MAGGIE 1953 Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland EALING STUDIOS SYNOPSIS

Original British 11 inch x 14 1/2 inch Double-Sided Synopsis for the 1953 Alexander Mackendrick Ealing Studios Comedy THE MAGGIE starring Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Dorothy Alison, Geoffrey Keen, Hubert Gregg, Abe Barker and Tommy Kearins.

American financier Douglas falls foul of the captain of a leaky Clyde puffer carrying his precious cargo to a Scottish island..

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 Beuing 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.

The synopsis is in very good folded condition.