This is a specially produced bookplate featuring an original pencil drawing with white highlights on sepia recycled card. The drawing by Steve Teasdale depicts Tom Hanks as Captain Miller in the award winning movie Saving Private Ryan. Mounted underneath the drawing is the genuine signature of Tom Hanks.
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in Normandy, France during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.