Category: film noir
1955 Allied Artists
1950 Paramount Pictures
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir, showing actors William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald.
A woman suspects several fellow train passengers of being the culprits in a highly publicized kidnapping case.
8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear to the corners.
The Money Trap x 3
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.
cover art by Harry Barton
better image than previously posted
Guilty Bystander x 7 + 2
1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover
1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas
1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper
Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH
1942 Universal Pictures – Nightmare
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Four vintage publicity photographs from the 1942 film, all four showing actors Diana Barrymore and Brian Donlevy. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso.
A down and out American gambler stranded in London during the German air raids finds himself assisting a woman whose husband has just been murdered, unaware that he will find himself embroiled in a family plot that involves Scotland Yard, Nazi spies, and international subterfuge.
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.
Queen of Mayhem
Kiss the Blood off My Hand x 3 + 1
first published in Britain by Nicholson
1946 Farrar & Rinehart hardcover, first thus in the US
1947 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
better image than previously posted
1948 Universal Pictures, directed by Norman Foster
1948 Dell mapback with movie tie-in cover
1953 Universal International
1943 Paramount Pictures
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Vintage keybook photograph from the 1944 film, showing actress Marjorie Reynolds frozen in the shadow of a giant swastika.
Based on Graham Greene’s 1943 novel. While en route to London after being released from a mental institution, a man is accidentally caught up in a nefarious Nazi scheme, and finds himself pursued by German secret agents.
Set in England.
8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned at the edges, with two punch holes along the left edge.
SMB Noir 