CARAVAN TO VACCARES 1974 Charlotte Rampling, David Birney UK 1-SHEET POSTER

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1974 Geoffrey Reeve Thriller CARAVAN TO VACCARES, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean and starring Charlotte Rampling, David Birney, Michel Lonsdale, Marcel Bozuffi, Michael Bryant and Manitas de Plata.

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist.

Poster art by Arnaldo Putzu (1927 - 2012).
After studying art in Rome Arnaldo Putzu met poster artist Enrico de Seta in 1948 whilst doing illustration work in Milan. De Seta took him back to Rome to work at the heart of the booming post-war Italian film industry. In the early 1950s Putzu went freelance working for, among others, Augusto Favalli, a fine artist who had set up a commercial studio in 1946 employing several artists and collaborating with the production company Lux Film.
Around the same time John Davis of the Rank Organisation asked Eric Pulford, then creative head of Rank's Downton Advertising, to produce some special brochures for their Italian office. Pulford flew out to Rome and worked alongside Augusto Favalli and his team of artists. When Favalli died in 1969 some of the artists, including Putzu, moved to London to work with Pulford, whose expanding company by then was producing poster art for several major film companies.

Printed by W.E. Berry Ltd., Bradford

The poster is in very good unfolded (rolled) condition.