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1964132062London: Rank Organisation 1964. Vintage full-color still British front-of-house card from the 1964 UK film. <br/><br/>A gritty and realistic portrayal of the Cypriot independence struggle against British military rule in the 1950s. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creases to the corners else Near Fine. Rank Organisation unknown books
1957142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. <br/><br/>Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1972137470Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Collection of 8 vintage color still photographs from the 1972 film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963146288N.p.: The Landau Company 1963. Draft script for the 1968 film. <br/><br/>As early as 1950 there was talk of adapting Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the screen. In 1963 producer David Susskind took over Jose Quintero's attempt at adapting the novel which began two years earlier with a script from British screenwriter Gavin Lambert. Susskind passed on Lambert's script opting for a script from Thomas C. Ryan.<br/><br/>Susskind planned to shoot the film in New York City with director Sidney Lumet but the project ended up being held up indefinitely. Four years later Marc Merson's Brownstone Productions had taken over the film rights with Thomas C. Ryan's original 1963 script and with Ryan co-producing. During filming Ryan and director Robert Ellis Miller would make extensive re-writes as they went.<br/><br/>One of the great film adaptations of any American novel starring Sondra Locke in her debut film opposite Alan Arkin. Although much of the political aspect of McCullers' novel was removed from the film the themes present in the author's work are readily apparent: race loneliness impoverishment and anger. Arkin and Locke were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars. <br/><br/>Set in in a small Southern town shot on location in Selma Alabama.<br/><br/>Red titled vinyl Hart Stenographic Bureau wrappers. Title page present dated 8/26/63 with credits for novelist Carson McCullers and screenwriter Thomas C. Ryan. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeographed rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/26/63. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two metal screw brads. The Landau Company unknown books
1966151544Rome: Arco Films 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the set of the 1966 film. Italian "Uccellacci e Uccellini" stamp photographer "Divo Cavicchioli" stamp and provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso.<br/><br/>An old man played by the famous Italian performer Toto and his son Ninetto Davoli are walking along the road and are joined by a talking philosopher crow whom we are told in an intertitle is a left-wing intellectual and may be a Marxist. Nominated for the Palm d'Or.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Assisi Fiumicino Rome Tuscania and Viterbo Italy. <br/><br/>7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Arco Films unknown books
1963151276N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph of director Robert Wise and actress Julie Harris on the set of the 1963 film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso.<br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House." A group of disparate individuals are invited to a purportedly haunted house by a paramormal investigator.<br/><br/>Set in Massachusetts shot on location in Ettington Park in Warwickshire UK. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.<br/><br/>Scorsese The Dark Eleven. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1946137483Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1946. Draft script for the 1946 film. Working copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>The final film in the Nevada McKenzie series in which US Marshal Jack "Nevada" McKenzie is asked to help investigate the death of a man who supposedly drowned in a haunted mine near a ghost town called Buckeye. Their investigation leads them deep into the secrets of the local community including corruption mental illness and murder on a grander scale than they first imagined. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Frank Young. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Young. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Mimeograph duplication. Light insect damage to the extremities of both pages and wrapper with light dampstaining as well. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1973147891N.p.: Cinema Releasing 1973. Vintage British front-of-house card from the 1973 film. With "The Silver Screen" and "Not for Sale" stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Robert Rimmer's 1966 novel. James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren star as the married couple that runs the fictional Harrad College which is experimenting with ideas about open sexuality and "free love." Featuring a young Don Johnson in his fourth motion picture.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Pasadena California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cinema Releasing unknown books
1955145319Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film with rainbow revisions. <br/><br/>Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" 1954 the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of a promising young fighter. Nominated for an Academy Award. Humphrey Bogart's final film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California Chicago and New York. <br/><br/>White studio wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1315 dated Oct. 12 1955. Title page present dated October 12 1955 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with a credit for screenwriter Yordan. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock with yellow blue pink and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/2/55 and 12/15/55. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1972149479London: Island Records 1972. Collection of three vintage matte-finish studio still photographs from the 1972 film.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the early years of real-life Jamaican outlaw Rhyging who rose to prominence as a folk hero in the 1940s. Ska and reggae musician Jimmy Cliff's film debut in which Cliff stars as a young man from rural Jamaica who moves to Kingston with dreams of fame and fortune as a singer but is waylaid by corrupt record producers and criminal enterprises. One of the first films to feature black Jamaicans speaking Jamaican Patois and whose soundtrack played a key role in popularizing reggae music worldwide. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Kingston Jamaica.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 83. Island Records unknown books
1941139101New York: Famous Music Corporation 1941. Original sheet music for the song "Fireflies on Parade" from the 1941 film "The Hard-Boiled Canary" here under the working title "There's Magic in Music."<br/><br/>Words and music by Ann Ronell whose notable songs include "Rain on the Roof" "Let's Go Out in the Open Air" "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" and "Willow Weep for Me." <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches. Eight pages 2 folded leaves in illustrated wrappers. Very Good with brief creasing and tears. Famous Music Corporation unknown books
1990141270N.p.: Bioskop Film 1990. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1990 film. <br/><br/>Based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel which envisions a dystopian future in which fertile women are forced to play sexual surrogate to wealthy childless families. <br/><br/>Shot on location in North Carolina. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. Bioskop Film unknown books
1958144208Tokyo: Toho Company 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 Japanese film. Holograph annotations in pencil and black ink on the verso. <br/><br/>A drug smuggler's death stumps the police until they are convinced by a young scientist of the presence of "H-Men" slimy radioactive creatures who dissolve anything they come into contact with. The scientist refers to a ghost ship that washed up in the harbor as evidence of the H-bomb tests role in creating these monsters. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Toho Company unknown books
1958138556London: Maurice Cowan / Rank Productions 1958. Original program for the 1958 UK film. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and color stills from the film as well as reproductions of watercolor illustrations showing scenes from the film. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11.75 inches. 10 pages. Very Good plus in saddle stapled wrappers. Lightly soiled overall with a faint diagonal crease to the upper corner else bright and without loss. Maurice Cowan / Rank Productions unknown books
1961149523Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film showing director J. Lee Thompson and various crew members on the set of the German gun fortress. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures.<br/><br/>Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel wherein a group of Allied soldiers plan to destroy an airtight German fortress in order to save British naval ships stranded in the Aegean Sea.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location on the Greek islands.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960144956Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of producer Carl Foreman director J. Lee Thompson and actor David Niven on the set of the 1961 film. Mimeo snipe and an studio stamp on the verso.<br/><br/>Based on Alistair Maclean's 1957 novel of the same name. Set in 1943 allied intelligence assembles a commando unit assigned to infiltrate a Nazi outpost on Navarone Island in the Agean sea that contains two radar-directed superguns holding 2000 British Soldiers hostage. Nominated for six Academy Awards and the winner of Best Special Effects.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Greece Mexico Senegal and California. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Photo with a thin laminate as issued. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1966133563Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1966 re-release of the 1961 film. <br/><br/>Based on MacLean's 1957 novel about a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers whose task is to destroy two powerful German guns that control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Winner of an Academy Award Best Effects 1962. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Greece California and Senegal. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint corner creases else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1963148136N.p.: N.p. 1963. Twenty-page Shooting schedule for the 1963 film dated February 12 1963 with strikes through in holograph pencil on all but two pages and several annotations in holograph ink regarding locations and shots.<br/><br/>Aging gunman Rory Calhoun attempts to keep his control over a small town populated by outlaws. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Bronson Canyon Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1946143620N.p.: Monogram Pictures 1946. Typescript of the Final Shooting script for the 1947 Poverty Row film noir. <br/><br/>Based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room" first published in the 1946 short story anthology "The Dancing Detective" under his pseudonym William Irish. <br/><br/>The tale of a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists "The Guilty" is a prototypical Poverty Row second feature. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Yellow titled self wrappers noted as "Exact typed copy of final shooting script" on the front wrapper dated 1946. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Robert Presnell Sr. and novelist Cornell Woolrich. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1947144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1966135460Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 film. Based on the 1963 novel by Mary McCarthy. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1978150552N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Francois Truffaut and Laurence Ragon from the 1978 film. Cropping annotations in holograph ink "La Chambre Verte" stamp and "June 78" stamp all on verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James with elements of James' 1903 novella "The Beast in the Jungle" and his 1896 short story "The Way it Came."<br/><br/>One of Truffaut's least successful films but also one of his most personal and critically acclaimed a meditation on death and on an individual's inability to live in the face of it. Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne a journalist who writes obituaries in an unfashionable journal obsesses about the loss of his wife Julie and those members of his WWI squad lost in the war which lead him to build a shrine as a memorial so that they may never be forgotten. The third and final film which Truffaut would both direct and star.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Calvados and Eure France. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1936147033Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful of films to feature an all-Black cast made by a major Hollywood studio during the Golden Age becoming the highest grossing such film and remaining so until surpassed by "Carmen Jones" in 1954. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and light vertical creasing down the center. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1999WRCLIT47724Np: Castle Rock / Time Warner 1999. 1126 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript bradbound in studio wrappers. A few stray marks to wrappers else a nice copy. "Final shooting draft" of Darabont's adaptation of King's novel in this format most likely circulated by the studio for promotion or award consideration. Darabont also directed the film which starred Tom Hanks Michael Clarke Duncan et al. Castle Rock / Time Warner unknown books
1978135864Los Angeles: TransWorld Entertainment 1978. First Draft script for the 1978 film. One of English director Thompson's lesser known films his better known works being "Blonde Sinner" 1956 "The Guns of Navarone" 1961 "Cape Fear" 1962 "Mackenna's Gold" 1969 "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" 1972 and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" 1973. <br/><br/>Theo Tomasis Quinn a Greek shipping magnate becomes the second husband of socialite Liz Cassidy Bisset. Liz is the widow of young American president James Cassidy James Franciscus who was assassinated. Tomassis marries the former Mrs. Cassidy but to the protest of his ex-lover Paola Luciana Paluzzi. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York Greece the District of Columbia and England. <br/><br/>Black vinyl wrappers with title in gilt on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as first draft with a credit for screenwriter Fine. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 167. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine black velo binding. TransWorld Entertainment unknown books
