CAPTIVE HEART

Original British Advance 20 inch x 30 inch Double Crown Poster for the 1946 Basil Dearden Ealing Studios Priosner-of-War Drama THE CAPTIVE HEART, based on an original story by Patrick Kirwan and starring Michael Redgrave, Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Jack Lambert, Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Gordon Jackson, Ralph Michael, Derek Bond, Rachel Kempson, Guy Middleton and Gladys Henson.

”Made only a few months after the end of WW2, The Captive Heart was one of the first British films to show defeated, captured British troops – something that, for reasons of morale, would have been impossible while the war was on. For Michael Balcon, there was a personal interest in the subject; his wife Aileen had spent the war working for the Red Cross, and helping repatriated prisoners readjust after their internment. The film was shot in a real British POW camp in Germany where co-screenwriter Guy Morgan had himself been held.”

Printed by Chromoworks Ltd., London N.W.10, on the reverse of a Wartime map of Holland.

The poster is in fine unfolded (rolled) condition.