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1972150561N.p.: Centronics 1972. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. <br/><br/>A low-fi grindhouse classic one of the great examples of regionally-made horror films in the 1970s this one shot in Little Rock Arkansas. Three chilling tales of supernatural mystery and murder loosely based on true events narrated by Rod Serling. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Nightmare USA. Centronics unknown books
1977150559N.p.: Charles Band 1977. Collection of four vintage matte-finish studio still photographs from the 1977 film.<br/><br/>A NASA research scientist accidentally uncovers a supernatural plot to take over Earth by aliens from the planet Utopia. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Charles Band unknown books
1958141434Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One of members of the group does not belong there. <br/><br/>Orange titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Nikkatsu unknown books
1981145399Universal City: Universal Pictures 1981. Vintage press photograph of actors Brooke Shields Martin Hewitt and director Franco Zeffirelli on the set of the 1981 film. <br/><br/>Based on Scott Spencer's 1979 novel. Jade Shields and David Hewitt are two students deeply in love despite Jade's parents' disapproval. David cannot take "No" for an answer and things start getting really complicated. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Illinois and New York. Nominated for an Academy Award. Cameos by Tom Cruise and Jami Gertz their film debuts and Robert Altman. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1984138378Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1985 film. Copy belonging to Fox production executive Douglas Stern with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on a 1979 novella by Barry Longyear. Willis Davidge Quaid is a human fighter pilot who is stranded along with Jeriba Shigan Gossett on a hostile planet. Jeriba is of a race of asexual aliens reptilian in appearance and is initially Willis' enemy. The two quickly realize that the key to survival is by helping one another. <br/><br/>Set in the year 2100. Shot on location in Germany Spain and Iceland. <br/><br/>Cream titled wrappers dated February 24 1984. Title page present dated February 24 1984 noted as REVISED DRAFT and Final with credits for screenwriter Khmara and novelist Longyear. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1973130510London: Atlantic Productions 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. <br/><br/>Greene's novel was set in Stockholm and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. <br/><br/>30 x 40 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Phillips US. Atlantic Productions unknown books
1988150005Los Angeles: Davis Entertainment 1988. First Draft script for the 1990 film. <br/><br/>After accidentally killing her sister Enid a young woman and her lover Enid's husband Harry attempt to conceal the crime from local law enforcement. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location throughout New Mexico. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated 11/30/88 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for director and screenwriter Maurice Phillips and screenwriters A.J. Tipping and James Whaley. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Davis Entertainment unknown books
1983148085N.p.: Embassy Pictures 1983. Vintage studio still photograph of Sam Neill and Derek Jacobi from the 1983 film. <br/><br/>Based on Michael Barak's 1978 novel "The Enigma Sacrifice."<br/><br/>C.I.A. Agent Bodley Michael Lonsdale recruits East German dissident Alex Holbeck Martin Sheen to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to prevent five KGB agents from assassinating Soviet dissidents in the west. <br/><br/>Set in Paris and Berlin shot on location in France. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1957143197Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1957. Draft script for the 1958 Japanese film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 novel "Kinkakuji" "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima which is loosely based on the actual event of the burning of the Reliquary or Golden Pavilion of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The book was one of three Mishima novels adapted by Paul Schrader for episodes in his film "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" 1985. <br/><br/>Daiei released "Conflagration" "Enj " an adaptation of the same novel directed by Ichikawa Kon in 1958. The title and name of the temple in the film was changed from Kinkakuji after Buddhist opposition threatened problems with filming in Kyoto. This is a script from that film before the name change. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Kyoto. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 12. Title page present. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered e-27. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout mildew water damage wrapper split at spine with mild foxing non archival tape to spine and title page overall about Good condition. Daiei Studios unknown books
1964147623Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1964. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film three standard sized stills and two smaller photographs with text at the bottom margin.<br/><br/>Based on Thomas Heggen's 1946 novel "Mister Roberts" adapted for Broadway by Joshua Logan and Heggin in 1948 and in 1955 for the screen by Logan. "Ensign Pulver" would be Logan's sequel made nine years later. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Mexico and California. <br/><br/>3 - 8 x 10 inches 2 - 7.5 x 9 inches 19 x 23. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1964145411Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Vintage photograph from set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Thomas Heggen's 1946 novel titled "Mister Roberts" that was later adapted for Broadway in 1948 and in 1955 for the screen using the same name by director Joshua Logan. This film is Logan's sequel to the 1955 film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Mexico and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1967149907N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Carl Reiner and actors Jose Ferrer and Elaine May on the set of the 1967 film. Reiner's debut as a director and Elaine May's first feature film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1963 play which was in turn based on the semi-autobiographical novel by director Carl Reiner. Against the wishes of his parents a young working-class man dreams of becoming an actor but has little to offer the stage given his lack of experience and ability. <br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1938106085Paris: Regina / Kassler 1938. Original screenplay for the 1938 French drama "Entree des artistes" The Curtain Rises one of the best-loved Louis Jouvet dramas of the 1930s wherein Jouvet played exactly what he was in real life: an actor and teacher of drama. One of only a handful of screenplays from 1930s French films that we have ever seen. Rare. <br/><br/>Owner name in light pencil to the second leaf and a few pencil annotations to the first few scenes. Quarter cloth with moderately worn composition book-style card covers. Good to Very Good overall. Regina / Kassler unknown books
1949129324Berlin: Central Cinema Company Film CCC 1949. Draft script English translation for the 1950 German film noir. <br/><br/>Likely a translation produced by the German film production company responsible for the film for purposes of US distribution and promotion made well prior to the commencement of film production. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Kautner and Stemmle. 136 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Spicer p. 459. Central Cinema Company Film [CCC] unknown books
1958151339Tokyo: Shochiku 1958. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. With the stamp of Shochiku Co. on the verso along with a mimeo snipe noting the film's Japanese title "Higanbana." <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on Ton Satomi's 1957 novel. A businessman hopes to arrange a marriage for his headstrong youngest daughter who has fallen in love with a musician. Director Yasujiro Ozu's first color film. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Tokyo. <br/><br/>6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 1071. Criterion Eclipse 3. Shochiku unknown books
1977138423Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1977. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1977 film. Based on the Tony Award-winning 1973 play by Peter Shaffer and adapted by Shaffer for the film. Photographs have been hand-retouched adhered to a backing board and prepared for use in advertising. <br/><br/>A haunting film in which a psychiatrist slowly loses faith in himself while doggedly attempting to aid a teen obsessed with mutilating horses. Nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of two Golden Globes for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Shot on location in Toronto. <br/><br/>Photos 8 x 10 inches on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good to Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1973144189Los Angeles: American Film Institute AFI 1973. Vintage borderless photograph of director David Lynch actor Jack Nance and cinematographer Herbert Cardwell on the set of the 1977 film. holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>"Eraserhead" Lynch's first feature film was was shot piecemeal on an AFI backlot in Los Angeles over a period of five years beginning in 1972. In 1973 two years into the project cinematographer Herbert Cardwell shown in this photo died in his sleep at the age of 35. He was replaced after four weeks of searching by Frederick Elmes. <br/><br/>David Lynch's first feature film. The AFI provided the director with use of their lot where he also lived during much of filming at no charge but he had difficulty getting financial assistance from them on the basis of his 20-page script and decidedly unorthodox methods. Terence Malick screened the film at one point for a financial backer who walked out calling the movie "bullshit." A bad call as the film's wild success on the midnight movie circuit-and subsequent success as a legitimate art film gained the vocal admiration of everyone from Charles Bukowski to Stanley Kubrick. <br/> <br/>7x 4.5 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 725. Rosenbaum 1000. American Film Institute [AFI] unknown books
1990WRCLIT67465Np: Gallo and De Vecchi Productions 1990. 3155 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in hotpress printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit rubbed and smudged otherwise very good. An unspecified draft of this unproduced adaptation of Hemingway's novel updated and "freed from the confinement of censorship." Gallo and De Vecchi Productions unknown books
1969143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. <br/><br/>The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking."<br/><br/>Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Japan. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown books
1961132225Munich: P.R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner 1961. Original early 1960s German A1 poster for the 1946 French film illustrated by Isolde Baumgart. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale of the same name written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and published in 1757 as part of a fairy tale anthology "Le Magasin des Enfants ou Dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et ses eleves" London 1757. Directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau and starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais and the Beast. <br/><br/>The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from Beast's garden. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. The Beast then falls in love with Belle and proposes marriage on a nightly basis though she refuses. Belle eventually becomes more drawn to Beast who tests her by letting her return home to her family and telling her that if she doesn't return to him within a week he will die of grief. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches non-archivally mounted on board. Light rubbing and soil Very Good plus overall. <br/><br/>Shipping billed at cost. Item can only be shipped within the US. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 6. P.R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner unknown books
1959132749Culver City CA: National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures 1959. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1959 UK release of the 1957 US film. <br/><br/>An American boy becomes lost after the plane he is on is forced to make an emergency landing off the Japanese coast. The boy befriends a fisherman's son and the two travel through the countryside while avoiding the police who they mistakenly believe are out to arrest rather than rescue the American. <br/><br/>A story set and shot on location in Japan. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at 2 corners and faint creases. National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1962132865Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1962. Collection of 4 vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the 1962 UK release of the 1962 US film. <br/><br/>Based on Michael Barrett's 1960 novel "Appointment in Zahrain" about a wanted revolutionary and his gang including a protege played by Sal Mineo traveling through the desert in an attempt to elude the Arab security forces. <br/><br/>A story set in the Middle East shot on location in the Mojave Desert in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961134942Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1961. Final White script for the 1962 film "Escape from Zahrain" here under the film's working title "Zahrain" with ESCAPE FROM in holograph ink just above it. Notations in holograph ink and pencil on the front wrapper recto and verso though the associations are unknown. <br/><br/>Based on Michael Barrett's 1960 novel "Appointment in Zahrain." A wanted revolutionary Brynner and his gang including a protege played by Sal Mineo travel through the desert in an attempt to elude the Arab security forces. <br/><br/>A story set in the Middle East shot on location in the Mojave Desert in California. <br/><br/>Self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 122 and production No. 11541 dated June 6 1961 with credits for producer-director Neame and screenwriter Estridge. Title page integral with front wrapper. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication dated variously 6/5/61 and 6/6/61. Near Fine overall bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1944129803Burbank CA: Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers 1944. Draft script for the 1947 film. This is an early draft developed at Vanguard Films prior to the property being sold to Warner Brothers. <br/><br/>An American remake of the 1935 British film of the same name. Largely set in Italy the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok Errol Flynn and unwed mother Gemma Smith Ida Lupino. Suspecting that her fiance Caryl Gig Young Sebastian's brother is the father of Gemma's child young heiress Fennella McLean Eleanor Parker retreats to the Italian Alps. Attempting to straighten out the situation Sebastian finds himself falling in love with Fennella. For his brother's sake Sebastian breaks off the relationship and marries Gemma but while awaiting the birth of her child he writes a heartfelt ballet score dedicated to Fennella. However when Gemma's baby dies the conscience-stricken Sebastian changes the dedication to his wife whom he has learned to genuinely love. Notable for a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated August 21 1944 with credits for playwright Kennedy. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 131 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with tearing at the left hole punches bound with three gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in protective mylar. Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers unknown books
1975140358Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1975. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. <br/><br/>Two children with extraordinary abilities are sought by a millionaire and his attorney who wish to exploit the children's supernatural powers. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. One holograph pencil notation to the verso else Near Fine. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
