Peter Strausfeld

A British movie poster for the film Mean Streets.

• Peter Strausfeld (British, 1910-1980).
• UK Quad style poster.
• Linen backed.
• This work is presented unframed.

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, Mean Streets is one of the key American films of the 1970s. Gritty, restless and full of attitude, it announced Scorsese as a major force and remains a landmark of modern crime cinema.

Issued for London’s legendary Academy Cinema, this poster carries the extra cachet of one of Britain’s great repertory venues, famous for championing the most exciting world and independent cinema of the day. Peter Strausfeld was central to that identity, creating hand-crafted posters that stood apart from standard film advertising and have since become highly collectible in their own right and this is undeniably one of his best and most coveted.