FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD 1967 Julie Christie, Terence Stamp MINI WINDOW CARD

Original U.S. 9 inch x 14 3/4 inch Mini Window Card for the 1967 John Schlesinger Romance FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy and starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates and Prunella Ransome.

Julie Christie plays the wilful, impulsive and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, unexpected heiress to a large farm. She deals simultaneously with the unwanted affections of shepherd Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates) and wealthy landowner Mr Boldwood (Peter Finch), while also coming to terms with her new wealth and status. Events are further complicated when she falls into a disastrous marriage with caddish Sergeant Troy (Terence Stamp), a man in love with Bathsheba’s fortune, but haunted by his ‘true wife’, servant Fanny Robin, who dies giving birth to his child.

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 window card is in fine condition.