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146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. <br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded.<br /> <br /> Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown
1939138289Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Bound presentation script for the 1939 film based on the 1933 short story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman originally published in "American Magazine." SIGNED by members of the cast and crew including stars John Barrymore Peter Holden Virginia Weidler and Donald McBride director Garson Kanin screenwriter John Twist and producers Cliff Reid and Pandro S. Berman. Presented to newspaper film critic Karl Krug with his name in gilt on the front board. <br/><br/>One of John Barrymore's final films where he plays a terminally ill man who has to cast the deciding vote in a town's mayoral election. <br/><br/>6.75 x 9 inches. Mimeograph duplication bound in flexible leather boards with gilt stamping. Very Good plus with a small dampstain to the front page edge. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
160169Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to production accountant Gordon Kee with his name in manuscript ink on the first leaf. <br /> <br /> Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood era and one of the best proletarian-minded works of the 1970s. Winner of the Palme d'Or. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Denver and Canon City Colorado in Detroit and Hamtramck Michigan and in Reno Nevada. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 97 dated August 16 1972. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 8/16/72 with credits for screenwriter Garry Michael White. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication on eye rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1949139871Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear as well as a number of manuscript annotations primarily denoting the titles of various musical numbers. <br /> <br /> Based on the short story "Stork Don't Bring Babies" by S.K. Lauren Grable and Dailey play a showbiz couple who discover in successive order that they cannot have children that they can adopt children and that they aren't really fit to raise children. But things get better with the help of several musical numbers scored by Harold Arlen. <br /> <br /> Bound in green faux leather boards with gilt titles and rule and marbled endpapers. Title page present dated Dec. 1 1949 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Trotti and Binyon. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/19 and 1/5/50. Pages Very Good plus photographs Near Fine with some bruising or chipping to the verso of the preceding page on either the top or bottom edge. Boards Near Fine with a bump to the upper rear corner. <br /> <br /> Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1954156283Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1954. Collection of 14 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1954 Swedish film. Several with stamps of Nordisk Films on the versos. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. <br /> <br /> After 15 years of marriage a man and a woman decide to divorce but realize at the last minute that their extramarital affairs have not diminished their love for each other. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Sweden and Denmark. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1960130114Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. <br /> <br /> A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films from "The Last House on the Left" 1972 to "Irreversible" 2002. The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961130180Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." <br /> <br /> A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 38.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961130113Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." <br /> <br /> A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 39.5 inches linen-backed. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1963130176Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. <br /> <br /> "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1963130145Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. <br /> <br /> "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 39.25 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
143477Tokyo: Shinchosha Company 1988. Preparation Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1967 short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> A draft script of the film in which the ending had not yet been finalized. "Grave of the Fireflies" follows the final days of two Japanese children during World War II and though it contains few combat scenes remains one of the most riveting war films ever made. Short story author Akiyuki Nosaka heartily approved of the animated film of his work noting that he believed it was impossible to create the bleak backdrop or find child actors able to create a film of the subject in any other way. The second film animated by Studio Ghibli best known for its animated films directed by Hayao Miyazaki and the only Ghibli film under Tokuma Shoten ownership that had no involvement from them. <br /> <br /> Black perfect-bound wrappers with silver titles. Title page present. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mechanical duplication with three green title pages pages at the front of the script. Pages Fine wrapper Fine. Shinchosha Company unknown
1958143634Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address as well as film information on the verso. <br /> <br /> The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <br /> <br /> 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 111. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Gaumont unknown
2007146585Hollywood: Apatow Productions 2007. Producer's archive for the 2007 comedy including extensive production schedules props lists and set and wardrobe files. Also included is a final cast crew and contacts list dated May 18 2007 bound separately with black coil binding.<br/><br/>A childhood tragedy leads musician Dewey Cox up the ladder to stardom cycling through nearly every musical genre imaginable on the way up. A parody of 20th century music biopics stretching from Johnny Cash to Roy Orbison to Bob Dylan to Brian Wilson. <br/><br/>Set in Alabama and California. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with credits for production coordinator Barrett Leigh. Title page present dated May 10th 2007 with credits for screenwriters Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-6-2007 and 5-10-2007. Pages Near Fine housed in a Very Good plus three ring binder. Apatow Productions unknown books
1964168704Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1964. Early Draft script for the 1966 film two years before its release here under the working title "Cartel of Evil The Not So Secret Agent." Copy belonging to Twentieth Century-Fox President Darryl Zanuck and producer Richard Zanuck with the manuscript ink annotations of Darryl Zanuck's initials and Richard Zanuck's name on the top right of the front wrapper with manuscript blue ink annotations on five pages in what appears to be Darryl Zanuck's hand.<br /> <br /> Secret agent Derek Flint is a smooth-talking Renaissance man-martial arts master polyglot ballet dancer-who works for the international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. When several fellow agents are discovered mysteriously murdered his agency tasks Flint with finding and stopping the killers leading him on a groovy wild goose chase across the world. <br /> <br /> Set in Rome Marseilles and Washington DC and shot on location in Washington DC and California.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 46 dated April 24 1964. Title page present dated 4/24/64 with credits for screenwriter Hal Fimberg. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1979131323Los Angeles: Lorimar 1979. Second Draft Screenplay for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to actor Jim S. Cash who played one of the Twin Oaks tavern customers with his ownership name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Various editorial annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. <br/><br/>Directed by Bob Rafelson and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain this film was one of the gems of late 1970s cinema along with "The Verdict" that brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world and led to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. Mamet's grim update of Cain's classic hard-boiled novel was somewhat panned on release but is today held in high regard and is considered a major influence on the genre. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers title stamped in gilt on the front wrapper with a holograph pencil notation that this copy No. 17. Title page present with a date of December 1979 and credits for novelist Cain and screenwriter Mamet. 133 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/14/80 and 5/7/80. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some light rubbing to the gilt title on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Lorimar unknown books
1967138581Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. <br/><br/>One of three feature films Godard released in 1967 and like both "Week End" and "La chinoise" one that showcases Godard's increasing focus on deconstructing filmic narrative and structure and vocalization of leftist political ideas. <br/><br/>Godard has stated that his overall desire with the film was "to include everything: sports politics even groceries" to make "an attempt at description of a phenomenon known. as a complex."<br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Fine condition. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica unknown books
1965168104N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1965 French film showing a scene with Anna Karina perched in a 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner on a lift with director Jean-Luc Godard looking on in the foreground. Stamp of photographer Georges Dudognon on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1962 novel "Obsession" by Lionel White about an unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. <br /> <br /> Shot on location throughout France. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
144510Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens. In 1930s Hollywood a stunt pilot comes into possession of a jet-pack after getting caught in the crossfire between FBI agents and a group of gangsters. He subsequently becoming the target of both FBI and Nazi agents who are after the jet-pack. An early entry in the superhero movie canon following the success of 1989's "Batman" and a cult classic in its own right.<br /> <br /> Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 11 1988 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Danny Bilson Paul De Meo William Dear and graphic novelist Dave Stevens. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Photocopy rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown
1976136495Beverly Hills CA: Faces Distribution 1976. Original US insert poster "Seymour Cassell" style for the 1976 film. <br/><br/>One of eight known one sheet styles no priority issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself and made small runs of posters in a wide variety of non-standard sizes and using an artful immediately recognizable style that represented a complete departure from standard film advertisement. <br/><br/>16.25 x 32 inches. Rolled as issued linen-backed. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 254. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Faces Distribution unknown books
1969110611Los Angeles: National General Pictures 1969. Final shooting script for the 1970 film "Darker than Amber" based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald featuring his series character Travis McGee. Written for the screen by Ed Waters and starring Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel. Boldly SIGNED by Rod Taylor on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Notable as the only feature film adaptation of MacDonald's wildly popular Travis McGee series long unavailable on any kind of viewing format. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Waters and novelist MacDonald marked "FINAL" and dated 28 Jan. 1969. 114 pages all white. Pages and wrapper both in Fine condition. A fresh copy of an extremely scarce MacDonald item. National General Pictures unknown books
1961167752N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1961 film showing director John Huston and screenwriter Arthur Miller during filming on location with a clapperboard in the foreground. Stamp of photographer Inge Morath on the verso. <br /> <br /> A bleak haunting film exploring the loss of independence about a recent divorcée who enters into an unstable relationship with an aging cowboy whom she meets in the Nevada desert.<br /> <br /> Photographer Inge Morath who had worked with Huston on several of his earlier films first met Miller on the set of "The Misfits." Miller's relationship with his then-wife Marilyn Monroe rapidly deteriorated during the film's production largely due to Monroe's growing dependence on prescription medication and the couple would separate after filming concluded. Miller and Morath began dating and married in February of 1962 just over a year after Miller's divorce from Monroe. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Reno and Dayton Nevada. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. About Fine lightly worn at the corners. N.p. unknown
144811Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1939 novel by Nathanael West and equal to it as a dark funny and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of those caught up in it. Nominated for two Academy Awards considered by many to be Donald Sutherland's finest performance and one of the most underrated films of the 1970s. <br /> <br /> Teal studio wrappers with a die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Waldo Salt novelist Nathanael West producer Jerome Hellman and director John Schlesinger. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/31/73 and 10/12/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1955149900Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Four vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film showing variously actors Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra composer Frank Loesser and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. <br /> <br /> The first photo double weight shows Marlon Brando as Skye Masterson surreally <br /> socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. <br /> <br /> The second photo shows Brando rehearsing "Luck Be a Lady" with sheet music in hand and with the song's composer Frank Loesser at the piano.<br /> <br /> The third photo shows Sinatra and Brando in a candid moment.<br /> <br /> The fourth photo single weight shows director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette relaxing contemplatively Mankiewicz sitting and smoking his pipe Leverette inside a large industrial exhaust pipe.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1950 Broadway musical which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A serial gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br /> <br /> Set in New York and Havana.<br /> <br /> All photos: 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine overall variously with a few pinholes and very shallow creasing. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1946159853Culver City CA: Selznick International 1946. Two vintage borderless reference photographs and two vintage bordered reference photographs of director King Vidor on the set of the 1946 Western film. Three linen-backed with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel. Two brothers fight over their love for a young relative while their father attempts to sway railroad builders from constructing a new line on his land. A lavish "epic" Western from Selznick who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" 1939. <br /> <br /> Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. <br /> <br /> Two 9.5 x 7.25 inches two 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus with light creasing and wear on the edges. <br /> <br /> Hardy p. 152. Pitts 1187. Selznick International unknown
1927160884N.p.: N.p. 1927. Vintage photograph album containing 65 photographs compiled by cellist Carl Steppi between 1926 and 1927 documenting a tour with an orchestra in support of the 1925 film. A unique collection of vernacular photographs many with manuscript captions in English and German. Steppi is identified in contemporary newspaper articles as having been a cellist for the St. Louis Symphony in the early 1920s.<br /> <br /> The tour was apparently by rail as the archive includes several photographs of the assembled musicians outside train cars and one photograph of the musicians in a passenger car. The dates of the tour are noted on the album's first blank leaf captioned with "On the Road with the Picture 'Ben Hur' Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation / September 1926." The album's last leaf bears a photograph of presumably Steppi's wife and child captioned "Und endlich Kam die ersehnte Heimhehr! And finally the longed-for Homecoming! / Brooklyn N.Y. / Back in: April 24 1927." <br /> <br /> The many locations captioned in the photographs are: Illinois Dixon Rochelle and Rock Island Iowa Anamosa Cedar Rapids Clinton Davenport Des Moines Grinnell and Muskatine Kansas Wichita Missouri Kansas City and Hannibal Ohio Zanesville Texas Austin Dallas and Gainesville and West Virginia Charleston and Huntington with Gainesville incorrectly noted as being in Oklahoma.<br /> <br /> Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will the prince endures prison and once released vows revenge on his childhood friend. The most expensive silent film made with a budget of $3.9 million. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Italy and California.<br /> <br /> Album: 10 x 6.75 inches 30 pages. Very Good with paper tape repairs to the front and rear partially detached wrappers and with light chipping overall to the album leaves with eight leaves detached.<br /> <br /> Photographs: approximately 3 x 2 to 6 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Godard Histoires de cinema. N.p. unknown
