Original Film Posters

Original Film Posters

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 109. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/ Sherlock Holmes (1939), poster, French.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/ Sherlock Holmes (1939), poster, French

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

February 10, 03:50 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Artist: Jacques Bonneaud (1898-1971)


Unframed: 23 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. (59 x 39.3 cm)

Framed: 29 x 21 1/4 in. (73.7 x 54 cm)


This exceptionally rare French poster hardly ever surfaces.


This American film was based on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was directed by Alfred L. Werker, and the cast includes Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. This was the second of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films, and the final one to be released by 20th Century Fox. Future films were released by Universal Pictures. In this film, which was also the final one to be set in the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempt to foil Professor Moriarty's (George Zucco) great plan to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

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