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For Sale - GBP 750 - UNDER THE DOCTOR (1976) - movie poster painting

Artist: Sam Peffer (Painter)

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Title:	For Sale - GBP 750 - UNDER THE DOCTOR (1976) - movie poster painting
Artist:	Sam Peffer (Painter)
Media Type:	Paint - Acrylic
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	For Sale - GBP 750
Views:	3,592
Likes on CAF:	1 2
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Added to Site:	3/9/2017
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Original movie poster painting by Sam Peffer used in cinema front-of-house displays for the 1976 movie, �Under the Doctor�, a British sex comedy about a doctor, a bevy of beautiful women and their sexual problems . . . � Can the overworked and over-titillated doctor help his patients while resisting the urge to help himself?�

Basically a non-pornographic skin-flick starring light-comedy actor Barry Evans and a host of topless British actresses! Lame stuff by modern standards, but popular with adult audiences of the time looking for a bit sex and nudity to spice up their movie visits.

Samuel John Peffer ( 3 November 1921 � 14 March 2014) was a British commercial artist who designed film posters, paperback book covers and the covers of home videos. His best known work was for the covers of the paperback James Bond novels published by Pan Books in the 1950s and 1960s, for which he created a consistent and distinctive style.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Peffer increasingly turned to quad film posters and home video sleeve design. His breakthrough into this area came when another artist who had too much work recommended Peffer for the poster of �Creatures of Evil/Blood Devils� in 1971. Peffer then began a busy period until his retirement in 1985 producing around 200 film posters and a similar number of video sleeves as home video became popular slightly later.

Although his work was skilled, Peffer was not too fussy about which commissions he accepted, producing art for everything from Bruce Lee Kung Fu films to low budget "exploitation" films like �Desires of a Nymphomaniac� and posters for "video nasties" such as �Mountain of the Cannibal God�. He often worked for Stanley Long, known for his cheap 1970s British sex comedies, and Peffer described himself as the painter for "the raincoat brigade". Other commissions were for �Flesh Gordon� (1974), �SS Experiment Camp� (1976) and �Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions� (1980).

In 1980 he produced the cinema poster for �Hussy�, starring Helen Mirren and John Shea, and later presented the original artwork to Mirren. His original design is still in use on DVD releases of the film.

By the mid 1980s, film distributors and exhibitors were facing a crisis as audiences in the United Kingdom fell to the lowest level since the Second World War. Demand for traditional painted posters was declining as cinemas used different forms of promotion, printers were closing down and UK based executives of the old school were retiring. With low audiences, US distributors were reluctant to spend money on separate UK publicity campaigns. It was at this time, 1985, that Peffer retired. He described his last year in the business as "terrible � there was no work at all".

UPDATE: This artwork previously contained a tissue overlay containing movie title, cast and production credits. Pretty useless to use as was. Thanks to an American friend, Lloyd Braddy (a print-maker capable of working magic on projects such as this one), an new overlay was created that incorporates all the text material onto a clear overlay. A great piece of work . . . thanks again, Lloyd!

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