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1962140839Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as him as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The boy is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to make the occasion of the first atomic bomb leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to diffuse the situation. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1962140748Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. <br/><br/>Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps toward him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as the shooter as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The shooter is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to commemorate the occasion of the first atomic bomb test leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to defuse the situation. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1961131821London: Foxwarren-Elthea / Hemisphere Pictures 1961. Draft British script for the 1961 film "Bomb in the High Street" seen here as "Bomb in High Street."<br/><br/>An elaborate and highly entertaining British thriller in which a Nazi-era bomb is found in an English town. A bomb squad is called in but the men in the squad are not who they seem and the ultimate goal is revealed to be a bank heist. <br/><br/>Tall red titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Simcoe. 68 leaves mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Foxwarren-Elthea / Hemisphere Pictures unknown books
1993132847London: Incorporated Television Company ITC 1993. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1993 UK release of the 1993 US film. <br/><br/>Steve Buscemi stars as a man with mommy issues even though his mother has been dead for a while and when a strange person appears and tells him she can be brought back to life he agrees without hesitation. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Incorporated Television Company [ITC] unknown books
1990WRCLIT68949Burbank: Warner Bros. Inc. 1990. 11381 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced studio generated typescript printed on rectos only of salmon stock. Punched and secured with brads. Modest creasing at corners and light use ink name see below and script number #23 on title leaf two small tape mends around upper brad of top leaf otherwise a very good copy. Denoted the "Third Draft" of this critically controversial adaptation to the screen of Wolfe's novel. This copy bears the ownership signature of a party credited with the set decoration. The December 1990 release was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Hanks Melanie Griffith Bruce Willis Morgan Freeman et al. The difficult adaptation and production are treated in detail in THE DEVIL'S CANDY THE ANATOMY OF A HOLLYWOOD FIASCO Revised 2002 by Julie Salamon. Warner Bros. Inc. unknown books
1990WRCLIT67156Burbank: Warner Bros. Inc. 1990. 11381 leaves plus many lettered inserts. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced studio generated typescript printed on rectos only of a rainbow of different colored stocks. Punched and bradbound in stiff wrappers. Modest creasing at corners and light use ink name see below modest soiling and normal use to wrappers else very good internally fine. Denoted the "Third Draft" of this critically controversial adaptation to the screen of Wolfe's novel but in actuality a very heavily revised version of that draft with dated revises on various colored stocks constituting the majority of the text. This copy bears the ownership signature of Les Lazarowitz who was involved as sound mixer in the production. The December 1990 release was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Hanks Melanie Griffith Bruce Willis Morgan Freeman et al. The difficult adaptation and production are treated in detail in THE DEVIL'S CANDY THE ANATOMY OF A HOLLYWOOD FIASCO Revised 2002 by Julie Salamon. Warner Bros. Inc. unknown books
1989135643Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Two original screenplays for the 1990 film one being a First Draft 1988 and the other a Second Revised Draft 1989. Brief annotations in holograph ink on the title page of the second script. <br/><br/>Director De Palma's unfortunate box-office flop based on Tom Wolfe's first novel. Sherman McCoy Hanks the "master of the universe" is a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin Griffith. One day the two find themselves in the South Bronx where Maria sees a black youth approaching so frightened she guns the engine and runs him over killing him. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police. Alcoholic journalist Peter Fallow Willis anxious for a story hears about the incident through a local black community activist. Once the story is out the end is inevitable for Sherman. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location there and in California. <br/><br/>De Palma would return to independent filmmaking with his next effort the creepy horror film "Raising Cain" 1992 starring John Lithgow. <br/><br/>First Draft script:<br/><br/>White wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1988 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Cristofer and novelist Wolfe.163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Second Revised Draft script;<br/><br/>Yellow wrappers. Title page present dated October 12 1989 December 15 1989 in holograph ink just above the printed date noted as SECOND REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Cristofer and novelist Wolfe. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Xerographic duplication with pink blue green and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/17/89 and 10/27/89. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1958150778Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Collection of three vintage studio still color photographs from the 1958 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. A teenage girl feels her comfortable life begin to change when her widowed father proposes to his girlfriend and the girl becomes determined to end their relationship. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Saint-Tropez France. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good lightly edgeworn and lightly and evenly toned. <br/><br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Twilight Time. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1958139533Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1958 film of a stone faced David Niven and smiling Deborah Kerr water skiiing on a break from filming on the French Riviera. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp and a lengthily holograph description of the scene on the verso. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>14 x 9.5. Near Fine with light edgewear. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1957133206Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Jean Seberg Otto Preminger David Niven and the stand-ins for Seberg and Niven on the set of "Bonjour Tristesse" in the late summer of of 1957 in Cote d'Azur France. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. Willoughby's annotations regarding same present on the verso along with Willoughby's stamps and a stamp for the Sygma Agency in Paris. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>In a subtle homage to early cinema Preminger took the uncommon approach of interspersing black-and-white sequences in what was primarily a color film and pitted the seasoned stalwart David Niven against young and unconventional Jean Seberg the latter fresh from her internationally acclaimed performance in Godard's "Breathless."<br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>11 x 13.75 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1957138551Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of Jean Seberg from the 1957 film. An image we have never seen. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1997144948Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1997. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1997 film. <br/><br/>Director Paul Thomas Anderson's second film bringing him to widespread acclaim about a young man's career in the porn industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson Best Supporting Actress for Julianne Moore and Best Supporting Actor for Burt Reynolds reinvigorating his career. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Fine. New Line Cinema unknown books
1968143267Universal City: World Film Services / Universal 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1968 film showing director Joseph Losey working with Elizabeth Taylor while the crew resets between takes. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Adapted for the screen by Tennessee Williams based of his 1963 stage play "The Milk Train Don't Stop Here Anymore." Taylor in a part written for a much older woman plays a terminally ill woman who has an encounter with a mysterious man played by Richard Burton in a part written for a much younger man who may in fact be the Angel of Death. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Italy. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light curling. World Film Services / Universal unknown books
1968142078Universal City: World Film Services / Universal 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1968 film. Richard Burton and a shirtless Joseph Losey stare into the distance on a slope of the island where the movie was shot surrounded by a camera crew. <br/><br/>Adapted for the screen by Tennessee Williams based of his 1963 stage play "The Milk Train Don't Stop Here Anymore." Elizabeth Taylor in a part written for a much older woman plays a terminally ill woman who has an encounter with a mysterious man played by Richard Burton in a part written for a much younger man who may in fact be the Angel of Death. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Italy. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. World Film Services / Universal unknown books
1968144188Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of director Joseph Losey on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Adapted for the screen by Tennessee Williams based of his 1963 stage play "The Milk Train Don't Stop Here Anymore." Taylor in a part written for a much older woman plays a terminally ill woman who has an encounter with a mysterious man played by Richard Burton in a part written for a much younger man who may in fact be the Angel of Death. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Sardinia Italy. <br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1946132009Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film "Boomerang." Brief secretarial notation in holograph pencil on the verso of the last leaf.<br/><br/>Based on a Reader's Digest article 1945 by Fulton Oursler as Anthony Abbot in turn based on an actual incident involving a Catholic priest and a mentally unstable homeless man. Henry L. Harvey Andrews is a public attorney hired to defend a strange out-of-towner accused of murdering a priest. <br/><br/>Producer Louis De Rochemont's innovative documentary-style filmmaking is perhaps at it's best in this film drawing heavily from his previous film the 1945 Henry Hathaway noir "The House on 92nd Street."<br/><br/>Set in Connecticut shot on location there and in New York. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated September 6 1946 noted as REVISED Final Script with credits for screenwriter Murphy and writer Oursler as Abbot. 162 leaves with the last leaf of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/18/46 and 9/25/46. Near Fine overall bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950144959Paris: Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions 1950. Vintage photograph of actress Claire Trevor and various members of the crew on the set of the 1950 film noir. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>U.S. Police officer Madeleine Haley Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Pete Ritchie Raymond Burr the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie she is kidnapped by Johnny Macklin Fred MacMurray who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Southern California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with three holes punched in the left margin. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions unknown books
1953WRCLIT69893Hollywood: ZIV Television Inc. 1953. 344 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed and carbon typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in production company wrappers. Very very extensively annotated throughout in pencil and colored pencil with prompts revisions and camera/production notes. Clean slice into fore-margin of upper wrapper otherwise very good. A "Final Master" of this teleplay by Wald written for the FAVORITE STORY series production 70b and based on a short story "The Substitute" by Francois Coppée. Leslie Goodwins directed Robert Blake and Noah Beery Jr. and Adolphe Menjou introduced the episode as usual. This particular copy was intimately involved in the production of the episode and a manuscript designation on the upper wrapper implies it was used by Larry Lund the script supervisor. Wald had an extended and productive career as a screen and television writer for a number of the best known series of the 1950s and early 1960s. He was co-nominated with Albert Maltz for an Oscar and WG Award for screenwriting for the 1948 film THE NAKED CITY. ZIV Television, Inc. unknown books
1938141102Hollywood: Republic Pictures 1938. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1938 film. Featuring images of Ralph Byrd Doris Weston Ward Bond and others. Written for the screen by Nathanael West. <br/><br/>Ralph Byrd and Ward Bond play two rough and tumble truckers who agree to take a dangerous load of dynamite to a city in danger of being flooded when a nearby dam breaks. Byrd best known for his role in Republic's "Dick Tracy" series was here being groomed to play better roles for the company. Joe Kane's first non-Western feature film. <br/><br/>Set in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinhole tears and occasional light foxing to the borders. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Republic Pictures unknown books
1953138531California: Elliott-Shelton Films 1953. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1953 film. <br/><br/>A young boy Courtney is befriended by a horse trainer Woods who has the boy train a new horse for an upcoming albeit fixed race. <br/><br/>Written for screen by Adele Buffington a major proponent of using original screenplays during the silent film era whose credits extend to over 100 Hollywood films. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. A tiny tear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Pitts 470. Elliott-Shelton Films unknown books
1975120625Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film "Bound for Glory" directed by Hal Ashby based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie written for the screen by Robert Getchell and starring Robert Getchell screenwriter; David Carradine Ronny Cox Melinda Dillon and Randy Quaid. SIGNED by David Carradine on the title page: "This land is your land / David Carradine / drawing of the yin and yang symbol." <br/><br/>Unsurprisingly director Ashby's version of Woody Guthrie is a complex one showing the legendary proletarian singer and activist as a man with contradictory virtues and faults. Drawing from a pivotal few years detailed in Guthrie's autobiography of the same name the film follows Guthrie's initial migration west to escape the dust bowl his discovery of the plight of migrant workers his important encounter with singer Ozark Bole and his subsequent and problematic reunion with his family. Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Music and nominated for 4 others including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers stamped with only the title on the front wrapper. Title page present with a credit for screenwriter Getchell noted as REVISED and dated August 11 1975. 129 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company unknown books
1970147286London: Winkast Film Productions 1970. Two scripts a first draft script and a draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in holograph pencil on two pages one with what appears to be a question mark and another with a question mark and a strike.<br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>English novelist and playwright Barry England is best known for his first novel the 1968 thriller "Figures in a Landscape" made into the 1970 Joseph Losey film of the same name starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell.<br/><br/>1900 in the Arizona border town of Berwick a group of thieves and entertainers are hatching a plan to break into the vault at the bank. The sheriff and mayor are on guard and everyone is suspicious of the weathered inscrutable old Jed Bounty.<br/><br/>First draft screenplay:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Draft screenplay:<br/><br/>Orange untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Winkast Film Productions unknown books
1973132303Poland: ZGK 1973. Original Polish A1 poster circa 1973 for the 1971 British-American film. Artwork by Jakub Erol. <br/><br/>Hal Erickson: "The Boy Friend" began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was brought to America in 1954 its star was the teenage Julie Andrews. Because the musical required a minimum of sets props and costumes it became a favorite of amateur theater groups throughout the world. <br/><br/>But director Ken Russell notorious for his onscreen excesses abandoned the film's simplicity fashioning a humongous parody of the Busby Berkeley film musicals of the 1930s staged on a scale that made Berkeley seem stylistically modest. Fashion model Twiggy plays Polly Browne an aspiring musical comedy star working as stage manager of a production. She is transformed into a star when she replaces leading lady Rita Monroe Glenda Jackson unbilled who twists her ankle seconds before the curtain goes up. Christopher Gable who plays Polly's on-stage leading man also choreographed the lavish musical numbers. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches. Faint stains to one edge and a couple of short closed tears. ZGK unknown books
1970137126New York: Grove Press 1970. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1970 US release of the 1969 Japanese film. Though not noted in any way this copy belonged to screenwriter director and film ephemera collector Leonard Schrader. <br/><br/>Based on the true story of a criminal family that used their young son to scam drivers for money by faking his having been hit in car accidents. Set and shot in various locations around Japan. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Grove Press unknown books
1962132929London: National Screen Service / MGM 1962. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1962 UK release of the 1962 US film. <br/><br/>A group of 4 friends decide to get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman for a romantic rendezvous all in hope of leaving behind their ordinary lives. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint rubbing and a small corner crease. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
