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1976148808N.p.: N.p. 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. <br /> <br /> American International Pictures AIP third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy beginning with "The Food of the Gods" 1976 directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner and Pamela Franklin and followed by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" 1977 directed by Don Taylor and starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York.<br /> <br /> Another classic "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon following "King Dinosaur" 1955 "The Amazing Colossal Man" 1957 "Earth vs. the Spider" 1958 "Village of the Giants" 1956 and "Food of the Gods" 1976 this time featuring giant ants mutated by radioactive waste which attack a shady land developer and her prospective clients and threaten to take over a whole island town.<br /> <br /> Set in the Florida everglades and shot on location in Fort Pierce Belle Glade and Jensen Beach Florida. <br /> <br /> Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 8 1976 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jack Turley and story by Bert I. Gordon. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1986152504Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1986. Archive of five original architectural blueprints for location shooting purposes relating to the 1986 comedy film. Each blueprint numbered one through five out of five labeled "Ext. Pazzo Mansion" with the Beverly Hills address of the house and credits for director Blake Edwards production designer Roger Maus and others. <br /> <br /> The blueprints detail both interiors and exteriors for sections of the house as well as indicated places where the existing house would be augmented by new set construction. The location was used as the home of Paul Servino's mob boss character Tony Pazzo and his wife Claudia Pazzo played by Maria Conchita Alonso. <br /> <br /> A remake of Laurel and Hardy's classic 1932 short "The Music Box" about two friends who overhear a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it while being pursued by both the mob fixers and the police. <br /> <br /> 36 x 24 inches. Stapled on the left edge and rolled. Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown
1967152312N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage black and white reference photograph from the set of the 1967 film showing actress Brigitte Bardot in the bath between takes with director Serge Bourguignon to her right. With layout annotations in pencil on the verso along with a provenance stamp. <br /> <br /> A French woman is tempted to stray from her older English husband when she meets a vibrant younger man. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in London and Paris. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 with wide side margins. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1996163604Los Angeles: Neo Motion Pictures 1996. Draft script for the 1997 film seen here under the working titles "Road to Ruin" and "Driven." Working copy belonging to actor Sean Moran with his annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page front wrapper and nine pages of the script and two call sheets laid in. A then-new blend of martial arts and traditional fist-and-guns action that has become a cult classic.<br /> <br /> A Hong Kong man with an experimental implant which gives him super-strength and speed must flee from Chinese mercenaries who have been employed to steal the device.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Santa Clarita Los Angeles and Lancaster California. <br /> <br /> Gray generic Neo Motion Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 1.2.96 noted as Draft with credits for screenwriter Scott Phillips and storywriter Anthony Trifiletti. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Neo Motion Pictures unknown
1939162797New York: N.p. 1939. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1939 film showing actors Carole Lombard and James Stewart. PIX agency stamp on the verso crediting noted photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt as well as a Westport Public Library stamp. <br /> <br /> During the Depression an ambitious lawyer finds himself torn between his high-powered career the demands of his difficult mother and his life with his young wife and child. <br /> <br /> German-born photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was one of the original staff photographers of "Life" magazine after it was purchased by "Time" founder Henry Luce in 1936. He published nearly 2500 photo stories for the magazine with 90 of his images used for the magazine's covers but is perhaps best remembered today for the iconic "V-J Day in Times Square" photograph. <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 /> 10 x 8 inches archivally mounted in a white mat measuring 17 x 14 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1977162196Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures Television 1977. Final Draft script for the 1977 television movie which originally aired on November 16 1977 on NBC. Copy belonging to script supervisor Meta Wilde with her annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1956 novel by Edwin O'Connor about an aging veteran politician who grows increasingly determined to win a fourth mayoral election and stay in power despite the reservations of his supporters. <br /> <br /> White titled Columbia Pictures Television wrappers dated May 10 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 162131 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated May 10 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for novelist Edwin O'Connor and screenwriter Carroll O'Connor. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures Television unknown
1953162330N.p.: N.p. 1953. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1953 film two showing Ava Gardner talking with Clark Gable from an outdoor shower and one showing Gardner tending to Gable's arm wound. Stamps specific to the film's French release on the versos.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1932 film "Red Dust" also starring Clark Gable which was in turn based on Wilson Collison's 1928 play. While on a safari in Kenya a hunter is ensnared in a love triangle between a young American socialite and an anthropologist's unfaithful wife. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Kenya in Okalataka Mount Kenya Mount Longonot and Lake Naivasha.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969157979London: The Other Cinema 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 Canadian film. Stamps of The Other Cinema and ICA Press Office on the verso. <br /> <br /> In the future the Canadian Academy for Erotic Enquiry CAEE investigates the claims of a parapsychologist by recruiting seven volunteers to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their telepathic ability. Director David Cronenberg's feature film debut. <br /> <br /> 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. The Other Cinema unknown
1962150467Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Alec Guinness Sam Spiegel Jack Hawkins and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence.<br /> <br /> An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence Peter O'Toole in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46 we then follow in flashback Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo assigned to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks. <br /> <br /> Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in England Saudi Arabia Spain and Morocco. <br /> <br /> 11 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert I. Columbia Pictures unknown
1990138817New York: Cinehaus / Ed Pressman Productions 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film. The third film to be written and directed by Mamet. Script belonging to actor Paul Butler a Mamet regular who plays Commissioner Walker in the film. Laid in is an unrelated legal agreement addressed to Butler regarding his involvement in the 1986 television series "Crime Story."<br /> <br /> Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in a nameless American city shot in Baltimore. <br /> <br /> White self wrappers integral with title page dated JULY 1990 with a credit for screenwriter Mamet and with mention of Ed Pressman Productions and Cinehaus Inc. Xerographically reproduced. 146 pages last leaf numbered 145. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good only with some edgewear bound with three gold brads. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 486. Grant US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward US Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cinehaus / Ed Pressman Productions unknown
1984166548N.p.: N.p. 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1984 film with rainbow revision pages. Copy belonging to first assistant director Ron Bozman with his name on a revision page in manuscript ink and his annotations in manuscript pencil on several pages. <br /> <br /> Based on the true story of brothers Jack and Ed Biddle who broke out of Allegheny County jail in 1901 with the help of the warden's wife who fell in love with Ed. <br /> <br /> Set in Pittsburgh shot on location in Mulmur Ontario in Wisconsin and in Pittsburgh. <br /> <br /> Lacking wrappers and title page. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between January 7 and February 22 1984. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1987163925Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1987. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her annotations throughout the script highlighting locations and a post-it note in her hand affixed to the front wrapper verso noting sets to build. <br /> <br /> A black comedy about a group of mutant shapeshifting bugs who travel from Brazil to suburban Ohio where they disguise themselves as a human family in order to wreak nuclear destruction on the town's unsuspecting inhabitants. Shot in 1988 and 1989 the film's release was delayed until 1991 due to financial problems with New World Pictures.<br /> <br /> Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Oshkosh Appleton and Neenah Wisconsin.<br /> <br /> Generic white New World Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 11/12/87 noted as Revised First Draft with an annotation noting copy No. 11 in manuscript ink and credits for screenwriters Michael Lehmann and Redbeard Simmons. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with front wrapper dampstained and partially detached from the binding. Bound internally with two gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1954150531Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage reference photograph of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan on the set of the 1954 film. <br /> <br /> Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. <br /> <br /> Terry Malloy Brando who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny Lee J. Cobb witnesses a murder at the hands of Johnny's men. When he meets the victim's sister Edie Eva Marie Saint he confesses he feels culpable for the murder and Edie introduces him to Father Barry Karl Malden who tries to persuade him to implicate the dock racketeers.<br /> <br /> Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominated for another four. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and three very small closed tears in margins repaired by two small pieces of cello tape.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1975153845Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1975. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway published posthumously in 1970 following three episodes in the life of a stoic aging artist living in the British-controlled Bahamas. <br /> <br /> Set in the Bahamas shot on location in Kaua'i Hawaii. <br /> <br /> Green generic Paramount wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated September 10 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Denne Bart Petitclerc. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1959151523Paris: les Films du Carrosse 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of François Truffaut and Guy Decomble on the set of the 1959 film. "Les Quatre Cents Coups" and "Telerama" stamps on verso. <br /> <br /> Truffaut's auspicious debut winner of Best Director at Cannes nominated for the Palme d'Or and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Paris France. <br /> <br /> 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. les Films du Carrosse unknown
1996156614N.p.: N.p. 1996. Revised Third Draft script for the 1997 film with annotations in manuscript green and orange highlighter on two pages. Script preceded by three bound-in pages of "Changes in Pink Script." Also included is an illustrated "Soul Food Film Crew" car window dash placard laid in. <br /> <br /> A heartwarming and realistic story of a large African American family struggling to maintain family traditions after the matriarch of the family "Big Mamma" falls ill.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Chicago Illinois. <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with the title page dated November 2 1996 noted as Revised Third Draft with credits for screenwriter George Tillman. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Car window dash placard: 10.75 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1957151135London: J. Arthur Rank 1957. Early Treatment script dated 1957 for the pilot episode of the 1959-1961 television series here under the working title "The Ghost Squad."<br /> <br /> Based on the 1959 book by John Gosling which detailed his experience as a member of an undercover team of Scotland Yard detectives. The first of two television series based on Gosling's memoir followed by "The Ghost Squad" in 1961. <br /> <br /> Beige titled wrappers noted as Treatment on the front wrapper dated 10-4-57. Title page present noted as FULL TREATMENT with credits for screenwriter Michael Gilbert. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
1970170873N.p.: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage French grande affiche poster for the 1969 film.<br /> <br /> Based on director and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Kansas. <br /> <br /> 45.5 x 82 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine with modest starting to some of the center folds. Warner Brothers unknown
1964150865N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of L-R Jean-Paul Belmondo Henri Verneuil Lino Ventura and Bernard Blier on the set of the 1964 film. Photographer "Claude Schwartz" stamp on verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1972 French novel "Nous n'irons pas en Nigeria" by Claude Veillot.<br /> <br /> Rocco and his girlfriend hijack a truck with a mysterious payload and proceed to drive it through the Saharan desert toward the border. The trucking company gets Rocco's friend Herve and the new German employee Hans to go after him and retrieve the goods. <br /> <br /> Nominated for the Palm d'Or.<br /> <br /> Set in the Saharan desert shot on location in Morocco. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Lee The Heist Film. Olive FIlms 324. N.p. unknown
1953154829Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film two showing scenes from a beauty pageant and one showing actress Joyce Holden performing a burlesque show for her sorority sisters. Two with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br /> <br /> A pair of siblings from a slum neighborhood in New York dream of escaping to a better life but become involved in criminal activities out of desperation and poverty. <br /> <br /> Set in New York.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown
1954166109N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the classic 1954 film showing Jacques Tati on the tennis court. Dutch blindstamp on the top right corner and Dutch provenance label on the verso.<br /> <br /> Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. <br /> <br /> Shot on location on the coast of France. <br /> <br /> 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1955153202Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film together depicting a fight sequence involving James Dean and Julie Harris.<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. <br /> <br /> 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. Slightly faded else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1930167086N.p.: N.p. 1930. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1930 French film one showing actress Catherine Hessling the other showing actor Jean Renoir and Hessling together. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos.<br /> <br /> Catherine Hessling's beauty drew her to the attention of Henri Matisse who sent her to model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A romance developed between the fledgling model and Renoir's second son Jean and the couple were married in January of 1920. Hessling appeared in several of Renoir's films before the couple's divorce in 1931 including Renoir's first feature-length film "The Whirlpool of Fate" 1925 and his 1926 adaptation of Émile Zola's "Nana."<br /> <br /> 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1976157637N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs of Tania Busselier and Eva Khris from the 1976 French film. One with the stamp of photographer Hubert Toyot on the verso. <br /> <br /> JJean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s.<br /> <br /> Two photographs 7 x 5 inches five photographs 9.25 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. <br /> <br /> Hinds 222. N.p. unknown
1972167213N.p.: N.p. 1972. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. Early draft preceding the film's release by six years.<br /> <br /> A Z-budget cult horror film about a vampire who is invited to be the guest of honor at a horror convention in San Francisco. Director and screenwriter John Stanley served as the horror science fiction and fantasy critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle" for over three decades.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Oakland.<br /> <br /> Yellow card wrappers with title and credits for Stanley and screenwriter Kenn Davis on a typed label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present dated April 26 1972 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for Davis and Stanley. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only with a single undated pink blank leaf bound in at the rear of the script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. <br /> <br /> Thrower Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown
