S.O.S. PACIFIC

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1959 Guy Green Thriller S.O.S. PACIFIC, based on a story by Gilbert Travers Thomas and starring Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok, Clifford Evans, Jean Anderson, Cec Linder, Andrew Faulds and Cyril Shaps.
Due to an accident, a seaplane operated by a small airline company ditches off an island in the Pacific where an atom bomb is soon to be exploded. Until then the surviving passengers must find a way to be rescued.

Poster art by Renato Fratini (1932 – 1973). An Italian commercial artist who specialised in cinema posters. In Italy he worked in Augusto Favalli’s studio, a major producer of Italian posters. He then moved to London at the behest of Eric Pulford, who ran the Downton agency, which had accounts with Rank and several other film companies. There Fratini enjoyed a successful career throughout the 1960s.

The advert is in very good condition with a vertical centre fold and 2 staple holes along it.