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1977143729N.p.: Mafilm 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." <br/><br/>The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hungary. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Mafilm unknown books
2000WRCLIT40393Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures 2000. 110 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript bradbound in studio wrappers. Fine. A studio-generated copy of the final version of Cameron Crowe's screenplay given out to members of the Academy for consideration for the award for Best Original Screenplay which it won. Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures unknown books
1976144164Tel Aviv: DAFNA International Films 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>On her drive to work Edna is rear ended by Dave an American musicologist. Dave promises to pay for the damage and uses this commitment as an excuse to get close to and seduce Edna who is raising her young son on her own. <br/><br/>Set in Tel Aviv.<br/><br/>Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for screenwriter Eli Tabor novelist Ram Oren and producer Shimon Arama. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Offset printing. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two staples. DAFNA International Films unknown books
1965140922France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio 1965. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Four with holograph pencil annotations on the verso crediting photographer Georges Pierre one with the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. <br/><br/>Godard transplants fictional detective Lemmy Caution played by Eddie Constantine as he was in several French films based on the character created by pulp novelist Peter Cheyney into a dystopian future where he is on a mission to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed. <br/><br/>7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio unknown books
1965140015Paris: Athos Films 1965. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1965 film. <br/><br/>The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated and even the film's legitimate proteges such as "Blade Runner" don't quite capture its strange sexuality. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>23 x 30 inches folded. Light holograph pencil notation to the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films unknown books
1965149515France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 French film. With the stamp of still photographer Georges Pierre on the verso.<br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction following a secret agent in a dystopian future who is assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Rosenbaum 1000. Grant US. Godard Histoires du cinema. Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio unknown books
1965151996N.p.: Andre Michelin Productions 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in bed armed and reading a French translation of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" from the 1965 film. Printed snipe and provenance stamp of "G. Toussier" on verso. <br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction transplanting the fictional detective Lemmy Caution Constantine into a dystopian future assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very light edgewear to the corners else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Andre Michelin Productions unknown books
1980150748Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1980. Collection of ten vintage black and white borderless studio still photographs from the 1980 film. <br/><br/>Based on screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel. Director Ken Russell's first American film itself an "altered state" during production. Russell was constantly inebriated on the set and had the actors mumble their lines in protest against Chayefsky's script. Chayefsky was subsequently banned from the set and denounced the film even before production began. <br/><br/>Edward Jessup William Hurt in his film debut is a Harvard professor whose studies of the limits of human consciousness inevitably lead him down a strange and horrible path from early experiments with a sensory deprivation tank to participation in Mexican Ayahuasca ceremonies.<br/><br/>Set in Boston shot on location in New York California Massachusetts and Mexico.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1984140060Los Angeles: Orion Pictures 1984. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1984 US film. Winner of eight Academy awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay and both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. <br/><br/>Adapted from Peter Shaffer's 1979 play of the same name the film presents a fictionalized account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life as well as that of his "rival" Antonio Salieri. <br/><br/>Set in Vienna shot on location in Prague Kromeriz and Vienna. <br/><br/>24 x 32 inches folded. Near Fine with two small stains to the verso. <br/><br/>Ebert II. Orion Pictures unknown books
1964142315France: Hermes-Films 1964. Draft script for an unproduced French film based on Maheux-Forcier's 1963 novel of lesbian love "Amadou." Notations throughout in holograph ink some noting cut scenes. French language. <br/><br/>Opening scene translated: "It's dawn. The light is still undecided. In the fields the first cries of insects in the trees songs of birds that awaken. The water of the river hardly begins to shiver. A very light haze rises like a curtain along the shore allowing us to discover a very small beach a wooden dock with a diving board at the very end. But the camera does not linger."<br/><br/>Canadian collaborators Carrier and Dube worked on only a few projects being the televisions series "La Cote de sable" 1960-1962 WWII family and the television movies "Qui perd gagne" 1974 pauper gets poorer and "Au retour des oies blanches" "The Return of the White Geese" 1971. Both men never contributed to a released production from Hermes-Films Films Hermes produced three short films 1957-1958 1962 making "Amadou" presumably the company's last ditch further edifying a need for sensationalism. Early Canadian New Wave had the project evolved beyond a rough draft of screen adaptation. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers with vellum spine noted as AMADOU / HERMÈS-FILMS on the front wrapper undated. Title page present undated with credits for novelist Maheaux-Forcer screenwriters Carrier and Dube director Carrier and production company Hermes-Films. 177 leaves with last leaf of text unnumbered. Mechanical duplication tall stock 8.25 x 13.5 inches. Pages Near Fine front wrapper detached now repaired perfect-bound. Hermes-Films unknown books
1966140536Ottawa Canada: Crawley Films Limited 1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company Crawley Films. <br/><br/>F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary "The Man Who Skied Down Everest." "Budge" and his wife Judith founded Crawley Films in 1938 and won the first Canadian film award in 1950. Crawley has been referred to as "the Godfather of Canadian cinema" and rightfully so. <br/><br/>Included in the archive are 27 film still photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos several on-the-set images and a few with director Bonniere; a folder containing 25 letters "to salute 25 Years" from various French American British and Canadian film and government associations including former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Eric Johnston president of the Motion Picture Association of America all dated 1963 with reproduced signatures for press purposes; a promotional brochure on the "new and improved" Crawley Films Limited; 2-page press memos 19 on Crawley parchment nearly all flat-signed by the company vice president Graeme Fraser; 3-page press information on the World's Fair in Montreal; French and English film credits sheets; a "how-to" booklet from Crawley discussing the proper ways to produce one's own motion picture housed in printed company envelope; 2-page "facts" on Crawley Films' 25th anniversary; a letter from Fraser to Jean Vinant asking her to be the production company agent; 3-page company property breakdown camera department script department sound stages etc.; several letters to-and-from studio secretary Maryse Martres signed by persons involved with the film including director Bonniere; a 27-page ditto-style mimeograph French version of the script; and various telegrams receipts and synopses relating to the film. <br/><br/>The film itself was the first Canadian feature to be shot in both French and English using the same actors the first Canadian film shot in color and an early career appearance for actress Bujold. A man obsessed with his lawn in the suburbs of Montreal has a surprise awakening when mysterious mushrooms start to grow and become impossible to eradicate. He stops at nothing including a deadly confrontation with his neighbor to protect his lawn and his reputation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Quebec. <br/><br/>Film still photographs 8 x 9.75 inches most mimeo snipes loose but present and many photographs with tape stains as a result of having been stacked. Letters press material interoffice material and other ephemera varying sizes with most being 8 x 11 inches. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Crawley Films Limited unknown books
1953139795Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1953 film. <br/><br/>A cowboy wrongfully convicted with a gang of burglars sets out to claim a portion of their hidden loot. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a holograph notation to the verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1938135920Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Revised White script for the 1939 film seen here with the title "I Robbed a Bank" which has been stricken through on the title page. <br/><br/>A gang attempts a bank robbery only to find that one of the gang member's sisters works there. The gang abducts her and a truck driver while attempting their getaway and the hostages must secretly try to help the cops find the fugitives. <br/><br/>Written by well loved humorist S.J. Perelman and his wife Laura Perelman "Ambush" marks a significant but entertaining departure from their best-known works such as their co-writing work on Marx Brothers films "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers." <br/><br/>White side-stapled titled wrappers dated December 13 1938 noted as production No. 1198 and copy No. 0038. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 115 eaves with last page numbered D-28. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated between 10-10-38 and 10-21-38. Very Good plus lacking rear wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1950147934Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph of John Hodiak and Don Taylor from the 1950 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the serial "Ambush" by Luke Short which was published in "The Saturday Evening Post" December 25 1948 to February 12 1949.<br/><br/>Ward Kinsman Robert Taylor a prospector and Indian scout is in search of a white woman Mary Carlyle a general's daughter who has been abducted by Apaches.<br/><br/>Sam Wood's final film.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona New Mexico and the Corrigan Ranch in Simi Valley California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1963143365Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1963 film showing director Elia Kazan and crew on a scaffolding shooting across a large lake. With some holograph pencil annotations including the film title on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Kazan's own 1962 novel based on the life of his uncle about a young Greek man living in 19th century Ottoman Turkey and his long and poverty stricken journey to emigrate to America. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Turkey and Greece. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
1972129776N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. Includes a humorous letter from the screenwriter to "Sally" laid in. <br/><br/>A starlet's rise is threatened by her relationship with a longtime lover. Written by Hollywood staple George Furth best known for his award-winning musical "Company."<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1972 with credit for screenwriter Furth. 152 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1981147355N.p.: N.p. 1981. Second Draft script for the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the anthology series "American Playhouse" which originally aired on April 21 1986 on PBS. With a few small holograph ink and pencil annotations to the front wrapper and page I-3-25.<br/><br/>A local reporter receives a hefty bribe by a corrupt county commissioner to ignore an eco-activism group's protests against a new development but soon finds himself conflicted over the brutal tactics the commissioner uses to silence the activists.<br/><br/>Set and shot in Fort Myers Florida<br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Victor Nunez and director John D. MacDonald. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-4-130. Dot matrix duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with a plastic prong. N.p. unknown books
1984146517N.p.: N.p. 1984. Revised Second Draft script for the 1985 "American Playhouse" episode originally aired on PBS on January 21 1985. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 novel by Katherine Anne Porter. A Swedish stranger arrives at a small family-run dairy farm out of the blue asking for work promising strong effort in exchange for very little pay. While the family is initially put off by the stranger's cold demeanor they gradually accept him and the farm thrives under his care until news arrives that lays their relationship with him and each other bare.<br/><br/>Set in South Texas shot in Fredericksburg and Mason Texas.<br/><br/>White titled self wrappers with title page integral with the front wrapper as issued noted as Revised Second Draft dated May 10 1984 with credits for director Michael Fields and novelist Katherine Anne Porter. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with soil to the first and final leaves bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1960141769N.p.: N.p. 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1922 novella by the same author of the same title. The protagonist a doctor who has moved to India from Germany to practice medicine is overcome by an obsession which eventually leads to his committing suicide. "Amok" is an Indonesian word of Malay origin referring to people caught up in a blind rage who try to kill their enemy and do not care about whoever else gets killed in their way. From this novella and the word's meaning originates the term "running amok." <br/><br/>Set in India. <br/><br/>Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Stefan Zweig. 65 leaves with last leaf of text number 65. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1967WRCLIT80680New York: Francis Productions Inc. 1967. 151 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in gilt-titled Studio Duplicating Service binder. Slight tanning to text stock pencil notes and scrawls on upper cover otherwise very good. An unspecified draft of this adaptation of Capote's story for television by Eleanor Perry. The first production of this adaptation aired in December 1967 directed by Frank Perry starring Martin Balsam Maureen Stapledon et al. In 1969 it was revived as an element in the omnibus production TRILOGY again scripted by Eleanor Perry and directed by Frank Perry. It is assumed that Capote who serve as narrator for TRILOGY was himself a significant contributor to the shape of this adaptation. Francis Productions, Inc. unknown books
1966132612Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1965 novel by Norman Mailer about a talk show host who is suspected of killing his wife and is pursued by both the police and a a gang of criminals. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few stills with small stains on the rectos else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1954146075Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1954. Draft script for the 1955 film here under the working title "The Annapolis Story." With small holograph 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. Mimeographed 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 books
1949WRCLIT67555Culver City: Selznick International Picture / Vanguard Films 1949. Nine volumes. Quarto. Eight items mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only one item pictorial wrappers. Modest use to a few wrappers a bit of rust to a few brads but generally very good to near fine. An interesting lot of material relating to Selznick's 1944 multi-award nominated film adaptation of and elaboration on Wilder's epistolary novel about the Home Front SINCE YOU WENT AWAY: LETTERS TO A SOLDIER FROM HIS WIFE. The film was directed by John Cromwell and Selznick and starred Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Shirley Temple Monty Woolley Lionel Barrymore and an enormous supporting cast. As originally released in 1944 the film had a running time of 172 minutes; it was recut and re-released in 1949 with a running time of 130 minutes. This archive traces both the original version and the abbreviated version and includes the following items: a SINCE YOU WENT AWAY PART II. 9 April 1943 82 leaves a portion of an abstract or synopsis of the book evidently for use by the writer; b a "Narrative Synopsis of Screenplay" 7 September 1943 158 leaves; c a doorstop of a "Final Shooting Script" 9 September 1943 - January 1944 credited to Jeffrey Daniel - a nome de plume for Selznick which he finally rejected in favor of "By the Producer" - an astonishing 2290 leaves plus lettered inserts and exhibiting a rainbow of mimeo carbon and original typescript dated revises on colored stocks at a virtual 1:1 ratio to unrevised leaves; d 28 leaves of "Retakes / Added Scenes / Wild Lines" 12 April 1944; e & f "Cutting Continuity" and "Dialogue Continuity" for "Foreign Version both 20 September 1946 foliated in reel format; g a "Dialogue & Cutting Continuity" March 1949 clearly the recut version; h a "Spotting List for Recut Version" 22 August 1949 262 leaves; and finally i a copy of the illustrated souvenir program for the original release. At the time the film was the longest and most expensive Selznick production since GWTW a project that he took on as a personal contribution to the war effort. Selznick International Picture / Vanguard Films unknown books
1962149373Tokyo: Shochiku 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Shima Iwashita from the 1962 Japanese film. With the stamps of Tele-Magazine and holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso.<br/><br/>An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter. Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film a farewell to his mother whom he had lived with and cared for his entire life with the title drawn from a poem he wrote upon returning from her funeral. Ozu became ill shortly thereafter and died from cancer at age 60 in 1963.<br/><br/>9.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. Shochiku unknown books
1990151534Mumbai: National Film Development Corporation of India NFDC 1990. Vintage reference photograph of Satyajit Ray on the set of the 1990 film. Provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" and label of photographer Nemai Ghosh on verso. Ghosh worked closely with Ray as his official still photographer for nearly twenty-five years.<br/><br/>Based on the 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen. When a good doctor discovers the cause of an outbreak of illness among the townsfolk is the holy water at the local temple and tourist attraction he is met with unexpected resistance and hostility. <br/><br/>Set in the town of Chandipur India. <br/><br/>4.25 x 6.25 inches narrow margins. Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection Eclipise 40. National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) unknown books
