Nigel balchin screenwriter (3 risultati)

Shooting script for the 1961 film. Laid in with the script is a 36-leaf gathering of revision pages on pink stock, bound with a single staple on the top left corner, dated 5.4.60. Based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A Catholic priest is sent to establish a parish in a rural Mexican town under the control of a ruthless but educated bandit. Set in Mexico, shot on location in Spain. Blue titled wrappers, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated 15-3-60. Title page present, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, dated 18th March, 1960, with credits for screenwriter Nigel Balchin. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with a silver prong.…

Vintage studio photograph of Gloria Grahame on location, from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and French Twentieth Century Fox Stamp on verso. Based on Ewen Montagu's 1954 book, based on a true story about a British attempt to trick their German enemies, using the name and credentials of a dead man as bait. The real intelligence plan was called "Operation Mincemeat," and was devised to deceive the Axis powers into thinking "Operation Husky," an invasion of Sicily, would take place elsewhere. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at the margins.…

Four vintage reference photographs from the 1959 film, all four showing actress May Britt dancing in a cabaret. One with a French Twentieth Century-Fox stamp on the verso. A little-seen American remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 German film, based on the 1905 novel "Professor Unrat" by Heinrich Mann. A tale of the destruction that obsession can cause, about a German high school teacher who falls for a traveling showgirl, marries her, and is then shunned by his community, slowly losing all of his dignity. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly age toned, with brief wear at the corners.…