James Coburn, Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain (starring); Alan Jacobs (director, screenwriter)Biblio.com
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2000163461Encino CA: American Gun Productions 2000. Archive including Draft script and production documents for the 2002 film. Script supervisor's working copy with annotations in manuscript pencil throughout and housed in a three-ring binder with numerous production documents including shooting schedules call sheets maps time cards and contact sheets. <br /> <br /> A World War II veteran goes on the road to solve the mystery of his daughter's death with his only clue being the serial number of the gun used to kill her. Actor James Coburn's last film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City in Rutland and Fair Haven Vermont in Fort Lauderdale Florida in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita California and in Las Vegas Nevada.<br /> <br /> Script housed in a generic black three-ring binder. Title page present dated 10/20/00 with credit for screenwriter Alan Jacobs. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 14 and 25 2000. Pages Very Good plus. American Gun Productions unknown
1979168998Paris: Sygma 1979. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Richard Gere and Paul Schrader from the set of the 1980 film with Sygma stamps and printed French and English mimeo snipes on the verso. <br /> <br /> A slick Los Angeles prostitute enjoys a lavish lifestyle funded by a stable of rich older female clients. When one of his clients is found murdered his world begins to crumble.<br /> <br /> Paul Schrader's third film as director and screenwriter and one of four films Schrader refers to as his "double bookends" "Taxi Driver" 1976 bookended by "Light Sleeper" 1992 and "American Gigolo" bookended by "The Walker" 2007. <br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Spicer US Neo-Noir. Sygma unknown
1932160116Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film. <br /> <br /> During the Great Depression a bank owner's bank is robbed and his protégé an ex-con is the only suspect. His protégé can't reveal his alibi because one of his witnesses is having an affair he does not want revealed. <br /> <br /> Partially shot on location at Citizen's National Bank in Los Angeles California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Poor with significant creasing on across the top middle of the photographs. Columbia Pictures unknown
1982154871Arlington: PBS 1982. Vintage souvenir reference photograph book produced by PBS in conjunction with the 1982 television episode an adaptation of John Cheever's 1958 short story "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill." SIGNED by director Paul Bogart and producers Ann Blumenthal and Jac Venza on the title page.<br /> <br /> The episode aired on January 12 1982 and was the premiere of the anthology television series "American Playhouse" a series broadcast from 1982 to 1996 over 13 seasons. In this episode a suburban family in a small bourgeois town causes a comic uproar when they announce their five-year-old son has been kidnapped producing a fake ransom note to substantiate their claims. <br /> <br /> Set in the fictitious town of Shady Hill. <br /> <br /> Brief rubbing on the front board else Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued. PBS unknown
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
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 manuscript ink and pencil annotations on 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
1979151046Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 18 black-and-white photographs and 10 gatherings of promotional reading material.<br /> <br /> A television consultant is hired to organize a telethon in order to raise funds for the now-bankrupt US government who are on the brink of losing the country to wealthy Native American tribes seeking to repossess the land. Featuring narration by George Carlin and cameos by Meat Loaf Jay Leno Elvis Costello and more. <br /> <br /> Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. United Artists unknown
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
1966161441N.p.: Executive Films 1966. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Two with "Tom Conroy" photographer stamps on the versos one of which has two labels affixed to the verso obscuring previous provenance stamps.<br /> <br /> A voyeur blackmails an ex-stripper for money then sex after observing her having an affair on her husband.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Toronto. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Executive Films unknown
1951162338N.p.: N.p. 1951. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film including three showing Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron and one showing a dejected Kelly with four military officers. <br /> <br /> Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm."<br /> <br /> Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light age toning on a few margins. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown
1951163751N.p.: N.p. 1951. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film both showing Gene Kelly with cabaret dancers. Minute annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. <br /> <br /> Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm."<br /> <br /> Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown
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. Warner Brothers 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
1962149373Tokyo: Shochiku 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Shima Iwashita from the 1962 Japanese film. With the stamps of Tele-Magazine and manuscript 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 overall. Shochiku unknown
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
1968159702Rome: Galatea Film 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 television re-release of the 1957 film. <br /> <br /> A surgeon who suggested a woman go to a hospital instead of being treated by him dies at the hospital. Her husband believing the surgeon to be responsible for her death seeks revenge. <br /> <br /> Set in North Africa shot on location in Spain. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Galatea Film unknown
1960153708Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced television film. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page with Cohen's manuscript ink annotations throughout noting both substantive and editorial revisions. Title page on National Broadcasting Company letterhead. <br /> <br /> An unhappily married man is forced to defend his wife and home during a violent robbery. <br /> <br /> An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. <br /> <br /> Set in Cedar Basin Arizona. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 22 leaves not numbered. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a paper clip. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1985152360N.p.: N.p. 1985. Two vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1985 film showing a young Charlotte Gainsbourg. <br /> <br /> A neglected thirteen-year-old girl from a working class neighborhood dreams of becoming the manager of her friend a wealthy teenage piano prodigy vacationing nearby but her hopes soon unravel when she is confronted with the reality of her friend's upper-class life. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Savoie and Yvelines France. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956142890N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative manuscript black ink presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards corresponding with the script that follows all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. <br /> <br /> The second filmed version of Bierce's short story the first one titled "The Bridge" was made by Charles Vidor in 1929 virtually unknown preceding both the well known 1959 version filmed for the fifth season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" and the French version made in 1962 by Robert Enrico. <br /> <br /> According to the 1956-57 Film Review of Student Productions presented by Department of Cinema and Delta Kappa Alpha at the University of Southern California USC the film was part of the Productions of the Graduate Workshop in the fall of 1956. Laid in is an invitation to premiere screening held at CineManor where USC's California National Honorary Cinema Fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha hosted screenings and social events. Douglas W. Gallez served as President of the Alpha USC Chapter at the time. Not in IMDB. <br /> <br /> Presumably shot in Southern California. Set in Civil War era Alabama. <br /> <br /> Pale untitled wrapper with credits for screenwriter. Title page present with credits for story writer Ambrose Bierce and screenwriter Douglas W. Gallez. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 22. Mimeograph both storyboards and script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1936156146N.p.: Prisma 1936. Vintage program for the 1936 Austrian film. Text and titles in German. <br /> <br /> A new member of the Vienna Boys Choir is framed for a theft. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Tirol Austria. <br /> <br /> 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bifold. About Near Fine. Prisma unknown
1970141470N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> While surrounded by people who question his Christianity an American living in India must search for his daughter after she runs off with a dangerous gang.<br /> <br /> Set in India. <br /> <br /> Gray titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Horatius Haeberle. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographically duplicated rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine perfect-bound. N.p. unknown
1978151181Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1978. Vintage press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 17 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 17 gatherings of promotional reading material.<br /> <br /> A New York gallery worker struggles to adapt to the changing sexual and moral climate of the 1970s when she is abandoned by her husband of sixteen years. <br /> <br /> Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 1032. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1978142590Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1978. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1978 film showing director Mazursky and star Clayburgh conferring on the set while the crew waits behind them. With identifying manuscript ink annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> A woman attempts to reenter the dating scene and rediscover herself after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Screenplay and Best Actress. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes where Clayburgh would win Best Actress. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1989148501N.p.: N.p. 1989. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Not related to the 1997 movie of the same name.<br /> <br /> After his father's death a young man travels to the small town of Anaconda to uncover the secrets of his father's past which seem to include a long-lost half-sister.<br /> <br /> Set in Pennsylvania Ohio and Montana.<br /> <br /> Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 9/89 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Laurie Taylor-Williams and Merce Williams. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light foxing and several partial ring stains on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1956147087Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine.<br /> <br /> Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia.<br /> <br /> Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677 dated June 7 1956. Title page present dated June 7 1956 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Twilight Time 203. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
