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1968131823London: National General Pictures 1968. Revised British script for the 1969 film a UK-US co-production. Based on the play by Peter Shaffer written for the screen by Philip Yordan. <br/><br/>Dan Pavlides: Fueled by promises of gold Pizarro Robert Shaw and his explorers make a third trip across the treacherous Andes Mountains to Peru where they meet King Atahuallpa Christopher Plummer considered to be a god by his faithful followers. The two leaders overcome their initial mistrust and suspicion garnering admiration for each other. When the King is sentenced to die Pizarro tries unsuccessfully to prevent the monarch's death at the hands of gold-hungry explorers. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1 June 1968 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Yordan. 163 leaves mechanical duplication with pink blue green white tan and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 16 May and 22 July. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three screw brads. National General Pictures unknown books
1954144414Tokyo: Toho Company 1954. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1954 film the first appearance of Godzilla who would go on to appear in countless other Japanese monster movies as well as non-Japanese ones. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>The original Godzilla film is one of the first Kaiju films a Japanese sub-genre of films featuring giant monsters attacking cities and engaging in violent confrontation with the military and other monsters. The film was an allegory for the effects of the hydrogen bomb and radioactive contamination and gave way to a long series and whole genres and sub-genres of related films dealing with similar themes of invasion contamination and global catastrophe. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Tokyo.<br/><br/>10 x 7 inches. Near Fine<br/><br/>BFI 680. Criterion Collection 594. Toho Company unknown books
1965143456Burbank CA: Artanis Productions 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film dated 2/15/65. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill with his name in gilt on the front board bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design. Housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. <br/><br/>A bored husband and wife visit Mexico on their anniversary where a series of miscommunications leads them to getting unintentionally divorced and her married to his business partner. Banned by the Mexican government due to the film's offensive stereotyping of the country. <br/><br/>Title page present dated 2/15/65 with film titles and credits for screenwriter Howard. 152 leaves dated 2/15/65 with last page of text numbered 148. Mechanical duplication. Very Good plus overall boards with light mottling along the left edge of the front board short closed tear to the front endpaper. Artanis Productions unknown books
1956139915N.p.: The Rank Organization 1956. Vintage UK one sheet poster for the 1956 British film. <br/><br/>After inheriting a fortune a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya where she was previously a POW with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during the war. <br/><br/>Set in Malaya shot on location in Malaya and England. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. Near Fine with light toning and black holograph annotations to the verso. The Rank Organization unknown books
1956139914N.p.: The Rank Organization 1956. Vintage UK three sheet poster for the 1956 British film. <br/><br/>After inheriting a fortune a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya where she was previously a POW with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during World War II. <br/><br/>Set in Malaysia shot on location in Malaysia Australia and England. <br/><br/>41 x 81 inches rolled and mounted on archival linen. Near Fine. The Rank Organization unknown books
1971139058Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage Australian insert poster for the 1971 US film. Printed by Robert Burton Pty. in Sydney. <br/><br/>Based on screenwriter Larner's 1964 novel. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s as well as a New Hollywood film albeit lesser-known. Hector Tepper plays college basketball superbly but his lover Olive Black has reservations about their relationship. All the while Hector's friend Gabriel Margotta contemplates and protests the Vietnam War. <br/><br/>Nicholson's directorial debut after astonishing performances in "Easy Rider" 1969 and "Five Easy Pieces" 1970. <br/><br/>Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout the state. <br/><br/>12.75 x 30 inches folded twice as issued. Very Good plus with light toning brief edge creasing and a few central tears. Scarce. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962141357Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode with his signature on the first page and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Two private investigators work on the south side of the Sunset Strip next to Dean Martin's actual nightclub Dino's Lodge. Each episode was an hour long and featured two hardboiled detectives and an aspiring PI working next door as a valet. The actor's first appearance in a show that hewed so closely to his "Rat Pack" persona though he had appeared in a few other television dramas and Westerns as early as 1952. <br/><br/>Set in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Bound in a homemade sewn binding with a card wrapper black endpapers and binding sealed with tan paper tape. Title page present dated March 1 1962 noted as Revised. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 71. Mechanical duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between February 20 1962 and March 1 1962. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrapper perfect bound. Warner Brothers Television unknown books
1956142716Culver City CA: Screen Gems / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Revised Final Draft script for Season Four episode 35 of the 1952-1957 television series "The Ford Television Theatre" originally broadcast May 31 1956 on NBC. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas who played June Darin in the episode with her holograph name in red ink on the front wrapper and her lines circled in holograph ink throughout. <br/><br/>Ex-con Frank Darin meets his onetime nemesis the detective that put him in prison years ago. though they part friends he is immediately suspected when the detective is found murdered. <br/><br/>The Ford Theatre radio program started in New York on NBC with Broadway actors then moved to Hollywood on CBS for a second season where Hollywood actors headed the cast. The first televised version of the series appeared 1948 as a live hour long drama as most of the programming of the era. A filmed half-hour Ford Theatre returned in 1951 and became the first network television series to be regularly filmed in color by October 1954. The final season aired on ABC for the 1956-57 season. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Revised Final draft on the front wrapper production No. 3534 and dated March 9 1956. Title page present dated March 9 1956 noted as Revised Final draft with credits for screenwriter Jack Harvey. 50 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication with yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between March 12 1956 and March 15 1956. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Screen Gems / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1935146172Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes dated February 28 1936 also with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent lifestyle and pay off his debts. When he falls in love with a copper heiress in the process of trying to swindle her he must decide between the wealth and power their marriage would bring him and the social disgrace she would encounter if his prior indiscretions were ever made public.<br/><br/>Final shooting script 10-2-35:<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 10-2-35 with credits for screenwriter Allen Rivkin and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/4/35 and 11/2/35. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Revisions and Retakes:<br/><br/>Blue partial wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / REVISIONS & RETAKES on the front wrapper dated February 28 1936 with credits for associate producer Edward T. Lowe and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/2/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor quite dry with some cracking and a lower right corner of the front rear wrapper detached bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1974146141Paris: Viaduc Productions 1974. Two vintage color studio still photographs of Jane Birkin from the 1974 film. Blind stamp on upper right of each. <br/><br/>A cynical dark comedy of sexual politics in 1970s Paris. Nicolas Jean-Louis Trintignant a shy meek bank clerk discovers he has a way with beautiful women Jane Birkin Romy Schneider Florinda Balkan and is encouraged and schooled from impoverished novelist Claude Jean-Pierre Cassel to use his liasons to become one of the richest most powerful men in Paris.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very good pinholes in corners with paper tape repair on verso. Viaduc Productions unknown books
1969151305N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of eight vintage borderless photographs from the 1969 French film. <br/><br/>Based on Rene Barjavel's 1969 novel. A young Parisian man travels to Nepal to find his deadbeat father only to fall in with a group of drug-loving hippies. <br/><br/>Set in Paris and Nepal. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris.<br/><br/>9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout.<br/><br/>Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown books
1964150307N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jeanne Moreau between takes. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of PRPresse. 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/>Loosely based on the adventures of Dutch dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari who worked as a secret agent for the Germans during World War I. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1961138215Paris: N.p. 1961. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Godard and Macha Meril on the set of the 1961 film. With the Paris stamp of photographer Claude Schwartz on the verso. <br/><br/>9 x 6 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown books
1965151996N.p.: Andre Michelin Productions 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in bed armed and reading a French translation of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" from the 1965 film. Printed snipe and provenance stamp of "G. Toussier" on verso. <br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction transplanting the fictional detective Lemmy Caution Constantine into a dystopian future assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very light edgewear to the corners else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Andre Michelin Productions unknown books
1965152493N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Jean-Paul Belmondo from the set of the 1965 film. "14 Mai 1965" stamp and annotation in holograph marker of "credit Y-Debraine" on verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White about an unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. <br/><br/>9 x 13.25 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and slight chipping on lower right edges.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1967149386N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1967 film with actors Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Leaud and Mireille Darc. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso with celo tape from the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema for a July 5 1968 showing with annotations of actors names in holograph ink. <br/><br/>In one of Godard's most misanthropic films a loveless bourgeois couple Corinne Darc and Roland Yanne fantasize about killing each other when they aren't cheating on the other. They ponder these matters as they take a nearly never-ending nightmarish road trip to visit Corinne's parents intent on securing an inheritance resolved to murder if necessary.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Light curling else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1964144481Paris: Les Films Ariane 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1964 film. With an agency stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Dufourquet Belmondo is in Paris on shore leave eager to see his Agnes Dorléac. When he finally sees her only briefly before she's kidnapped and held for ransom by a treasure-hungry family friend. A James Bond spoof in the wake of Belmondo's swashbuckling success "Cartouche" 1962 opposite Claudia Cardinale with puzzle solving murder in Brasilia art thieves and a pursuit to find sacred Amazon treasure. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing Story and Screenplay: Written Directly for the Screen 1965 and winner of a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1964. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1973140845Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. With a single notation to the title page in holograph ink indicating this copy is from Barry Levinson. <br/><br/>Based on the 1955 novel "Le Blockhaus" by Jean-Paul Clebert the story follows a mixed-group of forced laborers held by German forces taking shelter in a German bunker on D-Day. However due to the heavy shelling they are entombed in the blockhouse. Fortunately it is a storehouse as well so the prisoners have food to last them for years but unfortunately they are permanently trapped in there. The film deals with how they lived in their underground prison and their eventual deaths. <br/><br/>Set in Normandy shot on location in Guernsey Channel Islands. <br/><br/>Blue blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Gould and author Jean-Paul Clebert. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972149967N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four borderless reference photographs one oversize of Jean-Pierre Melville Catherine Deneuve Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set of and on location for the 1972 film.<br/><br/>A police detective played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville pictures is on the trail of a gang of thieves unaware that they are led by a friend. Melville's final film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris and Bordeaux France.<br/><br/>Oversize photo 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Other photos variously from 9 x 7 inches to 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. N.p. unknown books
1959142159France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine with each sheet containing holograph ink annotations with the name of the production credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet and with three dated January 26 1959 and one dated April 4 1959. Accompanying the photographs are 35 negatives for photographs in the archive and 1 negative for a photograph that was not struck and mounted. <br/><br/>All the photographs featuring cast and crew working on the set and 16 feature images of Renoir on the set. <br/><br/>Also included are two vintage borderless press photographs depicting scenes for the film. Each with the stamp of "Telerama" on the verso along with holograph annotations identifying the film and for layout. <br/><br/>Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. <br/><br/>Proof photographs and negatives roughly 2 x 2 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Proof sheets 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Card stock. About Near Fine with some wear at the corners. <br/><br/>Press photographs 7.25 x 5 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the upper corner of one photograph else Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir unknown books
1951151232Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film three showing crew members on the set including novelist Rumer Godden cinematographer Satyajit Ray producer Kenneth McEldowney and director Jean Renoir. One with a partially faded provenance stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. <br/><br/>Based on Godden's 1946 novel. Renoir's first feature length film in color following an adolescent girl coming of age in British colonial India. <br/><br/>Shot on location in West Bengal India. <br/><br/>Three photographs 8 x 10 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1957138551Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of Jean Seberg from the 1957 film. An image we have never seen. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1988142577N.p.: Millimeter Films 1988. Vintage First Re-Write script for the 1989 film. <br/><br/>A rare example of a sequel that rivals its predecessor. Following up on the cult horror classic "The Stepfather" Terry O'Quinn reprises his pitch-perfect role as a psychotic killer escaped from an insane asylum who obsessed with "family values" marries into broken homes and murders his new family when he is inevitably unsatisfied with the results. <br/><br/>Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Vancouver and California. <br/><br/>Cream untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as copy No. 172 dated November 15 1988 with a credit for screenwriter John Auerbach. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Noted at copy No. 79 in holograph ink on the title page. Xerographic duplication first generation photocopy with punch holes with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/07/88. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Millimeter Films unknown books
1972150709Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 documentary film. <br/><br/>A documentary capturing the first performance of an all-black rodeo in Harlem and the varied audience reactions to seeing African Americans participating in what was widely considered a white sport. Featuring appearances by Muhammad Ali who rides a horse down 125th Street and noted Western actor Woody Strode. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Harlem. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinerama Releasing unknown books
