Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Debi Mazar (starring); Rod Daniel (director); Len Blum (screenwriter)Biblio.com
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1993163367Universal City: Universal City Studios 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film.<br /> <br /> Sequel to the successful 1992 family comedy film "Beethoven" about the adventures of the titular St. Bernard dog and his suburban family.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 3 1993 noted as Rev. with credit for screenwriter Len Blum. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout variously dated 5/6/93 and 5/7/93. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown
1964146593Los Angeles: APJAC Productions 1964. Treatment script for an unproduced film with blue revision pages throughout. Bound in with the script are a number of black and white photograph illustrations of World War I aviators and airplanes as well as a handmade bound-in paper pouch containing 11 color reference photographs of early airplanes clipped from an issue of Life Magazine.<br /> <br /> An historic exploration of early Air Force aviators intended for release on or around the 50 year anniversary eve of World War I.<br /> <br /> Set in Polaise France.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Charles K. Peck Jr. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout variously undated and dated 3/27/64. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. APJAC Productions unknown
1963146254N.p.: N.p. 1963. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> A traveling preacher persuades an outlaw to join him in his holy mission but the outlaw finds it hard to leave behind his gunslinging ways in Trail City where sin abounds. Screenwriter Charles K. Peck was known for writing adventure and western films in the 1950s most notably "Seminole" in 1953.<br /> <br /> Set in the American West.<br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 9 1963 noted as Original Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Charles K. Peck Jr. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with splashes on the front wrapper and fading bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1952159661Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film. <br /> <br /> Two workers at an inn are accidentally handed a map to Captain Kidd's treasure on Skull Island. They are able to use this as leverage to get onto the captain's ship where they undergo a variety of humorous adventures. <br /> <br /> Set in Tortuga Haiti. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1989156696N.p.: Island Pictures 1989. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1989 film showing director Charles Lane behind the camera. <br /> <br /> A homage to Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic "The Kid" about a homeless street artist who becomes a young girl's guardian after her father is murdered. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Island Pictures unknown
1955137952Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage candid photograph of Robert Mitchum sharing a moment with his wife Dorothy while on the set of the 1955 film. Dressed in costume as Harry Powell the image of a smiling relaxed Mitchum is incongruous with the severe terrifying nature of the character he played one of the most iconic villains in all film history. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Shallow vertical slice to the right side of the image. United Artists unknown
1955144737Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge played by Morris Ankrum with Prescott's manuscript annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances.<br /> <br /> George Sanders plays a wealthy hated businessman who has conned his way to the top and as the film begins has been found murdered. We see his life in a series of flashbacks as it is told to the police by his secretary and fellow con artist Yvonne DeCarlo. One of only two films in which Saunders and his real-life brother Tom Conway also play brothers onscreen. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City and California. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers noted as 2ND REVISION on the front wrapper copy No. 54 dated December 29 1955 with credits for producer Charles Martin. Title page present dated December 29 1955 noted as 2ND REVISE with credits for screenwriter/producer Martin. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 190. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1957146680N.p.: Regal Films 1957. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. <br /> <br /> Cowhand Jeff Donner John Agar is accused of murder and helped to escape by dancehall girl Susan Crowley Penny Edwards only to discover she's actually a Union Army spy working on foiling a Confederate plot. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Kanab Utah. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some with creasing 2 with closed tears on bottom. <br /> <br /> Pitts 3417. Regal Films unknown
1976146929N.p.: 5 Continents 1976. Vintage oversize borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film.<br /> <br /> Bizarre 1970s softcore sci-fi film about disembodied aliens from the dying planet Spermula who take the form of Earth women to collect semen to save their planet. featuring Udo Kier <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus pinholes at the corners else clean and bright. 5 Continents unknown
1974140771Hollywood: Goldwyn Studios 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> The daughter of a steel magnate is kidnapped from her college and being held for ransom by a group called the Army of the Oppressed whose insane leader demands ten million dollars in food for the poor. His enemy Turkey the leader of the Liberators in Detroit exacts his own revenge by kidnapping Malcolm Z's mother and wife but is apprehended by the FBI. A convict is allowed to escape from jail to lead the local cops to the gang but he too is killed onsite. With all the leads and hopes dashed one investigator risks his life for one more trick in getting the girl home safely. <br /> <br /> Set in California and Detriot. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1974 with credits for screenwriter Charles Martin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Goldwyn Studios unknown
1978140622N.p.: Cal-Am Artists 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Script belonging to assistant director John Neukum with his name inscribed on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> A rouge cop fed up with the ineffectual justice system decides to take the law into his own hands in this 1978 exploitation thriller. Jack Palance stars as the steely Lt. Jim Wade an L.A. cop who strikes a deal with a mobster in order to uncover the identity of the notorious serial killer "The Slasher." Director Charles Martin's final film he passed away only a few years after its completion. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. Title page present dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographically duplicated with revision pages throughout dated 07/11/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. <br /> <br /> Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cal-Am Artists unknown
1969162236N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. <br /> <br /> Not to be confused with the 1924 silent German film of the same name by Carl Boese.<br /> <br /> A tribe of Amazon women are able to pull down airplanes flying over their island using a mysterious magnetic force and put all the men on the planes to use as sex slaves. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a small diagonal crease to the top left corner else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1985147293N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Text in Spanish.<br /> <br /> A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference.<br /> <br /> Set in Mexico.<br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 noted as Treatment and Images with credits for screenwriters. Approximately 50 leaves not numbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a light partial circle stain on the front wrapper and bottom edges bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1985146600N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. <br /> <br /> A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference.<br /> <br /> Set in Mexico.<br /> <br /> White untitled generic Paul Kohner casting agency wrappers. Title page present noted as Tratamiento with credits for screenwriters Charles Pavlich and Patrick Griffin. 22 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1960125432Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Based on the novel "All the Way" by noted hard-boiled author Charles Williams. <br /> <br /> Edmond O'Brien is hired to impersonate a murdered businessman and dominates nearly every scene mostly on the phone as the "third voice" in this strange film post-noir entry. The first adaptation of a of Charles Williams novel and one of only a few American film adaptations of his work. <br /> <br /> One sheet folded twice as issued with one insert 13 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears and light rubbing. <br /> <br /> Spicer p. 424. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970142976Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. <br /> <br /> One of the more notable scripts from character actor and writer Leo Gordon whose Hollywood career began after his dishonorable discharge during WWll for robbing patrons at a bar. Throughout his 40 years as an actor art imitated life as the burly Gordon typically played an outlaw typecast predominately in Westerns. <br /> <br /> Peter Collinson fresh off "The Italian Job" was reportedly a brute force in addition to excruciating temperatures on a set that was 200 miles outside of Istanbul. The pairing of the leads was lauded as Charles Bronson was at the height of European fame alongside a well-established Tony Curtis. <br /> <br /> <br /> Set in 1922 Greco-Turkish War shot on location in Turkey. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Leo V. Gordon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1952153204N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film showing a ballet performance from the perspective of the audience with the orchestra pit and conductor visible in the foreground. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> Autobiographically reflective of screen icon Charlie Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era depicting the final years of a washed-up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer representative of a new generation of performers. <br /> <br /> The first and only time that Chaplin and fellow silent film star Buster Keaton would appear onscreen together and the only Chaplin picture to win an Academy Award albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 756. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1952157989N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film showing actor and director Charlie Chaplin in costume as a clown.<br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> Autobiographically reflective of screen icon Charlie Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era depicting the final years of a washed-up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer representative of a new generation of performers. <br /> <br /> The first and only time that Chaplin and fellow silent film star Buster Keaton would appear onscreen together and the only Chaplin picture to win an Academy Award albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches with wide margins image measuring 5 x 6.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 756. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1918158606N.p.: N.p. 1918. Vintage borderless vernacular photograph of actor Charlie Chaplin writer Upton Sinclair and editor and publisher Rob Wagner on the set of the 1918 silent film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso identifying subjects. <br /> <br /> Wagner was the editor and publisher of "Script" a left-leaning weekly literary film magazine published in Beverly Hills between 1929 and 1949. A lifelong Socialist and advocate for progressive causes Wagner used "Script" to give a voice to blacklisted screenwriters including Dalton Trumbo and Gordon Kahn and prominent leftists including Sinclair Max Eastman and William C. deMille. <br /> <br /> Wagner served as something of a father figure to Chaplin who was about 17 years Wagner's junior after the two men met sometime in the mid-1910s. The pair formed a close friendship with Wagner serving as Chaplin's part-time secretary for a period and accompanying the actor on his Third Liberty Loan tour through the American south in 1918. Wagner introduced Chaplin to Sinclair and Max Eastman and together the three writers exerted a strong influence over Chaplin's political world view. Chaplin would go on to co-found the Motion Picture Relief Fund which later became the Motion Picture and Television Fund with Wagner in 1929. <br /> <br /> Approximately 5 x 4 inches. About Near Fine lightly age toned. N.p. unknown
1940171507Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1940. Two vintage programs from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's classic satire held in New York on October 15 1940. Includes a large-format 14-page illustrated program and smaller bi-fold black-and-white program. Color program with illustrations by noted artist Al Hirschfeld. <br /> <br /> Affixed to the title page of the color program are two ticket stubs for an October 30 1940 showing of the film at the Astor Theatre. The premiere was held at both the Astor and the Capitol Theatres in New York to accommodate high patron turnout. <br /> <br /> For his follow-up to his 1936 classic "Modern Times" Chaplin chose to do what only a handful of other films dared to do in 1940-make fun of Hitler. Though several of Chaplin's previous films had made use of music and sound effects and while Chaplin had sung briefly in "Modern Times" "The Great Dictator" marked the first time he spoke dialogue onscreen. <br /> <br /> Large-format program 9 x 10 inches saddle-stapled. Smaller program 6.25 x 9.5 inches bi-fold. Both programs Very Good plus to Near Fine with some light foxing toning and soil to the extremities.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 565. United Artists unknown
1966166074N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 British film showing Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1965 novel by Margaret Forster a portrait of 1960s Swinging London about a young woman who is torn between romances with her father's employer and the boyfriend of her pregnant flatmate. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1987139456Los Angeles: TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation 1987. British Draft script for the 1988 television film originally airing on December 21 1988 on TNT the first made-for-television movie produced for the fledging network. Brief annotations in manuscript ink throughout. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during the English Reformation. Previously filmed in a 1966 Academy Award winning theatrical release directed by Fred Zimmerman and starring Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller and Leo McKern. <br /> <br /> Tan wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated November 16 1987 with a credit for screenwriter Bolt. 180 leaves with last page of text numbered 177. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation unknown
1974161278Universal City: Universal Studios 1974. Final Shooting script for the 1974 film copy belonging to character actor J. Edward McKinley with manuscript marker annotations of "J. Edw. McKinley" and "Passenger" along the top edge of the front wrapper. The script printed on pink leaves is preceded by a "Cast" and a "Sets" leaves. Laid in are two two-page Shooting Call sheets dating May 20 and 21 1974.<br /> <br /> Sequel to the 1969 hit "Airport" based in turn on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel "Airport." After a midair collision wipes out the crew of a Boeing 707 ground control must find a way to guide the disabled plane to safety. This midair disaster film inspired the 1980 parody "Airplane" directed by Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker and starring Leslie Nielsen. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in California Utah Washington DC and Virginia. <br /> <br /> Orange titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 26 1974. Title page present noted as Final Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Don Ingalls. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with one blue revision page undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Universal Studios unknown
1953152724N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage oversize borderless matte-finish double weight photograph of Charlton Heston receiving a massage on the set of the 1953 film. With the stamp of photographer Bill Avery on the verso. <br /> <br /> A Chief of Scouts mistrusts the Apache tribe after the chief refuses to sign a peace treaty but his concerns are disregarded by the US Army. <br /> <br /> Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early twentieth century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Texas.<br /> <br /> 9 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Pitts 166. N.p. unknown
1984153156New York: Robert Halmi Productions 1984. Draft script for the 1984 television film here under the working title "Nairobi." The film originally premiered on October 17 1984 on CBS. <br /> <br /> The Kenyan government hires a former Green Beret to stop a group of violent and unpredictable poachers. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated April 1984 with credits for screenwriter David Epstein. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Robert Halmi Productions unknown
