WAR LORD 1965 Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Maurice Evans UK QUAD POSTER

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1965 Franklin J. Schaffner Historical Drama THE WAR LORD, based on the play “The Lovers” by Leslie Stevens and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Maurice Evans, Rosemary Forsyth, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis, James Farentino, Henry Wilcoxon and Woodrow Parfrey.

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke’s authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

Poster art by Howard Terpning. Howard Terpning was born November 5, 1927, in Oak Park, Illinois. He is an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of Native Americans. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the American Academy of Art in Chicago. In 1962, he began working as a freelance artist creating magazine covers, story illustrations and advertising art for publications such as Reader's Digest, Time and Newsweek. In addition Terpning completed over 80 movie posters starting with The Guns of Navarone in 1961. Other examples include Cleopatra, Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, and the 1967 re-release of Gone with the Wind.

The poster is in very good folded condition with a tear in the top left corner.