Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA, 1973
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph of actor Robert Duvall from the 1973 film. Based on the 1963 "Parker" novel by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). One of the great crime films of the early 1970s, today a classic of the New Hollywood Cinema. Shot on location in Los Angeles, California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with some slight creasing at the corners. Grant US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Weldon 1983. Weldon 1996.
Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA, 1976
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. A highspot among director Sidney Lumet's many cinematic achievements, with an original screenplay written by Paddy Chayefsky and a host of major actors all working at the peak of their powers. A savage and very entertaining indictment of American television culture in the mid-1970s. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress, and nominated for six others, including Best Picture and Best Director. Shot on location in New York City and East Hampton, New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with some creasing at the corners.
Verlag: Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA, 1993
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage reference photograph from the 1993 film, showing actor Richard Harris. In Florida, two lonely elderly men-one a former seaman, the other a retired barber-become friends, gradually affecting each others' lives. Shot on location in Dania and Lake Worth, Florida, and in Oxnard, California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1981
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film. Using the famed "Black Dahlia" murder as a platform, this film weaves an intricate plot of corruption and deception across Los Angeles. The script was cowritten by novelist Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: Universal International Pictures, Universal City, 1963
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough, humorous, and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson, a psychoanalytic doctor who was one of the first in his field to link post-traumatic stress disorder (although that terminology was not yet in use) with the ordeals of war. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Bobby Darin. Set and shot on location in Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with light creasing affecting the left edge.
Verlag: Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA, 1970
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage reference photograph from a circa early 1970s re-release of the 1969 film, showing James Caan squatting next to rabbit and chick cages. A Long Island housewife runs away from her marriage after learning that she is pregnant, forming a friendship with a man with brain damage from a college football injury. Shot on location in Nebraska, Tennessee, West Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, 1975
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1975 film, showing actress Ronee Blakley as fragile, beloved country superstar Barbara Jean. Director Robert Altman's brilliant, caustic view of American politics and culture, seen through the microcosm of five days in the Nashville country and gospel music scene, with 24 main characters and multiple storylines. A tour-de-force, and a touchstone of New Hollywood Cinema. Nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Blakley, winning one. Shot on location in Nashville, Tennessee. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 683. Ebert I. Eureka 80.
Verlag: N.p., N.p., 1962
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen, and the film debut of Robert Duvall as the iconic Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, shot on location in Monroeville, Alabama and Pasadena, California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Penzler, 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense.
Verlag: United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1974
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Lobby card from the 1974 film, an early and unusual entry in the American neo-noir canon. Based on the 1937 novel, a hard boiled classic by proletarian writer Edward Anderson. Robert Altman made almost no mistakes in the 1970s, and this was one of the many high spots. The director, along with novelist-screenwriter Calder Willingham, adapted a forgotten but seminal work from the dust bowl era and brought it to life with Carradine and Duvall, two actors who were staples of his highly successful stable of actors during the New Hollywood era. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine, with a couple of shallow corner creases and some light rubbing. Hanna 69. Spicer, p. 436.
Verlag: N.p., N.p., 1962
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Two vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film, including one borderless and one bordered. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen, and the film debut of Robert Duvall as the iconic Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, shot on location in Monroeville, Alabama and Pasadena, California. One 10 x 8 inches, one 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Penzler, 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense.
Verlag: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1984
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage program for the 1984 film. Based on the 1952 novel by Bernard Malamud. A ridiculously great cast, an equally great novel, and a fine director in his prime helped make the adaptation of Malamud's timeless baseball novel into a sweeping success. Nominated for four Oscars, including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Buffalo, New York. 8.5 x 11 inches. One leaf. Very Good, vertical crease from having been folded once.
Verlag: Twentieth Century-Fox, Los Angeles, 1970
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Collection of five vintage, borderless, oversize photographs from the 1970 film. With a small French distribution label from Twentieth Century-Fox on the recto of each photograph. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and, in turn, the basis of acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay. 12 x 9.5 inches. Pinholes to the corners of a single photograph, Near Fine overall. National Film Registry.
Verlag: N.p., N.p., 1978
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English. Based on the 1960 German novel, wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script, written seven years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Germany. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 1978, with credits for screenwriter and novelist Siegfried Lenz, screenwriter Rainer Soehnlein, and translator Scott Morrison. 206 leaves, with last page of text numbered 202. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with silver prong binding.
Verlag: N.p., N.p., 1984
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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First Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English. Based on the 1960 German novel, wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script, written seven years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Germany. Navy untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated August 27, 1984, noted as first draft, with credits for screenwriter David Taylor and novelist Siegfried Lenz. 115 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with slight yapping to the fore edge of the rear wrapper, bound internally with three gold brads.
Verlag: Universal International Pictures, Universal City, 1962
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Final Draft script for the 1963 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough, humorous, and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson, a psychoanalytic doctor who was one of the first in his field to link post-traumatic stress disorder (although that terminology was not yet in use) with the ordeals of war. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Bobby Darin. Set and shot on location in Arizona. Red titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 8473, dated November 19, 1962. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Richard L. Breen. 163 leaves, with last page of text numbered 167. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink, yellow, and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/26/62 and 1/31/63. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads.
Verlag: Butchers Run Films / Stan Margulies, Los Angeles, 1995
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Shooting script for the 1996 television movie, originally aired on November 10, 1996, on TNT. Based on the 1990 book "Eichmann in My Hands" by Peter Malkin and Harry Stein, about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by Malkin, an Israeli Mossad agent, in 1960. Set and shot on location in Buenos Aires. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 21 December 1995, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credits for Malkin and Stein, and screenwriters Lionel Chetwynd and Ronald Harwood. 108 leaves, with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication on blue stock, rectos only, with pink, yellow, and white revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1/18/96 and 1/26/96. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
Verlag: Paramount Pictures, London, 1972
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage British program for the 1972 film, with black and white and color film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made, and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning three for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Brando. Set in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sicily, and Cuba, and shot on location in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sicily, and the Dominican Republic. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled in illustrated card wrappers. Very Good plus. Wrappers with light rubbing overall, light horizontal creasing at spine fold and a bump to the top right corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader 16.
Verlag: Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA, 1992
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member, with their annotations in manuscript ink throughout, relating to sound. A middle-aged white man breaks with reality after a series of minor inconveniences, causing him to violently lash out against the people he encounters while walking through Los Angeles to his daughter's birthday party. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated February 18, 1992, noted as Rev., with credit for screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith. 133 leaves, with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/2/92 and 3/17/92. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
Verlag: United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1975
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Draft script for the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam, taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated December 3, 1975, with credits for director Francis Ford Coppola, screenwriter John Milius, and author Joseph Conrad. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 153. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with front wrapper partially detached from the binding, bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.
Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA, 1972
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Draft script for the 1973 film, based on the 1963 "Parker" novel by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). One of the great neo-noir crime films of the early 1970s, today a classic New Hollywood, with understated performances from Duvall, Black, and Baker, as well as a who's-who of character actors, playing out a violent story that takes place mostly in a beautifully ordinary rural setting. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 117, dated December 18, 1972, with credits for producer De Haven and director/screenwriter Flynn. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 131 leaves, with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Silver Classic US Noir. Spicer US. Stephens US.
Verlag: Twentieth Century-Fox, Los Angeles, 1968
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Revised First Draft script for the 1970 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with their manuscript ink annotations on 19 pages underlining locations, settings, and props. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and, in turn, the basis of the acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS (from 1972 to 1983). A film that kick-started a great decade of cinema, and one that still defines it. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, nominated for four more, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Orange titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 209, dated DECEMBER 11, 1968. Title page present, dated December 11, 1969, noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. and author Richard Hooker. 144 leaves, with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads. National Film Registry.
Verlag: N.p., N.p., 1979
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Third Draft script for the 1981 film, with rainbow revisions. Laid in with the script are two additional yellow revision pages, dated 3/28/80. Based on the 1977 novel by John Gregory Dunne, who with his wife Joan Didion wrote the screenplay for the film. Loosely based on the notorious 1947 Black Dahlia murder, about a homicide detective investigating the brutal murder of a young woman in Los Angeles. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 29, 1979, noted as Third Draft, with credits for screenwriters John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. 136 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated between 1/9/80 and 3/24/80. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom beige clamshell box.
Verlag: Lions Gate Films, N.p., 1977
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Three vintage studio still photographs of actress Janice Rule from the 1977 film. Director Robert Altman's experimental, dreamlike masterwork about three ethereal, fractured women, originally overlooked but later celebrated. Featuring brilliant performances from Shelley Duvall as the self-deluded, socially maladroit Millie, Rule as the mysterious pregnant painter Willie, and Sissy Spacek as the young, timid, and fawning Pinky. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in a small California desert town, and shot on location in Palm Springs, Thousand Palms, and Desert Hot Springs, California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], Burbank, CA, 1975
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage borderless reference photograph of Robert Altman on the set of the 1975 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Robert Altman's brilliant, caustic view of American politics and culture, seen through the microcosm of five days in the Nashville country and gospel music scene, with 24 main characters and multiple storylines, a tour-de-force, and a key piece of New Hollywood Cinema. Winner of an Academy Award, nominated for four more including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. Shot on location in Nashville, Tennessee. 10 x 7 inches. Some brief toning to portions of recto, else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 683. Ebert I. Eureka 80.
Verlag: Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, 1973
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Each photograph with printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and one provenance stamp on the verso. A gritty crime thriller about a racist Irish cop who is forced to turn in his badge after killing a Puerto Rican suspect while in pursuit of the man that killed his former partner. The second film based on the experiences of real-life New York policeman Eddie Egan, following William Friedkin's 1971 film "The French Connection" two years prior. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA, 1970
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film, showing Shelley Duvall and Bud Cort. French snipe on the verso. An owlish recluse living in the bowels of the Houston Astrodome builds a pair of wings with the aid of a guardian angel, but is ultimately foiled by his love for a beautiful race car driver. Director Robert Altman's first effort after his wildly successful 1970 film "MASH," an almost experimental film about the struggle between freedom and convention. Set and shot on location in Houston. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: Orion Pictures, Beverly Hills, CA, 1988
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage, borderless, candid photograph of director Dennis Hopper and actor Robert Duvall on the set of the 1988 film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso dated 1988. The film which brought Hopper back onto the map as a director for the first time since "Easy Rider" (1969), about a seasoned cop and his rookie partner struggling against gang violence in East Los Angeles. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA, 1975
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam, taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.
Verlag: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA, 1971
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film, showing George Lucas on the set. Stamp of photographer Michel Ciment and layout annotations on the verso. Given everything that would follow, "THX-1138" could easily be described as the most successful student film of all time, developed by George Lucas in 1967 as a short called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" while he was attending the University of Southern California's film school. The feature film version was one of the first efforts produced under the auspices of Lucas' friend, Francis Ford Coppola. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Verlag: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, Burbank, CA, 1969
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Collection of twelve vintage oversize publicity photographs from the 1969 film, eight of which are shots from the film, two promotional headshots, one of James Caan and one of Robert Duvall, one on the set photograph of Francis Ford Coppola behind the camera, and one group photograph of the entire cast and crew. Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight), upon discovering she's pregnant, takes off on a road trip to California in a family station wagon to reevaluate her life decisions. After picking up the handsome hitchhiker Killer (James Caan), and revealing that she's pregnant when the two strike up a romance, she tells him she only picked him up for a one-night affair, further complicating to whom, and how much she is responsible, to those around her. Shot on location in Chatanooga, Tennessee (a significant parade sequence in the film), West Virginia, New York, Colorado, Virginia, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. 4) 13.25 x 10.5 inches, 3) 13.25 x 10.75, 3) 10.25 x 13.5, 2) 13.25 x 11. Light edge and corner wear, else Near Fine.