John Brahm Director (6 results)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1943 film. A young British spy is sent to Nazi-occupied France, where he is tasked with destroying a munitions plant. Set in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage photograph of actor Henry Ford, director John Brahm and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, and various members of the crew on the set of the 1941 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Stewart Edward White. Henry Fonda portrays a lumberjack who leaves Seattle for Alaska in order to find gold. Arriving there, he meets and marries dance hall girl Joan Bennett, and subsequently discovers much about her past he did not know. Shot on location in San Bernardino National Forest, California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage publicity photograph of Robert Cummings and Sigrid Gurie from the 1939 film, with a 1939 date stamp, a provenance stamp, and a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Sigrid Gurie stars as the wife of Basil Rathbone, an unscrupulous business man imprisoned in a South American penal colony for bank fraud, who travels to Rio de Janeiro to arrange for his escape, only to fall in love with American engineer, Robert Cummings. Crazed, Rathbone escapes, and seeks to kill Cummings. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Lyons, Death on the Cheap US. Spicer US.…

Vintage portrait photograph of Basil Rathbone in character, from the 1939 film. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Sigrid Gurie stars as the wife of Basil Rathbone, an unscrupulous business man imprisoned in a South American penal colony for bank fraud, who travels to Rio de Janeiro to arrange for his escape, only to fall in love with American engineer, Robert Cummings. Crazed, Rathbone escapes and seeks to kill Cummings. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a small closed tear to the bottom right. Grant US. Lyons, Death on the Cheap US. Spicer US.…

Two vintage studio still photographs, one borderless from the 1945 film noir. Borderless photograph has folded mimeo snipe affixed to verso, other photograph has a "King Features Syndicate, Inc. Library" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1941 novel by John Brahm. The producers decided to move the setting from then-present-day early 1940s to the late 1800s, giving the film a "Gaslight" feel in terms of atmosphere. But the story itself is far more harrowing, one of the most effective and disturbing Film Noirs of the 1940s, with a Bernard Herrmann score (including an actual "invented" piano concerto) to go with it. The second of two key films John Brahm made with the great Laird Cregar in an unsympathetic lead role. Cregar specialized in creepy, ambiguous characters, a type he virtually invented in "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941), honed in Brahm's "The Lodger" (1944), and perfected in this film, which was to be his last -the actor died of self-imposed malnutrition before he could see the premiere. . 1) 8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing, else Near Fine 1) 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir, seen here under the working title "What Nancy Wanted," showing actor Robert Mitchum in an artist's studio. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso crediting photographer Alex Kahle. Moments before his wedding, a man learns that his fiancée is a kleptomaniac who has cheated, lied, and even killed in her previous relationships. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Spicer US.…