No binding
1927 · Los Angeles, CA, USA
by Paramount
Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures, [1927]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, light crease and rippling from descriptive paper snipe on back, near fine.
A portrait of Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft and Clive Brook from Josef von Sternberg's gangster film, often cited as a proto-film noir.
Grant, p. 675: "Important precursor of the 1930s US gangster movie and, as such, significant to noir's ancestry."
Silver and Ward, p. 301: "Enhanced immeasurably by the exotic visual preoccupations of ... Sternberg, which encompass a range of original symbols and imagery... The script, as written by ex-newspaperman Ben Hecht, realistically details the personalities populating the sordid speakeasies and dingy dwellings of the gangsters." (Inventory #: WALTER-FILM005709)
A portrait of Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft and Clive Brook from Josef von Sternberg's gangster film, often cited as a proto-film noir.
Grant, p. 675: "Important precursor of the 1930s US gangster movie and, as such, significant to noir's ancestry."
Silver and Ward, p. 301: "Enhanced immeasurably by the exotic visual preoccupations of ... Sternberg, which encompass a range of original symbols and imagery... The script, as written by ex-newspaperman Ben Hecht, realistically details the personalities populating the sordid speakeasies and dingy dwellings of the gangsters." (Inventory #: WALTER-FILM005709)