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1959129183Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film. <br/><br/>Due to a clerical error Gus Brubaker is drafted for a second time following his first stint in the Korean War. This time he is sent to a tiny Japanese island full of bored natives and airmen to which Brubacker responds by resolving to build a hotel based around the hot springs on the island. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 4002 and production No. 843 dated November 11 1959. Title page present dated November 11 1959 with credit for screenwriter Breen. 156 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1941150534Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1941. Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. <br/><br/>Remade in 1983 directed by Alan Johnson starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film having died in an airplane accident during post-production.<br/><br/>Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura husband and wife thespians in Nazi occupied Warsaw who inadvertently become part of the Resistance and must utilize every acting trick in the book to retrieve a list of Polish Resistance fighters from a German spy. <br/><br/>Set in Warsaw immediately before and during the 1939 German invasion. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches image 4.5 x 3.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Criterion Collection 670. United Artists unknown books
1937137977Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1937. Vintage sepia double weight photograph for the 1937 film showing the director and star relaxing on the set. Based on the play "Angyal" by Hungarian playwright Melchior Lengyel. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961130381Culver City CA: Selznick International / RKO Radio Pictures 1961. Post-production Combined 16mm Continuity script for the 1961 re-release of the 1945 film. Based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White. <br/><br/>Based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White. One of the best "old dark house" noirs with Hitchcockian touches both in terms of being a thriller and in terms of featuring multiple insidious characters all placed in the expert care of Robert Siodmak. <br/><br/>Tall pale green titled wrappers without rear wrapper dated May 9th 1961 noting 3 reels and footage of 2989 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. Selznick International / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1945129230Culver City CA: Selznick International Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures 1945. Early Treatment script for the 1945 film here under its working title "Some Must Watch." An early treatment by Mel Dinelli basically a sketch of what would become a much more developed screenplay offering significant insight into the early development process. <br/><br/>Based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White. One of the best "old dark house" noirs with Hitchcockian touches both in terms of being a thriller and in terms of multiple insidious characters all placed in the expert care of Robert Siodmak. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with a credit for screenwriter Dinelli and dated January 20 1945. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 19 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine small rust stain from an old paper clip bound with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Neibaur 806. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Selznick International Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1975133484Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1975. Collection of 10 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1975 UK film. Mimeo tags and cropping annotations on the versos of two stills one loose but present. <br/><br/>A made-for-television movie based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White and a remake of the 1945 Hitchcockian noir about a small-town psycho who chooses disabled women as his victims. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint offsetting to the stills with mimeo tags else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1941148690Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 690 and copy No. 140 both rubber stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same.<br/><br/>John T. Bromley Joseph Allen a young man from high society is physically humiliated by a prizefighter William Haade before his socialite sweetheart Jenny Killian Brenda Joyce. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a rematch. <br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 140 and production No. 690 dated OCT. 23 1941. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 23 1941 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Walter Bullock. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/27/41 and 11/11/41. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1940140028Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1940. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1940 film. <br/><br/>Based on O'Neill's plays "The Moon of the Caribbees" "In the Zone" "Bound East for Cardiff" and "The Long Voyage Home" set during WWI Ford adapted the plays to be set during WWII. Ole Wayne and his comrades smuggle drink and dames aboard their ship SS Glencairn and tensions mount between the crew. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Good with toning and several tears. United Artists unknown books
1968147869Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. "Film Buff's Center" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel "The Bounty Killer" by Marvin H. Albert.<br/><br/>Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western. Mexican fugitive Jose Gomez Tomas Milian returns to his village pursued by the notorious bounty hunter Luke Chilson Richard Wyler.<br/><br/>The debut of Milian in the Western genre.<br/><br/>Set in Mexico shot on location in Andalucia Spain. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing near edge. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Cox "10000 Ways to Die. United Artists unknown books
1984143108Coconut Grove FL: Viking Films 1984. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Business card for Carl Johnson and Viking Films Ltd. attached with a paper clip to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the ancient Greek play "Medea" by Euripides. Medea is wife of Jason famous fetcher of the Golden Fleece and leader of the Argonauts. But her position in the Greek world is threatened when Jason intends to leave her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes revenge by killing the princess as well as Jason's children. <br/><br/>Set in Corinth. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers dated 1984 with credits for screenwriter Carl Johnson and the play by Euripides. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus comb bound. Viking Films unknown books
1953110846Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. <br/><br/>A former professional fighter John Payne is framed for the murder of his unfaithful wife Peggie Castle by her lover Brad Dexter. With the help of an aspiring actress Evelyn Keyes he must clear his name before the killer flees the country. <br/><br/>11 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Near Fine condition starting only slight at the hinge fold. Laid in is four-page supplement on newsprint in Fine condition. A compelling and unusual film that has been rediscovered as one the late classics of the noir cycle. <br/><br/>Grant US. Lyons US. Silver Classic Noir. Selby Canon US. United Artists unknown books
1975117917N.p.: N.p. 1975. An unproduced British Draft script for the "Vile Bodies" based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh and written for the screen by John Wells. Assembled mostly from mechanically-reproduced leaves with two leaves pp. 138-139 being ribbon copies. Written as a screenplay with dialogue and location information but lacking camera direction typical of a draft that is past the treatment stage but prior to the advanced draft screenplay stage. This would appear to have no relation to the later produced adaptation of the same novel director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" 2003. <br/><br/>Pink wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with a date of September 1975 and credits for novelist Waugh and screenwriter Wells. 167 leaves. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear and yapping at the edges prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1979147161Unknown: Playboy Productions 1979. Final Draft script for the television film originally aired on ABC on October 19 1979. Actor Martin Landau's copy with his holograph name on the front wrapper and ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are a set of eleven blue revision pages as well as ten xerographically duplicated call sheets with copied handwritten annotations. <br/><br/>Partygoers find themselves trapped at an amusement park besieged by a hurricane during Fourth of July festivities. The planned destruction of the actual Ocean View Park in Norfolk VA including its legendary roller coaster predated the film-the amusement park was burned down and blown up over the course of production.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Norfolk Virginia. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 4 1979 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographically reproduced on green stock rectos only with white and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/8/79 and 6/11/79. Pages Very Good with the title page and page 34 loose from the binding wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Playboy Productions unknown books
140743N.p.: N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. <br/><br/>Beans is the chauffeur secret agent Jedediah Norris a beautiful young woman who is in graduate school and adopted from Vietnam during the war by her father a black man named Tom Callahan. She is also a gourmet chef and is in desperate love with her boss but he only seems to notice her when she goofs. All the while she is an aspiring television star hoping to work in show business one day. <br/><br/>Set in San Francisco. <br/><br/>Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ezra Bowen. 26 leaves with last page of text numbered 25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1929149242N.p.: N.p. 1929. Dialogue Draft script for the 1929 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and throughout.<br/><br/>Based on H.C. McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond." A former army captain bored with civilian life aids a young woman whose uncle has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric institution. The third Bulldog Drummond film to be released following the silent films "Bulldog Drummond" 1923 and "Bulldog Drummond's Third Round." Actor Ronald Colman's first sound film.<br/><br/>Set in London.<br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1938142943Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1938. Vintage Style D US one sheet poster for the 1938 US film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1936 novel by Erich Maria Remarque and to our knowledge F. Scott Fitzgerald's only credited adaptation of a literary work by another author. <br/><br/>Three young German soldiers vie for the love of a dying woman in the years following World War I. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches on archival linen rolled. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1963149457N.p.: Les Films Marceau-Cocinor 1963. Collection of eight vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1963 French-Italian sexploitation film. <br/><br/>A pseudo-journalistic view into the world of Italian sadomasochism in the 1960s. <br/><br/>Four photographs 9.5 x 7 inches four photographs 7 x 4.75 inches. Very Good plus. Les Films Marceau-Cocinor unknown books
1978WRCLIT67134N.p.: OPT / Universal 1978. 5239 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of blue paper. Bradbound in plain wrappers. Very good to near fine. A production draft of this adaptation to television of Howard Fast's 1977 novel. The 1979 release directed by Alvin J. Levi was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best TV Movie. The length of the script reflects the 240 minute running time and according to info on the title-leaf this draft incorporates revisions made within the first week of the scheduled start of shooting. An interesting juxtaposition: while Fast was a notably uncooperative witness before the HUAC and suffered from the blacklist Collins disavowed his earlier associations and followed a different path. OPT / Universal] unknown books
1978WRCLIT67142N.p.: OPT / Universal 1978. 7239 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of salmon paper. Bradbound in plain wrappers. Very good to near fine. A production draft of this adaptation to television of Howard Fast's 1977 novel. The 1979 release directed by Alvin J. Levi was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best TV Movie. The length of the script reflects the 240 minute running time and according to info on the title-leaf this draft incorporates revisions made four days prior to the scheduled start of shooting. An interesting juxtaposition: while Fast was a notably uncooperative witness before the HUAC and suffered from the blacklist Collins disavowed his earlier associations and followed a different path. OPT / Universal] unknown books
1950WRCLIT69373Sydney: MGM 1950. Folio. Vintage pictorial daybill poster 30 X 13.25" 76 X 34cm. Folded as issued. Additional horizontal fold some creasing and short edge tears confined to blank margins remnants of two Australian exhibition squibs affixed to top edge slightly overlapping the top edge of the image; a good example of an uncommon and fragile poster. An original daybill poster for the Australian release of the 1949 film adaptation of Faulkner's novel based on a screenplay by Ben Maddow directed by Clarence Brown and starring David Brian Claude Jarman Jr. Will Geer et al. The poster and imagery underscore the emblazoned caption "It's Sensational!" The US release occurred in late 1949 with distribution elsewhere waiting until 1950 or later. MGM unknown books
1937WRCLIT78444Berlin: Illustrierter Film-kurier 1937. 8pp. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Creased snag to spine at middle without loss otherwise a very good copy of a fragile item. The German issue of the German language FILM- KURIER turned over to the third film for which Faulkner actually received screen credit as "Story by" upon final release in 1937. The title is at slight variance from the release title appearing on the issues printed in Vienna the format is larger and some of the illustrative matter is different. The script was based on George S. King's novel and at various times involved additional work by Sam Hellman Lamar Trotti and Gladys Lehman as well as uncredited final revisions by associate producer Nunnally Johnson. The film was directed by Tay Garnett and starred Wallace Beery Warner Baxter Mickey Rooney et al all of whom are featured in the imagery in this issue along with two images of the abuse of slaves. The film opened in Austria and Germany in early Autumn 1937. Illustrierter Film-kurier unknown books
1937WRCLIT78433Vienna: Illustrierter Film-kurier 1937. 8pp. Octavo. Pictorial self-wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Spine staple absent slight tanning along top edge otherwise very good copy of a very fragile item. The Austrian issue of the German language FILM-KURIER Nr. 1846 turned over to the third film for which Faulkner actually received screen credit as "Story by" upon final release in 1937. The format and illustrative matter differs from the issue printed in Berlin and there is a slight variation in the title. The script was based on George S. King's novel and at various times involved additional work by Sam Hellman Lamar Trotti and Gladys Lehman as well as uncredited final revisions by associate producer Nunnally Johnson. The film was directed by Tay Garnett and starred Wallace Beery Warner Baxter Mickey Rooney et al all of whom are featured in the imagery in this issue along with two images of the abuse of slaves. The film opened in Austria and Germany in early Autumn 1937. Illustrierter Film-kurier unknown books
1972WRCLIT70851Np.: Filmgroup Productions 1972. Original 41 x 27" 104 x 69cm one sheet poster. Folded as usual else near fine. A style B one sheet with reviews for Horton Foote's adaptation to the screen of his own stage play based on a short story by William Faulkner. It was directed by Joseph Anthony and starred Robert Duvall Olga Bellin and Peter Masterson. Although it was released in 1972 it saw limited runs in the U.S. until re-released about ten years later. Filmgroup Productions unknown books
1961WRCLIT71273London: Zanuck / Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Original highly pictorial British Quad Crown poster 30 x 40"; 76 x 102 cm. Previously folded some light use at edges some small patches of black construction paper tipped to the corners on the verso otherwise very good. A poster issued to promote the UK release -- designated as "X ADULTS ONLY" -- of the second film adaptation of Faulkner's novel based on a screenplay by James Poe directed by Tony Richardson and starring Lee Remick Yves Montand Bradford Dillman Odetta and Strother Martin. SANCTUARY was previously filmed in 1933 as the highly controversial pre-code THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE. Zanuck / Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1955151466N.p.: N.p. 1955. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1955 Italian film. With the stamp of still photographer G.B. Poletto on the verso and one with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's French release affixed to the verso.<br/><br/>A trio of small-time ruthless con artists undergo crises of conscience after facing the condemnation of their families. Director Federico Fellini's followup to "La strada" 1954. <br/><br/>Set in the countryside. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Eureka Masters of Cinema 66. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
