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1973146780N.p.: Paramount Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film.<br/><br/>Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System" about a plainclothes police officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers.<br/><br/>Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good plus overall with no restoration. Lightly soiled with a few pin holes in upper right of image two holes about 1/8" one small closed tear in bottom margin and 1 chip in the upper right margin bright and unfaded.<br/><br/>Eureka! #79. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1979011573NY: Privately published 1979. Private edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Bound musical score as performed on the opening night of March 1 1979 at the Uris Theater. Bound musical scores are privately published a project usually undertaken by the music preparation supervisor and then presented to producers and creative principals as a momento or official record of the music as presented opening night. This copy is inscribed by Mathilde Pincus and Al Miler whose company was responsible for music supervision on Sweeney Todd to Ruth Mitchell who was director Hal Prince's assistant on the musical and his long-time associate producer on most of his Broadway shows: "To Ruth we thank you as part of the production staff for this great great work and we love you as a great friend - and sincere. Sincerely - with much love - Mathilde and Al". Typically there are about 12-18 bound musical scores per production. Never commercially sold only for private presentation. Squarish folio green cloth gilt titles front and spine some speckles of white bookhelf paint front cover. Privately published hardcover books
1986147221New York: Oscard Associates 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film two copied annotations of a circled "3" and "4" on one page.<br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>Singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson teamed up with Terry Southern to create a truly odd and uncomfortable screenplay about a struggling unstable actress calling people and businesses on her phone in her apartment. Essentially a one-woman performance set entirely in a small apartment with a pet owl goldfish and a telephone. Nilsson and Southern enlisted Whoopi Goldberg to play the woman. Rip Torn directed his first and only time in that capacity. The film included short cameos from Elliott Gould John Heard and Severn Darden as well as the voice of Herve Villechase.<br/><br/>The film was universally panned with Goldberg even filing a lawsuit to prevent its release after Torn's cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festival but being unlike any other film it has since achieved a kind of a cult status.<br/><br/>Black untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Terry Southern and Harry Nilsson. 46 leaves with last page of text numbered 45. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Oscard Associates unknown books
1945151322Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1945. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film containing an earlier alternate ending and a revised "New Ending" bound in following the primary narrative. The additional material consists of a pink "New Ending" announcement page dated February 12 1946 ten blue revision pages that include one carbon typescript page on onionskin stock. Notations in holograph pencil throughout the set of revision pages.<br/><br/>Based on the 1945 story serialized in "Good Housekeeping" magazine by Leo Rosten and written by screenwriter Jay Dratler. Private investigator Bradford Galt Mark Stevens is being followed by a man in a white suit who when confronted tells Brad that he was hired by his old business partner from San Francisco who now works for wealthy art aficionado Hardy Cathcart Clifton Webb in New York. Believing he is targeted for murder he avoids being killed but becomes implicated in an actual murder. Through it all his plucky and attractive secretary Kathleen Stewart Lucille Ball stays steadfastly by his side. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 72 dated Oct. 31 1945. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 31 1945 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Jay Dratler. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 10. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/29/45 and February 12 1946. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some edgewear and small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon US. Selby Masterworks US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971127416Beverly Hills CA: Three Michaels Film Productions / United Artists 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1972 film. Cameraman Dusty Miller's working copy with his annotations throughout. Variously INSCRIBED in round-robin fashion on the title page by director Mike Hodges "Thank you for coming to my funeral" cast members Lizabeth Scott Amerigo Tot Patrick Browning Downing Mickey Rooney and others. Included is a call sheet and a set of 5 color Polaroid photographs showing the setups for a funeral sequence in the film. <br/><br/>A film every bit the equal of its counterpart "Get Carter" made by Hodges and Caine the year before but different in almost every way. Caine effortlessly switches gears from the vigilante killer in "Carter" to a pulp novelist who travels abroad and wanders into a complex murder scenario unwittingly becoming a part of the puzzle. Grim funny and not for the dim. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter/director Hodges and producer Michael Klinger dated November 17 1971. 113 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to a few leaves wrapper Very Good plus with faint dampstaining to the rear wrapper and a few light creases bound with two silver brads. Three Michaels Film Productions / United Artists unknown books
1961143580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake" with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK the film was a US co-production and this is a US draft of the script noting the US production company Playstar Productions on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>A doctor injects his pregnant wife with snake venom causing her to give birth to a snake woman who grows up to terrorize the local town. <br/><br/>Set in Victorian England. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph Pages Fine. Front wrapper detached. Now encapsulated in mylar else Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. United Artists / Caralan Productions unknown books
1952136688N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. <br/><br/>A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni using a striking example of designer Virgilio Marchi's meticulously designed and lit set. <br/><br/>Generally considered the masterpiece of the post-WWII Italian neorealist movement. Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film and director De Sica was nominated for the Grand Prix at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>16 x 11.75 inches. Very Good with some scuffing at the extremities. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 201. N.p. unknown books
1962151288Beverly Hills CA: Chrislaw Productions 1962. Archive of two Draft scripts one unbound a partial "last half of script" an 83-page "Scene Breakdown" four collections of revision pages two of which have annotations and a contact sheet of eleven images from the 1963 film. <br/><br/>The bound script is undated and without revisions likely a first draft. The unbound script largely yellow and blue revision pages dated 7/16 through 8/3 1962 is predominantly a carbon typescript with several ribbon typescript pages both on onionskin and 27 mimeograph duplication pages with a single dialogue annotation on page 26-A and page and scene number annotations on all mimeograph pages in holograph ink. The partial script dated 8/7 through 8/14 is a carbon typescript on on pink onionskin with a typed note "Last Half of Script sent to uncredited producer or crewmember Joe Wiseman" attached to the first page by a clip.<br/><br/>The "Scene Breakdown" is an undated 83 page carbon typescript on onionskin with a single dialogue annotation in holograph pencil likely screenwriter Joseph Landon's initial but extensive treatment. <br/><br/>The collections of revision pages include an eight page carbon typescript "Giordano Mountain Meeting" scene dated 7-18-62 on yellow onionskin. Three copies of a four page carbon typescript on pink onionskin "Notes on Five Victims" dated 8/7 with a handwritten note on purple paper attached by paper clip of "8/7 - Notes on Five Victims Third Rewrite." 46 pages of revisions ranging from page 3 through page 47-A dated 8/17 all on pink paper except for one mimeographed white page 28 of which are on pink onionskin with 36 pages carbon typescript nine ribbon typescript with annotations regarding dialogue motivation plot and strikes in holograph pencil and ink on 17 of the pages. The last collection of revision pages are 29 pink pages all but one are mimeograph duplication dated 10/10/62 five of which are page 124-A including the first page which is carbon typescript on onionskin noted as "Added Scene" by director "Bill Asher" with annotations in holograph pencil and ink the remainder are eight copies of pages 124 125 and 125A. <br/><br/>Lastly is a contact sheet of eleven images with top left image removed five of director William Asher on set three with Henry Silva with the remaining six of a bearded and heavily made-up Silva on the set.<br/><br/>Based on the 1959 Gold Medal paperback crime novel "The Kingdom of Johnny Cool" by John McPartland about an exiled American mobster who sends an Italian outlaw to the US to assassinate his enemies. <br/><br/>Set in Italy New York City and Hollywood shot on location in Southern California. <br/><br/>Bound Script:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph Landon. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>8/3/62 Script:<br/><br/>Self-wrappers untitled with latest revisions dated 8/3/62 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Largely carbon typescript duplication with several ribbon typescript pages and several mimeograph duplication pages rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-16-62 and 8/3/62. Pages Near Fine overall with first page Very Good with chipping creasing and closed tears to right edge unbound<br/><br/>8/14/62 Partial Script:<br/><br/>Self-wrappers untitled with latest revisions dated 8/14/62. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 187. Carbon typescript duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/7 and 8/14. Pages Near Fine overall with first page Very Good plus with chipping creasing and closed tears to right edge bound with metal clip to top left corner.<br/><br/>Revision Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine with some light edgewear.<br/><br/>Contact Sheet 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Selby Master List US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Chrislaw Productions unknown books
1945147118Los Angeles: Loma Vista Vilma 1945. Final Draft script for the 1946 film. <br/><br/>An escaped Nazi war criminal in hiding seeks to reclaim the stolen valuables he has stashed in a Casablanca hotel and has steadily murdered the hotel's managers to maintain control of the property. The newest manager however is Groucho Marx as Ronald Kornblow a blissfully unaware womanizer who continually escapes the Nazi's grasp with the help of his self-appointed bodyguards Harpo and Chico Marx. The fourteenth Marx Brothers film and the seventh Marx Brothers film after the departure of Zeppo Marx.<br/><br/>Set in Casablanca Morocco. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 93 dated July 23 1945. Title page present dated July 23 1945 noted as FINAL. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Mimeographed rectos only with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/15/45 and 10-24-45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Loma Vista Vilma unknown books
1931133482Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment Dec. 15 1931 in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931 novel by Crosbie here spelled Crosby Garstin with Garstin and screenwriters John Colton and John Lynch credited on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Likely the earliest draft for the story idea that led to the 1935 film preceding production by nearly 4 years. When earthy Dolly Portland Harlow is rejected by Captain Gaskell Clark Gable in favor of a socialite she aids Jamesy McCardle Wallace Beery in league with Malay pirates in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship. In other words hell hath no fury. <br/><br/>White leatherette binding with gilt titles to the front board and spine. blue studio wrapper with the MGM white title label noted as Proposed Treatment on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 0818 and production No. 2026 dated Dec. 15 1931 with credits for novelist Garstin and screenwriters Colton and Lynch. Title page integral with first page of text. 86 leaves mimeograph duplication Pages and wrapper Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1973146375Paris: Les Films la Boetie 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film noir. SIGNED by director Claude Chabrol on the title page. Text in French. <br/><br/>A torrid bourgeois crime drama set in a small French village where desire and death convene as tension escalates behind closed doors. When the town's boorish Gaullist mayor discovers his wife and his deputy are having an affair he seizes the opportunity to blackmail the deputy in order to pull off a real estate scam. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Indre France. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as Scénario original on the front wrapper with credits for director Claude CHABROL. Title page present noted as Scénario original with credits for director Claude CHABROL. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with light soil throughout wrapper Very Good plus with black comb binding.<br/><br/>Grant France. Spicer France. Les Films la Boetie unknown books
1927132439Munich: Universum Film UFA 1927. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the original German release of the 1927 film. With the UFA logo at the bottom right corner. <br/><br/>Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou one of the most enduring and influential films of the silent era. Still photographs from the original UFA release are rare. <br/><br/>9 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Universum Film [UFA] unknown books
1938140293Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with holograph pencil annotations throughout. <br/><br/>Jimmy Stewart plays an idealistic soldier who convinces a Broadway star Margaret Sullavan to pretend they're dating in order to impress his other soldier friends. Meanwhile Sullivan's manager Walter Pidgeon has always been in love with her and objects to the pair's closeness even as they decide to get married before Stewart is shipped out to France. Stewart and Sullivan pull off surprisingly believable roles for a plot of such sickly sweetness in this their second on-screen pairing. <br/><br/>The third film based on Burnet's "Saturday Evening Post" story the first two being the 1919 George Melford silent film "Pettigrew's Girl" and Richard Wallace's part-talkie "The Shopworn Angel" 1928 starring Gary Cooper. Set in New York. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2268 and production No. 25077 dated 3/16/38 with credits for producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz and screenwriter Waldo Salt. Distribution receipt laid into the script. Title page integral with the first page of the text as issued. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965143249Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC. <br/><br/>Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White about a unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. <br/><br/>9.5 x 12 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires de cinema. Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC] unknown books
1938151968Paris: Paris Film 1938. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph of Jean Gabin and Julien Carette from the 1938 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1890 social realist novel by Emile Zola Renoir's film remains true to the proletarian source material while grafting on elements of film noir and his own humanist philosophy. One of the director's biggest commercial successes with a powerful lead performance by Jean Gabin. Remade in the US by Fritz Lang in 1954 as "Human Desire."<br/><br/>15.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with creasing to far bottom corners with a small bruise on right side small crease to top right and a very small closed tear in top margin.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 324. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Paris Film unknown books
1972149353Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film dated August 16 1972. With name of uncredited cast or crew member "B. Morgan" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood era and one of the best proletarian-minded works of the 1970s winner of the Palme d'Or. <br/><br/>Set on a journey across the United States shot on location in Denver and Canon City Colorado Detroit and Hamtramck Michigan and Reno Nevada. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 107 dated August 16 1972. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Garry Michael White. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication eye rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1974142992Beverly Hills CA: Faces 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces Inc. this variant picturing John Cassavetes Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands as part of its design. <br/><br/>Along with "Faces" 1968 considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films a painfully intimate study of a couple-and a family-in deep emotional crisis. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Faces unknown books
1960139609Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1960. Original conceptual artwork the 1960 film. Featuring a drawing of Burt Lancaster with Audrey Hepburn clasped against him. Based on the 1957 novel by Alan Le May. <br/><br/>In many ways a reflection on John Ford's 1956 film "The Searchers" which was also based on an Alan Le May novel "The Unforgiven" tells the story of a woman taken from her Native American tribe and raised by a white family. She struggles with her allegiance towards her adoptive family and her feelings towards another white man and a bloody battle ensues between the two communities. An uncommon film for its time it highlights the racism Native Americans had to endure from settlers of the Old West. <br/><br/>A difficult shoot which included a severe back injury sustained by Audrey Hepburn when she fell off a horse director John Huston was unhappy with his producer's insistence on releasing a more commercially friendly film. While<br/>Hepburn and Huston would both eventually distance themselves from the film "The Unforgiven" remains a bold powerfully raw take on the Western with arguably some of the best performances of many of the actors involved. <br/><br/>20 x 25.5 inches. Graphite and charcoal on illustration board. Very Good with some tape at the top and bottom edges the bottom two corners bumped and light toning to the extremities. <br/><br/>Hardy The Western p. 277. Hitt p. 329. Pitts 4662. United Artists unknown books
1934150486N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage matte-finish portrait photograph of actress Josephine Baker from the 1934 film INSCRIBED by Baker: "To Miss Contin-Souza / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker." With the stamp of Baker and her then-lover Giuseppe Pepito "Joseph" Abatino on the verso. <br/><br/>A young orphaned laundress seeks employment as a nightclub dancer in order to raise money for her childhood friend who has been wrongly accused of murder. Baker's fourth film appearance.<br/><br/>Baker moved to France in 1925 where she quickly gained success as an erotic dancer and actress starring in several films throughout the 1930s including "Zouzou" 1935 and "Princesse Tam-Tam" 1935. When France entered into World War II in 1939 Baker was recruited by the Deuxieme Bureau a branch of French military intelligence and became an "honorable correspondent." The actress gathered information about German troop locations housed members of the Free French effort and helped them access visas and carried secret Allied transmissions throughout Europe while ostensibly touring as an entertainer. Baker was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Rosette de la Resistance for her bravery and in 1945 was named a Chevalier de Legion d'honneur the highest order of merit for military and civil action.<br/><br/>Set in Paris. <br/><br/>8.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and curling to the corners. N.p. unknown books
145326Early Draft script though noted as a "Final Draft screenplay" for the 1971 film dated two years prior to its release. The number "243" is annotated in faded holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page.<br/><br/>An important slightly experimental X-rated comedy that is ground zero in the history early 1970s sexual climate in America predicting the more conventional porn chic that would land with the release of "Deep Throat" the following year. The of a young woman who sets out to connect with the man behind an obscene phone call encountering all manner of perversions along the way. The film featured an early role for Sarah Kennedy Warholstars Ultra Violet Ondine and Geri Miller and a young Jill Clayburgh.<br/><br/>Notably as with films directed by John Cassavetes much of the dialogue in the film that feels quite improvised turns out to have been written word for word in the script.<br/><br/>Set in New York City and shot on location there. <br/><br/>Maroon titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated June 25 1969 noted as FINAL DRAFT SCREENPLAY copy No. 283 written in holograph ink at the top right corner and with a credit for screenwriter Nelson Lyon as well as producer Merwyn Block with a New York address for Rosebud Films Inc. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated 10/8/69 over 3 months after the script was completed. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some soil bound with two gold screw brads.<br/><br/>Vinegar Syndrome 7. unknown books
1955133197Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak in conference with director Otto Preminger on the set of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the fall of 1955. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by Willoughby on the verso along his ASMP rubber stamp for both his New York and Ireland addresses. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Selby US. United Artists unknown books
1972148406N.p.: N.p. 1972. Revised Version Draft script for the 1972 film belonging to actor Martin Landau with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout most in reference to his character Capelli including action and dialogue changes. Also included are a 21-page shooting schedule and call sheet with the name of uncredited crew member Jim O'Roarke in holograph ink on the shooting schedule and holograph annotations to both. <br/><br/>From the estate of Martin Landau.<br/><br/>British director Robert Hartford-Davis originally conceived of the story for the film based on the Black Power movement in contemporary Britain and hired Robert Shearer to write the screenplay. The first American feature-length film for Hartford-Davis and the film debuts of baseball star Vida Blue and football player Gene Washington. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Version Screenplay with credits for story by Robert Hartford-Davis and screenwriter Franklin Coen. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Shooting Schedule 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine with light creasing at corners.<br/><br/>Call Sheet 8.5 x 13 Near Fine with a single fold. N.p. unknown books
1963120562London: Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures 1963. Final shooting script for the 1963 film "The Yellow Teddybears" here under both that title and the film's working title "The Yellow Golliwog" and released in the US as "Gutter Girls." Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and written for the screen by Donald and Derek Ford. Director Robert Hartford-Davis' working copy with his holograph ink and penciled annotations deletions and drawings throughout. <br/><br/>Though instantly packaged at the time and indeed today as a sexploitation film "The Yellow Teddybears" is very much a pre-"Swinging London" message picture about a group of girls at a boarding school who wear a small yellow teddy bear on their lapels to indicate they have lost their virginity. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with title window single call sheet dated April 5 1963 both in a custom green cloth spring back binder with the director's initials "RHD" the film's final title "The Yellow Teddybears" and the production company "Tekli Film Productions Ltd" embossed in yellow on the front board. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Donald and Derek Ford the two production companies Tekli and Animated Motion Pictures noted as FINAL and dated February 1963. 85 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and goldenrod revision pages throughout. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. Binder Near Fine. Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures unknown books
1971147165London: Benmar Productions 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 Spanish/UK Western here under the original release title "A Town Called Bastard." Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau with his holograph ink annotations on the title page. Laid in with the script are a number of production documents including a set of approximately 50 revision pages with annotations by Landau two carbon typescript shooting schedules an exhibitor's showmanship manual and two Spanish newspaper clippings.<br/><br/>Also laid in is a vintage photograph showing director Robert Parrish at work on the set.<br/><br/>A woman whose husband was wrongfully killed by Mexican revolutionaries arrives in a corrupt village offering a reward to anyone who can help her bring the revolutionary leader to justice. The title was changed for the US release as "bastard" was considered offensive. <br/><br/>Set in the fictional Mexican town of Bastard or Hell shot on location in Madrid and Andalusia Spain. <br/><br/>Gray untitled generic Creative Management Associates wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Richard Aubrey. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled bound internally with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Pitts 4471. Benmar Productions unknown books
1960141435Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Obsessed with the teenage trends of the time including going to the beach jazz music and progressive attitudes toward sex this film features a gang of high school students having fun at an amusement park including one harrassing a young woman. He then returns home to his single mother and contemplates his attitudes towards women and his relationships with them. <br/><br/>Set in Zushi shot on location in Tokyo. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Nikkatsu unknown books