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1962132627London: Regal Films National 1962. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Before Michael Caine as "Alfie" 1966 there was Ian Hendry as the cheeky womanizer named Albert whose ex-lover June Ritchie comes to visit with their out-of-wedlock child. For a brief period the two reunite and Albert puts a halt to his philandering ways until they fall out once more. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creases at the extremities. Regal Films National unknown books
1967152327Universal City: Universal Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 British film showing actors Jean Shrimpton and Paul Jones dancing. Mimeo snipe to the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. <br/><br/>An outrageous paranoiac satire following a beloved pop star named Steven Shorter whose actions beliefs and performances are controlled by a totalitarian British government.<br/><br/>Set in a near-future England shot on location in London and Birmingham.<br/><br/>8 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creases to the corners. <br/><br/>BFI Flipside 7. Rosenbaum 1000.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956146325Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holograph ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph pencil on upper right of wrapper.<br/><br/>The final of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers starring Bill Elliott as a L.A.sheriff's department detective following "Dial Red O" 1955 "Sudden Danger" 1955 "Calling Homicide" 1956 and "Chain of Evidence" 1957. <br/><br/>Two detectives investigate the strangulation death of well-liked card player. A gambling addicted neighbor is suspected but something doesn't quite add up. "Wild" Bill Elliott's final film retiring from acting in 1957.<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page present with receipt removed dated March 14 1956 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Spicer US. Lyons p. 91. Grant US. Selby US. Allied Artists Productions unknown books
1956146265Hollywood: William F. Boidy Pictures 1956. Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Laid in are 7 pages of revisions on pink paper from 4/3/56. <br/><br/>Mexican bandit Yacqi Jack J. Carrol Naish teams up with ranch owner Webb Dunham Rod Cameron to oppose the crooked land grabbing saloon keeper Matt Quigg Roy Roberts.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 49. Title page present noted as Final Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter D. D. Beauchamp. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/23/56 and 3/26/56 with laid in pink revision pages dated 4/3/56. Pages Near Fine Laid in Pages Very Good with fading and chipping the the outer right edge wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. William F. Boidy Pictures unknown books
1952143716Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1952. Final White script for the 1953 film. <br/><br/>A loose adaptation of the popular 1925 silent film directed by James Cruze retelling a largely fictionalized account of the formation of the US mail system. Charlton Heston plays a gritty Buffalo Bill Cody and Forrest Tucker plays Wild Bill Hickock. In reality however Wild Bill Hickock never rode for the Pony Express Buffalo Bill Cody was only fourteen when he rode for the route and the route itself ran for only eighteen months of service before being superseded by the transcontinental telegraph. <br/><br/>Set between Missouri and California shot on location in Utah and Arizona. <br/><br/>White titled self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE on the front wrapper noted as production No. SF 88972 dated May 21 1952 with credits for producer Nat Holt and writer Frank Gruber. Distribution page present with receipt removed rubber stamped as copy No. 84. Title page integral with the distribution page dated May 21 1952 noted as FINAL WHITE with credits for writer Frank Gruber. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fin wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1978138793N.p.: Recorded Picture Company 1978. Vintage borderless matte photograph from the set of the 1978 film. Shown are Skolimowski working with his cinematographer Mike Molloy on a shot. With some brief annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Devon town and beaches in the United Kingdom. <br/><br/>Ignored upon its release but subsequently an iconic art-horror film in which a traveler by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Recorded Picture Company unknown books
1978144673N.p.: Recorded Picture Company 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. <br/><br/>Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis.<br/><br/>A quiet chilling horror film with experimental leanings. Shot on location along the North Devon coastline specifically Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows. Producer Jeremy Thomas later noted: "Because I had a great director and a quality piece of literature I managed to get a wonderful cast such as John Hurt and Alan Bates. Skolimowski had a sense of shooting style then this was the second director who I had worked closely with and it was fascinating watching him work. He came from a Polish tradition the Wajda Film School he had a different background to other directors I had been working with in the cutting rooms or elsewhere. And it made the film much more creative to me. I saw it more as an artistic endeavour by him."<br/><br/>Beige titled die-cut wrappers in the British style. Title page present dated June 15 1977 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Michael Austin story writer novelist Robert Graves and RECORDED PICTURE COMPANY LTD along with their address in London. Copy No. 54 annotated in blue ink at the bottom right corner. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver flat brads. Recorded Picture Company unknown books
19878929Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press 1987. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of this elegant 1987 re-issue. Clean and Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo 736 pgs. <br/><br/> Carolina Academic Press hardcover books
1967132226Beverly Hills CA: Walter Wagner / United Artists 1967. Original late 1960s Polish R61 poster for the Polish re-release of the 1939 US film designed by Jerzy Treutler. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>John Ford's smash hit and enduring masterpiece "Stagecoach" revolutionized the Western elevating it from B movie to the A-list and establishing the genre as we know it today. The quintessential tale of a group of strangers thrown together into extraordinary circumstances "Stagecoach" features outstanding performances from Hollywood stalwarts Claire Trevor John Carradine and Thomas Mitchell. And of course John Wayne in his first starring role for Ford as the daredevil outlaw the Ringo Kid. Superbly shot and tightly edited "Stagecoach" Ford's first trip to what would become his beloved Monument Valley is Hollywood storytelling at its finest. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches non-archivally mounted on board. Light rubbing and soil pulling slightly from one corner. Very Good plus overall. <br/><br/>Shipping billed at cost. Item can only be shipped within the US. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 515. Walter Wagner / United Artists unknown books
1975135374Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white studio reference photographs from the 1975 film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1975135372Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Complete collection of 8 vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. Each with a printed snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1975135371Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Vintage black and white still reference photograph from the 1975 film. With a printed snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987138463New York: Vestron Pictures 1987. Original program printed in the US for the 1987 British-American-Irish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages on-the-set images and biographies of the cast and crew as well as a large image and brief biography of James Joyce. <br/><br/>Based on Joyce's 1914 short-story collection "Dubliners" with "The Dead" being the final story of the collection. Gabriel Conroy McCann a university professor arrives late to a party with his wife Gretta Anjelica Huston. Throughout the evening Gabriel is confronted by not only the party's guests but his own epiphanies concerning his own status his wife's past and the lives of dead relatives. <br/><br/>Director Huston's final film. His son Tony the film's screenwriter was nominated for an Academy Award as was the costume designer Dorothy Jeakins. <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches saddle-stapled 14 leaves color illustrated wrappers. Light bump to one corner else Near Fine. Vestron Pictures unknown books
1932145965Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." <br/><br/>Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An American naval officer purchases marries and abandons a Japanese geisha named Butterfly leaving her penniless pregnant and increasingly despairing of his return. <br/><br/>Madame Butterfly has been adapted numerous times for opera stage and film although many of these productions have faced increased scrutiny in recent years for their stereotypical portrayals of Japanese people white actors in "yellowface" and inaccurate descriptions of Japanese customs and culture.<br/><br/>Tall white titled self wrappers noted as MASTER FILE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 1083 with credits for screenwriter Zoe Akins. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered G-25. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1963134888Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1963. Revised Final White script for the 1963 film. Copy belonging to a crew member presumed with annotations in holograph ink and pencil on both sides of the first page. <br/><br/>Based on a screenplay by Jacqueline "Jay" Presson Allen a romantic comedy about unsuccessful writer Bill Austin Johnson who lives in New York with his wife Bertie Leigh. Their lives change dramatically when Bill's first novel becomes a bestseller and he persuades Bertie to quit her job and move to the suburbs. Bill begins working long hours on Broadway adapting his novel for the theater and he spends more and more time with his attractive agent Lucinda Ford Hyer. Bertie is suspicious and begins courting actor Gar Aldrich Jeremy Slate. <br/> <br/>Set in New York shot on location in California. Edith Head was nominated for an Oscar for her costume designs. <br/><br/>Playwright and screenwriter Jay Allen was living in New York when she wrote the screenplay performing on radio and in cabaret both of which she loathed so much that she tried to get fired from nearly every production. After a long period of writer's block she started writing again and sold some of her work to live television programs like "The Philco Television Playhouse." When she married Lewis M. Allen in 1955 they moved to the countryside where Allen had a baby and spent two and a half "absolutely wonderful years in the country."<br/><br/>Eventually the couple came back to the city to work. Allen drew on her married life and wrote "The First Wife" a witty script about a suburban working couple. When Allen read Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" she instantly saw the books potential for stage adaptation. After undergoing hypnotherapy to alleviate another bout of writer's block Allen produced a draft of the play in three days. <br/><br/>Allen's notable film credits as screenwriter include "Marnie" 1964 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 1969 "Cabaret" 1972 "A Star Is Born" 1976 "Deathtrap" and "The Verdict" both 1982 and "Lord of the Flies" 1990. <br/><br/>Self wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 107 and production No. 10228 dated February 1 1963 with a credit for screenwriter Anhalt. Title page integral with front wrapper. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock dated 2/1/63 and 2/4/63. Pages Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1945137348Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1945. Original pressbook for the 1945 film based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. <br/><br/>12.25 x 15 inches. 28 pages saddle stapled. Light fading to the front edges lightly rubbed and soiled about Near Fine overall. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1945137328Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1945. Original complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1945 film based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus. Lightly soiled with pinholes but still bright. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1966132301Poland: N.p. 1966. Original Polish A1 poster circa 1966 for the 1959 US film. <br/><br/>Kirk Douglas and Earl Holliman reunite in this film after Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957 again under the direction of John Sturges. The story brings together elements of "High Noon" "3:10 to Yuma" and Sturges' "Bad Day at Black Rock." Remade in 1985 as the Indian film "Bhawani Junction."<br/><br/>Shot by Charles Lang on location in Old Tucson Arizona and set in the fictitious neighboring towns of Pauley and Gun Hill. <br/><br/>Artwork by Jerzy Flisak. <br/><br/>22.5 x 32 inches rolled. A few minor professional repairs on archival linen. Fine. <br/><br/>Pitts 2240. N.p. unknown books
1928151246N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film showing actors George Bancroft and Betty Compson. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on John Monk Saunders' 1928 story "The Dock Walloper." A roughneck sailor on shore leave saves a working girl from suicide by drowning and the two begin a passionate relationship. Widely considered one of director Josef von Sternberg's finest films heightened by the work of cinematographer Harold Rosson and set designer Hans Dreier released at the very end of the silent era.<br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 531. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Antecedent. N.p. unknown books
1946147829Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Original pressbook for the 1948 film noir. <br/><br/>A quintessential "amnesia victim as protagonist" noir with superior dialogue and presentation courtesy of the talented Joseph L. Mankiewicz "Somewhere in the Night" stars John Hodiak as a war veteran suffering from complete memory loss with only two clues to his past: a bitter letter from a woman who hates him and a second even more mysterious letter signed "Larry Cravat." <br/><br/>One sheet folded twice as issued 25 x 11 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear.<br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968135478Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1968. Collection of one color and two black and white vintage double weight studio still photographs from 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow and Elizabeth Taylor. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968140420Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage borderless still photograph from the set of the 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow on a horse during filming with Jo Losey and Liz Taylor in the background. <br/><br/>A dark psychologically twisted film in which Liz Taylor plays a boozy prostitute who stubles upon a family drama between young wealthy Mia Farrow coming off her success in "Rosemary's Baby" and her stepfather played by Robert Mitchum. Taylor plays a matronly role in Farrow's life though she is unable to tell which of the family members is lying about the other until Farrow kills herself to escape her stepfather's sexual predation and Taylor exacts a bloody revenge. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine condition. <br/><br/>Newman 35. Universal Pictures unknown books
1957149134Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of James Cagney in makeup as Lon Chaney's Quasimodo with Bud Westmore head of Universal-International Make-up Department and his assistant Jack Kevan on the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to verso and folded over recto. <br/><br/>A loose biography of actor Lon Chaney played by James Cagney portraying his beginnings as a vaudeville clown his struggle with cancer and finally the passing of his makeup kit to his son. Regarded as one of the better Hollywood films about Hollywood and a high point of Cagney's career. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1938129617N.p.: N.p. 1938. Treatment Outline script for an unproduced film. Though we have seen further treatment scripts indicating that screenwriter Budd Schulberg at Selznick International studios also tried his hand at this script the film was never made. <br/><br/>The story centers around the lives of several women on the home front during World War I following their lives through to the post-war period and did not see production in this form-though it predicted several similar World War II pictures with the same theme made by Selznick International such as "I'll Be Seeing You" 1944 and "Since You Went Away" 1944. Notable too for having many of the same themes that would influenced Schulberg's first novel "What Makes Sammy Run" in 1941. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers noted as DRAFT on the front wrapper dated February 1 1938 with credits for writer Mary C. McCall Jr. 23 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1943146447Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Post-production script for the 1943 anthology film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the title page reading UF145. <br/><br/>A three-part anthology film with supernatural stories woven together by a conversation about the occult between two clubmen. The second of the three stories is based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 short story "Lord Arthur Savillle's Crime."<br/><br/>White titled self-wrappers noted as REVISED VERSION on the front wrapper dated AUGUST 28 1943 with credits for director Julien Duvivier and actors Charles Boyer Barbara Stanwyck Robert Benchley and other cast members. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound at the top edge with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
