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1968159850Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Revised First Draft script for the 1970 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their manuscript ink annotations on 19 pages underlining locations settings and props.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker and in turn the basis of the acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS from 1972 to 1983. A film that kick-started a great decade of cinema and one that still defines it. <br /> <br /> Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay nominated for four more including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actress. Winner of the Palme d'Or. <br /> <br /> Orange titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 209 dated DECEMBER 11 1968. Title page present dated December 11 1969 noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. and author Richard Hooker. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1972148406N.p.: N.p. 1972. Revised Version Draft script for the 1972 film belonging to actor Martin Landau with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout most in reference to his character Capelli including action and dialogue changes. Also included are a 21-page shooting schedule and call sheet with the name of uncredited crew member Jim O'Roarke in holograph ink on the shooting schedule and holograph annotations to both. <br/><br/>From the estate of Martin Landau.<br/><br/>British director Robert Hartford-Davis originally conceived of the story for the film based on the Black Power movement in contemporary Britain and hired Robert Shearer to write the screenplay. The first American feature-length film for Hartford-Davis and the film debuts of baseball star Vida Blue and football player Gene Washington. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Version Screenplay with credits for story by Robert Hartford-Davis and screenwriter Franklin Coen. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Shooting Schedule 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine with light creasing at corners.<br/><br/>Call Sheet 8.5 x 13 Near Fine with a single fold. N.p. unknown books
1944156251Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Several photographs with provenance stamps and stickers on the verso and two with the printed label of Palace Theatre affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good with light toning and edgewear. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
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. One of what could only be a few copies ever struck and the only one we have ever seen.<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
1963143469Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft post-production script for the 1963 film. Round robin copy SIGNED by director Shohei Imamura and six members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper including Sachiko Hidari Kazuo Kitamura Shoichi Ozawa Jitsuko Yoshimura and composer Toshiro Mayuzumi with signatures dated in the mid-1990s. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience particularly through World War II told through the perspective of a woman named Tome born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers with holograph signatures to the front wrappers. Title page present. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 10-6. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22. Nikkatsu unknown books
1968152185N.p.: N.p. 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film including two programs an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling" and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. <br /> <br /> Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1968152185N.p.: N.p. 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in holograph ink to the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film including two programs an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling" and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. <br/><br/>Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966.<br/><br/>Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
165402Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Working copy belonging to camera operator Bob Smith with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout along with his vertical folds to script pages marking completed scenes.<br /> <br /> Director Otto Preminger's final film based on the 1978 novel by Graham Greene and written by noted playwright Tom Stoppard about a low-level bureaucrat in the British Secret Service who finds himself unknowingly used by the Soviets as he struggles between his love for his family and the ambiguity of his ethical responsibilities.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in the United Kingdom and Kenya. <br /> <br /> White illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present stamped copy No. 183 copyright year noted as 1978 with credits for Stoppard and Greene. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound internally with a silver prong. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1901142546Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. <br/><br/>One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made including "Prison Bars" a film featuring the Wright Brothers and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo Bill. Touring with an electronic lamp house and a portable gasoline-powered electric power supply of his own invention he found great success with his traveling show until stationery theaters made his business model obsolete in 1917. From a nearly-forgotten era of film history his name innovations and films have largely been lost. <br/><br/>Set in Wisconsin's Waupun Prison and shot there on location where Barnsdale had arranged to film the lives of inmates in exchange for screening entertainment for the them. An especially bright attractive copy of this piece of early film history and an uncommonly detailed artifact from the height of stone lithography poster advertisements. One of the earliest documentary motion picture ads we have ever seen in remarkable condition. Created by the U.S. Lithograph Company Russel-Morgan Print. <br/><br/>42 x 28 inches rolled. Two light creases else Fine. Walter Barnsdale unknown books
163381Universal City: Dreamworks 2003. Revised Shooting script for the 2004 film. <br /> <br /> In San Diego in the 1970s successful news anchor Ron Burgundy is forced to confront his prejudices when the station owners hire a woman anchor who promptly proceeds to climb her way to the top. Followed by a 2013 sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in San Diego Los Angeles Glendale and Long Beach.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated 06/09/03 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered "112-113". Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light splashes on the title page bound with two gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
19591599671959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Annotations in manuscript pencil on several leaves noting revisions and amendments. <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. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeograph duplication rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 232. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 41. unknown
162762Universal City: Dreamworks 2007. Revised Draft script for the 2008 film. Rainbow revision copy belonging to production coordinator Eve Honthaner with her name in manuscript ink on the first leaf of the title page. Included with the script are numerous gatherings of production documents including shooting schedules call sheets maps of filming locations script supervisor breakdowns and travel logs and multiple revisions of the same.<br /> <br /> A group of narcissistic actors in the process of filming a Vietnam War movie are unaware that they are in real danger from a drug gang they believe to be extras in the film. Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Oscar-seeking method actor Kirk Lazarus a role that along with his franchise-starting turn in "Iron Man" the same year resurrected his career. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Santa Clarita California and in Kaua'i Hawaii.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 1 2007 with credits for screenwriters Etan sic Ethan Cohen Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 3 and November 4 2007. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
1955145319Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film with rainbow revisions. <br/><br/>Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" 1954 the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of a promising young fighter. Nominated for an Academy Award. Humphrey Bogart's final film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California Chicago and New York. <br/><br/>White studio wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1315 dated Oct. 12 1955. Title page present dated October 12 1955 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with a credit for screenwriter Yordan. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock with yellow blue pink and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/2/55 and 12/15/55. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1967161028N.p.: Selmur Productions 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to uncredited set decorator George R. Nelson with his name in manuscript ink "Bob Nelson" on the top right corner of the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Based on Daniel Keyes' 1966 novel "Flowers for Algernon" about a 32-year-old bakery worker with an intellectual disability who is approached by two doctors about participating in an experiment that will enhance his mental aptitude. Actor Cliff Robertson also appeared as Charly in a previous adaptation of Keyes' novel a 1961 television adaptation on the United States Steel Hour titled "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon." <br /> <br /> Nelson who is best-known for his work on "The Graduate" "The Manchurian Candidate" "The Getaway" "The Godfather Part II" and "Apocalypse Now" was not credited in the final film so it must be assumed that he was either involved with it early on or considered it at some point. <br /> <br /> Set in Boston.<br /> <br /> Yellow titled titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Title page present dated June 30 1967 noted as copy No. 49 in manuscript ink with credit for Silliphant and director Ralph Nelson. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a ring stain and a few splashes bound internally with three gold brads. Selmur Productions unknown
1965171121Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Chenault 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. Lacking the final page of narrative text as either used or issued.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1963 Tony Award-winning play by Edward Albee which follows one bitter night of domestic unrest between an emotionally scarred college professor and his hard-drinking wife. Nichols' directorial debut and the first film to be given the MPAA tag "No one under 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by an adult" challenging the Production Code Office and essentially leading to its demise. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards and winning five including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis respectively. <br /> <br /> Set on the campus of a small New England college and shot on location in Northampton Southampton and Cambridge Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows 2 holdings.<br /> <br /> Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 69 dated July 30 1965. Distribution page present same dates with receipt intact. Title page present dated July 30 1965 with credits for screenwriter Ernest Lehman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Mimeograph duplication rectos only all pages eye-rest green excepting distribution page which is white and dated 7/30/65. Corner chip to the "Cast of Characters" page else pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with yapping at the top and bottom as usually found bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Warner Brothers / Chenault unknown
1948WRCLIT67356Np: London Film Productions for Selznick Releasing Organization 1948. 118 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in typescript blue wrappers with small script number stamp. Slight sunning at edges of wrappers else about fine. A "second draft" of this original screenplay by Greene with uncredited contributions by Orson Welles who it is said wrote his own dialogue and Carol Reed the director. The English production premiered in the UK on 31 August 1949 and opened in the U.S. in February 1950 with distribution through Selznick Releasing Organization. This script is one of a small number of preproduction scripts prepared for use by the latter group. The cast included Joseph Cotton Orson Welles Trevor Howard and Allida Valli and the film was appreciated in its own time via a number of nominations and awards and appreciated even more considerably by posterity. Greene published an adaptation of the original treatment in 1950 and in 1968 a form of the final script with production revisions was published. One of a relatively small number of duplicate copies from the Selznick Archive. WOBBE D11. London Film Productions for Selznick Releasing Organization] unknown books
1968WRCLIT83433New York: Florin Corporation 1968. 1114 leaves modified by lettered and revised inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of plain blue yellow and salmon colored stocks. Bolt bound in mimeographed stiff wrappers. Wrapper somewhat creased edgeworn and smudged annotations throughout in pencil and ink some occasional minor stains and frays but a very good and important copy utilized in the production see below. Denoted a "shooting script" but incorporating revisions spanning two months on colored and dated revises and inserts. This significantly used copy bears the ownership signatures and occasionally heavy annotations music cues and highlighting of Fred Hellerman music director for the production. Hellerman 1927 - 2016 was with Pete Seeger Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert an original member of the seminal American folk group the Weavers. He produced the 1967 album by Arlo Guthrie that served as the sourcework for this film ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn also directed the film and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director. The cast included Guthrie and Patricia Quinn in the lead with Pete Seeger Lee Hays Emmet Walsh and many others filling in a large and colorful cast. Penn and Herndon's script was nominated for a WGA Award. Florin Corporation unknown books
1981133045Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury based on his 1962 novel. <br/><br/>After a carnival comes to Green Town the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark Jonathan Pryce who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. <br/><br/>In 1977 Bradbury sold the film rights to his novel to Paramount. He and director Jack Clayton whom Bradbury had previously worked with on Moby Dick produced a completed script. However production never began and the film was eventually put into turnaround. At the time Walt Disney Pictures was concentrating on films with more mature themes in an attempt to break free from their stereotype as an animation and family film studio. After the success of darker children's fantasy pictures by competing studios such as Time Bandits and The Dark Crystal Disney decided to purchase the adaptation's rights and hired Bradbury to produce a new script from scratch. .Set in Greentown Illinois but shot on location in Morrisville and Waterville Vermont. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper marked production No. 0233 dated 8/24/81 with credits for novelist and screenwriter Bradbury. Title page wit integral with the first page of the text dated 8/24/81. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 9/30/81. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown books
167970New York: Exoskeleton 1998. First Draft script for the 1999 film. <br /> <br /> An African-American hitman who models himself after the code of ancient samurai is caught in the crosshairs of a Mafia boss and his associates after a hit gone wrong. Interpreted by some as an homage to Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 crime drama "Le Samouraï."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Jersey City. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 5 1998 noted as First Draft with credit for director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly toned and soiled on the title page and page edges unbound. Exoskeleton unknown
169006N.p.: N.p. 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 neo-noir film here under the working title "Riders on the Storm" written by screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff." Laid in are two gatherings of revision pages 31 pink pages dated 7/2/90 and 25 green revision pages dated July 10 1990 both also noted as written by screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff." Script and revision pages noted on the title pages as "Eyes Only - Not For Duplication."<br /> <br /> The breakthrough film for Kathryn Bigelow and today a cult classic certified neo-noir and keystone surfing film. Bigelow went on to become the first female director win an Academy Award with "The Hurt Locker" in 2008. <br /> <br /> Set primarily in Southern California shot on location throughout California in Malibu Redondo Beach Dockweiler Beach Ecola State Park Los Angeles Manhattan Beach Pacific Palisades Santa Monica Culver City and Venice Pier as well as Hawaii Oahu Lake Powell Utah and Wheeler Oregon. <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerograhic duplication on blue leaves rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the title page partially detached bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Pink Revision Pages:<br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 and 7/2/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. Xerographic duplication on pink leaves rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single gold brad.<br /> <br /> Green Revision Pages:<br /> Front wraper integral with memo dated July 10 1990. Title page present dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 7/2/90 and 7/10/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. Xerographic duplication on green leaves rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a rust stain from a previous paper clip to the top left unbound.<br /> <br /> Carlson Destroy All Movies. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
1958146999Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films 1958. French language draft script for the 1958 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1777 erotic novel "Point de Lendemain" by Dominique Vivant released in the US as "The Lovers." <br/><br/>Louis Malle's second film about a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover and abruptly leaves them both to take up with a younger man she just met. After its released in the US the film became the subject of a landmark First Amendment case before the Supreme Court where Justice Potter Stewart in declaring the film not obscene issued the immortal phrase "I know it when I see it" in regards to what constitutes pornographic material. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris Dijon Burgundy and the Cote-d'Or all in France. <br/><br/>Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Louis Malle and screenwriter Louise de Vilmorin. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine with faint toning at the edges wrapper Very Good front wrapper detached and held by binding tape along spine brittle with some chipping and closed tears staple bound.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 429. Nouvelles Editions de Films unknown books
1955145052Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. <br /> <br /> Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" 1954 the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of a promising young fighter. Nominated for an Academy Award. Humphrey Bogart's final film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in California Chicago and New York. <br /> <br /> White titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1315 dated Oct. 12 1955. Title page present dated October 12 1955 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Philip Yordan. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between November 2 1955 and December 16 1955. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1983145810Culver City CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions 1983. Early draft script for the original never completed 1983 version of the film which would eventually be rewritten reshot and released in 1988. Laid in typed letter signed attesting to the vintage and provenance of the script from David Ehrenstein author of "The Scorsese Picture: The Art and Life of Martin Scorsese" describing his acquisition of the script original studio Paramount's abandonment of the film and Universal Pictures reviving the project five years later at which time screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorcese altered the script significantly.<br/><br/>Based on the controversial novel by Nikos Kazantazkis Schrader's script departs from the Gospels' depiction of Jesus Christ and explores human temptations incurring outrage at the time from some Christian groups. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. <br/><br/>Set in Ancient Judea shot on location in Morocco. <br/><br/>Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 12 1983 noted as Third Revision with credits for screenwriter Paul Schrader and author Nikos Kazantzakis. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Very Good Plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 70. Chartoff-Winkler Productions unknown books
1967161281Various cities: Raymond Wagner / Petersham Films 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to one of the film's production designers with their annotations regarding specific needed objects written in manuscript pencil and ink on the first and last pages of the script. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase about an unhappy newlywed socialite who relentlessly pursues a physician for an affair. Shot on location during the Summer of Love in San Francisco with appearances by Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 17 1967 with credits for novelist John Haase and screenwriter Larry Marcus. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Raymond Wagner / Petersham Films unknown
1980141462Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. <br/><br/>Orange titled perfect bound wrappers rubber stamped production number 133 dated 1980. Title page present. 201 leaves with last page of text numbered 192. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Imamura Productions unknown books
