T e b clarke screenwriter (6 resultados)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Holland (Alec Guinness) has been a dutiful bank clerk for 20 years, until a new neighbor, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), an eccentric artist who owns a foundry that makes souvenirs, helps him hatch a plan to steal gold bullion and melt them into miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and nominated for Best Actor for Guiness. Ranked the 17th greatest British film of all time by BFI. Set in and shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. Lee "The Heist Film.".…

Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1949 film. Residents of the Pimlico region of London discover a treasure trove of documents which reveal the region is actually part of Burgundy, France. A classic Ealing Studios comedy. Set in and shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Other than 'The Lavender Hill Mob', for which he won an Oscar, Clarke's screenplays include 'The Blue Lamp' and 'The Titchfield Thunderbolt'. For the recipient Barbara Kaye [Barbara Kenrick Gowing] (1908-1998), writer, bookseller and wife of Percy Muir, see her obituary by Nicolas Barker in the Independent, 12 March 1998. The present letter was written a few days after Clarke's appearance on 31 October on the television programme 'This Is Your Life'. 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, aged and worn. Folded once. The letter begins: 'Dear Barbara, | Many thanks for your kind letter. That certainly was a shock they gave me last Monday! | Shirley Long was there in addition to Teddy [Wass?] - it was he who dug up the old "Answers" articles for reproduction. But I wish there had been a little more flavour of those good old Twenties. They went to see Bobby Cooper and, he tells me, took copious notes from him, then for space reasons had to leave out all his reminiscences.' He remembers 'all the incidents' she mentions, 'except the girl in the orchestra, so I presume she must have been a virgin or she would have registered better'. He discusses the marriage of Dorothy Hargreaves and Humphrey Bradney, before turning to his son Michael, who 'was recently taken to a dance in Suffolk while staying with friends there, and found the hostess to be my old girl friend Betty Hand. It was her daughter's 21st.' From the papers of Barbara Kaye Muir.…

Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations, and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and, consumed by guilt, donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher, and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton, Wirral, Cheshire, and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers, noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper, dated 13th January, 1950. Title page present, noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two silver brads.…

Second Draft script for the 1953 film, here under the working title "Newmarket Heath." A former champion jockey who was discovered accepting bribes and subsequently banned from jockeying decides to train a young man to become his racing successor. Set and shot on location in England. Tall tan titled wrappers, noted as Second Draft Script on the front wrapper, dated 1st May 1953. Title page present, dated 1st May, 1953, noted as SECOND DRAFT SCRIPT. 131 leaves, with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication on lavender stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two silver brads.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film. A dutiful bank clerk is convinced by his new neighbor, an eccentric artist, to steal gold bullion in order to melt it down to make miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Ranked the 17th greatest British film of all time by the BFI. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased at the top left corner, and lightly soiled on the center right edge. Lee, "The Heist Film.".…