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1946003013Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1946. Doyle A. Conan. DRESSED TO KILL here bearing the initial later discarded title "Prelude To Murder". Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1946. This unique film studio screenplay archive consists of THREE original screenplays. 1. A "First Revised Draft" dated January 3rd 1946 the screenwriter's original carbon copy typescript unannotated consisting of 94pp of onion-skin paper. Brad-bound in original drab brown Universal Studios covers which are a little brittle and chipped else Very Good bearing the stamped production number 7337. 2. Complete 78pp brad-bound shooting script consisting of a mix of original ribbon-copy typescript and studio-mimeographed white pages dated January 16th 1946 with production number 7337 stamped on the cover. This remarkable writer's draft contains extensive author-revised annotations emendations revisions and additions throughout. This is accomplished via a cut-and-paste the insertion of additional leaves and new dialogue and description scrawled on the versos an exceptional artifact which boldly captures the revision process of this last entry in the Sherlock Holmes' Universal Studios film series. The front cover has been neatly reinforced with tape and bears the original penciled filing notation indicating that this particular script is the copy from which the final draft was produced. 3. Dated April 25th 1946 the complete original studio-mimeographed self-wrapper final post-production dialogue continuity script bound with two brads at the top. In Very Good condition. The title DRESSED TO KILL refers to the film's wily femme fatale Hilda Courtney played by Patricia Morison an homage to Irene Adler from "A Scandal In Bohemia" complete with a familiar misdirection trick which Hilda uses to fool Watson into revealing a hidden location. The plot is an amalgam of several Holmes stories but also draws from other plots in the Universal Sherlock film canon: a convicted thief in Dartmoor Prison hides stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes -- leading to the murder or attempted murder of their owners using the central device of a secret code which of course only Holmes can brilliantly break. Starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in their final film together DRESSED TO KILL opened on June 7th 1946 to excellent reviews but also to rumors that it was to be the last of the Universal Sherlock films; by October of that year Producer Roy William Neill truly the visionary of the film series died and that signaled the end of one of the most successful franchises in Universal Studios history. Unique. Please see the other Universal Sherlock scripts we have in stock. Signed. Original Wraps. Very Good. Script. Universal Studios Paperback books
1945003033Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1945. Doyle A. Conan Leonard Lee screenwriter. PURSUIT TO ALGIERS here bearing the initial title "The Fugitive." Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1945. Dated July 26th 1945 Leonard Lee's complete brad-bound studio mimeographed draft script production number #7309 stamped on the cover consists of 113pp of typescript bearing numerous penciled revisions emendations and additions - along with another 20pp of massively hand-corrected typescript which clearly had contained so many penciled changes that the pages had to be retyped. These remarkably annotated pages have been appended to the rear of the screenplay creating a 133pp comprehensive look at the evolution of the script. Given the fragile nature of WW2-era scripts this example is in excellent original condition very good indeed the pages are a little soft with some very light edge-wear and tears. As fully marked up as any script in our nearly complete Universal Studio archive. PURSUIT TO ALGIERS set almost entirely on a passenger ship required elaborate sets and thus became the series's most expensive production; it premiered at the Rialto Theatre in New York on October 26th 1945. The twelve Sherlock Holmes films produced by Universal Pictures during the years 1942-1946 are legend; they are surely the best known screen-adapted adventures of English Literature's most iconic character and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are still cherished despite our current superb 21st century film and TV adaptations as the definitive Holmes and Watson. A treasure for the fan of the Universal Sherlock Series. Please see our other scripts from the same archive. Signed. Original Wraps. Very Good. Script. Universal Studios Paperback books
1975WRCLIT60173Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1975. 1112 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Faint dust-soiling to wrappers but very good or better. An unspecified but pre-production draft of this original television Sherlock Holmes pastiche. The October 1976 release starred Roger Moore as Holmes John Huston as Moriarty Patrick Macnee as Watson and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler under the direction of Boris Sagal. While a novelization was published as a paperback original in 1976 the original teleplay was not published at the time. It was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and if only by virtue of the stand-out cast this addition to the Holmes adaptation canon deserves scrutiny. Denoted copy #24 of this script on the title-leaf. Twentieth Century-Fox Television paperback books
1975WRCLIT60171Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1975. 1112 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Light foxing to fore-edge faint dust-soiling to wrappers but very good. An unspecified but pre-production draft of this original television Sherlock Holmes pastiche. The October 1976 release starred Roger Moore as Holmes John Huston as Moriarty Patrick Macnee as Watson and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler under the direction of Boris Sagal. While a novelization was published as a paperback original in 1976 the original teleplay was not published at the time. It was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and if only by virtue of the stand-out cast this addition to the Holmes adaptation canon deserves scrutiny. Twentieth Century-Fox Television paperback books
1975WRCLIT60172Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1975. 1112 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Title hand-lettered on spine faint dust-soiling to wrappers small spot of fore- edge of a few leaves but very good. An unspecified but pre-production draft of this original television Sherlock Holmes pastiche. The October 1976 release starred Roger Moore as Holmes John Huston as Moriarty Patrick Macnee as Watson and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler under the direction of Boris Sagal. While a novelization was published as a paperback original in 1976 the original teleplay was not published at the time. It was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and if only by virtue of the stand-out cast this addition to the Holmes adaptation canon deserves scrutiny. Denoted copy #23 of this script on the title-leaf. Twentieth Century-Fox Television paperback books
WRCLIT60277Los Angeles: Universal Pictures 1946. 1182015161720 leaves paginated by reel. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Punched at top and bradbound. Occasional slight creases or marginal fraying title leaf chipped around brads and with creased tear in right margin; generally very good. A post-production continuity script of this important adaptation of the Holmes/Watson characters to the screen. The screenplay was written by novelist Frank Gruber and was his sixth credited screenplay. The film directed by Roy William Neill starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and was the penultimate film in the sequence of twelve Universal films in which the duo set high marks for their portrayal of Holmes and Watson. DE WAAL 5158. Universal Pictures] unknown books
1945WRCLIT74806Los Angeles: Universal Pictures 1945. 1109 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of salmon stock. Bradbound. Title leaf pulled a bit at brads script number stamped on title leaf with manuscript number and pencil ownership signature otherwise very good. An unspecified but interim revised pre- production draft of this adaptation of the Holmes/Watson characters to the screen. The earliest draft of this script we have handled was dated 25 April and the latest included revises dated 4 August. The film directed by Roy William Neill starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce involves their protection of the heir of Rovenia after the King of that nation was assassinated. Although well over one hundred and fifty adaptations of Sherlock Holmes to the screen are known beginning with SHERLOCK HOLMES BAFFLED 1903 the Rathbone-Bruce portrayals have become almost canonical beginning with THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES March 1939 and concluding with the twelfth in sequence DRESSED TO KILL 1946 for which Lee also served as screenwriter. DE WAAL 5157. Universal Pictures] unknown books
1943WRCLIT60286Los Angeles: Universal Pictures 1943. 14 plus two blank leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only and stapled at top margin. Staples a trace rusty a few corner creases else very good. A continuity script for the trailer for this adaptation to the screen for Universal's distinguished series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations directed by Roy William Neill. Trailer continuity scripts are uncommon. DE WAAL 5151. Universal Pictures] unknown books
1952148479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film.<br/><br/>The only feature film written by Geisel Dr. Seuss who wrote the story co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. <br/><br/>A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy Rettig who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker Hans Conried forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it.<br/><br/>Nominated for one Academy Award.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1982138021N.p.: Self published 1982. Early Draft script for the 1993 film "The Seventh Coin" here under the working title "King Herod's Children" dated a full decade before the film's release. Credited on the title page to Kikuo Kawasaki for an original concept. <br/><br/>An Arab boy Chowdhry meets a beautiful American tourist Powers in modern-day Jerusalem. By accident the two are entrusted to guard a valuable coin dating back to King Herod but they must defend themselves and the coin from a no-good villain O'Toole. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriters Delman and Soref and concept person Kawasaki. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Self published unknown books
1984141892Munich: Bayerischer Rundfunk 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. Text in German. <br/><br/>A lawyer survives a plane crash and uses his new found lust for life to take on a new identity and start again. Based on a novel of the same title by Johannes Mario Simmel. <br/><br/>Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 12 1984 with credits for screenwriter Johannes Mario Simmel. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with white velo binding. Bayerischer Rundfunk unknown books
1959146166Burbank CA: Otto Preminger Films 1959. Vintage photograph of Otto Preminger Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on the set of the 1959 film. <br/><br/>Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score composed by Ellington and Strayhorn uncredited and performed by Ellington's Orchestra won three Grammy Awards in 1959 including Best Sound Track Album.<br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker under the pseudonym Robert Traver which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Michigan.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine very light creasing. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Otto Preminger Films unknown books
1959146909Burbank CA: Otto Preminger Films 1959. Vintage photograph of Lee Remick Duke Ellington and Jimmy Woode rehearsing on the set of the 1959 film. <br/><br/>Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score composed by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn uncredited and performed by Ellington's Orchestra won three Grammy Awards in 1959 including Best Sound Track Album.<br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel by judge John D. Voelker writing under the pseudonym Robert Traver based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Michigan.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine very light creasing. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Otto Preminger Films unknown books
1991147653Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1991. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1991 film five of which are compilation prints of multiple stills. <br/><br/>Dr. Eve Simmons Renee Soutendijk in her first US film creates a nuclear armed android EVE VIII also played by Soutendijk for the military which looks and sounds just like its creator and has gotten lost in a big city and Dr. Simmons and Colonel Jim McQuade Gregory Hines must stop it.<br/><br/>Shot on location in New York Los Angeles and San Francisco. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Orion Pictures unknown books
1989141597Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Copy belonging to Brad Ricker an unknown crew member with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. <br/><br/>EVE VIII is a military cyborg designed to look like her creator. When it is damaged during a bank robbery it begins accessing dark and tragic personal memories of its creator and sets about on an unstoppable mission to kill. Colonel Jim McQuade Hines is tasked with stopping the machine of death. <br/><br/>Shot on location in San Francisco Los Angeles and New York City. <br/><br/>White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/2/89 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Duncan Gibbins and Yale Udoff. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Orion unknown books
1970144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink throughout. <br/><br/>Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. <br/><br/>Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1967142997Belgrade: Avala Film 1967. Original program for the international release of the 1967 Yugoslav black wave film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film and reproductions of line illustrations. Wrappers text in French with French German Russian Spanish and English text inside. <br/><br/>Taking on the trappings of American crime and film noir about a woman who is murdered by her lover after her infidelity is discovered the plot unfolds in non-chronological order with imaginative digressions and interruptions where both a sexologist and criminologist directly address the camera creating a critique of communist society and censorship. <br/><br/>10 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus in stiff wrappers. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 18. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Avala Film unknown books
1971152121London: Connoisseur Films 1971. Vintage reference photograph of director Dusan Makavejev and actress Milena Dravic on the set of the 1971 film. With a printed label specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso.<br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Noted Yugoslav filmmaker Makavejev's fourth film a surreal political satire banned in his home country upon release and for the next 16 years exploring the relationship between communism and sexuality with a focus on the work of Austrian-American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. <br/><br/>8.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 389. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Connoisseur Films unknown books
1967132220Munich: Spengler and Busselmann 1967. Original German A1 poster for the 1967 Yugoslavian film. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Second feature for Dusan Makavejev the most celebrated Yugoslavian director of the 1960s. Included in this montage of stories is an erotic love scene a strudel recipe rat catching and a graphic autopsy of a female victim-all within the context of a love affair between a switchboard operator and a rat catcher. A strong example of the director's radical style combining a decidedly anti-Stalinist stance with the celebration of individual political and sexual freedom using psychological surprise as a means of movement. <br/><br/>The Criterion Collection's essay accompanying their release of the Eclipse set containing Makvejev's first three films including this one notes: "There's never been another filmmaker quite like Du an Makavejev. Even in the 1960s when all of cinema's rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard Cassavetes and Marker were dissolving the boundary between fiction and documentary.Makavejev stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary raucous and ribald. Across these his wild collage-like first three films Makavejev investigates-with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy-love death and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen."<br/><br/>23 x 33 inches non-archivally mounted on board. A few tiny edge chips and a small sticker at the lower right corner. Very Good plus overall. <br/><br/>Shipping billed at cost. Item can only be shipped within the US. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 18. Spengler and Busselmann unknown books
1971151299N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actor Dustin Hoffman in character standing next to a blow-up print of a TIME Magazine issue with his face on the cover. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>A wealthy pop songwriter writes most of his songs about love but has no luck with romance in his personal life. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1946126189Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1946 film. <br/><br/>Phyllis Allenby Lockhart has an ancient curse on her family cast by a pack of wolves. After a series of local murders she is convinced she and her werewolf curse are to blame for she finds her belongings muddied torn and streaked with blood almost every morning. A greedy aunt eventually confesses to framing Phyllis in attempt to retain the Allenby's family fortune and suddenly dies by falling down a flight of stairs and onto a knife. With all the right elements of atmosphere eerie stringed instrumentation as the score and impeccable effects the film was not well received. Stands unique in the werewolf pantheon with a woman as the accursed and no werewolf actually seen. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers dated MARCH 25 1946 production No. 1484 with credits for director Yarbrough actors Don Porter and Lloyd Corrigan and actresses June Lockhart Sara Haden and Jan Wiley. 83 leaves mimeograph duplication. <br/><br/>Pages Very Good plus or better with a few tiny chips short creases and small closed tears at the extremities and some offsetting to the wrappers bound with two gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in mylar. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1954130141Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film "Seminole Uprising" seen here as "Bugle's Wake." Based on the 1942 novel "Bugle's Wake" by Curt Brandon. Script editor Jerome Thom's working copy with his name "Jerry Thoms" on the front wrapper and profuse annotations throughout. <br/><br/>A cavalry lieutenant is ordered to bring in Seminole Indian chief Black Cat who is leading his tribe on a campaign of terror and bloodshed. Shot on location at the Corrigan Ranch in California's Simi Valley and at the Iverson Ranch in Los Angeles Chatsworth. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper production No. 8250 dated June 25 1954. Title page present dated June 25 1954 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Kent. 120 leaves mimeograph duplication with yellow and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6-23-54 and 7-12-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1955140047Burbank CA: J. Walter Thompson Agency 1955. Draft script for the Season 6 Episode 7 of the 1955 television series originally broadcast November 10 1955 on NBC on live television and is today lost. Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman who played Jane Drake her name in holograph pencil on the first page. With annotations in holograph grey and red pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Lux Video Theatre was a television series that ran from 1950 until 1957 presenting teleplays and adaptations of films and plays in condensed versions. This particular episode deals with a playwright working on stopping his wife from retiring so that she may star in his next production. <br/><br/>36 leaves with last page of text numbered 37. Mechanical duplication with revision pages throughout dated November 10 1955. Pages Very Good wrapper missing bound with one gold brad. J. Walter Thompson Agency unknown books
1950136078Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1950. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph from the 1950 film noir. Shown are Ellen Keyes pursued onto a window ledge by a policeman. Advertising Council approval stamp and Columbia Studios stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>8 x 11 inches. Near Fine with two keybook holes to the left margin as called for. <br/><br/>Grant p. 349. Spicer p. 412. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970WRCLIT69811Burbank CA: Warner Bros. Inc. 1970. 3131 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of canary-yellow stock. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Wrappers a bit nicked and used at overlap edges a few leaves show some scattered small spots otherwise a very good copy. A "revised estimating" draft of this original screenplay by Eastman. The 1973 release starred Jon Voight Ann Archer et al in a very 1970s exploration of the world of a promising young boxer and questions of ambition and integrity. Warner Bros. Inc. unknown books
