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1999160857Santa Monica CA: Jerry Bruckheimer Films 1999. Revised Draft script for the beloved 2000 film dated September 10 1999. Accompanied by a binder of various production documents along with an Autograph Letter Signed from Set Decoration Buyer Margaret Hungerford on the film's custom letterhead dated Oct. 11 1999.<br /> <br /> The binder of production documents includes 90 pages of staff and crew lists production memos information regarding housing contact sheets and schedules details regarding extras a copy of a three page accident report and more. <br /> <br /> Based on the true story of coach Herman Boone portrayed by Denzel Washington and his attempt to integrate a high school football team in 1971.<br /> <br /> Set in Alexandria Virginia shot on location in Georgia and Virginia. <br /> <br /> Script housed in a generic black vinyl three-ring binder. Title page present dated September 10 1999 noted as BLUE REVISION with credits for screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine three-ring binder Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Production documents housed in a generic white three-ring binder. Near Fine overall with some faint soiling on the binder exterior. Jerry Bruckheimer Films unknown
1958153663Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Archive of six Revised Draft scripts for the 1958 three-part television episode which originally aired on June 25 1958 on NBC. Collection includes three scripts noted as Acts I-III and one script duplicate of Act I only and two scripts compiling all three acts. Also included are two typescript pages noting story outlines for a proposed "87th Precinct" television series. Each script signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen and three scripts with manuscript pencil and ink annotations by Cohen throughout noting deletions and substantive revisions. <br /> <br /> "Kraft Theatre" was a dramatic anthology television series which aired on NBC from 1947 to 1958. In this installment loosely based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" novel series a solitary widow whose frequent calls to the police to report a burglar are usually ignored turns up dead in her apartment. <br /> <br /> An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> Act I Revised Script with pencil annotation on the front wrapper:<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered I-24. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the last leaf detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. <br /> <br /> Act II Revised Script:<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered II-68. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. <br /> <br /> Act III Revised Script:<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered III-103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. <br /> <br /> Act I Revised Script with no pencil annotation on the front wrapper:<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered I-24. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. <br /> <br /> Complete script:<br /> <br /> Lacking wrappers and title page possibly as issued. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered III-136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. <br /> <br /> Revised complete script:<br /> <br /> Lacking and title page possibly as issued. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered III-87. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1972153235N.p.: Gerard Damiano Film Productions 1972. Vintage three-color press kit for the groundbreaking 1972 adult film with annotation in manuscript marker on upper right of recto of first page of "Coming! Feb 21st" with a two page center spread featuring a synopsis and black and white photographs and ad mats on verso of second page.<br /> <br /> The film that heralded in the "Golden Age of Porn." One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot character development and comparably high production values. <br /> <br /> 8.5 x 11 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus with horizontal crease from having once been folded paper tape shadows on top and bottom margins of the recto of first panel a few one-inch pieces of cello tape on the center spread and paper tape shadow on top and bruise on bottom of verso of second page. Apart from this generally bright and unfaded. Gerard Damiano Film Productions unknown
1960166647Paris: L'Express 1960. Eight vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1960 Swedish film including multiple images of cast and crew on the set. Italian and French distribution stamps on the versos.<br /> <br /> A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and violence has inspired many other controversial and renowned films from "The Last House on the Left" 1972 to "Irreversible" 2002. The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and nominated for the Palme d'Or with Bergman receiving a Special Mention at Cannes. <br /> <br /> Set in medieval Sweden. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. L'Express unknown
1971170566N.p.: Harvest Productions 1971. Collection of nine vintage double weight borderless reference photographs of Johnny Cash and his family on the set or the location of the 1971 film. <br /> <br /> All nine photographs with mimeo snipes Sandra Lee Kaplan photography stamps and publishing stamps on the versos others variously with provenance stamps and annotations see images.<br /> <br /> Five of the photographs feature Cash exclusively two feature Cash and his step-daughters Rebecca Carlene Smith here Karleen and Rosie Nix Adams both of whom appeared as extras in the film one of Adams and Kirk Douglas' son Eric and one of Cash with June Carter Cash and their newborn son John Carter Cash.<br /> <br /> Desperate for money two aging gunfighters conspire to organize a public showdown for which they plan to sell tickets. <br /> <br /> Partially shot on location in Santa Fe New Mexico and Madrid Spain. <br /> <br /> 7 x 10 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall with light edgewear three with masking tape on the verso and one with masking tape on the verso extending beyond the margin with cropping annotations see image. Harvest Productions unknown
2017163911London: Blueprint Pictures 2017. Draft script for the 2017 film. Copy belonging to production designer David Wasco with his name watermarked on every leaf. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher.<br /> <br /> A Missouri woman rents three billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder setting off a violent chain of reactions among members of her small community and the police officers responsible for overseeing the investigation. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell and Best Leading Actress for Frances McDormand. <br /> <br /> Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 films including "The Last Seduction" "Pulp Fiction" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018.<br /> <br /> Set in Ebbing Missouri shot on location in Sylva North Carolina. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for director and screenwriter Martin McDonagh. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with one gold and one silver brad. Blueprint Pictures unknown
1969153094London: Ned Sherrin 1969. Early Draft script for the 1970 British film with annotations in manuscript ink on four pages a "1." on the title page and three underlining locations. Script preceded by six pages of notes on story cast of characters and notes on principal characters. <br /> <br /> An ad man is tasked with creating a new sexy image for a frozen porridge brand. A satirical farce directly ridiculing British conservative activist Mary Whitehouse who in 1970 was staging a war on gratuitous sex in advertising and many other fields of British life. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in London and Surrey. <br /> <br /> Dark blue untitled wrappers with die-cut window in the British Fashion. Title page present dated 6th February 1969 with credits for screenwriters Marty Feldman and Barry Took and story credit for Milton Shulman and Herbert Kretzmer. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Ned Sherrin unknown
1989160721London: Goldcrest Films 1989. Final Draft script for the 1989 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Gerry Fisher with 13 pages of production materials laid in including revision pages manuscript leaves and production memos dated variously between October 26 and November 19 1988. Several of the laid-in pages bear Fisher's name on the top margins in manuscript pencil and ink. <br /> <br /> A medium finds herself the target of a corporate hitman after she foretells the death of a factory whistleblower. Although well received by critics the film's distributors fell into financial difficulties resulting in it never receiving a full cinema release. <br /> <br /> Shot in Rock Hill South Carolina and Charlotte North Carolina. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers undated noted as FINAL DRAFT 3 with credit for screenwriter and director Mike Hodges. Title page present undated noted as FINAL DRAFT 3 with credit for screenwriter and director Mike Hodges. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Goldcrest Films unknown
1967150244N.p.: N.p. 1967. Five vintage borderless black and white photographs from the set of the 1967 film. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer James Johnson. <br /> <br /> From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br /> <br /> Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Truman Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Most Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one Very Good with a tear to the top right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1970163450Hollywood: Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures 1970. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the title page and three leaves of the script.<br /> <br /> While waiting for the results from a pregnancy test a precocious high school senior decides to leave her family older lover and boyfriend behind and hitchhike to Big Sur California with her best friend.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers noted as copy No. 23 in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as Revised Final Draft with credit for screenwriter David Allen Dixon. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures unknown
1960151136London: J. Arthur Rank 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 film. Laid in with the script is a 36-leaf gathering of revision pages on pink stock bound with a single staple on the top left corner dated 5.4.60. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A Catholic priest is sent to establish a parish in a rural Mexican town under the control of a ruthless but educated bandit. <br /> <br /> Set in Mexico shot on location in Spain.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 15-3-60. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated 18th March 1960 with credits for screenwriter Nigel Balchin. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
1980161661Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film seen here under the working title "Hawks." Copy belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz with his name in manuscript ink on several pages and his profuse annotations throughout.<br /> <br /> Two undercover New York police officers are hired to take down a deadly European terrorist. Actor Rutger Hauer's first American feature film.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City London and Paris. <br /> <br /> Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated noted as Final Draft Screenplay and production No. 02133 with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/14/80 and 3/16/80. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a small chip on the top right corner of the final leaf bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1964166462N.p.: N.p. 1964. Draft script for Season 2 Episode 7 of the 1963-1965 television series. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with a penciled drawing with annotations on the rear wrapper laying out a set design.<br /> <br /> In the year 2024 astronauts visiting Mars are picked off one by one by mysterious "Sand-Beasts" shark-like monsters that live and travel under the planet's surface. Loosely based on a short story by screenwriter Jerry Sohl which originally appeared in "Imaginative Tales" magazine in September of 1955. <br /> <br /> Lacking front wrapper but with rear wrapper present. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus rear wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969149517Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: 1 a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan 2 a shot of director Arthur Penn producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles 3 a shot of McLanahan Penn and actress Patricia Quinn working on a scene 4 Guthrie with Quinn and 5 Guthrie with a donkey and members of the cast.<br /> <br /> Based on Arlo Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
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 manuscript pencil and once in manuscript 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
1985168092N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1985 French-Belgian film showing Chantal Akerman in the process of disrobing. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.<br /> <br /> Akerman's debut groundbreaking feature film an intimate and strikingly minimal exploration of sexuality and femininity. <br /> <br /> 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Eclipse 19. N.p. unknown
1918158606N.p.: N.p. 1918. Vintage borderless vernacular photograph of actor Charlie Chaplin writer Upton Sinclair and editor and publisher Rob Wagner on the set of the 1918 silent film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso identifying subjects. <br /> <br /> Wagner was the editor and publisher of "Script" a left-leaning weekly literary film magazine published in Beverly Hills between 1929 and 1949. A lifelong Socialist and advocate for progressive causes Wagner used "Script" to give a voice to blacklisted screenwriters including Dalton Trumbo and Gordon Kahn and prominent leftists including Sinclair Max Eastman and William C. deMille. <br /> <br /> Wagner served as something of a father figure to Chaplin who was about 17 years Wagner's junior after the two men met sometime in the mid-1910s. The pair formed a close friendship with Wagner serving as Chaplin's part-time secretary for a period and accompanying the actor on his Third Liberty Loan tour through the American south in 1918. Wagner introduced Chaplin to Sinclair and Max Eastman and together the three writers exerted a strong influence over Chaplin's political world view. Chaplin would go on to co-found the Motion Picture Relief Fund which later became the Motion Picture and Television Fund with Wagner in 1929. <br /> <br /> Approximately 5 x 4 inches. About Near Fine lightly age toned. N.p. unknown
1965166067London: Paramount Film Service 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the title page and manuscript pencil and marker annotations on nearly every page with clippings of the shooting schedule and set requirements frequently affixed to the verso of the opposing page and two pencil illustrations of the house and cottage from the film on the verso of the last page.<br /> <br /> George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films.<br /> <br /> Michael Parks stars as an arrogant young art student who seduces the overprotective mother of his friend played by a stunning Jennifer Jones.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Middlesex and London. <br /> <br /> Purple untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated 16 July 1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Millard Lampell. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 14 September 1965 and 31 August 1965. Unbound as issued. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Paramount Film Service unknown
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 manuscript annotations in pencil on 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
1946155153Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film noir. Copy belonging to actor Robert Keith with his name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper and his manuscript pencil annotations on the inside front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Based on a 1945 article by Fulton Oursler writing as Anthony Abbot in turn based on the 1924 case of a homeless man wrongly accused of murdering a beloved small-town priest. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Connecticut and New York. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers dated September 6 1946 noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper. Distribution page present with receipt intact stamped copy No. 135. Title page present dated September 6. 1946 noted as Revised Final script with credits for screenwriter Richard Murphy and story credit to Anthony Abbot. 173 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/18/46 and 9/25/46. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with slight yapping bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Eureka Masters of Cinema 89. Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
2017170439N.p.: N.p. 2017. A small archive of approximately 70 leaves largely regarding casting and readings for Francis Ford Coppola's ongoing experimental film project "Distant Vision" belonging to Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos with the majority of the material written in Roos' hand 2013-2017. Found here under various working titles including "Coppola Project" "Dark Electric Vision" "Distant Vision" "D.V." "FFC" and "F. Coppola Project."<br /> <br /> Included in the archive are:<br /> <br /> Copious handwritten notes on casting considerations and recommendations from Roos including actor availability skill sets and reactions to meetings and readings. <br /> <br /> A four-page "'Men' For Discussion" and "'Women' For Discussion" on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 5 2013 listing actors and their ages.<br /> <br /> A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 5 2013 listing "Godfather I II and III Actors for Discussion."<br /> <br /> A two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 7 2013 of "'Faith' For Discussion" listing actors for the role with pencil annotations in Roos' hand.<br /> <br /> Five listings on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors for readings which took place from March 16 2013 to August 1 2014 which included Kate Beckinsale Vincent D'Onofrio Elle Fanning Andy Garcia Philip Seymour Hoffman Oscar Isaac Uma Thurman and Marisa Tomei among others.<br /> <br /> A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 19 2013 listing actors for a proposed reading the following day with the actor's headshot their character's name and their contact information or agency with ink annotations in Roos' hand. Including actors Linda Cardellini Frank Grillo Dakota Johnson Max Minghella and Imogen Poots among others.<br /> <br /> A four page handwritten draft of a letter to Coppola in Roos' hand regarding an upcoming January 15 2014 table reading with thirteen questions for Coppola largely regarding casting and actor availability.<br /> <br /> Four pages from a Draft script with the ink annotation of "Fred's Notes on June 25 2014 Draft" with notes regarding the script in Roos' hand on two pages.<br /> <br /> A four-page "Cast of Characters" listing all the characters with brief descriptions for the following timelines in the script: "1922" "1928-30" "1939" "1947" "1952" "Flashback - 1890's" "1959" "1962" and "1969."<br /> <br /> A four-page list of "Cast of Characters" with ages depicted and detailed descriptions along with "Minor Characters" with brief descriptions.<br /> <br /> A three-page list of all the characters and the script pages on which the characters appear.<br /> <br /> And a two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors up for discussion dated August 22 2017.<br /> <br /> All material housed in a generic orange folder with post-its with marker annotations of "Distant Vision" affixed to the front panel and tab with cello tape.<br /> <br /> Conceived by Coppola as an experimental film project in the early 2000's "Distant Vision" depicts three generations of an Italian American family during the advent and omnipresence of television intended to be filmed as "live cinema" Coppola's experimental and potentially ground-breaking concept for a live production-film hybrid. Two different versions of a "proof of concept" production were broadcast to limited audiences in June 2015 from Oklahoma City Community College and in July 2016 from the UCLA School of Theater.<br /> <br /> Coppola had planned to film more sequences financed from his 2024 film "Megalopolis" but had been thus far put on hold following the film's disappointing box office returns.<br /> <br /> All material approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall housed in a Near Fine 8.5 x 11.5 generic orange folder. N.p. unknown
1984159116N.p.: N.p. 1984. Second Draft script for an unproduced film using the hook from singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp's 1983 song "Pink Houses" as its moniker. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 20. <br /> <br /> An unproduced drama about unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania by acclaimed screenwriter and director Frank Pierson. Pierson was the writer of "Dog Day Afternoon" 1975 winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and co-writer of "Cool Hand Luke" 1967 "Cat Ballou" 1965 and "A Star is Born" 1976 among many others. Pierson served as the President of the Writers Guild of America West for two terms in the 1980s and 1990s and was also associated with the American Film Institute the Academy of American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Sundance Film Festival. <br /> <br /> Considered by many to be one of the best unproduced still-unfilmed screenplays written in the wake of an April 1984 "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" magazine article about the spate of films about American milltowns.<br /> <br /> Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 7 1984 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Frank Pierson. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with light offsetting on the last page of the script. Bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1971152448N.p.: N.p. 1971. Shooting Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Sunshine Ladies."<br /> <br /> The second film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet" preceded by "Student Nurses" 1970 and followed by "Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. George Armitage's directorial debut and the second film released by Corman's New World Pictures. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Manhattan Beach and South Bay Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 2 1971 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 84. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970170872Bruxelles Brussels: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage Belgian petite poster for the 1969 film.<br /> <br /> Based on director photographer and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Kansas. <br /> <br /> 21.5 x 17.5 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with light toning to the extremities and a small splash to the middle top margin see image. Warner Brothers unknown
1948156774Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Revised Final script for the 1948 Western film. <br /> <br /> An extremely effective minimal Western starring Gregory Peck playing against type as a bank robber-albeit an honorable one-who must go head-to-head with Richard Widmark. One of the classics of the late 1940s overshadowed by "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" which was released the same year and is much better remembered today. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Death Valley National Monument and near Lone Pine CA where an entire ghost town was constructed for the film. <br /> <br /> Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 122 dated May 14 1948. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated May 14 1948 with a credit for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box.<br /> <br /> Pitts 5051. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
