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Three vintage reference photographs from the 1953 British film noir. Two with printed mimeo snipes on the verso. Based on Martha Albrand's 1951 novel. A former member of the Dutch resistance is wrongly accused of murdering a British soldier in post-WWII Berlin, forcing his girlfriend to aid him in finding the true culprit. Set and shot on location in Germany. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK.

Two vintage reference photographs of actor James Mason from the 1945 British film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Left with amnesia after a suicide attempt, a brilliant concert pianist undergoes hypnotherapy to recover memories of her unhappy former life. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn and toned.

Photograph. 11 B/W publicity photographs. 8 x 10 inches. Movie stars Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, and James Donald. 11 near fine B/W photographs: 1. 'Trevor Howard receiving a photograph of 'the Gift Horse' from one of the crew, Richard Attenborough, with Harry Waxman (cameraman) and Bob Compton-Bennett (director) watching proceedings' - written in ink on rear of photograph; 2. Photograph shows '.Lieut. Col. A. C. Newman, who commanded the military force, Commander S. H. Beattie, R.N., who commanded H.M.S. Campeltown when she rammed the lock gates, Trevor Howard and Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., who was on charge of the whole naval foce during the raid; 3. Trevor Howard.chats to survivors of the St. Nazaire raid.'Douglas Clark, of Mitchan, Surrey' David White, of Southsea; Ralph Batteson, of Chesterfield; and Leonard Kelley, of Wallasey; 4. Trevor Howard in naval uniform; 5, 6, 7. Sonny Tufts, in naval uniform, different poses; 8.Sonny Tufts, seated, in uniform, at desk with 2 others looking on; 9, 10, 11. views of naval vessels on the sea.