Lot 521 British Quad (30 x 40) Very Fine on Linen

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MAD MAX (1979)

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Lot # 521: British Quad (30" x 40"); Very Fine on Linen

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British Quad (30" x 40")
Very Fine on Linen; Artist Tom Beauvais
Columbia-EMI-Warner Bros. , 1979

This clean quad has only had slight minor touchups to fold lines, corners and the orange smoke in the center, but otherwise is in fantastic condition and presents impeccably.

This low-budget, independently-made dystopian action film, cast with unknown stars, helmed by an unknown, first-time director, and written by a finance journalist crafting his first screenplay, would likely not have been singled out at the time as the beginning of a highly successful franchise and the launching pad for a few remarkable careers, but that's precisely what it did. Mad Max (1979) was the brainchild of George Miller, an emergency room doctor in Sydney, who was intimately familiar with the kinds of injury and death seen in this film about Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), a cop-turned-vigilante trying to bring law and order to collapsing society (Miller raised part of the money for this film by doing several months of emergency medical calls). The initial film was followed by three sequels (the first two with Gibson) and continues to be a fan-favorite.

Estimate: $400 - 800
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