Film Press Kits from Royal Books, Inc.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 13 black-and-white photographs, and 11 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on the 1973 novel by Peter Gent. A satire of American pro football loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s, following an aging wide receiver for a Texas… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing seven black-and-white photographs, and eight gatherings of promotional reading material. A Polish rabbi ventures into the American West to lead a synagogue. Things don't go well along the road, where he is nearly burned at the stake and killed by outlaws,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 23 black and white photographs, and 5 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on Sidney Sheldon's 1977 novel. A pharmaceutical industry billionaire dies in a mysterious climbing accident, leaving his daughter to investigate the circumstances of his death. Folder,… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing two black-and-white photographs, and two gatherings of promotional reading material. A young, emotionally isolated doctor finds friendship and solace in her newest patient, a 17-year-old girl dying of cancer. Set and shot on location in Hartford, Connecticut. … Read more about this item

Chicago: Full Circle Films, 1989. Vintage press kit for the 1989 film, seen here under the original release title "Uneasy Silence." Housed in a Full Circle Films pocketed folder, the press kit contains two gatherings of promotional reading material and copied newspaper articles and reviews, and five reference photographs housed in a glassine sleeve. Full Circle Films business card… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 11 black-and-white photographs, and 21 gatherings of promotional reading material. A compulsive liar's colorful tall tales land him in hot water with his family, but also help him get a job as a social worker, where he becomes determined to… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 18 black-and-white photographs, and 10 gatherings of promotional reading material. A television consultant is hired to organize a telethon in order to raise funds for the now-bankrupt US government, who are on the brink of losing the country to wealthy… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Lorimar, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing eleven black-and-white photographs, and eleven gatherings of promotional reading material. Tired of her dull life as a waitress, an 18-year-old girl joins up with a traveling carnival, where she quickly becomes a successful hustler at a game of chance on the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1984. Vintage press kit for the 1984 film. Black and white pocketed folder, containing 14 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope, and 9 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A former British consul in a small Mexican town reunites with his wife… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 10 black and white photographs, and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Loosely based on Cyra McFadden's 1977 novel "The Serial." A parody of upper-middle-class suburban life at the end of the 1970s, taking aim at second wave women's consciousness-raising groups,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing eight black and white photographs, and seven gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on Stanley Ellin's 1970 novel "The Bind." An insurance company hires a private eye to investigate the mysterious circumstances of a millionaire's death. Set and shot… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Two-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing five black-and-white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope, and 15 gatherings of promotional reading material. Four police detectives in Miami arrange a sting operation to record the illicit activities of criminals in a pawn shop. The directorial debut of… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 5 black-and-white photographs, and 12 gatherings of promotional reading material. A bankrupt perfume magnate seeks to recoup her losses by sponsoring a washed-up boxer turned driving instructor, hoping to return him to his former glory in the ring. Folder,… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing seven black and white photographs, and one gathering of promotional reading material. A young indigenous woman running away from her abusive husband seeks shelter with two curmudgeonly but good-hearted, mountain-dwelling fur trappers. Shot on location in Wyoming. … Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 8 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope, and 19 gatherings of promotional reading material. An ethical Baltimore defense attorney is forced to take on the case of a guilty judge charged with sexually assaulting a young… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1982. Vintage press kit for the 1982 film, containing four black-and-white photographs, and three gatherings of promotional reading material. A young track-and-field athlete prepares to compete in the 1980 Olympic Games, finding romance with a fellow competitor along the way. Featuring noted real-life track-and-field athlete Patrice Donnelly, and cameos by many contemporary athletes, including… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 14 black and white photographs, and 16 gatherings of promotional reading material. Loosely based on John Ford's 1937 film, which was in turn based on the 1936 novel by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff, about the doomed romance between a… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 12 black and white photographs, and 5 gatherings of promotional reading material. A dramatization of the life of legendary Polish ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, focusing on the dancer's repression of his own homosexuality due to his drive for success,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing one black and white photograph and one handbook of promotional reading material. A woman escapes from a mental institution in New York and hitches a ride with a trucker to California, where she plans to avenge her wrongful institutionalization by her… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 13 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope, and 2 gatherings of promotional reading material. A mathematics professor in Chicago travels to New York to attend her widowed father's wedding, where she falls in love with her… Read more about this item