The Big Sleep lenticular Printed by Lonsdale & Bartholomew

Printed by Lonsdale & Bartholomew of Nottingham the poster has interesting paintings of the windmill and the fights between the knights

These cards have been cinema used and have multiple pinholes in the corners

This one has survived with fantastic intensity of colour but does have fold wear splitting along the fold line around the middle of the green coat to the right of the lower 2 buttons as seen

Brown marks at the top border as seen

The artist captures the quizzical look of Dean Stockwell as Paul Morel as Heather Sears as Miriam turns up the heat

The Big Sleep lenticular Printed by Lonsdale & BartholomewRaymond Chandler's novel introduces us to the private eye Phillip Marlow played here by Robert Mitchum. American artist Richard Amsel paints the private detective complete with smoking gun protecting Sarah Miles. The artists printed signature appears below the gun. This film poster was brought back from a cinema owner in Malta by us many years ago and bears the Maltese KRS Film Distributors sticker at the top right. The poster was printed in England