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Published by U.S.A.: United Artists; Filmways; National Screen Service., 1964
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. Two black & white photo prints. 8 x 10". Movie stills featuring Peter Ustinov, Melina Mercouri. Printed in U.S.A.
Published by United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1964
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Three vintage studio still photographs and one vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film. One photograph with mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1962 novel, "The Light of Day" by Eric Ambler. Two ex-lovers plan to steal from Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. They hire a man to drive explosives for the burglary, but when the police stop him they assume he is part of an assassination attempt. Winner of one Academy Award for Peter Ustinov as Best Actor. Set in Istanbul, shot on location in Istanbul, Turkey, Kavala, Greece, Paris, France, and Hauts-de-Seine, France. Two photographs 10 x 8 inches, one photograph 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus, with one photograph with pins holes at the corner and a tear at the bottom right corner. Lee, The Heist Film. Penzler 101.
Published by Universal-International, Universal City, 1947
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film, showing actor Burt Lancaster ascending the stairs. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a date stamp reading APR 10 1947. A group of prisoners at the strict Westgate Penitentiary plan an escape, but fear their plans will be ruined by sadistic, power-hungry guard Captain Munsey. Director Jules Dassin's important first film, a key noir followed by several others, notably "The Naked City" (1948), "Thieves' Highway" (1949), "Night and the City" (1950), and "Rififi" (1955). 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with three hole punch impressions along the top edge. Criterion Collection 383. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Grant US. Selby US. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir.
Published by Joseph Buemi, Binghamton, NY, 1947
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Experimental, vintage art photograph of a marquee display from the New York City premiere of the seminal 1947 film noir. With Buemi's stamp on the verso, dated 1947 in pencil, also with Buemi's penciled annotations and signature. Buemi's work is held in the collections of the Museum Reattu in Arles, France, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the King's Library in Copenhagen, as well as in corporate and private collections. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 383. Grant US. Selby Masterwork US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Published by Universal-International, Universal City, 1947
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Vintage reference photograph of actors Howard Duff, Ella Raines, and Burt Lancaster, director Jules Dassin, and producer Mark Hellinger on a lunch break on the set of the 1947 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Led by Burt Lancaster, a group of prisoners at the strict Westgate Penitentiary plan an escape, but fear their plans will be ruined by sadistic, power-hungry guard Hume Croyn. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with three hole punch impressions along the left side. Criterion Collection 383. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Grant US. Selby US. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir.
Published by Mark Hellinger Productions / Universal, Los Angeles, 1947
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Collection of 6 vintage photographs from the 1947 film. 5 are studio still photographs, and one is a reference photograph. Criterion Collection 383. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Masterwork US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Published by Filmways Pictures / United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1964
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the film. 9 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine.
Published by Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, 1968
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
An extraordinary archive of ephemera from the 1968 neo-noir film, the centerpiece of which is a large piece of original artwork by production designer Alexander Trauner. Also included are one US one sheet poster, one US half sheet poster, one US insert poster, one US pressbook, one Australian daybill poster (with the alternate title "Up Tight"), and one German A1 poster (with the alternate title "Black Power"). An overlooked and exceedingly important African American neo-noir film, the first to portray contemporary Black revolutionaries who rose in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and a predecessor to the explosion of blaxploitation films in the late 1960s and 1970s. Loosely based on the 1935 John Ford film "The Informer," in turn based on the 1925 proletarian novel by Liam O'Flaherty. Shot on location in Cleveland, "Uptight" was the first American production for director Jules Dassin (who had left the US at the height of the McCarthy hearings) in nearly two decades. The scenario drawing depicts a meeting of Black revolutionaries at their headquarters in an abandoned Cleveland bowling alley, following a gun heist and murder. Signed in the lower right corner with the designer's Hungarian birth surname, "Trau." Executed in gouache, ink, watercolor, pen, and pencil. Seen by very few upon its release, the film was restored and released on blu-ray in 2014 by the curated label Olive Films. A copy of the disc is included with the items on offer. All pieces about Near Fine or better, with the artwork showing a small watercolor tide mark at one corner. Artwork 17 x 24 inches. US one sheet 27 x 41 inches. US half sheet 22 x 28 inches. US insert poster 14 x 36 inches. US pressbook 15 x 12 inches. Australian daybill 13 x 30 inches, folded as issued. German A1 poster 23 x 33 inches, folded as issued. Letter with full provenance regarding the Trauner artwork is included. Grant US. Parrish and Hill 226.