Rare Film Posters

WATERLOO ROAD

£49.50

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1944 Sidney Gilliat Romantic Drama WATERLOO ROAD starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Jean Kent, Beatrice Varley, George Carney, Anna Konstam, Wylie Watson, George Merritt, John Boxer, Ian Fleming, Peter Hammond, Laurence Hanray, Kathleen Harrison, Wallace Lupino and Johnnie Schofield.

Tillie Colter, lonely during her husband Jim’s army service, falls for the local charmer Ted Purvis, who has dodged the army. Jim discovers the relationship and deserts the Army to return home.

Advert art by Harry Winslade (1901 – 1980). Winslade was born in Farnham, Surrey and lived for most of his adult life in Stoneleigh, Surrey. He was a painter in gouache and watercolour and also a cartoonist, at one time working for Artists Partners Agency at Hyde Park, London. From the early 1950s he began a career in the comics industry producing features for ‘Eagle’, ‘Girl’, ‘Swift’, ‘The Hornet’, ‘Wizard’, ‘Mickey Mouse Weekly’, ‘Rocket’ and ‘Express Weekly’. In 1955 he produced a series of historical paintings as carriage prints for British Rail London Midlad Region.

The advert is in very good condition.

Availability: 1 in stock

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement