Verlag: Universal Pictures, Universal City, CA, 1938
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Fotografie
Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters, from his books "Headed for a Hearse," "The Lady in the Morgue," "Murder in the Madhouse," "The Dead Don't Care," and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films, the first two being "The Westland Case" (1937) and "The Lady in the Morgue" (1938). Here, Bill Crane (Foster) visits a country estate where the occupants have been receiving threatening letters from someone called "The Eye." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, waviness and faint tape residue on the rectos.
Verlag: Universal Pictures, Universal City, 1937
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Fotografie
Vintage portrait photograph of Barbara Pepper from the 1937 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. Based on the 1935 novel "Headed for a Hearse" by Jonathan Latimer. A "locked door" mystery, wherein Preston Foster stars as a private detective searches against the clock to find evidence to free Theodore Von Eltz, awaiting the death penalty for murdering his wife, who was killed in a room with all the doors and windows locked from the inside. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, 1949
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Fotografie
Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film noir. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Loosely based on the Faust myth, about a district attorney who makes a deal with the devil in order to put a criminal ringleader behind bars. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better, lightly toned, with creasing at three corners. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.