nile | 1985 | US One Sheet

The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 film directed by Lewis Teague. It was produced by Michael Douglas with the screenplay co-written by Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner. The film is based on the characters created by Diane Thomas and stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focás and Avner Eisenberg. A sequel to the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, the storyline is based on the adventures of Jack Colton and Joan Wilder. Like the first film, the opening scene takes place in one of Joan’s novels. Jack and Joan have their yacht called Angelina and are moored in the South of France, but they are gradually becoming bored with the way of life and each other. Joan suffering from writer’s block wants to return to New York but Jack prefers to sail aimlessly around the world. Joan...
D.A.R.Y.L. | 1985 | Final | UK Quad
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D.A.R.Y.L. | 1985 | Final | UK Quad

D.A.R.Y.L. (also known as DARYL or T.O.D in its delayed Russian release) is a 1985 film directed by Simon Wincer. It was produced by John Heyman, Burtt Harris and Gabrielle Kelly. The screenplay was written by David Ambrose, Allan Scott and Jeffrey Ellis. It stars Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer and Barret Oliver. Principle photography for D.A.R.Y.L. took places in Pinewood Studios, London with additional filming taking place in Orlando, Florida and Dillsboro, North Carolina. During its release, D.A.R.Y.L. failed to make into the Top 5 box office. It received mixed critical reviews with a critic for The New York Times describing it as "The best that can be said about D.A.R.Y.L.... is that it's inoffensive”. In his review for Entertainment To...
Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | Final | US One Sheet
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Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | Final | US One Sheet

Rambo First Blood Part II (also known as Rambo II or First Blood II) is a 1985 film directed by George P. Cosmatos and starring Sylvester Stallone, who reprises his role as Vietnam veteran John Rambo. It is the sequel to the 1982 film First Blood, and the second instalment in the Rambo film series. Picking up where the first film left, the sequel is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue; it sees Rambo released from prison by federal order to document the possible existence of POWs in Vietnam, under the belief that he will find nothing, thus enabling the government to sweep the issue under the rug. The storyline follows John Rambo after he removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietna...
Back to the Future: Future Day | 2015 | Final | UK Quad
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Back to the Future: Future Day | 2015 | Final | UK Quad

The Back to the Future franchise is a film series written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The franchise follows the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett L. Brown (Christopher Lloyd), as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California. The first film was the highest-grossing film of 1985 and became an international phenomenon, leading to the second and third films, which were back-to-back film productions, released in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Though the sequels did not perform quite as well at the box office as the first film, the tri...
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | Final | UK Quad
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | Final | UK Quad

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (also known as Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome) is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic action adventure film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, distributed by Warner Bros., and written by George Miller and Terry Hayes. In this sequel to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Max (Mel Gibson) is exiled into the desert by the corrupt ruler of Bartertown, Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no civilisation. Max has his supplies stolen and must seek shelter there in a post apocalyptic world where all machines have begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes involved in a power struggle in this third Mad Max film where he must first survive the town, survive the de...
Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | Final | UK Quad
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Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | Final | UK Quad

Rambo First Blood Part II (also known as Rambo II or First Blood II) is a 1985 film directed by George P. Cosmatos and starring Sylvester Stallone, who reprises his role as Vietnam veteran John Rambo. It is the sequel to the 1982 film First Blood, and the second instalment in the Rambo film series. Picking up where the first film left, the sequel is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue; it sees Rambo released from prison by federal order to document the possible existence of POWs in Vietnam, under the belief that he will find nothing, thus enabling the government to sweep the issue under the rug. The storyline follows John Rambo after he removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietna...
A View To A Kill | 1985 | Style B | US One Sheet
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A View To A Kill | 1985 | Style B | US One Sheet

A View to a Kill released in 1985, is the 14th film in the James Bond series. It was directed by John Glen and co-produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. The screenplay was co-written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum. Although the title was adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film has an entirely original screenplay. A View to a Kill stars Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee and Christopher Walken. This was the 7th and final time Roger Moore played MI6 agent James Bond. The third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. The storyline follows James Bond on an investigation into horse-racing scam which leads to a mad industrialist, Max Zorin. Zorin prot...
Commando | 1985 | UK Quad
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Commando | 1985 | UK Quad

Commando is a 1985 action film directed by Mark L. Lester and produced by Joel Silver. The screenplay was written Steven E. de Souza based on the story by himself, Joseph Loeb III and Matthew Weisman. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, Bill Duke and Dan Hedaya. The storyline follows retired United States Army Special Forces Colonel John Matrix, who lives in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. Informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the other members of his former Special Forces unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries, he is forced out of retirement when he and his daughter are kidnapped by a band of ruthless mercenaries intent on taking revenge. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his u...