A brilliant design on this Polish poster for Robert Zemeckis (opens in a new tab)‘ 1984 adventure comedy, Romancing the Stone (opens in a new tab), which starred Michael Douglas (opens in a new tab) and Kathleen Turner (opens in a new tab). The latter plays Joan Wilder, a romance novelist who discovers that her sister has been kidnapped in Colombia and, after receiving a mysterious treasure map in the mail, she travels to South America to meet the treasure-hunting criminals responsible and make an exchange. After getting lost in the jungle she meets soldier of fortune Jack Colton (Douglas) who offers to lead her to safety and the pair embark on madcap adventure to rescue Joan’s sister. The film was successful enough to warrant a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (opens in a new tab), that was released only a year later.

The designer and artist Jakub Erol was born in Zamość in 1941 and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1968. He worked as a prolific poster artist for over 25 years and designed several iconic images for both Polish and American films. Some of his other poster highlights include the bizarre image he conjured up for Ridley Scott’s Alien (opens in a new tab), a striking design for James Cameron’s The Terminator and the excellent poster for Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Polishposter.com website features many of his designs (opens in a new tab), several of which are for sale, as does the Polish Poster Gallery (opens in a new tab).