MARCH OR DIE 1977 Gene Hackman, Terence Hill Catherine Deneuve UK 1-SHEET POSTER

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1977 Dick Richards Adventure MARCH OR DIE starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm, Jack O’Halloran, Marcel Bozzuffi, André Penvern, Paul Sherman, Vernon Dobtcheff and Marne Maitland.

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government.

Poster art by Brian Bysouth.
Brian Bysouth was born in London in 1936 and attended Willesden Art School as a junior. He joined Downtons agency in the late 1950s where his first accepted film art was for “Tiger Bay”. Apart from a short break with another agency he stayed with Downtons until 1973 when he went freelance. In 1983 he joined Feref Associates where he stayed till his retirement in 2002. In his 40 odd year career he has produced some of the most iconic film posters, from the initial “Tiger Bay” to “Cromwell”, “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”, “The Island at the Top of the World”, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Big Trouble in Little China”, “The Bounty” and “The Emerald Forest”.

The poster is in very good unfolded (rolled) condition with very minor marks at the bottom left edge.