Bert I Gordon Director (7 results)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film, showing actors Anne Helm, Gary Lockwood, and Merritt Stone. Provenance stamp on the verso. A fantasy film loosely based on the tale of St. George and the Dragon, about a young knight raised by an elderly sorceress. Featured on a 1992 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with annotations in manuscript ink on the bottom recto.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. A rural community is terrorized by a giant, mutated arachnid. The last of noted exploitation producer and director Bert I. Gordon's giant monster movies of the 1950s. Shot on location in Vail, Arizona, and in Carlsbad, New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Faintly toned on the margins, else Near Fine. …

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. While looking for a lost pilot in the Mexican jungle, members of a search party begin finding giant, mutated animals-and later discover that the pilot has mutated into a heavily disfigured, 25-feet-tall monster. An early career release for noted B-film producer and director Bert I. Gordon, best remembered today for his "giant monster" films. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with six pinholes on the margins, and a short closed tear at the center right.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1962 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A fantasy film loosely based on the tale of St. George and the Dragon, about a young knight raised by an elderly sorceress. Featured on a 1992 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. After being denied consummation on his wedding night, Jack consults with a sexual guidebook to try and make it with as many women as he can. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures (AIP) third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy, beginning with "The Food of the Gods" (1976), directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner and Pamela Franklin, and followed by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1977), directed by Don Taylor and starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York. Another classic "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon following "King Dinosaur" (1955), "The Amazing Colossal Man" (1957), "Earth vs. the Spider" (1958), "Village of the Giants" (1956), and "Food of the Gods" (1976), this time featuring giant ants, mutated by radioactive waste, which attack a shady land developer and her prospective clients and threaten to take over a whole island town. Set in the Florida everglades and shot on location in Fort Pierce, Belle Glade, and Jensen Beach, Florida. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated October 8, 1976, noted as REVISED DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Jack Turley and story by Bert I. Gordon. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.…

Early Draft script for the 1957 film, "The Beginning of the End," directed by Bert I. Gordon, based on a story by Gordon (indicated here, though not credited in the film), written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn, and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. One of two Republic features produced by AB-PT (or American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres), "The Beginning of the End" is one of the more famous monster cheapies, in which Department of Agriculture functionary Graves and photojournalist Castle discover huge grasshoppers that are part of a gone-awry experiment in radioactivity. The US Army finds out too late, and the first target is Chicago. White card wrappers, with the stamp of the Sunset Script Service in red on the inside rear wrapper, and the film title in black on the front wrapper. Title page present, with credits for director Gordon (original story) and screenwriters Freiberger and Gorn, with Gordon's name, address, and phone number at the bottom right corner. 101 leaves, mimegraph, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good with foxing and some tears at the punch-holes, bound with three gold brads. Martin 43.…