CROMWELL 1970 Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley US 3-SHEET POSTER

Original U.S. 41 inch x 81 inch 3-Sheet Poster for the 1970 Ken Hughes Historical Drama CROMWELL starring Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Frank Finlay, Dorothy Tutin, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray and Michael Jayston.

Epic of the 17th century revolutionary Cromwell who led the Parliamentarian side in England's civil war, beheaded England's reigning Monarch, and gave England its only written constitution during his ten-year rule as Lord Protector.

Poster art by Brian Bysouth.
Brian Bysouth was born in London in 1936 and attended Willesden Art School as a junior. He joined Downtons agency in the late 1950s where his first accepted film art was for “Tiger Bay”. Apart from a short break with another agency he stayed with Downtons until 1973 when he went freelance. In 1983 he joined Feref Associates where he stayed till his retirement in 2002. In his 40 odd year career he has produced some of the most iconic film posters, from the initial “Tiger Bay” to “Cromwell”, “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”, “The Island at the Top of the World”, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Big Trouble in Little China”, “The Bounty” and “The Emerald Forest”.

The poster is in very good folded condition, all in one sheet with felt tip handwritten title on reverse showing through slightly.