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Auction History Result 1b1313 MUDHONEY 1sh 1965 Russ Meyer, Lorna Maitland in a film of ribaldry & violence, very rare! Date Sold 11/23/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Mudhoney (also released as "Rope of Flesh"), the 1965 Russ Meyer sexploitation movie ("...a film of ribaldry and violence made from the juice of life!"; "Passion debased by lust... Mudhoney ... Leaves a taste of evil!"; "featuring 'That Girl' from Lorna... Lorna Maitland! Too Much for One Town!!"; "A story never told so frankly... So intimately! You Will Go Away... Whispering!"; "From Russ Meyer... the producer who gave you Lorna"; "If the frank presentation of intimate passions offends you, Do Not see this motion picture"; "More Shocking than 'Peyton Place' - Bawdier than 'Tobacco Road' - Earthier than 'God's Little Acre' - The unflinching Expose of small-town Lust and Savagery.. Voluptuous women and Virile men - all caught in the merciless Coils of primitive Passions and Raw Emotions"; "For mature adults") starring Hal Hopper, Antoinette Christiani, John Furlong, Stu Lancaster, Rena Horten, Frank Bolger, Princess Livingston, Nick Wolcuff, Lee Ballard, Sam Hanna, Mickey Foxx, F. Rufus Owens, and Lorna Maitland (billed as "featuring Lorna Maitland"). Note that director Russ Meyer released this movie in 1965 as both "Rope of Flesh" and "Mudhoney", giving each its own complete ad campaign (he did this with several of his movies, almost certainly to trick both theater owners and theatergoers into booking and seeing the same movie more than once!). The posters and lobby cards for the "Mudhoney" release are of superior design and are more desirable by collectors. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that there are THREE styles of one-sheets for this movie! One has a large red area at top with the title and a tagline and three inset images at right. The other two are very similar. They have the same image exactly, but one has a pink background and the other has an orange background. We have seen examples of one of those has "MUD HONEY STYLE B" stamped on the back. Until we learned of the style with the large red area, we reasonably assumed that the poster without the style B on the back was the style A. But once we were consigned an example of the one with the red area at top, we now feel certain that this one is actually the style A, and that the other two are both the style B, and that, at some point, the background color changed on that poster (many Russ Meyer movies stayed in release for years, so surely additional printings were required). If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. The poster was likely framed and displayed a theater at one time and it has creases, small tears, pinholes (some are torn or enlarged due to rough removal) and slight discoloration around the edges (see our image). The poster was folded in half an extra time resulting in a light vertical foldline at left and right and there is some separation at the upper right crossfold. Several of the edge defects are backed with clear tape, as well as the separation at the upper right crossfold. After linenbacking the very rare poster should display well (but it could certainly be displayed as is). Learn More about condition grades 
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