1970rif. 162121N.p.: Medford Film Corporation 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. A psychiatrist attempts to brainwash a patient into murdering his wife. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a diagonal crease to the lower right. Thrower Nightmare USA. Medford Film Corporation unknown
1971rif. 170553Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing Julie Christie in costume. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Columbia Pictures unknown
1967rif. 162083N.p.: Leo-Todd Productions 1967. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. Provenance stamps on the verso of each. An obscure and likely lost sexploitation film from 1967. A wife searches for her missing husband experiencing the city's seedy underbelly. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Leo-Todd Productions unknown
1970rif. 162000N.p.: R and S Film Enterprises 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A rare pair of photographs from Rita Hayworth's low-budget wanderings between 1967-1970 during which she worked with French and Italian genre filmmakers as well as the likes of William Grefè in the US. Note however that Ms. Hayworth is not present in either of these images. A psychedelic exploitation film in which Hayworth stars as a wealthy matron married to a wheelchair-bound husband. She has an affair with a young author triggering disastrous results. Shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. R and S Film Enterprises unknown
1948rif. 170987Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Eleven vintage photographs including ten studio still photographs and one borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film noir with one photograph under the working title "Martin Rome." Three photographs with mimeo snipes two with provenance stamps and two with a provenance label on the verso rear. One photograph with cropping annotations in the margins of the recto. Several with title corrections at the bottom margin the film was retitled from "Martin Rome" and "The Law and Martin Rome" to "Cry of the City" during post-production Based on the 1947 novel "The Chair for Martin Rome" by Henry Edward Helseth. Richard Conte stars as hardened criminal and jewel thief Marty Rome wounded and in the hospital following a shoot out which left a police officer dead when he is implicated in another murder and jewelry heist by a sleazy lawyer. Following Rome's partial recovery and escape in an attempt to recover the jewels and flee he's pursued by his childhood friend a conflicted hard-nosed New York detective played by Victor Mature. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. BFI BD-25. Grant US. Selby Cannon Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1965rif. 162623N.p.: Laurel Films 1965. Vintage portrait photograph of a young Stefanie Powers from the 1965 re-release of the 1961 film under the title "The Young Sinner." Provenance stamp on the verso. The second film written and directed by Tom Laughlin who would later go on to great success with the "Billy Jack" film series. Powers would go on to have a prolific career best known as the better half of "Hart to Hart" 1979-1984. Shot in 1960 the film received a limited release in 1961 under the original title "Like Father Like Son" and would not receive a wide release until 1965 under the title "The Young Sinner" as well as "Among the Thorns" and "We Are All Christ" as a double feature with the 1965 film "A Swingin' Summer." Told in flashbacks often in a confessional a small-town high school football star is expelled after being caught in bed with the daughter of a wealthy and influential family. Set in and shot on location in Milwaukee Wisconsin. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing overall and light soiling to the bottom right. Laurel Films unknown
1966rif. 161997N.p.: Manson Distributing 1966. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1966 British film here under the British release title "The Naked World of Harrison Marks." All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. A pseudo-documentary on the life and dreams of adult film director and photographer George Harrison Marks. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Manson Distributing unknown
1962rif. 162018N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Blaze Starr from the 1962 film here under its alternative release title "Nature Girl." Famed stripper Blaze Star escapes from the pressure of stardom by becoming a member of a nudist colony much to the dismay of her manager and boyfriend who worries she may loose her acting contract. The only feature to feature the famed Baltimore stripper. Shot on location in Homestead Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with even toning and faint creasing overall with two pinholes in the lower left margin. N.p. unknown
1968rif. 162020N.p.: Inter-American Film Distributors 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Provenance stamps and labels variously on the verso of each. Two vice detective trade stories of their sleazy encounters unaware that a French novelist is eavesdropping in hopes of ideas for his latest novel. Shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Vinegar Syndrome 28. Inter-American Film Distributors unknown
1971rif. 162620N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the alternate release title "The Young Divorcess." Provenance stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1897 Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Featuring early performances by George Takei and eventual director of "Fright Night" Tom Holland. In a 2006 interview with Howard Stern Takei revealed that the sex scenes were shot with body doubles and added only after the film was unable to secure distribution. Takei added that he was "impressed" with the body double used for his character. Three recently divorced twenty somethings abandon their suffocating lives and shack up as free-sprited free-love hippies. Today a cult favorite. Shot on location in San Diego and Piru California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1961rif. 162066N.p.: Trans-Lux 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 French film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "La Mort de Belle" by Georges Simenon. Jean Desaily plays everyman Stéphane Blanchon a professor living a quiet life with his wife Christine in Geneva until a beautiful American student Belle living next door is found strangled to death. Shot on location in Geneva Switzerland and Val-de-Marne France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Selby France. Trans-Lux unknown
1944rif. 170938Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film including a photograph of a mockup of the Tower edition of the Cornell Woolrich William Irish novel released the same year. Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1964rif. 162031N.p.: N.p. 1964. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A woman travels to Manhattan seeking to become a nude model. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1963rif. 161738N.p.: Audubon Films 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1963 French film. A wealthy American girl who enjoys painting nudes of her chic friends draws the affections of two French bohemians. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Audubon Films unknown
1970rif. 162028N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 British film. Each photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. "World famous photographer of nudes" director George Harrison Marks visits a psychoanalyst bemoaning his life taking pictures of naked women leading to a series of vignettes of how his ancestors have suffered misfortune through the ages because of nude women and "the arts." 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1965rif. 162021Hollywood: Olympic International Films 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 French film. One photograph with a provenance stamp and two labels on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel "Le concerto de la peur" by Anne-Marie Devillers. Rival Parisian drug gangs clash over control of the city's narcotics trade. Featuring a tremendous free-jazz score by Chet Baker. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one photograph with several pinholes two resulting in a small closed tear and a half inch closed tear in the bottom margin. Grant France. Olympic International Films unknown
1962rif. 162032N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1962 British film. A group of international beauty queens convert an English estate into a nudist colony. Shot on location in East Sussex and Dorset England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and some creasing at the far corners. N.p. unknown
1968rif. 162045N.p.: Rasnel Films 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Two photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Bored housewife Allison hooks up with her neighbor Janet and new friend Winnie. Together they rent a houseboat and explore hidden desires. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rasnel Films unknown
1963rif. 161726N.p.: Alexander Beck Presentation 1963. Two vintage photographs one a borderless reference photo and one a studio still from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A day in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris who work as nude models in an art school to make money. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with pinholes in the margins. Alexander Beck Presentation unknown
1961rif. 162030N.p.: Tempest Productions 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. Provenance stamp and two labels on the verso. The first feature film written and co-directed uncredited by prolific sexploitation director Joseph W. Sarno. A young art student is enraptured by her professor much to the dismay of one of her classmates who feels the same way. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Light overall edgewear else Near Fine. Tempest Productions unknown
1968rif. 162049N.p.: A.F.P.I. Productions 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Marsha Jordan stars as a secretary at a computer dating service who unwittingly dates her boss his wife and their two sons. Shot on location in Maryland. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some pinholes to the margins. A.F.P.I. Productions unknown
1965rif. 161728N.p.: Haven Films 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. An early feature film by noted erotic film director Joseph Sarno. Beverly is a bar girl who thinks she hates men until she realizes she's a nymphomaniac and flirts with her best friend's boyfriend. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Haven Films unknown
1961rif. 162050Culver City CA: Olympic International Films 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. An insurance investigator who is allergic to naked women searches for a stolen painting of a nude woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Olympic International Films unknown
1967rif. 161734N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A group of buxom secret agents pose as escorts to bring down powerful men. Screenplay by B-Movie cult maestro Ed Wood Jr. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969rif. 162044N.p.: Hollywood Cinema Associates 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film here under its alternate title "Odd Tastes." Provenance stamps on the verso of each. Marsha Jordan stars as a sex researcher who embarks on a worldwide quest for "the ultimate pleasure." Shot on location in Africa Hong Kong and Jordan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vinegar Syndrome. Hollywood Cinema Associates unknown
