Les 7 Visages du Dr. Lao, Tony Randall & George Pal, 1960s

This poster promotes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s fantasy film "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964), here in its French and Flemish release as "Les 7 Visages du Dr. Lao" / "De 7 Gezichten van Dr. Lao." The credits highlight producer-director George Pal and star Tony Randall, with supporting cast Arthur O’Connell, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, and Noah Beery Jr. The text "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer présente" and "Réalisation George Pal" appears at the top and right, while "Metrocolor" signals the studio’s color process. At the bottom margin, small type reads "Imprimé en Belgique" and "Edicolor – Bruxelles," indicating Belgian printing by the Edicolor studio, a common distributor for Benelux posters of the period. The design centers on a vivid, painterly montage of Randall’s seven magical incarnations, rendered in bold expressionist brushwork and a saturated palette of blues, greens, reds, yellows, and whites. Each fantastical face—Medusa, a sea-serpent-like creature, a devilish figure, and others—emerges from a warm orange field that also frames the hand-lettered title, whose chunky, irregular typography echoes mid‑1960s poster art and comic illustration. Below, a small figure of Dr. Lao on a donkey rides across a pale, almost parchment-colored ground, balancing the intense color above. The artwork is signed along the left edge "R. Delsaux," identifying the Belgian poster artist. The printing appears to be mid‑1960s offset lithography, with flat yet subtly blended color areas and crisp text typical of commercial film posters of this era; the example shown looks clean, with only minor edge toning and no major image loss visible. As a piece of cinema ephemera, this poster reflects how European distributors localized Hollywood fantasy films through distinctive illustration and bilingual titling. Its exuberant, painterly style bridges classic studio-era showmanship and the more graphic, experimental tendencies of 1960s poster design, offering insight into how studios marketed whimsical, effects-driven spectacles to family audiences in the postwar period.