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Bedtime For Brezhnev Cold War Film Spoof
£275.00
Original vintage political satire poster for a movie spoof Bedtime for Brezhnev based on an original concept by Barry Goldwater starring various world leaders with a note that Mr Brezhnev and Mr Castro appear courtesy of Bolshoi Films - Free Enterprise Films presents Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev, Nancy Davis, George Bush, Henry Kissinger, Comrade Fidel Castro, Colonel Moammar Khadafy and introducing Jerry Brown as The Preacher - From out of the west, they dusted off their guns...to protect the world they knew and the women they loved! Colourful illustration in a Western cowboy film poster style showing Reagan and Brezhnev dressed as cowboys with Reagan holding Brezhnev by the shirt in front of mountains on the horizon in the distance, the title text running diagonally across the image in bold stylised red letters with an image of Nancy Davis (Nancy Reagan) holding the arm of Reagan wearing a sheriff badge and holding a pistol gun below, the smaller portraits of the other characters on the side. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was a Hollywood actor and President of the United States from 1981-1989; Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) was President of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982; the Cold War between the Western and Eastern Blocs started after World War Two in 1947 and ended with the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Distributed by Oh Dawn! Inc., New York. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing , staining.
- Country
- USA
- Year
- 1981
- Style
- Propaganda Posters
- Size (cm)
- 46x69