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1967150244N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless black and white photographs from the set of the 1967 film. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer James Johnson. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Truman Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Most Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one Very Good with a tear to the top right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1970163450Hollywood: Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures 1970. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the title page and three leaves of the script.<br /> <br /> While waiting for the results from a pregnancy test a precocious high school senior decides to leave her family older lover and boyfriend behind and hitchhike to Big Sur California with her best friend.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers noted as copy No. 23 in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as Revised Final Draft with credit for screenwriter David Allen Dixon. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures unknown
1961149449Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation 1961. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente Harvey Evans Susan Oakes Bert Michaels Tommy Abbott and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."<br/><br/>Winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno.<br/><br/>Set in New York's West Side shot on location in New York and California. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing to the corners. United Artists / Mirisch Corporation unknown books
1977145347Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Photocopied and cobbled together during production for used by actress Elizabeth Rogers who played Priscilla in the film with her name in holograph ink on the title page and holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout.<br/><br/>Ron Howard's directorial debut made during his brief tutelage under Roger Corman. A young couple steals a car and elopes to Las Vegas after her wealthy family dissaproves of their relationship pursued by her parents a jealous admirerer and a host of people seeking a reward for their return. <br/><br/>Title page integral to front wrapper dated Feb. 20 1977 with credits for filmmakers Ron and Rance Howard. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
1960151136London: J. Arthur Rank 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 film. Laid in with the script is a 36-leaf gathering of revision pages on pink stock bound with a single staple on the top left corner dated 5.4.60. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A Catholic priest is sent to establish a parish in a rural Mexican town under the control of a ruthless but educated bandit. <br /> <br /> Set in Mexico shot on location in Spain.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 15-3-60. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated 18th March 1960 with credits for screenwriter Nigel Balchin. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
1971146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. <br/><br/>Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded.<br/><br/>Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1980161661Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film seen here under the working title "Hawks." Copy belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz with his name in manuscript ink on several pages and his profuse annotations throughout.<br /> <br /> Two undercover New York police officers are hired to take down a deadly European terrorist. Actor Rutger Hauer's first American feature film.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City London and Paris. <br /> <br /> Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated noted as Final Draft Screenplay and production No. 02133 with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/14/80 and 3/16/80. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a small chip on the top right corner of the final leaf bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1964166462N.p.: N.p. 1964. Draft script for Season 2 Episode 7 of the 1963-1965 television series. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with a penciled drawing with annotations on the rear wrapper laying out a set design.<br /> <br /> In the year 2024 astronauts visiting Mars are picked off one by one by mysterious "Sand-Beasts" shark-like monsters that live and travel under the planet's surface. Loosely based on a short story by screenwriter Jerry Sohl which originally appeared in "Imaginative Tales" magazine in September of 1955. <br /> <br /> Lacking front wrapper but with rear wrapper present. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus rear wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969149517Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: 1 a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan 2 a shot of director Arthur Penn producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles 3 a shot of McLanahan Penn and actress Patricia Quinn working on a scene 4 Guthrie with Quinn and 5 Guthrie with a donkey and members of the cast.<br /> <br /> Based on Arlo Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1970137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. <br/><br/>Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. <br/><br/>Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown books
1981149812Budapest: Csoma Bela - MOKEP 1981. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1981 Hungarian film here under its Hungarian title "Szabadgyalog." <br/><br/>A talented but destructive alcoholic and apathetic violinist Andras Andras Szabo who also composed music for the film destroys his marriage is kicked out of music school and devolves from creating music to becoming a disc jockey in Tarr's metaphoric commentary on Hungarian cinema and politics. Bela Tarr's second feature film following his 1979 debut "Family Nest." <br/><br/>15.25 x 22.25 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Csoma Bela - MOKEP unknown books
1958145977Los Angeles: American-International Pictures 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 4 Episode 13 Sept 14 1991 where Gordon was resurrected as a master of bad taste.<br/><br/>Small-town teenagers and their high school science teacher fight a gigantic mutant spider. The last of the "giant creature" films directed by Gordon from the 1950s. In an attempt to ride on the success of "The Fly" which debuted a few months earlier in 1958 the film's working title "The Spider" replaced "Earth vs. the Spider" on most of its promotional materials. The screen title however was never officially changed.<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 48. Title page integral to the distribution page with receipt intact dated April 29 1958 with credits for screenwriters Laszlo Gorog and George Worthing Yates and story credit to Bert I. Gordon. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/9/58. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with some edgewear and faint tidemarks to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. American-International Pictures unknown books
1954145765Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1954. Shooting script for the 1955 film noir here under the working title "Code 3" with the working title crossed through on the front wrapper and "Dial Red O" written above it twice once in manuscript pencil and once in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with annotations throughout in red pencil primarily noting locations or props. <br /> <br /> The first in a series of five noir entries made between 1955-1957 featuring Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department. In the first two films in the series including this one the character's name is Andy Flynn and for the remaining three films his name was changed to Andy Doyle as it turned out there was an actual officer named Andy Flynn working in L.A. law enforcement at the time. One of the best examples of the well crafted low-budget crime films produced by Allied Artists the B-movie studio that emerged from the Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures in 1952. <br /> <br /> Printed beige titled wrapper with credits for director and screenwriter Dan Ullman and a Sunset Script Service stamp on the verso of the rear wrapper. Distribution page present with receipt removed dated October 29 1954. 104 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication with Blue revision pages throughout dated 11-2-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good Plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Martin 103. Selby US. Spicer US. Allied Artists unknown
1966136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. <br/><br/>Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1979149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in holograph marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in holograph ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set.<br/><br/>Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell.<br/><br/>Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one.<br/><br/>Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown books
1985168092N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1985 French-Belgian film showing Chantal Akerman in the process of disrobing. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.<br /> <br /> Akerman's debut groundbreaking feature film an intimate and strikingly minimal exploration of sexuality and femininity. <br /> <br /> 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Eclipse 19. N.p. unknown
1918158606N.p.: N.p. 1918. Vintage borderless vernacular photograph of actor Charlie Chaplin writer Upton Sinclair and editor and publisher Rob Wagner on the set of the 1918 silent film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso identifying subjects. <br /> <br /> Wagner was the editor and publisher of "Script" a left-leaning weekly literary film magazine published in Beverly Hills between 1929 and 1949. A lifelong Socialist and advocate for progressive causes Wagner used "Script" to give a voice to blacklisted screenwriters including Dalton Trumbo and Gordon Kahn and prominent leftists including Sinclair Max Eastman and William C. deMille. <br /> <br /> Wagner served as something of a father figure to Chaplin who was about 17 years Wagner's junior after the two men met sometime in the mid-1910s. The pair formed a close friendship with Wagner serving as Chaplin's part-time secretary for a period and accompanying the actor on his Third Liberty Loan tour through the American south in 1918. Wagner introduced Chaplin to Sinclair and Max Eastman and together the three writers exerted a strong influence over Chaplin's political world view. Chaplin would go on to co-found the Motion Picture Relief Fund which later became the Motion Picture and Television Fund with Wagner in 1929. <br /> <br /> Approximately 5 x 4 inches. About Near Fine lightly age toned. N.p. unknown
1965166067London: Paramount Film Service 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the title page and manuscript pencil and marker annotations on nearly every page with clippings of the shooting schedule and set requirements frequently affixed to the verso of the opposing page and two pencil illustrations of the house and cottage from the film on the verso of the last page.<br /> <br /> George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films.<br /> <br /> Michael Parks stars as an arrogant young art student who seduces the overprotective mother of his friend played by a stunning Jennifer Jones.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Middlesex and London. <br /> <br /> Purple untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated 16 July 1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Millard Lampell. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 14 September 1965 and 31 August 1965. Unbound as issued. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Paramount Film Service unknown
1942128826Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Nominated for two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Third of the seven classic and highly successful "Road" movies Bob Hope made with Bing Crosby. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers dated February 4 1942 with credits for screenwriters. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 130 leaves on yellow stock mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 213. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1981142567Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / Charles H. Schneer Productions / Peerford 1981. Final Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. British script for the US-UK co-production with the address of UK production company Peerford on the title page. <br/><br/>The final film to feature creature design and visual effects by pioneering stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen a fitting send off to both him and the special effects techniques that stretch back through film history to "King Kong" 1933 "The Lost World" 1925 and beyond but had already been eclipsed in the public imagination by the digital effects of "Star Wars" four years earlier. Based loosely on the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda. Remade in 2010 without any of the charm of the original. <br/><br/>Set in Ancient Greece shot on location in the UK Spain Italy and Malta. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers with title window die-cut in the British style. Title page present noted as Final Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Beverly Cross. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Charles H. Schneer Productions / Peerford unknown books
1935129885N.p.: Grand National Pictures 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder" here under the working title and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace Edgar Wallace's son with his name and manuscript annotations in pencil on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1925 collection of short stories "The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder" by Edgar Wallace. The second Mr. Reeder film this time seeing the absentminded detective investigate a gang of counterfeiters. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1935 with credit for writer Wallace. 78 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a teal cord. <br /> <br /> Okuda 71. Grand National Pictures unknown
1958148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with cropping annotations in blue holograph wax pencil to five images.<br/><br/>Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1956148402N.p.: Golden State Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film belonging to actress Adele Jergens with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper and printed title inked over both in holograph ink. Annotations throughout striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny played by Jergens in holograph ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips all along the top page edges still in place with many pages dog-eared.<br/><br/>Jergens' career began after being named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair after which she briefly worked as a Rockette being named the Number One Showgirl in New York City and was understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1942 Broadway show "Star and Garter." In 1944 she landed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went on to act in over 50 films over the next twelve years. Jergins did two films following "Girls in Prison" George Blair's "Fighting Trouble" 1956 and Edward L. Cahn's "Runaway Daughters" 1956 before retiring from acting in late 1956.<br/><br/>Anne Carson Joan Taylor convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery she claims she's innocent of finds herself in prison with three cellmates the hardened Jenny Jergens boss of the other inmates the mentally delusional Dorothy Phyllis Coates and sweet-talking Melanee Helen Gilbert.<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lou Rusoff producer Alex Gordon and director Edward L. Cahn. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 2/21/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with slight toning at the edges and small dampstain on right center bound internally with three gold brads. Golden State Productions unknown books
1946155153Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film noir. Copy belonging to actor Robert Keith with his name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper and his manuscript pencil annotations on the inside front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Based on a 1945 article by Fulton Oursler writing as Anthony Abbot in turn based on the 1924 case of a homeless man wrongly accused of murdering a beloved small-town priest. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Connecticut and New York. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers dated September 6 1946 noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper. Distribution page present with receipt intact stamped copy No. 135. Title page present dated September 6. 1946 noted as Revised Final script with credits for screenwriter Richard Murphy and story credit to Anthony Abbot. 173 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/18/46 and 9/25/46. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with slight yapping bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Eureka Masters of Cinema 89. Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1976141340N.p.: N.p. 1976. Original Treatment script for the 1977 Italian giallo film. <br/><br/>Director John Huston's copy. Laid in is a typed letter signed dated January 28 1977 from noted agent Paul Kohner on Kohner's stationery encouraging Huston to read the script and consider directing the film: "Dear John / Please find enclosed copy of the screenplay of PYJAMA GIRL / the Australian project about which we spoke this evening. / Fondly / Paul / P.S. / This is not yet a firm offer John but it may well be one by Monday."<br/><br/>Huston did not direct the film instead it became an Italian-Spanish co-production shot in Australia and directed by Flavio Mogherini based on one of Australia's most famous unsolved murders. <br/><br/>A little seen but curious entry into the giallo canon lacking the usual shocking moments of most giallos the film would not receive a wide release or any at all in the US until 2006 DVD by Blue Underground <br/><br/>Teal titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 1976 with credits for screenwriters Pupi Avati Antonio Avati and Flavio Mogherini. 133 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 130. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with silver spring binding. <br/><br/>Blue Underground. Howarth So Deadly So Perverse II. N.p. unknown books
