SAINT JOAN

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1957 Otto Preminger Historical Drama SAINT JOAN, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw with a screenplay by Graham Greene and starring Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud, Jean Seberg as St. Joan of Arc, Felix Aylmer, Harry Andrews, Barry Jones Finlay Currie, Bernard Miles, Patrick Barr, Kenneth Haigh, Archie Duncan, Margot Grahame, Francis de Wolff, Victor Maddern, David Oxley, Sydney Bromley and David Langton.

The story of 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc, a young farm girl who heard voices telling her to lead an army against the English occupying forces and crown the dauphin king of France. However, Joan was tragically betrayed, and subsequently burnt at the stake.

Advert art by Saul Bass (1920 – 1996). An American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

The Trade Advert is in very good condition with a faint vertical crease and a nick at the bottom edge.