Joseph Anthony Screenwriter (9 results)

Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Based on Joseph Heller's searing 1961 antiwar novel, about a US Air Force bombardier seeking an escape from the endless, senseless brutality of World War II. Director Mike Nichol's third feature film, released the same year as Robert Altman's "MASH." Set in the Mediterranean, shot on location in Sonora, Mexico and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Four vintage reference photographs, all featuring Michael Caine and two featuring Laurence Olivier, from the 1972 film. A successful crime fiction writer invites his wife's lover to his mansion with a complex plan designed to humiliate him. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with manuscript graphite and blue ink annotations to the verso. Penzler 101.…

Draft script for the 1967 Italian film. Text in English, printed in Rome. Based on the 1923 novel, wherein a former pirate falls in love with a mentally ill young woman, who falls in love instead with a French naval officer. Set in France, shot on location in Italy. Blue wrappers, with the film's English title printed on a red label and affixed on the front wrapper. Title page present, with the film's English and Italian titles given. 207 leaves, with last page of text numbered 206. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good, with a strip of adhesive residue, likely from tape, running vertically across the rear wrapper binding, bound with two gold brads.…

Seven vintage full-color British lobby cards from the 1974 British-italian television miniseries. Six-hour television miniseries that aired in 1973 and 1974, a retelling of the life of Moses (Lancaster), the man who discovered the Ten Commandments and parted the Red Sea. Cult favorite Anthony Burgess contributed to the entire series, and Thomas Keneally novelized a tie-in edition in 1975. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps, else Near Fine. Scarce.…

Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1935 film. Two with provenance labels on the versos. One of Josef von Sternberg's most distinctive films, and his first with Columbia Pictures, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic 1866 novel, starring Lorre as anguished murderer Raskolnikov. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, one with pinholes at the corners.…

Vintage black and white photograph of Anthony Perkins on the set of the 1960 film, silhouetted against the Bates Motel. The most sought after image from the known stills produced. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for 4 Academy awards, including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key film in expanding allowable depictions of both violence and sexuality under the eroding Production Code. Selected by the National Film Registry in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a few pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Spicer US.…

Vintage black-and-white photograph of Peter Lorre on the set, seated with his script, from the 1935 film. Photographed by A.L. Schaefer, with his credit stamp on the verso, as well as a stamp reading "PETER LORRE / COLUMBIA CONTRACT PLAYER." 8 x 10 inches. Fine.

Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actor Anthony Perkins barefoot on the set of "The Rainmaker," circa 1953. The original penciled notations on the verso indicate that Perkins was on the set to visit Wendell Corey. With the stamps of still photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso. Shot early in his career, before Perkins played his best-known role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho." Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century, with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill, and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer, shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley, Jack Lemmon, Katharine and Audrey Hepburn, and Shirley MacLaine, among many others. Shot partially on location in Kanab, Utah. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine.…

Collection of 24 vintage reference photographs from the 1935 film. Includes twelve double weight, and four matte-finish, the remainder being single-weight and glossy. Nine with printed mimeo snipes on the verso, and all with provenance labels and stamps to same. Of particular note is an image of actors Marian Marsh and Edward Arnold on the set, as well as multiple striking images of Peter Lorre in close-up. One of Josef von Sternberg's most distinctive films, and his first with Columbia Pictures, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic 1866 novel, starring Lorre as anguished murderer Raskolnikov. 23 photographs 8 x 10 inches, one 11 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine.…