Best Ads Of The Last 50 Years: #3
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Best Ads Of The Last 50 Years: #3
Do you smoke? Dead Yul Brynner wants just 30 seconds of your time.
For you youngsters, Brynner played The Gunslinger model 404/406 android in the original 1973 Westworld. The above commercial for the American Cancer society was released in 1986, one year after he died from lung cancer. Ad agency: McCaffrey & McCall.
Unfortunately I’ve posted the YouTube clip of this famous ad to Facebook four times. Each time it followed the death by cancer of a close relative or friend. Its most recent use came after my brother died. He was a determined and committed smoker.
http://www.grapetelevision.com/yul.html