Elia Kazan director; John Steinbeck screenwriter; Darryl F. Zanuck producer; Marlon Brando starringABAA
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1951132102Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1951. Final script for the 1952 film. Based on the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. Xerographically reproduced Fox file copy likely produced by the studio for its files in the late 1960s or a bit later. <br/><br/>Kazan's romanticized semi-fictional account of Zapata in his prime this sweeping early Brando film glorifies the revolutionary's noble intentions and largely overlooks the rest. The culmination of screenwriter Steinbeck's long-standing fascination with Zapata it was said that Steinbeck had begun work on such a screenplay as early as 1948. The subject was a touchy one as the MPAA's Production Code Administration had been discouraging studios from working on such a film and there were prolonged negotiations with the Mexican government about approval over the film's release that culminated in a second cut of the film especially for Mexican distribution. Kazan and Steinbeck both ex-Communists are said to have used this film to metaphorically express how they felt Communism in the Soviet Union had gone off the rails. <br/><br/>The film won Anthony Quinn an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and it was nominated for four others. It also won Best Actor at Cannes and was nominated for the Grand Prize. <br/><br/>Set in Mexico shot on location in Mexico New Mexico Colorado and Texas. <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated Feb. 6 1951. Title page present dated February 6 1951 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Steinbeck. 149 leaves photocopied. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine spiral bound. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1952141345Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film. Snipe printed on the verso. <br/><br/>The culmination of screenwriter Steinbeck's long-standing fascination with Zapata it was said that Steinbeck had begun work on such a screenplay as early as 1948. The subject was a touchy one as the MPAA's Production Code Administration had been discouraging studios from working on such a film and there were prolonged negotiations with the Mexican government about approval over the film's release that culminated in a second cut of the film especially for Mexican distribution. Kazan and Steinbeck both ex-communists are said to have used this film to metaphorically express how they felt communism in the Soviet Union had gone off the rails. <br/><br/>The film won Anthony Quinn an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and it was nominated for four others. It also won Best Actor at Cannes and was nominated for the Grand Prize. <br/><br/>Set in early twentieth century Mexico shot at the Twentieth Century-Fox back lot with location shooting along the Rio Grande and across the American Southwest. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine two holograph annotations one in black ink one in graphite to the verso. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965152112N.p.: N.p. 1965. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs including one double-weight and two single-weight from the set of the 1965 French film. One photograph showing director Louis Malle relaxing with a camera crew to his right one photograph showing Malle with actresses Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau in conversation with Malle looking on and the final photograph showing Malle and Bardot during filming on location. All photographs with holograph ink annotations to the verso. <br/><br/>Director Louis Malle's sixth film a humorous and subversive gender-swapped twist on the buddy movie about two women named Maria who enjoy a variety of unusual experiences together including inventing striptease for a traveling circus and leading a socialist revolutionary uprising.<br/><br/>Set in 1900s Central America shot on location in Mexico. <br/><br/>Two photographs approximately 9.5 x 7.25 inches one photograph 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966139858Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Original British quad poster for the 1965 French-Italian film. Printed in England by Stafford. <br/><br/>Set in Central America 1907 Maria II Moreau is the daughter of an Irish terrorist and she joins a vaudeville act headlined by Maria I Bardot. Together they invent a new striptease dance and become stars propelling them to fame in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. <br/><br/>30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with a few small pinholes edge tears and one edge crease. <br/><br/>Pitts 4748. United Artists unknown books
1983WRCLIT68003Burbank: Warner Bros. 1983. 1125 leaves. Quarto. Photoduplicated typescript printed on rectos only of yellow stock. Bradbound. Very good or better. A "revised third draft" of this adaptation to the screen of Davis's 1979 novel. The 1985 release directed by Harold Becker starred Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino. Warner Bros. unknown books
1983WRCLIT63178Burbank: Warner Bros. 1983. 1125 leaves. Quarto. Photoduplicated typescript printed on rectos only of yellow pink and blue stock. Bradbound in stiff wrappers. Title lettered on spine a few spots of slight discoloration along lower edge of upper wrapper otherwise near fine. A "revised third draft" of this adaptation to the screen of Davis's 1979 novel. The 1985 release directed by Harold Becker starred Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino. Warner Bros. unknown books
1978144817France: Filmel 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet from the 1978 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jean-Marie Fitere which tells the true story of Violette Noziere Isabelle Huppert a French teenager who in the 1930s worked as a prostitute while living with her parents who she poisoned killing her father after they found out from her doctor that she had syphilis. Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>9.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant Worldwide. Filmel unknown books
1958WRCLIT70859Los Angeles: Paramount Films 1958. Vintage original 41 x 27" 104 x 69" one sheet poster. Stapleholes from display closed tear at right edge leading to a snag in the printed area otherwise very good. A pictorial one sheet promoting this screen adaptation by John Michael Hayes of Thornton Wilder's 1955 play itself a rewrite of his earlier MERCHANT OF YONKERS. Directed by Joseph Anthony the film starred Shirley Booth Anthony Perkins Shirley MacLaine Paul Ford and Robert Morse et al. This property attracted wider public attention when translated into the musical HELLO DOLLY! Paramount Films unknown books
1961WRCLIT70860Np.: Cinema Associates 1961. Original 27 x 41" 68 x 105 cm. pictorial one sheet poster. Folded as issued pinhole at each corner one minor break at fold apex else very good. A visually sensational one sheet issued to promote the 1961 retitled rerelease of HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. Directed by Jack Arnold this naive teenage drug film was originally released in 1958 and starred Russ Tamblyn Jan Sterling John Drew Barrymore Charles Chaplin Jr. Mamie Van Doren Michael Landon and most notably Jerry Lee Lewis as himself. Cinema Associates unknown books
1947WRCLIT70531Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1947. Original 11 x 14" lobby card. Mounting pinholes at edges and corners a few faint rubs else very good. Card #4 of the set of sepia-toned lobby cards issued to promote the highly charged low- budget film noir adaptation by Jerry Warner of Cornell Woolrich's 1940 story "Cocaine" aka "C-Jag". Directed by Reginald Le Borg the film starred Leo Penn Robert Armstrong Elisha Cook Jr. and Virginia Dale et al. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1986WRCLIT70696New York: American Playhouse / Cinecom 1986. Vintage original 41 x 27" 105 x 68 cm. stylized pictorial one sheet poster. Small closed tear on the top center with small cellotape mend on verso pinholes at corners from display use; formerly folded now rolled with a few small wrinkles or creases else very good. A one sheet issued to promote the second film adaptation of Wright's novel based on a script by Richard Wesley. Jerrold Freedman directed Victor Love Matt Dillon Elizabeth McGovern Geraldine Page and Oprah Winfrey among others. American Playhouse / Cinecom unknown books
1966WRCLIT71232Moscow: Mosfilm 1966. Vintage film poster 23½ x 16½" 60 x 42 cm. Folded small unobtrusive tack holes in corners from single display use otherwise very good or better. A visually appropriate and evocative poster for Katayev's own adaptation to the screen of his 1932 novel directed by Sofiya Milkina and Mikhail Shvejtser starring Sergei Yursky Inna Gulaya and Tamara Syomina et al. The plot involves "workers' attempts to build the huge steel plant at Magnitogorsk in record time. The title was taken from a poem by Mayakovsky and its theme is the speeding up of time in the Soviet Union where the historical development of a century must be completed in ten years" - Wikipedia. Mosfilm unknown books
1965141952Moore Park Australia: Embassy Pictures 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones who played the role of Chuck with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. With 19 pages of deleted scenes laid in. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1904 H.G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth." Another of director Bert I. Gordon's "big" films in which some element or character grows to monstrous size only this time he had the novel idea to combine the sci-fi trope with a teenage beach film with "Village of the Giants" as the laughably campy result. A group of teenagers including Beau Bridges accidentally stumbles upon a way to grow themselves to unusually large size and terrorizes a small town until a young Ron Howard the nerdy "Genius" character figures out how to turn them small again. <br/><br/>Set in the small fictional town of Hainesville California shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>White titled front self wrapper and blue rear wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated April 13 1965 with credits for screenwriter Alan Caillou and story writer Bert I. Gordon. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 4-19-65 and 4-27-65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1975117917N.p.: N.p. 1975. An unproduced British Draft script for the "Vile Bodies" based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh and written for the screen by John Wells. Assembled mostly from mechanically-reproduced leaves with two leaves pp. 138-139 being ribbon copies. Written as a screenplay with dialogue and location information but lacking camera direction typical of a draft that is past the treatment stage but prior to the advanced draft screenplay stage. This would appear to have no relation to the later produced adaptation of the same novel director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" 2003. <br/><br/>Pink wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with a date of September 1975 and credits for novelist Waugh and screenwriter Wells. 167 leaves. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear and yapping at the edges prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1976146803N.p.: The Corman Company 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. <br/><br/>A Vietnam vet is hired to deal with a group of rowdy oil workers causing trouble in a small town and decides to occupy the town with his mercenary buddies in order to provide a solution. A low budget action film shot in just 30 days after producer Gene Corman came up with the title and nothing else. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Corman Company unknown books
1976149663N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph of actress Miou-Miou from the 1976 Italian film. With two stamps on the verso one for La Excelsior Films N.V. and the other a large capital "F."<br/><br/>A young college graduate with staunch anti-military beliefs finds himself unwittingly enlisted in the Italian army where he begins a relationship with his cruel captain's beautiful wife.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome.<br/><br/>11.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1940WRCLIT67847Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1940. 11314121114131211 leaves. Narrow quarto legal format. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only stapled at left margin. Title-leaf dusty at edges with chips at lower forecorner and around staples pencil filing notes otherwise very good. A release dialogue script of the third and most faithful English language film adaptation of Conrad's novel directed by John Cromwell and starring Frederic March Betty Field Cedric Hardwicke at al. The film was released on 21 December. Previous English language versions appeared in 1919 silent and 1930. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1981142842N.p.: N.p. 1981. Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film "Energy and How to Get It" circa 1980-1981. <br/><br/>Includes tipped in ephemera drawings business cards and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer Robert Frank June Leaf and "Lightning" Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included are 4 reference photos all likely unique from the shooting of the film: two showing both Wurlitzer and Frank one showing Wurlitzer and one of the "Enola Gay" aircraft in the film. <br/><br/>Mead Memo notebook spiral bound. Green wrappers. 4.25 x 6 inches Very Good overall tipped in photos Near Fine. Reference photos 8 x 10 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970146369N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film circa early 1970s. With holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page noting the name "Ilse Lahn" an agent and story editor for the Paul Kohner agency.<br/><br/>A former Eastern European silver screen star turned vampire vixen tries to recruit undead minions through one-on-one acting lessons.<br/><br/>Set in Hollywood.<br/><br/>Yellow untitled generic Paul Kohner Agency wrappers. Title page present noted as Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Early Xerox duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1972149905N.p.: N.p. 1972. Collection of six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 Hammer horror film. <br/><br/>A traveling circus in Eastern Europe holds a terrifying secret: its performers are bloodthirsty vampires who kill and eat the children of the villages the circus visits. Often noted as one of Hammer Productions' last great films a stylish grotesque fairy tale romp. <br/><br/>Set in Serbia. <br/><br/>Approximately 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1974152517Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Collection of 74 vintage photographs from the 1974 British film 44 studio still photographs and 30 reference and promotional photographs including one on set photograph of Clive Donner David Niven and Linda Hayden all housed in archival sleeves and bound in a red leather three-ring binder. The vast collection includes photographs of David Niven Teresa Graves Peter Bayliss Jennie Linden Nicky Henson Linda Hayden Bernard Bresslaw Cathie Shirriff Andrea Allan Minah Bird and Luan Peters among others.<br/><br/>Dracula portrayed by the typically charming Niven attempts to revive his great love the Countess Vampira by collecting blood from Playboy models touring his castle but when Vampira awakens she is now a powerful black woman in a delightful performance from Graves.<br/><br/>The US release changed the film's name to "Old Dracula" in an attempt to cash on the success of Mel Brook's 1974 blockbuster "Young Frankenstein" and the two were frequently shown as a double bill.<br/><br/>Shot on location in London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.<br/><br/>Binder 10 x 12 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1953144741Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Temporary Complete script for the 1954 film. File copy with rubber stamp to the front wrapper. Loosely based on a chapter from the 1949 book "Gods Graves and Scholars" by C.W. Ceram. <br/><br/>Robert Taylor plays a rough and tumble archaeologist who is convinced by another archaeologist's daughter Eleanor Parker to go searching for evidence of the life of the Biblical Joseph. A difficult production plagued the film including harsh purportedly underfunded filming conditions. One of only five directorial efforts from Robert Pirosh. <br/><br/>Set in Egypt shot on location in Egypt and Libya. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as TEMPORARY COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 96 and production No. 5576 dated 5/14/53 with credits for screenwriters R. Pirosh and K. Tunberg. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated 5-16-53. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 5-16-53 and 8-27-53. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1936144877Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1936. Vintage press photograph from the set of the 1936 film. With a printed description and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Barry Benefield. After being run out of small southern town Carrie Snyder Gladys George takes in two children who are estranged from their families and starts a successful dry-cleaning business in New York to support them. Eventually her past comes back to haunt her. Gladys George was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1971149566Spain / Puerto Rico: Argos SLPC / Producciones Dulzaides 1971. Vintage poster for the 1971 Spanish / Puerto Rican co-production. <br/><br/>After her brother dies a woman must take care of her niece the result of an extramarital affair with a woman of color. <br/><br/>26 x 36.5 inches. Very Good plus. Pinholes to the corners and light chipping with some text affected. Argos SLPC / Producciones Dulzaides unknown books
146548N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper noting the film title and screenwriter's name. <br/><br/>A scientist accidentally creates a new strain of the influenza virus unaware that his coworkers intend to use the virus to solve the world's overpopulation problem by killing millions of people.<br/><br/>Orange titled card wrappers with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
