James B. Harris director screenwriter; Zalman King Tisa Farrow Carol White Richard Pryor starringABAA
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1973145963Beverly Hills CA: James B. Harris Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1973 cult film here under the working title "Never Call It Loving." <br/><br/>Based on John Collier's 1938 short story. A woman drugged and kept asleep for years as a carnival attraction is bought and awakened by a jazz musician. The musician begins to realize however that reality will never measure up to his fantasies of his "sleeping dream girl."<br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Green untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director James B. Harris and story credit to John Collier. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Typescript rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/28/72 and 2/14/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing bound with two silver brads.<br/><br/>Etiquette Pictures 3. Rosenbaum 1000. James B. Harris Productions unknown books
1961152445Paris: Cite-Films Jacques Bar 1961. Draft script for the 1961 French film. Text in French. <br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel by Georges Simenon.<br/><br/>Jean Gabin in what is essentially two brilliant performances as the middle-aged French prime minister Emile Beaufort refusing to compromise his principles against the corrupt and opportunistic Philippe Chalamont impressively portrayed by Bernard Blier and twenty years later as the now aging ex-prime minister in ill-health dictating his memoirs to his secretary and deciding on how now to handle Chalamont in line to become the next prime minister.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris Essonne Yvelines Seine-et-Marne and Val-de-Marne France. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for actor Jean Gabin director Henri Verneuil author Georges Simenon and screenwriters Michel Audiard and Bernard Blier. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Ner Fine wrapper Very Good plus saddle-stitched with three staples. Cite-Films (Jacques Bar) unknown books
1967149868Paris: Parc Film 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 French film. All but one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.<br/><br/>A day in the life of suburban housewife Juliette Jeanson Vlady who intersperses her daily routine of housework cleaning and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director Jean-Luc Godard's most highly regarded stylistically innovative films released the same year as "Weekend" and "La chinoise." <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris.<br/><br/>Four photographs 7 x 5 inches one 8 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Parc Film unknown books
1979128655Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Copy belonging to crew member Susan Bender the film's assistant location auditor per IMDB with her name in holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page. <br/><br/>A blend of science fiction and romance that has over time become a beloved classic. Christopher Reeve portrays a melancholy playwright who becomes fascinated with the woman in a portrait hanging in a hotel and uses self-hypnosis to transport himself to her time. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as production No. 00590 dated April 24 1979. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credit for screenwriter Matheson. 146 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1972149479London: Island Records 1972. Collection of three vintage matte-finish studio still photographs from the 1972 film.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the early years of real-life Jamaican outlaw Rhyging who rose to prominence as a folk hero in the 1940s. Ska and reggae musician Jimmy Cliff's film debut in which Cliff stars as a young man from rural Jamaica who moves to Kingston with dreams of fame and fortune as a singer but is waylaid by corrupt record producers and criminal enterprises. One of the first films to feature black Jamaicans speaking Jamaican Patois and whose soundtrack played a key role in popularizing reggae music worldwide. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Kingston Jamaica.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 83. Island Records unknown books
1977145744Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film here under the working title "The Windsor Project." <br/><br/>Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. <br/><br/>Set in Maine shot on location in Crofton British Columbia. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated 12/25/77 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter David Seltzer. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver screw brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1969133623Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the US release of the 1969 film. <br/><br/>Jon Voight plays a naive Texan who moves to New York to hustle his body and finds himself in an unlikely friendship with an ailing con artist played by Dustin Hoffman. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture and nominated for four others. <br/><br/>Set in New York and Texas shot on location in New York Texas Florida and New Jersey. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. United Artists unknown books
1972138774Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie which originally aired on March 18 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck filmed once before by Lewis Milestone in 1949. Winner of two Primetime Emmy awards and nominated for seven more. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Sonora California. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 7 1972 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Totten and novelist Steinbeck. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Mimeograph duplication with five blue revision pages dated 8/10/72. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1935135077Los Angeles: B.P. Schulberg Productions 1935. Vintage black-and-white photograph of Peter Lorre on the set seated with his script from the 1935 film. Photographed by A.L. Schaefer with his credit stamp on the verso as well as a stamp reading "PETER LORRE / COLUMBIA CONTRACT PLAYER."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. B.P. Schulberg Productions unknown books
1981145825Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions 1981. Feature Draft script television equivalent of a Shooting script for the 1982 television film which originally aired November 28 1982 on NBC.<br/><br/>Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer who adapted his own book for the screen about the final years in the life of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore following his release from prison in Illinois and through to his re-incarceration in a Provo Utah prison and eventual execution for having committed multiple murders in Utah. Nominated for five Emmy Awards winning two including Outstanding Lead Actor for Tommy Lee Jones. <br/><br/>A turning point in television movies wherein Jones and Arquette play wholly unsympathetic characters without reservation. One of the finest films of the 1980s on television or the silver screen.<br/><br/>Set in Utah and Oregon shot on location in Utah.<br/><br/>Green titled wrapper noted as FEATURE DRAFT on the front wrapper dated AUGUST 1 1981. Title page present dated August 1 1981 noted as Feature Draft. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lawrence Schiller Productions unknown books
1962139686Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage oversize double weight borderless photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing Leo McCarey directing William Holden from behind the camera with legendary script supervisor Connie Willis to his right while actor France Nuyen waits just offstage. With a mimeo snipe tipped on the verso crediting photographer Lawrence Schiller and stamps of the Holmes-Lebel and Camera Press agencies on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on an originally work "The China Story" by Pearl S. Buck which was subsequently developed into the 1962 novel titled "Satan Never Sleeps" published concurrently with the film. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957142885N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper noting title screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. <br/><br/>Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947 starring Cary Grant Loretta Young and David Niven and "Portrait of Jennie" in 1949 starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films included "Racket Busters" in 1938 "Chasing Danger" in 1939 "Monsoon" in 1953 and two foreign films that he produced and directed as well as wrote "Square of Violence" in 1963 and "Story of a Woman" in 1970. Bercovici was blacklisted during the McCarthy era losing his U.S. passport regaining it in 1956 and then moving to Europe for several years. Bercovici later became a respected teacher of writing at UCLA and the American Film Institute work that he continued until shortly before his death. <br/><br/>Set in Rome. <br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated January 15 1957 with credits for screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1958146435Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film thus incomplete as issued dated April 9 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo's name in holograph ink on two revision leaves and his character's name in pencil on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Laid in is a small leaf with holograph ink notations including the name of director Lou Foster actors Fess Parker and Jerome Courtland and characters White Bull and Captain Keogh. Parker was originally hired for the role of Keogh but refused second billing and was replaced by Philip Carey. Jerome Courtland played the role of Lieutenant Henry Nowlan in the film.<br/><br/>Based on David Appel's 1951 novel "Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse" about the bond between a young Sioux boy and the titular horse who end up on opposite sides of the Battle of Little Big Horn. <br/><br/>Set in Montana Territory and shot on location in Oregon.<br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 112 and production No. 5812 dated APRIL 9 1958 with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. Title page present dated April 9 1958 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/10/58 and 5/15/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1947145972Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint holograph pencil annotations and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout.<br/><br/>Based on the 1946 Broadway play and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden Alabama the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation and cruelty. A searing portrayal of racism and class privilege in the post-Civil War American South.<br/><br/>Set in Alabama. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7494 dated June 9 1947 with credits for screenwriter Vladimir Pozner. Title page integral to the front wrapper. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the left edge bound with three gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1947140099Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in holograph blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. <br/><br/>Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family a juggling act struggling to find work. They are forced to find normal jobs and one daughter elopes with her boyfriend leaving Albert's son forced to make a decision as to whether play professional baseball or join his father on a 16 week tour out west. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 152 and production No. 154 dated March 21 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated March 21 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining wrapper Very Good with dampstaining bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 293. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1958152343N.p.: N.p. 1958. Collection of four vintage matte-finish borderless candid photographs of Jeanne Moreau on the set of the 1958 French film noir.<br/><br/>The film's new cinematic realism was both indebted and pivotal to the French New Wave and skyrocketed the career of actress Jeanne Moreau whose disaffected makeup-less performance was the scandal of Paris for months following the film's release. <br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine some light corner and edgewear. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 335. Buss French Film Noir. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Grant US. Selby US. N.p. unknown books
1961132281Czechosolvakia: N.p. 1961. Original A1 poster issued circa 1961 for the Czechoslovakian release of the 1960 Italian film. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Artwork by Fremund. <br/><br/>22.5 x 32.25 inches. A few professional repairs to tears at the edges rolled on archival linen. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1971148498Universal City: Universal Pictures 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of James Taylor and director Monte Hellman on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. <br/><br/>After cutting his teeth under the tutelage of guerilla filmmaker Roger Corman Monte Hellman made two landmark and still rarely screened existential Westerns with Jack Nicholson as producer and star. But it was with "Two-Lane Blacktop" the first screenplay by noted novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer that maverick director Monte Hellman helmed his first masterpiece and a cornerstone of the New Hollywood movement.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona Tennessee Oklahoma California Arkansas and New Mexico. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 414. Eureka! 26. Universal Pictures unknown books
1964145708Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1964. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1964 film a variant we have never before encountered.<br/><br/>Considered one of the worst films of all time as well as a legitimate so-bad-it's-good cult classic which gained renewed notoriety after being shown in Season 3 Episode 21 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" a unimpeachable highlight of that show's original run. Notable as the first documented appearance of the Mrs. Claus character in a film and the first film role for actress Pia Zadora who played one of the Martian children and whose career never recovered. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with some diagonal creasing to the corners and minor starting to the folds but still bright and unfaded. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1969136136Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 Disney film. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Marty Roth executive story editor for the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" 1979-1985. Coast Guard Ensign Garland Morse falls in love with sailing instructor Kate Powers but his bumbling leaves her disenchanted until they team up to recover stolen jewels before a team of thieves led by Simmons Silvers can find them. <br/><br/>Set in California shot there on location. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper production No. 0107 dated July 23 1969 with credits for story writer Roth and screenwriter Julian. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 166. Mechanical duplication with green blue white and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/18/69 and 9/28/69. Near Fine overall bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1948146123Los Angeles: Artists Alliance 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film. With a single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>A modern take on the Pygmalion myth based on the 1943 Broadway hit musical with music by Kurt Weill lyrics by poet Ogden Nash and a book co-written by Nash and S.J. Perelman. An amorous window dresser at a department store kisses a decorative statue of Venus unwittingly causing the statue to come to life.<br/><br/>Green textured titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Harry Kurnitz. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Olive Films 654. Artists Alliance unknown books
1947135591Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage press photograph of Rita Hayworth Orson Welles and the film's still photographer Robert Coburn on the set of 1947 film noir. Mimeograph snipe on the verso notes that here Welles and Coburn are discussing the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film with Ms. Hayworth. Shot by Van Pelt with his stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1953150345N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actor Anthony Perkins barefoot on the set of "The Rainmaker" circa 1953. The original penciled notations on the verso indicate that Perkins was on the set to visit Wendell Corey. With the stamps of still photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso. <br/><br/>Shot early in his career before Perkins played his best-known role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho." <br/><br/>Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others.<br/><br/>Shot partially on location in Kanab Utah. <br/><br/>8.5 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1943128923Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1943. Draft script for the 1943 film. Heavily annotated draft from which the October 5 1943 mimeograph master was made so noted in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. <br/><br/>First film in the "Inner Sanctum" series. Universal struck a deal with publishers Simon and Schuster in 1943 obtaining screen rights to their "Inner Sanctum" mysteries set to star Lon Chaney Jr. fresh off his classic monster roles and this film marked the first installment. Ben Pivar purchased freelance writer Edward Dein's original screenplay and selected Reginald Le Borg to direct. The film would set the standard for the series including the introductory sequence of a crystal ball gazer who warns the audience of impending albeit cinematic doom and the recurrent "stream of consciousness" voiceover. <br/><br/>Chaney is neurologist Mark Steele married to a beautiful and unfaithful wife Maria Ames. Distraught over his wife's infidelity he suffers a blackout only to wake up to interrogators Naish questioning him about his wife's murder. He believes he may have been the murderer until he hypnotizes the despondent wife of Maria's last lover Stella Patricia Morison who confesses. <br/><br/>Gray card titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7140 dated September 2 1943 with credits for screenwriter Dein. Title page present dated Oct. 4 1943 with credits for screenwriter Dein. 107 leaves on pink stock mimeograph duplication with yellow undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967147239Los Angeles: Gershwin-Kastner Productions 1967. First Draft script and a Revised Estimating script for the 1968 film. The First Draft script is early written well over two years before the film's release. The Revised Estimating script is on all yellow stock except for distribution page white and pink "This Script Is Not Final and Is Given to You for Advance Information Only" page. Written a year prior the film's release the Revised Estimating script is only 79 pages ending with "PART II TO FOLLOW." <br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>A workaholic manufacturer meets a carefree young woman who takes lovers for a period of one month in order to help them get over their problems though complications ensue when he agrees to be her "November." Remade in 2001 directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Manhattan and Brooklyn New York. <br/><br/>First draft script:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated July 9 1965. Title page present dated 7/9/65 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Herman Raucher. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads.<br/><br/>Rev. Estimating script:<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 65 dated February 1. 1967. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 2/1/67. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Gershwin-Kastner Productions unknown books
