HIGH TIDE AT NOON 1957 Betta St. John, Michael Craig Patrick McGoohan UK 1-SHEET

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1957 Philip Leacock Romance HIGH TIDE AT NOON, based on the novel by Elisabeth Ogilvie and starring Betta St. John, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, William Sylvester, Flora Robson, Alexander Knox and Patrick Allen.

Set on an island off of Nova Scotia, Canada, the jealousies and loves of the islanders unfold at a casual pace until economic necessity drives them to the mainland.

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 resulti