RAKE’S PROGRESS

Original 10 inch x 8 inch Still of REX HARRISON in the 1945 Sidney Gilliat Drama THE RAKE’S PROGRESS.

The film’s plot follows the career of upper-class cad Vivian Kenway (Rex Harrison). He is sent down from Oxford University for placing a chamber pot on the Martyrs’ Memorial. Sent to South America, he rebels against plantation life, eventually becoming a car racing driver. He descends to a life of woman-chasing and drunkenness, which causes the death of his father, Colonel Kenway (Godfrey Tearle). The plot diverges from the theme of the Rake’s Progress paintings by having him redeem himself by a hero’s death in World War II.

The still is in very good condition with a synopsis tacked to the reverse.