TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS

Original French 47 inch x 63 inch Poster for the 1951 Gordon Parry Drama TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS, based on the novel by Thomas Hughes and starring John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, John Charlesworth, James Hayter, Michael Hordern, Max Bygraves, Francis De Wolff, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley, Kathleen Byron, Amy Veness, Brian Worth, Michael Brennan and John Forrest.

John Howard Davies stars as first-year Rugby student Tom Brown. In his efforts to adjust to boarding-school life, Tom must contend with the calculated cruelties of all-around bully Flashman (John Forrest). One of the boy’s few allies is new schoolmaster Doctor Arnold (Robert Newton), who believes that discipline can be tempered with kindness, a “radical” notion so far as his colleagues are concerned.

Poster art by Jean Mascii. Mascii was one of the most prolific French film poster artists of the second half of the 20th century creating over 2,000. He was born in Italy in 1926 his family then settled in France in 1932. He began work designing cinema facades and designed his first film poster for La Dame D’Onze Heures starring Paul Meurisse in 1947. He died in Paris in 2003.

The poster is in very good folded condition.