HANGAR 18 1980 Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn TOM CHANTRELL UK QUAD POSTER

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad poster for the 1980 James L. Conway Sci-Fi Thriller HANGAR 18, based on the book by Robert Weverka & Charles E. Sellier and starring Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, Joseph Campanella, James Hampton, Tom Hallick and Pamela Bellwood.

A UFO collides with a NASA satellite during a routine mission, and is secreted away by the US government in Hangar 18 on a disused US air force base in order to cover up the incident during the presidential election.

Poster art by Tom William Chantrell (1916 - 2001). One of two giants of British film poster art from the 1950s to mid-1980s the other being the prolific Eric Pulford. Chantrell was born in Ardwick, Manchester, the last of nine children born to James and Emily. After a brief stint at Manchester Art College he secured a job at a local advertising agency, Rydales. In 1933 he moved to London and eventually began work with Bateman Artists who at some time in the 1930s acquired accounts with Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox. After his wartime spell with the Royal Engineers he returned to Batemans who in 1950 were bought out by one of their major clients Allardyce Palmer Ltd., eventually moving to Screen House in Wardour Street. Most of Chantrell’s work at this time was for Warners and Fox. In 1972 he went freelance working with many other smaller and independent film companies until his retirement in 1985 having produced a vast array of film posters and campaigns.

The poster is in very good folded condition.