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1947WRCLIT61188Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures 1947. 1116 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers with label upper wrapper in duplicate. Title of later remake lettered on spine otherwise very good to near fine. A composite script with later stamp denoting it a Vault Copy of this unproduced adaptation of Maugham's novel comprised of pages dated variously through August September and October. In 1934 MGM released John Meehan's adaptation starring Greta Garbo and were evidently exploring the possibility of a remake of the popular property. Swerling was a solid writer to bring to the task having worked recently on LIFEBOAT IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN and other significant titles. But for whatever reason the project did not come to fruition and the film based on this script was not made. MGM returned again to Maugham's novel in 1957 and released an adaptation by Karl Tunberg under the title THE SEVENTH SIN. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures unknown books
1974WRCLIT54943Burbank: Screen Gems Inc. 1974. 1463 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. A few minor smudges to wrappers otherwise fine. Denoted a "Pilot Script" draft unspecified for a potential but unproduced television series following upon the success of the 1970 film romp starring Barbara Streisand and George Segal under the direction of Herbert Ross. The film was an adaptation from William Manhoff's play and Henry received final screen credit for that adaptation as well. The final three leaves print five paragraph- long story outlines most likely for subsequent episodes. Screen Gems, Inc. unknown books
1981149812Budapest: Csoma Bela - MOKEP 1981. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1981 Hungarian film here under its Hungarian title "Szabadgyalog." <br/><br/>A talented but destructive alcoholic and apathetic violinist Andras Andras Szabo who also composed music for the film destroys his marriage is kicked out of music school and devolves from creating music to becoming a disc jockey in Tarr's metaphoric commentary on Hungarian cinema and politics. Bela Tarr's second feature film following his 1979 debut "Family Nest." <br/><br/>15.25 x 22.25 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Csoma Bela - MOKEP unknown books
1972127443Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Based on the 1963 Parker novel by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. Copy belonging to uncredited actor Norman Kaplan. <br/><br/>One of the great crime films of the early 1970s today a cult classic with understated performances from Robert Duvall Karen Black and Joe Don Baker as well as a who's-who of character actors playing out a violent story that takes place mostly in a beautifully ordinary rural setting. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 182 dated December 18 1972 with credits for producer Carter De haven and director/screenwriter Flynn. 132 leaves xerographically duplicated with the last leaf of text numbered 128. Pages and wrapper Near Fine with a few tiny corner creases throughout bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy BFI Companion to Crime. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Stephens US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1964145375Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1964. Revised Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1964-1966 television show "The Outer Limits" originally aired April 27 1964 on ABC. <br/><br/>Robert Duvall plays a disaffected CIA agent sent to infiltrate an alien flying saucer that has crash landed. He finds that the genetic material used to alter his appearance has overridden his human nature and he ultimately chooses to return to the home planet of the benevolent aliens and leave humanity and its violence behind. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 52 and production No. SF# 30 dated March 3 1964 with credits for screenwriter Robert Towne. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Towne. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1969139465Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1969 film. <br/><br/>This goofy comedy of errors follows the story of an Ohio businessman played by Jack Lemmon who travels with his mousy wife Sandy Dennis to New York City for a game-changing job opportunity. However the couple is met by nothing but trouble on their journey and begin to regret ever leaving Ohio. <br/><br/>Set in Manhattan shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a small crease to the bottom left corner. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1969128885Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Here under its slightly different hyphenated working title. <br/><br/>A seminal New York comedy and an Arthur Hiller high spot shot on location in the city in early 1970. A document of the times it captures the city's lovable insanity in countless ways from airports to garbage strikes to Central Park muggers to hotels. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York City Long Island and Boston. <br/><br/>Blue green titled wrappers with die-cut window. Title page present dated March 6 1969 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Simon producer Nathan and director Hiller. 138 leaves mimeograph duplication with the last leaf of text numbered 137. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1977138667Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1977. First Draft script for the 1975 film. File copy belonging to Filmways Inc with annotations indicating same in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on E.G. Valens' 1966 book about Jill Kinmont Boothe a champion skier who at the age of 18 was involved in a near-fatal accident resulting in paralysis from the neck down. She would become a teacher of special education after rehabilitation and married a trucker named John Boothe in 1976. She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1967 and died in 2012. <br/><br/>Director Peerce's notable film debut as director "One Potato Two Potato" 1964 was a groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage and one of the first films to portray such a relationship. He would later marry and divorce Marilyn Hassett who plays Jill in the film she won a Golden Globe for her debut role. Beau Bridges costars as her love interest. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Bishop California shot on location throughout California. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as "Office Copy Cover" in ink on the front wrapper copy No. 74-1-82. Title page present undated noted as First Draft with a credit for screenwriter Seltzer. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1973132568London: Scotia-Barber Distributors 1973. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1973 British-American film. Mimeograph snipe once affixed to the verso now detached but present. <br/><br/>Based on the 1964 novel by director Simmons about a retired entertainer making his living as a street musician in London who befriends two young children. Buster Keaton and Danny Kaye were both considered for the lead role but Peter Sellers won out. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the extremities. Scotia-Barber Distributors unknown books
1966137064Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators" written by novelist Norman Bogner and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. <br/><br/>Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" 1967 screenwriter his only film "Emerald Soup" 1963 television series story editor the "Armchair" theatre television series 1965-1966 and "Seventh Avenue" 1977 television series based on his novel. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated November 30 1966. Title page present dated November 30 1966 noted as First Draft with a credit for screenwriter Bogner. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970151463Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1968 play also by screenwriter Frank D. Gilroy. An aging lovelorn Las Vegas chorus girl begins an affair with a musician with a compulsive gambling habit.<br/><br/>Set in Las Vegas and shot on location in Paris and Las Vegas Nevada.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1957132165London: Rank Film Distributors 1957. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1957 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on Kendal Burt's and James Leasor's book of the same title about Franz von Werra the only German prisoner of war to escape from imprisonment in Britain during the Second World War. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light soil else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown books
1978140622N.p.: Cal-Am Artists 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Script belonging to assistant director John Neukum with his name inscribed on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>A rouge cop fed up with the ineffectual justice system decides to take the law into his own hands in this 1978 exploitation thriller. Jack Palance stars as the steely Lt. Jim Wade an L.A. cop who strikes a deal with a mobster in order to uncover the identity of the notorious serial killer "The Slasher." Director Charles Martin's final film he passed away only a few years after its completion. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. Title page present dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographically duplicated with revision pages throughout dated 07/11/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cal-Am Artists unknown books
1958146914N.p.: Leland Hayward Productions 1958. Vintage photograph of Ernest Hemingway and Spencer Tracy on the set of the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1952. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two more including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine very light creasing. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Leland Hayward Productions unknown books
1968141318Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1968. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1968 film. <br/><br/>Two friends with completely different lifestyles decide to become roommates with some predictable and problematic results. Starring Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau and John Fiedler. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1947148811West Hollywood: Eagle-Lion Films 1947. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1948 British film. One with Dion McGregor Collection stamp on the verso.<br/><br/>After sustaining a head injury in a bus crash young scientist convalesces in a boardinghouse where a young woman is brutally murdered. Now a prime suspect with a poor memory due to the accident and no alibi he begins to wonder if he could have done it. Roy Ward Baker's directorial debut.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light corner and edge wear one with small chip to upper left corner two with pinholes and modest bruising.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Selby Master. Selby UK. Grant UK. Spicer UK. Eagle-Lion Films unknown books
1966149326N.p.: Rome Paris Films 1966. Vintage borderless French reference photograph of actress Anna Karina from the 1966 film. With a stamp specific to the French release for the film on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Denis Diderot's eighteenth century novel following a young woman whose family forces her into a convent. A flurry of controversy surrounded the film's production and release as a result of its critical stance toward the Catholic Church leading the French Minister of Information to ban its release. A large-scale campaign was subsequently launched in its defense and the ban was lifted in 1967 when it was shown at Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Villeneuve-les-Avignon Gard France. <br/><br/>9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Rome Paris Films unknown books
1978140550N.p.: Charles B. Pierce Film Productions 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. <br/><br/>An 11th century Viking prince sails to North America to rescue his father from a Native American tribe. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Florida and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. Charles B. Pierce Film Productions unknown books
1974150582Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1974. Collection of eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1974 adult animated film. <br/><br/>Based on R. Crumb's 1965-1972 comic strip. Fritz an irresponsible womanizing leftist finds himself married and drowning in domesticity and escapes through a drug-fueled fantasy about his "nine lives." The first animated feature film to receive an R rating. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1971144778London: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1971. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1971 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>A prequel to Henry James' "The Turn of The Screw" showing the events that lead to the deaths of Peter Quint Marlon Brando and Ms. Jessell Staphanie Beacham and the subsequent corruption of the children Flora Verna Harvey and Miles Christopher Ellis.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Cambridgeshire England. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1961132121London: British Lion 1961. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 UK film. <br/><br/>An antiques dealer dies and is reincarnated as a bird vocalizing his opinions on the night of his widow's next wedding. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with creasing to one corner. British Lion unknown books
1974135443Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Collection of five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. <br/><br/>Director Liliana Cavani's controversial film starring Charlotte Rampling as a Holocaust survivor who resumes a sadomasochistic relationship with the Nazi officer who tortured her became a signature work for Rampling including the striking scene in which she dances in a Nazi uniform for a room of irreparably jaded SS officers. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974142654Italy: Lotar Film 1974. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1974 film. Each with the stamp of collector A. Marinie on the verso one photograph with holograph annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Italian director Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi torturer after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. <br/><br/>Photographs roughly 10 x 8 inches one with a wide bottom margin the rest borderless. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. Lotar Film unknown books
1955137952Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage candid photograph of Robert Mitchum sharing a moment with his wife Dorothy while on the set of "The Night of the Hunter." Dressed in costume as Harry Powell the image of a smiling relaxed Mitchum is incongruous with the severe terrifying nature of the character he played one of the most iconic villains in all film history. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Shallow vertical slice to the right side of the image. United Artists unknown books
142378N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Three pilgrims traveling on St. John's Eve must work to preserve their faith and ward off the temptations of Satan. The feast of St. John often coincides with the June solstice. <br/><br/>Set in the Middle East. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Paul Pissanos. Title page present dated 1983 with credits for screenwriter Pissanos. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 59. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine perfect bound. N.p. unknown books
