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1973143674Tokyo: Toho Company / 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. <br/><br/>The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped her mother leaving a trail of blood in her wake. A gorgeously shot cult classic and one of the best films of early 1970s samurai cinema. One of Quentin Tarantino's greatest influences for his "Kill Bill" duology borrowing plot and thematic elements character and set design and even re-creating specific shots. <br/><br/>Off white wrappers perfect bound with red and blue titles dated 1973.9.20. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-28." Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper a moderately foxed Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Arrow 662. Criterion Collection 790. Toho Company / unknown books
1969135613N.p.: Alfieri 1969. Vintage oversize double weight color photograph of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson at an outdoor press conference held in front of the Carlton Hotel at the Cannes Film Festival where Hopper was awarded the Cannes First Film Prize. Shot by Marc Alfieri and signed by him in black ink at the lower left margin: "Photo Alfieri / Cannes / FIF 69." Also with Alfier's stamp on the verso and a holograph ink notation: "Festival.69. / 4903."<br/><br/>About as close to the very start of the New Hollywood era as can be imagined. "Easy Rider" had its world premiere at Cannes on May 8 1969. It would not debut in the US until July 1969 in a significantly edited form. <br/><br/>9.25 x 12.25 inches. In a museum quality frame. Fine. Alfieri unknown books
1970148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. <br/><br/>Annotations relate to the following: a names of the chosen cast members b set rehearsals and camera rehearsals c times for shooting e.g. Morning Afternoon Evening and Night phone numbers for production personnel d names of potential and/or hired camera assistants e names of potential and/or hired actors f indication of the production company chosen Toho Corporation as well as film stock and lense sizes to be used g additional notes regarding location of some settings h changes to dialogue and action and h some final post-production notes.<br/><br/>Director Akira Kurosawa's first color film based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 1962 novel "Kisetsu no nai machi" A City Without Seasons. A series of vignettes about a slum in the suburbs of Tokyo and its impoverished inhabitants. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Tokyo.<br/><br/>Script:<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered d-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Schedule:<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 13 leaves with last page numbered 23. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a faintly toned spine and very faint foxing to the fore-edge side-stapled with two staples.<br/><br/>Detailed notes with translation of annotations noted above with accompanying images are provided with the script. Toho unknown books
1951151291Culver City CA: Loew's Incorporated 1951. Draft script for the 1952 film. Script department copy stamped as COMPLETE and RERUN JAN 3 1952. With 94 small borderless reference photographs tipped on the versos of script pages and 23 additional photographs of the cast and crew on the set tipped on blank pages inserted after the end of the script dated between March 27 and May 12 1952. Also bound in is a 25 page appendix detailing historical information about the pilgrims their ship and voyage. <br/><br/>Based on the 1950 novel "The Voyage of the Mayflower" by Ernest Gebler a fictionalized account of the journey of the Mayflower from England to North America. Winner of an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 68 and production No. 1552 dated 12/18/51 with credits for director Clarence Brown and screenwriter Helen Deutsch. Distribution label present on the front wrapper with receipt removed. 187 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 10-9-50 and 4-16-52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Reference photographs between 2.25 x 2.25 and 4.5 x 3.5 inches on the set photographs 5 x 4 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine. Loew's Incorporated unknown books
1930151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With holograph annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura.<br/><br/>The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film.<br/><br/>Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
19953180Hollywood: Propaganda Films 1995. First Edition thus. Post-Bound Leather. Fine. No DJ as Issued. Very minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue calf leather boards gilt lettering marbled pastedowns. 8vo. Approx. 123pp plus np Character Notes. <br/><br/>A fine leather binding Gramercy Pictures in gilt on the front pastedown. This is Number 25 of the April 1995 script with June 1995 revisions final. It is from the collection of the film's producer Monty Montgomery. A rare chance to add a remarkable bit of James/film ephemera to one's collection. Propaganda Films hardcover books
1939148582Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture 1939. Vintage oversize double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon." "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E.S. Blake Dec 15 1939" stamp with the annotation "ESB" to right of stamp and "From Sallisaw Okla. 13/11/39" at bottom in holograph pencil all on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck.<br/><br/>The now-famed story of a suffering sharecropper family forced to relocate John Ford's film adaptation stays true to the tone of Steinbeck's original which was published only three months before producer Darryl F. Zanuck acquired the rights. Though Steinbeck purportedly threatened to sue the studio using the money he made from the sale if they changed the story's intent to bring attention to the conditions of migrant workers he was quite pleased with both Nunnally Johnson's screenplay and the film itself. The ending to the film varies significantly from that of the book with Steinbeck's acknowledgment of the need for such a change.<br/><br/>Winner of two Academy Awards and nominated for five others including Best Picture. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1989. <br/><br/>Set in Oklahoma and en route to California shot on location in California New Mexico Oklahoma and Arizona. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good with creasing at top and corners four small closed tears and chip to top right corner. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Technicolor Motion Picture unknown books
1956143240Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on a 1946 children's novel by Michio Takeyama about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an overwhelming force. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Burma during WWll shot on location in Burma and near the Izu Peninsula in Japan. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered e-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with some toning due to age wrapper Very Good with mild foxing and light water damage near spine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 379. Eureka Masters of Cinema 12. Nikkatsu unknown books
1950131050Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson an uncredited member of the crew with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown and annotations throughout in holograph pencil. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on Weidman's 1937 novel and Vera Caspary's loose adaptation. Harriet Boyd Hayward is a fashion designer who partners with Teddy Dailey whom she loves and Sam Jaffe and starts a new business dedicated to selling affordable women's dresses. A rival fashion company lead by Noble Sanders momentarily distracts Harriet but at the last minute she realizes her true devotion to Teddy and Sam. <br/><br/>Screenwriter Polonsky was blacklisted shortly after the film's release refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers rubber-stamped as REVISED FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper copy No. 3 and production No. 2446.8 dated August 4 1950. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated August 4 1950 noted as Revised 1st Draft Continuity with a credit for screenwriter Polonsky. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 168. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Script Breakdown: self wrappers as issued. 88 leaves dated 10/2/50 mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1946118614London: The Archers / Eagle-Lion 1946. Original UK Program for the 1946 film released in the US as "Stairway to Heaven." SIGNED by director Michael Powell on page 12 just above the photo next to his biographical sketch. <br/><br/>While it is certainly arguable that the greatest Powell-Pressburger film is a 10-way tie for first place "A Matter of Life and Death" is probably the most philosophically ambitious of their masterpieces. David Niven is a British wartime aviator who unwittingly cheats death and must ultimately argue for his continued existence before a celestial court. In between these two events is a wildly imaginative and surreal tale told first in Technicolor on earth then in Dye-Monochrome black-and-white in heaven. <br/><br/>This oversize program book evokes the spirit of the film beautifully with clever use of two-color processes mostly pink and blue throughout. Includes biographies and large photos of the principal actors reviews an essay about the techniques used to shoot the film and credits for the cast and crew. The credits and promotion are specific to the UK rather than international or US distribution of the film through Eagle-Lion and General Distributors. <br/><br/>Self-wrappers 14.5 x 11.5 inches saddle-stapled. Very Good plus condition with fine shallow creasing at the wrapper extremities. The Archers / Eagle-Lion unknown books
1963146394Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few holograph pencil annotations throughout mostly relating to line revisions and props. <br/><br/>Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate however how seriously Becket will take the vocation leading to the dissolution of their friendship in the face of Becket's rising political power. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay. <br/><br/>Set in England and France.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 12th February 1963 noted as REVISED. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeographed on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some rusting near the binding bound internally with three silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961144660Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot 18 with his name stamped on the verso and each notebook page with corresponding numerical annotations in holograph pencil. Also included is a vintage Cinedis manila mailing envelope.<br/><br/>Limot's action photographs are poignantly interlaced with on-the-set images including tender exchanged between actors Bourvil Annie Fratellini and Colette Castel herself seen in striking authority behind a handheld camera. A few feature Black musicians <br/><br/>in the background surrounded by paparazzi and a few photos are slightly more candid with subjects hamming for the camera. <br/><br/>A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. <br/><br/>747 photos are 3.5 x 4.5 inches or slightly smaller with small white borders at the foot and 2 photos are 5 x 7 inches. Light curling and most with tape ghosts and discoloration else Near Fine. Envelope and notebooks Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown books
1955144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Collection 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 to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in holograph 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 books
1965132451Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. First Draft script for the 1965 film. Included are production notes dated November 1965 laid in and an architectural sketch of the "sky truck" noted as "REVISED / APR. 22. '65" As deluxe a script for this film as we have seen and a highspot for noted director Robert Aldrich. <br/><br/>One of the great adventure films of the twentieth century wherein a cargo plane with fewer than a dozen men goes down in the Sahara in a sandstorm. One of the men is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before food and water are depleted. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers noted as 2ND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated April 6th. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Heller and novelist Trevor. 178 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/15/65 and 4/27/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine with a small fingernail-size bruise at the top left corner of the front wrapper. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964145375Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1964. Revised Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1964-1966 television show "The Outer Limits" originally aired April 27 1964 on ABC. <br/><br/>Robert Duvall plays a disaffected CIA agent sent to infiltrate an alien flying saucer that has crash landed. He finds that the genetic material used to alter his appearance has overridden his human nature and he ultimately chooses to return to the home planet of the benevolent aliens and leave humanity and its violence behind. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 52 and production No. SF# 30 dated March 3 1964 with credits for screenwriter Robert Towne. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Towne. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1941143897Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Temporary Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to producer Daryl F. Zanuck with his bold annotations in holograph pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Similar to the Italian Peplum sword-and-sandal epics the film follows the rise and fall of an illiterate peasant played by Tyrone Powell who becomes a renowned bullfighter and who manages to catch the eye of Rita Hayworth along the way. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and nominated for one other. <br/><br/>Set in Spain shot on location in Mexico City. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as TEMPORARY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 614 and production No. 2093 dated Jan 6 1941. Distribution page present with receipt removed rubber-stamped copy No. 1. Title page present dated January 6 1941 noted as Temporary Script with credits for screenwriter Jo Swerling and novelist Vincente Blasco Ibanez. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 269. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967141440Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>An experimental absurdist pop art satire of yakuza films and film noir Suzuki's film was a failure on release leading him to be fired and then blackballed by the studio for making films that made neither sense nor profit. <br/><br/>The film rightly became a cult classic with its international video release in the 1980s and would influence filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch John Woo Chan-wook Park Wong Kar-wai Johnnie To Takeshi Kitano and Quentin Tarantino. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Grant Japan. Criterion Collection 38. Nikkatsu unknown books
1977141442Burbank CA: Cinema Epoch 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A female golfer tries to perform to the very best of her abilities but must contend with the men in her life her neighbors her family and a stalker who will not leave her alone. <br/><br/>Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Cinema Epoch unknown books
1963141423Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience particularly through World War II told through the perspective of a woman named Tome born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. <br/><br/>Yellow titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22. Nikkatsu unknown books
1980142611Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Archive of seven scripts for the 1982 film. Included is a first draft third draft and five undated drafts one of which appears under the working title "Carlotta: A Haunted Lady." Two scripts with holograph annotations present. From the estate of Frank De Felitta. <br/><br/>De Felitta was a screenwriter and novelist best known for his 1975 occult horror novel Audrey Rose which he also adapted into the screenplay for the 1977 film directed by Robert Wise and starring Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins.<br/><br/>Based on the 1978 novel by De Felitta about a real case of an alleged haunting in which a woman claimed the ghosts of three men were sexually assaulting her. De Felitta was present during the initial investigation by two parapsychologists one of whom also who served as a technical advisor on the film. Critics of the time dismissed the film but it has since become a well-regarded cult classic. <br/><br/>1st Draft Screenplay:<br/>Blue untitled wrappers with holograph pencil notation. Title page present dated September 25 1978 noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Frank DeFelitta. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>3rd Draft:<br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present holograph pencil notation dated March 1980 noted as 3rd Draft with credits for screenwriter Frank DeFelitta. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good Plus bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Entity Undated 1:<br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank De Felitta. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Entity Undated 2:<br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank DeFelitta The Paul Kohner Michael Levy Agency producers Joe Wizan and Joyce Lukon. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Entity Undated 3:<br/>Orange untitled wrappers. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Entity Undated 4 Bound Internally<br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank De Felitta. Holograph notation type over. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Carlotta: A Haunted Lady:<br/>Pale yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank De Felitta and producers Joe Wizan and Joyce Lukon. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Scorsese The Dark Eleven. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1925149842Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1925. First Draft script for the 1925 film. <br/><br/>A roguish Eastern European woman is hired to help con a young heiress out of her wealth by holding fake seances with the heiress' long-dead father. Director Tod Browning was best known for his controversial masterpiece "Freaks" 1932 a quintessential film from both the perspective of horror and pre-Code film history revered by 20th century surrealists and given homage by Luis Bunuel in his film "Viridiana" 1961.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 1520 dated 3/28/25. Title page integral with the first page of text dated March 28 1925 noted as First draft of continuity with credits for screenwriter Waldemar Young. Approximately 120 leaves without page numbers. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1978152405N.p.: The Clockworks Company 1978. First Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1978 by screenwriter Stephen Geller who had previously adapted Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" for George Roy Hill's acclaimed 1972 film. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. <br/><br/>Based on 1976 novel by Tom Robbins. The history behind Geller's ambitious and massive 182 pages screenplay is unclear. Entertainment Weekly reported in 1994 that Robert Wusch producer of George Roy Hill's 1977 "Slap Shot" was attached in 1977 his options having run out in 1978 and in 1978 the New York Times reported Phoebe Larmore Robbin's literary agent was attached as Producer both with Geller as screenwriter.<br/><br/>In 1993 Gus Van Sant made a film version with his own screenplay starring Uma Thurman and Lorraine Bracco which was largely panned upon release and has since garnered a cult following.<br/><br/>Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Stephen Geller and author Tom Robiins. 183 leaves with last page of text numbered 182. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with prong binding. The Clockworks Company unknown books
1933131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in holograph ink above it. <br/><br/>Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. <br/><br/>Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1971137936Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. Produced for use on location in New York City in March and April 1971 when shooting for the film commenced there. <br/><br/>William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's 1969 nonfiction account of east coast drug trafficking and its impact on New York City undercover police officers. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York City with glorious period detail in nearly every frame. <br/><br/>The screenplay was written by author Ernest Tidyman one year after the publication of his seminal Harlem-based crime novel "Shaft." Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Actor Hackman along with three additional nominations. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as FRIEDKIN DRAFT and REVISED on the front wrapper in holograph pencil dated 3/23/71 and 4/26/71 in holograph pencil. Title page not present. Last leaf of text unnumbered. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes and a few revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/26/71 and 3/23/71. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Penzler 101. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1980143208Yokohama Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting including the use of professional or amateur actors as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro who was fired on the first day of shooting. <br/><br/>The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. <br/><br/>When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola convinced 20th Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights receving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 267. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
