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1968146898London: Haworth Productions 1968. Second Draft script for the 1968 film. With the ownership name of cinematographer Douglas Holcombe in holograph ink on the title page<br/><br/>In 1183 England the sons of King Henry II and his wife plot to overtake the throne. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning three including Best Screenplay and Best Actress. <br/><br/>Set in England shot on location in France and Ireland. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter James Goldman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly toned to the title page wrapper Very Good plus with cello tape repairs to the title window and light rusting to the binding bound with two silver brads. Haworth Productions unknown books
1971132123London: Nation Screen Service 1971. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1971 UK film. <br/><br/>A documentary following a two men who are reunited with a lion that they had purchased as a cub and which had subsequently been reintroduced to the wild by conservationist George Adamson. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Slight toning else Near Fine. Nation Screen Service unknown books
1978146577N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English.<br/><br/>Based on the 1960 German novel wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script written seven years before the film's release.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Germany. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1978 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Siegfried Lenz screenwriter Rainer Soehnlein and translator Scott Morrison. 206 leaves with last page of text numbered 202. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
140050N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>A cab driver in Mexico is devoutly dedicated to his daughter which causes a great change in his life. <br/><br/>Joe Raciti was an actor best known for his work in "The Firebrand" 1962 in which he portrayed Jack Garcia. <br/><br/>Set in Mexico City. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph A. Raciti-Carlyle. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1964137125Tokyo: Toho Company 1964. Vintage black-and-white reference studio still photograph from the 1964 US release of the 1952 Japanese film. Though not indicated in any way this film still belonged to screenwriter Leonard Schrader. <br/><br/>The film follows the life of a woman who was sold into various forms prostitution by her father at a young age and whose bad luck follows her into ruin. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 664. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Toho Company unknown books
1947114994London: Ealing Studios 1947. Vintage program for the 1947 film. With original four-color illustrations throughout by Edward Ardizzone. A scarce and very expressive piece from Ealing Studios at the height of its glory. <br/><br/>Based on the 1839 novel by Charles Dickens. Considered one of the most Dickensian of all Dickens adaptation with a dark mood and attention to the author's lowdown characters throughout. <br/><br/>Saddle-stapled 16 pages. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. Ealing Studios unknown books
1956132574London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Collection of 8 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. <br/><br/>An ex-soldier's marriage is in trouble when his wife is caught in the draft. The couple is recalled to serve again in light of the shortage of military personnel but the husband is reclassified for health reasons and the wife stays on to help. From the director of "The Girl Can't Help It" 1956 and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" 1957. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creases overall and faint soil on the versos else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1943135506Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the US release of the 1943 film. Based on the 1942 novel "Black Alibi" by Cornell Woolrich. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good condition with edge creasing and a few closed tears and with two cello tape repairs to the verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1962143082Rome: G.B. Poletto 1962. Vintage press photograph showing director Luchino Visconti and stars Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale on the beach at Cannes to promote "The Leopard" with the aid of what is actually a cheetah rather than the titular big cat. With the stamp of United Press International on the verso. <br/><br/>Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of the Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Winner of the Palme d'Or and nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. G.B. Poletto unknown books
1963150521Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Burt Lancaster. Photographer "G. B. Poletto" stamp on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.<br/><br/>Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. <br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award. Winner of the Palme d'Or.<br/> <br/>Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. <br/><br/>11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with some light creasing and edgewear. <br/><br/>BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 22. Titanus unknown books
1975140151Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1975. Final Draft script for the 1975 television movie. <br/><br/>A biography of Rudolph Valentino a silent movie star and widely-regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol who established the archetype of the <br/>"great lover" and popularized "gaucho" pants among other things. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 28 1975 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Melville Shavelson. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication with yellow white blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between August 4 1975 and August 11 1975. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1970152435N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced musical play. <br/><br/>The story of Stagger Lee also known as "Stacker Lee" and "Stagolee" an American criminal and subject of African American folk songs throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. <br/><br/>African-American actor and screenwriter Paul E. Harris was best known for his work as a television film and stage actor appearing in the musicals "Show Boat" 1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" 1949 and later relocating to Hollywood most notably starring in "All Night Long" 1962. <br/><br/>Blue untitled card wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Paul E. Harris. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered II-4-11. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1965WRCLIT74799Los Angeles: 20th Century-Fox Television 1965. 135 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Faint pencil name on upper wrapper otherwise very good or better. Denoted the "shooting script" for this episode of the two-season western series with revisions on blue and salmon stock. While not identified as such this script may be for episode 11 of the first series which aired on 19 November 1965 and is the only episode credited by IMDB to Burnett under the episode title "Manhunt." IMDB's entry also lists Burnett as writing an "adaptation" of a screenplay by Nunally Johnson for that episode -- neither the episode title nor the relationship to work by Johnson appear on this script. 20th Century-Fox Television unknown books
1958150861N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph of Paul Newman and screenwriter Gore Vidal on the set of the 1958 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1955 teleplay "The Death of Billy the Kid" written by Gore Vidal for the NBC television series "The Pilco-Goodyear Television Playhouse" which also starred Paul Newman in the lead. Gore Vidal was reportedly displeased with Penn's adaptation and in 1989 it was remade from his original script as the TNT television film "Billy the Kid" directed by William Graham and starring Val Kilmer and Duncan Regehr.<br/><br/>Arthur Penn's directorial debut.<br/><br/>William Bonney aka Billy the Kid avenges the murder of a cattle boss friend John Tunstall by the local sheriff in the Lincoln County War and endangers his friends and the territorial amnesty leading to his former friend now sheriff Pat Garrett John Dehner setting out to capture him. <br/><br/>Although faring poorly at the US box office at the time of its release it was praised by French critics and is now considered a bold example of an early Revisionist Western.<br/><br/>Set in the 1870s New Mexico territory. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Scorcese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. N.p. unknown books
1960138480Universal City CA: Unviersal International Pictures 1960. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe affixed on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. A doctor journeys to Africa with his wife hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with short creases and slight waviness. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1950142329N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. <br/><br/>A gentleman pays the bail of a recently-jailed political activist who is then invited to a meeting of the League of Free Men. When the activist turns up murdered a few days later with a mysterious note found on his body the police begin investigating exactly what this organization is all about. <br/><br/>Set in London. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers with typescript title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present noted as First Version with credits for G.E. Moore. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Ribbon copy typescript with type in black and red. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a string binding. N.p. unknown books
1958140297France / Italy: Filmsonor 1958. Archive of 219 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1958 French-Italian film here under the French title "La loi c'est la loi." Notations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph pencil and as many rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographers Hughes Ronald and Paul Ronald and The Dial Press agency in Rome. Housed in three vintage French Kodak and Ilford brand photo paper boxes and in a vintage manila envelope with French film title in holograph ink on the recto. Included in the archive are four pages of film credits and synopsis on Cinedis Paris company parchment. <br/><br/>Seen in the images is starring actor Fernandel as he tutors a class at of children at religion school Toto Genin actress Nathalie Nerval and other members of the cast in action including several scenes from an off-camera cocktail party and images of the cast and crew during filming. <br/><br/>In an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France a French customs agent Fernandel watches every move of an Italian smuggler Toto who eventually discovers that the agent is in fact Italian not French. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Italy. Entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival in 1958. <br/><br/>Nearly all photographs approximately 7 x 9.25 inches a handful slightly larger. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling. Film credits and synopses Near Fine box and envelope Very Good plus. Filmsonor unknown books
1951147895N.p.: Ealing Studios 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. <br/><br/>Holland Alec Guinness has been a dutiful bank clerk for 20 years until a new neighbor Alfred Pendlebury Stanley Holloway an eccentric artist who owns a foundry that makes souvenirs helps him hatch a plan to steal gold bullion and melt them into miniature Eiffel Towers. <br/><br/>Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and nominated for Best Actor for Guiness.<br/><br/>Ranked the 17th greatest British film of all time by BFI.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Lee "The Heist Film. Ealing Studios unknown books
1930151436Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1930. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1930 comedy short film. Notable as the first short by the duo where Hardy says to Laurel "Well here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"<br/><br/>A parody of the 1927 silent film "The Cat and the Canary" with Stan and Ollie spending the night in a mansion of a deceased relative of Stan's only to be embroiled in suspected foul play.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. One photograph with a brief stray ink annotation to the recto else About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1985149641Paris: Gamma 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Robert Altman and actor Carol Burnett on the set of the 1985 television film which originally aired on HBO on April 1. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamps of Gamma Film.<br/><br/>Two women meet at a laundromat and reveal secrets about their lives. The third and final film collaboration between Altman and Burnett following "A Wedding" 1978 and "HealtH" 1980. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris.<br/><br/>10.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Gamma unknown books
1974135454Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Collection of four vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. <br/><br/>A gritty crime drama in which a mass murderer kills a police detective and his partner is left to attempt to find the killer. <br/><br/>Set in San Francisco. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1938139377Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1938. Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. <br/><br/>Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters from his books "Headed for a Hearse" "The Lady in the Morgue" "Murder in the Madhouse" "The Dead Don't Care" and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films the first two being "The Westland Case" 1937 and "The Lady in the Morgue" 1938. Here Bill Crane Foster visits a country estate where the occupants have been receiving threatening letters from someone called "The Eye."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus waviness and faint tape residue on the rectos. . <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1960132672London: National Screen Service / MGM 1960. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white and 7 full-color still photographs from the 1960 UK release of the 1960 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos black-and-white stills. <br/><br/>An explosion in the engine room of a cruise ship on its last voyage causes a leak and the captain of the ship refuses to believe his ship will sink. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall and a hint of toning black-and-white stills else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1969129421Troy MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment 1969. First Draft script for the 1971 film. With several annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. Here under the working title "Somewhere in the Mountains There is a Last Valley." Based on the 1959 novel by J.B. Pick. <br/><br/>Cited often by actor Michael Caine as his favorite of all his many acting roles. During the Thirty Years' War in Germany Vogel Sharif a teacher is being pursued by a band of mercenaries fighting for the highest bidder regardless of religious affiliation lead by "The Captain" Caine. Vogel comes upon a village in a mountain valley yet untouched by the war and horror that has gripped most of continental Europe. The Captain soon comes upon the valley and decides to spend winter there and Vogel ends up acting as intermediary between the villagers and the soldiers. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 13 1969 noted as 1st Draft Screenplay with credit for screenwriter Clavell. 167 leaves with last page numbered 161. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good with some discoloration wrapper Very Good with some staining bound internally with three gold brads. Anchor Bay Entertainment unknown books
1971141346Troy MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment 1971. Collection of six vintage film still photographs from the 1971 film. Paper snipe affixed to the verso of three images. <br/><br/>During the Thirty Years' War in Germany Vogel Sharif a teacher is being pursued by a band of mercenaries fighting for the highest bidder regardless of religious affiliation lead by "The Captain" Caine. Vogel comes upon a village in a mountain valley yet untouched by the war and horror that has gripped most of continental Europe. The Captain soon comes upon the valley and decides to spend winter there and Vogel ends up acting as intermediary between the villagers and the soldiers. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine holograph graphite and ink annotations to the verso. Black holograph notation to the recto of one image. Anchor Bay Entertainment unknown books
