POISON

Original 1955 Danish 24 1/2 inch x 33 1/2 inch Poster for the 1951 Sacha Guitry Black Comedy POISON starring Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Pauline Carton, Jacques Varennes, Jacques de Feraudy, Jean Duvaleix, Jeanne Fusier-Gir and Germaine Reuver.

This black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he’ll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.

La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on the misfortunes of others.

Poster art by Munch.

The poster is in very good folded condition with a few pinholes.