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1964131051Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Deluxe working script belonging to uncredited crew member William Todd Mason with his name and phone number in holograph ink on the title page and some brief penciled annotations on three pages. Laid in is a corner stapled three page Staff and Crew list with two name additions in holograph red ink on the second page. <br/><br/>Included is a vintage studio still photograph from the film. <br/><br/>An early draft issued nearly two years prior to the film's October 1965 release with substantial differences from the finished film. <br/><br/>The sister film to "Dr. Strangelove" and in the eyes of many just as much a masterpiece of exquisitely wrought black humor. Made in the US but in a dense British-American style. Ostensibly a satire on the funeral business in which a young British poet winds up in a Hollywood cemetery as part of an inheritance arrangement-but in reality a satire of Hollywood itself as well as the Western malaise of the mid 1960s. <br/><br/>Script: Self wrappers presumably as this draft was issued. Title page present rubber stamped copy No. 70 dated July 21 1964 with credits for screenwriters Southern and Isherwood. 158 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7-22-64. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Staff and Crew listing: two leaves slightly worn with annotations on the second page. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1924137520Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus open a curiosity shop and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Robbins would see another of his short stories "Spurs" adapted by Browning as the classic 1932 film "Freaks."<br/><br/>This is the first of two adaptations being a silent starring Lon Chaney as Professor Echo the ventriloquist Victor McLaglen as Hercules the strongman and Harry Earles as Tweedledee the dwarf. The second version was directed by Jack Conway in 1930 as a talkie with Chaney and Earles reprising their roles and Ivan Linow as Hercules. <br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as copy No. 2 in holograph ink and production No. 1505 dated 12/20/24 with credits for screenwriter Young. Title page present undated with credits for writer Robbins and screenwriter Young. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Multilith reproduction. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1985149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese.<br/><br/>Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. <br/><br/>Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
1968137925Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs a trade advertisement a film program and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III with images prominently featuring Ordway production designer Harry Lange Arthur C. Clarke Stanley Kubrick and others. One photograph has Ordway's name written on the recto in silver marker. All photographs mounted on matte board as issued. <br/><br/>Ordway and Clarke began working together on matters of science fact in 1951 and Clarke personally invited him to be the factual advisor on the film. <br/><br/>Kubrick's sprawling science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. Along with "Blade Runner" Kubrick's masterpiece forever altered the standard for visual and conceptual sophistication in science fiction and genre films. The pre-production for the film set standards as well as Kubrick hired one of the greatest science fiction authors of the 1960s Arthur C. Clarke to be his screenwriter and hired over 20 scientists like Ordway to consult on every detail of the film. The film's high degree of scientific accuracy coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films ever made. The development of the film was kept strictly under wraps and behind-the-scenes material of any kind is rare. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for three others including Best Director. Set in space shot on location in Scotland England Arizona and Utah. <br/><br/>Photographs 8 x 10 inches mounted on 11 x 14 inch matte board. Trade advertisement 9 x 12 inches full color creased. Souvenir booklet 7.25 x 16 inches full color 12 leaves saddle stapled folded. Program 5.5 x 8.5 inches black and white saddle stapled single leaf. Very Good to Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1966141453Tokyo: Toho Company 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy including his stepdaughter stepson mistress and wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 207. Toho Company unknown books
1959148724Tokyo: Shochiku 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines.<br/><br/>Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults leading to a number of comic misunderstandings in their tight-knit community. <br/><br/>Set in a suburb of Tokyo.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly foxed with some wear to the binding with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 84. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Shochiku unknown books
1958141439Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
1958141432Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Title based on a song popularized by the leading actor Frank Nagai. A comedy featuring a drugstore owner who begins an extramarital affair when his wife and child go on vacation. <br/><br/>White illustrated titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
1973150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in holograph marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in holograph ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party.<br/><br/>Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Colorado and California. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown books
1935WRCLIT62273Los Angeles: The Author 1935. Six volumes. Quarto. Chiefly carbon typescript but also original typescript the latter with extensive manuscript revisions and notations. Each unit bradbound or stapled into typescript wrappers. Some use wrappers a bit frayed at edges and chipped at spines last wrapper separated at spine but typescripts in generally very good order consistent with use. A fine contiguous sequence of scripts tracing the development of this film from its earliest stages through the final working draft of Cole's screenplay and the intercession of another writer. The 1935 film directed by D. Ross Lederman was released under the title TOO TOUGH TO KILL and starred Victor Jory Sally O'Neill Ward Bond et al. The film as conceived by Cole is a depiction of an investigation into labor strife at a tunnel and aqueduct construction site near Morongo California. The film as finally released was co-credited to Cole and Jay Griffin based on a story by Robert Speers. However with the exception of the last item the material in this archive is credited throughout solely to Lester Cole and includes the following: a Treatment 122 leaves carbon typescript; b First Draft Screenplay 22 July 191 leaves carbon typescript with scattered revisions and annotations in pencil; c Second Draft Screenplay 30 July 110 leaves carbon typescript with scattered pencil queries comments and alterations; d Third Draft Screenplay 2 August 1104 leaves carbon typescript; e Fourth Draft Screenplay 5 August 1104 leaves carbon typescript; and f Fourth Draft Screenplay altered in manuscript to read "Final Working Copy" 5 August ca. 104 leaves plus lettered inserts and other variations largely original typescript but some carbon very heavily revised throughout in pencil in at least two hands. The first four items are designated in manuscript with the name of Ben Pivar the production supervisor of record for the film. The last bears the ownership signature of J. Griffin Jay and would obviously appear to be the copy of Cole's draft Jay utilized for the start if not the bulk of the revisions and rewrites that earned him co-credit. Cole was one of the cofounders of the Screen Writers Guild and in 1934 joined the CPA. Like his other colleagues known as the "Hollywood Ten" Cole refused to cooperate with the HUAC in 1947 was sentenced to a year in prison and a fine and was placed on the Blacklist. He continued to work sporadically under pennames and his last major film BORN FREE was so credited. Jay had his own substantial list of screenwriting credits chiefly in the genres of adventure science fiction and horror films. A fine coherent and contiguous archive the sort seldom preserved intact over the passage of more than 75 years. The Author] unknown books
1939152809Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1939. Revised Final script for the 1939 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil and a single pencil annotation to the verso of page 147. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the early years of future US president Abraham Lincoln following his upbringing in a log cabin to his first loves to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield Illinois. <br/><br/>Set in Springfield.<br/><br/>Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 191 dated February 27 1939. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 27 1939 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and age-toned bound internally with three gold brads.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 320. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987152039N.p.: N.p. 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Ricki Lake with her holograph annotations throughout and xerographically duplicated inscriptions to Lake as intended when the script was bound from director John Waters actors Divine Shawn Thompson Debbie Harry Pia Zadora and others bound in before the script. With several production documents bound in after the script including a 34-page shooting schedule call sheets contact information for cast and crew and maps of Baltimore and a thank-you letter to Waters from Lake. <br/><br/>Cult independent director John Waters' most enduring film following a kindhearted "pleasantly plump" teenager who becomes an overnight sensation on a local television dance show and subsequently uses her newfound fame to speak out in support of integration. Basis for the Tony Award winning 2002 musical and subsequent 2007 film adaptation directed by Adam Shankman and starring Nikki Blonsky Michelle Pfeiffer and John Travolta. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Baltimore Maryland.<br/><br/>Black full leather binding with gilt titles and rule and Lake's name to the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1987 noted as Shooting Script with credits for director John Waters. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. With a small label to the bottom right corner of the inside front wrapper noting custom binding by Ronnie Gousman. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1958141434Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One of members of the group does not belong there. <br/><br/>Orange titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Nikkatsu unknown books
1972143600New York: Cannon Films 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film here under the working title "Zora." <br/><br/>Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov Candy Darling and Ondine experimental film icon Jack Smith and artist Susan Rothenberg as well as its being in the public domain which released it for frequent late night airings on local television. <br/><br/>Set in Massachusetts shot on location on Long Island. <br/><br/>Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriters Theodore Gershuny Jeffrey Konvitz Ira Teller and Ami Artzi. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Thrower Nightmare USA. Cannon Films unknown books
1948151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese.<br/><br/>The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding American criticism leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles.<br/><br/>Set in the slums of postwar Japan.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. <br/><br/>BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown books
1946003013Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1946. Doyle A. Conan. DRESSED TO KILL here bearing the initial later discarded title "Prelude To Murder". Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1946. This unique film studio screenplay archive consists of THREE original screenplays. 1. A "First Revised Draft" dated January 3rd 1946 the screenwriter's original carbon copy typescript unannotated consisting of 94pp of onion-skin paper. Brad-bound in original drab brown Universal Studios covers which are a little brittle and chipped else Very Good bearing the stamped production number 7337. 2. Complete 78pp brad-bound shooting script consisting of a mix of original ribbon-copy typescript and studio-mimeographed white pages dated January 16th 1946 with production number 7337 stamped on the cover. This remarkable writer's draft contains extensive author-revised annotations emendations revisions and additions throughout. This is accomplished via a cut-and-paste the insertion of additional leaves and new dialogue and description scrawled on the versos an exceptional artifact which boldly captures the revision process of this last entry in the Sherlock Holmes' Universal Studios film series. The front cover has been neatly reinforced with tape and bears the original penciled filing notation indicating that this particular script is the copy from which the final draft was produced. 3. Dated April 25th 1946 the complete original studio-mimeographed self-wrapper final post-production dialogue continuity script bound with two brads at the top. In Very Good condition. The title DRESSED TO KILL refers to the film's wily femme fatale Hilda Courtney played by Patricia Morison an homage to Irene Adler from "A Scandal In Bohemia" complete with a familiar misdirection trick which Hilda uses to fool Watson into revealing a hidden location. The plot is an amalgam of several Holmes stories but also draws from other plots in the Universal Sherlock film canon: a convicted thief in Dartmoor Prison hides stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes -- leading to the murder or attempted murder of their owners using the central device of a secret code which of course only Holmes can brilliantly break. Starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in their final film together DRESSED TO KILL opened on June 7th 1946 to excellent reviews but also to rumors that it was to be the last of the Universal Sherlock films; by October of that year Producer Roy William Neill truly the visionary of the film series died and that signaled the end of one of the most successful franchises in Universal Studios history. Unique. Please see the other Universal Sherlock scripts we have in stock. Signed. Original Wraps. Very Good. Script. Universal Studios Paperback books
1981143723Los Angeles: CBS Television Network 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. <br/><br/>A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter Larry Drake is wrongfully accused of attacking young Marylee Williams Tonya Crowe. He is murdered by a group of vigilantes while disguised as a scarecrow. The killers are tracked down and terrorized by a mysterious scarecrow after Bubba's innocence is revealed. <br/><br/>Set in the American South. Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>100 leaves xerographically duplicated without wrappers as issued. Pages and photographs Very Good bound with two gold brads. CBS Television Network unknown books
1924141664Berlin: Film-Kurier 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen" one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. <br/><br/>Film-Kurier was the first German film journal published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933 when its publisher Alfred Weiner had to flee Germany because of his Jewish origins. The issues from this era remain striking to this day because they were printed using a gravure reproduction process. Each day's issue would focus on a single film. <br/><br/>9 x 11.75 inches. Each program six pages folded loose leaves as issued. Very Good plus with a horizontal fold tiny pinholes to the corners and an occasional short closed tear. <br/><br/>Masters of Cinema 46. Film-Kurier unknown books
1927134522Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on the front wrapper noting starring performers draft type and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few annotations in holograph pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Based on the 1923 Broadway play by David Belasco and Tom Cushing in turn an adaptation of the 1919 story "Ridi Pagliaccio" by Fausto Martini about two clowns who find an abandoned child. Years later one of the clowns falls in love with her and knowing that they can never be together performs a deadly stunt without safety protections. A partially lost film including an alternative happy ending. Nominated for an Academy Award in 1929 for Best Title Writing the only year for that category. <br/><br/>Set in Italy shot on location in Elysian Park a suburb of Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>Blue studio wrappers noted as FIRST TEMPORARY INCOMPLETE and struck through with Final Draft inscribed on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 1640 and production No. 5272 dated Nov. 19 1927 with credits for playwrights Belasco and Cushing and in ink screenwriter Meehan. 73 unnumbered leaves typescript on watermarked onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good split at the spine now encapsulated in mylar bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1957151146London: J. Arthur Rank 1957. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to novelist and screenwriter John Masters with his name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper his holograph pencil annotations to virtually every page and two handwritten pages stapled to the verso of the front wrapper noting concerns about the script and deletions. <br/><br/>Based on Masters' 1952 novel which follows a British officer who goes undercover to infiltrate a thuggee cult who have been ritually murdering travelers in colonial India. <br/><br/>Masters who served in the Indian Army from 1933 to 1949 was best known for his historical fiction set in India most notably his 1954 novel "Bhowani Junction" which was adapted for film by director George Cukor in 1956. Modern scholars have acknowledged Masters' influence on British historical fiction and in later works his relative sympathy towards Indian nationalists while simultaneously criticizing his revisionist occasionally imperialist tone. Masters also released three successful autobiographical volumes "Bugles and a Tiger" 1956 "Road Past Mandalay" 1961 and "Pilgrim Son" 1971. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as Draft Script on the front wrapper dated 26-3-57 with a typed label affixed to the front wrapper dated 26.3.57 crediting novelist and screenwriter John Masters and screenwriter Anthony Perry and noting Masters' annotations throughout. Title page present noted as DRAFT THREE with credits for novelist and screenwriter John Masters. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown books
1946143620N.p.: Monogram Pictures 1946. Typescript of the Final Shooting script for the 1947 Poverty Row film noir. <br/><br/>Based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room" first published in the 1946 short story anthology "The Dancing Detective" under his pseudonym William Irish. <br/><br/>The tale of a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists "The Guilty" is a prototypical Poverty Row second feature. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Yellow titled self wrappers noted as "Exact typed copy of final shooting script" on the front wrapper dated 1946. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Robert Presnell Sr. and novelist Cornell Woolrich. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1955135819Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor Adele Cannon profusely annotated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Included is a studio still photograph from the film featuring the Creature and people in peril. <br/><br/>Third installment in the "Gill-man" series after "Creature from the Black Lagoon" 1954 and "Revenge of the Creature" 1955. After a laboratory fire severely damages the Creature's gills the head of the research team suggests an operation that will allow their subject to breathe air and walk on land. The operations seems successful until a violent confrontation leaves the Creature badly injured. Alone in alien territory the Gill-man shuffles off into the sea in anticlimactic resolution. <br/><br/>Where the first two films employed then-genre bending 3D effects this conclusion to the series was issued in 2D. Champion diver Ricou Browning again portrays the creature in the underwater sequences and Don Megowan as the land-walker. The Creature is perhaps the most popular of the underwater monsters of cinema rivaling Wes Craven's "Swamp Thing" 1982. <br/><br/>Set in Florida. <br/><br/>Salmon titled wrappers noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated August 22 1955. Title page present undated with a credit for screenwriter Ross. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication with yellow blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/29/55 and 9/22/55 and mimeograph scene annotations on the verso of nearly every page. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver screw brads. Photograph Very Good with staple holes and creases. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1972131589N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film "Player Piano" based on Kurt Vonnegut's first novel. <br/><br/>After his directorial debut with Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" in 1971 Alan Arkin wrote this adaptation of Vonnegut's legendary science fiction novel and announced plans to direct in the summer of 1972 with Edward Pressman and Burtt Harris producing. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present with a notation in holograph pencil of copy No. 8 the initials "N.H." at the top right corner with credits for screenwriters Arkin and Patinkin and novelist Vonnegut. 182 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1971139346Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1971. Script archive built around the Revised First Draft script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to Burt Bluestein with his name on the title page in holograph pencil and annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Bluestein although not credited at the film's release was presumably involved with production design as indicated by the annotations concerning camera angles and props and his film credits as both assistant director and production manager. The script is accompanied by various interoffice pages like cast and crew lists emergency contact lists shooting schedules and interoffice memos including one discussing the film's hiatus and the possibility of Ron Talsky costume designer working with Otto Preminger during the hiatus. Between this script and the film's release dates Talsky did work for Preminger on his film "Such Good Friends" 1971. <br/><br/>Based on Knowles' 1959 best-selling first novel. Two young teens Finny Heyl and Gene Stevenson consider the draft if it should happen and make their way through school during WWII. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Actor Heyl's only film credit. <br/><br/>Title page present dated 1971 noted as FIRST DRAFT Revised with credits for novelist Knowles and screenwriter Segal. 163 leaves with last leaf of text being the tenth page of a shooting schedule. Various printing methods with a few manuscript and typed pages and yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated May 1971 yellow and two pages dated Jan 1971 pink. Pages Very Good plus overall bound in a black three-ring binder. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1978148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian.<br/><br/>In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Sicily. <br/><br/>Script:<br/><br/>Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding.<br/><br/>List of scenes:<br/><br/>10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
