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1954151344Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage press kit for the 1954 film containing one full-color illustrated promotional pamphlet three black-and-white photographs of cast and crew members holding Academy Awards and one page of promotional reading material introducing the photographs. <br/><br/>Based on screenwriter Budd Schulberg's 1955 novel "Waterfront." A dockworker and would-be prizefighter witnesses a murder at the hands of the local mob boss' men and is forced to stand up to his corrupt union leaders. <br/><br/>Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning eight including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City.<br/><br/>Photographs and promotional material Near Fine.<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 books
1978148752Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures Industries 1978. Two studio still photographs from the 1954 film struck by Columbia Pictures Television in 1978. Housed in a Columbia Pictures Television photos envelope stamped with title.<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/>Selected for the National Film Registry in 1989.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 647. Selby US. Ebert I. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Columbia Pictures Industries unknown books
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/>Complete collation details available on request.<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 books
1949150526N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Eliz Kazan and Ethel Barrymore on the set of the 1949 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1946 novel "Quality" by Cid Ricketts Sumner. <br/><br/>When Pinky Johnson Jeanne Crain returns home to the South to visit her grandmother she confesses that she's been passing for a white woman while up North studying to be a nurse. She also confesses she is in love with Dr. Thomas Adams William Lundigan a white man unaware she is black.<br/><br/>Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actress and two Best Supporting Actress nominations.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very light rippling on right edge else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1976142770Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1976. Two vintage promotional photographs from the 1976 film. Rubber stamp to the verso of one photo. Based on the unfinished 1941 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. <br/><br/>Effectively a tribute to early cinema in which Robert De Niro plays a movie producer who nearly works himself to death. Director Elia Kazan's final directorial effort and notably the only film with De Niro and Jack Nicholson in a joint screen appearance. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Hollywood and shot there on location. <br/><br/>One photo 7.25 x 9.75 inches and one photo 8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1955152321Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage reference photograph of actors James Dean and Julie Harris examining a small scale model of a farm on the set of the 1955 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations identifying Harris and Dean to the verso. <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. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
1952141345Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film. Snipe printed on the verso. <br/><br/>The culmination of screenwriter Steinbeck's long-standing fascination with Zapata it was said that Steinbeck had begun work on such a screenplay as early as 1948. The subject was a touchy one as the MPAA's Production Code Administration had been discouraging studios from working on such a film and there were prolonged negotiations with the Mexican government about approval over the film's release that culminated in a second cut of the film especially for Mexican distribution. Kazan and Steinbeck both ex-communists are said to have used this film to metaphorically express how they felt communism in the Soviet Union had gone off the rails. <br/><br/>The film won Anthony Quinn an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and it was nominated for four others. It also won Best Actor at Cannes and was nominated for the Grand Prize. <br/><br/>Set in early twentieth century Mexico shot at the Twentieth Century-Fox back lot with location shooting along the Rio Grande and across the American Southwest. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine two holograph annotations one in black ink one in graphite to the verso. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1951132102Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1951. Final script for the 1952 film. Based on the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. Xerographically reproduced Fox file copy likely produced by the studio for its files in the late 1960s or a bit later. <br/><br/>Kazan's romanticized semi-fictional account of Zapata in his prime this sweeping early Brando film glorifies the revolutionary's noble intentions and largely overlooks the rest. The culmination of screenwriter Steinbeck's long-standing fascination with Zapata it was said that Steinbeck had begun work on such a screenplay as early as 1948. The subject was a touchy one as the MPAA's Production Code Administration had been discouraging studios from working on such a film and there were prolonged negotiations with the Mexican government about approval over the film's release that culminated in a second cut of the film especially for Mexican distribution. Kazan and Steinbeck both ex-Communists are said to have used this film to metaphorically express how they felt Communism in the Soviet Union had gone off the rails. <br/><br/>The film won Anthony Quinn an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and it was nominated for four others. It also won Best Actor at Cannes and was nominated for the Grand Prize. <br/><br/>Set in Mexico shot on location in Mexico New Mexico Colorado and Texas. <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated Feb. 6 1951. Title page present dated February 6 1951 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Steinbeck. 149 leaves photocopied. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine spiral bound. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1961141869Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1961. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1961 film showing Elia Kazan Natalie Wood Warren Beatty and Beatty's then fiancee Joan Collins on the set. Beatty and Collins would break off their engagement during the production after he began an affair with Wood. With the stamp of photographer Larry Fried for PIX photoagency on the verso. <br/><br/>Warren Beatty's film debut. Wood was nominated for Best Actress Academy Award and William Inge won for Best Screenplay his first original screenplay after a career as a playwright. <br/><br/>9.5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Warner Brothers unknown books
1946132009Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film "Boomerang." Brief secretarial notation in holograph pencil on the verso of the last leaf.<br/><br/>Based on a Reader's Digest article 1945 by Fulton Oursler as Anthony Abbot in turn based on an actual incident involving a Catholic priest and a mentally unstable homeless man. Henry L. Harvey Andrews is a public attorney hired to defend a strange out-of-towner accused of murdering a priest. <br/><br/>Producer Louis De Rochemont's innovative documentary-style filmmaking is perhaps at it's best in this film drawing heavily from his previous film the 1945 Henry Hathaway noir "The House on 92nd Street."<br/><br/>Set in Connecticut shot on location there and in New York. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated September 6 1946 noted as REVISED Final Script with credits for screenwriter Murphy and writer Oursler as Abbot. 162 leaves with the last leaf of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/18/46 and 9/25/46. Near Fine overall bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960150525N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage reference photograph of Elia Kazan Warren Beatty and four other female cast members on the set of the 1961 film.<br/><br/>Warren Beatty's film debut. Natalie Wood was nominated for Best Actress Academy Award and William Inge won for Best Screenplay his first original screenplay after a career as a playwright. <br/><br/>Family and societal pressures on Deanie Wood and Bud's Beatty heated teen romance threaten their romance and their sanity.<br/><br/>10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1960150523N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Elia Kazan by photographer Sam Shaw on the set of the 1961 film. "Sam Shaw" and "Graphic Arts Photo Service" stamps on verso. <br/><br/>Warren Beatty's film debut. Natalie Wood was nominated for Best Actress Academy Award and William Inge won for Best Screenplay his first original screenplay after a career as a playwright. <br/><br/>Family and societal pressures on Deanie Wood and Bud's Beatty heated teen romance threaten their romance and their sanity.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very light edgewear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1956149458N.p.: Newtown Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph of actress Carroll Baker on the set of the 1956 film. <br/><br/>Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations. <br/><br/>Set in the fictional Tiger Tail County Mississippi shot on location in Benoit Mississippi and Stockton California.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded. Newtown Productions unknown books
1961146915N.p.: Newtown Productions 1961. Vintage borderless photograph of Elia Kazan rehearsing with Barbara Loden and Gary Lockwood on the set of the 1961 film. <br/><br/>Warren Beatty's film debut. Natalie Wood was nominated for Best Actress Academy Award and William Inge won for Best Screenplay his first original screenplay after a career as a playwright. <br/><br/>Family and societal pressures on Deanie Wood and Bud's Beatty heated teen romance threaten their romance and their sanity.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Newtown Productions unknown books
1965148894N.p.: N.p. 1965. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1965 film. Two studio still photographs of Ursula Andress on production designer Piero Poletto's striking minimalist set and two compilation fashion photographs of Andress in costume bookending Costume Designer Giulio Coltellacci's concept drawings. Two photographs with "La Decima Victima" stamp on verso.<br/><br/>An international cult classic based on the 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckley. Sheckley wrote the novelization of the film in 1956 and two sequels "Victim Prime" and "Victim" in 1987 and 1988 respectively.<br/><br/>The worldwide officially sanctioned "Big Hunt" is the world's most popular television show giving those inclined to violence and those in search of celebrity a chance to act as "hunter" and "victim." The games top two assassins Caroline Meredith Andress and Macello Poletti Marcello Mastrianni who may be in love are pitted against each another.<br/><br/>A descendant of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" 1924 and the first of the televised death game films such as "The Gladiators" 1969 "Death Race 2000" 1975 "The Running Man" 1987 and "The Hunger Games" 2012.<br/><br/>Shot on location in New York Rome Geneva and Vatican City. <br/><br/>2 - 9.5 x 7.25 inches 2- 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1943129711N.p.: N.p. 1943. Treatment script by Elizabeth Meehan for an unproduced film. Meehan was a British screenwriter who worked in Hollywood and the UK in the 1920s 30s and 40s. Among the 29 credits she amassed she is best known for "The Great Gatsby" 1926 "Laugh Clown Laugh" 1928 and "Oliver Twist" 1933. <br/><br/>A romantic melodrama about women on the home front during World War II told through the lives of a group of female cab drivers and their correspondence with one particularly lonely soldier using numerous aliases to write them. With only one significant male role the soldier who only appears at the beginning and end of the story the main action of the film features women exclusively making it something of an unusual story for it's time. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Elizabeth Meehan. 18 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1951WRCLIT70559Los Angeles: United Artists 1951. Three vintage 11 x 14" lobby cards in full color. Occasional tackholes in margins and unobtrusively in images one card has a crease in upper right margin else very good. Three of the studio lobby cards issued to promote the black & white film noir directed by Joseph Losey starring John Drew Barrymore Preston Foster and Joan Lorring. The film was based on a script written by Joseph Losey and Stanley Ellin based on Ellin's 1948 novel DREADFUL SUMMIT. Hugo Butler and Ring Lardner Jr. also contributed to the screenplay but were uncredited when the film was first released. Additional cast members include Dorothy Comingore Philip Bourneuf Howland Chamberlain et al. It was Ellin's first screen credit following two teleplays. United Artists unknown books
1972141353Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1974 film here seen under the working title "Deadly Honeymoon." A single holograph notation to the first page. <br/><br/>Based on the 1967 novel Deadly Honeymoon by Lawrence Block about a newlywed husband who seeks bloody revenge on a pair of killers after they beat him unconscious and assault his bride. <br/><br/>Set in New Orleans shot on location there. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 163 and production No. 7475 dated March 27 1972 with credits for screenwriter S. Lee Pogostin. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mechanical duplication with revision pages throughout dated March 31 1972. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950132397Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1950 film. <br/><br/>Based on Reader's Digest articles written by Commander W. J. Lederer co-author of "The Ugly American" 1958 about a naval commander who applied military discipline at home when taking over the housework for his injured wife. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A couple of light creases else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1983118803Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1983. Revised First Draft script for the 1985 film. Costume designer Norman Salling's copy with his name in holograph ink at the top of the front wrapper. SIGNED by novelist-screenwriter Elmore Leonard on the title page. <br/><br/>One of only a few screenplays adapted by Leonard from one of his own novels the others include "The Moonshine War" 1970 and "52 Pick-Up" 1986 this film is made memorable in that it layers a surprisingly complex plot onto what by 1985 had become a pretty standard sub-genre: the Burt Reynolds revenge thriller. <br/><br/>Light green titled wrappers stamped REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper and dated August 5 1983. Title page present with a date of August 5 1983 and a revision date of 9/15/83 and credits for novelist-screenwriter Leonard and producers Robert Daley and Jennings Lang. 254 leaves photograhically reproduced rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some wear to the corners bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1962147889N.p.: Screen Gems Inc 1962. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film struck for 1962 re-release. <br/><br/>Based on Elmore Leonard's 1953 short story "Three-Ten to Yuma."<br/><br/>One of the first revisionist Westerns with a classicism that stands up to "High Noon" but an cynical attitude toward good and evil that was years ahead of its time. Glenn Ford's ambivalent character from "Gilda" is transplanted to a Western setting placed against Van Heflin's warmer but still hard boiled persona with unforgettable results. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some faint creasing in margins. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 657. Screen Gems Inc unknown books
1957152372N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing Elvis Presley getting whipped by prison guard Bill Hickman. <br/><br/>A handsome young man named Vince Everett is sent to prison for manslaughter and begins a musical career with the help of his cellmate a washed-up country singer. Presley's third film appearance and first film with MGM.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning along the top edge. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
141676Pretoria South Africa: Emil Nofal Films N.D. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. <br/><br/>A half-hour television series focusing on the unique cultures of Africa and how different groups interact with each other especially in the modern age. Written for South African television by Nofal an acclaimed South African director producer and screenwriter. <br/><br/>Set in South Africa. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Emil Nofal. 5 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus perfect bound. Emil Nofal Films unknown books
1939WRCLIT38809Hollywood: Walter Wanger Productions 1939. 145 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in printed wrappers. Small sliver out of fore- edge of upper wrapper else very good. An unspecified draft of Ken Englund's script based on John Lay and Robert Tallman's adaptation of F.G. Presnell's murder mystery. The film was released in 1940 as SLIGHTLY HONORABLE directed by Tay Garnett with Pat O'Brien Broderick Crawford Eve Arden et al. Walter Wanger Productions unknown books
1972133021San Diego CA: Legend Films 1972. Draft British script for the 1973 film. <br/><br/>Alec Guinness plays here against type imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Guinness' Hitler is an enclosed depressive who sinks slowly into madness depression and ultimately suicide as his 1000-Year Reich collapses around him. <br/><br/>A co-production between Italy and the UK made by Ennio De Concini better known for his many exploitation films of the 1970s. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 10th July 1972 with credits for screenwriter-director De Concini screenwriters Fusco and Reinhardt and English adaptation writer Moffat. 128 leaves roneograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Legend Films unknown books
