TOP SECRET 1952 George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Nadia Gray ALLARD FRENCH POSTER

Original French 47 inch x 63 inch Poster for the 1952 Mario Zampi Comedy TOP SECRET starring Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, George Cole, Charles Goldner, Eleanor Summerfield, Frederick Valk, Wilfred Hyde-White and Christopher Lee.

Potts (George Cole), a British Sanitary Engineer (a plumber in the Colonies), leaves on vacation (holiday in the Empire) with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russkies find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes), he accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying.

Poster art by Gilbert Allard.
Gilbert Allard, often cited as Georges Allard, was a poster designer active in France from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. He is the author of more than 80 posters for films distributed in France; his posters are signed G. ALLARD. He produced posters for the advertising agency Jacques Fourastié

The poster is in good to very good folded condition with separation along the left hand quarter of the top horizontal fold. There is minor rippling just below this. There is some soiling on the reverse which does not appear to affect the image in any way.