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1952148414Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Revised Draft script for the 1953 film. With screenwriter Daniel Fuchs' holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout most noting substantive revisions and deletions.<br/><br/>Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Revised and WRITER'S WORKING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated June 14 1952 noted as production No. 473. Title page present dated June 14 1952 noted as Revised Writer's Working Script with credits for screenwriter Daniel Fuchs. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeographed on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a small dampstain to the bottom edge of the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964150570Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1964. Collection of 15 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film all but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>The third James Bond film overall but the first to achieve blockbuster status and still arguably the best and still inarguably the one with the best theme song introducing many of the elements that would become staples of the franchise including the pre-credit sequence futuristic technology and gadgets and Bond's Aston Martin. Winner of an Academy Award also a first for the franchise. <br/><br/>Three photographs trimmed to 7.5 x 9.5 inches one trimmed to 7.5 x 9 inches the remainder 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with slight curling and light edgewear. United Artists unknown books
1937147234Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. Treatment script for the 1939 musical here under the working title "Castles in the Air."<br/><br/>Based on real-life ballroom dancers Irene and Vernon Castle who rekindled an interest in Western ballroom dancing in the early 20th century. Irene Castle served on the film's production team and was purportedly quite difficult to please criticizing actor Ginger Rogers' refusal to bob her hair a style that Castle popularized in the US and more broadly the censorship restrictions which prohibited licentious-and Castle argued accurate-portrayals of the Ragtime Era or Jazz Age. A rare departure from the screwball comedies which characterized Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' earlier films and the final musical the pair would make with RKO Studios.<br/><br/>Set in New Jersey New York Paris and Britain.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers rubber-stamped "Please Return to RKO STORY FILES" and production No. 1010 on the front wrapper dated OCTOBER 13 1937 with credits for screenwriter Oscar Hammerstein II. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine lightly edgeworn bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1936128046Paris: Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film 1936. Draft script for the 1937 French film. An English-language version of the text issued by the Hakim brothers for use in the US. James M. Cain and John Howard Lawson adapted the story for a US film version in 1938 titled "Algiers" directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr. <br/><br/>A seminal noir antecedent oddly produced by the French who would go on to consider the Americans to be the inventors of the style. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present with name of producers Robert and Raymond Hakim rubber-stamped at the bottom right corner. 150 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus with some spotting to the wrappers first few leaves and fore-edges bound with a single silver metal clip. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 172. Hardy BFI Companion to Crime. Spicer US. Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film unknown books
1927134522Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on the front wrapper noting starring performers draft type and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few annotations in holograph pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Based on the 1923 Broadway play by David Belasco and Tom Cushing in turn an adaptation of the 1919 story "Ridi Pagliaccio" by Fausto Martini about two clowns who find an abandoned child. Years later one of the clowns falls in love with her and knowing that they can never be together performs a deadly stunt without safety protections. A partially lost film including an alternative happy ending. Nominated for an Academy Award in 1929 for Best Title Writing the only year for that category. <br/><br/>Set in Italy shot on location in Elysian Park a suburb of Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>Blue studio wrappers noted as FIRST TEMPORARY INCOMPLETE and struck through with Final Draft inscribed on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 1640 and production No. 5272 dated Nov. 19 1927 with credits for playwrights Belasco and Cushing and in ink screenwriter Meehan. 73 unnumbered leaves typescript on watermarked onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good split at the spine now encapsulated in mylar bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1946143620N.p.: Monogram Pictures 1946. Typescript of the Final Shooting script for the 1947 Poverty Row film noir. <br/><br/>Based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room" first published in the 1946 short story anthology "The Dancing Detective" under his pseudonym William Irish. <br/><br/>The tale of a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists "The Guilty" is a prototypical Poverty Row second feature. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Yellow titled self wrappers noted as "Exact typed copy of final shooting script" on the front wrapper dated 1946. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Robert Presnell Sr. and novelist Cornell Woolrich. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1955135819Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor Adele Cannon profusely annotated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Included is a studio still photograph from the film featuring the Creature and people in peril. <br/><br/>Third installment in the "Gill-man" series after "Creature from the Black Lagoon" 1954 and "Revenge of the Creature" 1955. After a laboratory fire severely damages the Creature's gills the head of the research team suggests an operation that will allow their subject to breathe air and walk on land. The operations seems successful until a violent confrontation leaves the Creature badly injured. Alone in alien territory the Gill-man shuffles off into the sea in anticlimactic resolution. <br/><br/>Where the first two films employed then-genre bending 3D effects this conclusion to the series was issued in 2D. Champion diver Ricou Browning again portrays the creature in the underwater sequences and Don Megowan as the land-walker. The Creature is perhaps the most popular of the underwater monsters of cinema rivaling Wes Craven's "Swamp Thing" 1982. <br/><br/>Set in Florida. <br/><br/>Salmon titled wrappers noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated August 22 1955. Title page present undated with a credit for screenwriter Ross. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication with yellow blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/29/55 and 9/22/55 and mimeograph scene annotations on the verso of nearly every page. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver screw brads. Photograph Very Good with staple holes and creases. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1996142445Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1996. Revised Final rainbow production archive and script for the 1997 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member D. Maynard with their name in holograph ink on the half-title page and containing 88 tipped in Polaroid photographs throughout detailing cast hairstyles in particular scenes including numerous images of stars Joan Allen and Dominique Swain. <br/><br/>The second and most highly regarded of the six films legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo made in Hollywood and perhaps the purest distillation of his wildly over-the-top neo-noir aesthetic ever put to celluloid with a premise so gloriously nuts that one wonders how it ever was greenlit in the first place. Answer: it was the 1990s. John Travolta plays FBI agent Sean Archer who undergoes a face transplant to look like terrorist Castor Troy in order to infiltrate Troy's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile Nicholas Cage plays terrorist Castor Troy who awaking to find out his face has been removed and placed on FBI agent Sean Archer forces the doctors to transplant Archer's face onto his in order to get his revenge. Archer now played by Cage must not only find the bomb but also track down Troy now played by Travolta before he kills his family. Guns are drawn explosions are walked away from scenery is chewed speedboats fly into midair and flocks of doves take flight. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Housed in a contemporary three ring binder. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 22 1996 noted as Revised Final with credits for Mike Werb and Michael Colleary and revisions by Wesley Strick. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication first generation copy with variously colored revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/7/96 and 3/13/97. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine housed in generic three ring binder. <br/><br/>Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1935142717Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1935. Treatment script for the 1936 film. Seen under the early working title "The Shining Spectre." <br/><br/>Boris Karloff plays scientist Janos Rukh who discovers a radioactive meteor in Africa that in turn causes him to become radioactive as well. His colleague Dr. Felix Benet Bela Lugosi develops a serum that holds the toxin at bay if taken regularly though the romantic relationship budding between his wife Diana Rukh played by Frances Drake and Ronald Drake Frank Lawton causes Rukh to go mad faking his own death in order to go on a vengeful killing spree before a final confrontation with his mother halts him. <br/><br/>The last of Universal's three Karloff / Lugosi team uos of the mid-1930s. In this treatment draft Karloff's character here named Josef Koh perhaps too close a moniker to the actor they had in mind for the part does go on his mad killing spree though he and Diana are reunited in a final kiss where he realizes his madness and she her enduring love for him just before she is then vaporized by his radioactivity. <br/><br/>While many of the film sets from the film were recycled from Universal's serial "Flash Gordon" which was being filmed simultaneously and various stock footage was utilized as well "The Invisible Ray" still managed to spend more than $50000 over budget. <br/><br/>Tall brown titled wrappers noted as DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped Screen Writers Guild file No. 6450 with credits for story writers Howard Higgin and Douglas Hodges. Title page present dated Aug. 17 '35 with credits for story writers Howard Higgin and Douglas Hodges. 24 leaves with last page of text numbered 23. Typescript with first and last leaves on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1971139346Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1971. Script archive built around the Revised First Draft script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to Burt Bluestein with his name on the title page in holograph pencil and annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Bluestein although not credited at the film's release was presumably involved with production design as indicated by the annotations concerning camera angles and props and his film credits as both assistant director and production manager. The script is accompanied by various interoffice pages like cast and crew lists emergency contact lists shooting schedules and interoffice memos including one discussing the film's hiatus and the possibility of Ron Talsky costume designer working with Otto Preminger during the hiatus. Between this script and the film's release dates Talsky did work for Preminger on his film "Such Good Friends" 1971. <br/><br/>Based on Knowles' 1959 best-selling first novel. Two young teens Finny Heyl and Gene Stevenson consider the draft if it should happen and make their way through school during WWII. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Actor Heyl's only film credit. <br/><br/>Title page present dated 1971 noted as FIRST DRAFT Revised with credits for novelist Knowles and screenwriter Segal. 163 leaves with last leaf of text being the tenth page of a shooting schedule. Various printing methods with a few manuscript and typed pages and yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated May 1971 yellow and two pages dated Jan 1971 pink. Pages Very Good plus overall bound in a black three-ring binder. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1978148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian.<br/><br/>In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Sicily. <br/><br/>Script:<br/><br/>Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding.<br/><br/>List of scenes:<br/><br/>10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
1960143342Tokyo: Toho Company 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. With the stamp of cast/crew member Takahashi Toshihiro to the page edges and holograph ink annotations to the rear wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese.<br/><br/>A film that bought depictions of modern life into Japanese films of the 1960s particularly with respect to the idea of the independent woman. A young widowed bar hostess finds herself torn between a conventional life and potential financial independence when she must decide to either remarry or open her own bar. <br/><br/>Set in Tokyo's Ginza district shot on location in Tokyo. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers noted as 2 on the front wrapper. Title page present. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered f-31. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good with foxing wear to the binding and light soil overall. With perfect binding.<br/><br/>BFI 694. Criterion Collection 377. Toho Company unknown books
1948137021Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Revised Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited member of the film cast or crew with that person's name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Notations in holograph pencil on the title page noting members of the cast and on a few pages. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of film noir. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 24 dated February 10 1948. Title page present dated February 10 1948 noted as Revised Final with a credit for screenwriter Sturges. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Mimeograph duplication dated variously betwee 2/10/48 and 2/13/48 with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/16/48 and 3/4/48. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 292. Selby US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1938145605Hollywood: Jed Buell Productions / Columbia Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to actor Joseph Herbst with his last name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper. Herbst played the part of the sheriff in the film and a year later would also go on to act as a Munchkin villager in The Wizard of Oz.<br/><br/>The only known all-little person western musical film an otherwise relatively conventional Western about good guys against cattle thieves that never-the-less featured a plethora of height-based gags including cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors and cattle ranchers riding Shetland ponies. Panned by critics and beloved by audiences produced Jed Buell stated that he had two sequels in the works with the cast though they never materialized leaving this the only oddity of its kind.<br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Tall blue titled wrappers noted as copy No. 12. Title page present with credits for producer Jed Buell and associate producers Abe Meyer and Bert Sternbach. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Carbon copy rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Fair loose leaves. Jed Buell Productions / Columbia Pictures unknown books
1950128821Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Revised Composite script for the 1951 film. Two front wrappers present one with the script department receipt intact both noting changes dated 5-12-50 to the script. <br/><br/>Tom and Ellen Bowen Astaire and Powell are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a gig in London while the Royal Wedding is in progress. On their cruise to England Ellen meets Lord John Brindale Lawford and she misses rehearsal. Upon arriving Tom holds auditions for dance partners and meets Anne Churchill. The siblings are at arms defending their romances and trying to keep their dance act stable. Loosely based on the real-life dancing partners Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. <br/><br/>Shot on location in England and California. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers with two front wrappers present as issued both rubber stamped COMPOSITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper and copy No. 173 on the white studio label dated 5-2-50 with "changes of 5-12-50" and credits for director Donen producer Freed and screenwriter Lerner. Distribution receipt present on the second goldenrod wrapper. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 5-2-50 and 8-2-50. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
2003149182N.p.: N.p. 2003. Archive of material from the 2003 musical including three rehearsal scripts dated 7/29/03 3/31/03 and 10/23/03 with various production materials bound in including sheet music production schedules and cast and crew contact information. Two scripts noted as belonging to uncredited cast member Walter O'Neil with his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout noting blocking and staging directions. <br/><br/>Based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel a revisionist imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from the perspective of Elphaba the misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West. A wildly successful musical which made its Broadway debut at the Gershwin Theatre on October 30 2003 named one of the highest-grossing Broadway productions and running for 6836 performances to date. Nominated for ten Tony Awards and winning three including Best Actress in a Musical for Idina Menzel.<br/><br/>Set in the magical land of Oz.<br/><br/>7/29/02 script:<br/><br/>Housed in a blue three-ring binder. Title integral with the first page of the script dated 7/29/02 noted as Workshop script. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine.<br/><br/>3/31/03 script:<br/><br/>Housed in a black three-ring binder with an illustrated flyer for the musical tucked into the front wrapper. Title page present dated 3/31/03 noted as Rehearsal Draft. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered II-9-146. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/03/03 and 6/20/03. Pages Near Fine.<br/><br/>10/23/03 script:<br/><br/>Housed in a black three-ring binder. Title page present dated 10/23/03 noted as New York Rehearsal Script. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered II-8-123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1928140436Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. <br/><br/>Lon Chaney plays a heavily-scarred wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from a cage that gruesomely attacks her. Lon Chaney's penultimate silent film and the last of his collaborations with director Tod Browning. The film was released with a Movietone music and effects soundtrack that could be played alongside the film. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 10751 and production No. 415 dated Dec. 31 1928 with credits for producer Irving Thalberg. Title page integral with the first page of the text with credits for story writers Tod Browning and Harry Sinclair Drago and screenwriter Waldemar Young. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1976145332New York: Ethel Barrymore Theatre 1976. Draft script for the 1977 Broadway play dated 1976 which premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 6 1977 then moved to the Belasco Theatre on April 12 1977 and closed on June 11 1977 for a total of 122 performances. Copy belonging to actor Jim Staskel who was a stand-in for Kenneth McMillan's character Donny with his copious holograph annotations throughout.<br/><br/>A gruff junk shop owner sells a buffalo nickel to a customer but when he comes to believe it has value he and his friends hatch a plot to steal it back. Playwright David Mamet's Broadway debut after first premiering at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 1975 and off-Broadway at the St. Clement's Theatre in 1976. Nominated for two Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play for Ulu Grosbard. Basis for the 1996 film directed by Michael Corrente and starring Dustin Hoffman and revived twice on Broadway in 1983 and 2008.<br/><br/>Orange titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for playwright David Mamet. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for playwright Mamet. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-57. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Fair bound with two gold brads. Ethel Barrymore Theatre unknown books
1941134492Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1941. Complete script for the 1943 film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men" but still a wonderful warm adaptation of what is perhaps Steinbeck's lightest and most anecdotal novel with expert interplay among Spencer Tracy John Garfield and the great Frank Morgan. <br/><br/>John Garfield plays a Mexican-American named Danny whose grandfather leaves him two houses as inheritance. Unfortunately Danny's friends quickly move in to Danny's newfound homes and Danny must struggle to find employment and get the girl. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Set in Northern California. <br/><br/>Goldenrod studio wrappers noted as COMPLETE rubber-stamped copy No. 139 and production No. 4852 dated 7/16/41 with credits for screenwriter Mahin and producer Zimbalist. Title page present dated 7/16/41. 131 leaves mimeograph duplication with white revision pages throughout dated 7-18-41. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970144038Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by director William Friedkin on the title page. <br/><br/>Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's non-fiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York City with glorious period detail in nearly every frame. The screenplay was written by author Ernest Tidyman one year after the publication of his seminal Harlem-based crime novel "Shaft." Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Gene Hackman along with three additional nominations. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 6 1970 with credits for screenwriter Tidyman director Friedkin and producer Phil D'Antoni. 95 leaves mechanical duplication last leaf numbered 93. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy BFI Companion to Crime. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960141447Tokyo: Shockiku Ofuna 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A young woman is hitchhiking when the driver who picks her up attempts to molest her. A young gangster comes to her aid and then leads her on a wild relationship through the Japanese underground towards the eventual destruction of both of them. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Shockiku Ofuna unknown books
1960141450Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Two inmates are killed when a police truck is assaulted and the driver is held responsible for negligence. He takes it upon himself to find the bandits which attacked the van. <br/><br/>Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 23. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant Japan. Criterion Collection Eclipse 17 Nikkatsu Noir. Nikkatsu unknown books
1956141458Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A yakuza boss and his right hand man escape from prison and examine their relationship both matters of loyalty and betrayal as well as the scams and crimes they pull in their criminal history. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 37. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
1966141426Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a novel by Takashi Suzuki a repressed Catholic young man living in a boardinghouse is infatuated with the landlady's daughter and when he cannot express his feelings he turns to violence. He joins a gang and begins a fighting routine exploiting the weakness of classmates. <br/><br/>Set in Okayama shot on location in Japan. <br/><br/>Red titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 269. Nikkatsu unknown books
1969143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. <br/><br/>The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking."<br/><br/>Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Japan. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown books
