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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films, 1966. Vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1966 British film. Text in French. The locals in a small Cornish village live in fear of attack by a gigantic, man-eating snake creature. Actress Jacqueline Pearce was the only Hammer actress to play two monsters: the snake-woman in this film,… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Hammer Films / Warner Brothers, 1972. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1972 film. With manuscript pencil annotation on the verso identifying the film and actors Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beachum. In 1872 Dracula is killed by a professor with a stake through his heart and then buried by his servant. In present day 1972,… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Hammer Films, 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film, showing actor André Morell. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Included with the photograph are two mimeograph pages regarding captioning on stills from the film. Based on the classic 1902 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first adaptation of… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. During WWII, members of a troop occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse until they are discovered by German infantrymen. The first Hammer war film, and the second Hammer film produced in collaboration with a major US studio. Set in Tunis, shot on… Read more about this item

N.p.: Cinema International, 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 British film, showing a satanic ritual. Printed mimeo snipe in German affixed to the verso. Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella "Carmilla," the third and final film in Hammer Film's lesbian-themed Gothic vampire series "The Karnstein Trilogy," preceded by "The Vampire Lovers" (1970) and "Lust… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1966 film, showing Jacqueline Pearce in costume as The Reptile, attacking Jennifer Daniel. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Newcomers in a small Cornish village discover that the locals are plagued by mysterious ailments and even deaths that… Read more about this item

London: Hammer Films, 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Tallulah Bankhead during filming on location for the 1965 Hammer film, while to the right a camera crew captures the shot. Provenance stamp to the verso. Based on the 1961 novel "Nightmare" by Elizabeth Linington writing as Anne Blaisdell, about a woman who is stalked and terrorized… Read more about this item

London: Hammer Film Productions, 1971. Draft script for the 1972 Hammer film, here under the working title "Dracula Today." An unusual contemporaneous Xerographic duplicated script, with copied line annotations on every page, except one script page and title page, with annotations in manuscript marker on versos of last three pages. Missing seven pages, likely as used or issued. … Read more about this item

London: Hammer Films, 1960. Three vintage publicity photographs and three vintage reference photographs from the 1960 horror film. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, and two with provenance stamps and manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to take down handsome, bloodthirsty Baron Meinster. The second film in Hammer's Dracula… Read more about this item

London: Hammer Film Productions, 1967. Collection of seven vintage reference photographs, including six borderless, from the 1967 film. The young queen of Icena agrees to share her throne with Justinian, a Roman, causing consternation among Britons and Romans alike. Loosely based on the life of British folk hero Boudica, a famed ruler of the British Celtic Iceni tribe.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing actor Eddie Powell as The Mummy, carrying actress Elizabeth Sellars. With a provenance stamp on the verso. A team of archaeologists revive an Egyptian pharaoh, who subsequently seeks retribution for the violation of his tomb. The third in Hammer Films' Mummy cycle, preceded by "The… Read more about this item

London: Hammer Films, 1964. Four vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release affixed to the verso, noting the film's German title, "Die brennenden Augen von Schloss Bartimore." A small village in the early twentieth century is terrorized by Megaera the Gorgon,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1958. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. One with manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. Hammer Films' first adaptation of the Dracula story, generally thought to be the finest of the studio's many horror films to feature the Count, and simply one of… Read more about this item

N.p.: Hammer Film Productions, 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs (two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs) from the 1959 film. Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images. Although an ostensible remake of the hit 1932 Universal film, Hammer Film adaptation of this title borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and… Read more about this item

N.p.: Hammer Film Productions, 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 Hammer film. Based on the 1945 play by Barre Lyndon "The Man in Half Moon Street." 104 year old sculptor Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) maintains a youthful appearance by having a victim's parathyroid glands surgically replace his own, but his partner and friend Dr.… Read more about this item

N.p.: Hammer Film Productions, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Hammer Film's fifth Dracula Film and the fourth to feature Christopher Lee in the role. "Taste the Blood of Dracula" is the sequel to "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" (1968), and precursor to "Scars of Dracula" (1970). Three Victorian English gentlemen (Geoffrey… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of eight studio still photographs from the 1958 film, struck and copyrighted 1979 from the original negatives. Three photographs shown, please inquire to see others. Hammer Film's second Frankenstein feature, "The Revenge of Frankenstein" was the sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein," the 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelly's 1818 novel… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Five vintage single weight studio still photographs from the 1957 UK film, released in the US in 1958. "Leo Genn" in manuscript pencil on the verso of one still. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Troops of Company C occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse until… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of director Roy Ward Baker and cinematographer Moray Grant on the set of the 1970 Hammer horror film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1872 story, "Carmilla," by Sheridan Le Fanu, about a female vampire named Marcilla Karnstein (Ingrid Pitt) who comes back… Read more about this item

London: Hammer Films, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1972 British horror film, here under the working title "Blood Will Have Blood." With manuscript annotations throughout that include additions to description and changes in dialogue. A classic from the Hammer canon, and the last film Hammer made in conjunction with Anglo-EMI, about a widowed aristocrat who keeps… Read more about this item