Michael Powell Director (14 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Mild shelfwear, spine has 2 tiny horizontal tears midway down; photos; 136 pages.

Poster. Condition: Good. Movie poster measures 39.5 cms by 29.5 cms approx. Starring James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran. Centrefold creases. Some light tears & wear. Else good +.

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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1936 film. Stamp of the New York Public Library Theatre Collection, a stamp noting a date of DEC 15 1938, and manuscript ink annotations regarding layout to the verso. Two theatre investors lose the funds for their latest production in the stock market, leading a former chorus girl to suggest they insure an elderly, sickly stage producer for one million dollars in order to recoup their losses when he dies. Set in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the right edge.

Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Mary Morris from the 1940 film. With provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1924 film of the same name directed by Raoul Walsh, about the fantastical adventures of legendary thief Abu and the rightful sultan of Bagdad. Producer Alexander Korda's most successful film in the US, nominated for four Academy Awards and winning three, including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Arizona and England. 4 x 5.25 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 431. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Weldon 1983.

Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 of the 2022 anthology television series. Copy belonging to construction coordinator Chris Scher, with her name as a watermark on every page. An anthology follow-up to the successful 2010-2022 horror series "The Walking Dead." In this episode, set post-apocalypse, a young Alpha (then known as Dee) tries to protect her daughter and their community steamboat home. The episode originally aired on August 28, 2022, on AMC. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018). Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 3/28/22, noted as Blue Draft, with credits for screenwriter Channing Powell and director Michael Satrazemis. 57 leaves, with last page of text numbered 45. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads.

Draft script for Season 1 Episode 5 of the 2022 anthology television series, seen here under the working episode title "Acadia." Copy belonging to construction coordinator Chris Scher, with her name as a watermark on every page. An anthology follow-up to the successful 2010-2022 horror series "The Walking Dead." In this episode, a young man wakes up with amnesia, ultimately piecing together his memories to reveal that he has committed murder. The episode originally aired on September 11, 2022, on AMC. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018). Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 2/7/22, noted as Blue Production Draft, with credits for screenwriter Channing Powell and director Michael Satrazemis. 49 leaves, with last page of text numbered 45. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with a binder clip.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The first has slight wear to one edge, the second and third are pinned together. ONE: BA to MP, 10 January 1956. 1p, 4to. Folded for postage. Begins: 'I wonder if I may introduce myself by means of the enclosed press notices? I am also noted in Whos Who in the Theatre and have letters of personal recommendation from Sir Desmond MacCarthy, Sir Beverley Baxter, J. C. Trewin, Eric Linklater and others.' He is 'passionately addicted to Kean' (the actor Edmund Kean, subject of MP's final book), and has 'long hoped to be able to produce a really good play about him. (I have rather a good one by a modern young English poet). Recently I have been working in films. Michael Powell gave me a number of scenes to prepare for shooting in "The Battle of the River Plate"'. Powell seemed 'very satisfied' and 'shot all the scenes exactly as I had prepared them, camera angles and all. On the strength of this I have an appointment to see Sir Michael Balcon very soon. Michael Powell thought I should go on doing more of this work (I suppose one calls it assistant direction) and offered to recommend me personally. Seeing that George Jessel is to do a film on Kean makes me very anxious to contact him, as I should like nothing better than to have a chance on such a splendid theme.' TWO: Duplicated Typed 'PRESS OPINIONS', headed 'BASIL ASHMORE / Drama and Operatic Producer. / Seasons at the Boltons and Lindsey Theatres. Opera productions for Glyndebourne and the Carl Rosa Opera Co.' 2pp, 4to. A wide range of appreciative comments, from sources ranging from the Observer, Spectator and New Statesman to the Evening Standard and Daily Mail. THREE: Carbon Copy of MP's Typed reply to Item One, 12 January 1956. 'As regards the Kean film, I am afraid you are a little late, as I have already almost finished the script which it is my job to do - being, rightly or wrongly - considered one of the experts on this most remarkable man. But keep in touch. We might be able to do something.' The film was not made, but MP produced a biography of Kean in the year of his death.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 film, showing actors Eugene Pallette, William Powell, and Robert McWade. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Easily the best entry in the series of the 15 Philo Vance film adaptations made between 1929 and 1947. Powell's second of four appearances as the great detective, setting the model for his unforgettable persona in "The Thin Man," released the following year. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly age toned, with reinforcements on the verso at three corners.

Vintage borderless French press photograph from the 1961 British film. Shown are Austrian actor Carl Boehm, getting to know a prostitute (Pamela Green) who will be dead just as soon as she's been photographed. On the verso is a rubber stamped credit for photographer Nicole, with her Paris address, along with a few manuscript annotations in brown marker regarding the film (under its French title "Le voyeur"), Powell, Green, and Boehm. From the collection of experimental French filmmaker, film historian, and film preservationist Paul-Herve Mathis, with his rubber stamp on the verso. Mathis is best known for three remarkable shorts all made in 1970, "Vinyl," "Serenity," and "Bathroom." 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 58. Grant UK. Spicer UK.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1936 film, showing dozens of women piano players in two vertical rows. Dutch distributor label, annotations in manuscript ink, and provenance stamps on the versos. Two theatre investors lose the funds for their latest production in the stock market, leading a former chorus girl to suggest they insure an elderly, sickly stage producer for one million dollars in order to recoup their losses when he dies. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing at the corners.

Set of three vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1961 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 58. Grant UK. Spicer UK.

Vintage British Advance Poster for the classic 1960 film. The British Double Crown poster for the film turns up from time to time, but this Advance issue, which does not state the film's title, is a rarity. Noted director Powell's most controversial film, about a serial killer who films his female victims as they are dying. Reviled by critics on its release and today considered a masterpiece, it is the second of three feature films director made after parting ways with his longtime filmmaking partner Emeric Pressburger. Ostensibly a film about a killer with serious Freudian issues, but later reassessed as much more conceptual and complex. Roger Ebert pointed out famously in his 1999 review of the film that the audience is implicated as much as the killer."Movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark, watching other people's lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us, although most films are too well-behaved to mention it." Martin Scorsese is probably the most famous fan of the film, and takes Ebert's argument further, saying, "I have always felt that "Peeping Tom" and "8 " say everything that can be said about filmmaking, about the process of dealing with film, the objectivity and subjectivity of it and the confusion between the two. "8 " captures the glamour and enjoyment of film-making, while "Peeping Tom" shows the aggression of it, how the camera violates. From studying them you can discover everything about people who make films, or at least people who express themselves through films." 30 x 20 inches. About Near Fine, on archival linen, with some expert restoration at the top edge and folds. Archivally framed, with an acid-free mat and UV plexi. Criterion Collection 58. Grant, p. 495. Spicer, p. 446.

Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing actor Carl Boehm taking in a scene being shot out of frame, with the prop film camera his character is hopelessly devoted to in front of him, and a real film camera just behind him in the foreground. With copyright stamp of international distributor J. Arthur Rank and a mimeo snipe crediting photographer Norman Gryspeedt on the verso. 7.25 x 9 inches. Near Fine. In an archival mat. Criterion Collection 58. Grant UK. Spicer UK.