CROSSFIRE (1947) Pressbook
$325.00
[Hollywood]: RKO Radio Pictures, 1947. Vintage original pressbook, printed wrappers, 18 x 12″ (46 x 30 cm), 16 pp. Folded once horizontally (as issued), very good+.
Classic film noir, one of the few noir films of the 1940s to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Story about a serviceman on leave who kills a Jewish man due to anti-Semitic hatred. It was adapted from the Richard Brooks novel The Brick Foxhole (in which the serviceman kills a gay man, but that was deemed too controversial for a Hollywood studio to contemplate in those days).
