BRAVE DON’T CRY

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1952 Basil Dearden Ealing Studios Drama THE BRAVE DON’T CRY, based on the play by Roger MacDougall and starring John Gregson, Meg Buchanan, Andrew Keir, Fulton Mackay, John Rae, Jack Stewart, Wendy Noel, Russell Waters, Jameson Clark, Eric Woodburn, Archie Duncan, Anne Butchart and Jean Anderson.

After a mudslide traps 118 men down a mine, a specialist rescue team has to work out how to rescue them. Based on a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery in 1950.

Advert art by James Boswell. Born in Westport, New Zealand in 1906, Boswell was educated at the Elam School of Art in Auckland before moving to England in 1925 to study at the Royal College of Art. Although primarily a painter he temporarily gave this up in 1932 to work in graphics. At this time he joined the Communist Party and in 1933 founded the Artists International association, promoting left-wing and anti-militarist art. He attended James Fitton’s (Kind Hearts and Coronets) evening classes in lithography at the Central School and after the war became art director for Shell and art editor for the magazine Lilliput from 1947 to 1950. He is recognized as one of the outstanding draughtsmen of the 1930s and 1940s.

On the reverse is the 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1951 Terry O. Morse SciFi Movie UNKNOWN WORLD starring Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis and Jim Bannon.

With the cyclotram, an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle, Dr. Jerimiah Morley leads an expedition into a subterranean world.

The advertisement is in very good condition with a vertical centre fold and 2 rusted staple holes along it.