LOST PEOPLE

Original British 17 inch x 11 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly 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.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold with 2 staple holes along it.