Robert Joffres (2 results)
More imagesThe Respectful Whore [La Putain Respectueuse] (Two original photographs from the 1952 film)
Jean-Paul Sartre (play); Charles Brabant and Marcello Pagliero (director); Robert Joffres (photographer); Alexandre Astruc and Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenwriter); Barbara Laage, Ivan Desny, Walter Bryant (starring)
Published by Gala Film Distributors, London 1953
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerTwo vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1953 UK release of the 1952 French film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the verso of 1 still, and distributor rubber-stamp on the verso of the other. Based on Sartre's 1946 play, "La putain respectueuse," about the murder of a black man on a train. The only witnesses are an Am…erican prostitute and a black man. The suspect tries to seduce the prostitute to make her give false testimony that the black man attempted to rape her. She finally gives in to the suspects demands, but the black man, after nearly being lynched, flees to safety in her home. 8 x 10 inches. Light creasing overall, else Near Fine.
More imagesYoung Girls Beware (Seven original photographs from the 1957 film)
Yves Allegret (director); James Hadley Chase (novel); Robert Joffres (photographer); Jean Meckert and Rene Wheeler (screenwriters); Antonella Lualdi, Robert Hossein, Michele Cordoue, Jean Gaven (starring)
Published by Miracle Films, London 1957
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCollection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel, "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" (1941), banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes… and lost women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
