Editore: United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1963
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Vintage lobby card for the 1963 film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on Frédéric Grendel's 1951 novel, about a bank robber who gets his brother to agree to help break him out of prison-on the condition that the brother be allowed to date the robber's girlfriend. Shot on location in Sevilla, Spain, and in Tangier, Morocco. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned, with pinholes and wear at the corners.
Editore: Gloria Filmverlein, N.p., 1955
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Vintage program for the 1955 German film. Text and titles in German. A doctor reflects on his troubled marriage, remembering their disabled child, his wife's pain at feeling abandoned in their life together, and her eventual affair with another doctor. Shot on location in Berlin and Brittany. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bifold. About Near Fine.
Editore: Filmel, France, 1964
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Revised Draft script for the 1964 French film, here under the original French title. Printed and bound by the Studio de la Copie in Paris, operated by Mme. L. (Lucienne) Sotier, with credits on the first page. Text in French. Based on Daniel-Rops' 1934 eponymous novel. Laure (Audret) is a young woman nearly raped by a member of her family (Terzieff), but she meets Jean (Auclair), who takes her in to help his dying wife and his children. Daniel-Rops was a member of the French Academy, wrote dozens of works from 1926 to 1965, and was an active Christian and scholar. Director Bromberger was active in French film noir during the late 1940s, including his sole debut "Paris Vice Squad" (1951, nominated at Cannes), and he made a few sexploitation films, notably "Secrets of a French Nurse" (1958), and this film was his second-to-last as director, before "A Night in Tiberias"(1965). Partially set in a castle in foggy France. Blue untitled wrappers with vellum spine. Title page present, undated, with credits for novelist/screenwriter Daniel-Rops, screenwriter Grendel, and director/screenwriter Bromberger. #PAGES leaves, with last page of text numbered 270. Mimeograph duplication, with pink and yellow revision pages throughout, all pages undated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, side-stapled, some loss to the spine.
Editore: N.p., N.p., 1955
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Fotografia
Vintage reference photograph from the UK release of the 1955 French film noir. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Celle qui n'etait plus" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The wife and mistress of a cruel, brutish school principal orchestrate the perfect murder, but their plans are thrown into confusion when his body disappears. Set in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, and shot on location in Yvelines, Deux-Sevres, and Hauts-de-Seine, France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly curled. Criterion Collection 35. Grant France. Selby Masterwork. Spicer France. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art.
Editore: Filmel, France, 1978
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Fotografia
Vintage borderless photograph of Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet from the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jean-Marie Fitere which tells the true story of Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert), a French teenager who in the 1930s worked as a prostitute while living with her parents, who she poisoned, killing her father, after they found out from her doctor that she had syphilis. Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide.