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1980162972N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1989 German film for which Nigel Kneale was an uncredited screenwriter. Title and credits in manuscript ink on the front wrapper with the label of American producer Wilbur Stark at the bottom right corner. Stark is best known as executive producer for "The Thing" 1982 and "Vampire Circus" 1972. At the stage of development represented by this script Nigel Kneale was the screenwriter though Stark eventually produced the film for Common Film in Germany using German screenwriters to write a new adaptation.<br /> <br /> A virtually unknown adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1965 novel "A Suspension of Mercy" published in the US under the title "The Story-Teller" about an American novelist who is suspected of murdering his wife during a trial separation. <br /> <br /> Noted Manx screenwriter Nigel Kneale is today best remembered for his work in television particularly for the successful science fiction "Quatermass" series as well as the well-regarded folk horror BBC television film "The Stone Tape." He was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay and also penned several collections of short stories one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1950. <br /> <br /> Blue-gray wrappers with annotations in manuscript ink crediting screenwriter Nigel Kneale novelist Patricia Highsmith and producer Wilbur Stark. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Xerographic duplication on slick thermal paper stock made from a UK master copy and then likely transmitted by wire from the UK to the US. Rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately faded with a few splashes and light wear on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1968160762Universal City: Universal Studios 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Jules Brenner with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> A successful race car driver dreams of winning the Indy 500 and stops at nothing to achieve his goal sacrificing his relationships with his wife and stepson in the progress.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Elkhart Lake Wisconsin and Indianapolis Indiana. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled Universal Studios wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper noted as production No. 02017 dated April 16 1968. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final Screenplay with credit for screenwriter Howard Rodman. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/26/68 and 5/14/68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus moderately soiled with a dampstain on the fore-edges bound with three gold brads. Universal Studios unknown
1947145051Culver City CA: Edward Small Productions 1947. Archive of production material for the 1952 film noir consisting of the following: breakdown set list wardrobe plot shooting schedule and a summary of detail budget. With a type written letter outlining the contents of the archive from producer Edward Small to Dan O'Shea signed by Edward Small in manuscript ink and dated October 7 1947. <br /> <br /> Based on Samuel Fuller's 1944 novel "The Dark Page." The editor of an exploitative magazine murders his wife then has one of his journalists investigate the matter in order to divert attention from himself. <br /> <br /> Breakdown: <br /> <br /> Title page present dated September 17 1947. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Typescript on production form rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Set List:<br /> <br /> 2 leaves with last page of text numbered 2. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single staple in top left corner.<br /> <br /> Wardrobe Plot:<br /> <br /> Title page present dated September 17 1947. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 11. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Shooting Schedule:<br /> <br /> Dated 9/19/47. 6 leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Summary of Detail Budget: <br /> <br /> Dated September 29 1947. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 26. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two staples in the top left corner.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Edward Small Productions unknown
1970135317Beverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film. An early example of the film's script still slated to be a Twentieth Century-Fox production with their imprint on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> The fourth Roth novel after "Goodbye Columbus" in 1972 to be adapted to the screen and the sole directorial effort for noted screenwriter Ernest Lehman "North by Northwest" "The Sweet Smell of Success" "Sabrina" "West Side Story" The Sound of Music" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". <br /> <br /> Alexander Portnoy Benjamin sees a therapist and goes on one long tirade after another about his family his childhood his sexual fantasies and desires his problems with women and his obsession with his own Judaism. <br /> <br /> Set in New York. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 3 1970 with credits for screenwriter Lehman and novelist Roth. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1962143832Paris: Filmsonor 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Cartouche." Action sequences men in military regalia and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Also included are a few leaves of French press material on stationery from the film's distributor Cinedis. <br /> <br /> A riveting Peplum sword-and-sandal swashbuckler set in 1700s France where a gang member named Cartouche Belmondo forms his own band of knaves deciding his former gang to be too unethical. He steals from the rich to give to the poor enlists in the army to escape capture and meets Venus Cardinale a gypsy prisoner who joins his new gang. Venus' love proves fatal and Cartouche rolls her into a lake in a stolen carriage vowing revenge knowing it will likely lead him to the gallows. <br /> <br /> Belmondo and Cardinale's interaction is palpable but they would star in only two other films together Mauro Balognini's "La viaccia" 1961 and José Giovanni's "Scoumoune" 1972. <br /> <br /> Photos 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling a few short creases and a few slightly discolored. Press material corner-stapled and paper-clipped Very Good plus overall. <br /> <br /> Complete collation upon request. Filmsonor unknown
1939146098N.p.: N.p. 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film by Rafael Sabatini. A fine leatherbound copy with gilt lettering and decorated endpapers.<br /> <br /> One of prolific screenwriter Rafael Sabatini's final projects. A romanticized swashbuckling account of the adventures and loves of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus here re-imagined as the Spanish "Cristobal Colon" from Castile. Delays in the production of the film led Sabatini to turn his early screenplay into a novel first published by Hutchinson in 1941. Although interest was again raised in a Columbus film in the late 1940s-leading to the British "Christopher Columbus" 1949 starring Fredric March-Sabatini's script was ultimately rewritten for the film.<br /> <br /> Set in Spain.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Rafael Sabatini. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 259 leaves with last page of text numbered 256. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with wear at the extremities. N.p. unknown
1980146709N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced English-language film circa 1960s and 1980s about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date of his canonization. <br /> <br /> Although the scripts appear to have been written at different times and there are significant differences between them there are also enough textual similarities to confidently suggest they were both written by Raymond Ferrante despite the early script containing no credits. <br /> <br /> The titular character was born to a Spanish father and a woman of African and Native American Heritage He is the patron saint of mixed-race peoples and those seeking racial harmony as well as barbers innkeepers and public health workers. He was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962 roughly corresponding with the first script on offer. <br /> <br /> First script: Yellow titled wrappers. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with a dampstain to the rear wrapper and about half the pages bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Second script: Red titled wrappers noted as SECOND ROUGH DRAFT on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Raymond Ferrante. Title page present noted as SECOND ROUGH DRAFT with credits for Ferrante. 175 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 174. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967139540Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage oversize double weight color still photograph from the 1967 film based on the 1964 play by Murray Schisgal. Although not indicated shot and struck by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with an agency stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. <br /> <br /> After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br /> <br /> 13 x 19.25 inches mounted on board. About Near Fine with some soiling near the top edge and light edgewear overall. Columbia Pictures unknown
1983162428N.p.: N.p. 1983. Third Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "The Texas Picture." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 39.<br /> <br /> During the Great Depression a recently widowed mother fights to defend her family farm from repossession. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two including Best Actress for Sally Field and Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> Set in Waxahachie Texas and shot on location in Waxahachie and Five Points Texas. <br /> <br /> Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated August 12 1983 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter Robert Benton. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown
1974150217N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson on the set of the 1974 film one of the film's jousting sequences. Jacques Henri Lartigue credit printed on verso.<br /> <br /> Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. <br /> <br /> 11.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and wear to extremities. <br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1961149449Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation 1961. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente Harvey Evans Susan Oakes Bert Michaels Tommy Abbott and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."<br /> <br /> Winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno.<br /> <br /> Set in New York's West Side shot on location in New York and California. <br /> <br /> 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing to the corners. United Artists / Mirisch Corporation unknown
1972154016N.p.: N.p. 1972. Collection of 32 vintage keybook snapshot photographs from the 1972 film. Possibly unique.<br /> <br /> A lesser known film in director Roman Polanski'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. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams."<br /> <br /> 5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1942159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. <br /> <br /> 9 x 12 inches. Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1950135620Paris: B.M.P. Films 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film "The Treasure of Cantenac" here under its title of origin "Le Tresor de Cantenac" on the title page with the film's working title "Un miracle" also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp and faint pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce this being a completely original example with text in French throughout. <br /> <br /> Set in a rundown French village the film is a series of vignettes illustrating the human condition. The Baron de Cantenac on the verge of suicide after losing his fortune goes on one last walk through his dying town. On the way he meets the town's oldest citizen who reveals a royal treasure that he has been jealously guarding for years. <br /> <br /> Director-screenwriter-actor Guitry was a prominent French filmmaker during the post-WWI years of French cinema following in the footsteps of his father silent film actor Lucien Guitry. His notable film credits include English titles "The Lover of Camille" 1924 "The Story of a Cheat" 1936 "Nine Bachelors" 1939 "Royal Affairs in Versailles" 1954 a film notable for its appearance of a young Brigitte Bardot and "Napoleon" 1955. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for Guitry and B.M.P. Films in Paris the US branch is in California. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good perfect-bound and side-stiched. B.M.P. Films unknown
1964170562N.p.: N.p. 1964. Collection of 23 vintage reference photographs from the 1964 film. All but one with mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre outrageous and perverse pulp masterwork. A former call girl tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children only to fall in love with a seemingly saintly businessman who has a dark secret of his own.<br /> <br /> Set in the fictional town of Grantville USA.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine to Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and short closed tear.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 18. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1991141425N.p.: Genjiro Amato 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband and her husband's murderer. <br /> <br /> Purple titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Genjiro Amato unknown
1971146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded.<br /> <br /> Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970152555Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Kane." Copy belonging to actor Bradford Dillman with his stamp to the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two manuscript pages with Dillman's notes on blocking for various scenes and two gatherings of cast and crew contact information.<br /> <br /> A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor however knows the man holds a larger more meaningful purpose in the world. <br /> <br /> Set in Alabama shot on location in Marysville California. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers dated January 30 1970 noted as production No. 8981. Title page present dated January 30 1970 with credits for director James Goldstone and screenwriter Ernest Kinoy. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between February 11 1970 and March 4 1970. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1987161007New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the half-title page by screenwriter Michael Herr to noted bookseller Ken Hubner: "18 February / For Ken Hubner / Best / Michael Herr." <br /> <br /> A hint of toning overall else about Fine in illustrated wrappers. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1998161311N.p.: N.p. 1998. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1999 film here under the working title "Carrie II" copy belonging to an unknown crew or cast member with six small post-it tabs affixed to the top of six pages in which characters are killed or injured annotated with brief descriptions e.g. "Lisa / Windshield" "Chuck Berry Boy" and "Jesse / Snake" and manuscript ink and marker annotations on four pages. Salmon revision pages dated 06/14/98 bound in following the script.<br /> <br /> Based on the characters from Stephen King's 1974 novel "Carrie" and sequel to the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. Carrie White's long-lost half-sister Rachel Lang an outcast high school student who also has telekinetic powers is troubled following the suicide of her best friend and is befriended by Jesse Ryan a popular football player who with his friends is planning on humiliating Rachel at the biggest party of the year.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in North and South Carolina. <br /> <br /> Untitled yellow wrappers. Title page present with last revision pages dated 5/21/98 with credits for screenwriter Rafael Moreu. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 114A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white blue pink yellow green goldenrod and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/25/98 and 06/14/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads.<br /> <br /> Vinegar Syndrome 505. N.p. unknown
1919152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. <br /> <br /> Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready."<br /> <br /> A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. <br /> <br /> At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway.<br /> <br /> Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown
1972135017Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image showing Max von Sydow looming above-and seemingly beyond-a very possessed young Linda Blair. <br /> <br /> One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by Burstyn and Sydow that only increases with repeated viewings. Another distinction of "The Exorcist" was that it walked away with 2 Oscars including Best Screenplay for Blatty along with 8 nominations including Best Picture a feat nearly unheard for a horror film. <br /> <br /> 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1984165396N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to costume designer Jane Hamilton with her annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the first 13 leaves all relating to costuming. Included with the script are multiple gatherings of manuscript and xerographically duplicated leaves relating to costuming including measurements of actors and extras in the film details for specific scenes and lists of props and period costumes needed. <br /> <br /> In the 1920s a young woman embarks on a worldwide journey of sexual exploration determining to lose her virginity and ultimately find her ideal lover. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Andalucía Spain and in Hampshire England. <br /> <br /> Housed in a three-ring green binder. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1979167218N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film.<br /> <br /> A teenage pinball prodigy joins forces with an aspiring country music singer in order to raise money for a demo tape.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in West Hollywood Santa Cruz and Los Angeles California and in Corpus Christi Texas. <br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for director Rudy Durand and uncredited screenwriters James Creech and Martin Zweiback. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963171051Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Collection of 27 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film including four photographs showing proposed advertising material for the film. All but the advertising promos photos have provenance labels on the versos. With a pink mimeograph production sheet laid in showing credits and a brief synopsis.<br /> <br /> Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force about a Daily Globe journalist who in an attempt to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum recently implicated in a murder case. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine with some faint toning to the margins and light curling and studio still photographs with manuscript ink and pencil layout annotations and numeric annotations on the rectos.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown
