Badlands

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film, showing actor Martin Sheen. Provenance labels on the verso.

Director Terrence Malick's transcendent and ferocious debut, loosely based on the 1958 murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in early outstanding performances.

Kit, a handsome but disaffected young garbage collector and Korean War veteran, succeeds in charming Holly, a shy teenage girl, despite the objections of her brutish father. The two run away together after Kit murders her father, initiating a killing streak that follows in their wake.

Set in South Dakota, shot on location in Colorado.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly scratched and worn.

National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 651. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert IV. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Grant US.

[Book #161326]