MR. PERRIN AND MR. TRAILL 1948 Marius Goring, David Farrar UK HALF SHEET POSTER

Original British 22 inch x 28 inch Half Sheet Poster for the 1948 Lawrence Huntington Drama MR. PERRIN AND MR. TRAILL, based on the novel by Huw Walpole and starring Marius Goring, David Farrar, Greta Gynt, Edward Chapman, Raymond Huntley and Finlay Currie.

A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague.

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.

Poster printed by W.E. Berry, Ltd., Bradford

The poster is in good to very good folded condition with a torn hole at bottom centre and a tear at the top centre.