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1936147033Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful of films to feature an all-Black cast made by a major Hollywood studio during the Golden Age becoming the highest grossing such film and remaining so until surpassed by "Carmen Jones" in 1954. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and light vertical creasing down the center. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1939151485Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty" seen here under the working title "Down Went McGinty" corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges with two earlier titles "Biography of a Bum" and "The Vagrant" cited on the second and fourth leaves respectively. <br/><br/>Sturges had become a very successful Hollywood screenwriter by the late 1930s and with his screenplay for "The Biography of a Bum" wanted so much to direct the film that he offered to do the job for free. With very few exceptions notably Charlie Chaplin the notion of an established studio writer directing a film was nearly unheard of in Hollywood where writers were typically not even allowed on the set. Only the irresistible cheapness of Sturges' offer made it possible for the film to get made. <br/><br/>Over the six year period during which the script remained unproduced the title changed to "The Vagrant" then "Down with McGinty" then finally just prior to production to "The Great McGinty." It was not only a success but won Sturges an Oscar for Best Screenwriter. More importantly he was allowed to continue as a writer-director with a magnificent career that included one classic after another including "Sullivan's Travels" "The Lady Eve" "Unfaithfully Yours" "The Palm Beach Story" and "Hail the Conquering Hero."<br/><br/>Tall cream colored titled self wrappers rubber-stamped Production No. 672 MASTER FILE FILE COPY PRODUCED and PLEASE RETURN TO THE STORY DEPARTMENT / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD. Dated April 28 1939. Title page present dated 1933 with credits for screenwriter Sturges and Sturges' name written in holograph pencil just above. 109 leaves mimeograph on cream colored stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
147168Beverly Hills CA: E-K-Corporation / United Artists 1971. First Draft script for the 1973 film written nine months before the production began.<br /> <br /> From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br /> <br /> Based on Chandler's 1953 novel the sixth and penultimate Philip Marlowe book. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett who also co-wrote the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" 1946 updated not just the setting from the 1950s to the 1970s but the attitudes themes and relationships as well. The result was less of a straight adaptation than it was a satire of the traditional detective story a New Hollywood classic. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles Malibu Hollywood and Mexico<br /> <br /> Black titled Studio Duplicating Service Inc. wrappers. Title page present dated September 1971 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Leigh Brackett. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. E-K-Corporation / United Artists unknown
1948151350N.p.: N.p. 1948. Draft carbon typescript screenplay for an unproduced film.<br/><br/>While hiding out from his wife and business associates at a seedy hotel a millionaire who has recently lost his fortune falls in love with a troubled young woman.<br/><br/>Screenwriter Eliot Gibbons worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Republic Studios for most of his career. He was best known for his aviation pictures most notably "Storm Over the Andes" 1935 "Flight at Midnight" 1939 and "Sky Raiders" 1941. <br/><br/>Set in postwar Chicago and Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Housed in a quarter-leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with the label of Paul Kohner Agency affixed to the front wrapper with credits for screenwriters Jean Renoir and Eliot Gibbons. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Jean Renoir and Eliot Gibbons. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1936147033Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful of films to feature an all-Black cast made by a major Hollywood studio during the Golden Age becoming the highest grossing such film and remaining so until surpassed by "Carmen Jones" in 1954. <br /> <br /> 14 x 11 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and light vertical creasing down the center. Warner Brothers unknown
1972149873London: Eon Productions 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page noting copy No. 56. <br/><br/>Roger Moore's first turn as 007 and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming which sees Bond go up against a Caribbean dictator moonlighting as a Harlem drug lord aided by a claw-handed henchman and a voodoo priest. One of the first Bond movies to explicitly address race most notably featuring the first African American Bond girl with whom 007 is romantically involved Rosie Carver played by Gloria Hendry.<br/><br/>Filmed on location in New York Jamaica and Louisiana.<br/><br/>Green titled Studio Duplicating Services wrappers with credits for novelist Ian Fleming on the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 2nd 1973 noted as Shooting Script with credits for novelist Ian Fleming and screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly worn and creased to the edges bound with two gold brads. Eon Productions unknown books
1938163880N.p.: N.p. 1938. James Hilton's typescript draft screenplay for the 1939 film an adaptation of his own 1937 novel the only such adaptation he ever completed. With the author's profuse manuscript ink annotations as well as many pages executed entirely in manuscript ink throughout. <br /> <br /> Included is a privately commissioned essay by Hilton scholar Kurt Kausler detailing both the history of Hilton's work on the film an analysis and a breakdown of the manuscript.<br /> <br /> Almost certainly Hilton's first corrected manuscript screenplay for the film. After Jack Warner raised concerns about the script being too long screenwriter Milton Krims was employed to clean up and shorten it-though in the end Hilton received sole credit as screenwriter.<br /> <br /> A man hires an Austrian governess and both are suspected of murder when his wife is discovered to be dead.<br /> <br /> 123 leaves a gathering demonstrating the author's method his attention to detail and his extreme frugality with the use of paper the last most likely due to wartime shortages. The script consists of a ribbon copy typescript leaves on both onionskin and paper stock with manuscript emendations on virtually every page in many cases both recto and verso with some leaves executed on the versos of unrelated previous work by Hilton b leaves consisting entirely of text executed in manuscript ink c hand-cut partial leaves and d a handful of later Xerographically duplicated facsimiles of Hilton's original annotated typescript leaves. <br /> <br /> Included is a very detailed analysis of the manuscript as well as the events surrounding its creation along with a detailed breakdown of the manuscript elements.<br /> <br /> Hilton's manuscript leaves Very Good to Fine quite supple and well preserved. Housed in a modern white three-ring binder. Leaves individually held in modern mylar page protectors. N.p. unknown
1934144598Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.<br/><br/>The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br/><br/>Detached green wrappers noting the title screenwriter and director on the spine in holograph ink. Title page integral with first page of text with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1967162979London: Hammer Film Productions 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Working script belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout largely noting deletions.<br /> <br /> A gathering of ancient human remains and a mysterious metallic object are discovered buried beneath the site of a planned extension to the London Underground. Renowned scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to investigate. Based on the successful 1950s British science fiction serial "The Quatermass Experiment" and a follow-up to the films "The Quatermass Xperiment" 1955 and "Quatermass 2" 1957.<br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 25th January 1967 with credit for screenwriter Nigel Kneale. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Roneograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with undated pink and green revision pages mimeograph laid in throughout. Pages Good moderately worn with foxing on some revision fore-edges wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. Hammer Film Productions unknown
1943156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. <br /> <br /> Set in London. <br /> <br /> Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1925143899Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1925. Draft script for the 1926 film. Based on the 1924 novel "Escape" by Alden Brooks. File copy rubber stamp to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Conrad Nagel and Renée Adoree star in this Silent film today lost originally directed by Josef von Sternberg. Midway into shooting Von Sternberg was fired by MGM and replaced by Phil Rosen. <br/><br/>Rosen's many changes completely altered von Sternberg's version to the point that it was unrecognizable and in a bizarre twist MGM ultimately released both versions: the original one as "Exquisite Sinner" in 1926 credited to both Von Sternberg and Rosen running 60 minutes and Rosen's extensively reworked version as "Heaven on Earth" in 1927 runtime unknown. <br/><br/>AFI Catalog notes that von Sternberg was replaced as director on January 17 1926 which would place this script dated in mid-December 1925 firmly within the time frame that von Sternberg was still the director. <br/><br/>It is rumored that the Warner Brothers and Turner Entertainment archives hold a full print of this film but as of 2014 no print has surfaced. Only a few images promotional artwork and productions stills are currently known to exist. <br/><br/>Set in France. <br/><br/>Pale yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2 and production No. 1510 dated Dec 19 1925 with credits for screenwriters Marion Orth and Harvey Gates. Title page integral with the first page of text dated Dec. 12 1925 with credits for screenwriters Orth and Gates. 128 leaves with last page of text unnumbered. Spirit duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor now encapsulated in archival mylar bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950158441Buenos Aires: Industia Argentina 1950. Vintage one sheet poster for the Argentinean release of the 1951 film the film's country of origin and whose premiere preceded the US release by more than three months.<br /> <br /> Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as the leading man in the film adaptation of his own novel after initial choice Canada Lee was stuck in South African customs after shooting "Cry the Beloved Country" 1951. Lee had starred in Orson Welles' prior stage adaptation.<br /> <br /> Set in Chicago and shot on location in Chicago and Argentina. <br /> <br /> 29 x 43.25 inches folded as issued. With a few small closed tears and creases at the extremities else Near Fine. Bright and unfaded. Industia Argentina unknown
1970143123Talent Associates/N.S.I. / ABC Pictures 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title and title of the source material "The Siege of Trencher's Farm." <br/><br/>Based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel. Director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter David Z. Goodman kept only the central concept of the siege itself but completely altered the circumstances around it including the creation of the film's controversial rape scene. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Set in Trencher's Farm in Dando Cornwall shot on location in Cornwall and Middlsex England. <br/><br/>Maroon titled wrappers. Title page present dated 24th August 1970 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters David Z. Goodman and Sam Peckinpah. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 182. Grant US. Talent Associates/N.S.I. / ABC Pictures unknown books
1985139365London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy" here under the working title "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. <br/><br/>Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and she helped him vis a vis the fine details of the 'time of the Sex Pistols' in London in 1976 / To that end she showed him in London the pub where we hung out took sulphate the Roebuck and she also tried to set up a meeting with him and Johnny Thunders / Finally she is thanked at the end of 'Sid and Nancy' and she photographed him as he was writing the script there at the room in the Chelsea Hotel where Sid and Nancy lived / Kate Simon / 4-8-09." <br/><br/>Brilliant but gritty biographical look at Sid Vicious Oldman bassist for the British punk band Sex Pistols and his girlfriend Nancy Webb. Their relationship is sprinkled with guilt sympathy and copious drug use implying Nancy introduced Sid to heroin when she traveled to London to have sex with the Sex Pistols. The two fall in love commit to a suicide pact and try to start a new solo career in New York after the breakup of the band. One night in a drug-induced stupor Sid announces his intention to quit heroin and move back to London prompting a suicidal Nancy to beg him to kill her. Perhaps unintentionally perhaps not Sid stabs Nancy and she dies in the bathroom. <br/><br/>Set in London and New York shot there on location and in New Jersey California and France. The soundtrack boasts songs by Dan Wool The Pogues John Cale KC & The Sunshine Band and several Sex Pistols songs with the title track "Love Kills" by Joe Strummer. <br/><br/>Illustrated titled self wrappers noted as 3RD DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 1985 with credits for screenwriters Cox and Wool. Title page integral with front wrapper. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mechanical duplication. Very Good plus bound with three green twist ties in true punk fashion. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 20. Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures unknown books
1931134294Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Draft script for the 1932 film based loosely on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel "Tarzan of the Apes." Two black and white reference photographs for the film also laid in. <br/><br/>The first of Weissmuller's twelve Tarzan films and the first appearance of Cheeta Tarzan's chimpanzee friend. In this variation of the much-adapted Burroughs tale Tarzan and Jane fall in love and although Jane desires to take him back to England when Jane's father James Parker dies on the expedition Jane remains behind in the jungle instead. <br/><br/>Set in Africa shot on location in California and Florida. <br/><br/>Pale yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped VAULT COPY and FILE COPY on the front wrapper and rubber-stamped copy No. 1871 and production No. 4608 dated Dec. 11/31 with credits for screenwriter Novello. Title page not present as issued. 116 leaves mimeograph duplication with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-20-31 and 12-16-31. Pages Near Fine. Front wrapper detached else wrappers Very Good bound with two gold brads. Photos both 8.25 x 10 inches Fine condition. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1967149869New York: Andy Warhol Film 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. Two versions of the film were shot - one with an all nude all male cast that was never released publicly and one with both male and female actors wearing G-strings which was originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York. <br/><br/>A stylistic breakthrough in that the film entirely jettisons any pretense to plot dramatic action or sex found in Andy Warhol's previous sexploitation experiments instead featuring extended monologues by superstar Viva and conversations with others that touch on a variety of controversial topics. One of Warhol's most overtly political films also starring draft resister Andrew Duggan and the first pairing of Viva with Taylor Mead who would appear together in several more Warhol films. <br/><br/>19 x 25 inches rolled on archival linen with a small amount of professional restoration and repair. Near Fine with minor soil. <br/><br/>Murphy The Black Hole of the Camera. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown books
1931151422Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Draft script for the 1931 film with annotations in manuscript pencil primarily in later half of script largely regarding dialogue but also setting and shots. <br /> <br /> A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by France for espionage during World War I. A sensation in the US and Europe it was Greta Garbo's most commercially successful film. The pre-Code film was censored upon its reissue in 1936 which was the only version believed to exist until 2005 when an uncut French and Dutch subtitled version was screened at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels.<br /> <br /> Set in 1917 Paris shot on location in Agoura California. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski and M-G-M label dated "Copied May 4 1931." Title page present with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with six white revision pages dated June 5 1931. Pages Very Good plus with foxing and edgewear and stain to upper right of title page Wrapper Very Good with light soiling and chipping and closed tears to extremities and spine and upper right section cut from rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1931151422Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Draft script for the 1931 film with annotations in holograph pencil primarily in later half of script largely regarding dialogue but also setting and shots. <br/><br/>A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by France for espionage during World War I. A sensation in the US and Europe it was Greta Garbo's most commercially successful film. The pre-Code Hollywood film was censored upon its reissue in 1936 which was the only version believed to exist until 2005 when an uncut French and Dutch subtitled version was screened at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels.<br/><br/>Set in 1917 Paris shot on location in Agoura California. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski and M-G-M label dated "Copied May 4 1931." Title page present with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with six white revision pages dated June 5 1931. Pages Very Good plus with foxing and edgewear and stain to upper right of title page Wrapper Very Good with light soiling and chipping and closed tears to extremities and spine and upper right section cut from rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
166485Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1975 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper noting "We all lost when the studio took this picture away from Peckinpah the hed" sic. <br /> <br /> A very nearly experimental Western made by Sam Peckinpah at his peak sufficiently strange to have remained of interest only to the most intense fans of Western revisionism. Comparable only to "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" 1971 and "The Shooting" 1966 in terms of sheer impressionism being laid upon the genre with iconic imagery and super-stylization in every frame. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Durango Mexico.<br /> <br /> Beige titled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer front wrapper dated July 7 1972 with credits for Peckinpah and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer. Missing rear wrapper. Title page integral with front wrapper. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and gray revision pages throughout dated variously between July 3 and 25 1972. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1967149909New York: Andy Warhol Film 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95 minute version although this cut is considered lost. A 109 minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater renamed as such after Warhol recovered from being shot by Valerie Solanas. <br/><br/>One of several sexploitation influenced films made by Warhol an episodic story of a biker who has no bike and is both eroticized by the camera and emasculated by various Warhol superstars throughout. <br/><br/>19 x 25 inches rolled. Near Fine with some light soil and an almost imperceptible professional repair to a tear at the top edge. <br/><br/>Murphy The Black Hole of Cinema. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown books
1961122148Universal City CA: Republic Pictures / Pax Films / Universal Pictures 1961. Forrest J. Ackerman's copy of scripts from two key science fiction films bound together including original front wrappers in red buckram with Ackerman's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>"The Lady and the Monster": Shooting script for the 1944 film. The first of three adaptations of Curt Siodmak's classic 1942 novel in which an honest hard-working scientist preserves a dead man's brain only to be remote-controlled by it. Shot by the legendary John Alton at the very peak of his work in the mid-1940s. Yellow front studio wrapper noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT at the top right dated October 13 1943 a penciled notation of the working title "The Lady and the Monster" just below the printed title noted as production No. 1194 and with credits for associate producer George Sherman and Republic Studios at the bottom. Two-page cast of characters with the actors' names added in ribbon copy type just below the character names. Title page present with credits for director Sherman and novelist Siodmak. <br/><br/>94 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue yellow green and pink revision pages leaves dated variously between 10/18/43 and 11/8/43. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine. <br/><br/>"The Day the Earth Caught Fire": An early and apparently abandoned draft by director Val Guest to film his screen story for Pax Films as a five-part British serial. Guest ultimately directed the story as a feature-length movie for Pax one of the most understated and intelligent science fiction films ever made. Light green wrappers both front and rear wrappers present. The front wrapper reads: "A Five Part Serialisation of / THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE / A Val Guest Production." Just below in holograph ink and in what we would assume is Guest's hand is written "Dedicated to Brian Aldiss." We think it likely that the script was gifted to the very connected Ackerman by Guest though the provenance beyond Ackerman's ownership is unknown. <br/><br/>41 pages divided into five parts each beginning with a two-color memo on PAX stationery describing what will happen in the following section. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine. <br/><br/>Buckram binding containing the two scripts is Very Good with some light scuffing and soil. <br/><br/>Martin 413. Republic Pictures / Pax Films / Universal Pictures unknown books
1969145809London: N.p. 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. An early version of the screenplay with the provisional title "A Kestrel for a Knave." "6x" in black holograph marker on top right of title page.<br/><br/>The second film and breakthrough by esteemed British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach. Based upon the 1968 novel by Barry Hines "A Kestrel for a Knave" a heart-wrenching story of a working underclass youth who finds temporary respite from his oppressive life and even grace in the training and caring of a found fledgling kestrel whom he calls Kes.<br/><br/>Set in Yorkshire England shot on location in Yorkshire England. <br/><br/>Burgundy wrapper with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for author Barry Hines. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good Plus wrapper Very Good bound internally with two flat metal brads.<br/><br/>Eureka Masters of Cinema 151. Criterion Collection 561. N.p. unknown books
1952121979Mexico City: Ultramar Films 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson on his custom rough-edged stationery discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists and Daniel O'Herlihy received a Best Actor nomination for his performance. Also included are seven film still photographs from the film. <br/><br/>A rare pre-production script from Luis Bunuel's first color film one of the key productions from his Mexican period written with Hugo Butler who was at the time living in self-imposed exile in Mexico with Dalton Trumbo both blacklisted by the HUAC and writing under various pseudonyms. Single substantive holograph pencil correction toward the end of the text. <br/><br/>One of Bunuel's more straightforward narratives quite faithful to the source material but with a whopping dream sequence as bizarre as anything one might find in the director's later work. <br/><br/>Tall side-stapled self-wrappers dated "Mexico / 1952" with credits for director-screenwriter Bunuel screenwriter Butler under the Roll pseudonym and producers Oscar Dancigers and Henry F. Ehrlich. 95 leaves mimeograph duplication. Very Good condition toned at the edges some offsetting to the front wrapper and a 1-inch tear at the left margin. Ultramar Films unknown books
1937149222N.p.: N.p. 1937. Treatment script here called a "Suggested Screen Treatment" for the 1939 film by British playwright and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. Annotation in holograph pencil on upper left of front wrapper partially lost because of chipping. <br/><br/>Shairp during his brief three year run as a screenwriter worked previously with producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1935 on "The Dark Angel" directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Fredric March and Merle Oberon.<br/><br/>Based on the 1847 novel by Emily Bronte.<br/><br/>While "Wuthering Heights" proved to be a difficult production following a difficult casting Goldwyn insisted for years that it was the best film he ever created-and it is certainly one of his finest. After a prolonged dispute with director William Wyler about the film's grim tone Goldwyn went over Wyler's head to shoot a final scene suggesting that Heathcliffe Laurence Olivier and Cathy Merle Oberon were together in the afterlife strongly departing from the source work and creating a rift between Goldwyn and Wyler that would never heal even as the film went on to be both critically and publicly lauded. <br/><br/>Olivier would later attribute much of his film acting technique to Wyler who was known for forcing actors to repeat scenes ad nauseum in this instance forcing Olivier to tone down sequences of overacting that were better suited for the stage. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for seven others including Best Picture. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers noted as Suggested Screen Treatment on the front wrapper with credits for author Emily Bronte and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. Title page integral with first page with credits for author Emily Bronte and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. 44 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Fair with the very dry and brittle front wrapper separated closed tears and chipping at extremities of front and rear wrapper. bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969137209Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1969. Collection of 217 individually numbered contact sheets amounting to 2650 images from the 1969 film. Housed in two original three-ring binders from the film's publicity department. The occasional frame is circled or crossed through in red marker. A robust collection that documents nearly every facet of the film's production including numerous candid images of the cast and crew at work. <br/><br/>Woody Allen's first film as a director one of the great American comedies the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. A massive archive documenting the birth of an utterly new and unique voice in cinema one that would become something even bigger in 1979. <br/><br/>Set and shot in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. <br/><br/>Sheets 8 x 10 inches most in three-hole mylar sleeves some with holes punched directly in left margin others laid in. Very Good overall few frames excised general modest edgewear. Binders with signs of use as expected one spine label missing other partially lacking but with titles intact. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
