War. It's a dying business. Too late the hero – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: War. It's a dying business. Too late the hero, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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War. It's a dying business. Too late the hero
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The tagline, "War. It's a dying business," is what sets this poster apart, and it reflects the mood of 1970, when many American and British audiences were growing weary of the fighting in Vietnam. The poster advertises *Too Late the Hero*, a British-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Michael Caine and Cliff Robertson. The story is set during the Second World War, but the catalog's subject heading links the poster to Vietnam-era casualties, a sign of how readily audiences of the time read war films through the conflict they were living with.
| Created / published | London, England : printed by T.J. Press Ltd., c1970. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | [Copyright] 1970 ABC Pictures Inc." "[Copyright] Personality Posters (UK) Ltd. |
| Subjects | Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualties--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,068 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164160 |
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