liam o'flaherty novel (4 risultati)

Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend, who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor for McLaglen, nominated for two others, including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award, when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy, though he would eventually claim it three years later. Detached green wrappers, noting the title, screenwriter and director on the spine in manuscript ink. Title page integral with first page of text, with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, side-stapled. National Film Registry.

Vintage one sheet poster for the 1968 film. An overlooked and important film, one of the first to deal with contemporary Black revolutionaries who rose in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Today considered a work that seeded the explosion of Blaxploitation films in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The story's events surround the death of Martin Luther King, framed as a remake of "The Informer" (John Ford, 1935), in turn based on the 1925 proletarian novel by Liam O'Flaherty. Shot on location in Cleveland, the first US film for noted director Jules Dassin (who had left the US at the height of the McCarthy hearings) in nearly two decades. 26.75 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. with starting at the center folds. Grant US. Olive Films 425.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, second state, with copyright date of 1932. Octavo; rust-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in bright green on spine and front panel; dustjacket designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott; 326pp, [1] ad leaf. Touch of dustiness to top edge, else a tight, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 7s. 6d. net), lightly spine-sunned, with a few small chips and tears (none affecting titles), and two stray marks to rear panel; Very Good or better. O'Flaherty's ninth novel, a story involving murder, sex, and Christian fanaticism.

Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend, who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen, nominated for two others, including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award, when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy, though he would eventually claim it three years later. 11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. National Film Registry.