The Butcher 1972 Academy Cinema UK Quad Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Gregory Peck Actual size 22 1/2 x

Actual size 22 1/2 x 32 1/2

This is an extremely rare unreleased poster by one of

alternative artwork features on the Czech poster for West Side Story

and one very small tear on right hand fold edge

The Butcher 1972 Academy Cinema UK Quad Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Gregory Peck Actual size 22 1/2 xWonderfully powerful and intimate design by Peter Strausfeld for one of Claude Chabrol's finest thrillers Le Boucher (The Butcher). Cologne born Strausfeld came to England in 1938. Whilst interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, he developed a close friendship with fellow internee George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering became the director of Londons pre eminent art house, The Academy Cinema, on Oxford Street and, disliking the studio