SOUTHERN STAR

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1968 Sidney Hayers Adventure THE SOUTHERN STAR based on the novel by Jules Verne and starring George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry, Michel Constantin, Harry Andrews, Johnny Sekka, Georges Géret, Sylvain Levignac, Guy Delorme and Jacques Van Dooren.

In 1912 West Africa, diamond tycoon Kramer hires penniless American fortune hunter Dan Rockland, who’s posing as a geologist, but when a huge diamond is found, everyone wants to steal it.

Poster art by Brian Bysouth.

Brian Bysouth was born in London in 1936 and attended Willesden Art School as a junior. He joined Downtons agency in the late 1950s where his first accepted film art was for “Tiger Bay”. Apart from a short break with another agency he stayed with Downtons until 1973 when he went freelance. In 1983 he joined Feref Associates where he stayed till his retirement in 2002. In his 40 odd year career he has produced some of the most iconic film posters, from the initial “Tiger Bay” to “Cromwell”, “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”, “The Island at the Top of the World”, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Big Trouble in Little China”, “The Bounty” and “The Emerald Forest”.

The poster is in very good folded condition.