HEARTS AND TREASURES 1920 Derwent Hall Caine CECIL BARBER UK 40x90 POSTER

Original British 40 inch x 90 inch 3-Sheet Poster for the 1920 Silent Movie HEARTS AND TREASURES starring Derwent Hall Caine.

The poster art is by Cecil Barber.

Sir Derwent Hall Caine (12 September 1891-2 December 1971) was a British actor, publisher and Labour politician.
Caine was the son of Hall Caine the novelist. He was born at Keswick Cumberland, and so derived his name from the lake Derwent Water. He became an actor and in 1915 took one of the parts in his father's first authorised film - a version of The Christian, made by the London Film Company.
He went to America in 1915 and starred in three films made by the Arrow Film Corporation. These were The Deemster which had been written by his father, a version of Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, and a propaganda film Huns At Our Gate.
Back in England he founded the publishing house the Reader's Library with his brother Gordon Ralph Hall Caine.
In 1929 he stood for parliament as Labour candidate for Liverpool, Everton and was returned as Member of Parliament. When the Labour government collapsed in 1931 he carried on supporting Ramsay MacDonald as a National Labour MP. Hall Caine was the only sitting National Labour MP to be opposed by the Conservatives in the 1931 General Election. He lost his seat, to Frank Hornby, and finished bottom of the poll. At the same election, his elder brother Gordon Hall Caine was elected Conservative member for East Dorset.
He was given a knighthood in 1935 and a baronetcy in 1937.

The poster is in very good condition. and has been conservation paper-backed.