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Original Argentine 29 inch x 43 inch Poster for the 1948 Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French & Ralph Smart British compendium film version of four W. Somerset Maugham stories starring Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne, Ernest Thesiger, Felix Aylmer, George Cole, Susan Shaw, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Bernard Lee, Dirk Bogarde, Françoise Rosay, Honor Blackman, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling and James Robertson Justice.

The poster art is by Osvaldo Venturi. (1900 – 1989).

Osvaldo Venturi studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 1923. In the period between 1940 and 1950 he became the most prolific Argentine poster designer.

The poster is in very good condition and has been conservation paper-backed.