MORNING DEPARTURE 1950 John Mills, Richard Attenborough TRADE ADVERT

Original 11 inch x 17 inch Double-Sided Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1950 Roy Ward Baker Wartime Drama MORNING DEPARTURE, based on the stage play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, James Hayter, George Cole, Peter Hammond, Michael Brennan and Andrew Crawford.

Stiff upper lips are out in force in this classic submarine drama, with Mills as the commander facing a watery grave after his submarine hits a mine.

On the reverse is an original 1950 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1948 Edmond T. Gréville Drama BUT NOT IN VAIN, based on the play by Ben van Eysselsteijn and starring Raymond Lovell, Carol van Derman, Martin Benson and Agnes Bernelle.

The film is set in 1944, in German-occupied Netherlands. There is an ongoing famine. Jan Alting is a a Dutch patriotic farmer, who uses his farm as a place of refuge for Jews, communists, and Dutch resistance members. He has disinherited his son Anton Alting, who is a German collaborator. One day, Anton unexpectedly visits his father's residence and discovers a group of subversives hiding there. He orders his father to kick them out, threatening to shoot them if he refuses. Jan is torn between his patriotic duty and his desire to avoid direct conflict with his estranged son.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold with 2 staple holes along it.