The Four Poster (1952 film)

The Four Poster
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Irving Reis
Produced by	Stanley Kramer
Written by	Jan de Hartog (play) ; Allan Scott
Starring	Rex Harrison ; Lilli Palmer
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Henry Batista
Production; company	Stanley Kramer Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	October 8, 1952
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Four Poster is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer.[1] It is an adaptation of Jan de Hartog's play The Fourposter.

While it is a live-action film, The Four Poster features animation by the studio United Productions of America (UPA). The animation was directed by John Hubley, and was his very last project before leaving UPA and founding his independent studio Storyboard, Inc.[2]

In Yugoslavia, The Four Poster's animation became one of the key influences on the foundation of the Zagreb School of Animated Films. Director Dušan Vukotić had come across an article about UPA's films in Graphis at an English bookstore in Zagreb. Around the same time, The Four Poster arrived in the country in "a batch of American feature films sent for possible sale to Yugoslavia", according to researcher Ronald Holloway. Vukotić and others studied the film's animation, which also gave them a greater understanding of the still images in Graphis. As a result, the team began to explore design-focused limited animation at Zagreb Film.[3]

Cast

Rex Harrison as John Edwards
Lilli Palmer as Abby Edwards

References

Notes

Bock & Bergfelder p.356
Robinson, David (Winter 1961–1962). "In the Picture; Evolution of a Cartoonist". Sight & Sound. 31 (1): 17.CS1 maint: date format (link)
Holloway, Ronald (1983). "The Short Film in Eastern Europe: Art and Politics of Cartoons and Puppets". In Paul, David W. (ed.). Politics, Art and Commitment in the East European Cinema. pp. 233–238. ISBN 9781349067367.

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

The Four Poster on IMDb

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[1] Bock & Bergfelder p.356

[2] Robinson, David (Winter 1961–1962). "In the Picture; Evolution of a Cartoonist". Sight & Sound. 31 (1): 17.CS1 maint: date format (link)

[3] Holloway, Ronald (1983). "The Short Film in Eastern Europe: Art and Politics of Cartoons and Puppets". In Paul, David W. (ed.). Politics, Art and Commitment in the East European Cinema. pp. 233–238. ISBN 9781349067367.