Fritz lang director (62 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 2000 re-release of the 1938 film, showing actors Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Two former convicts meet while working at a department store and fall in love, but their relationship soon sours when one suspects the other of infidelity, leading him to return to a life of crime. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Noir.…

Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Paget is prominently featured, all at the behest of men. All stills with credits printed on the rectos. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Based on von Harbou's 1918 novel, "Das indische Grabmal" (The Indian Tomb). Lang's two films "Tiger of Bengal" (1959) and "The Indian Tomb" (1959) combined by AIP as a single, longer film. A Maharajah (Reyer) obsesses over temple dancer Seetha (Paget, in a memorable belly dance routine), herself more interested in a traveling architect (Hubschmid). Elements of Italian "peplum" (Sword-and-sandal) films, with Paget periodically wielding a saber. 8 x 10 inches, short white borders. Very Good overall, with light curling and toning, marginal creases and pinholes, one still with cello tape on the verso, one still with trimmed credits. …

Set of two vintage film lobby cards for the 1955 film. Loosely based on the 1898 novel by J. Meade Falkner. Fritz Lang directed the 1955 film about a young orphan sent to live with his mother's former lover. His new caretaker is morally ambiguous, dividing his time between leisurely activities and smuggling. Near Fine with light soiling to the versos and a manuscript pencil notation to the verso of each card. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.…

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Precedes the hardcover edition. Illustrated. (O) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Vintage press photograph of actors Dana Andrews and Sidney Blackmer on the set of the 1956 film. With a rubber stamp on the verso. A newspaper publisher conspires with his to be son-in-law to expose the ineptitude of the district attorney who has wrongly sentenced multiple people to death. Shot on location in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1947 film noir, showing actress Barbara O'Neil. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Loosely based on the French fairy tale of Bluebeard, about a newlywed woman who suspects that her husband is trying to kill her. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and was tand went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures, where he worked well into the 1950s. Approximately 7.5 x 9 inches, trimmed irregularly. Very Good.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film, "National Film Archive London" stamp on versos. One of Fritz Lang's greatest American films, and an important film noir antecedent, very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it, notably "They Live By Night" (1948), "Gun Crazy" (1950), and "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. …

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1937 film, "National Film Archive London" stamp on versos. One of Fritz Lang's greatest American films, and an important film noir antecedent, very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it, notably "They Live By Night" (1948), "Gun Crazy" (1950), and "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1954 film noir. Shot by Irving Lippman, with his stamp on the verso. Based on the 1890 novel "La Bete Humaine" by Emile Zola and previously filmed under that title in 1938 by Jean Renoir. Blackmailed into remaining with her murderous husband Carl (Broderick Crawford), Vicki (Gloria Grahame) convinces her new lover Jeff (Glenn Ford) to kill Carl and recover the evidence of her involvement in a murder. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Vintage pressbook and matching deluxe advertising supplement with a single ad mat laid in for the 1937 film. One of Fritz Lang's greatest American films, and an important film noir antecedent, very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it, notably "They Live By Night" (1948), "Gun Crazy" (1950), and "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). Pressbook: Saddle stapled wrappers, 18 pages. Some splitting at the spine heel, else Near Fine, unfolded. Advertiser's manual: Saddle stapled wrappers: 32 pages. One small cut-out, else Near Fine and unfolded. …

Vintage UK program for the 1928 German film, released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis," and penultimate silent film, an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career, including a spectacular train crash at the film's climax. 9.5 x 12 inches, 12 pages, side stapled in card wrappers. Wrappers Very Good plus overall, interior bright and Near Fine.…

Softcover. Condizione: vg. First edition. Octavos. Each program is unpaginated, folded (4 pages), and measures 8 1/4x 5 3/4". Front covers are photo-illustrated in b/w. These theatrical programs for Fritz Lang's two-part fantasy epic film Die Nibelungen, were issued to coincide with the Austrian premiere in Vienna in 1924. What is most unique about the films' Austrian theatrical release is that for some reason the distributor OEFA decided to split the already two-part film into two further parts. The first film Siegfried is here shown split in half as "Siegfrieds kampf mit dem Drachen" and "Siegfrieds Tod", and the second film, Kriemhilds Rache is split into "König Etzel" and "Der Nibelungen Tod". Each program contains a cast list and a detailed plot synopsis. The programs for each of the Siegfried parts are numbered #1246 and 1247, respectively. Programs light sunned along edges, with a few minor stains. Some pencil markings. In overall vary good condition. Extremelely scarce. *Printed as part of the "Wiener Kino-Bibliothek" (Vienna Film Library) series.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. THE ICONIC, COMPLETE SET OF 12 POSTCARDS (90 X 140 MM) FOR FRITZ LANG S MONUMENTAL MOVIE METROPOLIS , PRODUCED BY THE BERLIN PUBLISHERS ROSS FOR UNIVERSUM FILM A.G. FOR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES, HERE UNIQUELY WITH A CUT-OUT AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE BY THE MOVIE S DIRECTOR, AND ORIGINALLY CONTAINED IN AN AMATEUR COLLECTOR'S ALBUM. A FILM THAT IS REGARDED A PIONEERING SCIENCE-FICTION MOVIE, AND AMONG THE FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH MOVIES OF THAT GENRE, THE FILM WAS INSCRIBED IN UNESCO S MEMORY OF THE WORLD REGISTER IN 2001, THE FIRST FILM THUS DISTINGUISEHD. I have recently seen the silliest film, wrote H. G. Wells in the New York Times in 1927. I do not believe it would be possible to make one sillier. The film he was reviewing, or rather demolishing, was Metropolis, Fritz Lang s acclaimed dystopian masterpiece. Ninety years later, Metropolis is recognised as one of the landmarks of science-fiction and a highpoint of late silent cinema. Its gothic-futurist design, wild-haired maniac scientist and sexualised robot-vamp influenced swathes of science-fiction films to follow, not to mention being reinterpreted in everything from pop videos and adverts to high fashion. Still, Wells found its vision of life a century in the future unrealistic the impossibility of such towering buildings, the low-tech aeroplanes, the workers toiling to produce goods of no value. His low opinion can be mitigated by two factors: first that he was watching not the bona fide Metropolis but an over-enthusiastically censored and re-cut American release, and second that, with a wince, he suspected that many aspects of the story had been lifted from his novel When the Sleeper Wakes, first serialised in 1898. Against the odds, film history has not taken Wells s side. The full Metropolis, the version shown in Germany, remains lost, and for decades its reputation as a triumph of cinematic spectacle rested on butchered versions, such as the one that so underwhelmed Wells. Despite that, Giorgio Moroder s 1984 restoration with eye-popping colour-washes and an uptempo pop-rock soundtrack made it a cult classic. The discovery of missing footage in Argentina in 2008, means that we now have a near-complete Metropolis, and it can be seen to its best advantage. Directed by Lang from a screenplay by his wife The von Harbou, Metropolis concerns a nightmarish future city in which the rich and idle live in cosseted luxury, breathing the fresh air at the top of the city while the proletariat toil in the factories and crawl home to slums beneath the earth. The workers begin to organise under the peaceable leadership of a schoolteacher called Maria (Brigitte Helm), so the ruling-class villains have a man-machine robot take on her seductive image to lead them astray Metropolis is flawed but not hobbled by its message. Its scope and style are still breathtaking, and in its restored version its narrative is thrilling and expertly paced. The grandeur of the looming future-city was inspired by Lang s first glimpse of New York from the water, although film historians will note the influence of Giovanni Pastrone s Cabiria (1914) in the hellish factory. If there s a common ground we can find with Wells s slam review, it s that between the publication of his When the Sleeper Wakes and the release of Metropolis, the new medium of cinema had embraced the science-fiction genre and developed in several exciting directions (Pamela Hutchinson on Metropolis for the British Film Institute, 2017). …

Vintage German programs for the two-part film series "Die Nibelungen," including one for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and one for "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge," produced by German film magazine "Film-Kurier." Text in German. Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." "Film-Kurier" was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. The journal's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany due to his Jewish origins. The issues from this era remain striking to this day because they were printed using a gravure reproduction process. Each day's issue would focus on a single film. 9 x 11.75 inches. Each program six pages, folded loose leaves as issued. Very Good plus, with a horizontal fold, tiny pinholes to the corners, and an occasional short closed tear. Masters of Cinema 46. …

Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece-an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart, "Film-Kurier," each issue focused on a single film and used a gravure process to reproduce images from the film, making for striking images and design. 6 x 9 inches. Six pages, saddle stapled. Ink annotations throughout, seemingly regarding layout, affecting a bit of text but no images. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal crease and light toning to the wrappers. Criterion Collection 30. Grant Germany. Godard, Histoires de cinema. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 9. Rosebaum 1000. …

First edition. This collections consists of 9 separate pieces: 1) Complete set of 40 Photo-postcards housed in a modern 4-ring binder 2) An unused official album for those cards 3) Complete set of 75 cigarette cards in an official album 4) A smaller format copy of the same album (including the cards) 5) "Die Nibelungen. Ein Deutsches Heldenlied". Original German film premiere program. 6) "Das Nibelungenlied. Ein Deutscher Heldensang" ("The Nibelungenlied. A German Epic Poem") 7) Film Program for Die Nibelungen Pt.1: Sigfried 8) Film Program for Die Nibelungen Pt.2: Kriemhilds Rache 9) Kriemhilds Rache, Der.2 Nibelungenfilm. All text in German. 1) This is a complete collection of 40 postcards printed by Verlag Ross, for Ufa-Delca Film, to celebrate the release of Fritz Lang's two-part epic fantasy film Die Nibelungen. The postcards measure approximately 3.5 x5.5" each, and are printed in striking sepia-toned photogravure, on heavy cardstock. The images depict characters and dramatic scenes from the film, covering both parts "Siegfried" and "Kriemhilds Rache" ("Kriemhild's Revenge"), and are divided into 6 groupings. Each card is captioned with the serial number, and title of the character or scene, with the name of the actor often mentioned as well. The final group of 4 cards is a sequence showcasing the pivotal dramatic battle between Siegfried and the dragon. This set is not to be confused with the series of colored postcards by Uvachrom, which were based, in part, on these images. The postcards were never used (circulated), but some have a red triangle stamped insignia on the back. The cards are housed in a blue leather covered photo album with plastic sleeves. The cards and album are in near fine condition overall. 2) Also included is an unused (empty) official Verlag Ross album to house the postcards. Oblong brown-grey thick paper wrappers, illustrated with a gilt-bordered cutout image from one the postcards, depicting Seigfried and the dragon, and gilt-stamped lettering. Brown string-tassel. The album is empty and contains 25 double-sided leaves. Publisher's debossed blind-stamp on the bottom of the back wrapper. Protected by modern mylar. 3) Die Nibelungen (Complete set of 75 Cigarette Cards in an Album). Small folio. 13x10". Textured Gray-green string-tied wrappers, with embossed brown and gold lettering and helmet illustration on the front cover. Yellow-green decorative tassel. The is an album containing the complete collection of Cigarette Cards for "Die Nibelungen", produced by the Cigarettenfabrik Constantin company of Hannover in 1928. Each card measures 2.5x4" and featured b/w photogravure images from the film. Many of the images featured are the same as those of those of the Verlag Ross set, but many are unique to this collection. Each double-sided leaf of the album contains a mat with an average of 6 windowed cutouts, framing the cards, which have been slid underneath. Each cutout section contains a caption in German bellow, naming or describing the image on the respective card. The set coves both parts of the film "Siegfried" and "Kriemhilds Rache". Introduction to the collection from the company, on the first page of the album. Text in German. Wrappers with some minor creasing along the edges and to the corners. Interior with some minor bumping to the corners of some of the leaves, a light closed tear along the bottom left corner of one of the leaves. Wrappers, interior and cards in very good+ to near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. 4) The rarer smaller variant of the same album with smaller cards. Includes all the same images in the same order, except for image #18 (Gunther) missing. 74 of 75 images present. Protected by modern mylar. 5) "Die Nibelungen. Ein Deutsches Heldenlied". 24pp. Rare original theater program for the German premiere of the film on Feb. 14th 1924, held at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Dark grey paper wrappers, with red string-tied binding, and the original UFA gilt-stamped emboss.…

Vintage double weight photograph from the 1953 film noir. Shot by photographer Van Pelt, with his Columbia Studios stamp on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Grant US. Magill, Vol. 3 US. Pronzini and Muller US. Selby Masterwork US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney, Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle, and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds (who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film). Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso, a number annotated and circled in blue pencil (1, 2, 3 respectively), and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer, p. 403.…

Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film noir. Two photographs with blind stamps at the verso bottom right corner. Based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Graham Greene. A man recently released from a mental hospital ends up entangled in a Nazi spy ring after taking the advice of a palm reader. Set in England. Two photographs trimmed, about 7.75 x 10 inches, Very Good plus. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches, one stained along the bottom margin else Very Good plus. Grant US. Criterion Collection 649. Selby US Canon. Spicer US.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1924 German silent film, released in two parts in February and April of 1924. Based on the thirteenth century poem "Nibelungenlied." A five-hour epic, co-written by director Fritz Land and his then-wife, Thea von Harbou. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light creases at the bottom corners. …

Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1954 film. Stamp of the film's title in German on the verso. An exploitation film focusing on fashion models' diet plans and cosmetics regimens. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine.

A Fine copy with a single center fold, printed in red and violet on buff-colored paperstock. Measures roughly 5.75 X 8.75 inches (closed) and 5.75 X 11.5 inches (opened). An original advertising herald for the 1948 film noir "Secret Beyond the Door," directed by Fritz Lang and starring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave. Based on Rufus King's novel 'Museum Piece No. 13.'.…

Four vintage reference photographs from the 1947 film noir. Loosely based on the French fairy tale of Bluebeard, about a newlywed woman who suspects that her husband is trying to kill her. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and was tand went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures, where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film noir, showing Richard Conte and Anne Baxter flanking Nat King Cole at the piano. Provenance stamp on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil. Based on Vera Caspary's 1952 novella. A telephone operator wakes up with a hangover and a creeping feeling that she might have murdered her date the previous night. The first installment in director Fritz Lang's "newspaper noir" trilogy, followed by "While the City Sleeps" (1956) and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (1956). 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear at the two left corners, and pinholes at three edges. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Condizione: Good. Original press kit in folder with facsmile of Godard's autograph statement about the film, quoting T.S. Eliot. 4pp cover and 2 leaves. Worn with tears. Contempt is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Giorgia Moll. Likely very rare.…

Vintage reference photograph of director Fritz Lang and actor Paul Douglas on the set of the 1952 film noir. Stamp of Cinemagence on the verso, along with a provenance stamp. Based on the 1941 play by Clifford Odets. A seminal, bleak film noir, about a restless woman who returns to her California hometown after many years, where she marries a local fisherman but begins an affair with a bitter, misogynistic film projectionist. Set and shot on location in Monterey, California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Vintage photograph of director Fritz Lang and stars Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon on the set of the 1941 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and two punch holes in the left margin. Based on the 1939 novel "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household. The first of Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi films after he fled Germany in the mid 1930s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Grant Worldwide. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US. Spicer US. Twilight Time.…

Two vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 film noir. One of the photos is of Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes in a romantic embrace, and Robert Ryan and Barbara Stanwyck in an even more romantic embrace. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Four vintage photographs, including two studio still photographs and two reference photographs, from the 1937 film. Studio stills with blind stamps on the verso bottom right corner. When an ex-con trying to turn his life around is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he escapes prison and attempts to prove his innocence. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard, Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Weldon 1996.…