Editore: Monogram Pictures, Los Angeles, 1950
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Fotografia
Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 Western film. File stamp and layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A young sharpshooter is consumed by his lust for revenge for the murder of his father years before by a group of professional killers. Shot on location in Columbia and Jamestown, California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, moderately creased on the top and bottom edges. Pitts 3864.
Editore: Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, 1931
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film, an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcee looking to remarry. She falls for her physician, Dr. Karl Bemis, but ends up marrying Bill Hanaway. Bill then has an affair with another woman. Tall peach side stapled self wrappers, noted as Third Buff Script on the front wrapper, dated October 6, 1931, with credits for writers Hughes, Heath, Buchman, and Leahy. 205 leaves on peach stock, mimeograph duplication, with annotations throughout.
Editore: Universal Pictures, Universal City, 1937
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Fotografia
Vintage portrait photograph of Boris Karloff by photographer Ray Jones from the 1937 film. Photograph with two studio stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Jones and one noting Karloff in Universal Pictures, with several provenance stamps, layout annotations, and paper tape also on the verso. 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 went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Boris Karloff stars as an embittered inventor of burglar alarms, who seeks vengeance on the man who stole his ideas to build his business empire. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light edgewear and creasing at the extremities. Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors 1931-1946.
Editore: RKO Radio Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1936
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Fotografia
Five vintage reference photographs taken the set of the 1936 film, two showing director Lloyd Corrigan, one showing costume designer Robert Edmond Jones, and two showing Corrigan and Jones with various visitors to the set. Printed folded mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, and one with a stamp crediting photographer William E. Thomas. A dance teacher is captured by pirates, escapes into Spanish California, but is subsequently mistaken for a pirate by the local townspeople and captured. The third film shot in the three strip Technicolor process, and the first musical to use that format. Director Lloyd Corrigan is better remembered for his mystery films, most notably the 1931 Fu-Manchu film "Daughter of the Dragon," starring Anna May Wong. Corrigan also enjoyed a lengthy career as a character and comic actor, appearing in films such as "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) and "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963). 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.