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1967129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. <br /> <br /> Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. <br /> <br /> Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Hungary. <br /> <br /> Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Mechanically and xerographically duplicated dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1977149031Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1977. Archive of seven vintage double weight borderless photographs from the 1977 film by special photographer Alan Pappe. Included is are four striking photographs of Julie Christie two photographs showing Fritz Weaver and Julie Christie with "the creature" and one photograph of director Donald Cammell on the set. With the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso of each photograph.<br /> <br /> Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years covering a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br /> <br /> Based on Dean Koontz 1973 novel of the same name about a scientist who creates an artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with procreating with the scientist's wife. <br /> <br /> Roughly 9.75 x 6.75 inches slightly irregularly trimmed. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969154541N.p.: Debrod Productions Inc 1969. Third Draft script for the 1969 film dated January 13 1969 noted as copy No. 24 in manuscript ink at the top right of the title page. Three sets of revision pages blue green and pink laid in.<br /> <br /> Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar sleep together and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas an examination of the uncertainties of young adulthood during an age of turbulence set within the hookup culture of late 1960s New York City.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City.<br /> <br /> Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated Jan. 13 1969 noted as Final Version / Third Draft with credits for screenwriter John Mortimer and author Mervin Jones. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue green and pink revision pages laid in dated variously between 1/27/69 and 3/4/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold screw brads. Debrod Productions, Inc unknown
1955152321Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage reference photograph of actors James Dean and Julie Harris examining a small scale model of a farm on the set of the 1955 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations identifying Harris and Dean to the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for Dean's lead performance. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1975117917N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. Vintage as assembled mostly from xerographically duplicated leaves with two leaves pp. 138 and 139 being ribbon copy. <br /> <br /> Written as a screenplay with dialogue and location information but lacking camera direction typical of a draft that is past the treatment stage but prior to the advanced draft screenplay stage. This would appear to have no relation to the later produced adaptation of the same novel director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" 2003. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh about the dissolute lives of aristocrats and socialites living in postwar London. <br /> <br /> Pink wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated September 1975 noted as Amended first draft with credits for screenwriter John Wells and author Evelyn Waugh. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 167. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1961148846New York: Bill Doll and Company 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. <br /> <br /> Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love.<br /> <br /> Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Bill Doll and Company unknown
1975151533Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn and cast and crew members on the set of the 1976 film. French and English printed snipe and "Sygma" and photographer "Simonpietri" stamps on verso.<br /> <br /> An interrelated series of vignettes about the lives of children in a small French town primarily using non-professional actors ranging in age from infancy to 14 years old. One of Truffaut's best loved and most financially successful films. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in and around Thiers France. <br /> <br /> 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1942130849Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. <br /> <br /> A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. <br /> <br /> Script is lacking front cover and some early pages. Rear cover is goldenrod. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated 3-23-42. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold pins. <br /> <br /> Hirschhorn p. 212. Warner Archive. Warner Brothers unknown
1965150580N.p.: Frank Capra Productions Inc 1965. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Walter Newman with Frank Capra credited on the title page as "Producer-Director" and with Capra's production company Frank Capra Productions Inc. heading the front wrapper. The script is 247 pages which would roughly amount to a four hour film.<br /> <br /> In 1965 Capra was in negotiations to get the financing for Newman's adaptation of Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. Unfortunately the project was too ambitious and the cost too great to get the production off the ground even after Capra had heavy revisions made to the script. Columbia Pictures' producer M.J. Frankovich offered Capra $3 million to make the film requiring a downsizing of the project too great for Capra to accept prompting him to abandon the project.<br /> <br /> Walter Newman is the acclaimed three time Academy Award nominated screenwriter of "Ace in the Hole" 1951 "Cat Ballou 1965 and "Bloodbrothers" 1978 as well as the uncredited screenwriter of "The Magnificent Seven" 1960 and "The Great Escape" both of which he renounced credit on after disputes with the same director John Sturges who would go on to direct "Marooned" in 1969 and perhaps not surprisingly abandon Newman's screenplay and hire screenwriter Mayo Simon. Newman is perhaps best known for his unproduced 1970 screenplay "Harrow Alley" called by some "the greatest screenplay never made" a 172 page macabre story of the Great Plague in mediaeval England and is regularly taught in film writing classes and has for years as recently as 2018 been rumored to be in production.<br /> <br /> A film adaptation of Caidin's novel was made in 1969 by director John Sturges with a screenplay by Mayo Simon and starring Gregory Peck Richard Crenna David Janssen and Gene Hackman.<br /> <br /> Three astronauts after spending months in orbit prepare to return to earth only to find the rocket boosters won't fire and their oxygen levels declining.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated APRIL 14 1965. Title page present dated April 14 1965 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Walter Newman and Producer-Director Frank Capra. 249 leaves with last page of text numbered 247. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with light soiling creasing and small closed tears at extremities bound with two gold brads. Frank Capra Productions, Inc unknown
1982167406N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. Script with the manuscript marker annotation of "Po Boy Productions / Fred Williamson / Director 1982" on the title page. <br /> <br /> Fred Williamson's unofficial sequel to his 1974 film "Three the Hard Way" which also starred Williamson Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson and Brown are a pair of tough cops who go after the mob that fixed their friend Richard Roundtree's martial arts tournament and shot their friend Jim Kelly.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. <br /> <br /> Maroon untitled wrappers. Title page present. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding.<br /> <br /> Black Action Films p. 225. N.p. unknown
1928132454London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. 1928. Vintage UK program for the 1928 German film released in the UK as "The Spy." <br /> <br /> Lang's followup to "Metropolis" and penultimate silent film an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career including a spectacular train crash at the film's climax. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 12 inches 12 pages side stapled in card wrappers. Wrappers Very Good plus overall interior bright and Near Fine. Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. unknown
1963146931Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs of Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke rehearsing on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe "ORIGINAL A RENDRE PARIMAGE" "COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD." and a struck through with manuscript pencil "Holmes-Lebel" stamps on the verso. One contains an "impress" sticker on verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.<br /> <br /> Unsuccessful songwriter Albert Peterson Van Dyke is convinced he can make his fortune and marry girlfriend Rosie Leigh if he can get recently drafted Rock and Roll star Conrad Birdie Jessie Pearson on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss high school girl Kim MacAfee Ann Margret goodbye. <br /> <br /> Nominated for 2 Academy Awards.<br /> <br /> 1 - 9 x 12 inches 1 - 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus edgewear and creasing to far corners. <br /> <br /> Godard Histoires du cinema. Columbia Pictures unknown
1995166472Santa Monica: Beacon Communications 1995. Draft script for the 1997 film.<br /> <br /> Communists hijack Air Force One with the First Lady and her daughter onboard forcing the president to decide whether he will break his vow never to capitulate to terrorist demands or sacrifice the lives of his family. Nominated for two Academy Awards.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Washington DC throughout California and in Cleveland and Mansfield Ohio in the US and in Moscow Russia. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated August 22 1995 with credit for screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Beacon Communications unknown
1979167522Los Angeles: Lorimar 1979. Production script for the 1980 film created for internal use just prior to the commencement of shooting with Lorimar Studios wrappers but also with copied punch holes throughout see images. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 22. Laid in with the script is a three-page synopsis internal reading "NOT FOR PUBLICATION" with an annotation in manuscript ink on the first page noting "File." <br /> <br /> Based on the 1970 novel by screenwriter Jerzy Kosinski. Peter Sellers' final film and the last unqualified success of director Hal Ashby's all too brief career. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas with Sellers receiving a Best Actor nomination. <br /> <br /> White generic Lorimar wrappers. Title page present dated January 10 1979 with credits for Kosinski and screenwriter Robert C. Jones. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 864. Ebert II. Lorimar unknown
1969149604Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship the other with actors Robert Forster Peter Bonerz and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures the other with the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso.<br /> <br /> A hardened and dubiously ethical television cameraman finds out he is being watched by the FBI amidst the tumultuous protests taking place around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Highly influential for its groundbreaking use of factual historical events interspersed with fictional narrative.<br /> <br /> Featuring early music by Frank Zappa's band Mothers of Invention and addressing underlying social issues of race gender and poverty the film frankly depicted much of the growing countercultural movement of the late 1960s even going so far as to use real-life footage of civil disobedience occurring in 1968 Chicago. Due to its startlingly political narrative as well as nudity and language the film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA though by 1970 this would be downgraded to an R. <br /> <br /> One photograph 10 x 8 inches one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 658. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960149725N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1960 French film showing actors Charles Vanel and Brigitte Bardot. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso regarding layout along with the stamp of Parimage agency and ICI Paris.<br /> <br /> A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover forcing her to reflect on her memories of their turbulent relationship. <br /> <br /> Set in Paris.<br /> <br /> 11 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with a few touch-ups on the recto for press use. N.p. unknown
1932149643N.p.: N.p. 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film showing actors Paul Muni George Raft Karen Morley Purnell Pratt and others.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" released only a few months prior generally considered to be the quintessential American gangster film one that Capone himself came to embrace and even screen in his home.<br /> <br /> Set in Chicago.<br /> <br /> Both photos 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine and Very Good plus respectively. First photo Muni and Morley dancing has two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with conservator's tape on the verso.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Penzler 101. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1953130748Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties changing both the time and motivation for the raid. In the film a group of Confederate POWs escape across the US-Canada border to plan an attack on St. Albans Vermont. They send ahead of them a spy who begins to question the ethics of their mission. <br /> <br /> Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as Revised Shooting Final on the front wrapper dated December 10 1953. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated December 10 1953 noted as Revised Shooting Final with credit for screenwriter Boehm. 116 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12-12-53 and 1-6-54. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Shooting Schedule: 10 leaves with annotations. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1952149504Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1952. Eight vintage reference photographs seven borderless from the 1952 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipes on the verso and all with manuscript ink and pencil annotations as well as the stamp of Svensk Filmindustri.<br /> <br /> While vacationing at a summer home four sisters-in-law tell each other stories from their respective marriages ranging from illicit affairs to elopement to immaculate conception. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden and Paris.<br /> <br /> Six photographs 7.5 x 6 inches one photograph 4.5 x 5.5 inches and one photograph 5.5 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1963149582London: Gala Film Distributors 1963. Eight vintage series contact print photographs from the 1963 film. Three images per print amounting to 24 complete images.<br /> <br /> Two estranged sisters Ester and Anna and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to an unnamed Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka. <br /> <br /> The third in a series of thematically related films by Bergman following "Through a Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Winter Light" 1963.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Dalarnas Ian Sweden.<br /> <br /> 3.75 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 211. Ebert III. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1948142958New York: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th1948 CBS radio adaptation. Manuscript ink on front wrapper noting title screenwriter Daniel Tardash and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel. <br /> <br /> Daniel Taradash would go on win an Academy Award for his 1954 adaptation of "From Here it Eternity." <br /> <br /> Set in 1840s France. <br /> <br /> Red untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter Daniel Tardash. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1968164198Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage banner poster for US release of the 1967 Japanese-American kaiju film. Rare in this size format.<br /> <br /> The fourth film in the King Kong franchise. Loosely based on the animated Rankin/Bass' television series "The King Kong Show" the first anime-based series produced in Japan for an American company which was aired on ABC from 1966 through 1969 and the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong preceded by the 1963 film "King Kong vs. Godzilla" until the 2021 film "Godzilla vs. Kong." <br /> <br /> A robot duplicate of King Kong Mechani-Kong is manufactured to dig for the highly radioactive Element X. When Mechani-Kong is unable to dig for the material the evil Doctor Who and Madame Piranha decide to kidnap the real Kong.<br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with a chip missing at the top left corner several closed tears to the bottom right margin and cello and paper tape repairs to the verso of the bottom right. Colors bright and unfaded. Universal Pictures unknown
1987152834Santa Monica CA: Home Box Office HBO 1987. Second Draft script for the 1987 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1983 novel by William Kennedy who also wrote the screenplay about an alcoholic drifter who returns to his hometown to meet his lover and drinking companion. Nominated for two Academy Awards. <br /> <br /> Silver generic Taft Entertainment Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated January 21 1987 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter and novelist William Kennedy and director Hector Babenco. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated 1/12/87. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown
1967159120N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1967 film. <br /> <br /> A masterpiece of French cinema. Using his own money director Jacques Tati meticulously constructed a second "Paris" outside of Paris for the third-and most magnificent-of the four Hulot films following "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" 1953 and "Mon Oncle" 1958. The third feature finds him in the much-modernized heart of the city with its complexities unfolding revolving deconstructing and reconstructing before his eyes. <br /> <br /> Set in Paris.<br /> <br /> Approximately 9.5 x 12 inches. Light wear at the corners else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
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
