Blues Brothers, The (1980)
This original The Blues Brothers poster perfectly captures the film’s anarchic spirit, blending musical swagger with slapstick chaos. Born from a Saturday Night Live sketch, the film boldly fused blues history with big-screen comedy, introducing a new generation to artists like James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Cab Calloway in exuberant performance cameos.
The film helped rescue classic American blues and soul from fading into nostalgia, reframing it as loud, joyful, and relevant. At the same time, its gleeful destruction of authority, police cars, bureaucracy, and social order, reflected a late-70s appetite for satire and rebellion. What could have been novelty became a cult classic, proving that music-driven films could be both reverent and wildly irreverent at once.
- Year: 1980
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Condition: Folded
- Type: Original British Quad
- Size: 30 X 40 Inches
- Product Code: W5127