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1967152383N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso one with the stamp of Globe Photos and one with a provenance stamp.<br/><br/>Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1972WRCLIT70666New York: The Ely Landau Organization Inc. 1972. 1A-I208 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically duplicated typescript printed on rectos only of pale green stock. Bradbound in production company binder. Light soiling to fore-edge otherwise very good to fine. A "revised" draft of this adaptation for film of O'Neill's masterpiece undertaken as the first production of the innovative but short- lived American Film Theatre. The script is accompanied by a two page "Production Requirements" list dated 12 January 1973 and a "Staff and Crew List" dated 3 days earlier. John Frankenheimer directed the November 1973 release starring Lee Marvin Frederic March Robert Ryan Jeff Bridges Bradford Dillman et al. The 239 minute film does in the minds of many critics great honor to the sourcework and stands among the finest moments of the two seasons of the American Film Theatre. A substantially truncated version saw some distribution on television in later years but only recently has the original full-length version which required two intermissions been made available on DVD. Robert Ryan was the posthumous recipient of several awards for his role as Larry Slade and contrary to expectations Lee Marvin excelled in the role of Hickey a role virtually defined by Jason Robards. Legitimate examples of the scripts for the American Film Theatre productions are uncommon. The Ely Landau Organization, Inc. unknown books
1942149126Hollywood: Mercury 1942. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Orson Welles cinematographer Stanley Cortez and members of the cast including Joseph Cotton Anges Moorehead and Anne Baxter conferring during a lunch break. Mimeo snipe promoting Welles' Mercury Players and "APR 13 1942" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington.<br/><br/>Welles' followup to "Citizen Kane" 1941 was utterly different from Kane in style and texture but just as brilliant in its own way. Writer-director Welles does not appear on camera but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn-of-century Indianapolis. Despite the legendarily unsolvable problem of film editor Robert Wise being instructed by the studio-outside Welles' knowledge-to edit away nearly an hour of the film's length it remains a masterpiece of storytelling bringing Tarkington's Pulitzer winning novel to life in high style. <br/><br/>Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actress for Moorehead. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint glue shadow from snipe else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Mercury unknown books
1969144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. <br/><br/>One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. <br/><br/>13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968135016Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white set design photograph from the 1968 film. Shown is a sample interior from the space station featured near the beginning of the film the "Hilton" sign marking Kubrick's groundbreaking use of ordinary commerce in a futuristic context. <br/><br/>The director's sprawling science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. The film's high scientific accuracy coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films ever made. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for three others including Best Director. <br/><br/>Set variously in the desert in space in deep space and on the astral plane. Shot on location in Scotland England Arizona and Utah. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1977135605Paris: Trinacra Films 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director Francois Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress.<br/><br/>The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy. An interior shot apparently meant to be a barn as the ground is covered with hay for a film shot on the Seychellois island of La Digue. <br/><br/>Miramax film founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein acquired the rights to the film at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival capitalizing on the popularity of what had become an international franchise broadcasting a unique appeal as an erotic film series with feminist leanings. <br/><br/>With slightly wide margins as issued. Photograph 9.5 x 12 inches image 6.25 x 10.5 inches. In an archival mat. Mild creasing at a couple of corners else Near Fine. Trinacra Films unknown books
1959135799N.p.: N.p. 1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois satirizing or perhaps elucidating the dress habits of their distinguished friend American screenwriter William Rose. <br/><br/>Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s both under the tutelage of William Styron while both of them were associated with The Paris Review. During this time William Rose wrote his most famous screenplay "The Ladykillers" 1955 as well as the British classic "The Maggie" 1954. He would go on to win an Academy Award for his original screenplay "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" 1967. <br/><br/>3 leaves 8 x 10 inches. Ink and colored pencil. N.p. unknown books
1975120625Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film "Bound for Glory" directed by Hal Ashby based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie written for the screen by Robert Getchell and starring Robert Getchell screenwriter; David Carradine Ronny Cox Melinda Dillon and Randy Quaid. SIGNED by David Carradine on the title page: "This land is your land / David Carradine / drawing of the yin and yang symbol." <br/><br/>Unsurprisingly director Ashby's version of Woody Guthrie is a complex one showing the legendary proletarian singer and activist as a man with contradictory virtues and faults. Drawing from a pivotal few years detailed in Guthrie's autobiography of the same name the film follows Guthrie's initial migration west to escape the dust bowl his discovery of the plight of migrant workers his important encounter with singer Ozark Bole and his subsequent and problematic reunion with his family. Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Music and nominated for 4 others including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers stamped with only the title on the front wrapper. Title page present with a credit for screenwriter Getchell noted as REVISED and dated August 11 1975. 129 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company unknown books
1928140906Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue who starred in the film. <br/><br/>Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script here under the working title "Southern Skies" four vintage photographs each with a mimeo snipe on the verso one with a press stamp as well and a later 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film signed and dated by Blue with his bookplate on the front pastedown. <br/><br/>MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie" as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br/><br/>Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. <br/><br/>Carbon typescript draft:<br/><br/>Cream colored titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338 dated November 29 1927 with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated November 161927 with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:"<br/><br/>Early The Century edition from 1921 first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good lacking jacket. Front hinge split with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968WRCLIT80681New York: Francis Productions Inc. 1968. 153 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in gilt-titled Studio Duplicating Service binder. Slight tanning to text stock gilt stamping tarnished but otherwise very good. An unspecified draft of this screen adaptation of Capote's story by Eleanor Perry. In 1969 it was included as an element in the omnibus production TRILOGY 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
1968146898London: Haworth Productions 1968. Second Draft script for the 1968 film. With the ownership name of cinematographer Douglas Holcombe in holograph ink on the title page<br/><br/>In 1183 England the sons of King Henry II and his wife plot to overtake the throne. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning three including Best Screenplay and Best Actress. <br/><br/>Set in England shot on location in France and Ireland. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter James Goldman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly toned to the title page wrapper Very Good plus with cello tape repairs to the title window and light rusting to the binding bound with two silver brads. Haworth Productions unknown books
1977149814N.p.: MOKEP 1977. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1977 Hungarian film here under its Hungarian title "Csaladi Tuzfeszek." <br/><br/>Bela Tarr's debut feature film shot in six days a dark and desperate portrayal of a couple forced to live in a cramped tiny flat with the husband's parents suffocating under the rule of a dominating father reflecting the national hopelessness and slow collapse of late 1970s communist Hungary. <br/><br/>16.25 x 22.25 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. MOKEP unknown books
1954145765Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1954. Shooting script for the 1955 film noir here under the working title "Code 3" with the working title crossed through on the front wrapper and "Dial Red O" written above it twice once in holograph pencil and once in holograph ink. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with annotations throughout in red pencil primarily noting locations or props. <br/><br/>The first in a series of five noir entries made between 1955-1957 featuring Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department. In the first two films in the series including this one the character's name is Andy Flynn and for the remaining three films his name was changed to Andy Doyle as it turned out there was an actual officer named Andy Flynn working in L.A. law enforcement at the time. One of the best examples of the well crafted low-budget crime films produced by Allied Artists the B-movie studio that emerged from the Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures in 1952. <br/><br/>Printed beige titled wrapper with credits for director and screenwriter Dan Ullman and a Sunset Script Service stamp on the verso of the rear wrapper. Distribution page present with receipt removed dated October 29 1954. 104 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication with Blue revision pages throughout dated 11-2-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good Plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Grant US. Martin 103. Selby US. Spicer US. Allied Artists unknown books
1929150618Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Vault Copy Draft script for the 1929 film stamped three times with "Vault Copy" and annotation of the name of uncredited crew member "Mr. Cohn" on front wrapper in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on the 1928 novel by S.S. Van Dine the fourth of twelve Philo Vance mystery novels. The body of man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found at an archery range with an arrow through the heart and a chess bishop left as a clue. Basil Rathbone's only portrayal of the stylish New York P.I. Philo Vance. He would take on the role of Sherlock Holmes for which he is best known beginning in 1939.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers with M.G.M. label dated AUGUST 10 1929 with credits for author S.S. Van Dine and director Nick Grinde. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Lenora J. Coffee. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with chipping and closed tears at extremities and closed tears to spine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1976122079Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance alongside a new female partner and introduces new ethnic content to a series previously relegated to caucasians. <br/><br/>Red wrappers noted as "THE ENFORCER" in holograph ink on the front wrapper but still under the title "Dirty Harry #3 on the title page. Title page present with a credit for Dean Riesner dated April 30 1976 noted as CHANGES/FIRST DRAFT. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapped edges internally bound two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1935129885N.p.: Grand National Pictures 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder" here under the working title and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace Edgar Wallace's son with his name and holograph annotations in pencil to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1925 collection of short stories "The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder" by Edgar Wallace. The second Mr. Reeder film this time seeing the absentminded detective investigate a gang of counterfeiters. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1935 with credit for writer Wallace. 78 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a teal cord. <br/><br/>Okuda 71. Grand National Pictures unknown books
1986145597US: Gulfmine Ltd 1986. Sixth Draft script for the 1987 film. SIGNED by screenwriter and source novel author Frederick Forsyth on the title page with an additional typed note signed referencing the script from Forsyth on his letterhead included. With both holograph and copied annotations by him on every page with most of the holograph annotations being changes to dialogue.<br/><br/>Adapted by Forsyth from his 1984 novel about a British agent who must stop the Russians from blowing up an American base in the UK with a nuclear bomb in the hopes of damaging US-UK relations. <br/><br/>Yellow untitled self wrappers. Title page present dated March 1986 noted as Sixth Draft with credits for novelist screenwriter and producer Frederick Forsyth producers Michael Caine and Timothy Burrill and director John Mackenzie. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 20 March. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong binding. Gulfmine Ltd unknown books
1936132489Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie considered one of his finest efforts and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others brought to Hollywood from Germany beginning in the early 1930s. <br/><br/>6.75 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine quite bright with a coupe of tiny closed tears and light creasing to the top edge. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Precursor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1924139464Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA 1924. Vintage program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14 1924. Contains a brief essay by von Harbou and three additional short essays on the making of the film. Photo illustrated throughout with stills of characters from the films. <br/><br/>Also included is a supplemental program for UFA theaters featuring another brief essay on the film by starring actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge information and photographs relating to UFA theaters and advertisements. Text of both items in German. <br/><br/>Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied."<br/><br/>Program: Near Fine in heavy paper wrappers and string binding. Elegant owner name to the front wrapper with a light diagonal crease to the same and light fading to the edges. <br/><br/>Supplement program: Very Good in saddle stapled self wrappers top right corner clipped. Splitting to the spine with a light vertical fold crease and a couple of small chips. <br/><br/>Rossler Filmfieber p. 51. Masters of Cinema 46. Decla-Bioscop / UFA unknown books
1965151469Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore bound in full red leather with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds on the verso of the first leaf in holograph ink is "Juanita I Love you! You are the greatest! My deepest Thanks Love Debbie" the second on a the recto of a photograph of Reynolds and Moore from the film in holograph marker and making reference to Reynold's character is "What feeling! What a face! What an actress! What a great Lady! Your Fan Sister Ann."<br/><br/>A fanciful biography on the life of Belgian nun Jeanine Deckers who recorded the number one hit pop song "Dominique" in 1963. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Gent Belgium. <br/><br/>Red full leather binding with gilt titles and with actor Juanita Moore's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. Title page integral with first page dated 9-2-65. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered "130-135." Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink blue green and gray revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-4-65 and 11-24-65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with front wrapper detached. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1938148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. <br/><br/>One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937.<br/><br/>Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1949137617Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1949. Revised First Continuity script for the 1950 film noir here under the film's working title "Death on a Side Street." That title has been struck through in pencil with the film's final title "One Way Street" written just above it. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in holograph pencil on a second title page. Brief annotations throughout in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>In this key film noir James Mason reprises in spirit his role from the British film noir "Odd Man Out" made three years before as a criminal who steals from the mob and is forced to go on the lam with mob boss Dan Duryea in no mood for forgiveness. <br/><br/>The first American film to be directed by Argentinian import Hugo Fregonese. The AFI Catalog notes that Mexican Vice Consul Ernesto Romero acted as technical advisor and according to studio production notes an entire Mexican village was built on the Universal-International lot. Rodolfo Acosta Emma Roldan and Margarito Luna were all Mexican actors. Finally popular character actor James Best made his debut in "One-Way Street" appearing briefly in an uncredited role as a "Driver."<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7684 dated September 14 1949. Title page present noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with a credit for screenwriter Kimble. 137 leaves with last page numbered 95. Mimeograph on yellow stock dated variously between 9/6/49 and 10/4/49 with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/22/49 and 10/7/49 Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956152432N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1956 French film noir showing actor Roger Duchesne surrounded by Gallic toughs. With holograph ink annotations to the verso. <br/><br/>Faced with an unlucky streak and debts to pay a former bank robber turned gambler plans a heist of the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend. A key French New Wave antecedent and core French film noir.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in the Montmartre district in Paris and Calvados France.<br/><br/>9.5 x 12 inches with a small bottom margin. Near Fine with some light edgewear.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 150. Grant France. Ebert II. Lee The Heist Film. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1957150342N.p.: N.p. 1957. Collection of four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1957 film showing actor Jerry Lewis in the opening alleyway sequence. With the stamps of still photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso. <br/><br/>A well-intentioned janitor is mistaken by a local cop for a teenage gang member and is conscripted into a police academy in order to save him from a life of crime. The first film to star Lewis without his longtime comedy partner Dean Martin. <br/><br/>Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others.<br/><br/>13.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1934137471Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1934. Vintage sepia reference photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Shown are director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich in full regalia visiting with noted Mexican toreador Pepe Ortiz and a member of the Mexican Counsul in Los Angeles. Typescript snipe on the verso indicating same along with an ink notation of the photo date 9/15/34 and a contemporary illustrated label for "Photofest."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 109. Paramount Pictures unknown books
