La Gran Evasion (The Great Escape)

ritewhereiwant2b

Ive had the La Gran Evasion (The Great Escape) poster for 25+ years, I bought it in a poster shop in Toronto.  Looks like it is originally from Spain.  Ive never seen a Great Escape poster that has Charles Bronson in place of Richard Attenborough.  If anyone knows more about this, Id be interested in learning.

110x75

I'd say it's mexican (note the Peli Mex logo in the lower right). Do you have the exact measures?
Apparently this is the one from spain:



What does the text in the lower left corner say?

HONDO

Bruce lists the poster being queried as being a Spanish 1973 re-release. The Peliculas Mexicanas ( Peli-Mex ) credit on the poster would certainly make it Mexican though and the Richard Attenborough billing sequence would certainly make it a re-release, whether from 1973 or at another year. 

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The poster is listed as spanish also at Benito's site. Might be, but I wonder what Peli-mex had to do with a spanish rerelease...

David

A boo-boo?

ritewhereiwant2b

The dimensions are 27 1/2" by 39". 

What is "bruce listing?"  Is it an online resource?  I took a close look a nd in the bottom right hand corner, its partially obstructed by the frame, but I do see a "1973", so this must be a re-release.

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ritewhereiwant2b said:

The dimensions are 27 1/2" by 39". 

What is "bruce listing?"  Is it an online resource?  I took a close look a nd in the bottom right hand corner, its partially obstructed by the frame, but I do see a "1973", so this must be a re-release.

It's the auction archive at emovieposter, owned by Bruce

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/search/great%2520escape/tag/nation%253ASpain/archive.html

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Must be spanish then. I just checked at Bruce's archive and the film was called "el gran escape" in Mexico.

HONDO

I have had a good look at another image of the poster in question and it certainly looks to me like the words Mexico S A are printed on the far bottom corner of the poster. The original 1960's release title of The Great Escape in Mexico was  El Gran Escape. Something to ponder though, is in is it possible that the 1973 re-release may have been re-titled La Gran Evasion in Mexico ?

DiegoP

Hi ! Sorry to wake up this old theme, I'm new and from Spain, so, maybe I can help    I think "Peli Mex" is the distribution company, I suppose also working overseas in those years here in Spain.  I can see it in other posters, like "Espartaco". Cheers !