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130855Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. <br/><br/>Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Norma Rae also deal with the question of social and ethical choices in the face of pressure. In this story the savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women played by Silvana Mangano Vera Miles Barbara Bel Geddes Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina have their heads shaved in order to brand them as traitors. Eleanor Mannikka AllMovie<br/><br/>Filmed on location in Italy and Austria. <br/><br/>Orange untitled wrappers with the Dino De Laurentiis stamp and numerous annotations. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Michael and Achilles for screenwriter Pirro and for director Ritt. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1963135652Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph of director Nicholas Ray on the set of his 1963 film "55 Days at Peking." Shot by still photographer Dennis Stock and with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting Ray screenwriter Philip Yordan and actors Charlton Heston Ava Gardner and David Niven and with a stamp crediting producer Samuel Bronston along with the above noted parties. <br/><br/>Ray's last stand an iconic image. The filming of the epic historical drama took place in and around Madrid and Ray collapsed during shooting. It was completed by director Guy Green and the film's second unit director Andrew Marton though Ray was given sole credit on the finished film. It would be the director's last major film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches 20.5 x 25.5 inches. With a 3-hole punch on an affixed tab at the left margin as called for. Near Fine. Allied Artists unknown books
1964150639Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film. <br/><br/>Based on Charles G. Finney's 1935 fantasy novel "The Circus of Dr. Lao." A magical circus arrives in a small western town whose inhabitants see themselves reflected in its assemblage of mystical performers and animals. <br/><br/>Set in the American west. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Six Near Fine two Very Good plus with small nicks and brief accompanying creasing to the edges.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Pitts 3783. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962141357Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode with his signature on the first page and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Two private investigators work on the south side of the Sunset Strip next to Dean Martin's actual nightclub Dino's Lodge. Each episode was an hour long and featured two hardboiled detectives and an aspiring PI working next door as a valet. The actor's first appearance in a show that hewed so closely to his "Rat Pack" persona though he had appeared in a few other television dramas and Westerns as early as 1952. <br/><br/>Set in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Bound in a homemade sewn binding with a card wrapper black endpapers and binding sealed with tan paper tape. Title page present dated March 1 1962 noted as Revised. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 71. Mechanical duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between February 20 1962 and March 1 1962. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrapper perfect bound. Warner Brothers Television unknown books
1963132981London: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Rank Organisation 1963. Collection of 91 vintage black-and-white and 1 double weight still photographs from the 1963 UK film. Daily Express rubber stamp on the verso of the double weight still. Includes several candid shots on the set. <br/><br/>Richard Johnson stars as a doctor who arrives in the city of Bath where a smallpox epidemic has begun. Dealing with the virus would be more than enough but he also finds himself contending with a failing marriage. <br/><br/>Story set in Somerset England shot on location. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller or larger with no borders as issued. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Rank Organisation unknown books
1987140708Culver City CA: Brooksfilms 1987. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1987 film. <br/><br/>Two antiquarian booksellers strike up a long distance friendship during the late years of WWII. Starring Anne Bancroft Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench. <br/><br/>Shot on location in England and New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Brooksfilms unknown books
1999151180Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1999. Vintage satin-finish reference photograph of Joel Schumacher on the set of the 1999 film. <br/><br/>In one of Schumacher'r most unapologetically dark films private Investigator Tom Welles is hired by a wealthy widow to investigate a film seemingly of a young girl brutally murdered found in her deceased husband's safe. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Destroy All Movies The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. Grant US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1973151351Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. <br/><br/>A satirical neo-noir following a professional hit man who is contracted by a local mob boss to take out the competition but soon finds himself the target of several personal attacks in retaliation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Seattle Washington and Silver Springs Florida. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL and copy No. 332 on the front wrapper dated JUNE 8 1973. Title page present dated June 8 1973 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Robert Dillon. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/1/73 and 9/10/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1953110846Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. <br/><br/>A former professional fighter John Payne is framed for the murder of his unfaithful wife Peggie Castle by her lover Brad Dexter. With the help of an aspiring actress Evelyn Keyes he must clear his name before the killer flees the country. <br/><br/>11 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Near Fine condition starting only slight at the hinge fold. Laid in is four-page supplement on newsprint in Fine condition. A compelling and unusual film that has been rediscovered as one the late classics of the noir cycle. <br/><br/>Grant US. Lyons US. Silver Classic Noir. Selby Canon US. United Artists unknown books
1974147865Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1974. Vintage studio still photograph of Glenda Jackson and Margaret Leighton from the US release of the 1973 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1970 play by Terence Rattigan. Released in the US under the title "The Nelson Affair."<br/><br/>Lord Nelson Peter Finch returning from battling Napoleon's navy resumes life with his mistress Lady Hamilton Jackson his family and beleaguered wife Margaret Leighton. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Bath Somerset England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1973132782Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1973 UK film. Cropping annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on a play by Terence Rattigan about Lord Nelson Peter Finch returning from battling Napoleon's navy resuming life with his mistress Lady Hamilton Glenda Jackson and his family and beleaguered wife Margaret Leighton. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Bath Somerset England. <br/><br/>8 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with a partial label on the verso and a few moderate creases. Universal Pictures unknown books
1986140153Hong Kong: Cinema City 1986. Vintage French mini poster for the 1986 Hong Kong film. <br/><br/>John Woo's 1986 film had a profound impact on Hong Kong's film industry inspiring a number of proceeding pictures and setting the tone for the genre at large. It served as a breakout role for then little-known actor Chow Yun-fat who although not the lead captured the screen with his notable performance. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hong Kong and Taiwan. <br/><br/>16 x 21 inches. Crease through the center else Near Fine. Cinema City unknown books
1965145855Burbank CA: Eden Productions 1965. Revision Final script for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Natalie Masters who played Mrs. Stribling with her name and role in the film in holograph ink on the front wrapper and extensive holograph annotations throughout.<br/><br/>A hapless woman enters into a poker game in order to save her family's earnings from her wayward husband's gambling debts. <br/><br/>Set in Laredo Texas. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REV. FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 49 dated July 9 1965. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 7/9/65 with credits for screenwriter Sidney Carroll. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 7/19/65. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Pitts 317. Eden Productions unknown books
1957130391Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1957. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1957 re-release of the 1932 film. Based on the 1921 play by Clemence Dane. <br/><br/>Katharine Hepburn's debut a role in which she plays the daughter of a mentally ill man whose wife has divorced him and now intends to marry someone else. When Hepburn realizes that the psychiatric problems are likely inherited she breaks from her fiance to ensure the genes are not passed to another generation and stays with her father instead. <br/><br/>Tall white titled wrappers dated March 3 1957 noting 4 reels and footage of 6195 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1955132552Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Collection of 6 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1954 US film. Four stills with title banners affixed by the production studios. <br/><br/>Rory Calhoun stars as a convict who handcuffed to a bounty hunter played by Stephen McNally survives a plane crash in the mountains. The two engage in fisticuffs until discovered by a pretty sheep farmer Jean Simmons who escorts the men back to her fathers ranch aided by the barrel of a shotgun. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint toning and light soil to the versos of a couple of stills else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1958132555London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Based on Francoise Sagan's 1956 novel about a law student Christine Carere at the Sorbonne engaged to a fellow classmate Bradford Dillman but more attracted to his philandering uncle. The two subsequently engage in a steamy affair. Johnny Mathis gives a stellar performance of "A Certain Smile" Dillman makes his film debut and Carere makes her US film debut. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing and faint creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1998143688Los Angeles: Freyda Rothstein Productions 1998. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired July 19 1998 on Lifetime Television. <br/><br/>Elaine Marshall Jean Smart catches her husband John Terry with his male lover in a hotel room. Their idyllic family life is turned upside down as they are forced to confront his long kept secret. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Portland Oregon. <br/><br/>Green titled self-wrappers dated 3/21/98 with credits for screen writers Aaron Mendelsohn Ken Carter and Annette Haywood-Carter. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/16/98 and 3/21/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Freyda Rothstein Productions unknown books
1980132467Basingstoke UK: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Collection of 8 vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1980 US film. <br/><br/>Filmed in and around Massachusetts about a selfish university lecturer Hopkins who takes one of his students Derek as a lover but the tables turn when his wife MacLaine retaliates by having an affair with a carpenter. The four eventually set off for an awkward vacation on the ski slopes. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971151293N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Williams in the studio working on character studies for the 1971 animated short film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on Charles Dickens' classic 1843 novella. Williams was best known for his work with Disney Studios in the early 1950s going on to create animated title sequences for several films including "What's New Pussycat" 1965 and "The Return of the Pink Panther" 1975 and most notably serving as animation director for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" 1988.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased on the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1971149596Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actors Malcolm McDowell Vivienne Chandler and Prudence Drage. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Cine-Revue and holograph ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel. A futuristic voyeuristic catapult into the world of teenage delinquent Alex DeLarge who forcibly undergoes experimental treatment developed by the government to cure him of his affinity for violence. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in London.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Warner Brothers unknown books
1985127179Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian 1985. Softbound. VG light wear to edges some creasing to spine. Color pictorial french flaps 262 pp profuse BW plates. Text is in Portugese. This book comes with the addendum which is a 41pp addition to the first book. Book is published on the thirtieth anniversary of Armenian philanthropist Calouste Gulbenkian's death. An extensive and interesting look at the collection. Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian paperback books
1978140398Los Angeles: Chris/Rose Productions 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 television movie. <br/><br/>A true-crime television movie following the trial of a teenage boy who murdered his mother in their small Connecticut town. Aired on March 1 1978. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Stamp to the verso else Near Fine. Chris/Rose Productions unknown books
1972152768N.p.: N.p. 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 film. Laid in with the script is a four-page rehearsal and shooting schedule.<br/><br/>Not to be confused with the 1973 film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Jane Fonda. <br/><br/>Based on the 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen about a woman named Nora who leads a fairly peaceful existence with her authoritarian husband Torvald but is forced to reconsider her marriage when a blackmailer threatens to reveal secrets from her past. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 9 October 1972 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Christopher Hampton and playwright Henrik Ibsen. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1959151991N.p.: Robert and Raymond Hakim 1959. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph with bottom margin of Antonella Lualdi from the 1959 film noir. "20" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Based on 1952 novel "The Key to Nicholas Street" by Stanley Ellin about a wealthy vintner finds it difficult to balance the demands of his wife his children his best friend and his recently murdered mistress. Director Claude Chabrol's first color film and his first psychological thriller a genre which would largely define Chabrol's long and prolific career. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Aix-en-Provence France. <br/><br/>11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing in far corners and foxing along the bottom margin.<br/><br/>Grant US. Robert and Raymond Hakim unknown books
1977142870Hollywood: Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television film originally aired on April 9 1978 on NBC. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. <br/><br/>An elderly married couple find themselves increasingly dependent on their grown children as their physical and mental health deteriorates. Fred Astaire won an Emmy Award as Best Actor and Helen Hayes received a nomination as Best Actress for her performance. Additional Emmy nominations included Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress Patty Duke Supporting Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special Joseph Biroc. <br/><br/>Green full calf binding with titled paper wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Gerald Di Pego. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gerald Di Pego. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus presentation binding Near Fine. Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
