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1976136494Beverly Hills CA: Faces Distribution 1976. Original US insert poster "dancer in dressing room" style for the 1976 film picturing actress Catherine Wong in a pensive pose. <br/><br/>One of eight known one sheet styles no priority issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself and made small runs of posters in a wide variety of non-standard sizes and using an artful immediately recognizable style that represented a complete departure from standard film advertisement. <br/><br/>16.25 x 32 inches. Rolled as issued linen-backed. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 254. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Faces Distribution unknown books
1961138050Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1961. Original scenario artwork for the 1962 film depicting the main drag of the town of Osage with various townspeople going about their business. Archivally mounted and double matted with a description in a die cut window in the matte just below the artwork. Unexamined out of frame. <br/><br/>Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. <br/><br/>Gouache and pencil. Artwork 20.5 x 8.5 inches. Frame 26.25 x 16.25 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1932145965Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." <br/><br/>Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An American naval officer purchases marries and abandons a Japanese geisha named Butterfly leaving her penniless pregnant and increasingly despairing of his return. <br/><br/>Madame Butterfly has been adapted numerous times for opera stage and film although many of these productions have faced increased scrutiny in recent years for their stereotypical portrayals of Japanese people white actors in "yellowface" and inaccurate descriptions of Japanese customs and culture.<br/><br/>Tall white titled self wrappers noted as MASTER FILE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 1083 with credits for screenwriter Zoe Akins. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered G-25. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1989152234Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1989. Four sets of original storyboards for the 1990 film approximately 800 pages total. One set bound in script format with red wrappers noted in holograph ink annotation to the front wrappers as "Vol. I." the other set without wrappers.<br/><br/>Based on the popular 1984 novel. When the US government spots a massive high-tech Soviet submarine dead-set towards the Maine coastline officials must decide without any knowledge of its intentions whether they will allow the sub to reach American land or preemptively attack. Further complicating the situation is the uncooperative Russian government determined to overtake its rogue submarine but unwilling to reveal its true purpose. <br/><br/>Although the film rights to the novel were optioned before the book was published the complex plot and the prospectively huge cost of production led many studios to turn the project down. Nonetheless the film proved wildly successful and grossed over half its budget on the opening weekend alone paving the way for a number of Hollywood post-Cold War thrillers. Nominated for three Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Vol. 1:<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Approximately 350 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong.<br/><br/>Vol. 2:<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Approximately 350 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong.<br/><br/>Sets without wrappers:<br/><br/>One set approximately 60 leaves the other set approximately 40 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single gold brad. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1973144811Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. <br/><br/>Based on the the 1939 novel by Nathanael West and equal to it as a dark funny and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of those caught up in it. Nominated for two Academy Awards considered by many to be Donald Sutherland's finest performance and one of the most underrated films of the 1970s. <br/><br/>Teal studio wrappers with a die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Waldo Salt novelist Nathanael West producer Jerome Hellman and director John Schlesinger. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/31/73 and 10/12/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1955149900Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Five vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film showing variously actors Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra composer Frank Loesser and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. <br/><br/>The first photo double weight shows Marlon Brando as Skye Masterson surreally <br/>socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. <br/><br/>The second photo shows Brando rehearsing "Luck Be a Lady" with sheet music in hand and with the song's composer Frank Loesser at the piano.<br/><br/>The third photo shows Sinatra and Brando in a candid moment.<br/><br/>The fourth photo single weight shows director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette relaxing contemplatively Mankiewicz sitting and smoking his pipe Leverette inside a large industrial exhaust pipe.<br/><br/>FIFTH PHOTO 149973 TBD KRJ<br/><br/>Based on the 1950 Broadway musical which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A serial gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Set in New York and Havana.<br/><br/>All photos: 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine overall variously with a few pinholes and very shallow creasing. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1959148400Los Angeles: Melville Productions 1959. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1959 film belonging to actor Martin Landau his screen debut housed in paper envelope bearing Landau's name film title script and "Will pick up at the gate" on label. Annotations of Landau's name and character's name written on the top of page 36 of script and Landau's name again written at the top of page "66-67" of script in holograph ink.<br/><br/>Laid in is a nine page production announcement from United Artists which includes cast credits synopsis and production notes.<br/><br/>Based on the 1956 historical novel Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action by S.L.A. Marshall.<br/><br/>The first bloody Battle of Pork Chop Hill which took place in April of 1953 between the US Army's 7th Infantry Division and Chinese and North Korean forces. Gregory Peck portrays Lieutenant Joe Clemons who along with South Korean Lieutenant Suki Ohashi played by George Shibata lead the Division to recapture the hill. All while American and Communist North Korean and Chinese forces convene to discuss a cease fire 70 miles away at Panmunjon. <br/><br/>Martin Landau's feature film debut and featuring break out performances from numerous actors who become major film and television stars in the 1960s and 1970s including Woody Strode Harry Guardino Robert Blake George Peppard Norman Fell Abel Fernandez Gavin MacLeod Harry Dean Stanton and others.<br/><br/>Set in Cheorwon-gun South Korea shot on location in California and Arizona. <br/><br/>Title page integral with front wrapper dated APRIL 22 1958 noted as REVISED SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter James R. Webb and author S. L. A. Marshall. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/20/58 and 6/20/58. Pages Very Good plus with occasional light soil and dampstain on very bottom edge of leaf following title page title page Very Good with large dampstain along two to three inches of bottom and lightly along outer edge bound with three gold brads. Melville Productions unknown books
2000148354Rome: Solaris Cinematografica 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film which originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script are six pages of Invernizzi's handwritten notes. Text in Italian.<br/><br/>Based on the 1995 novel. A noblewoman's adopted daughter falls in love with her foster brother causing great rifts between mother and daughter and exposing older family secrets. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Naples Italy.<br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5 OTTOBRE 2000 with credits for director and screenwriter Lina Wertmuller screenwriter Elvio Porta and novelist Mario Orsini Natale. 196 leaves with last page of text numbered 186. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver brads. Solaris Cinematografica unknown books
1985143638US: Cannon Films 1985. Draft script and archive for the 1986 film belonging to actor Lainie Kazan who played Sylvia in the film with her holograph annotations throughout and various other ephemera including call sheets cast and crew lists two thumbnail sized photographs of her in character and 16 additional revised script pages with occasional handwritten annotations. <br/><br/>Most significantly included is a handwritten notebook containing Kazan's notes on her character's background motivation reactions and relationships to other characters. While we occasionally to see working scripts such as the one offered here with actor's annotations this kind of separate in-depth character work is rare. <br/><br/>Lainie Kazan is an Emmy and Tony Award nominated actor and singer perhaps best known to mainstream audiences for playing Nia Vardalos' mother is the surprise 2002 hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." <br/><br/>In a decade of big loud jingoistic action films B-movie impressarios Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus made if certainly not the biggest and loudest then perhaps the most jingoistic one of the era. Chuck Norris in a role that would define his pre-"Walker Texas Ranger" career plays the leader of an elite counter-terrorism strike force based on the eponymous real-life US military unit tasked with rescuing hostages and eliminating the Islamist terrorists who have hijacked an Israeli airline. Loosely "inspired" by the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 the previous year. The great Lee Marvin's last film and the basis for one theatrical sequel starring Chuck and a second direct-to-video sequel starring his son Mike Norris. <br/><br/>Set in Greece Lebanon Algeria and Israel shot on location in Israel with the assistance of the Israeli military who provided the planes and vehicles. <br/><br/>Script: Title page present dated August 15 1985 with credits for screenwriters Jim Bruner and Menahem Golan. 252 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Xerographic duplication rainbow script with revision pages throughout dated variously between 18/8/85 and 15 SEPT/85. Pages Near Fine lacking the wrappers. <br/><br/>Notebook: 25 pages of handwritten annotations in a generic spiral bound notebook with card wrappers. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Call sheets and other material: Near Fine to Very Good plus. <br/><br/>All material housed in a generic blue two pocket three ring binder. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Arrow 921. Cannon Films unknown books
1954142898Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1954. Final White script for the 1956 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>An adaptation of the 1925 operetta of the same name by Rudolf Friml which is based on Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 romantic novel and play "If I Were King." <br/><br/>Set in France in the year 1461. <br/><br/>Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Title page present dated December 9 1954 with credits for producer Pat Duggan director Michael Curtiz screenwriter Ken Englund. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 96A. Mimeograph duplication with blue and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 12-15-54 and 2-9-55. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with some wear at the edges. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. <br/><br/>Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1974149870France: Les Films du Jeudi / Gaumont 1974. Two vintage oversize borderless reference photographs one double weight of Jane Birkin from the 1974 film. <br/><br/>A liquor salesman Jean Carmet makes up stories to obscure his pathetic life in order to succeed at both business and with women until he meets Jane Birkin. <br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and wear at the extremities. Les Films du Jeudi / Gaumont unknown books
1968147160Unknown: Unknown 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. <br/><br/>A pitch black comedy about a man sentenced to death who survives his hanging leading to a two-hour debate among his executioners over how best to handle the situation. Loosely based on a 1958 crime and execution and a rare for its time discussion of the discrimination faced by ethnic Koreans in Japanese society. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 035. Approximately 130 leaves with last page of text numbered h-8. Mimeographed rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 798. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Unknown unknown books
1967118801Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / The Mirisch Corporation 1967. First Draft script for the 1968 film here under its working title "The Crown Caper." INSCRIBED on the title page by director and producer Norman Jewison: "To - / With regards / Norman Jewison." Written for the screen by Alan R. Trustman and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. <br/><br/>At or near the top of a distinguished and polished pile of heist films from the late 1960s that combined humor style and suspense and the film that was the first to employ split-screen imagery a technique devised by the film's editor Hal Ashby who would soon become a prominent director. This particular heist film is of the variety where the heist is loaded up front with the majority of the film devoted to its aftermath. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Windmills of Your Mind" by composer Michel Legrand Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and nominated for Best Original Score. <br/><br/>Yellow wrappers with no titles on the front wrapper. Title page present with a date of March 10 1967 stated "2nd DRAFT SCREENPLAY" and with credits for screenwriter Trustman and producer-director Jewison. 94 leaves mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. In a quarter-leather custom clamshell box.<br/><br/>Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. United Artists / The Mirisch Corporation unknown books
1988146526Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1988. Lined revised final draft script for the 1989 film in leather presentation binding belonging to editor Louis Lombardo with name in gilt on front board title in gilt on front board and spine. Signed on upper right of wrapper by editor Tony Gibbs in holograph red ink. Copious holograph annotations on nearly every page regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Two page ribbon copy memo signed from director Norman Jewison to Lombardo dated June 26/89 following the final page of the script in which Jewison breaks down six key scenes he feels need reediting after previewing the film.<br/><br/>Jewison and Lombardo previously worked together on 1987's hugely successful multiple Academy Award winning "Moonstruck" and 1989's "The January Man." They would work together again on 1991's "Other People's Money."<br/><br/>From the estate of Lou Lombardo. Provenance available upon request.<br/><br/>Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Bobbie Ann Mason about the effect of the Vietnam War on a small Kentucky town centering on a teenager whose father was killed in the war and who seeks to find out more about his life. Bruce Willis plays her guardian and seemingly laid-back uncle a Vietnam vet suffering from PTSD.<br/><br/>Set in the fictional town of Hopewell Kentucky and shot on location in Kentucky Lexington Mayfield Paducah and in Washington DC. <br/><br/>Black leather binding with title in gilt on front board and spine and Louis Lombardo in gilt on lower right of front board with glossy black endpapers and label crediting California Bookbinding of Hollywood. Blue titled front wrapper noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated June 16 1988 with credits for screenwriter Frank Pierson and novelist Bobbie Ann Mason. Approximately 320 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos with blue pink yellow green and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/10/88 and 10/2/88. Pages Near FIne wrapper Very Good plus memo ribbon copy Near Fine leather binding Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1947140755Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers' rubber stamp also to the versos. <br/><br/>Based on the 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King. Surreal and visually stunning The Lady from Shanghai tells a quintessential film noir tale of moral chaos reaching its climax with a shootout in an abandoned hall of mirrors. <br/><br/>The collection features photographs of leading lady Rita Hayworth in various stylish outfits and sporting the controversial short blonde hairstyle that soon-to-be ex-husband Orson Welles forced her to accept for the role. <br/><br/>Robert Coburn who photographed all but one of the images in this collection was one of the most influential portrait photographers employed by movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s with his most famous portraits immortalizing Hollywood's greatest icons and helping to define the era as the Golden Age of Cinema. In 1940 Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio's chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including "Picnic" "Gilda" and "The Big Heat."<br/><br/>Set in California New York and Mexico and shot there on location. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine to Fine condition. <br/><br/>Grant US Classic Noir. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver & Ward Classic Noir. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1941134897Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills linen backed as issued one still with a mimeo snipe on the verso the other with the RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>The first still shows a young Kane Orson Welles smoking a pipe and smiing signing his "declaration" with advisors Jedediah Leland Joseph Cotten and Mr. Bernstein Everett Sloane. The second still shows Kane as an old man looking on as his young bride Dorothy Comingore completes a giant jigsaw puzzle at a table. <br/><br/>Both stills 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Spicer US. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1973149800Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Collection of 12 vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1973 film. Eight photographs with the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso one photograph additionally SIGNED by the photographer. Five with holograph annotations on the verso identifying either the film the subjects or location of the photograph one bearing the annotated date "1972." <br/><br/>Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years covering a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br/><br/>A high-powered divorce attorney struggles with the end of his own marriage after he is caught having an affair only to discover his still in love with his ex-wife. <br/><br/>Photographs variously sized between 11.75 x 9.25 and 13 x 10 inches with most being 13.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1991150368Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1991. Revised Draft script for the classic 1991 film comedy with rainbow revisions. <br/><br/>Two metalhead best friends who run a no-budget public cable television show find their lives turned around when a sleazy producer purchases the rights to their show for his prime time network. Based on a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch originated by Mike Myers the film proved a critical and commercial success shaping the slang of the 1990s and perhaps even more importantly creating the most beloved lip-syncing scene of the twentieth century. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location throughout Chicago and the Chicago suburbs including Cicero Aurora Berwyn and Covina and in San Francisco Inglewood Cerritos West Covina and Los Angeles California and Scottsdale and Mesa Arizona.<br/><br/>Gray pictorial titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 05 1991 noted as Rev. with credits for screenwriters Mike Myers Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 31 1991 and August 05 1991. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a faint partial ring stain on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1971144452London: Hammer Films 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1972 British horror film here under the working title "Blood Will Have Blood." With holograph annotations throughout that include additions to description and changes in dialogue. <br/><br/>A classic from the Hammer canon and the last film Hammer made in conjunction with Anglo-EMI about a widowed aristocrat who keeps his two teenage children captive fearing that they may have inherited a curse from their mother who recently killed herself. Complete with blood letting incest demonic possession and a series of mysterious murders in the nearby woods.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Buckinghamshire Hertfordshire and East Sussex England. <br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present noted as Copy No. 47 in black holograph ink dated "Revised 12th July 1971" with a credit for screenwriter Christopher Wicking. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Mechanical duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout some with a type font different from the standard Roneograph style dated variously between 21.7.71 and 23.8.71. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Hammer Films unknown books
1970114644Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Early Draft script for the 1972 film "Portnoy's Complaint" based on the 1969 novel by Philip Roth written for the screen and directed by Ernest Lehman and starring Richard Benjamin Karen Black and Lee Grant. Cinematographer Philip Lathrop's working copy with his holograph name at the top of the title page. <br/><br/>A planning script likely used well prior to shooting with very neat holograph annotations by Lanthrop on virtually every page regarding sets locations day/night shoots etc. and with three tabs manually appended at the page fore-edge to indicate the three principal shooting locations: Vermont Italy and Athens. At the rear are 8 pages of detailed equipment orders all relating to photographic hardware and associated shipping charges to various locations. The second Roth novel after "Goodbye Columbus" in 1972 to be adapted to the screen and the sole directorial effort for noted screenwriter Ernest Lehman "North by Northwest" "The Sweet Smell of Success" "Sabrina" "West Side Story" The Sound of Music" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers with credits on the front wrapper for Warner Brothers and the Chenault Productions. Title page present with a date of August 3 1970 and credits for Lehman as screenwriter and Roth as novelist. 149 leaves mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with lightly yapped edges. In a customer quarter leather clamshell box. Warner Brothers unknown books
1975141945Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1975. Draft script for the 1976 film "The Shaggy D.A." seen here under the working title "Double Trouble." Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones who played the role of Policeman #2 with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. The sequel to the 1959 film "The Shaggy Dog" based on the 1923 Felix Salten novel "The Hound of Florence." <br/><br/>An attempt to followup "The Shaggy Dog" Disney's most profitable film to date "The Shaggy D.A." utilizes their successful "gimmick comedy" formula in which elements of the supernatural intrude into everyday suburban life. In this case that means Dean Jones and Susan Pleshette are back and Jones must again contend with turning into a large dog this time while running for office and having to prove that his political rival is connected to organized crime. Director Robert Stevenson's final film. <br/> <br/>Set in the fictional town of Medfield. <br/><br/>Pink titled wrappers noted as production No. 0144 dated May 14 1975 with credits for story writer Joe McEveety and screenplay writers Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson. Title page integral with the first page of text as issued dated 6/24/75. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication with blue green pink and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/2/75 and 7/15/75. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1949131899Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film dated Nov. 24 1948. <br/><br/>Fuller's auspicious directorial debut one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment the film based on the life of Robert Ford displays many of the hallmarks of the iconoclastic director's subsequent career. <br/><br/>20 x 15 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of small closed tears to the bottom edge. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 5. Lippert Pictures unknown books
1962149451Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Kubrick and cinematographer Oswald Morris on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations on the verso regarding layout.<br/><br/>A stunning photo of both Kubrick and legendary cinematographer Morris the latter whose achievements apart from "Lolita" include "Oliver Twist 1948 "Moulin Rouge" 1952 "Moby Dick" 1956 "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965 "Fiddler on the Roof" 1971 and "The Man Who Would Be King" 1975.<br/><br/>Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece about a man's all-consuming and destructive romantic desire for a prepubescent girl. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Albany and the Adirondacks in New York Newport and Westerly in Rhode Island and Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in England.<br/><br/>14 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and a shallow crease along the right edge.<br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970149980Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film printed in a striking blue and fluorescent pink.<br/><br/>Half-Navajo Vietnam veteran Green Beret and hapkido master Billy Jack defends the peace-loving free-thinking Freedom School from intolerant and bigoted locals. Originally unable to find distribution director screenwriter and star Tom Laughlin booked the film into theatres himself and the film's mixture of radical politics and action struck a chord with viewers eventually becoming the second highest grossing film of the year. The second of four "Billy Jack" films preceded by "The Born Losers" 1967 and followed by "The Trial of Billy Jack" 1974 and "Billy Jack Goes to Washington" 1976 all directed by and starring Laughlin and co-written and co-starring his wife Delores Taylor. <br/><br/>Set in Arizona shot on location in New Mexico Arizona and California. <br/><br/>82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration some rubbing and light scratches and some very light soiling on margins otherwise quite bright and unfaded. Warner Brothers unknown books
