Good lord I love Polish artists and designers. Here's a big batch of movie posters done back in the time when all they had to go by was a brief synopsis and maybe a photo of the star.

Escape From Alcatraz

Five Easy Pieces

El Dorado

Greystoke

Hair

House on Carroll Street

Help!

In Cold Blood

Jaws

Jaws 2

Star Wars

Sunset Boulevard 

Support Your Local Sheriff 

Weekend at Bernies

Winchester 73

Blade Runner

Bullitt

Broken Arrow

Carnal Knowledge

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 

Chinatown

Casablanca

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 

Earthquake 1976

Duel

Cat Ballou

12 Angry Men

1941

101 Dalmations

A Shot in the Dark

2001 A Space Odyssey 

A Night to Remember

Adam's Rib

The African Queen

After Hours

Airplane

All That Jazz

Annie Get Your Gun

Alice in Wonderland

Billy Jack

Apocalypse Now