LOST PEOPLE

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1949 Bernard Knowles Drama THE LOST PEOPLE, based on the play “Cockpit” by Bridget Boland and starring Richard Attenborough, Mai Zetterling, Siobhan McKenna, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed, William Hartnell, Gerard Heinz, Zena Marshall, Olaf Pooley, Harcourt Williams, Philo Hauser, Jill Balcon, Marcel Poncin, Peter Bull, Tutte Lemkow, Charles Hawtrey and Herbert Lom.

After the Second World War, some British soldiers are guarding a theatre in Germany containing various refugees and prisoners trying to work out what to do with them. However, the displaced people, after uniting against fascism for five years, begin to disintegrate into their own ancient feuds: Serb against Croat, Pole against Russian, resistance fighter against collaborator and everyone against the Jews. Two people, Jan and Lily, begin a romance and decide to wed. However, one of the refugees is diagnosed with bubonic plague.

Poster printed by W.E. Berry, Ltd., Bradford

The poster is in good folded condition with 7 vertical folds and 3 horizontal folds with slight fold separation. There are two holes along the bottom fold line.