London: Watership Productions / AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1978. Original British "bus stop" poster for the 1978 film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Faithful animated adaptation of Adams' 1972 novel, about a group of rabbits who leave their doomed home in search of a better place. Winner of a Saturn Award (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films)...
London: National Screen Service Ltd., 1967. Vintage full-color still photograph from the UK (country of origin) release of the 1967 film. Based on the E. M. Nathanson novel, about a group of paratroopers who cause hell for German generals on the day prior to D-Day. John Cassavetes was nominated for a Golden Globe, and Lee Marvin won a Golden Laurel...
London: National Screen Service Ltd., 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1967 film. Based on the E. M. Nathanson novel, about a group of paratroopers who cause hell for German generals on the day prior to D-Day. John Cassavetes was nominated for a Golden Globe, and Lee Marvin won a Golden Laurel award. 8 x....
London: BFI Production, 1974. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1974 UK short film, featuring several families of actors, this film being the only credit for some. 7.25 x 9.25 inches, with no borders as issued. Faint pin-sized indentations, and ink notations on the verso, else Near Fine.
London: BFI Production, 1974. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1974 UK short film, featuring several families of actors, this film being the only credit for some. 7.25 x 9.25 inches, with no borders as issued. Faint pin-sized indentations, and ink notations on the verso, else Near Fine.
London: Rank Film Distributors Ltd., 1959. Collection of 6 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1959 UK film. Based on Lawrence Bachmann's 1957 novel, "The Lorelei," about a girl on the run from the law and a former crime associate, and her eventual refuge on a boat coasting down the river Rhine. A story set in Eastern Europe, shot in...
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London: The Rank Organization, 1958. French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama, "A Night to Remember," here under it's French title, "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees." Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible, with no...
London: ITC Films, 1980. Original British one sheet poster for the 1980 UK film. Printed in England. Based on a story by John Barry, and Amis' only foray into screenwriting. Alex and Adam (Fawcett and Douglas) are two scientists working at a space station on one of Saturn's moons. Their romance is interrupted by a murderous official from Earth (Keitel)...
London: Independent Film Distributors / British Lion Films, 1956. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1956 UK film. Based on the 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome, about three men who decide to take a boating trip up the Thames river. Their journey is met with several obstacles, and looks grim until they meet three equally quirky women. 8...
![Nor the Moon by Night [Elephant Gun] (Collection of 6 photographs from the 1958 film). Ken...](/pictures/thumb/132804a.jpg?v=1418081332)
London: Rank Film Distributors Ltd., 1958. Collection of 6 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1957 novel by Joy Packer, about two brothers competing for the affection of a woman in the wilds of Africa. A story set and shot on location in Africa. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Light rubbing overall, else Near Fine.
London: Rank Organisation / Independent Artists, 1962. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to and distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. A classic slapstick comedy, about a cyclist and a business man who get involved in an accident, after which the cyclist falls for the business man's daughter, who persuades him to...
London: Rank Organisation / Independent Artists, 1962. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to and distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. A classic slapstick comedy, about a cyclist and a business man who get involved in an accident, after which the cyclist falls for the business man's daughter, who persuades him to give up the...
London: National Film Archives / Rank Organisation, 1960. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1960 UK film. Cropping notations on both sides of the still When a grocery boy has his heart broken, he decides to join the Navy, where he is to man the first British rocket. Both Michael Caine and Oliver Reed make brief cameos. 6.25 x 8...
London: Rank Organisation, 1965. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1965 UK film. Lovable spoof about a coffee shop manager who gets involved with London spies and foils an attempt to assassinate a ballerina. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Faint creases, else Near Fine.
London: Associated British-Pathe Ltd., 1953. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1953 UK film. Sir Adrian Boult and Doreen Carwithen, the film's music arrangers, are seen next to director Terry Ashwood and his associate, Howard Thomas. Distributor's rubber-stamp on the verso. Documents the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ashwood, Boult, and Thomas would collaborate again in the 1954 documentary, "Welcome...
London: Warner-Pathe, 1962. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the Francis Clifford novel, "Act of Mercy," about two business people caught in the midst of a South American revolution who eventually help the president reach the border. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with faint creasing.
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / MGM, 1958. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw, starring Leslie Caron as the wife of an artist (Dirk Bogarde) who is dying of tuberculosis. She enlists the help of a very busy doctor who, upon learning the artist is really a con-man...
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / MGM, 1963. Collection of 6 vintage full-color and 3 black-and-white still photographs from the 1963 UK film. A star-studded drama that takes place in a New York airport, at the V. I. P. lounge. Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection, and this is Taylor's and Burton's second collaborative film...
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / MGM, 1963. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1963 UK film. A star-studded drama that takes place in a New York airport, at the V. I. P. lounge. Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection, and this is Taylor's and Burton's second collaborative film credit. Margaret Rutherford won an...
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London: Romulus, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965). Based...
N.p. J. Arthur Rank Organisation, 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film. Snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Oscar Wilde's witty play of the same name, in which a Algernon discovers that his friend, Earnest, has created a fictional brother in order to intermittently leave his country home to visit the city. Algernon decides to assume the...
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / MGM, 1964. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1964 UK film. A star-studded romantic comedy, about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Light creases at the extremities, else Near Fine.
N.p. Accord Productions, 1969. Vintage British quad poster for the 1969 British film. Based on Charles Chilton's 1961 radio play, "The Long Long Trail." Richard Attenborough's debut film gives a highly satirical musical retelling of the First World War. Highlighting the disconnect between those calling the shots and the soldiers carrying out the orders, Attenborough chose to depict all the...
Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen, he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist...
London: Rank Film Distributors Ltd., 1957. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1957 UK film. Based on Kendal Burt's and James Leasor's book of the same title, about Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to escape from imprisonment in Britain during the Second World War. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Light soil, else Near Fine.
London: Warner-Pathe, 1968. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1968 UK film. A domineering mother attempts to dissuade her sons' fiancees from joining the family. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
London: Collins, 1945. First Edition. Basis for the 1947 British film noir, starring Burgess Meredith. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Book has a moderate spine lean and a few bumps at the extremities. Jacket has light foxing and toning to the spine panel, light rubbing at the spine ends and corners, and a short repaired closed...
London: Neo-Art Productions, 1930. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1930 UK film. Features Anna Neagle. One of three adaptations of the Osmond-Corbett stage melodrama, about a young woman who marries a Chinese man, only to fall in love with an American countryman. 5.25 x 7 inches (13 x 18 cm). Ink notation on the verso, else Near Fine.
London: London Management, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old sentry at an abandoned fort in South Africa finds a man dying of thirst in the desert and brings him back to the fort to nurse him back to health. From there, he learns the man is a crook and Herbie reveals his plan to rob a gold...
London: Butcher's Film Service Ltd., 1948. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1948 UK film. Distributor rubber-stamp and notation on the verso. A music hall handyman man decides to assert himself when the theatre is threatened by secret plans for redevelopment. Shot at Nettlefold Studios in Surrey, England. 8 x 9.25 inches. A tiny nick to one edge, else Near Fine.
London: Foxwarren-Elthea / Hemisphere Pictures, 1961. Draft British script for the 1961 film "Bomb in the High Street" seen here as "Bomb in High Street." An elaborate and highly entertaining British thriller in which a Nazi-era bomb is found in an English town. A bomb squad is called in, but the men in the squad are not who they seem, and...
London: British Lion Film Corporation, Ltd., 1949. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1949 UK film. A man on a train pulls the communication cord and subsequently puts into motion a train wreck, a murder, and a man hunt. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with light toning and several tiny closed tears.
London: Jack Parsons, 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few notations in holograph pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers, dated May 1953, with credits...
London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief notations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film, featuring four different stories, including vampires, witchcraft, wax ladies, and eerie stranglers. In one story, a writer is haunted by the psychopathic central character of his...
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The...
London: London National Archives (LNA), 1950. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the September 14, 1950 premiere of the UK film at Leicester Square Theatre in London. Mimeograph snipes from the London National Archives affixed to the versos. Features Rose Murphy ("chee chee girl," pianist and vocalist, famous for "Pennies from Heaven") and her then-husband, Ed Mathieu, Kieron Moore (Count...
London: British Lion / Romulus, 1963. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1963 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. A well-meaning and decent Anglican minister (Peter Sellers) takes a position at a parish in upper-crust England, and the unintended consequences of his good nature prove hilarious. A quirky but stabbing probe at the church of...
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / Boulting Brothers, 1966. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1966 UK film. An underrated and compassionate film about two newlyweds and their interfering parents. Paul McCartney also makes his film score debut, an asset that financially helped the production and distribution. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with a few moderate creases, and light creasing overall.
London: British Lion Films, 1959. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1959 UK film. A political satire, where the death of the British king brings to light a forgotten international agreement with a tiny Pacific island causing a British diplomat to be sent to reestablish friendly relations. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with an...
![Seagulls over Sorrento [Crest of the Wave] (Original screenplay for the 1954 film). John Bouting,...](/pictures/thumb/133024.jpg?v=1418081488)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Draft British script for the 1954 UK film, released in the US as "Crest of the Wave." Copy belonging to sound recordist Peter Handford, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. At a top secret naval base is located on an island near the coast of Scotland, a small group of...
London: Aldwych Films / MGM, 1943. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1943 UK film. A wealthy father becomes a Broadway producer in hopes of fulfilling his daughter's aspirations to become a dramatic thespian. Unfortunately the dramatic play he chooses to produce is so bad that it becomes a hit with the audience who perceives it to be a hilarious...
![Chicago in the Roaring Twenties [The Bootleggers] (Original screenplay for the 1965 television...](/pictures/thumb/141961.jpg?v=1525704111)
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Original British quad poster for the 1962 US film. Printed in England by Stafford and Co., featuring artwork nearly identical to its US variants. Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan (Mahoney) is summoned by Indian princess, Kamara (Simi Garewal), hoping he will save endangered elephants. Going up against an old rival...
London: Zonic Productions, 1958. British Shooting Script for the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1956 novel, a paperback original, written by Brian Moore under the pseudonym Michael Bryan. Set in Montreal, Canada, and shot there on location, with an international cast of European and North American actors. Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Collection of 5 vintage single weight studio still photographs from the 1957 UK film, released in the US in 1958. "Leo Genn" in holograph pencil on the verso of one still. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Troops of Company C occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse until they are discovered...
London: Hammer Films, 1968. Vintage press photograph from the 1968 film. With stamp and mimeograph snipe from the Associated Press on the verso, identifying actress Dana Gillespie, here posed with a giant scorpion, as a champion junior water skier. Based on the 1938 novel "Uncharted Sea" by Dennis Wheatley, about the passengers and crew of a steamer run aground on...
![Prehistoric Women [Slave Girls] (Collection of five original photographs from the 1967 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143076.jpg?v=1515181508)
London: Hammer Films / Seven Arts, 1967. Collection of five photographs from the 1967 British American film, including one US studio still. One photograph with the stamp on a Spanish photo agency on the verso, a few with brief holograph notations. Released as "Slave Girls" in the UK and "Prehistoric Women" in the US. An explorer touches a mystical statute...
London: Rank Film Distributors Ltd., 1958. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK film. A petty thief (Carmichael) steals a suitcase full of money, only to find out that the bills all have the same serial number. In order to make use of the money, and to impress a bar maid (Lee), he must find a....
London: Warner-Pathe, 1960. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1960 UK film. Fairly unknown slapstick romp through an ambiguous desert. Actor Robert Brown makes an appearance, before he would play "M" in several James Bond films. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with light creasing overall, and short closed tears to one.
London: BBC, 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 television movie adaptation. Snipe stamped to the verso. Television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel detailing the doomed romance between two Russian socialites. This version starring Claire Bloom as Anna Karenina and Sean Connery as Count Alexis Vronsky. Set in Russia, shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Billy O'Sullivan, who portrayed Teddy, with his autograph on the title page. Two parents discover horrible stories of abuse coming from the daycare their children attends, especially since the people running the center are moral pillars of the...
London: Morningside Worldwide Pictures, Circa 1975. Early Revised Draft script for the 1963 British-American film, dated two years prior to its release. First generation reproduction, likely made for educational purposes circa early-mid 1970s, evidenced by the use of a photocopy process (not employed in the UK until the early 1970s). The script's vintage is also evidenced by the postal code...
London: British Lion Films, 1959. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1959 UK film. Based on the novel by Michael Gilbert, about a group of British soldiers whose attempt to escape from an Italian prison camp during WWII is foiled by a mysterious traitor. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with ink notations on...
Beverly Hills, CA: Incorporated Television Company / United Artists, 1978. Original black-and-white US pressbook for the 1978 British film, "The Big Sleep," directed and written for the screen by Michael Winner, based on the 1939 crime novel by Raymond Chandler. Starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, John Mills, and James Stewart. Chandler's novels...
![A King in New York [Un Roi à New York] (Archive of 234 original photographs from the 1957 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143119.jpg?v=1518459724)
UK: Attica Film Company, 1957. Collection of 234 vintage French photographs for the 1957 UK film. Printed in Paris, where the film opened in October 1957, a month following the British release. Housed in original box with "Les Stencils Altic Fabriques en France" paper labels, and French promotional "week of gaiety in your neighborhood" title labels. Within are 18 paper...
London: Thames Television, 1982. Original British quad poster for the 1982 television series based on short stories by Agatha Christie. The series aired in September and finished in November, each episode one hour long, featuring different performers in each episode. Episode titles include "The Case of the Middle-Ages Wife," "The Fourth Man," "Magnolia Blossom," "The Mystery of the Blue Jar,"...
England: ITC Entertainment, 1978. Collection of 7 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1978 British film. After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon into deep space, the Moonbase-Alpha and its several hundred inhabitants drift until a rescue party from Earth arrives. the commander of the space station sees the rescue party differently, as aliens hellbent on extracting radiation...
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / ITC, 1979. Collection of 6 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1979 UK film. A prison comedy based on the popular British television series, "Porridge" (1974-1977), about an inmate who is ordered to arrange a football game that is actually a diversion for a prison break. 8 x 10 inches; two still slightly shorter. Light rubbing overall, else Near Fine.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1969 film, showing Romy Schneider departing Tom Courtenay's sweet ride. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Martin Waddell. Gerry Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a petty thief who wakes up after a long night out drinking to find himself accused...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 UK film. Printed in England by Bovince. Based on screenwriter Mitchell's 1969 novel, writing as James Munro, and his John Craig spy series. John (Baker) is an astute British spy trying to rescue a Soviet scientist. But his enemies also kidnap a pretty young bystander, and John is forced...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make...
London: British Lion Film Corporation, 1953. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1953 UK film. A feature composed of three shorter films, the last being the title film, about a genie who falls in love with a mortal. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). And light soil and an ink notation on the verso of one, else Near Fine.
London: Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors / Zodiac Productions, 1961. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1961 UK film. Sean Connery stars as Paddy Damion, the best friend of a gangster who is killed in opposition to the extortionist mob that runs a decrepit area of London. Paddy swears revenge on those responsible for his friend's death, and...
London: British Lion, 1961. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 UK film. An antiques dealer dies and is reincarnated as a bird, vocalizing his opinions on the night of his widow's next wedding. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with creasing to one corner.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Original British quad double-bill VHS release poster for the 1980 and 1977 films. Presumably used in British grindhouse cinemas and for publicity use in VHS retail stores. "Supersnooper" [Super Fuzz], 1980: Dave Speed (Hill) is a policeman with super powers after a nuclear explosion, but his powers are useless when he sees anything red...
London: Montpelier, 1957. Shooting script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware with his name and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963)...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1978 UK film. Cropping notations on the versos. Based on director/screenwriter Michael Crichton's 1975 novel, about two men and their plot to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. Fans of the heist genre need look no further. A story set in England, shot...
Beverly Hills, CA: Brandywine Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Glenda Jackson, Vladek Sheybel and Oliver Reed from the 1969 film. With a typed description on the verso. Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel of the same name. While at a wedding in a small mining town in post World War I England, two sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Gudru...
London: Charwill Productions, 1967. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the 1959 novel by Mark Rascovich, co-written by Jack Davies and director Ken Annakin, who had received an Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" the previous year. A man and his bear attempt to flee Soviet Russia after the bear is...
Hollywood: National Screen Service Ltd. / Paramount Pictures, 1967. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1967 UK film. A musical romp through northern England, about two young women venturing out to find fame and fortune. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). A few light creases, and an ink notation on the verso, else Near Fine.
London: Anglo-Embassy Productions, 1968. Draft British script for the 1969 UK film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines such as "Life," "Look," and "Harper's Bazaar," and as a set photographer for every major studio, documenting some...
England: ITC Entertainment, 1974. Collection of 7 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1974 British-italian television mini-series. Six-hour television mini-series that aired in 1973 and 1974, a retelling of the life of Moses (Lancaster), the man who discovered the Ten Commandments and parted the Red Sea. Cult favorite Anthony Burgess contributed to the entire series, and Thomas Keneally...
London: Magraw Publicity, 1992. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1992 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. A Western couple visits a fertility shrine in Karachi, hoping to conceive but setting off a cultural clash. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
United Kingdom: Ealing Studios, 1952. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1952 UK film noir. One photo with printed credits on the recto. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. When the father of two sisters (Cortese and Hepburn) is assassinated, they flee to London, and later to Paris, when the...
London: Two Cities Films / General Film Distributors Ltd., 1946. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1946 UK film. Mimeo layovers affixed to the versos, and one still with sequence number noted on the recto. A musician decides to return to his native African home after years performing in London. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25...
Burbank, CA: ITC Entertainment / Warner Brothers, 1978. Collection of 11 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1978 American-British film. Spoof film in two-parts: "Dynamite Hands" is a boxing morality play, and "Baxter's Beauties of 1933" a musical comedy about Broadway, both starring Scott and Van Devere. A mock trailer for "Zero Hour," a WWI flying-ace movie, is...
London: Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd., 1962. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1962 UK film. Four teenagers are persuaded to form a rock band to keep them out of trouble. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Light corner creases, and a single stain to the top edge, else Near Fine.
London: Warner-Pathe, 1964. Collection of 8 vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the 1964 UK film. Base on a short story by Stanley Ellin, about an eager young man with a crush on the boss' daughter who gets involved with a bank heist and a murder. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). A few with faint corner creases, else Near Fine.
London: Warner-Pathe, 1964. Vintage full-color front-of-house card from the 1964 UK film. Base on a short story by Stanley Ellin, about an eager young man with a crush on the boss' daughter who gets involved with a bank heist and a murder. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1970. Original one-sheet US poster for the 1970 UK-US film. Style B variant. Based on Doyle's eponymous sleuth. Holmes (Stephens) eagerly takes the case to search for Gabrielle's (Page) missing husband. The clues somehow lead to Loch Ness and the mysterious lake monster (a 30-foot model director Wilder had constructed). Shot on location in Scotland...
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines...
London: Independent Film Distributors / British Lion, 1956. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1956 UK film. A well-received farce about a couple of dim-witted bookmakers who decide to fix a horse race. 8 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus, withand light stains and creases.
London: Eros Films, 1955. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1955 UK film. A scarce English crime drama, about an American who loses his money and finds himself stranded. He meets a smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear, but before they come to an agreement, she is pushed off a cliff...
London: British Lion, 1955. Collection of 6 vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the 1955 UK film. A family-fun comedy, featuring color stock footage from the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth, about two children whose parents have no plans to attend the Coronation. The children, John and Julie, run off to London, where they get to see the Queen's ceremony. Peter...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1974. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the release of "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), featuring two Bond girls: on top is Daniela Bianchi (Tatiana Romanova, "From Russia with Love"), and below is Claudine Auger (Domino Derval, "Thunderball"). Press kits for James Bond films often featured past Bond girls in still photographs, even...
London: National Screen Service Ltd. / Cinerama International Releasing Organization, 1970. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1970 UK film. Based on the novel, "The Ordeal of Major Grigsby" (1964), by John Sherlock, about two former soldiers, once partnered now enemies. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). A couple of faint creases, else Near Fine.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1968 US release of the 1968 UK film. Based on Desmond Cory's 1965 novel, and one of the more unusual heist films of the 1960s, starring Michael Caine as a recently recovered alcoholic mixed up in a diamond heist with a woman and her recently out-of-the-closet...
London: Cinerama Releasing, 1972. Vintage color studio still photograph from the UK (country of origin) release of the 1972 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
Aldenham, UK: Jermyn Productions, 1961. Final script for the 1961 British film comedy. With revisions on pink stock bound in throughout, and holograph ink notations (mostly scene deletions) on numerous pages. Also laid in are 16 pages of revisions on goldenrod stock, accompanied by an advisory letter on Shepperton Studios stationery, date stamped 12 January 1961. Bookkeeper George Summers (Glenn...
London: Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd., 1961. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1961 UK film. A comedy based on the novel "Stop at a Winner," by R.F. Delderfield, starring Sean Connery as a hustler who is ordered by a judge to enlist in the armed forces. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Tiny corner creases, else Near Fine.
London: Associated British [Associated British-Pathe], 1958. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK film. Based on the novel "We Are Seven," by Una Troy, about a seamstress with six children attempting to make ends meet, and find new romance, while the fathers of her children try to run her out of business. 8 x 10 inches...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph notations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, and...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Collection of 7 lobby cards for the 1975 historical adventure/comedy film, based on the novel by George McDonald Fraser. Lacking card #1. In the story, von Bismarck talks Flashman into impersonating a prince, with screwy results. An international co-production between the US and the UK, this the only feature film ever made based on Fraser's...
London: Canal / Image UK, 1985. British Script for the 1986 British film comedy based on an original screenplay by novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. Monty Python alumnus Cleese exploits to perfection his talent for portraying a composed British gentleman unraveling toward complete collapse, and novelist-playwright Frayn, in one of his few forays onto the screen, delivers a nearly perfect...
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1987. Collection of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1987 film. Based on John Lahr's 1978 biography of playwright Joe Orton. Featuring images of a young Gary Oldman, Vanessa Redgrave, and director Stephen Frears. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine condition. Olive Films 1098.
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1987. Three vintage black-and-white French press photographs from the 1987 film. Three French press photos of Gary Oldman from the set of the film, variously with Stephen Frears, Vanessa Redgrave, and a poster for playwright Joe Orton's LOOT. Based on John Lahr's 1978 biography of Orton. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1098.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph notations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film. Director Stephen Frear's debut feature film, and the first film...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Collection of 6 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1956 novel by David Walker, and shot in India, about a man-eating tiger in the jungle. Two men hunt and eventually trap the cat, resulting in the near fatal mauling of the one of them. During his recovery, he falls in...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 UK film. Featuring a very relaxed Michael Caine, laying across the laps of his four female costars (Vivien Merchant, Jane Asher, Julia Foster, and Shelly Winters) between takes. Tipped-on snipe humorously describing Michael Caine's interest in the opposite sex on the verso. Based on Naughton's 1966 play...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white borderless still photographs from the 1966 UK film. Press photos, with cropping notations in the British style (millimeters) on the verso of one still, and a stamp on the verso of the other still. Based on Naughton's 1966 play, about a young man from the working classes of sexy, swinging 1960s London, Alfie...