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1963135122Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Final script for the 1964 film. <br/><br/>Based on Herman Wouk's 1962 novel. Youngblood Hawke Franciscus is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to start a career as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green Pleshette who falls for him while putting together a book deal. Throughout his first three books his hops from woman to woman and book deal to book deal including a Broadway adaptation and an affair with a woman whose jealous husband intends to destroy Hawke. He returns to Kentucky to work on writing contracts pneumonia and realizes that Jeanne was the only woman he truly loved. <br/><br/>Set in Kentucky and New York shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>Self wrappers noted as FINAl on the front wrapper dated February 15 1963 with credits for screenwriter Daves and novelist Wouk. Title page integral with front wrapper DATE. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1939152809Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1939. Revised Final script for the 1939 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil and a single pencil annotation to the verso of page 147. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the early years of future US president Abraham Lincoln following his upbringing in a log cabin to his first loves to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield Illinois. <br/><br/>Set in Springfield.<br/><br/>Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 191 dated February 27 1939. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 27 1939 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and age-toned bound internally with three gold brads.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 320. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1939150177N.p.: N.p. 1939. Vintage borderless portrait photograph from the 1939 film showing actor Henry Fonda in costume as a young Abraham Lincoln. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the early years of future president Abraham Lincoln following his upbringing in a log cabin to his first loves to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield Illinois. <br/><br/>7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the top corners and adhesive residue on the bottom edge of the verso. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 320. N.p. unknown books
1967WRCLIT75467New York & Beverly Hills: Bob Banner Associates 1967. 1172 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound. Some snags and tears in terminal leaf at brads otherwise very good or better. An unspecified draft of this evidently unproduced screenplay or potentially teleplay. Both McNeely 1928 - 2014 and the production company have substantial résumés for television productions. Bob Banner Associates unknown books
1982139730Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1982. Two vintage black-and-white and sepia studio still photographs from the 1982 film. <br/><br/>Spoofy comedy in the vein of "Airplane" and "Naked Gun" this time taking aim at hospital soap operas. Garry Marshall would go on to direct "Pretty Woman" starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a red holograph notation to the verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965145917Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and Tony Crawley stamp on verso. A young Julie Christie sunning herself on the set of "Young Cassidy."<br/><br/>Biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey John Cassidy Taylor in the film. Following the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland a young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. <br/><br/>John Ford was originally slated to direct but fell ill early in the shooting.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Ireland and England. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good Plus some light corner creasing and edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965141620Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. <br/><br/>The film follows the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland. A young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Ireland and England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965141515Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Collection of three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. <br/><br/>The film follows the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland. A young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Ireland and England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1931135170Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1931. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1908 play "Father and the Boys" by George Ade. <br/><br/>A comedy of errors in which a wealthy meatpacking company owner in Chicago has two sons both who treat their father's company as a means to their own extravagant ends. When he turns the tables evading his work responsibilities and traveling around with a French singer they fear that the singer is out to blackmail him. <br/><br/>Pale blue studio wrappers dated April 27 1931 noting footage of 7000 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1936143033New York: Gaumont British Picture Corporation 1936. Draft script for the 1937 film. Presentation copy bound in green cloth with title in gilt. <br/><br/>An American gangster joins the British Army in order to evade the police. Released in Great Britain under the title O.H.M.S. which signifies "On His Majesty's Service." Military propaganda from Britain's War Office made with full Army Council cooperation. American director Raoul Walsh was chosen after his success with "What Price Glory" in 1926 which helped boost recruiting for the US Marine Corps. <br/><br/>Set in New York and London shot on location in London. <br/><br/>Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles with stamped production No. 69 in gilt. Title page present dated 31st July 1936 noted as screenplay. 116 leaves. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine with dampstaining on open edge binding Very Good plus. Gaumont British Picture Corporation unknown books
1940150156N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Bela Lugosi Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.<br/><br/>A popular band takes on a job performing at a wealthy heiress' birthday bash in her large haunted mansion. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light adhesive residue and wear to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1961148075Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph of Craig Hill Elaine Edwards and Willis Bouchey from the 1961 film. <br/><br/>Dr. Frank Harlow Hill flees to another town and changes his name after witnessing a murder of a detective taking up lodging in a remote home of the wheelchair boound Colonel Maitland Bouchey and his daughter Laurie Edwards. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Small circle in holograph ink over the name of Craig Hill on text in margin otherwise Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1970142976Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. <br/><br/>One of the more notable scripts from character actor and writer Leo Gordon whose Hollywood career began after his dishonorable discharge during WWll for robbing patrons at a bar. Throughout his 40 years as an actor art imitated life as the burly Gordon typically played an outlaw typecast predominately in Westerns. <br/><br/>Peter Collinson fresh off "The Italian Job" was reportedly a brute force in addition to excruciating temperatures on a set that was 200 miles outside of Istanbul. The pairing of the leads was lauded as Charles Bronson was at the height of European fame alongside a well-established Tony Curtis. <br/><br/><br/>Set in 1922 Greco-Turkish War shot on location in Turkey. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Leo V. Gordon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1938148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. <br/><br/>Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years.<br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1972132503London: National Screen Service / London Screen Distributors 1972. Two vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1971 US film. <br/><br/>A young American soldier wants to lose his virginity before he's shipped off to Vietnam and luck would have it as he meets a young woman with a dark secret who appears willing to help out. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creases at the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / London Screen Distributors unknown books
1937144987Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. Vintage photograph of various members of the cast and crew including script supervisor on the set of the 1937 film. Identifying holograph annotations on the recto helpfully naming each person and holograph annotations and studio stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Jimmy Hughes Preston Foster a wealthy and eccentric lawyer loses a bet and has to work a day digging a ditch in his suit. While on the job Trudy Olson Joan Fontaine the daughter of the mayor who is up for reelection stops by to campaign. Being the smarmy talker that he is they strike up a conversation. As they fall into disagreement Trudy suggests that Jimmy run himself and in an empty threat he says he will. The newspaper picks up the story and Jimmy is swept up into politics and drawn close to Trudy striking up an unlikely romance. <br/><br/>8 x 9.5 inches. One inch tear in the bottom of the left margin otherwise Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1938144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodd's who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. <br/><br/>Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1938136085Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben Paramount and an exclusivity notice. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1960143066Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Company 1960. Shooting script for the legendary 1961 Japanese film. Working copy belonging to Omura Senkichi who played a small role as a traveling servant in the film with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. <br/><br/>Though not credited as such based thematically on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel "Red Harvest" and subsequently the basis for many other films including "A Fistful of Dollars" Sergio Leone 1964 "Django" Sergio Corbucci 1966 and "Last Man Standing" Walter Hill 1996. Director Kurosawa has been quoted as saying that many plot elements from another Hammett novel "The Glass Key" make up the film. <br/><br/>All titles and text in Japanese. <br/><br/>White perfect bound wrappers with purple and black titles. 164 pages printed on recto and verso right to left in the Japanese style with last page numbered "d-33." Mechanical duplication. Light foxing and age toning to both pages and wrapper else Very Good condition. <br/><br/>BFI 505. Criterion Collection 52. Ebert III. Grant Japan. Kurosawa Production Company unknown books
1956142592United Kingdom: Associated British Picture Corporation 1956. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film showing director Thompson adjusting a camera as he looks off screen. With the stamp of Associated British Picture and a mimeo snipe on the verso detailing the film's inclusion in the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>Based on the 1954 novel by Joan Henry about a woman who kills her true love's mistress after he proves himself just the latest in a long line of abusive philanderers. Released as "Blonde Sinner" in the US. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Very Good with a diagonal crease to the upper right corner and nicking to the bottom left corner. <br/><br/>Grant UK. Lyons. Selby UK. Spicer UK. Associated British Picture Corporation unknown books
1956140212London: Kentwood Productions / Allied Artists 1956. Vintage front-of-house card for the 1956 British film noir tinted green as issued. Pictured are the busty Diana Dors and Yvonne Mitchell in the midst of having a party. <br/><br/>Released in the US as "Blonde Sinner." <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches. Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Kentwood Productions / Allied Artists unknown books
1940130425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final script for the 1940 film. <br/><br/>The AFI Catalog notes: "According to a Twentieth Century- Fox press release this was the first writing effort for Fox sound man William Brent. After his story was bought Brent was made a writer at the studio. Also the first screenwriter assignment for Irving Cummings Jr. and William Conselman Jr. Both men were "second generation Hollywood" as Cummings' father was a director and Conselman's a screenwriter. <br/><br/>"According to Twentieth Century-Fox press releases the football sequences were shot at the Los Angeles Olympic Stadium and at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Despite a summer heat wave the extras were required to wear heavy winter coats. As such large wind machines behind huge cakes of ice were used to cool off the fields. Thirty-four college football players from local universities were used as extras in this film. They included USC's Ambrose Schindler Bill Howard Red Morgan Tony Tonelli Ollie Day and Owen Hansen and UCLA's Billy Bob Williams Bill Overlin and Bill Radovich. Location filming was done at the Inglewood Railway Station as the station received little use. Because only two freight trains used the station each day movie extras were the only passengers ever to use the station. The press release also reported that the rental cost of a four-car train at the station was $150 per day. HR reported that Fox borrowed Lewis Howard from Universal Pictures for this film."<br/><br/>A Fox programmer about a doctor reflecting on his college days how he was lured onto the football team and away from his studies a flirtation with a widow and meeting his true love. A strong early vehicle for actor Robert Sterling and featuring two notable women from the serial film era Jean Rogers <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 149 and production No. 518 dated June 24 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 24 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Conselman Jr. and Cummings Jr. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/25/40 and 7/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968133277N.p.: Cannon Films 1968. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 US release of the 1968 Swedish film. <br/><br/>Sexploitation pioneer Joe Sarno's lesser known coming-of-age tale about a young girl who is introduced to the ways of lesbian love. One of few sexploitation auteurs to receive critical acclaim in with the likes of Radley Metzger and the indefatigable Russ Meyer. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. Cannon Films unknown books
1970144291Phoenix AZ: Associates XV 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a holograph letter in pen and a mimeograph copy of the screenwriters profile. <br/><br/>A story about the intergenerational experiences in a indigenous Navajo community as the teenage boy Yazzie starts attending a Catholic boarding school which stirs conflicts between his families indigenous wisdom and the schools Catholic doctrine. <br/><br/>Clear plastic wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John S. Candelario. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine velo binding. Associates XV unknown books
1980137980Hollywood: Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions 1980. Original "pre-production package and script" for an unproduced film called "Yaqui Fox and Mose" including a separate synopsis. <br/><br/>Included in the "pre-production package" is character information: Fox half Choctaw Indian half Irish a loner in total control of his destiny; Yaqui an Indian at the end of his rope looking for redemption; and Mose half Black half Indian on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Also included: letters from various productions companies regarding possible crew members like director Ted Post cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Will Sampson as "Yaqui" Philip Michael Thomas as "Mose" producers Richard Kaye Jay Lovins and Carol Hughes music by Carlos Santana technical personnel stunt coordinator Bill Hart letter signed by Hart wrangle Dick Lundin letter signed by Lundin special effect director Johnny James letter signed by James. Letters are dated 1979 or 1980. Various photocopied advertisements images of scenery and animals to be used production data a shooting schedule budget detail promotional ideas and weather information where the film was to be shot is also present. <br/><br/>Overall preproduction for the film went as far as it possibly could but for unknown reasons the film was never produced or released. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers. Synopsis page with a credit for screenwriter Terri Crane. Xerographic duplication with a few full-color pages detailing scenes from the opening titles. Last leaf of text numbered 80. Very Good plus bound with a brown Vello binding. Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions unknown books
