H.M.S DEFIANT 1962 Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Nigel Stock TRADE ADVERT

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Advance Trade Advertisement from Kinematograh Weekly for the 1962 Lewis Gilbert Naval Drama H.M.S. DEFIANT, based on the novel by Frank Tilsley and starring Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Nigel Stock, Murray Melvin, Victor Maddern, Maurice Denham, Johnny Briggs, David Robinson and Toke Townley.

Napoleonic sea saga about a clash between humane, ineffectual ship’s captain Guinness and sadistic disciplinarian first mate Bogarde is well told by director Gilbert with first rate perfromances and authentic detail.

Advert art attributed to Charles Mozley
Born in Sheffield on 29th May 1915, Mozley trained at the Sheffield School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art from 1933 to 1937. He taught anatomy, life drawing and lithography at Camberwell School of Art from 1938 to 1939. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in military intelligence during the war, ‘involved in work on camouflage’. After the war he went freelance, producing book illustrations, film and theatre posters, book jackets and posters for Shell. He produced posters for British European Airlines Corporation through the agency Colman, Prents & Varley; a poster for ‘150 Years of Lithography’ for the Victoria and Albert Museum; and a mural for the festival of Britain. He produced some fine posters for Alexander Korda’s An Ideal Husband from Tony Wysard’s original rough.

The Advertisement is in very good condition.