Original British 20 inch x 30 inch Double Crown Poster for the 1963 Maud Max Linder Comedy LAUGH WITH MAX LINDER starring Max Linder, Frank Cooke, Caroline Rankin, Bull Montana, Harry Mann, Jobyna Ralston, Jack Richardson, Charles Mezzetti, Clarence Wertz, Fred Cavens and Jean de Limur. Narrated by René Clair.

A compilation by Max Linder’s only daughter Maud Linder of his 3 best known films: "Seven Years Bad Luck" (1921), "Be My Wife" (1921) and "The Three Must-Get-Theres" (1922).

The poster art is by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld was interned in the Isle of Man at the Onchan Internment Camp during the War where he met the Austrian producer George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering opened the Academy Cinema on Oxford Street and invited Strausfeld to produce some posters for the cinema which he did in wood and lino-cuts till his death in 1980.

The Academy Cinema, built in 1913, was saved from conversion to a shopping arcade in 1928 by Elsie Cohen of the original Film Society, who proceeded to run it as an arthouse which is how it was ran till it's closure in 1986.

The posters became a London landmark, in fact very few were used outside of London, resulting in very small print runs of 3-500.

The poster, printed by The Westminster Press, London W.9.

The poster is in very good (unfolded) rolled condition. There is a one inch ragged tear and a smaller tear at the bottom edge. There are a few minor surface creases.