LOOKS AND SMILES

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1981 Ken Loach Drama LOOKS AND SMILES, based on the novel by Barry Hines and starring Graham Green, Tony Pitts and Carolyn Nicholson.

Made at a time when British unemployment was already reaching record levels, it follows Mick, a teenager looking for work in recession-hit Sheffield. Looks and Smiles was made two years into Margaret Thatcher’s government, and was one of only two features Loach was able to complete during the 1980s. By comparison with his TV documentaries of the period, some of which were suppressed for their angry, anti-government stance, Looks and Smiles is gentler, emphasising quiet despair over angry polemic.

The poster is in fine unfolded (rolled) condition.