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1964131051Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Deluxe working script belonging to uncredited crew member William Todd Mason with his name and phone number in holograph ink on the title page and some brief penciled annotations on three pages. Laid in is a corner stapled three page Staff and Crew list with two name additions in holograph red ink on the second page. <br/><br/>Included is a vintage studio still photograph from the film. <br/><br/>An early draft issued nearly two years prior to the film's October 1965 release with substantial differences from the finished film. <br/><br/>The sister film to "Dr. Strangelove" and in the eyes of many just as much a masterpiece of exquisitely wrought black humor. Made in the US but in a dense British-American style. Ostensibly a satire on the funeral business in which a young British poet winds up in a Hollywood cemetery as part of an inheritance arrangement-but in reality a satire of Hollywood itself as well as the Western malaise of the mid 1960s. <br/><br/>Script: Self wrappers presumably as this draft was issued. Title page present rubber stamped copy No. 70 dated July 21 1964 with credits for screenwriters Southern and Isherwood. 158 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7-22-64. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Staff and Crew listing: two leaves slightly worn with annotations on the second page. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1924137520Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus open a curiosity shop and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Robbins would see another of his short stories "Spurs" adapted by Browning as the classic 1932 film "Freaks."<br/><br/>This is the first of two adaptations being a silent starring Lon Chaney as Professor Echo the ventriloquist Victor McLaglen as Hercules the strongman and Harry Earles as Tweedledee the dwarf. The second version was directed by Jack Conway in 1930 as a talkie with Chaney and Earles reprising their roles and Ivan Linow as Hercules. <br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as copy No. 2 in holograph ink and production No. 1505 dated 12/20/24 with credits for screenwriter Young. Title page present undated with credits for writer Robbins and screenwriter Young. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Multilith reproduction. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1985149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese.<br/><br/>Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. <br/><br/>Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
1966140604Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell with his manuscript annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. <br /> <br /> Mary Ellen Bute's final film and the first cinematic adaptation of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction. Shot over a two year period Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband Ted Nemeth were longtime collaborators and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965 it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City and Dublin. <br /> <br /> Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 4 1963 and December 3 1962 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute Romana Javitz and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding. Expanding Cinema unknown
1968137925Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs a trade advertisement a film program and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III with images prominently featuring Ordway production designer Harry Lange Arthur C. Clarke Stanley Kubrick and others. One photograph has Ordway's name written on the recto in silver marker. All photographs mounted on matte board as issued. <br/><br/>Ordway and Clarke began working together on matters of science fact in 1951 and Clarke personally invited him to be the factual advisor on the film. <br/><br/>Kubrick's sprawling science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. Along with "Blade Runner" Kubrick's masterpiece forever altered the standard for visual and conceptual sophistication in science fiction and genre films. The pre-production for the film set standards as well as Kubrick hired one of the greatest science fiction authors of the 1960s Arthur C. Clarke to be his screenwriter and hired over 20 scientists like Ordway to consult on every detail of the film. The film's high degree of scientific accuracy coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films ever made. The development of the film was kept strictly under wraps and behind-the-scenes material of any kind is rare. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for three others including Best Director. Set in space shot on location in Scotland England Arizona and Utah. <br/><br/>Photographs 8 x 10 inches mounted on 11 x 14 inch matte board. Trade advertisement 9 x 12 inches full color creased. Souvenir booklet 7.25 x 16 inches full color 12 leaves saddle stapled folded. Program 5.5 x 8.5 inches black and white saddle stapled single leaf. Very Good to Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1966141453Tokyo: Toho Company 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy including his stepdaughter stepson mistress and wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 207. Toho Company unknown books
1959148724Tokyo: Shochiku 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines.<br/><br/>Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults leading to a number of comic misunderstandings in their tight-knit community. <br/><br/>Set in a suburb of Tokyo.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly foxed with some wear to the binding with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 84. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Shochiku unknown books
1958141439Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
1958141432Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Title based on a song popularized by the leading actor Frank Nagai. A comedy featuring a drugstore owner who begins an extramarital affair when his wife and child go on vacation. <br/><br/>White illustrated titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in manuscript ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in manuscript marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in manuscript ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party.<br /> <br /> Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Colorado and California. <br /> <br /> Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown
1973150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in holograph marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in holograph ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party.<br/><br/>Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Colorado and California. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown books
1935WRCLIT62273Los Angeles: The Author 1935. Six volumes. Quarto. Chiefly carbon typescript but also original typescript the latter with extensive manuscript revisions and notations. Each unit bradbound or stapled into typescript wrappers. Some use wrappers a bit frayed at edges and chipped at spines last wrapper separated at spine but typescripts in generally very good order consistent with use. A fine contiguous sequence of scripts tracing the development of this film from its earliest stages through the final working draft of Cole's screenplay and the intercession of another writer. The 1935 film directed by D. Ross Lederman was released under the title TOO TOUGH TO KILL and starred Victor Jory Sally O'Neill Ward Bond et al. The film as conceived by Cole is a depiction of an investigation into labor strife at a tunnel and aqueduct construction site near Morongo California. The film as finally released was co-credited to Cole and Jay Griffin based on a story by Robert Speers. However with the exception of the last item the material in this archive is credited throughout solely to Lester Cole and includes the following: a Treatment 122 leaves carbon typescript; b First Draft Screenplay 22 July 191 leaves carbon typescript with scattered revisions and annotations in pencil; c Second Draft Screenplay 30 July 110 leaves carbon typescript with scattered pencil queries comments and alterations; d Third Draft Screenplay 2 August 1104 leaves carbon typescript; e Fourth Draft Screenplay 5 August 1104 leaves carbon typescript; and f Fourth Draft Screenplay altered in manuscript to read "Final Working Copy" 5 August ca. 104 leaves plus lettered inserts and other variations largely original typescript but some carbon very heavily revised throughout in pencil in at least two hands. The first four items are designated in manuscript with the name of Ben Pivar the production supervisor of record for the film. The last bears the ownership signature of J. Griffin Jay and would obviously appear to be the copy of Cole's draft Jay utilized for the start if not the bulk of the revisions and rewrites that earned him co-credit. Cole was one of the cofounders of the Screen Writers Guild and in 1934 joined the CPA. Like his other colleagues known as the "Hollywood Ten" Cole refused to cooperate with the HUAC in 1947 was sentenced to a year in prison and a fine and was placed on the Blacklist. He continued to work sporadically under pennames and his last major film BORN FREE was so credited. Jay had his own substantial list of screenwriting credits chiefly in the genres of adventure science fiction and horror films. A fine coherent and contiguous archive the sort seldom preserved intact over the passage of more than 75 years. The Author] unknown books
168810N.p.: Silverworld Films 1980. Large archive including two heavily annotated Revised Draft scripts one lined 30 pages of storyboards a large blueprint of the military compound in the film story two maps a "The Dogs of War / New York" folder of location facts and contacts a 30-page shooting schedule and over 200 pages of daily revised shooting schedules call sheets and various memos from the 1980 film.<br /> <br /> Detail as follows:<br /> <br /> A heavily annotated Revised Draft script dated November 5 1979 with manuscript pencil ink marker and orange highlighter annotations on nearly every page.<br /> <br /> A heavily annotated Lined Revised Draft script dated February 12 1980 with manuscript ink and marker annotations on nearly every page. <br /> <br /> 30 matte-finish prints of storyboards most containing eight storyboards per page.<br /> <br /> A large blueprint of the military compound with several pencil and ink annotations.<br /> <br /> Two matte-finish prints of maps one of the final battle garrison and one of the Belize airstrip with annotations in blue ink.<br /> <br /> A folder with the label "The Dogs of War / New York" on the front wrapper containing a three page Memo six pages of New York shooting schedules 14 location fact sheets and a two-page location contact List.<br /> <br /> A 30 page Shooting Schedule and over 200 pages of daily Revised Shooting Schedules call sheets and memos many with manuscript ink annotations.<br /> <br /> Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1974 novel about a ruthless mercenary who after being tortured and deported is hired to lead a group of soldiers in a coup against a small African dictatorship so a British tycoon can plunder the nation's platinum resources.<br /> <br /> Set in the fictional African country of Zangaro shot on location in Belize City London Miami and New York.<br /> <br /> November 5 1979 Revised script:<br /> <br /> Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British fashion. Title page present dated November 5 1979 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Gary M. Devore and author Frederick Forsythe. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.<br /> <br /> February 12 1980 Draft script:<br /> <br /> Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated February 12 1980 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Gary M. Devore and author Frederick Forsythe. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication on blue leaves rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Storyboards and Maps: 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Blueprint: 48.5 x 25.25 inches folded. Very Good plus with light toning light edgewear pinholes tape shadows and cello tape at the extremities.<br /> <br /> "New York" Folder: Generic green folder 9 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Shooting Schedules Call Sheets and Memos: 8.5 x 11 inches 8 x 13 inches and 8.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus overall with wear commiserate with production use. Silverworld Films unknown
1939152809Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1939. Revised Final script for the 1939 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil and a single pencil annotation to the verso of page 147. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the early years of future US president Abraham Lincoln following his upbringing in a log cabin to his first loves to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield Illinois. <br/><br/>Set in Springfield.<br/><br/>Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 191 dated February 27 1939. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 27 1939 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and age-toned bound internally with three gold brads.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 320. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987152039N.p.: N.p. 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Ricki Lake with her holograph annotations throughout and xerographically duplicated inscriptions to Lake as intended when the script was bound from director John Waters actors Divine Shawn Thompson Debbie Harry Pia Zadora and others bound in before the script. With several production documents bound in after the script including a 34-page shooting schedule call sheets contact information for cast and crew and maps of Baltimore and a thank-you letter to Waters from Lake. <br/><br/>Cult independent director John Waters' most enduring film following a kindhearted "pleasantly plump" teenager who becomes an overnight sensation on a local television dance show and subsequently uses her newfound fame to speak out in support of integration. Basis for the Tony Award winning 2002 musical and subsequent 2007 film adaptation directed by Adam Shankman and starring Nikki Blonsky Michelle Pfeiffer and John Travolta. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Baltimore Maryland.<br/><br/>Black full leather binding with gilt titles and rule and Lake's name to the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1987 noted as Shooting Script with credits for director John Waters. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. With a small label to the bottom right corner of the inside front wrapper noting custom binding by Ronnie Gousman. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1930166622Paris: Studio 28 1930. Vintage review-program for Luis Buñuel's 1930 surrealist masterpiece created for the film's public premiere at Studio 28 cinema in Montmartre. Program in two parts bound dos-a-dos. Text in French.<br /> <br /> The first section of the review-program is dedicated to "L'Age d'or" presenting the film's scenario alongside subtitles and dialogue accompanied by a manifesto on surrealism and a catalog of 20 works by Max Ernst Salvador Dalí Man Ray and others which were exhibited alongside the film's screenings at Studio 28. <br /> <br /> The second part of the program is an overview of film programs at Studio 28 with stills from films by Epstein Ivens Melies and others. <br /> <br /> The violence of the uproar "L'Age d'Or" created remains almost as shocking as the film itself: days into the first screenings at Studio 28 on December 3 1930 the theatre was stormed by fascist youths enraged at the film's perceived anti-patriotic and anti-Christian message. Demonstrators threw ink at the screen shouted antisemitic death threats smashed the theatre windows and completely destroyed the exhibition of surrealist books and artwork in the foyer. In response the Board of Censors re-reviewed the film and on December 10 the film was banned from further public showings in France. The film's producers subsequently withdrew "L'Age d'or" from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than 40 years although three years later in 1933 the film was privately exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<br /> <br /> Page edges faintly foxed else about Near Fine in perfect-bound gold wrappers with a single annotation in manuscript ink censoring a line relating to one of the film's characters and Jesus Christ. Lacking the errata slip. Studio 28 unknown
1958141434Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One of members of the group does not belong there. <br/><br/>Orange titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Nikkatsu unknown books
155115Hollywood: Occult Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Working production copy housed in a black leather binder with production materials bound in before and after the script including handwritten cast and crew contact information and call sheets. <br /> <br /> A young woman joins a black magic coven governed by a psychic witch queen with dubious and eventually murderous intentions. Considered one of the best and arguably most polished releases from noted psychotronic Z-budget horror director Ted V. Mikels heavily inspired by "Rosemary's Baby" 1968 and the occult concerns of the Age of Aquarius. <br /> <br /> Pink titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for director-screenwriter Ted V. Mikels. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Nightmare USA. Occult Productions unknown
1972143600New York: Cannon Films 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film here under the working title "Zora." <br/><br/>Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov Candy Darling and Ondine experimental film icon Jack Smith and artist Susan Rothenberg as well as its being in the public domain which released it for frequent late night airings on local television. <br/><br/>Set in Massachusetts shot on location on Long Island. <br/><br/>Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriters Theodore Gershuny Jeffrey Konvitz Ira Teller and Ami Artzi. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Thrower Nightmare USA. Cannon Films unknown books
1948151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film noir. Text and titles in Japanese.<br /> <br /> The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding criticism of Americans leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles.<br /> <br /> Set in the slums of postwar Japan.<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. <br /> <br /> BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown
1962160922Tokyo: Toho / Kurosawa Productions 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese.<br /> <br /> A legendary Japanese noir based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes however that the boy they have taken is in fact the son of his chauffeur-and must decide whether he will bankrupt himself and his family in order to save a child that is not his own. A nuanced portrait of a man facing the potential destruction of his future further elevated by morally ambiguous characters and the gritty realism of its world. The fifteenth and penultimate film that leading actor Toshiro Mifune would make with director Akira Kurosawa and one of the highest grossing Japanese films of 1963 breaking Kurosawa's box office record for the third time.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Kanagawa Japan. <br /> <br /> White titled perfect-bound wrappers dated 1962 with a protective titled dust jacket. Approximately 94 leaves with last page of text numbered e-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket Very Good with moderate foxing on the extremities.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 24. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan. Toho / Kurosawa Productions unknown
1963148710Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. <br /> <br /> Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa considered one of the director's masterpieces following a small-town doctor and his new intern a highly educated arrogant young man. <br /> <br /> Set in the Edo district of Koishikawa.<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers with a blue titled dust jacket. Title page present dated 1963. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered g-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the rear wrapper with perfect binding. Jacket is Very Good plus with light foxing to the fore-edges and rear panel. Kurosawa Production Co unknown
1948151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese.<br/><br/>The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding American criticism leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles.<br/><br/>Set in the slums of postwar Japan.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. <br/><br/>BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown books
1944147297Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The House of Dr. Edwardes." <br /> <br /> Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. After director Alfred Hitchcock learned that producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story for the screen he persuaded Selznick to buy the rights to the novel he and his wife were in the process of adapting. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Chekhov winning one.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as TEMPORARY SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated June 14 1944 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. Distribution page present rubber-stamped copy No. 1620 with receipt removed. 176 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br /> <br /> In a custom royal blue cloth covered clamshell box with black leather spine label and titles and decoration in gilt.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Vanguard Films unknown
1967149909New York: Andy Warhol Film 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95-minute version although this cut is considered lost. A 109-minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater renamed as such after Warhol recovered from being shot by Valerie Solanas. <br /> <br /> One of several sexploitation influenced films made by Warhol an episodic story of a biker who has no bike and is both eroticized by the camera and emasculated by various Warhol superstars throughout. <br /> <br /> 19 x 25 inches rolled. Near Fine with some light soil and an almost imperceptible professional repair to a tear at the top edge. <br /> <br /> Murphy The Black Hole of Cinema. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown
