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1992154689Pittsburgh and Rome: ADC Films 1992. Second Draft script for the 1993 film INSCRIBED by screenwriter and author T.E.D. Klein on the title page. Theodore 'Eibon' Donald Klein T.E.D. Klein is an American horror writer and editor who despite his sparse output is highly regarded for his meticulous prose and provocative essays. He was the acclaimed editor of The Twilight Zone Magazine from 1981 to 1985 and author of the bestselling novel "The Ceremonies" 1984 and the award winning four novella collection "Dark Gods" 1985. "Trauma" is his only screenplay.<br /> <br /> Dario Argento's underrated first feature-length American production a giallo horror film wherein Asia Argento stars as Aura an anorexic young woman who with the help of her new young lover David searches for "The Headhunter" killer responsible for the beheading of both of her parents. Asia Argento's character was partly inspired by her half-sister Anna who suffered from anorexia and died in a scooter accident shortly before the film's release and is seen during the closing credits sequence. Featuring memorable performances from Piper Laurie Frederic Forrest and Brad Dourif.<br /> <br /> Set in Minneapolis shot on location in Minneapolis Hopkins and St. Paul Minnesota. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated April 1992 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter T.E.D. Klein and story credits for Franco Ferrini Giovanni Romoli and Dario Argento. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with light toning and adhesive shadow to the title page bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Howarth So Deadly So Perverse Vol. 2. ADC Films unknown
1972153131London: Avianca 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Fourteen." Copy belonging to producer Harvey Harrison with his name in manuscript ink annotation to the title page. <br /> <br /> The eldest children of a working class family of fourteen are forced to take care of the younger children when their mother falls ill. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in London.<br /> <br /> Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Roland Starke. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good with wear to the top right page corners of the first 13 pages and front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Avianca unknown
1952148479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film.<br /> <br /> The only feature film written by Geisel Dr. Seuss who wrote the story co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. <br /> <br /> A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy Rettig who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker Hans Conried forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it.<br /> <br /> Nominated for one Academy Award.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown
1958148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript wax pencil to five images.<br /> <br /> Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956148402N.p.: Golden State Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film belonging to actress Adele Jergens with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper and printed title inked over both in manuscript ink. Annotations throughout striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny played by Jergens in manuscript ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips all along the top page edges still in place with many pages dog-eared.<br /> <br /> Jergens' career began after being named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair after which she briefly worked as a Rockette being named the Number One Showgirl in New York City and was understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1942 Broadway show "Star and Garter." In 1944 she landed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went on to act in over 50 films over the next twelve years. Jergins did two films following "Girls in Prison" George Blair's "Fighting Trouble" 1956 and Edward L. Cahn's "Runaway Daughters" 1956 before retiring from acting in late 1956.<br /> <br /> Anne Carson Joan Taylor convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery she claims she's innocent of finds herself in prison with three cellmates the hardened Jenny Jergens boss of the other inmates the mentally delusional Dorothy Phyllis Coates and sweet-talking Melanee Helen Gilbert.<br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lou Rusoff producer Alex Gordon and director Edward L. Cahn. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 2/21/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with slight toning at the edges and small dampstain on right center bound internally with three gold brads. Golden State Productions unknown
1969151549N.p.: Produzione Europee Associate PEA 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph with left margin of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1969 film. Three "Christophe L." provenance stamps on verso. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on the late first century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's dream-like depiction of first century imperial Rome in a series of gloriously decadent extravagant and grotesque episodes following the pan-sexual scholar Encolpius Potter and his insatiable friend Ascyltus Hiram Keller. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Rome Italy. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling at top and 1.5 inch crease at bottom. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 747. Eureka! Masters of Cinema 112. Produzione Europee Associate (PEA) unknown
1964150499Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the1964 French film showing director François Truffaut and cinematographer Raoul Coutard. With a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with a stamp noting No. 59. <br /> <br /> Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Portugal and France.<br /> <br /> 7 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1936150710Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra by photographer Alfredo Valente to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil dated "6-25-36" and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp all on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Griffith Park Ojai Palms Springs Victorville and Sherwood Forest California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1931141666Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film Peter Lorre's breakthrough role and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece-an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. <br /> <br /> Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier" one of the oldest European film magazines which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart "Film-Kurier" each issue focused on a single film and used a gravure process to reproduce images from the film making for striking images and design. <br /> <br /> 6 x 9 inches. Six pages saddle stapled. Ink annotations throughout seemingly regarding layout affecting a bit of text but no images. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal crease and light toning to the wrappers. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 30. Grant Germany. Godard Histoires de cinema. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 9. Rosebaum 1000. Illustrierter Film-Kurier unknown
1930148510N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau cinematographer Floyd Crosby a sound engineer and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. <br /> <br /> Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story "Turia" based on a South Sea legend Flaherty had heard while working on W.S. Van Dyke's "White Shadows in the South Seas" 1928 which would later evolve into "Tabu." <br /> <br /> Two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora find themselves in danger when an old warrior declares the girl to be the Chosen Maid. Refusing the lovers run off to a "westernized" island were the boy earns a living as a pearl diver and lands in debt. When the old warrior discovers their location they plan another escape requiring the boy paying off his debts by pearl diving in shark-infested waters. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Tahiti and the Leeward Islands French Polynesia. <br /> <br /> 5.75 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine lightly faded. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Eureka! 61. N.p. unknown
1972160117Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 television movie which originally aired on March 18 1973 on NBC. Working copy belonging to screenwriter Ron Bishop with an annotation in manuscript pencil on the title page noting "Bishop only" and 18 manuscript revision pages in Bishop's hand laid in. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck filmed once before by Lewis Milestone in 1949. Winner of two Primetime Emmy awards and nominated for seven more. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Sonora California. <br /> <br /> Beige generic agency wrappers. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Ron Bishop and novelist John Steinbeck. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 18 undated manuscript revision pages laid in. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1976156769Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Revised Final script for the 1977 film.<br /> <br /> A portrait of the second wave of feminism at its turning point in the late 1970s about two former dancers whose lives have gone separate ways one having become a professional dancer the other a housewife and whose unexpected reunion yields dramatic consequences. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Oklahoma City. <br /> <br /> Green titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated July 2 1976. Title page present dated July 2 1976 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1961166734N.p.: N.p. 1961. First Draft script for the 1962 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's 1949 play which was based in turn on Herman Melville's 1924 novella. A seaman's innocence and optimism win him the affection of the entire crew except the abusive master-at-arms who eventually wrongly accuses the seaman of conspiracy to mutiny. The feature film debut of Terence Stamp who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance.<br /> <br /> Yellow wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated March 21 1961 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Peter Ustinov. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between May 5 and August 22 1961. Title page lightly toned else pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1957166733N.p.: N.p. 1957. Final script for the 1962 film. Early draft preceding the film's release by five years credited to screenwriter Robert Rossen. Rossen was ultimately uncredited in the film but was involved in this early stage of the script's development. <br /> <br /> Based on Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's 1949 play which was based in turn on Herman Melville's 1924 novella. A seaman's innocence and natural beauty wins him the affection of the entire crew except the abusive master-at-arms who eventually wrongly accuses the seaman of conspiracy to mutiny. The feature film debut of Terence Stamp who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance.<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY and dated October 15 1957 with credit for screenwriter Robert Rossen. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975166618N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 film here under the working title "Invitation to Death." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout amending dialog and underlining his character "Steve." Bound in following the script are two pages of extensive handwritten notes in pencil elaborating on the actions and motivations of the character "Steve" in specific scenes likely written by screenwriter and director Howard Avedis. Laid in is a 24 page schedule with manuscript pencil annotations underlining the character "Steve" throughout with the manuscript marker annotation of Dimitri's name along the top edge of the first leaf.<br /> <br /> Connie Stevens stars as a sexy and horny federal narcotics agent who goes undercover to investigate heroin smuggler Cesare Danova. Director and screenwriter Howard Avedis' exploitation take on William Fiedkin's 1971 classic "The French Connection" with a female cop in the lead including an outrageous chase scene involving Ms. Stevens in a dunebuggy. A cult classic.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Seattle King County and Kirkland Washington and Portland Oregon. <br /> <br /> Burgundy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 6 1975 noted as Second Draft Revised with credits for screenwriter Hikmet Avedis. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1942116171N.p.: N.p. 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film. Two blue revision pages dated 8/8/42 paper clipped to the rear wrapper of the script. <br /> <br /> One the greatest Technicolor musicals produced by Fox in the 1940s employing Harry James and his orchestra at their peak and pulling out all the stops on the musical numbers. Featuring Carmen Miranda's version of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and the debut of the classic song "I Had the Craziest Dream."<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 47 and production No. 763 dated June 11 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 11 1942 noted as Revised Final. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/13/42 and 7/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1968143480Tokyo: Toei Animation 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun" also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. <br /> <br /> A milestone in the history of Japanese animation heralded as the first animated feature to successfully disrupt the Walt Disney paradigm and seen as one of the first to intentionally address an adult audience. Isao Takahata's directorial debut and the first major film of famed Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki who worked on scene design and key animation for the film. Ostensibly a film about young boy living in ancient Scandinavia who must help instill a community to fight against a great oppressor it carried a strong pro-union and pro-Socialist subtext as Takahata and Miyazaki were staunch union organizers. Studio Toei executives in part in retaliation released the film into theaters for only ten days and it would be some years before the feature would be appreciated fully. <br /> <br /> Off white wrappers perfect-bound with black titles. Title page present. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Xerographic duplication with pink orange green and yellow revision pages. Pages lightly toned else Fine wrapper Near Fine. Toei Animation unknown
1964158398N.p.: Southern Cross Productions 1964. Draft script for an unproduced film. Specially bound copy likely belonging to screenwriter Ivan Reiner with annotations in manuscript pencil throughout 31 leaves.<br /> <br /> Reiner was a producer and screenwriter best known for the low budget sci-fi "Gamma One" film series with director Antonio Margheriti as well as the films "The Wild Wild Planet" 1966 "The War of the Planets" 1966 "War Between the Planets" 1966 and "Snow Devils" 1967.<br /> <br /> As the United Democracies Space Command UDSCO begins their New Years Eve celebrations unusual light patterns are observed on Delta 2 and Delta 2's captain Captain Jacques Dubois is nowhere to be found.<br /> <br /> Bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt rule and title on spine. Title page present dated 1964 with credits for screenwriter Ivan Reiner. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Spirit duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Southern Cross Productions unknown
1971160751N.p.: Cinema Center Films 1971. Second Draft script for the 1973 film. An early draft dated February 22 1971 two years before the film's release and a year before the film went into production.<br /> <br /> Novelized by screenwriter Steve Shagan in 1972 immediately prior to the film's release. Jack Lemmon stars as a garment industry executive who is faced with tough moral decisions amidst a failing business and a mid-life crisis. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Jack Lemmon nominated for two others including Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers noted as Second Draft on the front wrapper production No. 8010 dated February 22 1971 with credits for screenwriter Steve Shagan. Title page present dated February 22 1971 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Steve Shagan. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated 2/22/71 and 2/25/71. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Cinema Center Films unknown
1960140402France / Italy: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1960 French film noir. A remarkable collection including still photographs from the film candid shots and shots from the set. On-set images include director Jacques Becker with his camera and with the actors actors Marc Michel and Michel Constantin and other members of the cast and crew. Notations in manuscript pencil on the versos of nearly the photos.<br /> <br /> Based on Jose Giovanni's 1957 first novel "Le Trou" The Break. True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break with one of the real escapees Keraudy playing his own character in the film. <br /> <br /> Four photos 7 x 9.5 inches twelve photos 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 129. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Hayden and Schneider 1001. Selby France. Spicer France. Filmsonor unknown
1979137104Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1979. Two Draft scripts for the 1981 film. One is a Second Draft script dated December 1979 the other is an Agency script in generic Agency wrappers undated. <br /> <br /> Directed by Bob Rafelson and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain "Postman" was one of the gems of early 1980 cinema along with "The Verdict" and neo-noir and brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world leading to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. Mamet's grim update of Cain's classic hard-boiled novel was largely panned on release but is today held in high regard and is considered a major influence on the genre. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Santa Barbara California. <br /> <br /> 1979 script:<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1979 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Mamet and novelist Cain. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Undated script:<br /> <br /> Black titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Mamet and novelist Cain. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus perfect-bound. <br /> <br /> Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1967168996Paris: Magnum 1967. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jane Fonda from the 1968 film with a "David Hurn-magnum" photographer's stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest published in the French magazine "V" in 1962 and 1964. Likely the campiest space-opera sex comedy in film history. Though not popular upon its release it was re-released to greater acclaim in 1977 and has since influenced countless fashion designers films and musicians including Duran Duran whose name is a play on that of the main villain. <br /> <br /> Set in outer space and shot in Rome. <br /> <br /> 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Magnum unknown
1960140390France: Cinedis 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in manuscript pencil several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder similar to keybook photos. Also included is a press folder from the Cinedis agency in Paris with star biographies film credits and scenario on Cinedis parchment. <br /> <br /> Seen in the images is starring actor and screenwriter Buissieres including a large portrait actress Carrel several seductive in nature with shots of director Faurez and the film crew in action and images of composer Georges Van Parys and singer Colette Renard famous for her "Irma La Douce" musical roles presumably working on the film soundtrack. Several images in the contact sheets show scenes from the film taking place in an automobile repair shop directed scenes from high on a crane and candid photos of the starring performers. A few of the contact sheets bear credits for the Laboratoire Tele-Photo film title client Cinedis and photographer. ` <br /> <br /> Little known gangster drama about a woman and her child caught in the downward spiral of prostitution. <br /> <br /> Photos vary in size from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.25 x 11.75 inches with most being smaller. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good plus. Cinedis unknown
1960153973London: Contemporary Films 1960. Eight vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1960s UK re-release of the 1934 French film. Manuscript ink annotations identifying scenes on the versos. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. <br /> <br /> A classic of French cinema Jean Vigo's only theatrical feature a film that in the minds of many including Francois Truffaut predicted and even helped define the French New Wave that would come 20 years later. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Paris Yvelines and Seine-Maritime France. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Four Near Fine four Very Good plus with faint dampstains to the bottom edges.<br /> <br /> Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Contemporary Films unknown
1933139665Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. <br /> <br /> Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." <br /> <br /> 8.75 x 6.5 inches. A few tiny pinholes at the right edge else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis / Argui-Film unknown
