john mortimer screenwriter (10 Ergebnisse)

Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1959 UK film. Mark Conrad (Jurgens) is an alcoholic with a questionable history who gets exiled from Hong Kong. He is sent to work on a ferry owned by Captain Hart (Welles), who comes to despise Conrad. A story set and shot on location in Hong Kong. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases, else Near Fine.

Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1963 film. Not to be confused with the 1987 film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Based on Shelley Smith's 1961 novel "The Ballad of the Running Man." Laurence Harvey stars as a man who fakes his own death in the hopes of gaining a substantial insurance payout, but encounters trouble in the form of the company's nosy claim investigator, played by Alan Bates. Shot on location in Cadiz, Spain, in Gibraltar, and in Ireland. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with several pinholes in the borders and at the extremities. Grant UK. Spicer UK.

Vintage studio still photograph of Leslie Caron and David Niven in quicksand, from the 1962 film. Based on the 1960 novel "Act of Mercy" by Francis Clifford. Pacifist Tom Jordan and his wife Leslie get themselves into trouble trying to help former President Rivera escape a military coup in a South American county. Shot on location in Analucia, Spain. 10.25 x 8 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine.

Treatment script for an unproduced film, circa 1959. Not to be confused with the 1972 BBC mini-series based on the same literary source. Based on Mary McMinnies' 1958 novel, which follows the adventures of a pleasantly immoral young woman who has recently been relocated with her English Foreign Service husband to a Communist-run eastern European country. Gray titled wrappers, noted as Treatment on the front wrapper, dated 18-3-59. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter JOHN MORTIMER and novel credits to Mary MacMinnies [sic]. 48 leaves, with last page of text numbered 46. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with a gold prong.

Third Draft script for the 1969 film, dated January 13, 1969, noted as copy No. 24 in manuscript ink at the top right of the title page. Three sets of revision pages (blue, green, and pink) laid in. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel, following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas, an examination of the uncertainties of young adulthood during an age of turbulence, set within the hookup culture of late 1960s New York City. Shot on location in New York City. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, dated Jan. 13, 1969, noted as Final Version / Third Draft, with credits for screenwriter John Mortimer and author Mervin Jones. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue, green, and pink revision pages laid in, dated variously between 1/27/69 and 3/4/69. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three gold screw brads.

Vintage borderless reference photograph, with bottom margin, of John Huston and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1967 film. Illegible release stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. John Huston's lurid and campy adaptation of Carson McCuller's 1941 novel. A melodrama of lust, infidelity, repressed homosexuality, self mutilation, suicide and murder, with a spectacular cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris and Robert Forster. Shot on location in New York and Lazio, Italy. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film, showing director Carol Reed in conversation with actress Lee Remick on the set. Based on Shelley Smith's 1961 novel "The Ballad of the Running Man," about a man who fakes his own death in the hopes of gaining a substantial insurance payout, but encounters trouble in the form of the company's nosy claim investigator. Shot on location in Cadiz, Spain, in Gibraltar, and in Ireland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph of director Peter Yates and actors Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow on the set of the 1969 film. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel, following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas, an examination of hookup culture in the late 1960s. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Collection of 34 vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. John Huston's lurid and campy adaptation of Carson McCuller's 1941 novel. A melodrama of lust, infidelity, repressed homosexuality, self mutilation, suicide, and murder, with a spectacular cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris and Robert Forster. Shot on location in New York and Lazio, Italy. 29 - 8 x 10 inches, 3 - 8 x 9.25 inches, 2 - 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good to Near Fine, some light creasing and light curling, one with staining on bottom and several pinholes, one with a modest transparent ink stain.

Vintage oversize borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow reading together in robes. Cahiers du Cinéma stamp on the verso. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel, following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas, an examination of the uncertainties of young adulthood during an age of turbulence, set within the hookup culture of late 1960s New York City. Shot on location in New York City. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine.