WEST OF ZANZIBAR 1954 Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim EALING UK QUAD POSTER

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1954 Harry Watt Adventure WEST OF ZANZIBAR starring Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim, William Simons, Orlando Martins, Martin Benson, Peter Illing, David Osieli, Bethlehem Sketch and Howard Marion-Crawford.

When their region suffers a drought, the rural Galana tribe move to Mombasa. The tribe's peaceful ways are destroyed by the influence of illegal ivory traders. Game warden, Bob Payton, turns detective travelling to Zanzibar to discover the ringleader behind the ivory smuggling.

Poster art by Harry Winslade (1901 - 1980). Winslade was born in Farnham, Surrey and lived for most of his adult life in Stoneleigh, Surrey. He was a painter in gouache and watercolour and also a cartoonist, at one time working for Artists Partners Agency at Hyde Park, London. From the early 1950s he began a career in the comics industry producing features for ‘Eagle’, ‘Girl’, ‘Swift’, ‘The Hornet’, ‘Wizard’, ‘Mickey Mouse Weekly’, ‘Rocket’ and ‘Express Weekly’. In 1955 he produced a series of historical paintings as carriage prints for British Rail London Midlad Region.

Printed by Graphic Reproductions Ltd. (Ealing’s main printer through the 1940s and 1950s)

The poster is in very good condition. There are 3 very soft vertical folds and some minor surface creases. Will be shipped rolled in gorilla proof tube.