MY BROTHER’S KEEPER 1948 Jack Warner, George Cole, Jane Hylton UK 1-SHEET POSTER

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1948 Alfred Roome & Roy Rich Thriller MY BROTHER’S KEEPER starring Jack Warner, George Cole, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson, Bill Owen, Yvonne Owen, Susan Shaw, Raymond Lovell, Beatrice Varley, Amy Veness, Brenda Bruce, John Boxer, Garry Marsh, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Frederick Piper, Valentine Dyall, George Merritt, Maurice Denham, Reginald Beckwith, Michael Brennan, Cyril Chamberlain, Edward Lexy, Edie Martin and Arthur Mullard.

War hero turned villain George Martin (Jack Warner) escapes from prison, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard (George Cole). After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police, and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

Poster art by Eric Pulford (1915 - 2005). Having taken life classes at Leeds College of Art for 5 years Pulford was apprenticed as a commercial artist in 1931 to Gilchrist Bros a process house of 24 staff. Leslie Whitchurch, a partner in a Leicester based agency and also a part-time publicity manager for Rank, became aware of Pulford’s work and asked him to do some freelance work for him. Then in 1943 Rank invited Pulford to start a publicity department for them in London resulting in posters for “Henry V”, “Odd Man Out” and “Oliver Twist”. When the head of Downtons advertising agency, Charles Collins, died, Pulford was asked to take over. He became chairman and managing director but still spent most of his time designing posters. He retired in 1986. Pulford is responsible, either through his own artwork or design, for several hundred posters, some for classic films such as the ones already mentioned plus “Edge of the World”, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, “Genevieve”, “Reach for the Sky” and “A Night to Remember”. He is, without doubt, the most important force in British film poster design from the mid-1940s to the early 1980s.

Printed by W.E. Berry, Ltd., Bradford

The poster is in fine folded condition.