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1964167663N.p.: N.p. 1964. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 French film including two showing director Jean-Luc Godard with a camera on the set. One with a French release stamp on the verso and all with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the same. <br /> <br /> Based on Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold." A young woman convinces two men to help her steal a large stash of money from her aunt. An outrageous and comical crime film and a classic of French New Wave cinema later described by Godard as "'Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka." <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Paris. <br /> <br /> Photographs range in size from 9.5 x 7 inches to 7 x 5 inches. Generally Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant France. Spicer France. BFI 549. Criterion Collection 174. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1956152432N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1956 French film noir showing actor Roger Duchesne surrounded by Gallic toughs. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> Faced with an unlucky streak and debts to pay a former bank robber turned gambler plans a heist of the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend. A key French New Wave antecedent and core French film noir.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in the Montmartre district in Paris and Calvados France.<br /> <br /> 9.5 x 12 inches with a small bottom margin. Near Fine with some light edgewear.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 150. Grant France. Ebert II. Lee The Heist Film. Selby France. N.p. unknown
1978147119Burbank CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. <br /> <br /> One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers some actors that would soon eclipse her can be found in the supporting cast including Timothy Hutton Rosanna Arquette and Michael Biehn. <br /> <br /> A glamorous aging rock star takes a vacation to Zuma Beach where she unwittingly seduces the teenage beachgoers and gradually becomes involved in their lives. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in California.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 31 1978 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter William Schwartz. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lightly soiled on the first leaf wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Edgar J. Scherick and Associates unknown
1970159071Culver City CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures 1970. Original oversize program for the 1970 film. Photo illustrated throughout in black and white and color. <br /> <br /> Three men are confronted with middle age suburban malaise and their impending mortality after the sudden death of friend. They spend a weekend binge drinking and wandering around New York then spontaneously head to London where one of them decides to stay not returning to his family. <br /> <br /> 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Saddle stapled with printed acetate wrapper. Near Fine. Faces Music / Columbia Pictures unknown
1970135612Culver City CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 12.25 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine. Faces Music / Columbia Pictures unknown
1972135916Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film based on the 1963 "Parker" novel by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. <br /> <br /> One of the great neo-noir crime films of the early 1970s today a classic New Hollywood with understated performances from Duvall Black and Baker as well as a who's-who of character actors playing out a violent story that takes place mostly in a beautifully ordinary rural setting. Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 117 dated December 18 1972 with credits for producer De Haven and director/screenwriter Flynn. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Silver Classic US Noir. Spicer US. Stephens US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1974166565Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Draft script for the 1974 film. Copy belonging to construction coordinator Hendrik Wynands with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and on a label affixed to the three-ring binder housing the script. Bound in after the script are several production documents including interoffice memos a staff and crew contact list a shooting schedule and a construction estimate and set breakdown sheet.<br /> <br /> A satirical neo-noir following a professional hit man who is contracted by a local mob boss to take out the competition but soon finds himself the target of several personal attacks in retaliation. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Seattle Washington and Silver Springs Florida. <br /> <br /> Script housed in a black three-ring binder. Blue titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as FINAL and copy No. 332 on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as FINAL with credits for director John Frankenheimer and screenwriter Robert Dillon. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Spicer US Neo-Noir. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1935149844Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1935. Post-production script for the 1935 film. Incomplete as issued. With manuscript pencil annotations throughout most of which substantive in nature. Included with the script are several sets of paper clipped revision pages two inserted in sequence within the script and six laid in as well as two typed letters regarding uncredited screenwriter Finley Peter Dunne's attempts to receive screenwriting credit for the film. Missing two pages likely as used or issued.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. A reckless millionaire's life is saved with the use of a hospital's sole resuscitator resulting in the death of a selfless philanthropic surgeon who needed the device at the same time to survive. Through his growing relationship with the surgeon's widow the millionaire learns kindness and generosity. Remade in 1954 by Douglas Sirk starring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated JUNE 11th 1935 rubber-stamped copy No. 14 with credits for director JOHN M. STAHL and novelist LLOYD DOUGLAS. Approximately 110 leaves. Mimeograph duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the first and last leaves separated from the binding bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 457. Universal Pictures unknown
1966137413Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Revised Estimating script for the 1967 film. Winner of three Academy Awards. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1960 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe winner of four Tony awards and itself based on "The Once and Future King" T.H. White's 1958 adaptation of Arthurian legends. <br /> <br /> Set in England shot on location in Spain. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 14 dated June 1 1966. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/1/66 with credits for screenwriter-lyricist Lerner composer Frederick Loewe and novelist White. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph on white yellow pink and blue stock dated variously between 6/1/66 and 6/7/66. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1966167688Los Angeles: Olympic International Films 1966. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1966 Japanese pink film. Modified by the distributor with red shorts drawn onto the body of the female figure in red pencil in order to dissuade censors.<br /> <br /> In a futuristic world young girls are abducted and transformed into Love Robots living sex dolls available for sale. Pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s directing a number of notable erotic politically charged films including "Go Go Second Time Virgin" 1969 and "Ecstasy of the Angels" 1972 as well as producing Nagisa Oshima's controversial film and today an international classic "In the Realm of the Senses" 1976. <br /> <br /> 27 x 41 inches folded. About Near Fine. Olympic International Films unknown
1949148507Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1949. Three vintage photographs of Patricia Neal applying makeup on the set of the 1949 film. <br /> <br /> Adapted to the screen by Ayn Rand from her novel one of only three screenplays she wrote during her brief tenure in Hollywood. <br /> <br /> In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques and focused on creating an expressionistic film one that literally echoed the architectural underpinnings of its characters' philosophies motives and ambitions. Unusual choices included modernist cinematography expressionistic set designs and wardrobe and having Ms. Rand herself adapt her own screenplay. <br /> <br /> Two photographs 7.5 x 9.25 inches. One photograph 7.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown
1978145671Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris with his name in manuscript ink on the title page manuscript annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian Barris and Casey Kasem.<br /> <br /> A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a young disco star.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Gold titled wrappers. Title page present dated 6/4/78 with credits for writer George Barris and screenwriter John Arnoldy. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine clip binding. George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production unknown
19311738Berlin: Nero-Film AG 1931. First Edition. Original Austrian premiere program for Fritz Lang's 1931 German film customized for the film's premiere at the Apollo Theater in Vienna - Lang's birthplace and home for the earlier part of his life. A highly influential pre-war film noir and masterpiece of world cinema ranking among the best of Lang's body of work. In addition to being Lang's first sound film 'M' also served as the vehicle for Peter Lorre's breakout role as child murderer Hans Beckert. The program is chiefly illustrated throughout with a series of photo-montages and gives the date of the premiere as 3 September 1931. A rare premiere program for one of Lang's most enduring films. Small folio 22.5cm; green and white photo-illustrated wrappers folded with the premiere information printed in red on front wrapper; 8pp; illus. Faint horizontal fold at center faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper with a chip to lower left corner of rear wrapper and a few tiny tears; Very Good. Nero-Film AG unknown
1960166216London: Weyland Film Productions 1960. Draft script for the 1961 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations throughout and rough pencil sketches on the versos of four pages. Seven pages with paste-ups of goldenrod revision pages with many pages cut horizontally separating scenes and many pages creased vertically as is common with working scripts. Provenance available upon request.<br /> <br /> Laid in are 43 carbon typescript leaves detailing construction costs dating from August 1960 through January 1961 a carbon typescript copy set list a carbon typescript copy construction staff requirements page a penciled layout of an October 31 to December 2 Shop Building and Shooting Stage schedule and staff requirements and a pencil layout of an Art Department construction form. <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 /> Based on the 1954 novel by Michael Croft. Max Bygraves stars as an idealistic teacher fresh from training college who begins work at a tough East London secondary school of badly-behaved impoverished students and fellow teachers who believe corporal punishment is the most effective way of controlling the students.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Clarendon Crescent and Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School in London. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British fasion. Title page present dated 24th October 1960 with credits for screenwriter John Cresswell and author Michael Croft. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 3.11.60 and undated and undated goldenrod revision paste-ups on seven pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Weyland Film Productions unknown
1974152004N.p.: N.p. 1974. Collection of ten vintage oversize double weight photographs from the French release of the 1974 Italian film.<br /> <br /> Director Liliana Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Vienna Austria and Rome Italy. <br /> <br /> 15.5 x 12 inches. About Near Fine with tiny punch holes at the corners as issued. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown
1971151550N.p.: Alfa Cinematografica 1971. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Luchino Visconti and Silvana Mangano on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe "Parimage" stamp and "Camera Press" stamp on verso. <br /> <br /> Based on Thomas Mann's 1912 novella. Mann's lonely and obsessed novelist was transformed by Visconti into a composer based on Mahler who travels to Venice for his health and becomes increasingly obsessed with an adolescent Polish boy. The middle film of Visconit's "German Trilogy" an impressionistic conceptual cycle that begins with "The Damned" 1969 and ends with "Ludwig" 1972. Nominated for an Academy Award and for the Palm d'Or.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Venice Italy. <br /> <br /> 12 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and two small closed tears to left edge. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 962. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Alfa Cinematografica unknown
1960144529Rome: Titanus 1960. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1960 film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. <br /> <br /> Rosaria Katina Paxinou recently widowed moves to Milan from the countryside with four of her sons to join her eldest. Each take different paths as they struggle to adjust to life in the city. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Milan and Rome Italy. <br /> <br /> 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Ebert III. Eureka Masters of Cinema 133. Titanus unknown
1959138791Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce 1959. Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1959 film. All likely shot on the same day and on a set in a rural location. Buñuel appears in each photo wearing a pith helmet in the first with cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa the second with lead actor Francisco Rabal and the third eating lunch alone on a makeshift table. <br /> <br /> Each photo with the Paris address stamp for Telecine as well as annotations and penciled press markings on the verso. <br /> <br /> All photos 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Producciones Barbachano Ponce unknown
130855Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his name on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro.<br /> <br /> Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this wartime drama. Some of his better-known films The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Norma Rae also deal with the question of social and ethical choices in the face of pressure. In this story the savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women played by Silvana Mangano Vera Miles Barbara Bel Geddes Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina have their heads shaved in order to brand them as traitors. Eleanor Mannikka AllMovie<br /> <br /> Filmed on location in Italy and Austria. <br /> <br /> Orange untitled wrappers with the Dino De Laurentiis stamp and numerous annotations. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Michael and Achilles for screenwriter Pirro and for director Ritt. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1989147144N.p.: N.p. 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film here under its working title "Vac-U-Sapien." With extensive manuscript pencil and ink annotations on virtually every page. Bound in after the script are two handwritten pages of notes and four typed pages of effects and sets for the film.<br /> <br /> Michael Paul Girard's first directorial effort wherein aliens return to Earth for the first time in ten million years to see what has become of their "human experiment." After declaring the experiment a failure the aliens decide that due to humans' untidiness crossbreeding vacuum cleaners and humans will produce a better race of beings to inhabit the planet. They subsequently create a sentient vacuum cleaner which is programmed to reproduce with earthlings. A splendid Z-budget effort considered by some to be the worst movie ever made. And yet a script for it exists.<br /> <br /> Titled self wrappers with title page integral with the first page of text as issued. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957163764N.p.: N.p. 1957. Collection of six vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1957 Soviet film including four oversize prints. Two photos with provenance blindstamps at the corners and distributor stamps on the versos. <br /> <br /> Based on the classic novel published in 1605 and 1615 by Miguel de Cervantes. The first adaptation of Cervantes' novel to be filmed in widescreen and color. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Crimea. <br /> <br /> Four photographs 12 x 9.5 inches. Two photographs 4.5 x 6.75 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1961143198Tokyo: Toho Company 1961. Second Final Draft script for the 1961 Japanese film. <br /> <br /> Manuscript ink notation on rear wrapper and manuscript ink and rubber-stamped name Takahishi Toshihiro not credited in the final film on the top and bottom page edges with the same initials in Arabic lettering "T.T." near the spine. Manuscript annotations on preliminary page 4 noting the entire proposed cast lining up pretty closely with the final cast and a note in manuscript ink on the rear wrapper about an unrelated play titled Minamioka. <br /> <br /> A psychological drama that a love triangle unraveling a family in the process. <br /> <br /> Set in Japan. <br /> <br /> White titled wrappers noted as 2 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-30." Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some foxing due to age. Toho Company unknown
1972151500Budapest: Hungarofilm 1972. Six vintage photographs from the 1972 film including four studio still photographs and two borderless reference photographs. <br /> <br /> A dramatization of an 1890 Hungarian peasants' strike. As with many of director Miklos Janczo's films a slow enigmatic meditation on morality and violence composed of only 26 shots over 87 minutes.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Hungary.<br /> <br /> Approximately 7 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Hungarofilm unknown
1960143202Tokyo: Toho Company 1960. Draft script for the 1960 Japanese film. Manuscript ink and stamp on the outer page edges. Production designer's script with manuscript underlining on numerous pages regarding objects needed for a given scene swimsuits sun cream summer kimonos Persian cat etc. Other annotations in the same hand fill in the names of actors who have been chosen to play the parts of various characters whose names are printed. <br /> <br /> The double directed feature intentionally creates a juxtaposition between each director's lens and the credits give no indication of how the two collaborated also intentional. According to Audie Bock author of "Japanese Film Directors" Naruse filmed all of the older generation scenes and the Japanese restaurant scenes while Kawashima did the younger generation and the geisha house scenes comparatively the 'comic relief'. <br /> <br /> A family love triangle sees a mother and daughter in competition and parallels the conflicting nature of new and older generations in modern society. <br /> <br /> Set in Japan. <br /> <br /> White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1960. Title page present. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered g-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two staples wrapped in paper on spine. Toho Company unknown
1986163842N.p.: N.p. 1986. Archive of three scripts for the 1987 prison film including two very early internally duplicated development scripts dated April 14 1980 and July 21 1980 and a Draft script dated July 16 1986. <br /> <br /> A suicidal inmate at San Quentin State Prison attends a production of "Waiting for Godot" and regains both his inspiration and his will to live ultimately organizing his own successful acting troupe in the prison. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Wilmington Lillington and Durham North Carolina.<br /> <br /> Script dated April 14 1980:<br /> <br /> Yellow wrappers with title noted in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and a label with credits for director and screenwriter John Hancock and actor Robert De Niro although the latter did not appear in the film. Title page present dated April 14 1980 with credits for Hancock and screenwriter Dorothy Tristan. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Script dated July 21 1980:<br /> <br /> Blue front wrapper with a die-cut title window lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 21 1980 with credits for Hancock and Tristan. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Script dated July 16 1986:<br /> <br /> Lacking front wrapper with brown rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 16 1986 with credits for Hancock and Tristan. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
