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1958143080France: Iena Productions 1958. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1958 film showing director Roger Vadim positioning actor Brigitte Bardot's hands as she holds a cape. With holograph annotations on the verso identifying the film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1954 novel by Albert Vidalie about a young woman who runs away from a convent only to get entangled with the young man her aunt is having an affair with to deadly consequences. Vadim's second film and the second of five films he would make with Bardot. <br/><br/>Set and shot in Torremolinos Spain. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Iena Productions unknown books
1942139695Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Collection of 34 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown card front wrapper present with film title printed on the wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 Austrian play co-written by Hungarian playwright Landislas Fodor and Austrian writer Gina Kaus based on her 1932 novel "Morgen um Neun." George Nordyke Allen is dismayed that his wife Lynn Bari is too good for him and they both decide to separate the night of their wedding anniversary. Lynn is accused of murdering her subsequent partner Victor Asther and is hidden by George aboard their yacht. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. With two hole punches at left margin as called for. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1972135445Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Collection of seven vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Joseph Wambaugh. <br/><br/>A law student begins working at the LAPD only to have police work become ever more important in his life. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970137527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film adapted from the collaborative novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford in 1909 but not published until after Conrad's death in 1924. The third of three collaborations by the two novelists. <br/><br/>Black stiff generic report wrappers with a red-and-white title label on the front wrapper crediting screenwriter Lowe and novelists Conrad and Ford. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lowe and novelists Conrad and Ford. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Photocopied. Toning to the title page else pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1964152369N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actress Constance Towers consulting a newspaper with a salacious headline.<br/><br/>Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre outrageous and perverse pulp masterwork. Kelly Constance Towers a former call girl who tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children falls in love with the saintly businessman J.L. Grant Michael Dante who has a dark secret of his own.<br/><br/>Set in the fictional town of Grantville USA.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 18. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1925149842Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1925. First Draft script for the 1925 film. <br/><br/>A roguish Eastern European woman is hired to help con a young heiress out of her wealth by holding fake seances with the heiress' long-dead father. Director Tod Browning was best known for his controversial masterpiece "Freaks" 1932 a quintessential film from both the perspective of horror and pre-Code film history revered by 20th century surrealists and given homage by Luis Bunuel in his film "Viridiana" 1961.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 1520 dated 3/28/25. Title page integral with the first page of text dated March 28 1925 noted as First draft of continuity with credits for screenwriter Waldemar Young. Approximately 120 leaves without page numbers. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1935129885N.p.: Grand National Pictures 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder" here under the working title and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace Edgar Wallace's son with his name and holograph annotations in pencil to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1925 collection of short stories "The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder" by Edgar Wallace. The second Mr. Reeder film this time seeing the absentminded detective investigate a gang of counterfeiters. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1935 with credit for writer Wallace. 78 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a teal cord. <br/><br/>Okuda 71. Grand National Pictures unknown books
1929148879Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1929 film. Mimeo snipe printed on the verso of each. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1874 novel by Jules Verne. Count Dakkar Lionel Barrymore the benevolent scientist-leader of a volcanic island is attacked by the evil despot Baron Falon Montagu Love leading to a submarine chase in which they discover a race of water-bound humanoids. <br/><br/>Fraught with a difficult production the film began shooting in 1926 but due to various problems it would take three more years before its 1929 release. Lauded as an impressive cinematic feat the astronomical price tag over $1 million in 1929 all but guaranteed the film would be a financial disaster at the box office turning studios off science fiction for many years. <br/><br/>"The Mysterious Island" was at the forefront of multiple technological advances a part-talkie film shot entirely in Technicolor. All color copies were believed lost but in 2013 one existing color print was discovered in Prague and has since been restored through a collaboration between US film experts and the Czech National Film Archive. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. With even fading else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970138454Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1970 UK film. Based on the 1937 collection of personal correspondence between Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadezha von Meck edited by her granddaughter Barbara von Meck and Catherine Drinker Bowen. Featuring an image of Glenda Jackson looking pensive in a nightdress. Hand-retouched adhered to a backing board and prepared for use in advertising. <br/><br/>Director Ken Russell's dramatic and visually stunning depiction of composer Tchaikovsky's turbulent life where his passion for his music spills over into his personal life as well. Presented largely in flashbacks nightmares and fantasy sequences the film illustrates the true stories of his nymphomaniac wife his homosexual feelings for Count Anton Chiluvsky and his unusual relationship with his widowed patron to whom he never spoke. Shot on location in Somerset England. <br/><br/>Photo 8 x 10 inches on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good with photograph detached from its backing board. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1970147608Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 UK film one with mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 collection of personal correspondence between Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadezha von Meck edited by her granddaughter Barbara von Meck and Catherine Drinker Bowen.<br/><br/>Director Ken Russell's dramatic and visually stunning depiction of composer Tchaikovsky's turbulent life where his passion for his music spills over into his personal life as well. Presented largely in flashbacks nightmares and fantasy sequences the film illustrates the true stories of his nymphomaniac wife his homosexual feelings for Count Anton Chiluvsky and his unusual relationship with his widowed patron to whom he never spoke. Shot on location in Somerset England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine one with small closed tear in left margin and small chip to bottom left margin.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1944133742N.p.: N.p. 1944. Treatment script and copy of the original story for an unproduced film "The Murder on Jefferson Street" based on the 1944 short story by Dorothy Canfield. Copy belonging to screenwriter Frank Partos with his name in holograph pencil. Also included with the script are contracts from Dorothy Canfield Story Magazine and Harcourt Brace and Company signing over the story's film and television rights to Partos. <br/><br/>A psychological thriller set in a Middle Western town called Huntsville the story follows the career paths of two men who work in the same office as one attempts to psychologically damage the other in order to take his better position. <br/> <br/>Housed in a blank black spring binder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Partos and story writer Canfield. 128 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine spring binder Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1984139732Culver City CA: TriStar Pictures 1984. Vintage color studio still photograph from the US release of the 1984 film. <br/><br/>The muppet gang hits Manhattan with the intention of showing their musical on Broadway. However the task turns out to be harder that they anticipated. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a blue holograph notation to the verso. TriStar Pictures unknown books
1983WRCLIT69200New York: TriStar / Henson Associates 1983. 1108 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only boltbound in hot-stamped Studio Duplicating Service flexible binder. Ink name see below toe of spine and lower fore- corners of binder bumped a few bits of highlighting early in the script but a very nice copy. The "second draft" of this original screenplay here credited solely to director/star Frank Oz a.k.a. Miss Piggy / Fozzie / Animal / Bert / Cookie Monster. Final screen credits included cowriting credits to Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses who cowrote the story. The Henson Company of puppeteers starred in the 1984 release as THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN along with a broad range of celebrity cameos. This copy bears the ownership signature and few annotations / highlighting of Les Lazarowitz who worked as sound mixer on the production. Uncommon. TriStar / Henson Associates] unknown books
1967151240N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actor Eddie Powell as The Mummy carrying actress Elizabeth Sellars. With a provenance stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>A team of archaeologists revive an Egyptian pharaoh who subsequently seeks retribution for the violation of his tomb. The third in Hammer Films' Mummy cycle preceded by "The Mummy" 1959 and "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" 1964 and followed by "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" 1971. The final Hammer film to be produced at Bray Studios before the company's 1967 relocation to Elstree and Pinewood Studios. <br/><br/>Set in Egypt. <br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1959147069N.p.: Hammer Film Productions 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs from the 1959 film.<br/><br/>Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images.<br/><br/>Although an ostensible remake of the hit 1932 Universal film Hammer Film adaptation of this title borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" 1940 and "The Mummy's Tomb" 1942 with the climax taken directly from "The Mummy's Ghost" 1944.<br/><br/>When British archeologists led by John Banning Peter Cushing despoil the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess Princess Anaka Yvonne Furneaux they awaken her keeper and former lover high priest Kharis Christopher Lee.<br/><br/>The only Hammer film to feature the actor combination of Lee Cushing and Michael Ripper.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine some light creasing one with two closed tears and pinholes and one photo with top right corner clipped. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1963132047Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1963. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1963 UK film. Features June Ritchie Bernard Cribbins and Ron Moody. <br/><br/>The sequel to "The Mouse that Roared" finds the tiny of country Grand Fenwick using a fake space program to finagle money from both the US and USSR to fix the plumbing in their castle. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good with brief insect damage to the top edge and light creasing. United Artists unknown books
1932136754Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1932. Screenplay archive for the 1932 film. Archive consists of a Revised Final script and a typescript rewrite of the film's opening sequence onboard a yacht. The rewrite credits an unknown screenwriter named "Eliscu." Based on the Richard Connell short story first published in "Colliers" in 1924. <br/><br/>A rare set of scripts for a groundbreaking film. A deranged millionaire living on an island arranges for a yacht to be shipwrecked on his shores whereupon he arranges for the survivors to be hunted. Decades ahead of its time and almost iconoclastic in the cynicism of its subtext Pichel and Schoedsack used ideas from their film "Gow the Headhunter 1931 and predicted their classic "King Kong" 1933 and dozens of other films that would follow using a theme of man being the hunted rather than the hunter. <br/><br/>Revised Final script:<br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped PLEASE RETURN TO STORY DEPT. / RKO STUDIOS Inc. / WEST COAST" dated May 13 1932 with credits for story writer Conell and screenwriter Creelman. Title page integral with first page of text with credits for Connell and Creelman. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock some leaves tan and others white. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Opening Yacht Sequence script:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as OPENING YACHT SEQUENCE on the front wrapper rubber stamped "Property of RKO STUDIOS Inc. / Return to Scenario Dept. Files" dated July 2 1932 with credits for story writer Conell and screenwriter Creelman further noted as ELISCU CHANGES / Ciopied by RKO Stenographic Dept." Title page integral with first page of text with credits for Connell and Creelman. 15 leaves with last leaf of text number 123. Typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine. A few small chips to the edges fragile wrapper else about Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 46. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1943137557Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Original mini window card for the 1943 film. <br/><br/>Based on John Steinbeck's 1942 novel. German troops invade Norway during WWII and occupy a small town. Col. Lanser Hardwicke is the officer in charge of the occupation believes in peace over brutality to achieve success and he tries to persuade the townspeople to work with him. Soon an anti-Nazi resistance force is formed and begin sabotaging German camps and killing their officers. The town's mayor Travers refuses to assist Lanser in any way and eventually Lanser is forced to respond by issuing arrests and executions. <br/><br/>Natalie Wood who was 5 at the time makes a cameo as a village child in her first film credit. <br/><br/>Set in Norway shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus on thick stock with edge creases a faint bruise and a notation in holograph pencil on the verso. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976133392Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Original one sheet poster for the 1976 blaxploitation film "The Monkey Hustle."<br/><br/>A classic entry in the action comedy subset of blaxploitation films in which a neighborhood must band together in order to prevent the city from demolishing their homes to build a highway. Set in Chicago and shot there on location. <br/><br/>Largely low-budget and geared towards a young urban audience blaxploitation films often depicted African-Americans overcoming hostile authorities through cunning and violence as well as conflicts internal to the culture. Though some of the first mainstream films to feature predominantly black casts and introduce previously non-represented elements of black culture including the notable use of funk and soul music in soundtracks they were also panned for furthering stereotypes about black people. Despite the controversy that the genre instilled its motifs remain culturally relevant to this day often parodied acknowledged and imitated in modern films and music. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Parish and Hill 149. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1965135447Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Collection of three vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double reference studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Based on the 1963 novel by Lionel White. Featuring Glenn Ford accompanied in two photos by Rita Hayworth. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition with rubber stamp carbon copy description and holograph notation in blue ink to the verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965138993Paris: Federiz / A.S. Film 1965. Vintage French Moyenne medium poster for the 1965 Italian-Spanish film. <br/><br/>Arguably the best film on bullfighting ever made based on the life of real torero bullfighter "Miguelin" Miguel Mateo. Charting his rise and fall focusing on the bloody end the audience is plunged right into the ring as close to death as the bullfighter himself. <br/><br/>22.75 x 31.25 inches folded. Pinhole tear to the center and a brief notation on the verso in ink. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 595. Federiz / A.S. Film unknown books
1970139071Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1970. Original British quad poster for the 1970 US film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry. <br/><br/>Based on the real Molly Maguires a secret society active in Ireland in the late 1800s. James Harris is an Irish immigrant hired to infiltrate Irish immigrant miners led by Jack Connery. Jack and his gang intend to revolt against their oppressive management using murder and destruction but will James join in the cause or betray his fellow Irishman for the good of the State<br/><br/>Shot in Eckley Pennsylvania. Director Ritt though not named by the HUAC was eventually blacklisted by the television industry. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Title on the verso in ink and a few central pinholes else Near Fine. Uncommon. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970141297Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1970. Collection of seven vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Paper snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Set to the backdrop of coal country Pennsylvania the film follows a secret organization of Irish miners formulated to fight oppressive mine owners. Sean Connery stars as the treacherous leader Jack Kehoe. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Pennsylvania. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with extensive holograph graphite annotations to the verso. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1982WRCLIT68060Burbank CA: Waite -Dorso Productions / Warner Bros. 1982. 1621 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Light use script number inked on upper wrapper very good. A revised first draft of this pilot for the two-season series directed by Richard Sarafian and starring Ralph Waite. This pilot aired in June of the same year and at least on IMDB other writers receive credit for some of the episodes in the remainder of the series. Waite -Dorso Productions / Warner Bros. unknown books
1961149755Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1961 film showing director John Huston riding a tire while actor Eli Wallach looks on. With a provenance stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>The final completed film for actors Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe before their deaths. Notoriously a trying endeavor for both Monroe who was struggling with a drug addiction and pending divorce from Arthur Miller and would often fail to show up to the set and for director John Huston who would drink and occasionally fall asleep while filming. Gable performed all of his own stunts then suffered a heart attack only two days after filming ended and died ten days later. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Dayton Nevada.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
