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1949144415Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Final Draft script for the 1950 film. With a "New York Legal Department" rubber stamp on the front wrapper and extensive manuscript pencil annotations throughout likely by a professional reader regarding differences between the source novel by Thomas B. Costain and the script. <br /> <br /> Based on Costain's 1945 novel and partially conceived as a sequel to the 1949 film "Prince of Foxes" in order to reunite Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. "The Black Rose" features Power as a Saxon youth who runs away from England during the Crusades. Somehow he and his North African warlord friend Orson Welles make it to China where they get involved with the court of Kubla Kahn. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br /> <br /> Set in England and the Far East shot on location in England and Morocco. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 19 and production No. 125 dated May 4 1949. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated May 4 1949. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/17/49 and 7/5/49. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1951122115Rome: Albert and Charles Boni 1951. Original Italian program for the 1951 film based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. SIGNED by Vittorio De Sica at the bottom of the title page. One of the director's classics pure visual storytelling made just after "Bicycle Thieves" 1948 and just before "Umberto D." 1952. A gorgeous oversize program with a central illustration on the front wrapper within a debossed frame. The wrapper houses 6 loose deluxe card plates as issued the first two devoted to text and the last four being full-color lithograph illustrations reflecting the film story. One of the most beautiful programs we've ever seen. Plates Near Fine outer wrapper Very Good plus with a few tears at the edges but no loss 12.75 x 17.25 inches. Albert and Charles Boni unknown
1997160794N.p.: N.p. 1997. Third Draft script for the 1999 film. With manuscript ink annotations relating to the character of Jim McAllister on several pages possibly in the hand of screenwriter Jim Taylor and post-it notes with annotations in the same hand attached to five pages. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta loosely based in turn on Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel "What Makes Sammy Run" A pitch-black comedy about a washed-up high school history teacher who forms an increasingly desperate vendetta against an overachieving student. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. <br /> <br /> Set in Omaha shot on location in Washington DC in Omaha Bellevue LaVista and Papillon Nebraska in Carter Lake Iowa and in New York City. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as THIRD DRAFT on the front wrapper dated July 22 1997 with credits for director-screenwriter Alexander Payne screenwriter Jim Taylor and novelist Tom Perotta. Title page present noted as THIRD DRAFT dated July 22 1997 with credits for director-screenwriter Alexander Payne screenwriter Jim Taylor and novelist Tom Perotta. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong that has been reinforced with clear packing tape.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 904. N.p. unknown
1993169975N.p.: Wife N' Kids Productions 1993. Fifth Draft script for the 1993 film. With extensive manuscript marker and ink annotations to the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations to six pages.<br /> <br /> After his grandmother is murdered a nerdy repairman with a knack for invention stumbles onto a method to make his clothes bulletproof and decides to become the low budget superhero "Blankman" to help defend his neighborhood from crime.<br /> <br /> Set in New York City filmed on location in Chicago Illinois. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 20 1993 noted as 5th DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Damon Wayons "based on revisions" by Wayons J.F. Lawton and Chris Matheson and "Revised by" Wayons and Lawton. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Wife N' Kids Productions unknown
1974158170N.p.: Gordon Park Jr. Robert Anderson Production 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film here under the working title "Aaron and Angela."<br /> <br /> A coming-of-age story set in Harlem about the love between a Black basketball player and a Puerto Rican girl sparking disapproval from their families and neighbors. Featuring excellent location footage of a violent decaying half-abandoned 1970s New York. Irene Cara's screen debut.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1 1974 with credits for screenwriter Gerald Sanford. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Howard Blaxploitation Cinema. Parish & Hill 1. Gordon Park Jr. Robert Anderson Production unknown
1966164220Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage banner poster for the 1966 film printed in black and a bold fluorescent orange. Rare in this format.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1963 novel by Rohan O'Grady pen name of Canadian author June Margaret O'Grady Skinner. Director and producer William Castle's black comedy wherein a twelve-year-old boy inherits a fortune and is trapped on an island with his ex-British Intelligence uncle who uses hypnotism sharks fire and poisonous mushrooms to try and kill the boy.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Bermuda.<br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light overall creasing and rubbing. Bright and unfaded. Note: The fluorescent orange color cannot be reproduced in a photograph and is a much brighter than what is depicted in the image. Universal Pictures unknown
1970161458New York: Spangler Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film seen here under the working title "The Legend of Charley."<br /> <br /> An enslaved Black man is freed by his plantation's dying owner and resolves to free the other slaves at the plantation before they are sold to pay the owner's debts. Followed by two sequels "The Soul of Nigger Charley" 1973 and "Boss Nigger" 1975.<br /> <br /> Black titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus chipped at the fore-edges bound with two gold screw brads. Spangler Pictures unknown
1970166463Los Angeles: Rogallian Productions 1970. Fourth Draft script for the 1970 film seen here under the working title "C.C. Ryder and Company." Bound in with the script is a two-page call sheet.<br /> <br /> A biker falls in with the "Heads Company" a notorious biker gang and must save a young woman and defeat the gang's leader in a motorcycle race.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Arizona. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 3 1970 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Roger Smith. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good with foxing and chipping and closed tears at the extremities bound with two gold brads. Rogallian Productions unknown
1966137871Paris: Parc Film 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in manuscript marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. <br /> <br /> A writer and his pregnant wife mute from a car accident move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality fact and fiction begin to blend together as he transforms the villagers into characters in his story. In his 1969 review Roger Ebert called The Creatures "a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels but in fact it operates on only one illustrating how fantasy reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer." <br /> <br /> Three photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light scratches. <br /> <br /> Remaining photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches. A few photographs lightly worn else Near Fine overall. Parc Film unknown
1992148720Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film.<br /> <br /> Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers perfect-bound dated 1992.11.5. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 197. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. Dentsu Music and Entertainment unknown
1970149801Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Archive of five vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1970 film four of which are borderless. One photograph SIGNED and dated 1969 by photographer Alan Pappe on the verso all photographs with his stamp. <br /> <br /> All five photographs feature legendary Italian director Federico Fellini in his cameo role as himself with one showing the director on the set with a clapboard and crew members in front of him while a second features a manuscript pencil annotation describing Fellini and actor Donald Sutherland discussing a scene with an out-of-frame director Paul Mazursky. <br /> <br /> Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br /> <br /> A young filmmaker struggles to come up with ideas for new film after his previous commercial and critical success while ruminating on his past present and possible futures. <br /> <br /> One photograph 11 x 11 inches four photographs roughly 14 x 11 or 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1966168501N.p.: N.p. 1966. Two vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Russian film showing and Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Rublev and Nikolay Burlyaev from the "Bell" sequence respectively. One with "Cinematheque Française" stamps on the verso.<br /> <br /> Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th century drama capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. <br /> <br /> Set in medieval Russia shot on location in Moscow. <br /> <br /> 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 34. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1968162442N.p.: Sherpix 1968. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film.<br /> <br /> Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's satirical take on Hollywood Westerns features five gay cowboys a rowdy ranch lady and her stoned nurse handsome drifter Julian and a drag queen sheriff.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Arizona.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the edges else about Near Fine. Sherpix unknown
1970137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. <br /> <br /> Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. <br /> <br /> Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown
1986162487N.p.: Cannon Films 1986. Shooting script for the 1987 film. Annotation noting copy No. 62 in manuscript ink on the first leaf. Last three pages of script pages 109-111 is a epilogue "Background Bar Talk" a series of two character jokes and dialogue "to be barely heard if needed in various bar scenes."<br /> <br /> Largely based on screenwriter Charles Bukowski's life in Hollywood during the 1970s about a misanthropic alcoholic Bukowski's literary alter-ego Henry Chinaski who spends his evenings drinking at a dreary Los Angeles watering hole where he enjoys a romance with fellow barfly Wanda. Bukowski published the screenplay with illustrations by the author in 1984 while the film was still pending production. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles California. <br /> <br /> With no wrappers presumably as issued. Title page present dated 12 August 1986 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Bukowski and director Barbet Schroeder. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus moderately soiled on first and last leaves with first leaf detached from the binding partially bound with a single gold brad. Cannon Films unknown
1987170992Universal City: Mirage Productions 1987. An early "Rewrite" Draft script for the 1988 film dated fourteen months prior to the beginning of production. An internally duplicated copy in production company wrappers with copied hole punches as issued and copied annotations on 37 pages.<br /> <br /> A selfish yuppie learns that the inheritance he expected to gain after his father's passing has instead gone to his estranged brother an autistic savant. Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning four including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Director.<br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles Las Vegas and Cincinnati shot on location in various locations throughout Ohio Nevada Kentucky Indiana Oklahoma and California. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled Mirage Production wrappers. Title page present dated February 24 1987 noted as Rewrite with credits for screenwriter Ronald Bass. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Mirage Productions unknown
1962145348United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures AIP 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Copy from the StudioCanal archives with a letter of provenance laid in. <br /> <br /> Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway about a professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague suspected to be a Russian double agent who killed himself after undergoing similar experiments. Released in the US as a double feature with "Operation Bikini."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in England. <br /> <br /> Tall blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated March 1962. Title page present dated 26.3.62 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter James Kennaway. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine internal prong binding. Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1979145328Los Angeles: Maverick International 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and title page and manuscript annotations on nearly every page. Also included is an extensive archive of material relating to the production including contracts budgets cast and crew lists call sheets script supervisor reports publicity and press information and several pages of handwritten notes by Weathersby. <br /> <br /> A record producer sets out to promote his newest discovery unaware that this will put him in conflict with the mob who control a rival act. Featuring real life late 1970s R&B group The Love Machine appearing as a thinly fictionalized version of themselves as the main music act. <br /> <br /> Green untitled wrappers with paper title label. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Bernard H. Rollins and story by Rollins and John Daniels. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/30/79 and 6/14/79. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with dampstaining to both bound internally with silver prong binding. Maverick International unknown
1966136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. <br /> <br /> Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1989167211Hollywood: Austin Enterprises 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film seen here under the working title "Beverly Hills Vampire." Copy belonging to makeup artist Richard Miranda with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a five-day shooting schedule along with a call sheet dated May 24 1988. <br /> <br /> A straight-to-video comedy about three nerds who hook up with vampiric call girls during a trip to Hollywood.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Missing title page. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Austin Enterprises unknown
1994160129Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film seen here under the working title "Simon Says: Die Hard III." <br /> <br /> The third film in the Die Hard series following "Die Hard" 1988 and "Die Hard 2" 1990 and preceding "Live Free or Die Hard" 2007 and "A Good Day to Die Hard" 2013. In this installment NYPD Lieutenant John McClane teams up with a local electrician to stop a mysterious terrorist from setting off bombs across New York city. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York South Carolina and Maryland. <br /> <br /> Orange titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated July 10 1994. Title page present dated July 10 1994 noted as Version 3.31 with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1979156737Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1979. Revised Shooting script for the 1979 television film here under the working title "Can You Hear the Laughter The Freddie Prinze Story." Copy belonging to sound mixer Keith A. Wester with his name in manuscript ink on the top right of the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on 20 pages. <br /> <br /> Bound in preceding the script are a six page Staff and Crew contact list a 30 page Shooting Schedule 17 pages of Call Sheets with annotations in manuscript ink and a map to the Comedy Store West. <br /> <br /> Originally aired on CBS on September 11 1979. Based on the article "Good Night Sweet Prinze" by Peter Greenberg published in the June 1977 issue of Playboy magazine. A portrayal of the sudden rise and success of the troubled Puerto Rican stand-up comedian and actor Freddie Prinze who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 29 1977.<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 60. Title page present dated March 19 1979 noted as REV. SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/79 and 5/4/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown
1979149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in manuscript marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set.<br /> <br /> Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell.<br /> <br /> Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one.<br /> <br /> Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown
1949150986N.p.: N.p. 1949. Two vintage reference photographs one of Orson Welles and Carol Reed and one of Reed Joseph Cotten and Welles on the set of the 1949 film. <br /> <br /> Reed's classic 1949 British film noir based on an original screenplay by Graham Greene starring Cotten as Holly Martins Anna Schmidt as Valli and Welles as Harry Lime with Cotten and Welles at the peak of their respective powers. The second of three films in which Green collaborated directly with Reed and remains Greene's only original screenplay. Produced and directed by Reed who narrated the UK version and who worked with Greene on two other films "The Fallen Idol" and "Our Man in Havana."<br /> <br /> Winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominated for Best Editing and Best Director.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Vienna Austria and England UK. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 64. Ebert I. Grant UK. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 18. Selby UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
1974152517Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Collection of 69 vintage photographs from the 1974 British comedy/horror film a mix of studio still photographs and reference and promotional photographs. Included is a photograph of director Clive Donner David Niven and Linda Hayden on the set. <br /> <br /> All photos housed in archival sleeves and bound in a red leather three-ring binder. The vast collection includes photographs of Niven Hayden Teresa Graves Peter Bayliss Jennie Linden Nicky Henson Bernard Bresslaw Cathie Shirriff Andrea Allan Minah Bird and Luan Peters among others.<br /> <br /> Dracula portrayed by the typically charming Niven attempts to revive his great love the Countess Vampira by collecting blood from Playboy models touring his castle but when Vampira awakens she is now a powerful black woman in a delightful performance from Graves. The US release changed the film's name to "Old Dracula" in an attempt to cash on the success of Mel Brook's 1974 blockbuster "Young Frankenstein" and the two were frequently shown as a double bill.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in London. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.<br /> <br /> Binder 10 x 12 inches. Near Fine.<br /> Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 180. Columbia Pictures unknown
