Big Wednesday (1978)
Big Wednesday is the surf film surfers actually love. John Milius, the writer behind Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry's "Do I feel lucky?", grew up surfing Malibu, and he wrote the story with his old surfing friend Denny Aaberg about three friends, played by Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt and Gary Busey, growing up and growing apart between the early sixties and the great swell of 1974. The studio expected a hit and got a flop. Then the surfing world adopted it, and today it sits at the very top of the genre, its big-wave sequences shot by surf filmmaker Greg MacGillivray.
The British Quad gives the whole frame to the wave, a lone surfer dropping into a wall of water under the line "Could the big breaker break them up?" It comes from the original 1978 UK release, printed to be pasted up for a few weeks and thrown away, and it has become one of the most wanted surf film posters of all.
- Year: 1978
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Condition: Linen-backed
- Type: Original British Quad
- Size: 30 x 40 inches
- Product Code: T7415
