BRANDY FOR THE PARSON

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Trade Advertisement Supplement from Kinematograph Weekly for 3 films from Group 3 Limited:

the 1945 John Eldridge Comedy BRANDY FOR THE PARSON, based on a story by Geoffrey Household and starring James Donald, Kenneth More, Jean Lodge, Frederick Piper, Charles Hawtrey, Michael Trubshawe, Alfie Bass and Reginald Beckwith.

A man who is smuggling brandy from France to respectable wine merchants in London has his boat accidentally sunk by a young couple on a boating holiday. He enlists their help to bring his illicit cargo from France to England, and they become involved in a series of escapades as they try to convey the barrels up towards London while evading the Customs officer who is dogging them.

Advert art by Ian Ribbons (1924 – 2002). Ribbons studied at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, 1947–51, with John Nash and Edward Bawden. He did a body of magazine illustrative work, also working for publishers such as Oxford University Press. Showed RA, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Young Contemporaries. Lived in London.

AND the 1952 John Baxter Crime Drama JUDGMENT DEFERRED starring Hugh Sinclair, Helen Shingler, Abraham Sofaer, Leslie Dwyer, Harry Locke, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Joan Collins, Bud Flanagan and Edmundo Ross and his Orchestra.

A newspaperman decides to investigate a dope smuggling ring. In a church community centre he finds a strange collection of characters, dedicated to bringing to justice a man they believe to have framed an associate. The wronged man escapes from prison and they hold a trial for the real criminal.

AND the 1952 Lewis Gilbert Comedy TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE!, based on the novel “Nothing To Lose” by R.J. Minney and starring Eddie Byrne, Raymond Lovell, Hermione Baddeley, Sidney James, Jane Barrett, Dora Bryan and Sydney Tafler.

When the Prime Minister announces a visit to the village of Little Heyhoe in recognition of its 100% employment record, the local council has to decide what to do about the thorn in its side: local tramp and drinker Dan Dance. They agree to have him put in the local almshouse but it emerges that as a resident there he is entitled to an inheritance which he spends in the local pub.

The supplement is in very good condition.