TENDER MERCIES 1982 Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Ellen Barkin UK QUAD POSTER

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1982 Bruce Beresford Drama TENDER MERCIES starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin and Allan Hubbard.

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

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 good to very good folded condition with corner staple holes, 2 extra vertical fold lines, a small tear across one fold and a nick at the right edge.