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1968WRCLIT83433New York: Florin Corporation 1968. 1114 leaves modified by lettered and revised inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of plain blue yellow and salmon colored stocks. Bolt bound in mimeographed stiff wrappers. Wrapper somewhat creased edgeworn and smudged annotations throughout in pencil and ink some occasional minor stains and frays but a very good and important copy utilized in the production see below. Denoted a "shooting script" but incorporating revisions spanning two months on colored and dated revises and inserts. This significantly used copy bears the ownership signatures and occasionally heavy annotations music cues and highlighting of Fred Hellerman music director for the production. Hellerman 1927 - 2016 was with Pete Seeger Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert an original member of the seminal American folk group the Weavers. He produced the 1967 album by Arlo Guthrie that served as the sourcework for this film ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn also directed the film and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director. The cast included Guthrie and Patricia Quinn in the lead with Pete Seeger Lee Hays Emmet Walsh and many others filling in a large and colorful cast. Penn and Herndon's script was nominated for a WGA Award. Florin Corporation unknown books
1979127202New York: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Original Program for the classic 1979 science fiction film. A striking program for what can easily be described as an essential Scott film if not his finest. <br/><br/>This deluxe program reflects Scott's use of H. R. Giger's alien designs throughout the film with landscapes just as seemingly cold as the creatures that inhabit them evolving a completely original concept of space. <br/><br/>Illustrated in full color saddle-stapled wrappers 9 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine with a hint of rubbing. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1962143587N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing Frankenheimer with camera trained on Warren Beatty. Printed mimeo snipe on the verso that refers to Beatty as the film's "exciting young star" and notes James Leo Herlihy as author of the source novel and playwright William Inge in the unusual role of screenwriter. John Frankenheimer's third film. <br/><br/>Set in Key West Florida and shot on location there. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1948149855Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1948. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1948 film. With a single holograph ink annotation to the first page.<br/><br/>Based on the 1947 play by Arthur Miller. A wealthy industrialist frames his business partner for shipping defective airplane parts during World War II resulting in his partner being sent to prison. Years later the businessman's son announces his plans to marry the daughter of the imprisoned partner forcing the businessman to confront his misdeeds.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers noted as production No. 1563 dated FEBRUARY 4 1948 with credits for director Irving Reis and actors Edward G. Robinson Burt Lancaster and others. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly edgeworn bound with two gold brads at the top edge.<br/><br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1981132114Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1981. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 film. Features Faith Monton holding up Gene Hackman with finesse. <br/><br/>A less-known Hackman film about a forlorn fellow who has an affair with a distant cousin. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with an ink notation on the verso and tiny corner creases. Universal Pictures unknown books
1952133550N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from a later re-release 1950s of the 1930 film. Brief annotations in holograph ink on the verso and recto. <br/><br/>Based on Remarque's 1929 novel what is probably the greatest novel written about World War I from the German perspective about German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of them upon their return home from the war. Winner of 2 Academy Awards Best Picture Best Director and the 1990 National Film Registry Award. <br/><br/>Set in Germany shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few faint creases else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1978139861Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1978. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1978 US film. Winner of four Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Often compared to Fellini's cinematic masterpiece "8 1/2" "All That Jazz" provides a comprehensive look into the tortured personal life of a highly successful entertainer. Forced to contend with his nearing mortality and confined to a hospital bed following a heart attack director Joe Gideon drifts through hallucinations and memories laced with musical numbers and theatrical routines. Based on director Bob Fosse's personal experience in show business and credited by Fosse as having been loosely inspired by Hilma Wolitzer's 1974 novel "Ending" as well. Winner of four Academy Awards in total and was nominated for another five. <br/><br/>Set in New York City shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/><br/>27 x 41 in folded. Very Good plus with light wear overall. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 724. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960132518Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1960. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1960 US film. Blank white space at the foot of each still where film credits would later be printed. <br/><br/>A dramatic romance about a minister and his son. The son impregnates his girlfriend but with no future job or money the son is abandoned and the girlfriend goes to Yale with a young student. Redd Foxx makes his film debut as a piano player and husband-and-wife Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood make their first film appearance together. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1969140252Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1969. First Draft script for the 1974 television movie. <br/><br/>The wife of a bootlegger in the backwoods dies while giving birth to her seventh child and her husband falls off the roof in a drunken stupor thus leaving the seven children orphaned. Following the guidance of the oldest sibling children seek replacement parents by goading strangers with the youngest and most attractive siblings into taking them in. The new "parents" must then pass a test to see if they are qualified.<br/><br/>Set in the American South shot on location in Lebanon Tennessee. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Clyde Ware. Title page present dated May 1969 noted as First draft with credits for Clyde Ware. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/> Newman p. 485. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1976151337N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film showing actor Robert Redford stepping out of a taxi with the US Capitol in the background. With holograph ink annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on the 1974 book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. <br/><br/>The iconic New Hollywood account of the Watergate investigation starring Redford and Dustin Hoffman in exceptionally strong performances as the Washington Post reporters who uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and nominated for four others.<br/><br/>7.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown books
1976150124N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage reference photograph with horizontal margins of director Alan J. Pakula Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford on the set of the 1976 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1974 book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. <br/><br/>The iconic New Hollywood account of the Watergate investigation starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in exceptionally strong performances as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein respectively who uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and nominated for four others including Best Picture and Best Director. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/><br/>National Film Registry. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown books
1974135370Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Two vintage black and white still reference photographs from the 1974 film. Both with mimeograph snipes on the verso and one with a red press crop line at the right margin. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and nominated for four others including Best Picture and Best Director. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers 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
1965140922France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio 1965. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Four with holograph pencil annotations on the verso crediting photographer Georges Pierre one with the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. <br/><br/>Godard transplants fictional detective Lemmy Caution played by Eddie Constantine as he was in several French films based on the character created by pulp novelist Peter Cheyney into a dystopian future where he is on a mission to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed. <br/><br/>7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio unknown books
1965140015Paris: Athos Films 1965. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1965 film. <br/><br/>The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated and even the film's legitimate proteges such as "Blade Runner" don't quite capture its strange sexuality. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>23 x 30 inches folded. Light holograph pencil notation to the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films unknown books
1965149515France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 French film. With the stamp of still photographer Georges Pierre on the verso.<br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction following a secret agent in a dystopian future who is assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Rosenbaum 1000. Grant US. Godard Histoires du cinema. Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio unknown books
1965151996N.p.: Andre Michelin Productions 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in bed armed and reading a French translation of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" from the 1965 film. Printed snipe and provenance stamp of "G. Toussier" on verso. <br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction transplanting the fictional detective Lemmy Caution Constantine into a dystopian future assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very light edgewear to the corners else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Andre Michelin Productions unknown books
1980150748Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1980. Collection of ten vintage black and white borderless studio still photographs from the 1980 film. <br/><br/>Based on screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel. Director Ken Russell's first American film itself an "altered state" during production. Russell was constantly inebriated on the set and had the actors mumble their lines in protest against Chayefsky's script. Chayefsky was subsequently banned from the set and denounced the film even before production began. <br/><br/>Edward Jessup William Hurt in his film debut is a Harvard professor whose studies of the limits of human consciousness inevitably lead him down a strange and horrible path from early experiments with a sensory deprivation tank to participation in Mexican Ayahuasca ceremonies.<br/><br/>Set in Boston shot on location in New York California Massachusetts and Mexico.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1984140060Los Angeles: Orion Pictures 1984. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1984 US film. Winner of eight Academy awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay and both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. <br/><br/>Adapted from Peter Shaffer's 1979 play of the same name the film presents a fictionalized account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life as well as that of his "rival" Antonio Salieri. <br/><br/>Set in Vienna shot on location in Prague Kromeriz and Vienna. <br/><br/>24 x 32 inches folded. Near Fine with two small stains to the verso. <br/><br/>Ebert II. Orion Pictures unknown books
1964142315France: Hermes-Films 1964. Draft script for an unproduced French film based on Maheux-Forcier's 1963 novel of lesbian love "Amadou." Notations throughout in holograph ink some noting cut scenes. French language. <br/><br/>Opening scene translated: "It's dawn. The light is still undecided. In the fields the first cries of insects in the trees songs of birds that awaken. The water of the river hardly begins to shiver. A very light haze rises like a curtain along the shore allowing us to discover a very small beach a wooden dock with a diving board at the very end. But the camera does not linger."<br/><br/>Canadian collaborators Carrier and Dube worked on only a few projects being the televisions series "La Cote de sable" 1960-1962 WWII family and the television movies "Qui perd gagne" 1974 pauper gets poorer and "Au retour des oies blanches" "The Return of the White Geese" 1971. Both men never contributed to a released production from Hermes-Films Films Hermes produced three short films 1957-1958 1962 making "Amadou" presumably the company's last ditch further edifying a need for sensationalism. Early Canadian New Wave had the project evolved beyond a rough draft of screen adaptation. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers with vellum spine noted as AMADOU / HERMÈS-FILMS on the front wrapper undated. Title page present undated with credits for novelist Maheaux-Forcer screenwriters Carrier and Dube director Carrier and production company Hermes-Films. 177 leaves with last leaf of text unnumbered. Mechanical duplication tall stock 8.25 x 13.5 inches. Pages Near Fine front wrapper detached now repaired perfect-bound. Hermes-Films unknown books
1966140536Ottawa Canada: Crawley Films Limited 1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company Crawley Films. <br/><br/>F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary "The Man Who Skied Down Everest." "Budge" and his wife Judith founded Crawley Films in 1938 and won the first Canadian film award in 1950. Crawley has been referred to as "the Godfather of Canadian cinema" and rightfully so. <br/><br/>Included in the archive are 27 film still photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos several on-the-set images and a few with director Bonniere; a folder containing 25 letters "to salute 25 Years" from various French American British and Canadian film and government associations including former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Eric Johnston president of the Motion Picture Association of America all dated 1963 with reproduced signatures for press purposes; a promotional brochure on the "new and improved" Crawley Films Limited; 2-page press memos 19 on Crawley parchment nearly all flat-signed by the company vice president Graeme Fraser; 3-page press information on the World's Fair in Montreal; French and English film credits sheets; a "how-to" booklet from Crawley discussing the proper ways to produce one's own motion picture housed in printed company envelope; 2-page "facts" on Crawley Films' 25th anniversary; a letter from Fraser to Jean Vinant asking her to be the production company agent; 3-page company property breakdown camera department script department sound stages etc.; several letters to-and-from studio secretary Maryse Martres signed by persons involved with the film including director Bonniere; a 27-page ditto-style mimeograph French version of the script; and various telegrams receipts and synopses relating to the film. <br/><br/>The film itself was the first Canadian feature to be shot in both French and English using the same actors the first Canadian film shot in color and an early career appearance for actress Bujold. A man obsessed with his lawn in the suburbs of Montreal has a surprise awakening when mysterious mushrooms start to grow and become impossible to eradicate. He stops at nothing including a deadly confrontation with his neighbor to protect his lawn and his reputation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Quebec. <br/><br/>Film still photographs 8 x 9.75 inches most mimeo snipes loose but present and many photographs with tape stains as a result of having been stacked. Letters press material interoffice material and other ephemera varying sizes with most being 8 x 11 inches. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Crawley Films Limited unknown books
1953139795Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1953 film. <br/><br/>A cowboy wrongfully convicted with a gang of burglars sets out to claim a portion of their hidden loot. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a holograph notation to the verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1938135920Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Revised White script for the 1939 film seen here with the title "I Robbed a Bank" which has been stricken through on the title page. <br/><br/>A gang attempts a bank robbery only to find that one of the gang member's sisters works there. The gang abducts her and a truck driver while attempting their getaway and the hostages must secretly try to help the cops find the fugitives. <br/><br/>Written by well loved humorist S.J. Perelman and his wife Laura Perelman "Ambush" marks a significant but entertaining departure from their best-known works such as their co-writing work on Marx Brothers films "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers." <br/><br/>White side-stapled titled wrappers dated December 13 1938 noted as production No. 1198 and copy No. 0038. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 115 eaves with last page numbered D-28. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated between 10-10-38 and 10-21-38. Very Good plus lacking rear wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1950147934Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph of John Hodiak and Don Taylor from the 1950 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the serial "Ambush" by Luke Short which was published in "The Saturday Evening Post" December 25 1948 to February 12 1949.<br/><br/>Ward Kinsman Robert Taylor a prospector and Indian scout is in search of a white woman Mary Carlyle a general's daughter who has been abducted by Apaches.<br/><br/>Sam Wood's final film.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona New Mexico and the Corrigan Ranch in Simi Valley California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1963143365Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1963 film showing director Elia Kazan and crew on a scaffolding shooting across a large lake. With some holograph pencil annotations including the film title on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Kazan's own 1962 novel based on the life of his uncle about a young Greek man living in 19th century Ottoman Turkey and his long and poverty stricken journey to emigrate to America. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Turkey and Greece. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
