The Princess Bride

A wide, brightly lit modern playfield with a fairy-tale / medieval-adventure scene painted edge to edge in a detailed storybook illustration style. The colour scheme is dominated by green meadow grass in the lower half, warm pink-and-lilac castle masonry and stone battlements in the upper half, and clear blue sky with white clouds behind a large banner. Near the middle-upper area a broad horizontal title banner reads THE PRINCESS BRIDE in ornate gold-and-white serif letterforms with a dark outline, set against the blue sky. Above and around the title the upper playfield is crowded: a pink stone castle wall and crenellated tower rise on the left and centre, a cluster of crooked-roofed medieval village cottages with timber walls, small windows and chimneys sits mid-field, a green ramp or bridge cutout runs up the centre, and bare dark trees and rocky ground fill the right side. Chrome wireform rails and a chrome ball guide snake down both outer edges. A large castle turret with a domed top occupies the right edge, and sculpted plastic/mechanical shapes sit over the lower field. The lower playfield is open green turf with painted stone texture.

A wide rectangular backglass panel bordered by a thin double gold-and-black moulded frame with gold filigree corner ornaments. Centre: a young couple standing on a grassy clifftop, facing each other and holding both hands. The young man on the left has fair skin, shoulder-length wavy blond hair, an olive-brown long coat over a green shirt and dark trousers; the young woman on the right has fair skin, very long flowing golden hair, a white blouse with puffed sleeves, a high-waisted deep rust-red skirt and tall brown boots. Behind them, a painted fantasy landscape: purple-and-snowy mountain peaks on the left, a broad green valley with two small straw-roofed cottages, a pine-covered headland on the right carrying a pale grey stone castle with many turrets, a lighthouse on the far headland, and blue-green sea with a small tan-sailed sailing ship. The sky is pale blue with big billowing white and lavender clouds, framed left and right by dark green leafy branches. Across the lower centre the title is lettered in large gold-and-cream medieval serif capitals with black shadow, reading THE PRINCESS BRIDE over two lines, underlined by a gold rule. A small italic wordmark with a swoosh logo sits bottom right. Art style is polished romantic oil-painting illustration.

A painted romantic storybook backglass. Two young lovers stand centre-frame holding both hands: a slim young man with swept-back wavy light brown hair, pale skin, wearing an olive-brown knee-length medieval tunic over a pale shirt, dark leggings and a long brown cloak; and a slim young woman with very long wavy golden-blonde hair, pale skin, wearing a full-length rust-red gown with a laced bodice, white sleeves and grey apron panel, looking up into his face. Behind them a rolling green valley drops to a blue bay on the right, where a tiny white-sailed boat sits on the water and a white-walled castle with towers and battlements stands on a wooded promontory. Jagged snowy mountains rise on the left under a soft blue and pink clouded sky. Brown timber cottages with steep thatched roofs sit in the mid-left meadow, and dark green branches frame the top-left and right edges. Across the lower third the title runs in gold-and-cream decorative script with heavy black drop shadow. A thin gold border with filigree corner ornaments encloses the scene.

A wide landscape-format backglass, dominated by a hand-painted ensemble montage floating in a rose-pink and lavender mist. Across the lower third, a large open book with purple cloth boards and gilt-edged cream pages carries the title in gold-and-black decorative serif capitals: a small THE above the much larger PRINCESS BRIDE, both outlined and drop-shadowed in black. Centre frame stands a dark-haired man in a black domino eye mask and dark cloak, half-turned, with a young fair-skinned woman with long strawberry-blonde braided hair in a pale green gown pressed against him, her hand gripping his arm. To their left a cluster of five men: a dark-haired mustachioed man in a tan jerkin thrusting a rapier straight forward, a bald thin-faced man in russet-red, a curly-haired man in cream, a grinning red-bearded man raising a clenched fist, and a gaunt bald man in brown. To the right, a bearded man in a lilac doublet with a heavy gold chain holds a rapier, a man in a crimson robe with a white ruff and small gold circlet, and an elderly white-haired man leaning from a wooden boat. Behind them rise grey crenellated castle towers and a crenellated keep. A single square-rigged sailing ship sits in glowing fog at centre. Lower left, four mounted riders gallop; lower right, a lone figure with a raised sword stands by a crumbling stone wall. A thin black border with gilt scrollwork and fleur corner ornaments frames the whole piece.