WAR GAME

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1965 Peter Watkins Sci-Fi Drama THE WAR GAME starring Kathy Staff with commentary by Michael Aspel.

The War Game is Watkins’ 1965 Academy Award-winning television drama-documentary depicting a nuclear war, written, directed and produced by Watkins for the BBC’s The Wednesday Play anthology series. The film shows the prelude to, and immediate weeks of the aftermath, of a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. Told in the style of a news magazine programme, the cast was made up of non-actors, with narration by Peter Graham and Michael Aspel reading quotations from source material.

Poster art by Romek Marber. Romek Marber is a Polish graphic designer and academic noted for his work illustrating the covers of Penguin Books.

The poster is in good folded condition with a large Academy Award winner sticker and slight rippling. There is separation in the left centre horizontal fold that has been repaired with tape from the back and other minor defects.