Eric Ambler Screenwriter (6 results)
The Purple Plain (Original photograph from the 1954 film)
Gregory Peck, Win Min Than (starring); Robert Parrish (director); Eric Ambler (screenwriter); H.E. Bates (novel)
Published by United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1954
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage reference photograph from the 1954 film. Manuscript ink annotation on the verso. Based on the 1947 novel by H.E. Bates. Struggling with depression after the death of his wife in the Blitz, a Canadian pilot finds a new lease on life through his love for a kindhearted Burmese woman. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, lightly age toned, with a small chip at the bottom left corner.…
More imagesTopkapi (Four original photographs from the 1964 film)
Jules Dassin (director); Monja Danischewsky (screenwriter); Eric Ambler (novel); Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn (starring)
Published by United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1964
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerThree vintage studio still photographs and one vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film. One photograph with mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1962 novel, "The Light of Day" by Eric Ambler. Two ex-lovers plan to steal from Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. They hire a man to drive explosives for the burglary, but when the police stop him they assume he is part of an assassination attempt. Winner of one Academy Award for Peter Ustinov as Best Actor. Set in Istanbul, shot on location in Istanbul, Turkey, Kavala, Greece, Paris, France, and Hauts-de-Seine, France. Two photographs 10 x 8 inches, one photograph 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus, with one photograph with pins holes at the corner and a tear at the bottom right corner. Lee, The Heist Film. Penzler 101.…
More images[The] October Man (Five original photographs from the 1947 film)
Roy Ward Baker (director); Arthur Evans, Wilfrid Newton, Charles Trigg (still photographers); Eric Ambler (screenwriter); John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman (starring)
Published by Eagle-Lion Films, West Hollywood, 1947
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFive vintage studio still photographs from the 1948 British film. One with Dion McGregor Collection stamp on the verso. After sustaining a head injury in a bus crash, young scientist convalesces in a boardinghouse where a young woman is brutally murdered. Now a prime suspect with a poor memory due to the accident and no alibi, he begins to wonder if he could have done it. Roy Ward Baker's directorial debut. Shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, light corner and edgewear, one with small chip to upper left corner, two with pinholes and modest bruising. Selby Master. Selby UK. Grant UK. Spicer UK.…
More imagesTopkapi (Collection of 16 lobby cards from the 1964 film)
Jules Dassin (director); Eric Ambler (novel); Monja Danischewsky (screenwriter); Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell (starring)
Published by Filmways Pictures / United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1964
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCollection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the film. 9 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine.…
Background to Danger (Original large herald for the 1943 film noir)
George Raft, Sydney Greenstreet, Brenda Marshall, Peter Lorre (starring); Eric Ambler (novel); Raoul Walsh (director); W. R. Burnett (screenwriter)
Published by Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA, 1943
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage large herald for the 1943 film noir. Based on the 1937 novel "Uncommon Danger" by Eric Ambler, about an American intelligence operative who must prevent a Nazi agent from releasing forgeries of a Russian invasion plan. Set in Turkey. 11.75 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.…
A Night to Remember [Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees] (Original French poster from the 1958 British film)
Eric Ambler (screenwriter); Walter Lord (novel); Roy Ward Baker (director)
Published by The Rank Organization, London, 1958
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama, "A Night to Remember," here under its 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 added fictional subplots. In addition to being massively entertaining, the film is today held in high regard by "Titanic" historians, compared to the more melodramatic (and big-budget) take by James Cameron in 1997. Director Baker noted in a 1991 interview, "The whole purpose of making the film was to show a society [that] had persuaded itself that you could make a ship which could never to be sunk." 34 x 52 inches, on archival linen, Fine condition. Criterion Collection 7. McFarlane p. 51.…
