SAPPHIRE 1959 Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell FRENCH POSTER

Original French 47 inch x 63 inch Poster for the 1959 Basil Dearden Thriller SAPPHIRE, original screenplay by Janet Green and starring Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles, Olga Lindo, Earl Cameron, Rupert Davies, Gordon Heath, Harry Baird, Orlando Martins, Yvonne Buckingham Robert Adams, Grace Arnold, Thomas Baptiste, Basil Dignam, Fenella Fielding, Dorothy Gordon, Desmond Llewelyn, John Richardson, Barbara Steele, Peter Vaughan and Richard Vernon.

In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. As two detectives start to investigate, and discover her racial origins were much more mixed, public prejudices and those of the officers themselves are exposed..

Poster art by Gilbert Allard.
Gilbert Allard, often cited as Georges Allard, was a poster designer active in France from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. He is the author of more than 80 posters for films distributed in France; his posters are signed G. ALLARD. He produced posters for the advertising agency Jacques Fourastié

The poster is in very good folded condition.