The Human Factor (1979)

The Human Factor (1979), a 1980 US one-sheet for Preminger's film of Graham Greene's spy novel, scripted by Tom Stoppard. A coiled telephone cord drops from the top of a blank red sheet and ends in a dangling receiver, the call left hanging, and the cord runs right through the title. Nearly 25 years after The Man with the Golden Arm, Bass is still telling a Preminger story with one dark object on a flat field. This copy carries a small Quebec censor's stamp in the lower right.