Category: film noir
Film noir femme fatale
The High Window x 23
1940 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition
1943 Hamish Hamilton UK 1st ed.
1956 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – cover art by James Meese (owner’s copy)
1945 Pocket reissue – cover by E. McKnight Kauffer
The Brasher Doubloon (20th Century Fox, 1946). Very Fine- on Linen. Three Sheet (41″ X 78.5″).
adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The High Window – noted in tiny print on the poster
1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten
1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
1988 Penguin/Random House reissue
1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1993 Thorndike large print edition
2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue
1958 Albany Productions
Deported, 1950
1942, Gang Busters
United Artists, 1955
Kiss Me Deadly (United Artists, 1955). Fine/Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27″ X 41.25″).
the woman who dies at the start of the story was played by Cloris Leachman, in her first movie appearance
1956 MGM Pictures
1947 United Artists release
Night of the Hunter
1955 film noir directed by Charles Laughton – his only direction
screenplay by James Agee, adapted from the 1953 novel by David Grubb
SMB Noir 