Category: film noir

1957 Universal Pictures

The Midnight Story

Tony Curtis, Peggy Maley, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland (starring)
Joseph Pevney (director)
Edwin Blum, John Robinson (screenwriters)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film noir, one showing Tony Curtis and Peggy Maley, the other showing Maley. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.

A traffic cop investigates the cold-blooded murder of his beloved friend, a San Francisco priest, whose death is linked to an Italian immigrant family.

Set and shot on location in San Francisco.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly curled and edgeworn.

1946 MGM Pictures

N.p. N.p., Circa 1946, vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir, Undercurrent

Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Robert Taylor (starring)
Vincent Minnelli (director)
Thelma Strabel (novel)
Edward Chodorov (screenwriter)

Based on the story, “You Were There” by Thelma Strabel, serialized in “Woman’s Home Companion” between 1944 and 1945. Vincent Minnelli’s second dramatic film, following “The Clock” (1945).

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

Black Alibi x 8

July/August 1939 issue

included Cornell Woolrich’s “Street of Jungle Death”, the basis for his classic novel Black Alibi

1942 Simon & Schuster hardcover, an Inner Sanctum mystery

his 3rd novel as by Woolrich

better image than previously posted

1943 Handi-Book digest

1943 RKO adaptation

1946 American Mercury/Jonathan Press digest – cover art by George Salter

(previous owner’s intrusive signature on cover)

1956 Mercury digest – cover art by George Salter

1965 Collier Mystery reissue – cover accredited to Dick Cuffari

1982 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Laurence Schwinger

1970 Paramount Pictures, Borsolino

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film, showing actor Alain Delon.

Based on Eugene Saccomano’s 1959 book “Bandits a Marseille.” Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business, vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel, “Borsalino and Co,” in 1974, starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla.

October 1941 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

October 1941 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)

Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)

T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”

Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)