The Killing of Sister George is a film directed by Robert Aldrich in 1968 in Los Angeles, California, that's based on the 1964 play by Frank Marcus. The film portrays an aging butch soap-opera actress and her femme lover, who's trying to hang on to what she has left in her career as her predatory BBC executive threatens to fire her and steal her girlfriend. The poster has a very interesting dynamic , hand drawn illustrations and an interesting graphic that depicts a human face that can also be seen as a woman's body. The poster was designed by illustrator and artist Joseph Carof, who famously did other poster designs like the 007 gunbarrel logo for James Bond and posters for Westside Story. Joseph Carof was a mostly mainstream promotional art and design artist however, the 1960s queer movie marketing began using the bold, psychedelic and just anti-mainstream visual art, which was typical of the underground poster design during that time, this inspired Carof to create something unique, while also representing the power dynamics in the film. The color palette of pink and greens mirrored the culture of printshops that produced underground comix and popular protest poster designs. This also pushed the idea against MPAA’s (The Motion Picture Association) restrictive censorship for ‘X’ rated films at the time.
