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White, Lionel
Clean Break (a.k.a The Killing)
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New York: E P Dutton, 1955. First Edition. INSCRIBED by actor Joseph Turkel over three pages, beginning on the front pastedown, and ending with his signature on the fourth page (the half-title). In the effusive inscription, written like a short essay, Turkel describes a "tour" of Hollywood that he gave Kubrick just prior to their first film together ("The Killing" in 1956, based on this novel). The actor's tour guide highlights included the Sunset Strip, Ciro's The Macambo, and Hollywood and Vine. In the end, however, Turkel discovers that Kubrick had been to Hollywood the year before, and had lived there for some time. Turkel went on to act in two other Kubrick films, "Paths of Glory" (as Private Pierre Arnaud, 1957) and "The Shining" (as Lloyd the bartender, 1980). Near Fine in a lightly worn, Very Good plus dust jacket. Basis for Stanley Kubrick's breakthrough film, "The Killing," scripted by Jim Thompson and starred Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles. The only holograph association between Kubrick and another actor in a book we have ever seen, a remarkable fact considering that all but one of the director's films were based on literary sources. [Book #109750]
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