OLIVER!

Original U.S. 27 inch x 41 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1969 Carol Reed Musical OLIVER!, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring Oliver Reed, Ron Moody, Harry Secombe, Mark Lester and Shani Wallis.

Workhouse orphan Oliver Twist runs away from working at an undertakers to London. There he meets up with the wily Artful Dodger who takes him to thief and fence Fagin, who is in charge of a gang of young pickpockets.

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 fair folded condition with rippling throughout and a long repaired tear.