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1970141219N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> A police officer discovers a brutal and seemingly random massacre of nine people in a store. With no motives or leads he must track down and stop the killer. Screenwriter Dirk Evans is better known for his work as an actor most notably in "The Professionals" 1966 "Branded" 1966 and "The Silencers" 1966. <br /> <br /> Set in Boston. <br /> <br /> Off-white titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Dirk Evans. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Dirk Evans. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Xerographically duplicated rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1937167747Paris: Michaux and Guérin 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1937 film showing a close-up image of actress Dita Parlo. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. <br /> <br /> An English-language version of the film was shot at the same time under the direction of Edmond T. Gréville titled "Under Secret Orders" still starring Parlo with Erich von Stroheim stepping in as the German spy chief. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Michaux and Guérin unknown
1979170620Los Angeles: CBS Television Network 1979. Three vintage photographs of Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett from the 1979 CBS television special which aired on February 14 1979. All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two with mimeo snipes on the versos.<br /> <br /> "Dolly and Carol in Nashville" was a musical variety television special in part a promotion for Parton's 1978 album "Heartbreaker" shot at The Grand Ole Opry and aired on Valentine's Day 1979. It was Burnett's first special following the cancellation of her 1967-1978 variety show "The Carol Burnett Show."<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. CBS Television Network unknown
1970162162N.p.: Universal Marion Corporation Pictures 1970. Two vintage lobby cards for the American release of the 1970 German film.<br /> <br /> From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.<br /> <br /> Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1860 novella by Ivan Turgenev about a young boy's one-sided lifelong romance with the daughter of a princess. <br /> <br /> Approximately 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at a few corners. Universal Marion Corporation Pictures unknown
1971156701Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> In the Stone Age two brothers battle for leadership of their tribe after the former leader is killed in an earthquake. The fourth and last film in Hammer's "Cave Girl" series preceded by "One Million Years B.C." 1966 "Prehistoric Women" 1967 and "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" 1970. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Nambia and South Africa. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Johnson and Del Vecchio p. 327-329. Columbia Pictures unknown
1967152118London: Hammer Film Productions 1967. Seven vintage reference photographs including six borderless from the 1967 film.<br /> <br /> The young queen of Icena agrees to share her throne with Justinian a Roman causing consternation among Britons and Romans alike. Loosely based on the life of British folk hero Boudica a famed ruler of the British Celtic Iceni tribe. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Ireland at Powerscourt Waterfall Loch Tay Wicklow Gap Sally Gap and Kilruddery Estate. <br /> <br /> Six photographs 9.5 x 7 inches one photograph 8 x 10.5 inches. Generally Near Fine one Very Good plus overall. <br /> <br /> Johnson and Del Vecchio Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography pp. 277-280. Hammer Film Productions unknown
1971161877N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> The ski lodge sees more action than the ski slopes during a wild weekend in Aroostook County Maine. <br /> <br /> An early appearance of noted actor Charles Napier.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the top corners. N.p. unknown
1971162501N.p.: Futurama International 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the working title "The Touch of Melissa." Photograph with provenance stamps on the verso. <br /> <br /> On the road from San Francisco to Austin Jodie makes a brief stop at a farm where he meets and falls in love with Melissa the lovely farmer's daughter. Unfortunately Melissa's insane great-grandmother is in the mix unaware Melissa is in fact a 127-year old witch and that Melissa is actually her sister. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Santa Ynez California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Nightmare USA. Code Red. Futurama International unknown
1987164002Beverly Hills CA: American Filmworks 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher.<br /> <br /> After his mother's death a shy boy and his father move from the swamplands to Chicago where the boy uses fantasy and dreams to adjust to his new life. Screenwriter Don Keith Opper was better known for his involvement in the "Critters" horror comedy film series both as an actor and writer. <br /> <br /> Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018.<br /> <br /> Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 1987 with credit for Opper. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Filmworks unknown
1971168786N.p.: Derio Productions Inc 1971. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1971 film.<br /> <br /> A sexploitation classic and the first film in director Don Schain's "Ginger" trilogy starring his then wife Cheri Carraro as Ginger. Followed by "The Abductors" 1972 and "Girls Are for Loving" 1973. <br /> <br /> Police recruit a rich society girl to go undercover to expose a small town's drug/blackmail/prostitution ring.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in New Jersey.<br /> <br /> 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with starting at the center fold. Derio Productions Inc unknown
1973170770New York: A.B. Enterprises 1973. Vintage press kit for the 1973 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing three black and white photographs and eight gatherings of promotional reading material.<br /> <br /> The third film in Don Schain's "Ginger" series following "Ginger" in 1971 and "The Abductors" in 1972. Shot in the Virgin Islands and Washington DC.<br /> <br /> Folder photographs and promotional material generally Near Fine. A.B. Enterprises unknown
1962142324Universal City London: K.N.P. Productions / Universal 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Laid in is a two page stapled cast list dated December 21 1962 as well as a three page stapled cast and unit list dated December 21 1962. Here under the working title "It's All Happening." <br /> <br /> A local talent-spotter organizes a benefit concert to save the orphanage he grew up in. Later categorized as a "children's musical" this film featured a great number of actual popular singer and bands active in the 1960s in England. <br /> <br /> Green untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated November 29 1962. 72 leaves with last page of text numbered 71. Multilith duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. K.N.P. Productions / Universal unknown
1954146075Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1954. Draft script for the 1955 film here under the working title "The Annapolis Story." With small manuscript ink annotations throughout mostly noting the scene entrances of different characters throughout the script. <br /> <br /> Two sibling cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy fall for the same girl creating a love triangle that can only be resolved by one brother's sacrifice for the other in the Korean War in the tradition of "Wings" 1927. Director Don Siegel's first film starring Kevin McCarthy followed by the sci-fi horror classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1956 which was considered to be a breakthrough picture for both. <br /> <br /> Set in Annapolis Maryland.<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page with credits for screenwriter Dan Ullman dated January 6 1954. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the wrappers and the right and lower edges of the leaves bound with two gold brads. Allied Artists Productions unknown
1968163595Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage bound production budget and two cost reports for the 1969 Western film. This grouping of documentation does NOT include the film's script.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1968 novel by Lewis B. Patten. An old-fashioned lawman is fired after killing a man in self-defense but refuses to resign resulting in violence on both sides. Actor Richard Widmark was dissatisfied with the film's original director Robert Totten and arranged to have him replaced by Don Siegel. Each director felt that the film did not represent his creative vision and the resultant dispute over the directorial credit led the Directors Guild of America to create the pseudonym Alan Smithee. <br /> <br /> Set in the fictional Cottonwood Springs shot on location in California and Arizona. <br /> <br /> Tall green Universal Pictures leatherette wrappers dated June 26 1968 noted as production No. 2022 with credits for Totten actors Richard Widmark and Lena Horne and producer Richard Lyons. Approximately 50 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver screw brads. <br /> <br /> Pitts 1015. Universal Pictures unknown
1959161414N.p.: N.p. 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1959 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. 23 reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages.<br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960.<br /> <br /> Based on screenwriter Fred Gipson's 1947 novel "Circle Round the Wagon" about two young brothers go on a hunting trip with an older friend. Fabian's film debut. Gipson's second published novel preceding his better-known 1956 novel "Old Yeller."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in San Bernardino.<br /> <br /> Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present dated July 9 1959 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter-novelist Fred Gipson and screenwriter Winston Miller. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/13/59 and 7/22/59. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus front board slightly warped. N.p. unknown
1989156388New Brunswick: Rutgers University 1989. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED on the title page by actor Kevin McCarthy who starred in Don Siegel's 1956 film noir adaptation. Based on the 1954 novel by Jack Finney. One of 500 copies printed.<br /> <br /> Reproduces the post-production script of the 1956 film as it was shot along with commentaries and historical information about the production.<br /> <br /> About Fine in green cloth with no dust jacket as issued. Rutgers University unknown
1974157287Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actors Michael Caine and Delphine Seyrig talking with director Don Siegel on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> Based on Clive Egleton's 1973 novel "Seven Days to a Killing" about the kidnapping of a British agent's son and the agent's subsequent quest for revenge. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in England and in Paris. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1969162044N.p.: Hollywood Cinema Associates 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film here under its alternate title "Odd Tastes." Provenance stamps on the verso of each.<br /> <br /> Marsha Jordan stars as a sex researcher who embarks on a worldwide quest for "the ultimate pleasure." <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Africa Hong Kong and Jordan. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Vinegar Syndrome. Hollywood Cinema Associates unknown
1970161920N.p.: Hollywood Cinema Associates 1970. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Each photograph with provenance stamps and labels on the versos.<br /> <br /> Marsha discovers her husband Greg's infidelity and decides to embark on a few carnal exploits of her own. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in California and Las Vegas. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and faint creasing. One photograph with wax pencil annotations in the bottom margin.<br /> <br /> Vinegar Syndrome. Hollywood Cinema Associates unknown
1977149031Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1977. Archive of seven vintage double weight borderless photographs from the 1977 film by special photographer Alan Pappe. Included is are four striking photographs of Julie Christie two photographs showing Fritz Weaver and Julie Christie with "the creature" and one photograph of director Donald Cammell on the set. With the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso of each photograph.<br /> <br /> Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years covering a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br /> <br /> Based on Dean Koontz 1973 novel of the same name about a scientist who creates an artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with procreating with the scientist's wife. <br /> <br /> Roughly 9.75 x 6.75 inches slightly irregularly trimmed. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1972139958England: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 American film "The Hot Rock" here under the British release title "How to Steal a Diamond." Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Distributor notation in manuscript ink on the verso. <br /> <br /> New Hollywood director Yates' adaptation of Westlake's 1970 novel "The Hot Rock." Dortmunder Redford and Kelp Segal are jewel thieves who plan to steal a diamond from a museum.over and over again. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br /> <br /> 30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with a few pinholes faint stains to verso. Scarce. <br /> <br /> Lee p. 118. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1975166464N.p.: N.p. 1975. Rainbow Revision Final Draft script for the ninth episode of the 1975-1976 ABC television series which aired on November 22 1975. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played "Candy" with an ink annotation of his name and character name on the front wrapper.<br /> <br /> "Matt Helm" premiered as a two hour self-titled ABC television film on May 7 1975 and the series ran for one season with thirteen episodes from September 20 1975 through January 3 1976.<br /> <br /> Loosely based on the character created by Donald Hamilton in his 1960 novel "Death of a Citizen." Anthony Franciosa stars as the titular character a former secret agent who opens a private detective business.<br /> <br /> In this episode Helm clears a businessman of murder charges before discovering evidence that may point to the man's guilt.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 2 1975. Title page present dated October 2 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Michael Fisher and story by Stanley Roberts. 79 leaves with last page of text numbered "67-68." Mixed duplication method mimeograph and xerographic duplication but all vintage rectos only with yellow blue pink green and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/6/75 and 10/13/75. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1968158067N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> In 1908 a deformed man in a small midwestern city becomes involved in an illicit grave digging operation in order to finance his wheelchair-bound sweetheart's surgery. Screenwriter Donald L. Brodie was best known as a character actor appearing in over 250 films and television programs between the late 1920s and late 1980s. He directed one film "A Fig Leaf for Eve" in 1944. <br /> <br /> Gray wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present noting a copyright date of July 10 1968 with credits for screenwriter Donald L. Brodie. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970153171N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> After being sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend and his friends a girl teams up with a bloodthirsty monster to take her revenge.<br /> <br /> Set in Biloxi Mississippi.<br /> <br /> White untitled Paul Kohner agency wrappers with the name of reader Ilse Lahn in manuscript ink annotation to the bottom of the front wrapper. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Donald L. Gold and story credits to Lester Wm. Berke. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few splashes and light edgewear on the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957162185Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1957. Vintage lobby card for the 1957 British film.<br /> <br /> From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.<br /> <br /> Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br /> <br /> A middle-aged alcoholic ship captain falls in love with a beautiful Spanish stowaway. <br /> <br /> 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with a few closed tears at the left and right edges. Paramount Pictures unknown
