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"Times Square" Belgian movie poster 1981  Text:  EXCELSIOR FILMS  TIMES  SQUARE  Na "Saturday Night Fever"	 "Grease" "Tommy" en	 "Jesus Christ Superstar" nog een denderende muzikale film van Robert Stigwood. Een film die davert op de	 hartslag van de hedendaagse	 jeugd.	  Après "Saturday Night Fever" "Grease" "Tommy" et "Jesus Christ Superstar" un autre film éclatant de Robert Stigwood. Un film qui tremble sur la pulsation des jeunes d’aujourd’hui.  TIM CURRY TRINI ALVARADO avec/met ROBIN JOHNSON PETER COFFIELD  HERBERT BERGHOF DAVID MARGULIES ANNA MARIA HORSFORD  regie ALAN MOYLE prod ROBERT STIGWOOD & JACOB BRACKMAN  VERANTWOORDELIJKE UITGEVER : EXCELSIOR  DRUK. LICHTERT - 1070 Brussel  [Translation:   After "Saturday Night Fever"  "Grease" "Tommy" and  "Jesus Christ Superstar"  comes another brilliant musical film  by Robert Stigwood.  A film that shakes to the  heartbeat of the youth of today.]

 

So, after the Belgian publicity, here’s the Belgian movie poster, with text in both Dutch and French. The image is the Cummins painting from the British poster… although the signature is gone, there’s an overall reddish tint to it, and there are lots of tiny differences that certainly make it look that it’s not a poor reproduction but a complete re-painting of the image. The logo is the American marquee-lights style logo, not the hand-scrawled UK one. The space at the top, I’m guessing, is for the theater to print their name and maybe the showtimes.

The text:

EXCELSIOR
FILMS

TIMES
SQUARE

Na “Saturday Night Fever”
“Grease” “Tommy” en
“Jesus Christ Superstar” nog
een denderende muzikale
film van Robert Stigwood.
Een film die davert op de
hartslag van de hedendaagse
jeugd.

Après “Saturday Night Fever”
“Grease” “Tommy” et
“Jesus Christ Superstar”
un autre film éclatant
de Robert Stigwood.
Un film qui tremble sur la
pulsation des jeunes
d’aujourd’hui.

TIM CURRY TRINI ALVARADO avec/met ROBIN JOHNSON PETER COFFIELD
HERBERT BERGHOF DAVID MARGULIES ANNA MARIA HORSFORD
regie ALAN MOYLE prod ROBERT STIGWOOD & JACOB BRACKMAN

VERANTWOORDELIJKE UITGEVER : EXCELSIOR

DRUK. LICHTERT – 1070 Brussel

My attempt at a translation of the blurb from both languages:

After “Saturday Night Fever”
“Grease” “Tommy” and
“Jesus Christ Superstar”
comes another brilliant musical film
by Robert Stigwood.
A film that shakes to the
heartbeat of the youth
of today.

If anyone wants to contribute a better translation, please do.

 

 

Times Square Belgian movie poster
poster, AAT ID: 300027221
Belgium ; 54.7 x 35.2 cm. (work)

Times Square Belgian Poster 1981_1080px.jpg
1080 px (H) x 694 px (W), 96 dpi, 400 kb (image)

 

Times Square ©1980 StudioCanal/Canal+

 

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