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1961152049Hollywood: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Vintage pressbook for the 1961 film. <br /> <br /> With his fourth feature a 68-minute quickie Russ Meyer continued to market the "nudie" film genre he basically invented in 1959 with his first film "The Immoral Mr. Teas." He also continues to advertise the "French" sensibility "bon vivant" of his films-once described as "a narrated Playboy magazine" with no real plot per se just lots of buxom women shedding their clothing at every opportunity. <br /> <br /> One leaf bifold. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1963161702N.p.: Eve Productions 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film.<br /> <br /> Famed director Russ Meyer's documentary about the underground world of sex work in Europe. According to film critic Roger Ebert's article "Russ Meyer: King of the Nudies" published in the Jan/Feb 1973 issue of "Film Comment" Meyer "concealed a 16-mm camera in a suitcase and got footage in the red-light districts of Paris Amsterdam and elsewhere." <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Eve Productions unknown
1963151457N.p.: N.p. 1963. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1963 film. Included is a distributor's pamphlet. <br /> <br /> A mondo documentary following the sexual exploits of buxom women across Europe. <br /> <br /> Photographs 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Pamphlet bi-fold 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good moderately chipped and soiled. N.p. unknown
1968152051California: Eve Productions 1968. Vintage pressbook for the 1968 film. <br /> <br /> The owner of a strip club on the Sunset Strip is knocked out and robbed by his girlfriend the mistress of a brothel. <br /> <br /> One leaf bifold. 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and toned. Eve Productions unknown
1964170432N.p.: Eve Productions 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 sexploitation film.<br /> <br /> The first of Russ Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 sexploitation films shot in black-and-white featuring powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. <br /> <br /> "Lorna" a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed becomes sexually awakened after being raped by an escaped convict while she is skinny-dipping in a river and proceeds to invite the convict into her home while her husband is out working in the salt mines.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Eve Productions unknown
1966152053California: Eve Productions 1966. Vintage pressbook for the 1966 film. <br /> <br /> A sexploitation "documentary" following several buxom strippers as they discuss their lives in 1960s San Francisco.<br /> <br /> One leaf bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Folded once horizontally. Very Good plus overall. Eve Productions unknown
1965152052California: Eve Productions 1965. Vintage pressbook for the 1965 film. <br /> <br /> The final film in Russ Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black and white with powerful and vengeful female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. One of the first films to discuss post-traumatic stress disorder in a Vietnam War veteran. <br /> <br /> Six pages saddle stitched 11 x 17 inches. Folded once horizontally. Very Good plus overall. Eve Productions unknown
1965152050Los Angeles: Delta Films 1965. Vintage pressbook for the 1965 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Raymond Friday Locke's 1958 novel "Streets Paved With Gold." A melodramatic tale about a drifter who falls in love with his employer's married niece a beautiful young woman with an abusive alcoholic husband.<br /> <br /> The first film in Russ Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black and white with powerful female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. <br /> <br /> Set in Spooner Missouri.<br /> <br /> Six leaves saddle stitched 11 x 17 inches. Folded once horizontally. Very Good plus overall. Delta Films unknown
1964139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. <br /> <br /> The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. <br /> <br /> "Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. <br /> <br /> 5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown
1975161301N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference photograph from the 1975 film showing actress Shari Eubank.<br /> <br /> After his wife is murdered a gas station attendant at a remote desert station finds himself sexually pursued by several different but equally buxom women.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in New Mexico Arizona and California. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned on the right edge. N.p. unknown
1975159139N.p.: Russ Meyer 1975. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1975 film showing actress Uschi Digard.<br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> After his wife is murdered a gas station attendant at a remote desert station finds himself sexually pursued by several different but equally buxom women.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in New Mexico Arizona and California. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Russ Meyer unknown
1986139240Madrid Spain: RM Films International 1986. Original Spanish one sheet poster for the 1986 release of the 1975 US film. Features buxom Christy Hartburg who starred as SuperLorna. Hartburg along with Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard has become one of the more recognizable faces of Russ Meyer filmdom even though this was her only film. <br /> <br /> Meyer's successful return to independent filmmaking after the big-budget "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" 1970 and the unfortunate films "The Seven Minutes" 1971 and "Black Snake" 1973. Arguably the most entertaining Meyer project with all the trademarks present: strong sexual women impotent men and healthy doses of sex violence and nudity with a nod to the desert violence of Italian Euro Westerns of the 1960s. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Arizona California and New Mexico. <br /> <br /> 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Scarce. RM Films International unknown
1959161847N.p.: N.p. 1959. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film one photograph under the original release title "Steam Heat." <br /> <br /> Director Russ Meyer's first commercially successful film. Shot without sound with a voice-over narration and a musical theme added and noted for extensive female nudity. Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman selling dentists' appliances who seems to encounter buxom nude women everywhere he goes.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles and Malibu California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with faint creasing light edgewear and four pinholes and one with light edgewear a half inch closed tear to the upper right side and a small chip in the bottom margin. N.p. unknown
1959152047Hollywood: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. Vintage pressbook for the 1959 film. <br /> <br /> A door-to-door dental appliance salesman has a chemical reaction to an anesthetic which grants him X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He subsequently overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br /> <br /> Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie the film that basically launched the lighthearted nudie pictures of the early 1960s. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and nightclub circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films.<br /> <br /> For his debut Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "Frenchy" "nudist" film but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots an arguably feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach.<br /> <br /> One leaf bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1959134256Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. A Eight vintage still photographs from the 1959 film. Included are 4 stills from the US release and 4 stills from the UK release under the title "Mr. Teas and His Playthings." From a cursory glance one can immediately see the differences with regard to nudity paid by both US and UK publicists the UK stills decidedly more liberal with regard to the "forbidden flesh."<br /> <br /> The US stills were taken directly from scenes of the film and the UK stills appear to be from either a deleted scene or a mock setup designed for foreign publicity with Mr. Teas seen in a bathhouse with the "Buxom Bath House Beauties" Baby Dahl Chicky Fricase Frenchie Tost Teri Clawthe that were not seen in the final cut. The UK stills purport "Monstrous Murder!" and "Sizzling Suspense!" taglines however the final cut features neither murder nor suspense. <br /> <br /> The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br /> <br /> Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br /> <br /> For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> All stills 8 x 10 inches some differ slightly in size. Two US stills Very Good plus others Near Fine. UK stills Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1961134255Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Original pressbooks two variants for 1961 re-releases of the 1959 film. Featured are the two most commonly seen layouts used for publicity: the full-color illustrated "hat" variant and the other with Mr. Teas surrounded by a bevy of well-developed women the female leads of the film from left to right: Ann Peters Michele Roberts Dawn Danielle and Marilyn Wesley. <br /> <br /> The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br /> <br /> Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br /> <br /> For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Both pressbooks 11 x 17 inches folded horizontally. "Hat" variant includes a 9 x 12 ad mat dated "Fri. Aug. 18 1961." Light rubbing overall rubber stamps from "Sack Amusement Enterprises" in Dallas Texas and a few light creases and tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1969139328Middlesex England: Eve Productions Cinecenta 1969. Vintage black-and-white double weight British still photograph from the 1968 US film. Rubber stamp on the verso of COLTMAN DISPLAYS LTD a distributor in Middlesex England. <br /> <br /> "Vixen!" was one of Meyer's best sleaziest and most commercially successful films made at the peak of his independent productions after "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" in 1965 and before "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" in 1970. What is less well known is that this film by way of Ms. Gavin marked a breakthrough in the onscreen portrayal of women in terms of sexual aggression using the then-new platform of late 1960s American independent cinema and the aftermath of the Summer of Love as a canvas. <br /> <br /> Gavin's titular character is a married woman whose sexual boundaries are none but instead of being a typical sex romp the film heads off into areas that can be reasonably described as unexplored by sexploitation films including communism race relations political debate and terrorist activity. But also present in the film are many of the genre's more familiar themes breast size incest nonstop sexual activity and a generous dose of humor. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with edge creasing and a single short tear. Eve Productions Cinecenta unknown
1968139327California: Eve Productions 1968. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1968 film. Seen in the stills is Erica Gavin Vixen and Jon Evans Judd and a split image with Erica Gavin and Harrison Page Niles the duo responsible for the film's thick racial tensions. <br /> <br /> "Vixen!" was one of Meyer's best sleaziest and most commercially successful films made at the peak of his independent productions after "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" in 1965 and before "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" in 1970. What is less well known is that this film by way of Ms. Gavin marked a breakthrough in the onscreen portrayal of women in terms of sexual aggression using the then-new platform of late 1960s American independent cinema and the aftermath of the Summer of Love as a canvas. <br /> <br /> Gavin's titular character is a married woman whose sexual boundaries are none but instead of being a typical sex romp the film heads off into areas that can be reasonably described as unexplored by sexploitation films including communism race relations political debate and terrorist activity. But also present in the film are many of the genre's more familiar themes breast size incest nonstop sexual activity and a generous dose of humor. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. One still with a faint tape ghost and two short tears else Near Fine overall. Eve Productions unknown
1990134461Los Angeles: Discovery Productions 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1949 Jim Thompson novel. <br /> <br /> The story of a small town movie theater owner who gets mixed up in a murderous love triangle with his wife and lover. Though a film from this script was never made the original Thompson story adapted by a different writer remains in possible development. <br /> <br /> Lacking front wrapper with a red rear wrapper. Title page present dated June 1 1990 with credits for screenwriter Birkin and novelist Thompson. 113 leaves photocopy. Fine condition bound with three gold brads. Discovery Productions unknown
1942159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. <br /> <br /> 9 x 12 inches. Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1925137138Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. <br /> <br /> A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses a well known figure in Hollywood because of his friendship with William Randolph Hearst. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with diagonal chips missing from two corners but the image largely unaffected. United Artists unknown
1977168499Beverly Hills CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions / United Artists 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 film showing Rudolf Nureyev sporting a Bacchic leaf-embellished thong and matching headband and posing with a cluster of grapes. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1975 book by Chaw Mank and Brad Steiger about the life of famed silent film actor Rudolph Valentino told mostly through flashbacks after his death in 1926 focusing on his many lovers and public speculation around his sexuality. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in England and Spain. <br /> <br /> 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with archival repairs to the verso rear at each of the four corners see image. Recto front of the photo presents perfectly.<br /> <br /> BFI 1234. Chartoff-Winkler Productions / United Artists unknown
1949156125N.p.: Herzog Film 1949. Vintage program for the 1949 German film. Text and titles in German. <br /> <br /> After World War II the American troops occupying a small German town attempt to make peace with the locals by organizing a musical show starring a multinational orchestra led by a successful music student who has recently returned from entertaining troops on the Eastern Front. <br /> <br /> 8 x 11.5 inches. Bifold. Very Good plus moderately age toned. Herzog Film unknown
1943165456Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Two vintage photographs of Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's Monster for the 1943 film. One photograph with a provenance label on the verso.<br /> <br /> From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s.<br /> <br /> The first of Universal's "monster rally films" which incorporated seemingly disparate Universal monsters into a single narrative and the only film to feature Lugosi as the monster originally made famous by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film "Frankenstein." <br /> <br /> Accidentally revived by grave robbers"wolf man" Lawrence Talbot seeks out Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of finding a cure only to discover the doctor has died but finds his creature still very much alive.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1945146433N.p.: N.p. 1945. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The Fugitive." With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "92." All leaves watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY.<br /> <br /> NOTE: script is incomplete as issued with text ending on page 92. <br /> <br /> The twelfth entry in the fourteen film Sherlock Holmes series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1911 short story "The Adventure of the Red Circle." The prime minister of the fictitious eastern European country Rovinia begs Holmes and Watson to escort Prince Nikolas back home as the king has been assassinated and the prince must ascend to the throne. The transatlantic voyage proves to be a dangerous journey and every passenger becomes a suspect though Holmes carries more than a few tricks and surprises up his cape.<br /> <br /> Set in Algiers. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7309 dated May 20 1945. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with three closed tears on the front wrapper and light edgewear overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
