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collage poster design — Oversized title with group, rotated type

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L2865 · Oversized title with group, rotated type

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L2865

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A vintage 1950s collage movie poster layers painted vignettes over a greenish-yellow gradient background, in lurid mid-century advertising style. Across the top of the frame, an arched tagline in mixed red and black serif type curves with the frame, alternating red and black words. In the upper-left and center, a large rounded black panel tilts diagonally, showing a painted adult man in a dark suit embracing a reclining adult woman with closed eyes. The man's face bends close to the woman, his hand resting near her shoulder. The woman's dark hair spreads across the black panel and her lips are slightly parted. On the left side of the black panel, a white italic quoted line of dialogue is set in small serif type. On the right side of the frame, a painted scene shows an adult man in a tan suit grappling with an adult woman in a pink dress on a stone ledge. The woman's dark hair flies upward and one leg kicks out as the man pulls her close. The man's tan jacket is rumpled and his grip tight on her arm. Across the middle of the poster, a large tilted yellow placard carries the title in enormous red-orange three-dimensional block letters reading "TITLE", enclosed in quotation marks. The block letters have black outlines and a slight drop shadow for depth. In the lower-left corner, a small rectangular color photograph shows an adult man in his twenties in a green jacket working behind a pharmacy counter lined with bottles. Beneath the photo, a small box with a green border holds white text naming a widescreen film format. In the lower-right quadrant, a black rectangle holds white text noting the color process. Across the bottom right, a white credit block lists "STARRING ACTOR NAME" in large letters above several smaller actor names and thin green production credit lines. The background fades from yellow-green at the top to deep red at the bottom. The lighting is flat and illustrative, with even illumination across the painted panels and no strong directional shadows. Overall, the composition balances the diagonal black panel and the struggling couple on either side of the central yellow title placard, in a palette of acid yellow, fire-engine red, mint green, and oxblood red, rendered in sensational hand-painted 1950s thriller style with a mood of overheated romantic menace.