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1980143208Yokohama Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting including the use of professional or amateur actors as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro who was fired on the first day of shooting. <br/><br/>The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. <br/><br/>When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola convinced 20th Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights receving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 267. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
1962135566N.p.: Roger Corbeau 1962. Two oversize double weight still photographs from the set of the 1962 film. Each shot and stamped by still photographer Roger Corbeau and with unique rubber stamped reference numbers on the verso. <br/><br/>"Le proces" released as "The Trial" in the UK and the US was co-produced by entities in France West Germany and Italy and was shot in France between March and June of 1962. Welles considered it his best film and it remains one of the few great twentieth century adaptations of existentialist literature and the definitive visualization of Kafka's work. <br/><br/>9.5 x 8 inches. In an archival mat. Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Spicer US. Roger Corbeau unknown books
1946143611Los Angeles: Beacon Productions 1946. Final Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy likely belonging to an uncredited costume designer with annotations in holograph pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Groucho Marx's first solo film appearance and his first with a real mustache as opposed to one made with grease paint. Marx plays an incompetent theatrical agent whose only client is Carmen Miranda in her first film after leaving Twentieth Century-Fox and who he tries to pass off as two different performers. <br/> <br/>Set in New York City and shot there on location. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated October 28 1946. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Mimeograph on pink stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good bound with two silver brads. Beacon Productions unknown books
1936144161Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1936. Treatment script for the 1937 film. Almost certainly the earliest draft associated with the film a typescript prose synopsis. <br/><br/>A ballet star Astaire falls in love with a young tap dancer Rogers on a trans-Atlantic voyage but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers would make together and the fourth of five directed by Mark Sandrich. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as Treatment on the front wrapper rubber-stamped PLEASE RETURN TO RKO STORY FILES and production No. 808 dated October 16 1936 and with a credit for screenwriter Mark Sandrich. Title page integral with the first page of text. 26 leaves with last page of text numbered 26. Typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few tiny chips at the extremities bound with two gold brads with washers.<br/><br/>Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1987138411Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. Second Revised Draft script for the 1988 film. Copy belonging to "B. Daniel" with their name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>A crackerjack thriller probably the best action film of the 1980s based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel "Nothing Lasts Forever." The film transformed Bruce Willis then known primarily as a television actor into an A-list box office star and was the film debut of the great Alan Rickman in what remains one of his most iconic roles. Followed by four increasingly cartoonish sequels. <br/><br/>Nominated for four Academy Awards. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 2 1987 and various November 1987 dates revisions noted as SECOND REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Stuart and DeSouza and novelist Thorp. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication with blue pink green yellow goldenrod and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/2/87 and 1/27/88. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime p. 106; The Gangster Film p. 425. Spicer p. 427. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950141467Tokyo: Shintoho Film 1950. Two Draft scripts for the 1950 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a novel by Selichi Funabashi . A young servant girl Hamako has recently begun working for her hero Madame Yuki who quickly disillusioned her to her dream when she is presented with a list of the Madame's personal problems. <br/><br/>First draft:<br/><br/>White illustrated titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Second draft:<br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 15 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Shintoho Film unknown books
1956141466Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations on a few pages in holograph ink. <br/><br/>Based on the novel "Susaki No Onna" by Yoshiko Shibaki. The last film of Mizoguchi this film is a vivid portrayal of prostitution in 1950s Japan shot before the Japanese government's anti-prostitution bill told through the perspective of several different women who work in the business for various reasons. <br/> <br/>Set in Tokyo and shot on location there. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection Eclipse 13. Eureka Masters of Cinema. Daiei Studios unknown books
1929150433Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Two vintage reference photographs on the set of the 1929 film. Mimeo snipes on verso of both one with annotations in holograph pencil and Culver Picture stamp on verso and one with "Menningen" and graphic stamps on verso. <br/><br/>The first Black musical and one of the first all-Black films by a major Hollywood studio with arguably more depth than its predecessor Paul Sloane's "Hearts in Dixie" the first all-black Hollywood film released earlier the same year. <br/><br/>King Vidor's first talkie written by screenwriter Wanda Tuchock who started in the silent era and went on to become one of the first women to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film. <br/><br/>Although King Vidor had expressed his intent of an honest depiction of rural southern African American life the film still clearly advanced racial stereotypes of the era. "Hallelujah" had however authentically represented African American spiritual music from the period which no other film achieved.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Tennessee and Arkansas.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and waviness one with a chip in the bottom left margin one with faint tape shadows on recto and paper tape on verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1915136474Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1915. Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the story. <br/><br/>The director's magnum opus "Les vampires" is one of the great crime epics nearly 7 hours in length acknowledged as a strong influence on the surrealists and by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang in the development of the thriller as well as the earliest masters of avant-garden cinema. The second of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces preceded by "Fantomas" 1913 and followed by "Judex" 1915 combining elements of both. <br/><br/>11 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Gaumont unknown books
1978145780Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Illustrated front wrapper based on Saul Bass' poster design for the film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member David Hitchcock with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Holograph annotations throughout primarily indicating deleted scenes. <br/><br/>Also included is a carbon typed letter signed by Otto Preminger dated 19th October 1979 to dubbing editor Peter Pennell terminating his employment at the conclusion of production. <br/><br/>The final film directed by director Otto Preminger based on the 1978 novel by Graham Greene with screenplay written by Tom Stoppard about a low-level bureaucrat in the British Secret Service M16 who finds himself unknowingly used by the Soviets as he struggles with his love for his family and the ambiguity of his ethical responsibilities.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in UK and Kenya. <br/><br/>White illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriter Tom Stoppard and novelist Graham Greene rubber stamped copy No. 146. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong binding. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956149584Paris: Filmsonor 1956. Collection of six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1956 French documentary including two showing director Henri-Georges Clouzot and artist Pablo Picasso on the set. With the stamp of Filmsonor on the verso.<br/><br/>A short documentary showing Picasso creating increasingly elaborate artworks on custom-built transparent canvases granting the camera a view of his creative process. The majority of the canvases were destroyed after production had ended.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Three photographs Near Fine three photographs Very Good plus with small pinholes and light diagonal creases to the top left corner. Filmsonor unknown books
1970146086New York: Pressman Williams 1970. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Gregory Sandor with his name in holograph pencil on the verso of the title page and holograph pencil annotations throughout.<br/><br/>Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her conjoined twin Dominique. When her neighbor an aspiring journalist suspects Danielle of a brutal murder the horror of Danielle's disturbing past begins to surface. Director Brian De Palma based his original story on a Life magazine article about conjoined twins in the Soviet Republic who had been successfully separated but were experiencing psychological problems as a result of the operation. <br/><br/>With its use of visually dense point-of-view and split-screen camera techniques "Sisters" is one of De Palma's earliest forays into erotic voyeurism as a conduit for psychological horror paving the way for a string of idiosyncratic psychosexual projects in the ensuing years such as "Obsession" 1976 "Dressed to Kill" 1980 "Blow Out" 1981 and "Body Double" 1984 among others. Given its focus on the anxiety of the gaze "Sisters" can also be read as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock-openly referencing "Rope" 1948 "Rear Window" 1954 and "Psycho" 1960-and indeed the film was even scored by Bernard Hermann a frequent musical collaborator for Hitchcock's films.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>Maroon titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1970 with credits for screenwriters Brian De Palma and Louisa Rose. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Arrow 1578. Criterion Collection 89. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Pressman Williams unknown books
1970143238Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a xerographically duplicated character list laid in with single holograph ink notation. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one of the screen's great heroes the character of Zatoichi a blind masseur and swordmaster was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa first appearing on film in 1962. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. "Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival" is the 21st film of the series where Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. <br/><br/>Set in the Japanese Edo period. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered c-50. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on papers edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 679. Daiei Studios unknown books
1966148795N.p.: N.p. 1966. Collection of 20 vintage borderless photographs from the 1966 film 18 reference photographs and 2 fashion photographs of Rosaleen Murray and Ann Norman. Mimeo snipes on the verso of three of the photographs. <br/><br/>Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar.<br/><br/>Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom and featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design non-standard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. <br/><br/>In his 2009 essay on the film Danny Lyon notes "It is apt that through his established style Antonioni made a movie that is perhaps closest to communicating the myth of the swinging Sixties scene but also the confusion of the time. . Britain's new and very chaotic cultural revolution was perhaps most effectively captured by an Italian."<br/><br/>Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Lightest edgewear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK/Italy. N.p. unknown books
1969136883N.p.: N.p. 1969. Original ribbon copy typescript for Tay Garnett's screenplay adaptation of Mickey Spillane's 1967 novel. Profusely annotated by Garnett in blue and red ink on every page and with a annotations by him at the top right corner of the first leaf: "First Draft Work Copy" "Screenplay by Tay Garnett" and "From Mickey Spillane's novel."<br/><br/>Raoul Walsh eventually worked with Garnett on the script but this draft precedes his involvement. The film was released on May 15 1970 and starred Yvette Mimieux Christopher George and Yvonne De Carlo. <br/><br/>182 leaves rectos only. Leaves supple Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1977143728N.p.: Objektiv Film 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. <br/><br/>The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hungary. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Objektiv Film unknown books
1936149213Los Angeles: Hollywood Studio 1936. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1936 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and a typed note addressed to Humberstone from producer J.E. Grainger laid in with the script.<br/><br/>Based on the detective novel series created in 1925 by author Earl Derr Biggers. The twelfth film in the long-running Charlie Chan detective series featuring actor Warner Oland as the eponymous Honolulu detective.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated May 9 1936 with credits for screenwriters Robert Ellis Helen Logan Edward T. Lowe and John Patrick and novelist credits to Earl Derr Biggers. Title page integral with the first page of text as issued. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/16/36 and 5/28/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly chipped on the binding and edges bound internally with three gold brads. Hollywood Studio unknown books
1955152818Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1955. Final Shooting script for the 1956 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1945 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in turn based on the 1909 play "Liliom" by Ferenc Molnar. A former carousel barker dies in the process of committing a robbery but is granted the opportunity to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his wife and daughter 15 years after his death.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Augusta Newcastle Camden and Boothbay Harbor Maine.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 646 and production No. 7 dated July 14 1955. Title page present dated July 14 1955 noted as Shooting Final Script with credits for screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/1/55 and 11/22/55. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1958003072Los Angeles: Paramount Studios 1958. Hitchcock Alfred director; Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac co-novelists of D'entre les morts Vertigo's source material; Alec Coppel Samuel Taylor screenwriters; James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes starring. VERTIGO. Hollywood CA: Paramount Studios 1958. Complete Set of 25 FINE 8" by 10" Original Vintage single weight glossy Publicity Stills from the famous 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film complete with their plain brown original distributors envelope stamped "Vertigo" -- a remarkable survival. The stills look virtually as new stored in their original envelope for the last 62 years. VERTIGO is often said to be Hitchcock's defining film a movie which has grown in critical evaluation over the years culminating in the British Film Institute naming it in 2012 as the greatest film of all time. Vertigo was also one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally historically or aesthetically significant." Envelopes such as this one containing the 25 selected stills that Paramount initially chose for distribution around the country for publicity purposes in tandem with the film were never intended to survive in this fresh untouched state making this a rare opportunity for the collector. First Edition Thus. Unbound. Fine. Illus. by Robert Coburn Still photographer. Paramount Studios Paperback books
1960135586Paris: N.p. 1960. Two vintage photographs of director Jean-Luc Godard dark sunglasses and cigarette accounted for reviewing still photographs for his 1960 film "A bout de souffle." Shot by Philippe R. Doumic. Both photographs with Godard's name stamped in blue on the verso. <br/><br/>Both photos 5 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1976136497Beverly Hills CA: Faces Music 1976. Original poster for the 1976 film this being the Ben Gazzara style with Gazzara in a "puffy shirt." <br/><br/>One of eight known one sheet styles no priority issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself and made small runs of posters in a wide variety of non-standard sizes and using an artful immediately recognizable style that represented a complete departure from standard film advertisement. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches. Rolled on archival linen. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 254. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Faces Music unknown books
1989148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film which originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. 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. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian.<br/><br/>Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Bologna.<br/><br/>Script:<br/><br/>Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>List of scenes:<br/><br/>Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown books
1977143729N.p.: Mafilm 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." <br/><br/>The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hungary. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Mafilm unknown books
1981121461Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1981. Final shooting script for the 1981 film "Death Hunt" directed by Peter Hunt and starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board and is INSCRIBED on the first blank by producer Albert S. Ruddy: "Lee / Thank you for the first of hopefully many / Al Ruddy." <br/><br/>From Ronnie Gousman at California Bookbinding: for each of his films producer Al Ruddy had script copies leather bound for all cast and crew as gifts this copy being one of them. <br/><br/>A terrific thriller set in the 1930s wherein Canadian Mountie Lee Marvin is assigned to track down accused murderer and experienced wilderness trapper Bronson in the high passes of the Canadin Rockies. <br/><br/>Maroon leather with gilt titles and rule with matching glossy endpapers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Potter and novelist Cruz-Smith. 112 leaves xerographically duplicated. Pages and binding about Fine. From the estate of Lee Marvin. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963141456Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on the novel by Haruhiko Oyabu. A police detective tracking down stolen weapons stumbles upon an underworld feud and turns the tide of the conflict into a full scale massacre. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
