Lot of 6, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Cristina Raines stills DUELLIST (1977)

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Lot of 6, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Cristina Raines stills THE DUELLIST (1977) MINT, vintage studio originals!
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This lot of approximately 8” x 10” photos will sell as a group. The first picture is just one of the group, please open and look at each still in this lot to measure the high value of all of them together. The circle with the words, “scanned for eBay, Larry41” does not appear on the actual photographs. I just placed them on this listing to protect these high quality images from being bootlegged. They would look great framed on display in your home theater or to add to your portfolio or scrapbook! Some dealers by my lots to break up and sell separately at classic film conventions at much higher prices than my low minimum. A worthy investment for gift giving too!
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DESCRIPTION:
The Duellists is based on a story by Joseph Conrad, variously titled The Duel and The Point of Honour. Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel play officers in Napoleon's army -- D'Hubert and Feraud, respectively -- who spend their off-hours challenging each other to bloody duels. This goes on for nearly 16 years, with neither man showing any inclination of calling a truce. The final clash finds the gentlemanly D'Hubert getting the upper hand of the obsessed Feraud -- but that's not quite the end of the story. The Duellists was the debut feature for director Ridley Scott; it won the Cannes Film Festival prize for Best First Film.
CONDITION:
These quality vintage and original release stills are in MINT condition (old yes, but NO signs of wear or damage). PERFECT TO BE AUTOGRAPHED OR SIGNED AT A PERSONAL APPEARANCE! I doubt there are better condition stills on this title anywhere! Finally, they are not digital or repros. (They came from the studio to the theater during the year of release and went into storage for many years!) They are worth each but since I have recently acquired two huge collections from life long movie buffs who collected for decades… I need to offer these choice items for sale on a first come, first service basis to the highest bidder.
SHIPPING:
Domestic shipping would be FIRST CLASS and well packed in plastic, with several layers of cardboard support/protection and delivery tracking. International shipping depends on the location, and the package would weigh close to a pound with even more extra ridge packing.
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BACKGROUND:
"The Duellists," the first major film to open here this year, may well remain one of the most dazzling visual experiences throughout all of 1978. The movie, set during the Napoleonic Wars, uses its beauty much in the way that other movies use soundtrack music, to set mood, to complement scenes and even to contradict them. Sometimes it's almost too much, yet the camerawork, which is by Frank Tidy, provides the Baroque style by which the movie operates on our senses, making the eccentric drama at first compelling and ultimately breathtaking.   "The Duellists," which opened yesterday at the Fine Arts Theater, is an adaptation of a Joseph Conrad story, "The Duel," which I haven't read. It's the first feature film by Ridley Scott, a young English director whose previous experience appears to have been entirely in the making of television commercials (though this doesn't show) and it was written by Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, whose work is also unfamiliar to me. However they collaborated, the result is a film that satisfies not because it sweeps us off our feet, knocks us into the aisles, provides us with visions of infinity or definitions of God, but because it is precise, intelligent, civilized, and because it never for a moment mistakes its narrative purpose.   This is to recount the bizarre story of how the life of a young French officer named Armand D'Hubert (Keith Carradine) comes to be dominated by the obsession of a fellow officer, Gabriel Feraud (Harvey Keitel), who believes that D'Hubert has somehow impugned his honor. It begins in Strasbourg in 1801, the year Napoleon comes to power, and continues for the next 15 years, throughout the Emperor's rise, fall and brief comeback as the two men accidentally meet in the course of various campaigns, each meeting culminating in a duel that D'Hubert cannot gracefully deny.   Though Feraud is clearly mad, there is no way that D'Hubert can avoid the challenges within the code of honor that defines the professional life of each. At Strasbourg, they fight with sabers, at Augsburg with what looks almost like broadswords. Once they meet on horseback. Another time pistols are the weapons. Every time they meet, each pares a little more off the other. It's as if they were whittling each other down to the bone, though the ending, which is a perfect short-story ending, makes it apparent that Feraud's obsession has had the effect of tempering the spiritual strength of the other man.   I assume that it's to the credit of Mr. Scott, the director, that after we once get over the shock of seeing Mr. Keitel and Mr. Carradine in the uniforms of Napoleonic Hussars, we never again see anything anachronistic about these two most contemporary of American actors in such strange surroundings. They are splendid and are never once upstaged by such high-powered English acting talent as Albert Finney, Alan Webb, Robert Stephens, John McEnery, Meg Wynn Owen, Edward Fox and Jenny Runacre, who appear in supporting roles. Cristina Raines, a young American actress ("The Sentinel"), is charming in the small but important part of Mr. Carradine's young wife.   What one carries away from the film, though, is a memory of almost indescribable beauty, of landscapes at dawn, of over-crowded, murky interiors, of underlit hallways and brilliantly sunlit gardens. It's not a frivolous prettiness, but an evocation of time and place through images that are virtually tactile, and which give real urgency to this curious tale. It's marvelous.