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1967161028N.p.: Selmur Productions 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to uncredited set decorator George R. Nelson with his name in manuscript ink "Bob Nelson" on the top right corner of the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Based on Daniel Keyes' 1966 novel "Flowers for Algernon" about a 32-year-old bakery worker with an intellectual disability who is approached by two doctors about participating in an experiment that will enhance his mental aptitude. Actor Cliff Robertson also appeared as Charly in a previous adaptation of Keyes' novel a 1961 television adaptation on the United States Steel Hour titled "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon." <br /> <br /> Nelson who is best-known for his work on "The Graduate" "The Manchurian Candidate" "The Getaway" "The Godfather Part II" and "Apocalypse Now" was not credited in the final film so it must be assumed that he was either involved with it early on or considered it at some point. <br /> <br /> Set in Boston.<br /> <br /> Yellow titled titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Title page present dated June 30 1967 noted as copy No. 49 in manuscript ink with credit for Silliphant and director Ralph Nelson. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a ring stain and a few splashes bound internally with three gold brads. Selmur Productions unknown
1965171121Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Chenault 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. Lacking the final page of narrative text as either used or issued.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1963 Tony Award-winning play by Edward Albee which follows one bitter night of domestic unrest between an emotionally scarred college professor and his hard-drinking wife. Nichols' directorial debut and the first film to be given the MPAA tag "No one under 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by an adult" challenging the Production Code Office and essentially leading to its demise. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards and winning five including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis respectively. <br /> <br /> Set on the campus of a small New England college and shot on location in Northampton Southampton and Cambridge Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows 2 holdings.<br /> <br /> Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 69 dated July 30 1965. Distribution page present same dates with receipt intact. Title page present dated July 30 1965 with credits for screenwriter Ernest Lehman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Mimeograph duplication rectos only all pages eye-rest green excepting distribution page which is white and dated 7/30/65. Corner chip to the "Cast of Characters" page else pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with yapping at the top and bottom as usually found bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Warner Brothers / Chenault unknown
167970New York: Exoskeleton 1998. First Draft script for the 1999 film. <br /> <br /> An African-American hitman who models himself after the code of ancient samurai is caught in the crosshairs of a Mafia boss and his associates after a hit gone wrong. Interpreted by some as an homage to Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 crime drama "Le Samouraï."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Jersey City. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 5 1998 noted as First Draft with credit for director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly toned and soiled on the title page and page edges unbound. Exoskeleton unknown
169006N.p.: N.p. 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 neo-noir film here under the working title "Riders on the Storm" written by screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff." Laid in are two gatherings of revision pages 31 pink pages dated 7/2/90 and 25 green revision pages dated July 10 1990 both also noted as written by screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff." Script and revision pages noted on the title pages as "Eyes Only - Not For Duplication."<br /> <br /> The breakthrough film for Kathryn Bigelow and today a cult classic certified neo-noir and keystone surfing film. Bigelow went on to become the first female director win an Academy Award with "The Hurt Locker" in 2008. <br /> <br /> Set primarily in Southern California shot on location throughout California in Malibu Redondo Beach Dockweiler Beach Ecola State Park Los Angeles Manhattan Beach Pacific Palisades Santa Monica Culver City and Venice Pier as well as Hawaii Oahu Lake Powell Utah and Wheeler Oregon. <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerograhic duplication on blue leaves rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the title page partially detached bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Pink Revision Pages:<br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 and 7/2/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. Xerographic duplication on pink leaves rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single gold brad.<br /> <br /> Green Revision Pages:<br /> Front wraper integral with memo dated July 10 1990. Title page present dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 7/2/90 and 7/10/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. Xerographic duplication on green leaves rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a rust stain from a previous paper clip to the top left unbound.<br /> <br /> Carlson Destroy All Movies. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
1955145052Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. <br /> <br /> Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" 1954 the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of a promising young fighter. Nominated for an Academy Award. Humphrey Bogart's final film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in California Chicago and New York. <br /> <br /> White titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1315 dated Oct. 12 1955. Title page present dated October 12 1955 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Philip Yordan. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between November 2 1955 and December 16 1955. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1967161281Various cities: Raymond Wagner / Petersham Films 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to one of the film's production designers with their annotations regarding specific needed objects written in manuscript pencil and ink on the first and last pages of the script. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase about an unhappy newlywed socialite who relentlessly pursues a physician for an affair. Shot on location during the Summer of Love in San Francisco with appearances by Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 17 1967 with credits for novelist John Haase and screenwriter Larry Marcus. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Raymond Wagner / Petersham Films unknown
160757N.p.: N.p. 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1979 short film. Copy belonging to uncredited actor Charles Hutchins with his name and role "The Court Clerk" in manuscript ink on the title page and his annotations in manuscript ink indicating scenes on three pages. <br /> <br /> The first film adaptation of the 1944 novel by Lillian Smith about a Black painter in 1940s Georgia whose attempt to register to vote culminates in his murder by a lynch mob. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film.<br /> <br /> Set in Georgia.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated Feb. 20 1978 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Stephen B. Katz director Seth Pinsker and novelist Lillian Smith. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly edgeworn partially bound at the top left corner with three staples. N.p. unknown
163355Beverly Hills CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions 1973. Revised Draft script for the 1974 film. Noted as copy No. 118 in manuscript ink on the title page.<br /> <br /> Loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel. A successful Harvard-educated literature professor finds himself in deep debt as his gambling addiction begins to spiral out of control. The first American film made by Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Las Vegas Tucson and New York.<br /> <br /> Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated July 26 1973 noted as Revised with credits for director Karel Reisz and screenwriter James Toback. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled and edgeworn bound with two gold screw brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Imprint 49. Chartoff-Winkler Productions unknown
1961156281Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Collection of 22 vintage double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1961 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. <br /> <br /> The first entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a glimpse into a private world seen through a mind that has departed day to day concerns. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 11.75 inches. About Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 209. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
150990N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film including eight borderless and one with narrow margins and wide bottom margin. Two bear provenance stamps on the verso and one bears the stamp of photographer Andre Marinie.<br /> <br /> Three in the collection are on the set photographs featuring director Jacques Demy.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault and loosely based on Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. <br /> <br /> Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 10.5 x 7 inches. Generally about Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 718. N.p. unknown
167972N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film seen here under the working title "ROMENEWYORKPARISL.A.HELSINKI." Annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page noting times in the cities in which the film is set.<br /> <br /> An anthology of five stories about taxicab drivers in five different cities who experience a variety of humorous romantic and unusual situations as they encounter patrons on their nighttime shifts.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Helsinki Paris Rome New York and Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1990 noted as copy No. 32 in manuscript ink with credit for screenwriter Jim Jarmusch. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87 and dated September 17 1990. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
153226Paris: Alpha France 1975. Archive of material relating to the production and release of the 1974 US adult film a period costume drama. <br /> <br /> From the US production of the film: 72 vernacular color snapshots each with a small label adhered to the corner with the film's French title and 18 snapshot-size contact photographs.<br /> <br /> From the French release of the film: three double weight glossy French lobby cards three copies of a black and white French program one color French program and one moyenne film poster for the French release with the French title "Soumise et perverse Cecilie".<br /> <br /> Vernacular color snapshots and contact photographs are essentially the keybook photos for the film numerically annotated in manuscript marker and wax pencil respectively one photograph with cropping annotation on recto in manuscript yellow wax pencil. <br /> <br /> French lobby cards with "Soumise et perverse Cecilie" stickers to upper corners. Black and white flyers with credits and synopsis on verso and color flyer with black and white photographs and synopsis on verso.<br /> <br /> An extravagant pornographic period costume piece by noted "prestige pornography" director Lee Frost here under the pseudonym F.C. Perl Franklin C. Perl wherein the beautiful 17 year old London girl Cecily Angela Carnon is sold into sexual servitude to a perverse and sadistic countess in France to pay off her deceased father's gambling debts.<br /> <br /> Frost a favorite of Quentin Tarantino was well known for his high-concept grindhouse films such as the notorious roughie "Climax of Blue Power" made the same year as this film 1974 "The Thing with Two Heads" 1972 "Chrome and Hot Leather" 1971 "Chain Gang Women" 1971 and "The Black Gestapo" 1975 and was the screenwriter for one of the great road movies "Race with the Devil" 1975.<br /> <br /> Set in Renaissance France. <br /> <br /> 72 Vernacular color snapshots 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> 18 contact sheet photographs 4 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Three French lobby cards 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to far corners and two with pinholes at corners.<br /> <br /> Three black and white flyers 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Some very light soiling to outer borders one with a horizontal crease and a single line annotation in red manuscript marker on verso else Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Color flyer 9 x 12 inches. Very Good with creasing at extremities.<br /> <br /> Poster 22.5 x 30 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Alpha France unknown
150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. <br /> <br /> Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality.<br /> <br /> Set in the UK.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown
1948167637Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Treatment script for the key 1948 film noir. In Jaffe Agency wrappers stamped "FILE COPY" and "JAFFE AGENCY" at the top right corner of the front wrapper.<br /> <br /> Robert Altman's first screenwriting credit he would not direct his first feature film for another 20 years and Richard Fleischer's first directorial effort a tight noir second feature. Altman is credited here alongside another first-time screenwriter George W. George who would go on to be a prolific screenwriter with credits for such films as "The Woman on Pier 13" 1949 and "Big House USA" 1955. <br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles and an early example of a noir film with a large amount of location shooting throughout the Los Angeles area. <br /> <br /> Tan agency wrappers "The Jaffe Agency" printed at the bottom of the front wrapper and with their diamond TJA logo at the center Title page present with credits for screenwriters Altman and George. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication. Pages about Near Fine with a small chip at the bottom right corner of the title page wrapper Very Good plus internally bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
161161Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1987. Revised Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Francis Kenny with his name in manuscript ink on the title page and his ink and pencil annotations on several pages noting deletions and occasional additions. <br /> <br /> A dark satire of the popular John Hughes teen comedies of the early 1980s today considered a classic coming-of-age film. The debuts of both director Michael Lehmann and screenwriter Daniel Waters. <br /> <br /> Set in Sherwood Ohio and shot on location in Los Angeles California. <br /> <br /> White untitled New World Pictures production wrappers. Title page present dated November 17 1987 noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Daniel Waters. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
160601Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Revised Final script for the 1972 film. <br /> <br /> An engaged mild-mannered musicologist is in San Francisco at a convention competing for a research grant when he meets an exceedingly unusual woman who immediately decides she's fallen head-over-heels in love with him. A wildly successful screwball sendup the highest grossing film ever directed by Peter Bogdanovich. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in San Francisco. <br /> <br /> Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REV. FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 152 dated August 1 1971. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 8/1/71 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Buck Henry and story credits for David Newman Robert Benton and Peter Bogdanovich. Mimeograph duplication on blue stock rectos only. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1963150213Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of director Luchino Visconti with actors Burt Lancaster and Serge Regiani on the set of the 1963 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and the stamp of photographer G. B. Poletto on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and tiny bruise on right side. <br /> <br /> BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. Titanus unknown
2011167669Burbank CA: DMP Productions 2011. Vintage reference bible for the 2011 family film with 18 sets represented. <br /> <br /> The seventh Muppets feature film in which Kermit and two human friends attempt to reunite the Muppets who have been disbanded for years in order to save the Muppet Theater from destruction. Intended to revive the franchise after years of inactivity following Disney's acquisition of the Muppets in 2004. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Bret McKenzie's "Man or Muppet." <br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles Paris Reno and the fictional city of Smalltown and shot on location in Los Angeles Reno and Zürich. <br /> <br /> Housed in a generic white three-ring binder with board inserts noting the film's title and the names email addresses and phone numbers of leadman Lou Mugavero decorator Tracey Doyle and assistant decorator Leighanne Haddock. Binder and contents about Fine. DMP Productions unknown
152444N.p.: N.p. 1994. Collection of 17 vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film by photographer Shade Rupe. Variously featured are director Abel Ferrara actress Lili Taylor cinematographer Ken Kelsch screenwriter Nicholas St. John and other cast and crew members all photographed over the course of a single evening near Manhattan's Puck Building Lafayette Street an alley off Jersey Street NYU and Keith Haring's Pop Shop on Lafayette Street. <br /> <br /> Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives these being the only existing prints. Full provenance available with letter from Rupe stating "no other prints have ever or will ever be struck." Stamp on verso of each photo crediting Rupe as photographer.<br /> <br /> A conceptual black-and-white reimagining of the vampire movie about a philosophy graduate student who is forced to reconsider the nature of evil and humanity after succumbing to a vampire and developing an addiction to human blood.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Manhattan.<br /> <br /> 12 x 9 inches. Fine.<br /> <br /> Arrow 1769. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
166735Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 neo-noir film. Laid in is a map with directions to a location shooting. <br /> <br /> One of most successful action films of the 1990s and a peak for actor Harrison Ford. Based on the 1963-1963 ABC television series created by Roy Huggins which itself was loosely inspired by the 1954 trial of Sam Sheppard. Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble who after being framed for the murder of his wife and sentenced to death escapes from custody and sets out to find the real killer and clear his name all while being hunted by the police and a team of US Marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard played by Tommy Lee Jones. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jones. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in North Carolina and Chicago Illinois. <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated January 25 1993 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jeb Stuart. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 02/02/93. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Penzler 101. Warner Brothers unknown
161658Miami: Porky's Productions Astral 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Single photocopied manuscript annotation on the title page noting "Received 10/9/80" and a single annotation in manuscript ink on the same page noting copy No. 3.<br /> <br /> One of the highest grossing films of 1980 and the film that kickstarted the teen sex comedies of the 1980s about a group of high school students who decide to try to lose their virginities at the titular Porky's strip club while running afoul of the local sheriff.<br /> <br /> Set in the Florida Everglades in 1954 shot on location in Miami Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale Florida and in Santa Monica California. <br /> <br /> Orange faux leather titled wrappers. Title page present stamped Porky's Productions with credit for writer-director Bob Clark. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographically reproduced rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with two silver screw brads. <br /> <br /> Arrow 933. Porky's Productions (Astral) unknown
167968N.p.: N.p. 2005. Draft script for the 2005 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout denoting props and indicating potential script revisions and post-it tags on page fore-edges.<br /> <br /> Christopher Nolan's markedly darker edgier reboot of the "Batman" cinema franchise charting Bruce Wayne's transformation into the caped crusader. Followed by "The Dark Knight" 2008 and "The Dark Knight Rises" 2012. <br /> <br /> Set in Gotham City and Bhutan shot on location in Iceland the United Kingdom and Chicago. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter David Goyer. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly dampstained on several leaves bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
153631N.p.: N.p. 1983. Final Draft script belonging to actor Ron Travis with his ownership name in manuscript ink on the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Bound in after the script are a substantial number of call sheets cast and crew lists and production memos many with Travis' manuscript ink and pencil annotations. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1981 novel by Ernest K. Gann and written for the screen by Marc Norman who along with Tom Stoppard won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love."<br /> <br /> A curmudgeonly pilot who finds himself stranded in the wilderness with his sole passenger a wealthy sixteen-year-old girl after crash-landing on a remote mountain ridge populated by ravenous wolves. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Yugoslavia Croatia and Slovenia. <br /> <br /> Generic report wrappers mylar front wrapper and blue plastic rear wrapper as housed by Travis on the set. Title page present dated 22 October 1983 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Marc Norman and novelist Ernest K. Gann. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good pages lightly soiled and edgeworn throughout bound internally with a single gold prong. N.p. unknown
1968164210Beverly Hills CA: Campbell Silver Cosby 1968. Final Draft script for the 1971 film. <br /> <br /> Dalton Trumbo's meditation on the horror of war was first published in 1939 by J.B. Lippincott winning the National Book Award then called the American Book Sellers Award and was subsequently serialized in 1940 in the leftist newspaper "The Daily Worker." Trumbo's left-leaning views and ultimately his direct association with the Communist Party in the early 1940s caused him to be called before the House Un-American Activities committee where along with nine other writers and directors he refused to testify about Communist activity in Hollywood. The group dubbed The Hollywood Ten was subsequently blacklisted and Trumbo spent eleven months in prison. Thirty years after the book's publication Trumbo himself directed the film adaptation of his novel which won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 21 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for Trumbo. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated yellow blue pink and green revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled bound with two gold brads. Campbell, Silver, Cosby unknown
1961156240Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Revised Final Draft script for the 1962 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" as well as his "Nick Adams" stories about a 19-year-old who leaves his Michigan home holding various jobs before signing up to become an ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I. Nominated for five Golden Globes including Best Drama and Best Supporting Actor. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Mellen Wisconsin and in Verona Italy. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper dated October 17 1961. Title page present dated October 17 1961 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter A.E. Hotchner. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/23/61 and 11/27/61. Pages with silverfish damage to the top of the confidentiality page and a small amount to the top of the title page else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
