Guy Elmes Screenwriter (3 results)

Collection of 6 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1958 film. Based on the 1957 novel by Joy Packer, about two brothers competing for the affection of a woman in the wilds of Africa. A story set and shot on location in Africa. 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing overall, else Near Fine.

Draft script for an unproduced British film called "Act of Treason," written by Guy Elmes, based on Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Emmanuel Robles' 1948 play, "Montserrat." Screenwriter Elmes also wrote for films like "Bad Blonde" (1953), "Across the Bridge" (1957), "Pontius Pilate" (1962), "the Invincible Six" (1970), and "White Fang" (1973). Robles' play opened in Paris in 1948, a story about the civil war in Venezuela during the early 1800s, where a Spanish officer commits treason and joins the Venezuelan revolutionaries. Guy Elmes is a screenwriter, primarily known for his work in writing the original story and screenplay for "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (1979). Gray blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Guy Elmes, playwright Lillian Hellman, and producer Ben Arbeid. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.

Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noir A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain (but represented as Mexico), "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's short story, bringing more specifics to the author's intentionally empirical outline. Steiger plays a crooked businessman on the run who steals a man's passport in order to hide out in Mexico, only to discover that the passport belongs to a wanted political assassin. 30 x 40 inches. Near Fine. Phillips US. Spicer US.