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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1951. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film noir, both showing actor Wallace Ford. Based on the 1947 novel by Sam Ross, about a robber who holds a family hostage in their apartment as he grows increasingly paranoid about being caught. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was uncredited due to his being blacklisted at the time. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

United Artists, 1967. Trade Paperback. 8 pages. B/W illustrations. Film starring Julie Andrews, Max Von Sydow and Richard Harris. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.

London: Unviersal International Pictures, 1961. Five vintage full-color still photographs from the 1961 UK release of the 1961 US film. Based on Howard Rigsby's novel, "Sundown at Crazy Horse," about a cowboy who, on the lam from the law, travels to visit an old flame in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. A story set and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall, else Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Snipe printed to the verso. A semi-biographical film, based on Bernard Malamud's novel of the same name. The story of a Russian-Jew unjustly prisoned on accusations of blood libel. Set in Russia, shot on location in Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Light wear to the top margin.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink, and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby (under the pseudonym Vechel Howard) about a cowboy who, on the run from the law, travels to visit an old lover in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder, he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. Set in Russia, shot on location in Hungary 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Rock Hudson signing autographs on the set of the 1961 Western film, here under the working title "The Day of the Gun." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of still photographer Shirley Clarke (not to be confused with the filmmaker of the same name). Based on the 1957 novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Howard Rigsby (under the pseudonym Vechel Howard). While on the run from the law, a cowboy travels to visit an old lover in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Set in Texas and Mexico, and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the edges. Pitts 2237.

Universal City, CA: Joel Productions, 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1962 film. Shown are Kirk Douglas, director David Miller, cinematographer Philip Lathrop, and other crew members. Based on Edward Abbey's 1956 novel, "The Brave Cowboy." Drifter cowboy Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) hears that his old friend Paul Bondi (Michael Kane) is serving time in jail. Burns gets himself arrested with the intention of helping Bondi escape with him. Once inside he finds that Bondi would rather serve his sentence than risk a longer one, leading Burns to break out on his own. Shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: Kaufman-Lubin Productions, 1962. Collection of 104 vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film including some great in-character photographs and head shots from Ben Gazzara, Sammy Davis Jr., Broderick Crawford, Vincent Price, Roland LaStarza, Timothy Carey, Ray Walston and others, also includes 5 photographs of Gazzara with author John Resko and one head shot of Resko. Mimeo snipes on the verso of the majority of photographs. "Convicts 4," here under the working title, and title of Resko's 1956 autobiography upon which the film was loosely based, Reprive. Dalton Trumbo wrote and directed with Millard Kaufman as his "front" (as Trumbo was still blacklisted at the time) which Kaufman had done before for Trumbo, most notably for the 1950 Film Noir classic Gun Crazy. John Resko (Gazzara) is convicted of killing a store owner and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, he ignites a passion for art, an activity that leads to a transformation in his character. Featuring a great… Leer más

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1953. Two vintage studio still photographs taken on the 1953 film, one showing director William Wyler and a camera crew capturing scenes with Audrey Hepburn, and one showing Wyler talking with Hepburn as she prepares to have her hair cut for her role. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Arguably Wyler's finest and most deftly directed film, simultaneously melancholy, funny, philosophical, and heartwarming. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Actress, and nominated for seven others. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned. National Film Registry.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage reference photograph of director Stanley Kubrick talking with Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1960 film. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1951 novel by Howard Fast, a fictionalized account of a slave revolt against the Roman Empire. Along with Otto Preminger's "Exodus" the same year, the first screenwriting credit for Dalton Trumbo under his own name since he was blacklisted in 1950, effectively ending the practice in Hollywood. Nominated for six Academy Awards, winning four, including Best Supporting Actor for Peter Ustinov. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 105. Rosenbaum 1000.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder, he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960, the blacklisted Trumbo (one of the Hollywood Ten) began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood, after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers, dated September 7, 1967, with a credit for… Leer más

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Collection of 29 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 film. One image showing director Franklin J. Schaffner and cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp shooting on location. Based on the 1969 autobiography by Henri Charriere, about a wrongly imprisoned safecracker who plans his escape from a French Guiana labor camp with the help of a fellow inmate. Shot on location in Spain, Hawaii, and Jamaica. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Most Near Fine, several with light creases and wear to the corners.

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film. INSCRIBED in manuscript ink on an inset page preceding the script by actor Gene Reynolds, who played a young Douglas Corrigan in the movie: "For Art / From Corrigan-as-a-boy / Gene Reynolds / Mar - 71." With blue and white revisions pages (including some detail for montage sequences). Copy originally belonging, to an unidentified cast or crew member "(Mr. Starkey"), with that persons' manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, an aviator who "accidentally" flies to Dublin, Ireland. Corrigan plays himself, a man hell-bent on becoming a pilot by any means necessary, cobbling together a single-engine, one-passenger plane with a door held shut with baling wire. When his plane is understandably grounded for being too dangerous, he appeals for, and is eventually given, a temporary license to fly his plane west to Long Beach, California. Instead, determined to prove his… Leer más

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1939. Estimating script for the 1939 film. In his 1970 biography of Nathanael West, Jay Martin notes: "On June 6, 1938, [West] was hired for his 'established' salary of $350 a week by RKO Pictures-the first of five major studios to employ him-to make a screenplay from an original story by Richard Carroll. Putting everything else aside, within a week he outlined his plans for treating the material. He fretted all weekend over whether the outline would be accepted, knowing that he could be out of a job again on Monday. On late [Monday] afternoon he was persuaded to telephone the executive producer, Lee Marcus, who told him to go ahead at once to the screenplay. On July 20, West finished a first draft for what would be one of his most successful films. After eight weeks in all, having polished his script, West was released by RKO. [At this point,] it appeared that [West] had a good chance to earn a single credit for this high budget, B-quality movie, but the… Leer más