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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
1956141466Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations on a few pages in manuscript 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
1948168105London: Two Cities / The Rank Organization 1948. Vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1948 British film. Includes ten newspaper clippings 13 publicity photographs 12 with Victory Films stamps on the verso and one with a printed mimeo snipe and J. Arthur Rank stamp on the same and a mimeograph summary of the film. Clippings and summary in French.<br /> <br /> The second of three Shakespeare adaptations by Laurence Olivier considered not only the best of the trio but also one of the most inspired adaptations of the Bard's work. Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor. <br /> <br /> Two-color bi-fold measuring 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. Bi-fold and clippings Very Good plus moderately edgeworn photographs and summary Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 82. Two Cities / The Rank Organization unknown
148351Rome: 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 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. 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
1937161417N.p.: N.p. 1937. Final script for the 1937 film. Specially bound copy belonging to uncredited screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board and his annotations in manuscript ink on the cast page noting the names of actors.<br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. <br /> <br /> A beautiful secretary finds herself the subject of unwanted attention from her bosses and decides to make herself look as ugly as possible in order to be treated with respect. Marion Davies' last movie before retiring from the screen. <br /> <br /> Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present dated 1/19/37 stamped copy No. 104 with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lawrence Riley Earl Baldwin Lillie Hayward and Jerry Wald. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1960157870New York: Edward Padula 1960. Draft script for the 1960 musical noted as "Acting Version" on the front wrapper. The play opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 14 1960 transferring to the 54th Street Theatre and then the Shubert Theatre and closed on October 7 1961 after a run of 607 performances. Winner of the 1961 Tony Award for Best Musical.<br /> <br /> An unsuccessful pop songwriter is convinced he can make his fortune if he can get recently drafted rock and roll star Conrad Birdie on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss his high school girlfriend goodbye. Basis for the 1963 film version starring Janet Leigh Dick Van Dyke Maureen Stapleton and Ann-Margaret.<br /> <br /> Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers noted as Acting Version on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for Book by Mike Stewart Music by Charles Strause Lyrics by Lee Adams and Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-8-42. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with chipping and closed tears at the extremities bound with two gold screw brads. Edward Padula unknown
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
143729N.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
143728N.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
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
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
1933159022Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1933. Vintage linen-backed keybook reference photograph from the 1933 film showing actor Paul Robeson. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play following a cunning railway porter who gradually manipulates his way into control of a small Caribbean island. Actor Paul Robeson's first sound feature a breakthrough role which secured the actor's status as one of the first African American leading actors of mainstream cinema. <br /> <br /> Set throughout the American south and in the Caribbean Islands shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear along the top edge image unaffected. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 370. United Artists unknown
163851New York: McCann and Nugent 1981. Revised Draft script for the 1980-1983 Broadway play dated February 1981 copy belonging to actor Russell Gold with the manuscript ink and marker annotations of "R. Gold" and copy number "#45B" respectively on the top of the title page with copious manuscript pencil and ink annotations and dog-eared pages throughout. Gold played the character Guiseppe Bonno in the Broadway production as well as being the understudy for Salieri's Valet and Count Johann Killan Von Strack and replacement for Baron van Swieten Guiseppe Bono and Citizen of Vienna. The manuscript annotations appear to reflect notes for dialogue and stage directions for all the characters noted above.<br /> <br /> The play made its Broadway premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 17 1980 concluding after 1181 performances on October 16 1983 and starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and was the recipient of the 1981 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play.<br /> <br /> Peter Shaffer's acclaimed fictionalized dramatization of the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous scheming rival Antonio Salieri. Made into the 1984 Academy Award-winning film directed by Milo Forman and starring Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham.<br /> <br /> Set in turn-of-the 19th Century Vienna. <br /> <br /> Black titled Studio Duplicating Services wrappers with credits for playwright Peter Shaffer. Title page present dated February 1981 noted as Rev with credits for playwright Peter Shaffer. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered II-58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. McCann and Nugent unknown
1955144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Archive of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed on the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in manuscript ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. <br /> <br /> Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. <br /> <br /> Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. <br /> <br /> Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown
155122New York: Deathtrap Films 1986. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Lung Leg from the 1985 short film. INSCRIBED on the verso in director Richard Kern's hand "Lung Leg / in / "You Killed Me First" / A R. Kern Movie / copyright 1986 / Photo copyright R Kern" with two "R. Kern Photographs" stamps and a "Deathtrap Films" stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> A landmark work in the Cinema of Transgression. Conceived by Kern and artist David Wojnarowicz as both a film and a multi-media art installation the film was shot unscripted over two days and was largely based on Wojnarowicz's childhood specifically the scenes concerning the terrifying and abusive father played by Wojnarowicz. Performance artist Karen Finley starred as the subservient mother and the young East Village model Leg who would go on to star in several more of Kern's films and music videos starred as the lead daughter Elisabeth/Cassandra. The film premiered at Wojnarowicz's "You Killed Me First Installation #8" at the Ground Zero Gallery in December 1985. <br /> <br /> A seemingly normal family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner and after a series of disturbing flashbacks revealing previous family traumas the daughter shoots her family at the dinner table angrily proclaiming "You killed me first!" A scathing and darkly humorous indictment of petit-bourgeois conservatism and religiosity.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Deathtrap Films unknown
1958159831London: Merton Park Studios 1958. Draft script for the 1959 British horror film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on seven pages. <br /> <br /> A low-budget production made to accompany producer and co-screenwriter Herman Cohen's 1958 horror film "Horrors of the Black Museum"-the first of the Anglo-Amalgated's "Sadian trilogy" as coined by film critic David Pirie-as a double bill for the US release. <br /> <br /> While hiding in an English castle to see if ghosts are real three college students encounter and attempt to help a ghost cursed to wander the castle without his head. Written in two weeks and filmed in three the film used many of the same sets and locations as "Horrors of the Black Museum." <br /> <br /> Set in the fictitiously titled Ambrose Castle England. <br /> <br /> Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated 3rd November 1958 with credits for screenwriters Kenneth Langtry and Herman Cohen. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Merton Park Studios unknown
1968159850Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Revised First Draft script for the 1970 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their manuscript ink annotations on 19 pages underlining locations settings and props.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker and in turn the basis of the acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS from 1972 to 1983. A film that kick-started a great decade of cinema and one that still defines it. <br /> <br /> Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay nominated for four more including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actress. Winner of the Palme d'Or. <br /> <br /> Orange titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 209 dated DECEMBER 11 1968. Title page present dated December 11 1969 noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. and author Richard Hooker. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
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
1944156251Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Several photographs with provenance stamps and stickers on the verso and two with the printed label of Palace Theatre affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good with light toning and edgewear. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1941161254N.p.: N.p. 1941. Final script for the 1942 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the pages. <br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960.<br /> <br /> In Florida during the Great Depression a migrant farm worker and his girlfriend become involved in a labor organizing effort leading to consternation and violence in the tight-knit community. <br /> <br /> Bound in beige cloth with orange leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present with receipt intact noted as FINAL and dated 10/3/41. Title page present with credits for director Curtis Bernhardt and screenwriters A.I. Bezzerides and Kenneth Gamet. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/9/41 and 1/24/42. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus moderately worn and foxed on the cloth. N.p. unknown
1949131899Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film dated Nov. 24 1948. One of what could only be a few copies ever struck and the only one we have ever seen.<br /> <br /> Fuller's auspicious directorial debut one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment the film based on the life of Robert Ford displays many of the hallmarks of the iconoclastic director's subsequent career. <br /> <br /> 20 x 15 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of small closed tears to the bottom edge. <br /> <br /> Criterion Eclipse 5. Lippert Pictures unknown
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 who 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
