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1975ref. 151589N.p.: Joseph Green Pictures 1975. Vintage press kit for the US release of the 1975 French film for use by distributors and the press containing two pressbooks 15 black and white photographs and a poster for the film. A married couple played by real-life husband and wife Paul Gegauff and Daniele Gegauff decide to spice up their sex lives by beginning an open relationship but the husband's jealousy soon pushes them both to a breaking point. Poster photographs and pressbooks Near Fine. Joseph Green Pictures unknown books
1978ref. 144817France: Filmel 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet from the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jean-Marie Fitere which tells the true story of Violette Noziere Isabelle Huppert a French teenager who in the 1930s worked as a prostitute while living with her parents who she poisoned killing her father after they found out from her doctor that she had syphilis. Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Filmel unknown books
1972ref. 162079N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage studio still photograph of Laura Antonelli from the US release of the 1972 French film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Best known by the British release title "Scoundrel in White" director Claude Chabrol's "Docteur Popaul" was released in the US nine years after it's 1972 French release under two different titles "Play Now Pay Later" and "High Heels." Based on the 1969 novel "Murder at Leisure" by Hubert Monteilhet. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as inveterate womanizer. After marrying the wealthy but plain Mia Farrow he seduces her beautiful sister Martine Antonelli. Shot on location in Gironde and Paris France and Tunisia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 149232Paris: Lux Film 1963. Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film. Text in French. During World War I a man supplements his income by luring middle-class Parisian women to a countryside villa where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. The first and only screenwriting credit of author and playwright Francoise Sagan. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Single sheet. Near Fine with a small dampstain to the top edge. Lux Film unknown books
1969ref. 151671Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1969. Vintage press kit for the US release of the 1969 French film for use by distributors and the press containing four black and white photographs one pressbook a promotional pamphlet and a one sheet poster for the film. Based on the 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake. A man seduces a young actress as part of his plan to avenge the hit-and-run death of his son. The second of four films Claude Chabrol made with actor Jean Yanne following "Line of Demarcation" 1966 and preceding "Le Boucher" 1970 and "Madame Bovary" 1991. Shot on location in Finistere Brittany and Paris. Poster photographs and promotional material Very Good plus. Grant France. Allied Artists unknown books
1977ref. 149743N.p.: N.p. 1977. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1977 French film showing actress Sylvia Kristel variously with director Claude Chabrol and actors Charles Vanel and Jean Carmet. A young woman in the process of leaving her husband discovers her car's windshield has mysteriously shattered forcing her to spend the night at an isolated mansion in the countryside. Shot on location in Villennes sur Seine France. 7 x 4.5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 148754New South Wales: Embassy Pictures 1963. Collection of 16 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French serial killer Henri Desire Landru. During World War I Henri Landru Charles Denner supplements his income by luring middle-class women through newspaper ads to a villa outside Paris where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Light creasing in margins three with pinholes to corners one with notable creasing in left margin. Grant France. Embassy Pictures unknown
1972ref. 171794N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1972 French film showing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Daniel Ivernel ogling a nude Laura Antonelli. Based on Hubert Monteilhet's 1969 novel "Murder at Leisure" about a womanizing doctor who begins drugging his wife in order to continue his affair with her younger sister. 11 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 151511Paris: Lux Film 1962. Vintage pressbook for the 1962 French film noir. Laid in with the pressbook is a xerographically duplicated cast list and synopsis of the film. Text in French. A failed journalist in southern Germany befriends a young married couple but the friendship begins to deteriorate when he takes compromising photographs of the wife with another man. A key Chabrol film predecessor to his thrillers made later in the decade. Set and shot on location in Germany and France. 12 x 9.5 inches. Two leaves folded vertically and bound with two staples. Very Good plus with light edgewear creasing and pinholes to the corners. Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. Lux Film unknown
1963ref. 149232Paris: Lux Film 1963. Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film. Text in French. During World War I a man supplements his income by luring middle-class Parisian women to a countryside villa where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. The first and only screenwriting credit of author and playwright Francoise Sagan. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Single sheet. Near Fine with a small dampstain to the top edge. Lux Film unknown
1958ref. 144701Paris: Ajym Films 1958. Two vintage borderless photographs featuring Bernadette Lafont and Jean-Claude Brialy from the 1958 film. With a rubber stamp on the verso of each. Director Claude Chabrol's first film. Francois Jean-Claude Brialy returns to his home-town after a long absence to find his friend Serge Gerard Blain depressed an alcoholic and mourning the death of he and his wife Yvonne's stillborn child. Though at odds with provincial life Francois wants to help his friend. Shot on location in Sardent France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 580. Eureka Masters of Cinema. Grant France. Ajym Films unknown
1959ref. 147470Rome: Panitalia 1959. Vintage borderless candid photograph of Antonella Lualdi and members of the film crew on the set of the 1959 film. With a stamp for photographer Jacques Six and mimeo snipe to the verso. Based on Stanley Ellin's 1952 novel. A wealthy vintner finds it difficult to balance the demands of his wife his children his best friend and his recently murdered mistress. Set and shot on location in Aix-en-Provence France. 9 x 6 inches. Very Good plus with faint soil. Grant France. Panitalia unknown
1966ref. 154556N.p.: N.p. 1966. Collection of 13 vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. Loosely based on the 1946-1950 memoirs of Gilbert Renault writing as Colonel Remy about a small town in the Jura divided by a narrow river which forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone. The first of four World War II films directed by Claude Chabrol followed by "The Blood of Others" 1984 "Story of Women" 1988 and "L'oeil de Vichy" 1993. Shot on location in Belmont Chissey Dole and Port-Lesney Jura. 12 photographs 10.5 x 9.5 inches one photograph 9 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 162079N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage studio still photograph of Laura Antonelli from the US release of the 1972 French film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Best known by the British release title "Scoundrel in White" director Claude Chabrol's "Docteur Popaul" was released in the US nine years after it's 1972 French release under two different titles "Play Now Pay Later" and "High Heels." Based on the 1969 novel "Murder at Leisure" by Hubert Monteilhet. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as inveterate womanizer. After marrying the wealthy but plain Mia Farrow he seduces her beautiful sister Martine Antonelli. Shot on location in Gironde and Paris France and Tunisia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 151589N.p.: Joseph Green Pictures 1975. Vintage press kit for the US release of the 1975 French film for use by distributors and the press containing two pressbooks 15 black and white photographs and a poster for the film. A married couple played by real-life husband and wife Paul Gegauff and Daniele Gegauff decide to spice up their sex lives by beginning an open relationship but the husband's jealousy soon pushes them both to a breaking point. Poster photographs and pressbooks Near Fine. Joseph Green Pictures unknown
1978ref. 144817France: Filmel 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet from the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jean-Marie Fitere which tells the true story of Violette Noziere Isabelle Huppert a French teenager who in the 1930s worked as a prostitute while living with her parents who she poisoned killing her father after they found out from her doctor that she had syphilis. Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Filmel unknown
1961ref. 161868N.p.: Times Films 1961. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1959 French film "À double tour" here under the US release title "Leda" also released in the US as "Web of Passion." Each photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel "The Key to Nicholas Street" by Stanley Ellin. Monsieur Marcoux patriarch of a grand family estate and living with his wife and grown children has an affair with the beautiful Italian artist Leda. Leda is found murdered and police suspect the milk man but Marcoux' daughter's fiancé suspects someone else. Director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol's third feature film his first in color and first psychological thriller the genre that would define his career for the next five decades. Shot on location in Aix-en-Provence France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Times Films unknown
1970ref. 150810N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Adapted by Arnold Federbush a film and sound editor who also wrote two science fiction novels in the 1970s "The Man Who Lived in Inner Space" 1973 and "Ice!" 1978. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted near the binding bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 160561N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph from the 1982 film showing a half-nude profile of actress Véronique Genest. A dramatization of the final few months in the life of famed French writer Guy de Maupassant characterized by overwhelming sorrow and paranoia. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 160561N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph from the 1982 film showing a half-nude profile of actress Véronique Genest. A dramatization of the final few months in the life of famed French writer Guy de Maupassant characterized by overwhelming sorrow and paranoia. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 161867N.p.: Peppercorn-Wormser 1973. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 French film. Claude a married man and father of two decides to transform his bookstore into a sex shop. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Peppercorn-Wormser unknown books
1972ref. 157321N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 French film. One photograph with a printed label affixed to the verso crediting a Dutch photo archive. A Parisian bookseller goes through a mid-life crisis and decides to convert his store into a sex shop in order to spice up his marriage and make more money. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 143838Paris: Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton 1966. Draft script carbon typescript and scenario offset printing for the 1966 French film here under the working title "Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu." Released in the US as "The Postman Goes to War" 1968. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil on one page. Also included is the original manila folder used to house the material with the working title in manuscript red ink on the flap. Based on Gautier's titular novel 1966. Jean-Claude Thibon Aznavour is a postman in Paris who accepts a position in the army during the Indochina War. He is wounded in combat and sent to the hospital where he falls in love with Vang Maria Minh a young Vietnamese nurse. Shot on location in Cambodia. Title page present integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Bernard-Aubert novelist Gautier and dialogue writer Accursi. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 212. Carbon typescript. Very Good plus bound with two silver binder clips. Scenario: title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for Bernard-Aubert and Gautier 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11 offset printing perfect-bound Near Fine. Complete collation upon request. Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton unknown books
1981ref. 156015N.p.: N.p. 1981. Five vintage matte-finish borderless reference photographs from the 1981 French adult film. A young woman is sent by her mother to join a community of sexual fetishists led by an outgoing wealthy libertine in his isolated country manor. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 140. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 143838Paris: Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton 1966. Draft script carbon typescript and scenario offset printing for the 1966 French film here under the working title "Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu." Released in the US as "The Postman Goes to War" 1968. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil on one page. Also included is the original manila folder used to house the material with the working title in manuscript red ink on the flap. Based on Gautier's titular novel 1966. Jean-Claude Thibon Aznavour is a postman in Paris who accepts a position in the army during the Indochina War. He is wounded in combat and sent to the hospital where he falls in love with Vang Maria Minh a young Vietnamese nurse. Shot on location in Cambodia. Title page present integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Bernard-Aubert novelist Gautier and dialogue writer Accursi. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 212. Carbon typescript. Very Good plus bound with two silver binder clips. Scenario: title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for Bernard-Aubert and Gautier 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11 offset printing perfect-bound Near Fine. Complete collation upon request. Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton unknown
