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1974152441N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft Working script for the 1975 Andy Warhol-produced musical copy belonging to Monique van Vooren. Includes 36 additional unbound pages primarily revisions as well as twelve pages staple bound containing the bulk of dialogue for van Vooren's character Venus with name repeatedly circled in holograph pencil. Annotations throughout both copied and in holograph ink and pencil. Frequent annotated changes to sequence as well as dialogue missing sequential pages and unbound revisions reflect the continually changing and famously chaotic production. <br/><br/>From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. <br/><br/>The musical opened on January 29 1975 at the Little Theatre. It was a star-studded opening night and after party at Sardi's with Warren Beatty Andy Warhol Diane von Furstenberg Diana Vreeland Kurt Vonnegut Rex Harrison Yoko Ono and others in attendance. Unfortunately scathing reviews followed and after only four days and a run of ten performances the production closed on February 1 1974.<br/><br/>In 1970 John Phillips inspired by the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing conceived of a space-themed musical project a space opera originally entitled "Space" and spent the next five years on the project in its various incarnations. In 1974 Phillips' wife Genevieve Waite persuaded Andy Warhol to produce the project as a Broadway musical with Warhol's collaborator Paul Morrissey slated to direct. The project was renamed "Man on the Moon" with Waite von Vooren and Denny Doherty slated to star. Reportedly two weeks before opening night co-producer Richard Turley fired Morrissey installing a more experienced Broadway director uncredited who changed everything casting stage directions songs and script. <br/><br/>Phillips would later used some of the songs from the musical for the soundtrack of the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film "The Man Who Fell to Earth" starring David Bowie. In 2009 "Andy Warhol Presents Man on the Moon" was released as part of the "John Phillips Presents" series and included unreleased demos and songs recorded at a dress rehearsal at The Factory by Warhol.<br/><br/>Self wrappers integral with first page. 87 leaves with last page of text unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine bound with ring binder mechanism lacking wrappers.<br/><br/>Twelve pages bound with staple to top left. Near Fine.<br/><br/>36 unbound pages Very Good to Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
145506Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story reviews quotes and critical essays. Text in Hungarian.<br /> <br /> Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr describes his intentions for his first film. It would be 30 years before the rest of the world caught on to his genius and he would retire just 10 years after that. He passed away in 2026 at the age of 70.<br /> <br /> Off-white titled card wrappers saddle stapled. Title page present followed by a cast and credits list dated 1977. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph front wrapper printed with offset duplication. Rectos only. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine with light toning at the edges of the wrappers. Balsz Bela Studio unknown
1928135601Paris: Studio Soulat-Boussus 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shot by Jean Soulat and Mauric Boussus of Studio Soulat-Boussus in Paris with respective stamps on the verso. <br /> <br /> An excessively rare photograph from Dreyer's masterpiece capturing Maria Falconetti in what one could accurately describe as "in character." Franconetti became a stage actress in Paris in 1918 and had appeared in only one other film. For this role today still considered one of the most astonishing performances ever committed to celluloid director Dreyer reputedly pushed her to the brink of emotional collapse. It was to be her final film role after which she returned to producing and starring in light stage comedies including work at the Comedie-Francais in Paris. In 1946 having fled to South America during World War II and having suffered a lifetime of mental illness she committed suicide in Brazil. <br /> <br /> 6.5 x 8.75 inches. In an archival mat. Fine. Studio Soulat-Boussus unknown
1928149230N.p.: N.p. 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. An early version of the script written by Gerrit J. Lloyd and Sam Taylor. Copy belonging to screenwriter Sam Taylor with his name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper and two annotations to the script: one to the verso of page 68 and one to page 133 revising "Int." to "Ext."<br /> <br /> Based on Karl Vollmoller's short story "La Paiva." A German diplomat's unfaithful fiancee arranges for a disreputable nightclub singer to seduce the diplomat as a means of revenge for calling off the wedding. The third major US film to feature noted Mexican actress Lupe Velez who also appeared in "The Gaucho" 1927 "Stand and Deliver" 1928 and "Wolf Song" and "Where East Is East" 1929.<br /> <br /> Set in Paris.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers with screenwriter credits for Sam Taylor and Hans Kraly and novel credits for Carl Vollmoeller sic. Title page present screenwriter credits for Sam Taylor and Hans Kraly and novel credits for Carl Vollmoeller sic. Approximately 120 leaves without page numbers. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound at the top edge with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957156242Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Final Draft script for the 1957 film. <br /> <br /> The first screen adaptation of the 1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway. One of the most honest film adaptations of its era attributable mainly to the screenplay by novelist and Hemingway acolyte Peter Viertel. Featuring a standout performance by Errol Flynn as the hedonistic hard-drinking burned-out Mike Campbell. in other words as himself. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Pamplona Paris Biarritz and Mexico.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 97 and production No. 683 dated February 20 1957. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 20 1957 noted as Final Script. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/11/57 and 6/3/57. Pages with silverfish damage to the corners of the first few pages and final revision page else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with toning and creasing at the extremities and a small dampstain to the heel bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1937147235Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. First Draft script for the 1939 musical here under the working title "The Castles."<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. The real 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 comedy style 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 December 13 1937 with credits for screenwriter Oscar Hammerstein II. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 236 leaves with last page of text numbered 235. Carbon typescript on yellow onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1924141664Berlin: Film-Kurier 1924. Original German programs for the two-part film series "Die Nibelungen" including one for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and one for "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" produced by German film magazine "Film-Kurier." Text in German. <br /> <br /> Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." "Film-Kurier" was the first German film journal published daily beginning in 1919. The journal's classic era lasted until 1933 when its publisher Alfred Weiner had to flee Germany due to his Jewish origins. The issues from this era remain striking to this day because they were printed using a gravure reproduction process. Each day's issue would focus on a single film. <br /> <br /> 9 x 11.75 inches. Each program six pages folded loose leaves as issued. Very Good plus with a horizontal fold tiny pinholes to the corners and an occasional short closed tear. <br /> <br /> Masters of Cinema 46. Film-Kurier unknown
1969137566Beverly Hills CA: Emidela / United Artists 1969. Collection of vintage black-and-white negatives contact sheets and mounted slides and transparencies from the 1969 Italian-French film "Burn!" here under the original Spanish title "Quemada." From the collection of Sam Gilman with his name on several of the film processing envelopes in manuscript ink. Gilman did not work in this film but worked with Brando on earlier films like "One-Eyed Jacks" 1961 and "The Young Lions " 1958 as well as later on "The Missouri Breaks" 1976. <br /> <br /> Over 130 images representing on-the-set production featuring Marlon Brando on a lunch break director Pontecorvo riding a mule and members of the cast and crew as well as images of locals likely used as extras. Formats include 35mm color slides 35mm negative filmstrips medium-format negatives and mounted color transparencies and three 8 x 10 contact sheets. <br /> <br /> Based loosely on the life of Sir William Walker 1824-1860. Walker Brando is a professional mercenary who ignites a slave revolt on an island in the Caribbean where the British sugar trade is in turmoil. After a successful mission Walker returns to Britain where he remains for ten years. The same slave revolt he helped initiate is now at war with the replacement regime and he is sent back to quell the revolt. Seen as a traitor to the natives Walker is subsequently assassinated riddled with guilt upon his death. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Colombia Morocco Italy and France. <br /> <br /> All items Near Fine overall with slides transparencies and negatives still in the original film processing envelopes and boxes from the Emidela processing company in Barranquilla Colombia. Emidela / United Artists unknown
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. Grant France. Spicer France. Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film unknown
1943136501Rome: A.P.E. Roma 1943. Complete set of three vintage Italian posters for the legendary 1943 Italian film noir. Based on the 1929 novel by James M. Cain "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and preceding the US film adaptation by three years. <br /> <br /> Visconti's trenchant first feature an unauthorized adaptation of Cain's novel often cited as the first neorealist film. Visconti himself saved a print of the film the only reason it exists today Mussolini having ordered the negative destroyed. The United States' reaction to the film wasn't much better as Cain's publisher Alfred A. Knopf kept it off American screens until 1976. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 19.5 inches. All three posters about Fine with modest restoration. On archival linen rolled. A.P.E. Roma unknown
142445Hollywood: 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 manuscript ink on the half-title page. With 88 tipped in Polaroid photographs detailing cast makeup and hairstyles for particular scenes including several images of stars Gina Gershon John Carroll Lynch Joan Allen Thomas Jane and Dominique Swain. <br /> <br /> A FBI agent undergoes a face transplant to look like a terrorist in order to infiltrate the terrorist's gang and discover the location of a bomb. Meanwhile the terrorist who has awakened to discover out his face has been removed and placed on the agent forces the doctors to transplant the agent's face onto his in order to get his revenge. 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.<br /> <br /> Housed in a black 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 rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/7/96 and 3/13/97. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown
1948152186N.p.: N.p. 1948. Draft script for the 1948 British film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript pencil to the title page and his manuscript annotations throughout. With revision pages laid in throughout the script along with a distribution receipt signed by Delamar and with a reference photograph from the film showing actors Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson. <br /> <br /> Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966 and Terence Young's "Mayerling" 1968.<br /> <br /> Based on the classic 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy about how all happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. <br /> <br /> Set in St. Petersburg. <br /> <br /> Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for novelist Tolstoy and screenwriters Jean Anouilh Julien Duvivier and Guy Morgan. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and white undated revision pages throughout. Housed in a navy spring binder as originally used. <br /> <br /> Pages supple but Very Good only overall with curling at the edges. Photograph about Very Good with moderate soil and toning. Binder Good with soil overall. N.p. unknown
1948152186N.p.: N.p. 1948. Draft script for the 1948 British film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in holograph pencil to the title page and his holograph annotations throughout. With revision pages laid in throughout the script along with a distribution receipt signed by Delamar and with a reference photograph from the film showing actors Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson. <br/><br/>Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966 and Terence Young's "Mayerling" 1968.<br/><br/>Based on the classic 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy about a young woman whose loveless marriage leads her to begin an affair with a dashing Czarist officer. <br/><br/>Set in St. Petersburg. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for novelist Tolstoy and screenwriters Jean Anouilh Julien Duvivier and Guy Morgan. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and white undated revision pages throughout. Housed in a navy spring binder as originally used. <br/><br/>Pages supple but Very Good only overall with curling at the edges. Photograph about Very Good with moderate soil and toning. Binder Good with soil overall. N.p. unknown books
1974151777London: Amicus Productions 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British horror anthology film. Copy belonging to actor Ian Carmichael with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay is a signed photograph of Carmichael and a manuscript note signed by the actor dated 18/8/73 giving the script to a Mrs. Mugford for her "celebrity sale." <br/><br/>Based on short stories written by noted British horror author R. Chetwynd-Hayes. Four customers purchase or steal items from an antiques emporium unaware that those who have displeased the proprietor face an unpleasant fate. The last in a long series of low-budget horror anthology or "portmanteau" films produced by Amicus preceded by "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" 1965 "Torture Garden" 1967 "The House That Dripped Blood" 1970 "Asylum" 1972 "Tales from the Crypt" 1972 and "The Vault of Horror" 1973. <br/><br/>Maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Robin Clarke and Raymond Christodoulou and story credits to R. Chetwynd-Hayes. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10.4.73 and 18.5.73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. Amicus Productions unknown books
1974148727Tokyo: Toei 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth and final film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. <br/><br/>Set in Hiroshima.<br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered D27. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good slightly wavy with light dampstains to the extremities bound perfectly. Toei unknown books
148341London: 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 manuscript 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
1927134524Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer file copy with rubber stamps on the front wrapper indicating such. Carbon typescript with descriptive text and intertitles in black type. A few typeovers and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. A rare example of a silent film screenplay. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1923 stage adaptation by David Belasco and Tom Cushing about professional clowns Tito Chaney and Simon Siegel who take in an abandoned child and name her Simonetta Young who was 15 at the time. When Simonetta is older she joins the circus and meets Count Luigi Ravelli Asther who becomes infatuated with her. Ravelli consults a doctor about his fits of uncontrollable laughter and there he meets Tito who has come to seek help for his fits of uncontrollable weeping. The two decide to help each other but soon find they are both vying for Simonetta's love. <br /> <br /> 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 on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 1640 and copy No. 5236 dated November 19 1927 with credits for playwrights Belasco and Cushing and screenwriter Meehan. 72 leaves carbon typescript on watermarked onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good now encapsulated in mylar bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Blake 2001 US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1966140604Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell with his holograph annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. <br/><br/>Mary Ellen Bute's final film and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband Ted Nemeth were longtime collaborators and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965 it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York City and Dublin. <br/><br/>Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 4 1963 and December 3 1962 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute Romana Javitz and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding. Expanding Cinema 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 manuscript 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
1929137372Budapest: Hunnia Filmstudio 1929. Presentation copy of an Early Draft script for the Hungarian film released in Hungry in 1932 as "Tavaszi zapor" in Frace in 1933 as "Marie Legende Hongroise" and in the United States in 1935 as "Spring Shower." Housed in a likely hand-sewn floral cloth-covered portfolio the script is INSCRIBED by the Hungarian-American feminist and radical socialist screenwriter Ilona Fulop on the title page: "To Mac: / Because You still trust me! / Ilona / Christmas 1929 / Hollywood Cal." A unique and attractive item and probably the only surviving copy of the script. <br/><br/>The story of a poor girl driven out of her village when she becomes pregnant by her employer's wealthy fiance finding refuge working as a maid in a brothel. After her daughter is taken from her however she falls into alcoholism and dies. A maid in Heaven as she was on earth she saves her daughter from befalling a similar fate by "emptying her mop bucket" on her daughter's head via a rain shower at a pivotal moment. <br/><br/>A multinational production in which a Hungarian screenwriter and Hungarian director both with experience in Hollywood shot a film starring a French actress using frozen assets from a French producer that had been mandated for exclusively Hungarian use. Though not a box office success at the time it is now regarded as one of the all-time great films originating from the country. In a 1919 article entitled "What is 'Revolution' Doing to Love" screenwriter Fulop describes herself as a socialist radical as opposed to a revolutionary or a Bolshevik and her desire to further equal rights for women strongly defines her as a modern-day feminist as well. "Spring Showers" with its women- and proletarian-friendly plot thus comes as little surprise. <br/><br/>Housed in floral cloth-covered portfolio titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Fulop. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Carbon typescript. Pages Very Good portfolio Very Good bound with a single line of hand-stitching. Hunnia Filmstudio unknown books
166272Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 1998. Revised Draft script for the 1999 film seen here under the working title "Bond 19." Copy belonging to visual effects technician Brian Smithies with his name in manuscript ink on the first page of the script and his annotations on several script pages denoting scenes utilizing visual effects. Numeric watermark on each script page. <br /> <br /> During an assignment to protect a late billionaire's daughter from her father's killers James Bond uncovers an international scheme to increase petroleum prices by way of a nuclear disaster. The nineteenth film in the James Bond series and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the titular MI6 agent. <br /> <br /> Shot on location throughout Spain France Azerbaijan Turkey and the UK.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page replaced with a memo revision page dated December 4 1998. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 16 pink revision pages bound in at the beginning of the script dated December 4 1998. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with light rust near the binding and moderate dampstaining on the first page of the script. Pinewood Studios unknown
1957154176Hollywood: Roger Corman Productions 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller who had a sizable role in the film with his name to the title page and his manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. <br /> <br /> The finished film runs a little over an hour so the script at 127 pages was cut down substantially in the filming and editing process leaving a remarkable amount of content for study.<br /> <br /> An alienated wealthy coed at an all-girls boarding school inflicts increasing cruelties on the other students until her manipulation goes too far. An early role for Miller who appeared in 14 films directed by legendary independent filmmaker Roger Corman between 1955 and 1961 and would continue to work with Corman throughout his career.<br /> <br /> Brown titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Ed Waters. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Roger Corman Productions unknown
1938145605Hollywood: Jed Buell Productions / Columbia Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to actor Joseph Herbst with his last name in manuscript pencil on 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
158698N.p.: N.p. 1972. Early Draft script for the 1974 film dated July 8 1972 over a year before production commenced. Script notably features the original ending with Bennie getting away-in true Peckinpah fashion Peckinpah would later rewrite the ending to show Bennie dying in a shootout. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on fifteen pages largely regarding spelling and grammatical corrections.<br /> <br /> Warren Oates stars as Bennie a bartender who travels through the Mexican underworld accompanied by his sex worker girlfriend to collect the bounty on the head of a gigolo. The only Peckinpah film not re-cut by the studio.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Mexico. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 7/8/72 with credits for screenwriters Gordon Dawson and Sam Peckinpah. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Ebert II. Nilsen Warped and Faded. Rosenbaum 1000. Twilight Time 497. N.p. unknown
1958141439Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. <br /> <br /> White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown
