The Great Dictator (retro trailer)
If you’re tempted to complain that Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming The Dictator is in bad taste, take a look at how Charlie Chaplin’s similar The Great Dictator was promoted back in 1940…
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retro ad: late 60s/early 70s Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial
If only Freud had lived to see the answer we discovered to his great question: What do women want? KFC.
The Raven (retro trailer)
Before you see John Cusack’s movie…
retro ad: 1960s Captain Action commercial
Captain Action is a fraud — a fraud, I say!
Easter Parade (retro trailer)
Where today there are cavalcades of explosions, pratfalls, and punchlines, once there were cavalcades of silly song-and-dance numbers.
retro ad: 1970s PSA about venereal disease
If you find yourself humming the cheery ditty “VD Is for Everybody,” don’t blame me. Blame VD: everybody’s catching it!
retro ad: 1940s Camel cigarette ad — endorsed by doctors!
So wrong… and yet so hilarious.
retro ad: early 1990s cola-wars commercial
Interestingly, you cannot tell which soda this ad is ostensibly promoting until the very end.
retro ad: 1960s Bonnie and Clyde-themed Pontiac GTO commercial
Pontiac! The choice of time-travelling bank robbers everywhere.
The Evil Dead (retro trailer)
Prepare for Cabin in the Woods by rewatching this classic…
