John sturges director (20 resultados)

Vintage studio still photograph of John Hodiak and Frank Korvac from the 1951 film. "7 AUG 27 51" stamp over blind stamp on the verso. John Sturges' deft adaptation of Eleazar Lipsky's 1950 novel is one of the best and most underrated courtroom-based noirs, anchored by a performance by Spencer Tracy at the peak of his powers. Set in New York City, shot on location in New York and California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Selby US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US.…

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Two old friends are turned against one another in this 1959 Western starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, and Carolyn Jones. Douglas' wife is raped and murdered by Quinn's son, resulting in a showdown between the two men. Shot on location in California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a manuscript ink notation to the verso of each and pin holes to the margin.…

Vintage photograph of actor Gregory Peck and producer Mike Frankovich on the set of the 1969 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. After a crew of three astronauts are working in an orbiting space lab, Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), Clayton Stone (James Franciscus) and Buzz Lloyd (Gene Hackman) are ordered to return to Earth by the head of the program, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck). They soon find however that their rockets will not fire and they are unable to return. With only 42 hours of oxygen remaining, and few options available, Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) proposes a rescue mission using an experimental spacecraft that has yet to be tested. To make matters worse, a hurricane is approaching the launch site. Winner of an Academy Award (Best Effects), and nominated for two more. Shot on location at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 7.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine.…

.in original plastic box.

Two vintage color studio still photographs, two vintage studio still photographs, and one vintage photograph depicting the poster for the 1962 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and two photographs with a provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel by Robert Kirkbride. A photographer pretends to be in love with numerous American women, although he is interested only in obtaining American citizenship. He is truly in love, however, with a Japanese girl named Tamiko. Set in Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus, with two photographs with some slight creasing and emulsion defects and one photograph with some rubbing at the top right hand corner.…

Revised scenes for second unit post-production re-shooting and editing for the 1973 film, seen here under the working title "Valdez Horses." With annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Based on the 1967 novel "The Valdez Horses" by Lee Hoffman, about a mixed-race horse breeder who lives on the outskirts of New Mexican society, a solitary life that is disrupted for better when he takes in a young runaway boy who asks to be his protégé. Set in southwest New Mexico, shot on location in Andalucia, Spain. Blue untitled wrappers. Lacking title page. 40 leaves, with last page of text numbered 38. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing actor Gregory Peck. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. A crew of three astronauts are stranded in space, with only 42 hours of oxygen remaining. On Earth, NASA officials propose a rescue mission using an experimental, untested spacecraft. Nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one. Shot on location at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. Four with mimeo snipes to the verso. A tense, two-part Cold War thriller, based on the 1963 novel. The US nuclear attack submarine Tigerfish is sent to the North Pole to rescue the personnel of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a British research weather station that has sent out multiple distress signals. Most of the submarine's crew is unaware, however, that the mission is a front for a highly classified assignment involving Soviet saboteurs and stolen satellite technology. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including one for Best Cinematography. Set in the Arctic. 8 x 10 inches. One with light creases to the top left corner, else Near Fine.…

Complete bound set of ten literary photographic prints, published in conjunction with the 1958 film, made for educational use. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. Housed in blue wrappers measuring 13 x 10 inches. Photographs 12 x 9 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased.…

Original program for the notorious Broadway flop, "Carnival in Flanders." An interesting and rare piece documenting a directorial and writing effort from the strange final years of Sturges' career. The program was printed well prior to Sturges' arrival to the production-as a result, though the musical was never staged prior to his involvement, it still credits the original writers (George Oppenheimer, Herbert Fields) and director (Bretaigne Windust). A quite forgotten musical with a troubled production and a rapid demise. When the musical, an adaptation of the classic French film, "La Kermesse Heroique" (1934), was first conceived, Harold Arlen was approached to write the score, but the task ultimately fell to Van Heusen and Burke. Bing Crosby provided much of the financing for the production and had great faith in the songwriting team, who had written several of his hits (despite the fact that their previous theatrical collaboration, "Nellie Bly" (1946), had been a critical and commercial flop). George Oppenheimer, one of the book's original co-writers, withdrew from the project during pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia, and Dorothy Fields joined her brother Herbert to help with rewrites. Eventually all their work was discarded by Preston Sturges, who replaced Bretaigne Windust as director and completely reworked the book before the show reached California for a series of stagings by light opera companies prior to the New York City opening. Choreographer Jack Cole was replaced by Helen Tamiris, and several cast changes were made before the troubled production finally opened on Broadway. "Carnival in Flanders" opened on September 8, 1953 at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for only six performances. The cast included John Raitt, Dolores Gray, and Roy Roberts. Critics were enchanted by Oliver Smith's sets and Lucinda Ballard's costumes, inspired by Brueghel paintings, and Gray's lively performance, but universally panned every other aspect of the production. Ironically, this nearly forgotten musical is the source for the well loved Van Heusen-Burke standard "Here's That Rainy Day." Saddle stapled, illustrated card wrappers. 16 pages, 9 x 12 inches. Faint vertical crease on the front wrapper, light rubbing to wrappers, overall easily Very Good plus.…

Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1950 film. With mimeo snipe and one provenance stamp on the verso. The skeleton of a woman is found on a beach in Cape Cod. Using only her bones, detectives and forensic scientists have to figure out who she is and what happened to her. Set in Cape Cod, shot on location in Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with some creasing at the corners and small emulsion defect along the top of the photograph. Selby US Canon. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Grant US.…

Original Polish A1 poster, circa 1966, for the 1959 US film. Kirk Douglas and Earl Holliman reunite in this film after Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), again under the direction of John Sturges. The story brings together elements of "High Noon," "3:10 to Yuma," and Sturges' "Bad Day at Black Rock." Remade in 1985 as the Indian film "Bhawani Junction." Shot by Charles Lang on location in Old Tucson, Arizona, and set in the fictitious neighboring towns of Pauley and Gun Hill. Artwork by Jerzy Flisak. 22.5 x 32 inches, rolled. A few minor professional repairs, on archival linen. Fine. Pitts 2240. …

Vintage reference photograph of director John Sturges talking with actors Frank Sinatra and Joey Bishop on the set of the 1962 film. Loosely based on the 1939 film "Gunga Din," about the experiences of three rough-and-ready US Cavalry sergeants who rescue a former slave from a tribe of American Indians. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 3777.…

Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film, depicting two men and a woman, each well dressed and on horseback, meeting in front of a large mansion. Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point. Gouache artwork 26.5 x 12 inches within with an unpainted border of roughly 1 inch. Near Fine.…

Oblong-8vo. (100 : 150 mm). 1 p. Signed and personally inscribed card of the American film director, with a portrait image affixed. From the collection of the late Kurt Schimmelpfennig, Düsseldorf. Sturges became particularly associated with westerns and action films, directing classics including The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape.…

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1963 film, showing director John Sturges and a camera crew setting up a shot with actor James Garner. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A heavily fictionalized version of the real-life mass escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German prison camp, based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 nonfiction, firsthand account. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1027.…

Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. Lew Ayres stars as Lin Vanner, a manager of an oil company, who, after learning the payroll was stolen in a hold-up, pursues and kills an innocent robbery suspect. He goes to the man's widow for solace, inadvertently beginning a journey down a road in which he slowly finds himself in the same position as his victim. Critically lauded on release, the film remains highly underrated due to its failure at the box office. Shot on location in Pioneertown, California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.…

Vintage photograph of a camera crew capturing a shot of actor Spencer Tracy and child actor Felipe Pazos on the set of the 1958 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a stamp crediting Warner photographer Jack Woods. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1963 film, showing actor Steve McQueen from behind, riding his motorcycle with sidecar. A heavily fictionalized version of the real-life mass escape by Allied POWs from a German prison camp, based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 nonfiction, firsthand account. Nominated for an Academy Award. 9.75 x 8 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 1027. …

Vintage photograph of Ernest Hemingway and Spencer Tracy on the set of the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, very light creasing.…