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First Edition. Signed by the author, film director Wim Wenders to Robert Mitchum on the half-title: ÒFor Robert Mitchum, Wim Wenders.Ó From the library of Robert and Dorothy Mitchum with the stamp, ÒFrom the Estate of Robert Mitchum, Santa Barbara, CaliforniaÓ on the front free endpaper. Oversize, 351 pages. Text in German and English. Fine bright copy with satin marker ribbon without dust jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout with stills and photographs from Lightning Over Water, documenting the life, work, and last days of critically acclaimed director Nicholas Ray (1911 - 1979). With some terrific photos of Robert Mitchum in the book from the film The Lusty Men (1952) which Nicholas Ray directed. Included is the complete dialogue for the film in English and German, a 1979 interview with Ray from Vassar College, a biography, and filmography. Some of Nicholas RayÕs best known films include, In a Lonely Place (1950) with Humphrey Bogart, Johnny Guitar (1954) with Joan Crawford, and Rebel Without a Cause (1955) with James Dean. From the elegant introduction by Bernardo Bertolucci: ÒJust like every movie about life is bound to suggest the idea of death, this is a life-embracing film about death. It opens wide on a world of intense vitality, which is no other that the longing for life as it is lived, faked, set in words or images. .Wenders, and us with him, get used to the idea of death - that neither he who makes a movie nor he who looks at it are immortal.Ó Robert Mitchum (1917 - 1997) was a sleepy-eyed, effortlessly handsome leading man, best known for his work in classic dramas, including film noir, westerns, and war films. Some of his best known films are The Night of the Hunter (directed by Charles Laughton), Out of the Past, Foreign Intrigue, Cape Fear, Farewell My Lovely and The Big Sleep (as private eye Philip Marlowe), El Dorado, The Longest Day, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Red Pony, Angel Face, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Sundowners, The Grass is Greener, Two for the Seesaw, Mister Moses, RyanÕs Daughter, That Championship Season, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, and Midway. His later career included a starring role in two big-budget Herman Wouk World War II television mini-series, The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988). Remarkably, his only Oscar nomination came for Best Supporting Actor from his role as Lt. Walker in the 1945 film Story of G.I. Joe, directed by William Wellman, based on the books Brave Men and Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle. Robert and Dorothy Mitchum were married for 57 years and lived together in Santa Barbara, CA. Dorothy passed away in April, 2014 at the age of 94. Their sons James Mitchum and Christopher Mitchum are actors, as is their grandson Bentley Mitchum. Robert MitchumÕs last film was the television biopic James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997) playing Giant director George Stevens. Seller Inventory # 20617E
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Title: NickÕs Film. Lightning Over Water by Wim ...
Publisher: Frankfurt Zweitausendeins 1981
Edition: 1st Edition
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