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1959143239Tokyo: Toho Company 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film crediting Masahiro Makino as the director who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi originally released in 1937 as two parts <br/>"Saga of the Vagabonds Part One Tiger Wolf" and "Saga of the Vagabonds Part Two Forward at Dawn." Toshiro Mifune plays a feudal bandit accused of stealing money he was entrusted and assembles a revenge party to storm the family castle and attack his brother who betrayed him. Kurosawa would serve as 3rd assistant director to Eisuke Takizawa for both films and go on to write the latter screenplay previously penned by Sadao Yamanaka. <br/><br/>Set in Japan's Edo period. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered f-16. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on paper edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Toho Company unknown books
1948135635Culver City CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film "Joan of Arc" here under its working title "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. <br/><br/>Based on Maxwell Anderson's play "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946 ran for 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre and closed in 1947. Ingrid Bergman who stars as Joan in the film also starred in the play and won the 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film won three Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Director Victor Fleming's final film featuring Bergman as Joan of Arc the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English. Bergman portrays the martyr as a strong and spiritual figure who proves her devotion to the Dauphin Jose Ferrer later to become the King of France. She wins an alliance with the Governor of Vaucouleurs and the courtiers at Chinon leads her army in the Battle of Orleans is betrayed by the Burgundians. Joan was captured tortured and ultimately executed by the English and was later made a Catholic saint. <br/><br/>Set in the village of Domremy shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers. Distribution page present undated with receipt removed noted as copy No. 400. Title page integral with distribution page. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1944131507Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves all featuring Smith and costar Paul Henreid. <br/><br/>Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel about a forlorn artist in France who gives up the trade to become a doctor. Philip Cary Henreid the artist meets Mildred Rogers Eleanor Parker a waitress and becomes dreadfully infatuated in spite of the waitress' complete disregard for him. Eventually the waitress' charms wane and Cary reconnects with a beautiful young writer Nora Nesbitt Smith and their romance flourishes-until Mildred Rogers returns pregnant and in need. <br/><br/>First adapted to film in 1934 directed by John Cromwell and starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis the novel was also adaptated in 1964 by Ken Hughes starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey and has been adapted several times for television. <br/><br/>Brown full sheepskin boards with gilt titles. Distribution page present receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/22/44 with credits for screenwriter Turney. 179 leaves including black and white publicity photos bound in mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 8/12/44 and 8/29/44. Very Good. Warner Brothers unknown books
1959146860N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese.<br/><br/>A remake of the 1934 silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds" also directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The leader of a traveling theatre troupe goes to visit his former mistress and their son who is unaware that the man is his father. Meanwhile the man's current lover jealous of his attentions to his former mistress schemes to shame him by convincing a young actress in the troupe to seduce his son. One of the final films the prolific Japanese director made before his death in 1963.<br/><br/>Set on the Japanese coast.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeographed rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Eureka Masters of Cinema 41. Ebert I. Criterion Collection 232. N.p. unknown books
1961143276Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. <br/><br/>Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film about a widower and his daughters who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3. Takarazuka Productions unknown books
1929151068N.p.: N.p. 1929. Collection of seven vintage oversize double weight reference photographs four of William Dieterle and Lien Deyers two of Dieterle and one of Dieterle and Nikolai Malikoff from the 1929 German silent film. <br/><br/>Viola von Birkenfeld Deyers falls madly in love with the young Friedrich von Bornim Dieterle while he cares for her grandfather after an accident. Upon finding out Friedrich is married her grandfather seeks retribution for breaking his granddaughter's heart. <br/><br/>15.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1946146888Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Final script for the 1946 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100 dated MARCH 2 1946. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated March 2 1946 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter F. Hugh Herbert. 192 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/12/46 and 5/7/46. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped to the fore edges bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1945146433N.p.: N.p. 1945. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The Fugitive." With a single holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "92." All leaves watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY.<br/><br/>The twelfth entry in the fourteen film Sherlock Holmes series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1911 short story "The Adventure of the Red Circle." The prime minister of the fictitious eastern European country Rovinia begs Holmes and Watson to escort Prince Nikolas back home as the king has been assassinated and the prince must ascend to the throne. The transatlantic voyage proves to be a dangerous journey and every passenger becomes a suspect though Holmes carries more than a few tricks and surprises up his cape.<br/><br/>Set in Algiers. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7309 dated May 20 1945. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with three closed tears to the front wrapper and light edgewear overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1923151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in holograph ink on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. <br/><br/>Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975135604Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set both in front of the camera and behind it and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next to Isabelle Adjani. Stamp of French press agency Les Artiests Associes on the verso of each print. <br/><br/>Based on the diaries of the youngest daughter of author Victor Hugo about a woman whose romantic obsession with an indifferent military captain eventually leads to her despair and madness. Isabelle Adjani was nominated for an Academy award making her at age 20 the youngest Best Actress nominee of all time in 1975. <br/><br/>Story set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Barbados Senegal and the Channel Islands. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes unknown books
1971134494Burbank CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage black-and-white oversize double weight still photograph from the 1971 film. Shown are George Lucas and an assistant setting up a shot of Robert DuVall with Lucas placing calipers on DuVall's head. With the Warner Brothers studio stamp on the verso along with a notation regarding the shot and its reference number. <br/><br/>Given everything that would follow "THX-1138" could easily be described as the most successful student film of all time developed by Lucas in 1967 as a short called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" while he was attending the University of Southern California's film school. The feature film version was one of the first efforts produced under the auspices of Lucas' friend Francis Ford Coppola. <br/><br/>Written by Lucas and Walter Murch the film set a standard for dystopian stories that would inform dozens of films in its wake. Oddly Lucas did not continue down the pessimistic path choosing instead to engage in the broader appeal of "Star Wars."<br/><br/>14 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers unknown books
2000131922Burbank CA: Buena Vista Pictures 2000. Archive of two scripts for the 2000 film including the shooting script with blue and pink revisions bound in and yellow revisions bound separately with the studio's production number rubber stamped randomly on the pages throughout. Copy belonging to Bruce Willis' stand-in Allen Strange with a detailed and nicely anecdotal typed letter signed providing provenance. With director Shyamalan's initials signing off on the script on the last leaf of the shooting script. <br/><br/>An interesting insight into a quiet auteur film that has become a cult favorite here evidenced as the result of some extreme editing. This early draft shows numerous differences between what Shyamalan shot and what made the finished film. Staneruck notes that "Many of the scenes that were shot which in my opinion were stunningly great were discarded after rewrites and lost in the editing . one incredible sequence that was cut shows . Bruce Willis in the shower naked.slowly overcome by emotion and breaks down crying." Staneruck also describes a very expensive shot of the train crash "which was on a 3 axis gimble with 20 stunt people falling about and dying violently. A Big Bucks scene. Gone."<br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page present dated march . twenty second . two thousand noted as shooting script with credits for screenwriter Shyamalan. 129 leaves mechanical duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated either April 7 2000 or April 12 2000 with 37 yellow revision pages laid in dated April 28 2000. Pages about Near Fine bound with two silver screw brads. Buena Vista Pictures unknown books
1982150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied holograph annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one holograph pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page.<br/><br/>Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick.<br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1959148398N.p.: United States Productions Inc 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations to dialogue of lead character Legs in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Landau was considered for the lead role of Jack "Legs" Diamond which from the laid in pages we can reasonably assume were for an audition for the part. Ray Danton was ultimately cast as Legs and Landau does not appear in the film. <br/><br/>From the estate of Martin Landau.<br/><br/>Jack "Legs" Diamond Ray Danton and his sickly brother Eddie Warren Oates move to New York City and after a brief incarceration sets their eyes on taking over kingpin mobster Arnold Rothstein's Robert Lowery criminal businesses. The film debut of Dyan Cannon. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 96 dated August 21 1959. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to first page dated 8/21/59. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Laid in pages 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine with light edgewear and creasing at corners. United States Productions, Inc unknown books
1967WRCLIT80680New York: Francis Productions Inc. 1967. 151 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in gilt-titled Studio Duplicating Service binder. Slight tanning to text stock pencil notes and scrawls on upper cover otherwise very good. An unspecified draft of this adaptation of Capote's story for television by Eleanor Perry. The first production of this adaptation aired in December 1967 directed by Frank Perry starring Martin Balsam Maureen Stapledon et al. In 1969 it was revived as an element in the omnibus production TRILOGY again scripted by Eleanor Perry and directed by Frank Perry. It is assumed that Capote who serve as narrator for TRILOGY was himself a significant contributor to the shape of this adaptation. Francis Productions, Inc. unknown books
1979149864Sydney: Balmain Bijou 1979. Vintage offset lithograph poster for a series of screening of the 1978 UK film at the Balmain Bijou theatre in Sydney Australia circa 1979. <br/><br/>Queen Elizabeth I travels to a dystopian 1970s London witnessing a lawless city overrun by a gang of punk girls. A cult classic featuring a soundtrack by Brian Eno performances by Adam Ant and Wayne County and the Electric Chairs who also appear in the film alongside a number of British punk icons including Jordan and Toyah Wilcox and cameos by the Slits and Souixse and the Banshees. <br/><br/>29 x 38.75 inches folded as issued. Very Good. Pinholes to the corners with light edgewear including some minor chipping and a single short closed tear and a tape shadow. Balmain Bijou unknown books
1979147161Unknown: Playboy Productions 1979. Final Draft script for the television film originally aired on ABC on October 19 1979. Actor Martin Landau's copy with his holograph name on the front wrapper and ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are a set of eleven blue revision pages as well as ten xerographically duplicated call sheets with copied handwritten annotations. <br/><br/>Partygoers find themselves trapped at an amusement park besieged by a hurricane during Fourth of July festivities. The planned destruction of the actual Ocean View Park in Norfolk VA including its legendary roller coaster predated the film-the amusement park was burned down and blown up over the course of production.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Norfolk Virginia. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 4 1979 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographically reproduced on green stock rectos only with white and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/8/79 and 6/11/79. Pages Very Good with the title page and page 34 loose from the binding wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Playboy Productions unknown books
1939138289Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Bound presentation script for the 1939 film based on the 1933 short story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman originally published in "American Magazine." SIGNED by members of the cast and crew including stars John Barrymore Peter Holden Virginia Weidler and Donald McBride director Garson Kanin screenwriter John Twist and producers Cliff Reid and Pandro S. Berman. Presented to newspaper film critic Karl Krug with his name in gilt on the front board. <br/><br/>One of John Barrymore's final films where he plays a terminally ill man who has to cast the deciding vote in a town's mayoral election. <br/><br/>6.75 x 9 inches. Mimeograph duplication bound in flexible leather boards with gilt stamping. Very Good plus with a small dampstain to the front page edge. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
2007146585Hollywood: Apatow Productions 2007. Producer's archive for the 2007 comedy including extensive production schedules props lists and set and wardrobe files. Also included is a final cast crew and contacts list dated May 18 2007 bound separately with black coil binding.<br/><br/>A childhood tragedy leads musician Dewey Cox up the ladder to stardom cycling through nearly every musical genre imaginable on the way up. A parody of 20th century music biopics stretching from Johnny Cash to Roy Orbison to Bob Dylan to Brian Wilson. <br/><br/>Set in Alabama and California. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with credits for production coordinator Barrett Leigh. Title page present dated May 10th 2007 with credits for screenwriters Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-6-2007 and 5-10-2007. Pages Near Fine housed in a Very Good plus three ring binder. Apatow Productions unknown books
1979131323Los Angeles: Lorimar 1979. Second Draft Screenplay for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to actor Jim S. Cash who played one of the Twin Oaks tavern customers with his ownership name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Various editorial annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. <br/><br/>Directed by Bob Rafelson and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain this film was one of the gems of late 1970s cinema along with "The Verdict" that brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world and led to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. Mamet's grim update of Cain's classic hard-boiled novel was somewhat panned on release but is today held in high regard and is considered a major influence on the genre. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers title stamped in gilt on the front wrapper with a holograph pencil notation that this copy No. 17. Title page present with a date of December 1979 and credits for novelist Cain and screenwriter Mamet. 133 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/14/80 and 5/7/80. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some light rubbing to the gilt title on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Lorimar unknown books
1967138581Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. <br/><br/>One of three feature films Godard released in 1967 and like both "Week End" and "La chinoise" one that showcases Godard's increasing focus on deconstructing filmic narrative and structure and vocalization of leftist political ideas. <br/><br/>Godard has stated that his overall desire with the film was "to include everything: sports politics even groceries" to make "an attempt at description of a phenomenon known. as a complex."<br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Fine condition. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica unknown books
1976136495Beverly Hills CA: Faces Distribution 1976. Original US insert poster "Seymour Cassell" style for the 1976 film. <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
1969110611Los Angeles: National General Pictures 1969. Final shooting script for the 1970 film "Darker than Amber" based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald featuring his series character Travis McGee. Written for the screen by Ed Waters and starring Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel. Boldly SIGNED by Rod Taylor on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Notable as the only feature film adaptation of MacDonald's wildly popular Travis McGee series long unavailable on any kind of viewing format. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Waters and novelist MacDonald marked "FINAL" and dated 28 Jan. 1969. 114 pages all white. Pages and wrapper both in Fine condition. A fresh copy of an extremely scarce MacDonald item. National General Pictures unknown books
1913131914Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1913. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph from the legendary 1913 silent film serial. Printed onto heavy card stock for use as the equivalent of a modern day lobby card. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. <br/><br/>The first of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces followed by "Les Vampires" 1915 and "Judex" 1916. Feuillade took the brave task of putting to film Fantomas already wildly popular with European audiences. The character can be seen as an outgrowth of the "hero thief" character Arsene Lupin from turn-of-the-century French fiction. But unlike Lupin Fantomas was completely comfortable killing those who got in his way sadistically and with no small amount of enjoyment. <br/><br/>The scene pictured here shows Jaques Dollon Andre Luguetat at the police station sitting at the center having been framed by Fantomas. The journalist Fandor Georges Melchior standing in for Inspector Juve who is on the lam in disguise as a hobo stands over Dollon as a police inspector sits at a corner desk. Dollon goes on to escape then be captured by Fantomas who murders him cuts off his fingers and throws his body into the river. Fantomas then sews the fingers into a glove and commits further crimes continuing to implicate Dollon who in addition to being innocent is now dead. <br/><br/>11 x 9 inches. Mounted on brown card stock. <br/><br/>Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime p. 125-126. Gaumont unknown books
1969146891Unknown: I.P.C. Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "The Catcher in the Raw." <br/><br/>At a California hot springs resort a shady therapist helps eight carefully selected applicants find themselves and "experience their bodies" a process which mostly involves consuming large amounts of LSD meditative screaming and slow-motion basketball games. Louis Garfinkle's sole directorial credit and an excellent example of the intersection of early 1970s wellness culture and sexploitation. <br/><br/>Set in California.<br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for director Louis Garfinkle. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. I.P.C. Pictures unknown books
