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1955132502Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Vintage full-color still British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1954 US film. <br/><br/>A comedy based on a play about a struggling Hollywood screenwriter who mentions to a policeman his ideas about a serious film involving a juvenile delinquent. On Christmas Eve to his surprise the policeman drops off a seventeen year-old delinquent Debbie Reynolds so the screenwriter can do some research for the story. Dick Powell's last acting film credit before a handful of directorial roles. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creasing and rubbing else Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1930WRCLIT68063Hollywood: Warner Bros. Pictures Inc 1930. 192 leaves with variations due to revised leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil-printed wrappers. Rather dog-eared creased and frayed pencil name on upper wrapper "James Hall" script-loan coupon clipped pencil checks and markouts throughout; fair but intact. An unspecified but evidently revised draft of this unattributed screenplay. The film is a bit of mystery and may not have been produced. There are press announcements of its having begun production and then the MPPDA Digital Archive indexes correspondence from Will Hays ca. June 1930 to Albert Harry and Jack Warner taking issue with the marketing in VARIETY of what is promoted as their "Sex-Appeal Sextette" of which this title was #3 coupled with the likes of DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS EX MISTRESS THE MATRIMONIAL BED A SOLDIER'S PLAYTHING and THE OFFICE WIFE. The tagline for this film was "A Modern Casanova who Believed One Wife was a Good Reason for Ten Sweethearts." Several of the other films in the series were completed even if now "lost' but this property seems to have disappeared without a trace. The authorship of the copy of the script in the Warner Bros. Script Archive at Princeton is not attributed. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc unknown books
1962132179London: Warner-Pathe 1962. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the Francis Clifford novel "Act of Mercy" about two business people caught in the midst of a South American revolution who eventually help the president reach the border. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1958132882London: National Screen Service / MGM 1958. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1958 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw starring Leslie Caron as the wife of an artist Dirk Bogarde who is dying of tuberculosis. She enlists the help of a very busy doctor who upon learning the artist is really a con-man with greedy tendencies in faced with a dilemma: help the desperate wife by curing the artist or tend to other patients in need<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1963132580London: National Screen Service / MGM 1963. Collection of 6 vintage full-color and 3 black-and-white still photographs from the 1963 UK film. <br/><br/>A star-studded drama that takes place in a New York airport at the V. I. P. lounge. Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection and this is Taylor's and Burton's second collaborative film credit. Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for her supporting role. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches some slightly smaller. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1963132582London: National Screen Service / MGM 1963. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1963 UK film. <br/><br/>A star-studded drama that takes place in a New York airport at the V. I. P. lounge. Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection and this is Taylor's and Burton's second collaborative film credit. Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for her supporting role. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1954140965London: Romulus 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. <br/><br/>Based on the play of the same name by Campbell and Dorothy Christie. A court martial process delves into why an officer embezzled funds from his unit. Released in the US as "Court Martial." <br/><br/>Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 10 1954 with credits for screenwriter John Hunter and playwrights Dorothy and Campbell Christie. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Romulus unknown books
1962131486Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film "The V.I.P.'s" seen here as "Very Important Persons" which has been struck through with "The V.I.P.'s" written above in holograph pencil. Rubber-stamped FILE COPY and number 5974 on the front wrapper. Notations to dialogue throughout in holograph pencil red pencil and blue and black ink. <br/><br/>A star-studded drama based loosely on screenwriter Rattigan's friend actress Vivien Leigh and her attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier. In a New York airport at the V.I.P. lounge Frances Andros Taylor is seen off by her husband Paul Burton who is unaware that she plans to leave him for an aging international playboy named Marc Champselle Louis Jourdan. Several other persons are stuck in the lounge due to foggy weather including an Australian businessman and his secretary a filmmaker and his young starlet and a duchess. <br/><br/>Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection and this is Taylor's and Burton's second film together "Cleopatra" was released in the US before "The V.I.P.s" but was released after it in the UK . Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for her supporting role. <br/><br/>Set in New York and shot on location in England. <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 5974 dated November 20th 1962 with credits for producer de Grunwald and screenwriter Rattigan. Title page not present. 186 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink blue white yellow orange and brown revision pages throughout dated variously between 20.11.62 and 8.4.63. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1964150332N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless black and white photograph of actor Omar Sharif playfully clicking his heels in the air between takes while filming on location in Austria for the 1964 film. With holograph pencil and ink annotations on the verso along with a PIX Agency stamp crediting photographer Denis Cameron. 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/>A romantic comedy anthology about the varied owners of an idiosyncratic yellow Rolls-Royce from its first owners a British aristocrat and his unfaithful wife to its last a socialite who accidentally becomes involved in the Nazi invasion of Ljubljana. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in London and Hertfordshire in England Naples Florence and Tuscany in Italy and Austria. <br/><br/>11.25 x 14 inches. Near Fine with brief wear to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1964132696London: National Screen Service / MGM 1964. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1964 UK film. <br/><br/>A star-studded romantic comedy about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creases at the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1980129295Rome: Vides Cinematografica 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television mini-series all dated June 1980 used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers credited on the title page of each segment and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. <br/><br/>Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the mini-series. Also included is a script for an unproduced segment titled "Ruby of Ceylon" and a separately bound "Series Outline." Screenwriters Burgess and Labella are present on the title page of all 8 produced segments though not on "The Ruby of Ceylon". <br/><br/>An international co-production financed by the US Italy Japan and China. Shot on location in Beijing Inner Mongolia Italy and Morocco. Nominated for two Prime Time Emmys. <br/><br/>Complete collation and condition details are available on request. Shipping billed at cost. <br/><br/>Series Outline:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Outline with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 27 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode I<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 37 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode II:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 35 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode III:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 31 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode IV:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 44 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode V:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 47 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode VI:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 38 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode VII:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 40 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Episode VIII:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 66 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>The Ruby of Ceylon unfilmed:<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 28 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Vides Cinematografica unknown books
1980133617New York: New World Pictures 1980. Draft Agency script for the 1980 film. Adapted for the screen by noted screenwriter Frederic Raphael based on his 1973 novel. <br/><br/>A woman begins an affair with her late husband's mistress after his death using each other to cope with the grief of his loss. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with the William Morris Agency logo to the front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Frederic Raphael. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Raphael. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
1968146898London: Haworth Productions 1968. Second Draft script for the 1968 film. With the ownership name of cinematographer Douglas Holcombe in holograph ink on the title page<br/><br/>In 1183 England the sons of King Henry II and his wife plot to overtake the throne. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning three including Best Screenplay and Best Actress. <br/><br/>Set in England shot on location in France and Ireland. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter James Goldman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly toned to the title page wrapper Very Good plus with cello tape repairs to the title window and light rusting to the binding bound with two silver brads. Haworth Productions unknown books
1973128441Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1973. Revised Final Shooting script for Part One of the 1974 television mini-series. Copy belonging to actor Ben Gazzara with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Winner of 6 Primetime Emmys. <br/><br/>Physician Adam Kelno Hopkins travels to England after World War II unaware that his identification with Anti-Communists in Poland has made him a target of the Soviet Government. He retreats with his wife and son to Arabia where he attempts to modernize the local health standards. Upon his return to England he is Knighted. Twenty years later a book is published that names him part of Nazi medical experiments on members of concentration camps. He sues for defamation and begins a troublesome trial. "QB VII" refers to the courtroom where trial is held: "Queen's Bench Room 7." <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper with credit for Screenwriter Anhalt. Title page present. 100 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 8-30-72 and 2-13-73. Lacking rear wrapper. Pages Near Fine front wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1966132442Culver City CA: National Screen Service / Columbia Pictures 1966. Collection of 9 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 Spanish-Italian film. <br/><br/>A fast-paced action spy thriller about a kidnapped American nuclear scientist and a secret agent who teams up with a nightclub owner to investigate. Klaus Kinski shows up as one of the villains. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Brief corner creases and a few light horizontal creases else Near Fine. National Screen Service / Columbia Pictures unknown books
1956132800London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1956 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on Moore Raymond's 1945 novel of the same name about a young boy in the Australian bush hailed as the Australian "Huckleberry Finn." <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few moderate creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1958132461London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Collection of 4 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 Australian film. <br/><br/>Based on Moore Raymond's novel of the same name about a young boy in the Australian bush and hailed as the Australian "Huckleberry Finn." <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few moderate creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1958132460London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 Australian film. <br/><br/>Based on Moore Raymond's novel of the same name about a young boy in the Australian bush and hailed as the Australian "Huckleberry Finn." <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Several stills with moderate creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950131681De Grunwald Productions 1950. Draft British script for the 1951 UK film. With brief working holograph annotations reference markings in blue holograph ink throughout. Based on the play by James Bridie. <br/><br/>A turbulent study of generations of family life focusing on clashes and romances of parents and children. Set in Scotland. <br/><br/>Tall red wrappers with "Flesh and Blood / 1950" written in blue holograph ink on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for playwright Bridie and screenwriter de Grunwald. 124 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good side stapled. De Grunwald Productions unknown books
1971140432Los Angeles: Harlequin Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film. <br/><br/>A twist on the Frenkenstein mad-scientist scenario in which Bruce Dern plays the crazed scientist who transplants a murder's head onto a mentally handicapped young man - next to the boy's own head! <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Holograph ink notation to the verso else Near Fine. Harlequin Pictures unknown books
1955135492Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1955 Western. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Pitts 2525. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1990141598Atlanta: Turner Home Video 1990. Final Draft script for the 1991 television film. Here under the working title "The Final Warning." Copy belonging to crew member Robert Easton with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. <br/><br/>Based on the 1988 book "Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl" by Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. Even Jon Voight and Jason Robards could not keep this little television docudrama from becoming an utter obscurity. The first half of the film sticks mostly to the facts surrounding the fire and subsequent meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukrainian SSR in 1986 while the second half is more a self-congratulatory celebration of American philanthropy in the wake of the disaster. <br/><br/>Set in Soviet Union shot on location in the Soviet Union. <br/><br/>Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated April 9 1990 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Ernest Kinoy and authors Dr. Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographically duplicated with revision pages throughout dated May 4 1990. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Turner Home Video unknown books
1954147777Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 US release of the 1953 film. <br/><br/>Teenager Barbara Vinings Glynis Johns is in love with her Latin language teacher Stephen Barlow Leo Genn when Barlow's wife Gene Tierney finds out she confronts Barbara who runs off and disappears for three days during which time speculation and innuendo pervade the village. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Grant UK. Spicer UK. United Artists unknown books
1972120967Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1972. Complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1972 crime film "Across 110th Street." Because it is set in Harlem this very underrated crime drama is often lumped with "blaxploitation" pictures of the same era. In truth it belongs to the great pantheon of gritty violent police procedurals of the early 1970s-something of a New York City companion to Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry" released the year before. A few faint scratches to a couple of the cards and a faint dampstain to the bottom edge of a few others; a bright clean set overall. <br/><br/>Parish and Hill 3. United Artists unknown books
1972147376N.p.: N.p. 1972. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by Anthony Shaffer with several holograph annotations in both marker and pencil striking changing or adjusting dialogue and setting.<br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>Novelist and playwright Anthony Shaffer scripted Hitchcock's 1972 "Frenzy" his second screenplay before adapting his 1970 play "Sleuth" for the successful 1972 Joseph Mankiewicz production starring Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine. Shaffer announced plans to adapt Derek Robinson's 1971 dark and humorous take on the horrors of war "Goshawk Squadron" after the production and before the release of his adaptation of David Pinner's 1967 novel "Ritual" Robin Hardy's 1973 horror classic "The Wicker Man." Unfortunately "The Goshawk Squadron" never made it beyond pre-production.<br/><br/>Based on Derek Robinson's 1971 novel about front-line squadron of British pilots nearing the end of World War I and their cynical hardened commander Major Woolley face a blood bath from the final German offensive and Woolley's impenetrability is tested.<br/><br/>Gray untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as 2ND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Anthony Shaffer. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. N.p. unknown books
