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1988169970Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1988. First Draft script for Season 1 Episode 4 of the 1989 television series.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1985-1988 television series "Spenser: For Hire" which was based in turn on Robert B. Parker's long-running detective novel series. In this episode Hawk helps an old friend a defense attorney who has taken on a seemingly hopeless murder case. Originally aired on February 18 1989 on ABC.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Washington DC.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers dated December 23 1988 and noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 23 1988 noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1987139456Los Angeles: TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation 1987. British Draft script for the 1988 television film originally airing on December 21 1988 on TNT the first made-for-television movie produced for the fledging network. Brief annotations in manuscript ink throughout. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during the English Reformation. Previously filmed in a 1966 Academy Award winning theatrical release directed by Fred Zimmerman and starring Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller and Leo McKern. <br /> <br /> Tan wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated November 16 1987 with a credit for screenwriter Bolt. 180 leaves with last page of text numbered 177. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation unknown
1970141044N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> A sociology professor is preparing for his sabbatical when his overworked wife decides they should also take a sabbatical from their marriage so that the professor can learn to take care of himself. <br /> <br /> Set in New England. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrapper. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Leo Townsend. 53 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 52. Xerographically duplicated rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a spiral binding. N.p. unknown
1964164256N.p.: N.p. 1964. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film including one of director Jean-Luc Godard pushing longtime cinematographer Raoul Cotard seated in a wheelchair on the set. Layout annotations in ink and pencil on the versos and one with a Télérama stamp. <br /> <br /> Godard used a cameraman seated in a wheelchair instead of a camera dolly in several films including "Breathless" 1959.<br /> <br /> During a period of romantic tumult a woman discovers she is pregnant with two possible fathers. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival the film was briefly banned in France for its scandalous depiction of infidelity and was only passed by the censors after forcing Godard to make several small changes including changing the film's title from "The Married Woman" to the slightly less inflammatory "A Married Woman." <br /> <br /> Four photographs 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Masters of Cinema 80. N.p. unknown
1960141953N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced television movie. <br /> <br /> A drama set during the Mexican Revolution. Jack Lewis was a screenwriter actor and stuntman who is known for his war films and Westerns in particular "A Yank in Viet-Nam" 1964 and "Billy the Kid Versus Dracula" 1966. <br /> <br /> Set in Mexico. <br /> <br /> White titled self wrappers with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Title page integral with front wrapper. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound housed in a manila folder. N.p. unknown
1945137348Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1945. Original pressbook for the 1945 film based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. <br /> <br /> 12.25 x 15 inches. 28 pages saddle stapled. Light fading on the front edges lightly rubbed and soiled about Near Fine overall. Paramount Pictures unknown
1992158397Overland Park KS: InterStar 1992. Vintage press kit for the 1992 film. Two-color illustrated pocketed folder containing five black and white photographs in the original glassine sleeve and a gathering of promotional reading material.<br /> <br /> Based upon the 1982 novel by William Wharton. In December 1945 the members of an American intelligence squad decide to negotiate with a small group of German soldiers who wish to surrender rather than die in one final offensive.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Utah.<br /> <br /> Folder photographs and promotional material about Near Fine. InterStar unknown
1992158402N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage reference photograph from the 1992 film.<br /> <br /> Based upon the 1982 novel by William Wharton. In December 1945 the members of an American intelligence squad decide to negotiate with a small group of German soldiers who wish to surrender rather than die in one final offensive.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Utah.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1960143236Paris: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 11 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Une fille pour l'été." Featured are several images of the cast and crew on the waterfront basking in the shade director Molinaro in white straw hat and images of starring actress Petit including a striking portrait image of her under an elegant sconce and with Auclair reading scripts. All but one photograph with annotations in the verso in manuscript ink film title names of persons pictured and all but two photographs with numerical annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. <br /> <br /> Based on a novel presumed by screenwriter Clavel. Philippe Auclair is an unsung artist with a mistress he does not love. He spends leisurely vacations at Paule's Presle in the Riviera where he meets Manette Petit a poor girl whom he befriends and lusts for to the chagrin of Manette herself under the romantic allure of Philippe. <br /> <br /> Late in the canon of cinematographer Jean Bourgoin whose credits include some of Jean Renoir's films in the 1930s Orson Welles' film noir "Confidential Report" 1955 and Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" 1958. <br /> <br /> 1 photograph 3.25 x 4.25 inches remaining photographs 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. Filmsonor unknown
1960162165N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless lobby card for the German release of the 1960 French 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 Maurice Clavel's 1955 novel about a little-known artist's summer relationship with a beautiful poor young woman. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 11.5 inches. Very Good with two hole punches at the left and right sides closed with paper tape on the verso. N.p. unknown
1970141057N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> An ambitious young man heads to Hollywood to make his fortune. There he falls in love with a prostitute and begins hustling in order to get her off the streets.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ellis St. Joseph. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1973139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. <br /> <br /> Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. <br /> <br /> Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. <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 /> 13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. <br /> <br /> Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown
1968140637Moore Park Australia: Embassy Pictures 1968. Draft UK script for the 1969 film. With several annotations in manuscript ink throughout. <br /> <br /> Based on Anne Piper's 1959 novel "Marry at Leisure" about Candida Ferris who goes to live with her relatives after the death of her father. Bored with life she leaves for Paris where she meets a young student and becomes pregnant but keeps the baby a secret from her family. Bored yet again with life she leaves for Italy where she meets an American and is soon pregnant again. As she leaves Italy a woman gives her baby to Candida at the train station. So with two babies and one on the way her life is unraveling quickly and her only confidant is Savage Andrews the caretaker of her late father. <br /> <br /> Set in London and Paris shot on location there as well as Venice. <br /> <br /> Pink blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated July 1968 with credits for screenwriter and author Anne Piper and novelist Desmond Davis. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a pink ribbon. Embassy Pictures unknown
1957146091Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. First Draft script for the 1958 film with single "" notation in manuscript pencil. <br /> <br /> Good-guy Max Tom Ewell and mooch Gus Mickey Rooney are horse-race loving pals whose lives are going nowhere. Desperate they turn to bank robbery and actually pull it off. Using the money to buy a race horse their bookie pal Rocky Mickey Shaughnessy wants in. When they loose their bank roll after their horse is disqualified they figured they'd rob a bank again.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper and production No. 767 dated October 9 1957. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 9 1957 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Sydney Boehm. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1978155782N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph showing Lina Wertmüller directing actors Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini on the set of the 1978 film. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> An American photographer falls in love with a chauvinistic Italian journalist while visiting a small Italian village. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in San Francisco and Rome. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1958125081London: The Rank Organization 1958. Vintage French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama "A Night to Remember" here under its French title "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees."<br /> <br /> Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible with no added fictional subplots. In addition to being massively entertaining the film is today held in high regard by "Titanic" historians compared to the more melodramatic and big-budget take by James Cameron in 1997. <br /> <br /> Director Baker noted in a 1991 interview "The whole purpose of making the film was to show a society that had persuaded itself that you could make a ship which could never to be sunk."<br /> <br /> 34 x 52 inches on archival linen Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 7. McFarlane p. 51. The Rank Organization unknown
1931149474N.p.: Films Sonores Tobis 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 French film showing the exterior of the phonograph factory where the film's protagonist Louis begins to find prosperity. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso.<br /> <br /> Director René Clair's third sound film a lyrical proletarian satire about friendship wealth and the price of success. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 160. Films Sonores Tobis unknown
1966141007N.p.: N.p. 1966. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Stapled to the title page is a letter dated 3-2-66 declaring a lack of interest in producing the program. <br /> <br /> The story of a fraternity house at a state college in Southern California where all the brothers come from different racial and class backgrounds and must learn to live together as well as with all the other fraternities and sororities at their college. <br /> <br /> Set in Southern California. <br /> <br /> Lacking wrappers. Title page present. Six leaves with last leaf of text numbered five. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper bound with a staple. N.p. unknown
1980146001Culver City CA: Lorimar 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. <br /> <br /> A woman dying from a blood disease who needs a bone marrow transplant contacts the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth in the hopes that they might be a match.<br /> <br /> Set in California. <br /> <br /> Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 920102 dated February 5 1980. Title page present dated February 5 1980 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter John Sayles. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Lorimar unknown
1979135438Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Nine vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1979 film. <br /> <br /> A 1979 romantic comedy about a an older man and his young earth-mama musical girlfriend. The role of Marta Heflin was originally written for Sandy Dennis but due to a costar's cat allergies coupled with Dennis' pension for bring cats to script readings the role was recast with Sheila Shea. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1982160158Tokyo: Wakamatsu Production 1982. Vintage mini poster for the 1982 Japanese pink film. <br /> <br /> A married railway ticket puncher starts sedating women with chloroform in order to invade their houses. His cruelty escalates and he grows bolder in his desires. A late release by controversial pink film director and producer Kôji Wakamatsu.<br /> <br /> 7 x 5 inches. About Fine. <br /> <br /> Weisser p. 319. Wakamatsu Production unknown
1982160814Tokyo: Wakamatsu Production 1982. Original Japanese B2 poster for the 1982 Japanese film. Text in Japanese.<br /> <br /> A married railway ticket puncher starts sedating women with chloroform in order to invade their houses. His cruelty escalates and he grows bolder in his desires. A late release by controversial pink film director and producer Kôji Wakamatsu.<br /> <br /> 20.5 x 28.75 inches Folded as issued. Very Good with light edgewear and creasing along the folds. Wakamatsu Production unknown
1959137073Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. First Draft script for the 1959 film "A Private's Affair" here under the working title "The Love Maniac." <br /> <br /> One of the last films of film noir great director Raoul Walsh. Based on a story by Ray Livingston Murphy. Luigi a young Sal Mineo Jerry Coe and Mike Gary Crosby are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their Army unit on national television. The three meet the opportunity where they sing and dance in a competition and meet three alluring young women Barbara Eden Terry Moore and Christine Carere. <br /> <br /> Set in Long Island. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 50 dated January 21 1959. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated January 21 1959 noted as First Draft Screenplay with a credit for screenwriter Miller. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 1/21/59. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1994148549Beverly Hills CA: Brillstein-Grey Entertainment 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film comedy. <br /> <br /> Good-natured pastry chef Sergio John Leguizamo is smitten with waitress Hattie Sadie Frost who refuses to go out with him until he can earn a decent living. The bakery is burned down by arsonist Garet William Baldwin and Garet's father offers Sergio a bribe of $25000 to take the blame. Romantic hilarity ensues as Sergio and Garet become involved in a love quadrangle involving Hattie and another woman named Stephanie Erika Eleniak.<br /> <br /> Director Joshua Brand is best known for having created early story-arc driven dramas including "Northern Exposure" 1990-1995 and "St. Elsewhere" 1982-1988 both of which proved to be the template for television's transition to more ambitious and challenging formats.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Toronto. <br /> <br /> White generic Brillstein-Grey Entertainment untitled wrappers. Title page present with a credit for screenwriter Morgan Ward. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication printed on both rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Brillstein-Grey Entertainment unknown
1963167069N.p.: N.p. 1963. First Draft script for the 1964 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Harry Kurnitz's 1961 American stage adaptation of Marcel Achard's 1960 French play "L'Idiote." One of the funniest films of the 1960s and the defining installment in the well-loved Pink Panther series. While "A Shot in the Dark" was ably preceded by "The Pink Panther" in 1963 it was the first film to feature the series' underrated maestro: Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus foil to Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau and the first to truly define the style of the side-splitting installments that would follow. The only script for this film we have ever handled.<br /> <br /> Fuchsia wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 14th October 1963 noted as First Draft with credit for director Blake Edwards. 173 leaves with last page of text numbered 170. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with several pink revision pages dated October 17 1963. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads with a worn title label affixed to the binding. N.p. unknown
