PASSAGE 1978 Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell UK 1-SHEET POSTER

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1978 J. Lee Thompson War Movie THE PASSAGE, based on the novel “Perilous Passage” by Bruce Nicolaysen and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Kay Lenz, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paul Clemens, Robert Rhys and Christopher Lee.

During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.

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”.

Poster design by Eddie Paul.
Eddie Paul was born in Hackney in 1920 and studied at Southend School of Art. He worked in various commercial art studios including Temple Art Studios, Star Illustration, Pulford Publicity and eventually becoming co-founder of Feref Associates in 1968.

The poster is in very good folded condition.