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Auction History Result 9g109 INFORMER studio publicity book '35 John Ford, from the estate of photographer Coburn Date Sold 6/9/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Studio Publicity Book (measures 12" x 15"). Also includes 6 8" x 10" photos, and 5 11" x 14" photos (Learn More) The Informer, the classic 1935 John Ford (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Ireland Irish Rebellion Irish Republican Army (IRA) betrayal melodrama ("No words can describe the heart-crushing poser of this great drama"; "For a woman's smile he sold his living soul!"; "A blast of searing drama that will crumble the walls of your heart!"; "It grips you... Holds you... Fascinates you!.. The souls of a man and woman in love become the stage on which stampedes all that there is of the human heart... Its sins and its sufferings... Its pain and its passions... Its terror and its glory!"; "The souls of a man and woman in love become the crucible of fear that sets a city ablaze with mob-crazed fury! The most astounding drama the screen has ever known!"; "From the story by Liam O'Flaherty"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a member of the IRA who betrays his comrades to the English in return for money, and then, wracked by guilt, spends the money openly and incriminates himself) starring Victor McLaglen (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Gypo Nolan, the informer), Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford (as Frankie McPhillip, the man that Gypo Nolan betrayed for the 20 pound reward), Una O'Connor, Donald Meek, and Joe Sawyer NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is an incredible studio publicity book created by RKO for this classic movie when it was about to be released in 1935. It was purchased from the estate of Hollywood photographer Robert Coburn, who later was a studio photographer for Columbia Pictures for many years. Studios would create publicity books like these for various purposes, and what is offered here is the actual original mock up of that publicity book, but it is incomplete. There are 21 of the original sheets of Vadun illustration board, each measuring 12" x 15", and glued to those sheets are original Coburn photos, and captions were glued beneath them. There are also five boards which have printed artwork of the producer, director, cameraman, original author, and script writer! At some point over the years, all of the captions from the Coburn photo ones came off, but we have a group of separate captions which likely are the ones that came off. The five artwork ones still have the original captions. There is also a "title page" with the full cast and production credits, and there are five 11" x 14" stills with embossed Coburn signatures at the bottom and six 8" x 10" stills which have the RKO studio stamp on the back (three are stamped with Coburn's name and three are not). This is an extremely rare opportunity to purchase wonderful original production material and great stills for a classic movie, directly from the estate of the photographer who took them. Note that we pictured every single item in this lot! Condition: good. The publicity book is separated into pages, and on most of them, the captions are separated, but they are present, as described above. There are some stains around the edges of each of the illustration boards. The 11" x 14" and 8" x 10" stills are in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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