Robert Carson Screenwriter (5 results)

Vintage publicity portrait photograph from the 1957 British film, showing actress Martine Carol. A ship captain is hired by a French woman who wants him to track down and free her brother, a political prisoner in Albania. Set in Albania and Greece, shot on location in Almuñécar, Spain and Athens, Greece. 8 x 10 inches. Lightly toned, else about Fine.

Draft script for the 1938 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script are four pages of mimeographed notes regarding main title billing for the film. Two aviators' friendship is tested when a love triangle forms between them and their shared childhood sweetheart. Another tribute to the glories of aviation by director (and former WWI fighter pilot) William A. Wellman, best known for "Wings" (1927), the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. White titled self wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 1156 and marked as production No. 1172, dated February 15, 1938. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 144 leaves, with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 2-14-38 and 6-21-38. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, side stapled.

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.

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1957 film, showing actor Robert Stack. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1935 novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner. A disillusioned war hero now works as a barnstorming pilot at rural air shows, accompanied by his parachuting wife, young son, and plane mechanic. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 64. Rosenbaum 1000.

Vintage studio still photograph of director William Wellman and a camera crew filming on location in New Mexico for the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1891 novel by Rudyard Kipling. An artist whose sight is failing struggles to complete his final painting, while also grieving his broken relationship with his childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Abiquiu, Santa Fe, and Espanola, New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.