BLACKMAILED 1951 Harold Huth WILFRID NEWTON Marc Allégret PORTRAIT

Original 9 1/2 inch x 7 1/2 inch Portrait of HAROLD HUTH in the 1951 Marc Allégret Thriller BLACKMAILED, based on the novel by Elizabeth Myers with a screenplay by Roger Vadim.

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well.

Portrait by Wilfrid Newton.

Text on reverse: A new portrait of Harold Huth, producer of “THE BLACKMAILER.” THE BLACKMAILER, Harold Huth’s independent production at Pinewood Studios, stars Fay Compton, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng and Harold Huth with James Roberston Justice and Joan Rice. The film is directed by Marc Allegret.

Harold Huth was a British actor, film director: “Bulldog Sees It Through”, “East of Piccadilly”, “Nightbeat”, “My Sister and I”, “Look Before You Love”, “The Hostage” and producer: “Love Story”, “They Were Sisters”, “Caravan”, “The Root of All Evil”, “The White Unicorn”, “Blackmailed”, “The Trials of Oscar Wilde”, “The Hellions” etc.

The portrait is in very good condition with minor surface marks.