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1963151273N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film noir. A wonderful fourth wall version of the film's most classic shot only this one including cinematographer Douglas Slocombe director Joseph Losey actor James Fox not in the original scene and a guy adjusting the chandelier all in the reverse mirror image.<br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>The first of director Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a familiar servant-becomes-master tale but surpasses mediocrity through a journey into the psyche of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners.<br/><br/>Spicer UK. N.p. unknown books
1979144403London: Parlon Productions 1979. Draft British script for the 1981 UK film. Based on the 1969 novel by John Fowles.<br/><br/>While shooting a film about tragic lovers the actors find their relationship begins to parallel that of their characters. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 3 1979 with credits for screenwriter Harold Pinter and novelist John Fowles. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 163. Photocopy rectos only with revision pages throughout dated April 22 1980. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 768. Parlon Productions unknown books
1965128472Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Original UK script for the 1965 film. <br/><br/>One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation the bloodiest battle that the US fought in WWII and one of the key turning points in the war. Filmed almost entirely in the Spanish desert. <br/><br/>Grey titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Yordan and Sperling. 168 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two silver fasteners. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969149514Beverly Hills CA: Brandywine Productions 1969. Collection of 9 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso of 7 of the photos.<br/><br/>Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel following two sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends bringing conflict between the two couples as their romances take them in different directions. An apt examination of changes in sexual mores both at the time of the novel's publication and the film's 1969 release. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Glenda Jackson.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire Derbyshire and London England and Kanton Wallis Switzerland.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation available on request. Brandywine Productions unknown books
1957143197Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1957. Draft script for the 1958 Japanese film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 novel "Kinkakuji" "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima which is loosely based on the actual event of the burning of the Reliquary or Golden Pavilion of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The book was one of three Mishima novels adapted by Paul Schrader for episodes in his film "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" 1985. <br/><br/>Daiei released "Conflagration" "Enj " an adaptation of the same novel directed by Ichikawa Kon in 1958. The title and name of the temple in the film was changed from Kinkakuji after Buddhist opposition threatened problems with filming in Kyoto. This is a script from that film before the name change. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Kyoto. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 12. Title page present. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered e-27. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout mildew water damage wrapper split at spine with mild foxing non archival tape to spine and title page overall about Good condition. Daiei Studios unknown books
1956140205Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film here under the working title "The Outlaws are in Town." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur who played Lonny Kesh with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil and his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. <br/><br/>Lonny Kesh Arthur works his family's farm in Georgia but has big dreams of going west. His dreams are realized one day as he heads to Texas and ends up running with a gang of outlaws. He eventually returns to the family farm to find his parents have passed on. All goes smoothly until his former gang shows up. <br/><br/>Set in Georgia and Texas. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 27 dated June 18 1956. Title page present dated June 18 1956 with credits for screenwriters Earle Snell and Kurt Neumann and author Bennett Foster. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated July 2 1956. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1948133983London: Carol Reed Productions 1948. Vintage candid black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. Shown are Carol Reed and his crew setting up a shot while Graham Greene looks on a rare shot of the two collaborators at work together. Stamped on the verso is "A CAROL REED PRODUCTION / "THE THIRD MAN" / PRODUCED AT / THE LONDON FILM STUDIOS / SHEPPERTON-ENGLAND."<br/><br/>Carol Reed's classic 1949 British film noir starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles at the peak of their respective powers was the second of three films in which Graham Green collaborated directly with Reed and remains Greene's only original screenplay. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Carol Reed Productions unknown books
1967135078Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso "Robert et Raymond Hakim" and a printed list of credits in French. <br/><br/>Buñuel's first color film about a young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution unknown books
1938134874Paris: Societe d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films 1938. Set of 3 black-and-white still photographs from the US premiere of the 1964 film. Each with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso as issued noting that the film is making its debut at the Esquire Theatre in Los Angeles. Also on the verso is a stamp for the US distributor THEATRICAL PLAYS. <br/><br/>A very rare set of photographs from Carne's pre-war mood drenched masterpiece that followed the thematically similar "Port of Shadows" and preceding the much greater fame that would come to his work in 1945 with "Children of Paradise" <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Societe d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films unknown books
1927141367Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film in Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy" followed by "The End of St. Petersburg" 1927 and "Storm Over Asia" 1928 and a key film in the development of montage techniques in film although in contrast to his colleague Eisenstein Pudovkin tended to use montage to capture individual character rather than mass movements. <br/><br/>Six pages in self wrappers. Holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Presenting as Very Good with light chipping and a few short closed tears. Disbound binding repaired with cello tape. Mezhrabpom-Rus unknown books
1970144408Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on location in the Mojave Desert shooting the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1976144976Spain: Profilmes 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy full color two sided flyer for the film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. <br/><br/>Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. <br/><br/>Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Flyer 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown books
1994150023N.p.: N.p. 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film blue and pink revision pages throughout and with a holograph ink annotation on a post-it note affixed to page 28 addressing editorial changes. <br/><br/>A group of young graduates decide to stay on campus for the foreseeable future fearing the uncertainty of the outside world. Noah Baumbach's directorial debut an incisive influential film for a generation of young adults unable to reconcile their college aspirations with the stagnation of the professional world of the 1990s. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated 7/30/94 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/1/94. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 349.<br/><br/>Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1990146555Culver City CA: Yorktown Productions 1990. Second draft script for the 1991 film in red leather presentation binding belonging to editor Lou Lombardo with his name in gilt on front board title in gilt on front board and spine. With 26 8" x 10" film still and on the set photographs affixed to leaves throughout. 18 page Cast List and 15 page Crew List follow script. <br/><br/>From the estate of Lou Lombardo.<br/><br/>Based on the 1989 play by Jerry Sterner about a corporate raider who finds himself smitten with the lawyer fighting the hostile takeover of her stepfather's struggling business. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York and Connecticut. <br/><br/>Red leather binding with title in gilt on front board and spine and Louis Lombardo in gilt on lower right of front board with glossy red endpapers and label crediting California Bookbinding of Hollywood. Title page present dated September 24 1990 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Alvin Sargent. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink green yellow and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/6/90 and 2/19/91. Pages Near Fine leather binding Near Fine. Yorktown Productions unknown books
1968145860Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. With a single holograph notation on the title page.<br/><br/>Quintessential New Hollywood comedy-drama about two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Nevada and California.<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 5 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeographed rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1968 and October 29 1968. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. M.J. Frankovich Productions unknown books
1956140428France / Italy: Les Films Ariane 1956. Collection of over 80 vintage borderless single weight candid and glamor photographs and film negatives black-and-white and color and color transparencies for the 1956 French-Italian film. Most of the images are glamour portraits of the film's leading women: Dany Carrel Nicole Courcel Giorgia Moll and Beatrice Altariba. Several color transparencies show Brigitte Bardot whose sister Mijanou starred in the film leaving a small airplane with her male companion. Several photos rubber-stamped with various photographer names and agencies including Esther Kiss Rene Hollinger and L. Markine. Housed in a vintage French Crumiere brand photo paper box. <br/><br/>A remake of Jacques Deval's 1936 film of the same name about a women's boarding house and the group of women forced to band together because of a housing shortage. Released during the heyday of American exploitation films about women's prisons all-girl boarding schools and girl gangs. <br/><br/>Photographs range from 7.25 x 9.25 inches to 3 x 4 inches with most being smaller developed photos from medium-format transparencies negatives and transparencies include 15 frames on 35mm strips 6 mounted medium format color transparencies 5 medium format color transparencies and 39 medium format negatives. Negatives with light rubbing. Very Good plus overall. Box split at corners foxing Good. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1961140159France: N.p. 1961. Collection of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director Rene Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs conducting a recorded interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini. The festivities seem to take place in a large music hall with musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. Bourvil is also present in two contact prints seen traveling cavorting with Clair getting a shave and playing bocce. Several with brief numerical annotations in holograph pencil and a few double weight photographs with rubberstamps crediting photographer Martin on the versos. <br/><br/>A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. <br/><br/>Shot on location throughout France. <br/><br/>Photos range from 4.5 x 7 inches to 8 x 10.5 inches most are 7.25 x 9.25 inches with 87 frames on 35mm and medium-format negative strips. Very Good plus overall with light curling and foxing negatives lightly rubbed. N.p. unknown books
1958123633Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Final script for the 1959 Western film dated May 22 1958. Signed by lead actor Don Murray on the title page. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author A.B. Guthrie Jr. the third installment in his sextet about the Old West. An unusual Western with touches of the darkness characteristic of film noir a character study of a cowboy who aspires to ascend the ranks of the burgeoning Wyoming society. He borrows the life savings of a saloon girl to start his ranch and then marries into a higher rank. Though at first he distances himself from the saloon girl in order to run for US Senator Murray must then come to her aid when a rancher has beaten her. <br/><br/>An ambitious film from director Fleischer in which we are asked to question the value of financial success and the labels of "good" and "evil." Some beautiful cinematic moments with Lee Remick giving a standout performance as Callie the saloon girl. Set in Wyoming. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 181 and production No. 740 dated May 22 1958. Title page present noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Hayes. 114 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between May 26 1958 and June 2 1958 Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Pitts 4333. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1973139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. <br/><br/>Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. <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/>13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown books
1961139518Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 film. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 play about two teachers at an all-girls boarding school accused of being in a lesbian relationship by one of the students ruining the careers and personal lives of both. The play was previously adapted by William Wyler in 1936 as "These Three" though the Production Code forced Hellman to change the substance of the rumor from homosexuality to infidelity. The 1961 version restores the content of the child's lie and is overall incredibly faithful to the stage play. Nominated for five Academy Awards including a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Fay Bainter. <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/>13.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1977145745Paris: Sunchild Productions 1977. Collection of eight vintage photographs from the 1977 film. <br/><br/>In a fine outing from a director who basically made no missteps protagonist Charles drifts Bressonially through politics religion and psychoanalysis rejecting them all. Once he realizes the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the world he lives in he decides that suicide is the only option. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Olive Films 322. Rosenbaum 1000. Sunchild Productions unknown books
1959148847N.p.: Agence D E B. 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso one with annotations on verso. <br/><br/>Bresson's first wholly original screenplay as opposed to one adapted from existing material perhaps the finest of his many films and according to one of its greatest champions Paul Schrader "as close to perfect as a film can be."<br/><br/>7.25 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 314. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosebaum 1000. Paul Schrader's Canon Fodder 4. Grant France Classic Noir. Selby France Classic Noir. Agence D E B. unknown books
1976152311N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Serge Gainsbourg with actors Joe Dallesandro and Jane Birkin on the set of the 1976 film. <br/><br/>A tomboyish waitress at a truck stop develops a crush on a gay garbage truck driver and in spite of all odds they begin a relationship. Gainsbourg's directorial debut. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1930151436Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1930. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1930 comedy short film. Notable as the first short by the duo where Hardy says to Laurel "Well here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"<br/><br/>A parody of the 1927 silent film "The Cat and the Canary" with Stan and Ollie spending the night in a mansion of a deceased relative of Stan's only to be embroiled in suspected foul play.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. One photograph with a brief stray ink annotation to the recto else About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1957140968Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 play of the same name by Margaret Vyner who also wrote the screenplay Victor and Hillary live in castle and get so down on their luck that they begin having tourists visit their castle. Millionaire Charles Delacro soon visits and takes a great liking to the home as well as to Hillary and a love triangle quickly develops. <br/><br/>Set in Hampshire England shot on location in Lacock and Surrey England. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 4 1957 noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Hugh and Margaret Williams. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated August 12 1959 . Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Olive Films 649. Universal Pictures unknown books
