PURE AS A LILY

Original Italian 13 inch x 30 inch Locandona Poster for the 1976 Franco Rossi Crime Comedy PURE AS A LILY (COME UNA ROSA AL NASO) starring Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi, Graham Stark and Dudley Sutton.

Anthony M. Wilson is, for all appearances, an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get. There is another side of him he does not like to tell any of his friends, his Sicilian ancestry. When a mysterious letter arrives for him to meet a distant relative, little did he realize to what extent his life was going to change..

The poster art is by Renato Casaro (born 1935). Casaro is considered to be one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian’s film poster artists producing hundreds of works dedicated to the cinema. In 1953, at the age of 18, he joined Studio Favalli, a famous design and art studio in Rome. Three years later he opened his own studio. In 1965 Dino De Laurentiis hired Casaro to design the poster images for the film The Bible: In the Beginning and he went on to design several more posters for De Laurentiis. His career then blossomed working for several different directors and film companies.

The poster is in very good folded condition.