DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1962 Leo McCarey Drama DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS, based on the novel “The China Story” by Pearl Buck and starring William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler, Martin Benson, Bert Kwouk and Ronald Adam.

William Holden stars as Father O’Banion, a Catholic priest assigned to relieve the retiring Father Bovard (Clifton Webb) at a mission in China. Along the way, O’Banion has unwittingly picked up a follower with a crush on him, Siu Lan (France Nuyen). The girl becomes the mission’s cook, but before Bovard can depart, Mao’s 1949 communist takeover begins. Red soldiers led by Chung Ren (Robert Lee) seize the mission as their local command center. Chung Ren rapes Siu Lan, impregnating her, while O’Banion is forced to watch. Unable to cross China’s closed borders, both priests remain at the mission, ministering to the locals despite harassment by Chung Ren. Delighted by his son’s birth, Chung Ren begins undergoing a change of heart.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with a vertical centre fold.