Stuart Cooper (director, screenwriter); Christopher Hudson (screenwriter); Nicholas Ball (starring)Biblio.com
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1974144624New York: Janus Films 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film.<br /> <br /> A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock with about half of the film comprised of archival footage of British training missions and the London Blitz borrowed from the Imperial War Museum in London director Stuart Cooper had originally intended to create a documentary though his aims changed as his research expanded. An underappreciated film with no distribution in the US until Janus re-released the film in 2006. Restored and released by the Criterion Collection in 2014.<br /> <br /> Set in England and France shot on location in England. <br /> <br /> Tall dark green wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriters Stuart Cooper and Christopher Hudson. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 382. Janus Films unknown
1961163707N.p.: Topaz Film Corporation 1961. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1960 British film originally released in the UK as "Too Hot to Handle." Uncommon in this format.<br /> <br /> Jayne Mansfield stars as showgirl Midnight Franklin headliner at the Pink Flamingo club in Soho run by her tough guy boyfriend Johnny Solos. When Johnny starts getting threats and demands for protection money from a rival club owner he fights back. <br /> <br /> Featuring famously risqué musical numbers featuring Mansfield in see-through clothing some frames from which were published in Playboy magazine and were visually altered for the US release to meet censor requirements.<br /> <br /> 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with some rubbing to the lower left and upper right causing modest color loss. Bright and unfaded. <br /> <br /> Grant UK. Topaz Film Corporation unknown
1977161031N.p.: N.p. 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film copy belonging to unidentified cast or crew member George Santander with the manuscript ink annotation of "Geo. Santander" and the manuscript marker annotation of copy number "96" on the front wrapper with manuscript ink and red pencil annotations on 15 pages and four groupings of two and three pages bound with paperclips on pages 36 through 46.<br /> <br /> Loosely based on the 1974 off-Broadway play "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road" with a book by Robin Wagner and Tom O'Horgan and directed by O'Horgan. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a 1970s film musical represented by a star-studded ensemble with appearances by Donald Pleasence George Burns the only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song Steve Martin Alice Cooper Jack Bruce Keith Carradine Carol Channing Donovan Leif Garrett Etta James Dr. John and music groups Aerosmith as the "Future Villain Band" and Earth Wind and Fire. The Fab Four are conceptually represented by Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees.<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 21 1977 noted as REVISED DRAFT. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Carlson Destroy All Movies. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. N.p. unknown
1969135248Beverly Hills CA: Lorimar Productions / AVCO Embassy Pictures 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to Phil Abramson set director for the film with his name in manuscript ink on a couple of pages and manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in is a folded photocopied shooting schedule sheet with photocopied annotations and "Phil 140" in manuscript pencil at the top. <br /> <br /> Based on Thomas McGuane's 1968 debut novel. Vernor Stanton Fields an unstable patrician iconoclast and his lifelong friend James Quinn Coster engage in various drug-fueled adventures often violent in nature. The two aim to destabilize the Centennial Club the summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan families where they are members. Featuring a brief appearance by a pre-"Exorcist" Linda Blair. <br /> <br /> Set in Michigan shot on location in Hot Springs Arkansas. <br /> <br /> Salmon titled wrappers noted as REV. FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 4 1969. Title page present identical on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Semple Jr. and novelist McGuane. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116 plus a laid-in shooting sheet dated Jan. 17 1970. Mechanical duplication with pink blue white and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/24/69 and 12/3/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Lorimar Productions / AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown
1972144513Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. With actor Betty Anne Rees' first name and phone number in manuscript ink on the front wrapper.<br /> <br /> Karen Claudia Jennings quits her job at a cannery and joins a roller derby team. She quickly clashes with Mickey Betty Anne Rees the star skater and stirs jealousy amongst the whole team as she dominates the rink. Following in the wake of the successful roller derby film "Kansas City Bomber" released earlier the same year starring Raquel Welch. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Howard R. Cohen and Vernon Zimmerman. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mechanical duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 9/17. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1981160661N.p.: N.p. 1981. Collection of ten vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1981 film including six in black-and-white and four in color. Black-and-white photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on the classic 1866 novella. In nineteenth-century London a party guest turns up dead at a respectable couple's engagement gathering leading the remaining guests into a whirlpool of sex and debauchery in pursuit of the culprit. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1979151554Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed outer folder containing 13 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material.<br /> <br /> Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between director Werner Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula.<br /> <br /> Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. <br /> <br /> Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine.<br /> <br /> BFI 2030. Ebert IV. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967149499London: Contemporary Films 1967. Eight vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 French anthology film. With printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the verso. Also included with the set is a two-page mimeographally duplicated press pamphlet in English.<br /> <br /> An anti-war anthology documentary film by seven prominent French directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.<br /> <br /> Shot in New York City.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better. Contemporary Films unknown
1969152346N.p.: N.p. 1969. Six vintage borderless satin-finish photographs from the 1969 film. <br /> <br /> Woody Allen's directorial debut the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell a terribly inept bank robber whose life is told documentary-style with an FBI voiceover as well as interviews with his family and friends. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. <br /> <br /> 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969145850Burbank CA: Palomar Pictures 1969. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Woody Allen's mug shot from the 1969 film. <br /> <br /> Woody Allen's first film as a director one of the great American comedies the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison.<br /> <br /> 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Palomar Pictures unknown
1965154957Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor-screenwriter Woody Allen from the 1965 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso and the stamp of photographer Louis Goldman along with Goldman's signature just below his stamp.<br /> <br /> Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter about a soon-to-be-married womanizer as he attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1970153963N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film both attributed to the film's photographer Chris Marker. One photograph shows director Costa-Gavras the other a crew member with a clapboard. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London a defendant in the violent antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1952. <br /> <br /> Reference photographs taken by Costa-Gavras' friend and colleague Chris Marker who would go on to become an important figure in the French New Wave in his own right directing "A Grin Without a Cat" 1977 and "Sans Soleil" 1983. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Nord Alpes-Maritimes and Pas-de-Calais France. <br /> <br /> 9 x 6.25 inches. About Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 759. N.p. unknown
1959151411N.p.: N.p. 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series which originally aired on February 5 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper and his manuscript ink annotations throughout noting deletions and substantive changes. <br /> <br /> A kinescope of the program survived and is available for viewing only at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Based on Michel del Castillo's autobiographical 1957 novel "Tanguy." A young Spanish-French refugee is captured by the Nazis and interned in a concentration camp but finds happiness in Spain after the war. An early effort from the great George Roy Hill who was best known in the ensuing years for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 1969 and "The Sting" 1973. <br /> <br /> Set in France and Germany. <br /> <br /> Housed in an untitled black spring binder. Title page present dated 1-19-59 with credits for director George Roy Hill novelist Michel del Castillo and screenwriter Irving Gaynor Neiman. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/23/59 and 2-3-59. Pages Near Fine binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1955162913N.p.: Dell Publishing 1955. Vintage oversize satin finish borderless photograph of actor Marlon Brando on the set of the 1955 film. Stamp of Dell Publishing on the verso with annotations in manuscript pencil crediting photographer Peter Basch. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1950 Broadway musical in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br /> <br /> Set in New York and Havana. <br /> <br /> From the archive of the PIX Agency an American 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 /> 11 x 14 inches with wide top and bottom margins archivally matted in a 16 x 20 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good plus with a small splash on the bottom edge. Dell Publishing unknown
1962156287Tokyo: Shochiku 1962. Vintage program for the US release of the classic 1962 Japanese film. Text and titles in English. <br /> <br /> A down-on-his-luck veteran searching for a place to commit suicide wanders into the courtyard of a feudal lord where he is forced to reveal the story behind his current circumstances. Director Masaki Kobayashi's masterpiece considered one of the finest samurai films ever made skewering the hypocrisy of the feudal system and the empty glory of samurai culture. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Kyoto. <br /> <br /> 8 x 11 inches. 8 pages folded. Very Good plus lightly creased. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 302. Ebert IV. Eureka Masters of Cinema 20. Shochiku unknown
1929151442Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 comedy short film. <br /> <br /> Stan and Ollie mistakenly think a reward for a stolen painting is for a horse with the same name leading to a series of slapstick misadventures when they return the horse instead of the painting. Shot as a silent but issued with synchronized music and sound effects to theatres equipped for sound. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light curling and the occasional light crease. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1957162245Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Eight vintage photographs from the 1957 film including one reference photograph and seven studio still photographs. <br /> <br /> One of the great antiwar films based on the 1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb about a group of French soldiers who are charged with cowardice after refusing to complete a suicidal attack during World War I.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Good with moderate fading and cracking to the finish throughout and several with chips and bruises at the edges.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 538. United Artists unknown
197270572Los Angeles: Betnic Productions Inc 1972. Wraps. Very good. Revised Draft of this unproduced screenplay. Veteran producer Frank P. Rosenberg hired Ernest Tidyman 1928-84 to adapt Jeanne Rejaunier's best-selling novel which deals with the glamourous sometimes sleazy life of topflight New York fashion models. Tidyman began work on the project in 1970 immediately prior to writing the screenplays for Shaft 1971 based on his 1970 novel and French Connection 1971 which established him as one of the top screenwriters in the business. The production was ultimately abandoned. However this draft includes casting notes with potential candidates for each role listed in order of preference - for instance the actresses targeted for the role of Charlene include Eleanor Parker Bette Davis Joan Crawford Susan Hayward Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury - as well as brief bios of the preferred producer Gordon Oliver director Gordon Douglas and production manager Nate Barrager. Green titled vinyl wrappers noted as "Revised Draft" on the title page which is dated November 8 1972 and includes credits for Tidyman Rejaunier and Betnic Productions. 169 mimeographed pages with the last page numbered 154. The contents are crisp and clean. Some very light edgewear to the wrappers which are bound with two brads with the remnants of a paper label to the spine; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates no copies. Betnic Productions Inc unknown
1938151432New York: Filmarte 1938. Vintage program for the US premiere of the 1937 French film which opened at the Filmarte Theatre in New York on September 12 1938. <br /> <br /> A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. <br /> <br /> 5.5 x 8.75 inches. One leaf bi-fold. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown
1959150777N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica on the set of the 1959 film. Italian "Tele Foto" stamp on verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the semi-autobiographical 1950 Italian novel "Il generale Della Rovere" by Indro Montanelli. Petty con man Victorio Bardone De Sica is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a dead Resistance leader to extract information from his fellow inmates and identify another Resistance leader.<br /> <br /> Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.<br /> <br /> Set in Genoa Italy shot on location in Rome Italy. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Very small crease in lower left corner else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 463. N.p. unknown
1977168492N.p.: N.p. 1977. Five vintage borderless reference photographs for the 1977 film including two showing director Agnes Varda on the set. All five with French press stamps and layout annotations on the verso.<br /> <br /> A remarkable film depicting the lifelong friendship of two dissimilar but close-knit French women beginning when one helps the other raise money for an abortion. <br /> <br /> Agnes Varda an important and influential French director writer and artist garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in France. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963160535Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1963 film showing director Alfred Hitchcock talking with electronic musician Oskar Sala who composed the film's iconic soundtrack. Printed mimeo snipe in French affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Hitchcock's last great film a grim psychological study made all the more terrifying by the lack of motivation assigned to its violence. <br /> <br /> Shot in various locations throughout California including Bodega Bay Bloomfield Valley Ford the Venice Canals and Union Square in San Francisco. <br /> <br /> 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1972155215N.p.: N.p. 1972. Treatment script for the 1973 3-D sexploitation film seen here under the working title "International Stewardesses." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Alan Colberg with "Property of Alan Colberg c/o Stereo Vision" in manuscript pencil annotation on the title page and his additional annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are an original photograph and large format negative of the illustration of the five lead stewardesses used in the film's marketing campaign.<br /> <br /> Sequel to the successful 1969 3-D softcore comedy film "The Stewardesses" about twelve beautiful stewardesses who are chosen for a three week trip around the world aboard a supersonic airplane. A largely forgotten sequel purportedly attributable to the cost-cutting measures of distributor company Sherpix in post-production.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Hong Kong Lisbon Athens and Rome. <br /> <br /> Green untitled wrappers with a titled label. Title page present with screenplay preparation date of March 1972 noted as a narrative outline with credits for screenwriter Allan Silliphant. 32 leaves with last page of text unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with first three pages with a 2 to 3 inch slice to the top center wrapper Very Good plus with a three inch slice to the top center bound internally with three metal brads.<br /> <br /> Photograph and Negative 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Nilsen Warped and Faded. N.p. unknown
1970158489N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph of actors Jane Forth Joe Dallesandro and Holly Woodlawn with director Paul Morrissey on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe and "Auditing Dept." stamp on the verso dated August 1 1970.<br /> <br /> Actor Joe Dallesandro's fifth film with Morrissey and the film debuts of Factory regulars Holly Woodlawn in a role that George Cukor unsuccessfully put forth as a write-in candidate for an Academy Award and 17-year-old model Jane Forth. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. About Fine with a hint of wear at the corners. N.p. unknown
1993158525Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1993. First Draft script and Revised First Draft script for the 1994 film. First Draft script dated April 12 1993 and Revised First Draft script dated July 30 1993.<br /> <br /> Based on Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel about the eponymous black horse and his varied experiences in England in the 1800s. The fifth film adaptation of Sewell's novel.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in London Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire and Hampshire England.<br /> <br /> First Draft:<br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated April 12 1993 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for director-screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads.<br /> <br /> Revised First Draft:<br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated July 30 1993 noted as REVISED / FIRST DRAFT with credit for director-screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 16 and September 13 1993. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a silver prong. Warner Brothers unknown
