UNDERWORLD (1927) Photo ft. Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft, Clive Brook

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  • Los Angeles, CA, USA: Paramount, 1927
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."

Details

Title

UNDERWORLD (1927) Photo ft. Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft, Clive Brook

Author

Paramount

Binding

No binding

Condition

Near Fine

Publisher

Paramount: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Date

1927

Size

8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.)

Pages

1


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