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1957163596N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper and two leaves regarding lighting. <br /> <br /> Based on Theo Durant's 1951 novel "The Marble Forest." A small-town doctor must race to find his daughter after she is kidnapped and buried alive with only hours to go until she suffocates. Director William Castle known for his promotional gimmicks provided each member of the audience with an official life certificate to insure them for $1000 against death by fright. Despite the superficial hijinks a key film in the classic string of films made by the director in the 1940s and 1950s.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 28 1957 with credit for screenwriter Robb White. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
154562N.p.: N.p. 1988. Draft script for the third and final segment of the 1989 anthology film copy belonging to Woody Allen with the annotations in Allen's hand of his name and "NYSS" New York Short Stories in black manuscript marker on top left of title page. <br /> <br /> An anthology film featuring three of American cinema's foremost auteurs with each unconnected segment united by their New York setting. The first Martin Scorsese's "Life Lessons" stars Nick Nolte as a frustrated painter infatuated with his assistant and ex-lover played by Rosanna Arquette. The second Francis Ford Coppola's "Life Without Zoe" co-written with his daughter Sofia Coppola is a whimsical updated remake of Kay Thompson's "Eloise" character about a poor little rich girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel starring Heather McComb and Talia Shire.<br /> <br /> The final segment Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks" is a highspot comedy for Allen among many wherein he plays Sheldon a neurotic Jewish New York lawyer with a ridiculing overbearing mother. When Sheldon his shiksa fiancee and her children take his mother to a magic show she actually disappears to Sheldon's ultimate relief but then reappears in the sky over the New York hounding and nagging Sheldon and his fiancee while the whole city watches.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York City. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with untitled leaf dated 3/1/88. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Carlson Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown
160226Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / APJAC Productions 1972. Revised Shooting script for the 1972 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Woody Allen's 1969 play. The predecessor of many films Allen would write and direct throughout the 1970s in terms of shooting style timing romantic themes and the actors involved. Allen had already directed two films at this point "Take the Money and Run" in 1969 and "Bananas" in 1971 but "Play It Again Sam" is significant in that it predicted the more substantive romantic comedies that would gain him broader acclaim.<br /> <br /> Orange pictorial titled wrappers undated noted as REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter and playwright Woody Allen. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus with light dampstains on the leaves and wrappers lightly toned. Bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Paramount Pictures / APJAC Productions unknown
1959146860N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese.<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. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeographed rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Eureka Masters of Cinema 41. Ebert I. Criterion Collection 232. N.p. unknown books
1961143276Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. <br/><br/>Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film about a widower and his daughters who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3. Takarazuka Productions unknown books
1929151068N.p.: N.p. 1929. Seven vintage oversize double weight reference photographs four of William Dieterle and Lien Deyers two of Dieterle and one of Dieterle and Nikolai Malikoff from the 1929 German silent film-made prior to Dieterle fleeing Germany.<br /> <br /> Viola von Birkenfeld Deyers falls madly in love with the young Friedrich von Bornim Dieterle while he cares for her grandfather after an accident. Upon finding out Friedrich is married her grandfather seeks retribution for breaking his granddaughter's heart. <br /> <br /> 15.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1929151068N.p.: N.p. 1929. Collection of seven vintage oversize double weight reference photographs four of William Dieterle and Lien Deyers two of Dieterle and one of Dieterle and Nikolai Malikoff from the 1929 German silent film. <br/><br/>Viola von Birkenfeld Deyers falls madly in love with the young Friedrich von Bornim Dieterle while he cares for her grandfather after an accident. Upon finding out Friedrich is married her grandfather seeks retribution for breaking his granddaughter's heart. <br/><br/>15.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
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. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1958125081London: The Rank Organization 1958. Vintage French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama "A Night to Remember" here under its French title "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees."<br /> <br /> Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible with no added fictional subplots. In addition to being massively entertaining the film is today held in high regard by "Titanic" historians compared to the more melodramatic and big-budget take by James Cameron in 1997. <br /> <br /> Director Baker noted in a 1991 interview "The whole purpose of making the film was to show a society that had persuaded itself that you could make a ship which could never to be sunk."<br /> <br /> 34 x 52 inches on archival linen Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 7. McFarlane p. 51. The Rank Organization unknown
133045Burbank 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
1969148989Paris: Adel Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 French film noir here under the working title "Marseille 1930." Text in French.<br /> <br /> Annotation on front wrapper of release title written large and boldly in cursive manuscript pencil with working title on title page. Erased annotations in manuscript pencil still visible on upper left of title page of names of actors "Alan Delon" and "Belmondo" with two other names illegible. A few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on several pages circling characters or props and one noting the camera field of vision otherwise changes to scene numbers.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1959 history of Marseille gangsters "Bandits a Marseille" by Eugene Saccamano. Two small time gangsters Belmondo and Delon in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business themselves vying for control against mob bosses. Director Jacques Deray released the sequel "Borsalino and Co" in 1974 starring Alain Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla.<br /> <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Marseille and Paris. <br /> <br /> Gray untitled wrappers bound at the left in black cloth tape as issued. Title page present. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with first two pages separating from binding near top wrapper with light soiling else Near Fine bound with binding tape.<br /> <br /> Grant France. Spicer France. Adel Productions unknown
160843Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1994 film. Copy belonging to crew member Kevin E. Patterson credited as Cable Person with his name and signature in manuscript ink on the recto of the rear wrapper. <br /> <br /> One of the best action films of the 1990s launching the careers of both Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went uncredited as the film's script doctor and screenwriter Graham Yost went on to create and write the acclaimed television series "Justified" 2010. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers dated August 6 1993. Title page present dated August 6 1993 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Graham Yost. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1935146988Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. <br /> <br /> The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br /> <br /> Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br /> <br /> 11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
158711Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1982. Small archive of material from the 1982 film including a Master Stencil Final Revised Draft screenplay with studio secretarial annotations throughout a press kit with eight studio still photographs and six gatherings of promotional material and a complete set of eight lobby cards. <br /> <br /> Based on John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" 1945 and "Sweet Thursday" 1954. David S. Ward's directorial debut. In 1940s Monterey a self employed marine biologist and former baseball star befriends a drifter working at the local bordello.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Monterey and San Diego California. <br /> <br /> Screenplay: <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 24 1980 noted as FINAL REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter David S. Ward and novelist John Steinbeck. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/17/80 and 2/17/81. Pages Near Fine unbound.<br /> <br /> Lobby cards 14 x 11 inches. About Fine. <br /> <br /> Press folder photographs and promotional photographs Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1958161198N.p.: N.p. 1958. Final Draft script for the 1959 film.<br /> <br /> Based on the first play on Broadway to have been written by an African American playwright about the challenges of a Black youth growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood. In 1991 "Jump Cut" magazine reassessed the play and subsequent screenplay calling it a pioneering work. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers with credits for production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster along the bottom edge of the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 1 1958 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Julius Epstein and Louis Peterson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock pages dated variously between 10/1/58 and 10/2/58 rectos only with blue and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/22/58 and 11/3/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1946146888Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Final script for the 1946 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100 dated MARCH 2 1946. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated March 2 1946 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter F. Hugh Herbert. 192 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/12/46 and 5/7/46. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped to the fore edges bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
131876Rome: C C. Champion 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. Bound at the rear are an additional 11 pages that include a complete Cast List and Unit List. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams."<br /> <br /> A lesser known film in the director's oeuvre a comedic and highly sexualized homage to Alice in Wonderland starring Sydne Rome as an American hitchhiker who stumbles upon an increasingly bizarre and decadent party at an Italian villa. <br /> <br /> Blue wrappers as originally used. Title page present noted as copy No. 4 in pink manuscript ink with credits for screenwriters Brach and Polanski. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. C C. Champion unknown
1945146433N.p.: N.p. 1945. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The Fugitive." With a single holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "92." All leaves watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY.<br/><br/>The twelfth entry in the fourteen film Sherlock Holmes series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1911 short story "The Adventure of the Red Circle." The prime minister of the fictitious eastern European country Rovinia begs Holmes and Watson to escort Prince Nikolas back home as the king has been assassinated and the prince must ascend to the throne. The transatlantic voyage proves to be a dangerous journey and every passenger becomes a suspect though Holmes carries more than a few tricks and surprises up his cape.<br/><br/>Set in Algiers. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7309 dated May 20 1945. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with three closed tears to the front wrapper and light edgewear overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
141462Tokyo: 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
1933138407Germany: Kinematrade 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933 as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. <br /> <br /> The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era "Kuhle Wampe oder" is according to screenwriter Brecht a "Collective Presentation" that tells the tale of a family in early 1930s Berlin. After the son is prolongedly unemployed he commits suicide and the family is forced to relocate to a shantytown known as "Kuhle Wampe" or "Empty Stomach." Created under severely limited material conditions with filming constantly being broken up by the Weimar government's paramilitary SA agency the film attempts to depict archetypes of the times including an intellectual clash on a subway between members of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. <br /> <br /> Banned first by the failing Weimar Republic and subsequently by the Nazi Reich the film was believed to have been lost until it reappeared over 20 years later in East Germany in 1958. This poster likely originates from screenings held in November 1933 by an unknown pro-communist organization in Philadelphia at the short lived left-leaning Philkino theater. A US screening of this film dating before the film's disappearance and only just after the very beginnings of Hitler's rise to power makes this poster not only very scarce but one of significant historical value. <br /> <br /> The poster touting "Kuhle Wampe" as "The Film Hitler Burned" features an image of a man with a hammer and sickle attacking two snakes that form the Nazi swastika and touts the involvement of members of the "Labor Sports Union" in the film. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 13 inches letterpress on pale faded pink stock. Very Good with expected moderate wear. Kinematrade unknown
1967152383N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso one with the stamp of Globe Photos and one with a provenance stamp.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Paris.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1923151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. <br /> <br /> Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1923151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in holograph ink on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. <br/><br/>Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975135604Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set both in front of the camera and behind it and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next to Isabelle Adjani. Stamp of French press agency Les Artiests Associes on the verso of each print. <br/><br/>Based on the diaries of the youngest daughter of author Victor Hugo about a woman whose romantic obsession with an indifferent military captain eventually leads to her despair and madness. Isabelle Adjani was nominated for an Academy award making her at age 20 the youngest Best Actress nominee of all time in 1975. <br/><br/>Story set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Barbados Senegal and the Channel Islands. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes unknown books
1971134494Burbank CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage black-and-white oversize double weight still photograph from the 1971 film. Shown are George Lucas and an assistant setting up a shot of Robert DuVall with Lucas placing calipers on DuVall's head. With the Warner Brothers studio stamp on the verso along with a notation regarding the shot and its reference number. <br/><br/>Given everything that would follow "THX-1138" could easily be described as the most successful student film of all time developed by Lucas in 1967 as a short called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" while he was attending the University of Southern California's film school. The feature film version was one of the first efforts produced under the auspices of Lucas' friend Francis Ford Coppola. <br/><br/>Written by Lucas and Walter Murch the film set a standard for dystopian stories that would inform dozens of films in its wake. Oddly Lucas did not continue down the pessimistic path choosing instead to engage in the broader appeal of "Star Wars."<br/><br/>14 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers unknown books
