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Corman Roger director; Joseph Hilton Smyth novel; Steve Fisher screenwriter; Robert Strauss Steve Cochran Celia Lovsky Lili
I Mobster I Mobster Original three-sheet poster for the 1958 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Original three-sheet poster for the 1958 US film. Based on the 1951 novel by Joseph Hilton Smyth. Mobster Joe Sante played by Steve Cochran finds himself in front of a US Senate subcommittee on racketeering and recalls his rise to power via a series of flashbacks. One of Cochran's better roles in which he navigates the nuanced character's strict moral compass as well as his ruthless gangster tendencies. A notable film also for its inclusion of Lili St. Cyr's famed "bubble bath" burlesque act. 41 x 80 inches folded in two sections as issued. Very Good plus with a handful of closed tears at the folds. A bright attractive copy. Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
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Corman Roger director; Jack Nicholson screenwriter; Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper Bruce Dern starring
The Trip Original photograph from the 1967 film
Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1967. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1967 exploitation film White margin with a single credit and copyright date for American International Pictures at the bottom margin. In the photograph Peter Fonda and Salli Sachse exchange admiring glances during a rare scene where people aren't tripping. One of the iconoclastic Corman's most idiosyncratic directorial efforts and frequently referred to as his most personal one a time capsule of hippie life and the Sunset Strip back in the swinging 60s. 8 x 10 inches. Single pinholes at the corners some residue on the verso from an old theater window mounting. Very Good plus overall. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
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Corneau Alain director screenwriter; Jean Pierre Fizet still photographer; Michel Grisolia screenwriter; Yves Montand Gerard
Choice of Arms Le Choix Des Armes Two original contact sheets from the 1981 film
Paris: Sara Films 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. Noel Yves Montand a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole Catherine Deneuve is met by two fugitives one is Serge Pierre Forget an old accomplice who is dying from a recent gun wound the other is Mickey Gerard Depardieu an unstable maniac. Mickey's paranoia and violent outburst pulls Noel into the conflict as the police are on his tail. A high stress series of shoot-outs ensues. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sara Films unknown
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Cornelius Henry director screenwriter; Paul Gallico author; Kenneth Moore Betsy Drake Harry Green Patrick Barr starring
Next to No Time Original screenplay for the 1958 film
London: Montpelier 1957. Shooting script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware with his name and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. Laid in is a note from James Ware. Based on Paul Gallico's short story "The Enchanted Hour" a British man is sent to America to negotiate a deal for which he is clearly out his depth. Set in the United States shot on location in England. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1957 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between June 28 1957 and July 31 1957. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Montpelier unknown
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Cornell writing as William Irish Woolrich novel; Robert Siodmak director; Bernard C. Schoenfeld screenwriter; Franchot Tone Ell
Phantom Lady Original photograph of the 1942 novel made for the 1944 film
Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage photograph of the Tower reader's edition of Cornell Woolrich's crime novel written under the pseudonym William Irish made as publicity the 1944 film adaptation. <br/><br/>Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
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Corrigan Lloyd director; Sidney Buchman screenwriter; Percy Heath adaptation; Rupert Hughes novel; Alice Brand Leahy screenwrit
No One Man Original screenplay for the 1932 film
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcée looking to remarry. She falls for her physician Dr. Karl Bemis but ends up marrying Bill Hanaway. Bill then has an affair with another woman. Tall peach side stitched self wrappers noted as Third Buff Script on the front wrapper dated October 6 1931 with credits for writers Hughes Heath Buchman and Leahy. 205 leaves on peach stock mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Paramount Pictures unknown
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Corrigan Lloyd director; Ray Harris Francis Edward Faragoh screenwriter; Frank Morgan Rita Hayworth starring
The Dancing Pirate Post-production script for the 1936 film
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1936. Post-production Dialogue Continuity script for the 1936 film. Based on Emma-Lindsay Squer's short story "Glorious Buccaneer" that first appeared in the December 1930 issue of Colliers Magazine. A dance instructor captured by pirates manages to escape and helps a town under the thumb of the Spanish empire revolt against their soldiers by teaching them how to dance. One of Rita Hayworth's early appearances on film. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Dance Direction. Tall faded blue titled wrappers dated April 21st 1936 noting 6 reels. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus. Hirschhorn p. 118. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
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Corwin Norman screenwriter
Escape from Andersonville Original screenplay for an unproduced film
N.p.: Goldwyn Studios 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. Includes a separate summery and edits by Paul Kohner laid in as well as a letter from the office of Paul Kohner to Gladys Hill at Goldwyn Studios. Andersonville the notorious Confederate prison located deep in the Georgia swamps provides the setting for this unproduced Civil War film. A small group of Union soldiers are captured and brought to the torturous encampment where their only means of survival is escape. Written by Norman Corwin best known for his Academy Award winning film "Lust for Life" about the life of artist Vincent van Gogh. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Corwin. 143 leaves plus a 9 leaf outline mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Goldwyn Studios unknown
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Cosmatos George P. director screenwriter; Robert Katz Tom Mankiewicz screenwriters; Sophia Loren Richard Harris Martin Shee
The Cassandra Crossing Original screenplay for the 1976 film
N.p.: ITC Entertainment 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow with a star-studded cast including Richard Harris Martin Sheen and producer Carlo Ponti's wife Sophia Loren. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for director Cosmatos and screenwriter Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with a green Vello binding. ITC Entertainment unknown
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Costain Thomas B. novel; Henry Hathaway director; Talbot Jennings screenwriter; Tyrone Power Orson Welles Cecile Aubry Jack
The Black Rose Original screenplay for the 1950 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Final Draft script for the 1950 film. With a "New York Legal Department" rubber stamp to the front wrapper and extensive holograph pencil annotations throughout likely by a professional reader regarding differences between the source novel by Thomas B. Costain and the script. Based on Costain's 1945 novel and partially conceived as a sequel to the 1949 film "Prince of Foxes" in order to reunite Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. "The Black Rose" features Power as a Saxon youth who runs away from England during the Crusades. Somehow he and his North African warlord friend Orson Welles make it to China where they get involved with the court of Kubla Kahn. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in England and the Far East shot on location in England and Morocco. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 19 and production No. 125 dated May 4 1949. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated May 4 1949. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/17/49 and 7/5/49. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
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Cournot Michel director screenwriter; Pierre Zucca still photographer; Annie Girardot Jean Pierre Kalfon Nella Bielski Brun
Les gauloises bleues Original keybook contact print photographs from the 1969 film
Paris: Les Films 13 1969. Collection of 38 original keybook contact print photographs from the 1969 French film. Color and black-and-white contact prints of small and medium format transparencies several printed in Agfa photo paper most with 36 images per print amounting to over 1300 images of starring actors Girardot and Kalfon child actors and a few of the film crew. Several images with series numbers etched in the original film before development and as many with cropping annotations in holograph red pencil on the rectos numerical annotations in holograph pencil no the versos. Housed in an oblong quarto paper binder with French title in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Produced late in the French New Wave era using flashbacks and imagined scenarios about a troubled young man who meets a pretty shop girl and the two fall in love and eventually marry. The couple does not get along however and things get worse when the husband reverts back to his criminal ways and gets caught. Cournot's arthouse film was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival but the festival was canceled due to the political and social unrest in France. Photos range from 6.5 x 10.5 inches to 10.5 x 14.5 inches including binder 12.5 x 17 inches. Very Good overall curling and light oxidation several with bruises at the edges a result of moisture and prints adhering to each other and some contact sheets still stuck together. Moderate foxing and small tears to the binder binder front wrapper nearly detached. Les Films 13 unknown
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Cournot Michel director screenwriter; Pierre Zucca still photographer; Annie Girardot Jean Pierre Kalfon Nella Bielski Brun
Les gauloises bleues Collection of 4 photographs from the 1969 film
Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Les Films 13 1969. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 UK release of the 1969 French film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Produced late in the French New Wave cycle implementing flashbacks and imagined scenarios about a troubled young man who meets a pretty shop girl and the two fall in love and eventually marry. The couple does not get along however and things get worse when the husband reverts back to his criminal ways and gets caught. 8 x 10 inches. Some toning else Near Fine. United Artists / Les Films 13 unknown
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Cowan Lester producer; Victor Wolfson screenwriter
Lucky You Original screenplay for an unproduced film
N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The story of a young girl whose emotionally disturbed mother commits suicide while the family is traveling to Mexico City by train and whose previously estranged oil baron father must then assume her care. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Victor Wolfson. 29 leaves mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
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Crane Terri screenwriter
Yaqui Fox and Mose Original pre-production package and script for an unproduced film
Hollywood: 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. 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. Overall preproduction for the film went as far as it possibly could but for unknown reasons the film was never produced or released. 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
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Crawley FR. producer; Rene Bonniere director; David Walker screenwriter; Jacques Lebrecque Huguette Oligny Genevieve Bujold
Amanita Pestilens Archive of press material and original photographs from the 1963 film and its production company Crawley Films
Ottawa Canada: Crawley Films Limited 1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary "The Man Who Skied Down Everest." "Budge" and his wife Judith founded Crawley Films in 1938 and won the first Canadian film award in 1950. Crawley has been referred to as "the Godfather of Canadian cinema" and rightfully so. Included in the archive are 27 film still photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos several on-the-set images and a few with director Bonniere; a folder containing 25 letters "to salute 25 Years" from various French American British and Canadian film and government associations including former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Eric Johnston president of the Motion Picture Association of America all dated 1963 with reproduced signatures for press purposes; a promotional brochure on the "new and improved" Crawley Films Limited; 2-page press memos 19 on Crawley parchment nearly all flat-signed by the company vice president Graeme Fraser; 3-page press information on the World's Fair in Montreal; French and English film credits sheets; a "how-to" booklet from Crawley discussing the proper ways to produce one's own motion picture housed in printed company envelope; 2-page "facts" on Crawley Films' 25th anniversary; a letter from Fraser to Jean Vinant asking her to be the production company agent; 3-page company property breakdown camera department script department sound stages etc.; several letters to-and-from studio secretary Maryse Martres signed by persons involved with the film including director Bonniere; a 27-page ditto-style mimeograph French version of the script; and various telegrams receipts and synopses relating to the film. The film itself was the first Canadian feature to be shot in both French and English using the same actors the first Canadian film shot in color and an early career appearance for actress Bujold. A man obsessed with his lawn in the suburbs of Montreal has a surprise awakening when mysterious mushrooms start to grow and become impossible to eradicate. He stops at nothing including a deadly confrontation with his neighbor to protect his lawn and his reputation. Shot on location in Quebec. Film still photographs 8 x 9.75 inches most mimeo snipes loose but present and many photographs with tape stains as a result of having been stacked. Letters press material interoffice material and other ephemera varying sizes with most being 8 x 11 inches. Complete collation details available on request. Crawley Films Limited unknown
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Crichton Michael screenwriter
E.C.U." FORMERLY "THE INVESTIGATOR" A SCREENPLAY BY.
Np 1972. 2124 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of a variety of colored papers. Bradbound in stenciled wrappers with title revision in manuscript and title lettered on spine. A "Second revised draft" of this very early original screenplay by Crichton incorporating many leaves of revises spanning the period noted above. The film was released in 1973 as EXTREME CLOSE UP under the direction of Jeannot Szwarc but garnered little notice even under the alternate rerelease title SEX THROUGH A WINDOW. This film was released in the same year as WESTWORLD the other film with a claim to being the first based on a Crichton script; precedence is unknown to this cataloguer. A little known undertaking from early in Crichton's Hollywood career and a much less common script than that for its better known contemporary. unknown
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Crichton Michael screenwriter
HEARTLAND" AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY. a.k.a. "LOOKER"
Los Angeles: Frank Yablans Presentations Inc / 20th Century-Fox 1978. 1151 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically printed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Revised title lettered on upper wrapper and spine else about fine. "First Draft" of this original screenplay eventually brought to the screen in very substantially altered form as LOOKER in 1981 directed by Crichton and starring Albert Finney James Coburn and Susan Day. Frank Yablans Presentations, Inc / 20th Century-Fox unknown
Référence libraire : WRCLIT47079
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Crichton Michael director novel screenwriter; Sean Connery Donald Sutherland Lesley Anne Down Alan Webb starring
The Great Train Robbery Collection of 6 photographs from the 1978 film
Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1978 UK film. Cropping annotations on the versos. Based on director/screenwriter Michael Crichton's 1975 novel about two men and their plot to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. Fans of the heist genre need look no further. A story set in England shot on location in Ireland. 8 x 10 inches. A couple of moderate creases to 1 still else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown
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Crichton Michael Novel; Mike Hodges Director Screenwriter; George Segal Joan Hackett Jill Clayburgh Starring
The Terminal Man
Warner Brothers 1973-01-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Warner Brothers paperback
Référence libraire : DADAX0552091928 ISBN : 0552091928 9780552091923
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Crichton Charles director; Robert L. Joseph screenwriter; Stephen Boyd Jack Hawkins Richard Attenborough Diane Cilento starr
The Third Secret Original screenplay for the 1964 film
N.p.: N.p. 1963. Draft script for the 1964 British film noir. With a few holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and throughout mostly noting deletions. The daughter of a recently deceased psychoanalyst enlists one of her father's former patients an American newscaster in helping her discover the cause of his mysterious death. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated MAY 1963 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT L. JOSEPH. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeographed on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly toned to the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Grant UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
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Crichton Michael screenwriter
E.C.U." FORMERLY "THE INVESTIGATOR" A SCREENPLAY BY.
Np 1972. 2124 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of a variety of colored papers. Bradbound in stenciled wrappers with title revision in manuscript and title lettered on spine. A "Second revised draft" of this very early original screenplay by Crichton incorporating many leaves of revises spanning the period noted above. The film was released in 1973 as EXTREME CLOSE UP under the direction of Jeannot Szwarc but garnered little notice even under the alternate rerelease title SEX THROUGH A WINDOW. This film was released in the same year as WESTWORLD the other film with a claim to being the first based on a Crichton script; precedence is unknown to this cataloguer. A little known undertaking from early in Crichton's Hollywood career and a much less common script than that for its better known contemporary. unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT47693
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Crichton Michael screenwriter
HEARTLAND" AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY. a.k.a. "LOOKER"
Los Angeles: Frank Yablans Presentations Inc / 20th Century-Fox 1978. 1151 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically printed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Revised title lettered on upper wrapper and spine else about fine. "First Draft" of this original screenplay eventually brought to the screen in very substantially altered form as LOOKER in 1981 directed by Crichton and starring Albert Finney James Coburn and Susan Day. Frank Yablans Presentations, Inc / 20th Century-Fox unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT47079
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Cristofer Michael screenwriter
FALLING IN LOVE
Hollywood & New York: Paramount Pictures / Marvin Worth Productions 1983. 1128 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in Studio Duplicating Services binder. Ink name see below small smudge on upper wrapper otherwise near fine. A revised first draft of this original screenplay. Ulu Grosbard directed the 1984 release starring Robert De Niro Meryl Streep Harvey Keitel et al. This was Cristofer's first screenplay to see production following his own 1980 adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play THE SHADOW BOX. This copy bears the ownership signature of Les Lazarowitz credited sound mixer for the production. Paramount Pictures / Marvin Worth Productions unknown
Référence libraire : WRCLIT69213
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Cristofer Michael screenwriter
FALLING IN LOVE
Hollywood & New York: Paramount Pictures / Marvin Worth Productions 1983. 1128 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in Studio Duplicating Services binder. Ink name see below small smudge on upper wrapper otherwise near fine. A revised first draft of this original screenplay. Ulu Grosbard directed the 1984 release starring Robert De Niro Meryl Streep Harvey Keitel et al. This was Cristofer's first screenplay to see production following his own 1980 adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play THE SHADOW BOX. This copy bears the ownership signature of Les Lazarowitz credited sound mixer for the production. Paramount Pictures / Marvin Worth Productions unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT69213
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CROWE, Cameron - Avec la collaboration de Karen Lerner - Préfacé par Thierry Frémaux
Conversations avec Billy Wilder
2004 Editions Institut Lumière / Actes Sud - 2004 - In-4, cartonnage illustré en N&B de l'éditeur - 282 p. - Très nombreuses reproductions photographiques in, hors-texte et pleine page en N&B
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Cromwell John director; Eddie Romero screenwriter; Vince Edwards Carol Ohmart Richard Loo starring
The Scavengers Original photograph from the 1959 film
N.p.: Lynn-Romero Productions 1959. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1959 American-Filipino film. Features Vince Edwards with masking tape obscuring "A Hal Road Production" on the front. A low-budget adventure concerning a reformed smuggler who finds his missing wife in Hong Kong. 8 x 10 inches. Ink notation on the verso and a short scratch on the recto. Lynn-Romero Productions unknown
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Cronenberg David director screenwriter; Paul Hampton Joe Silver Lynn Lowry Allan Kolman Susan Petrie starring
Shivers Collection of three original photographs from the 1975 film
Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation CFDC 1975. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With holograph annotations on the versos. A high-rise apartment building is infected by a parasite that turns its victims into sex-crazed maniacs that can infect with the slightest touch. Shot on location in Montreal Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation Complete. Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC] unknown
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Crowe Cameron screenwriter
ALMOST FAMOUS
Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures 2000. 110 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript bradbound in studio wrappers. Fine. A studio-generated copy of the final version of Cameron Crowe's screenplay given out to members of the Academy for consideration for the award for Best Original Screenplay which it won. Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures unknown
Référence libraire : WRCLIT40393
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Crowe Cameron screenwriter
ALMOST FAMOUS
Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures 2000. 110 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript bradbound in studio wrappers. Fine. A studio-generated copy of the final version of Cameron Crowe's screenplay given out to members of the Academy for consideration for the award for Best Original Screenplay which it won. Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT40393
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Crumley James novel; Lorenzo Semple Jr. screenwriter
One to Count Cadence Original screenplay for an unproduced film
Universal City CA: Becerkamn Productions / Universal 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "One to Count Cadence" written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. based on James Crumley's 1969 first novel a violent Vietnam War tale of friendship and survival. Agency copy with an address label from the Paul Kohner agency in Hollywood on the front wrapper. Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper undated. Title page present undated noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Semple and novelist Crumley. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Becerkamn Productions / Universal unknown
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CS. Forester screenwriter C. S.
Some Kinds of Bad Luck Original studio transcription for an unproduced film
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Carbon typescript studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10 1943. Printed as a studio script in small numbers for internal distribution the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester noted as copy No. 3 on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester. 22 leaves carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown books
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CS. Forester screenwriter C. S.
Some Kinds of Bad Luck Original studio transcription for an unproduced film
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Original studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10 1943. Printed as a mimeograph studio script in small numbers for internal distribution the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester noted as Copy No. 1. Title page present with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester. 22 leaves original typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown books
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Cukor George director; Clemence Dane playwright; Howard Estabrook Harry Wagstaff Gribble screenwriter; Katharine Hepbun John
A Bill of Divorcement Post-production script for the 1957 re-release of the 1932 film
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1957. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1957 re-release of the 1932 film. Based on the 1921 play by Clemence Dane. Katharine Hepburn's debut a role in which she plays the daughter of a mentally ill man whose wife has divorced him and now intends to marry someone else. When Hepburn realizes that the psychiatric problems are likely inherited she breaks from her fiance to ensure the genes are not passed to another generation and stays with her father instead. Tall white titled wrappers dated March 3 1957 noting 4 reels and footage of 6195 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
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Cukor George director; Joseph Strick director; Lawrence Durrell novel; Lawrence B. Marcus screenwriter
Justine Original screenplay for the 1969 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Final Script for the 1969 film. Originally set to be made by maverick director Joseph Strick who actually did some location shooting in Tunisia. However Strick ran into disagreements with Fox executives and was replaced with George Cukor who shot the remainder of the film in Hollywood. Set in Alexandria in 1938 a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine the wife of an Egyptian banker. Darley befriends her and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine. Partially shot on location at Ennejma Ezzahra a palace at Sidi Bou Said in Northern Tunisia. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper and production No. 842 dated July 2 1968. Title page present dated July 2 1968 noted as Final with credit for screenwriter Marcus. 152 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-15-68 and 11-22-68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
Référence libraire : 128881
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Cukor George director; James Costigan screenwriter; Katherine Hepburn Laurence Olivier starring
Love Among the Ruins Original screenplay for the 1975 television film
N.p.: ABC Circle Films 1974. Draft script for the 1975 television film first aired on ABC on March 6 1975. Prominent underlined "29" in holograph pencil on top right of front wrapper. Set in late Edwardian London aging actress Jessica Medicott Katharine Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise and hires her old suitor lawyer Sir Arthur Granville-Jones Laurence Olivier to defend her unaware he is still in love with her. Set in and shot on location in London and Buckinghamsire England. Lavender titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 29 1974 with credits for screenwriter James Costigan. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered "120-123.". Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/2/74. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ABC Circle Films unknown
Référence libraire : 147020
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Cukor George director; Maurice Maeterlinck play; Hugh Whitemore Alfred Hayes Aleksei Kapler screenwriter; Elizabeth Taylor J
The Blue Bird Bluebird Original photograph from the 1976 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film and co-production of the US and the Soviet Union. Based on Maurice Maeterlinck's 1908 play of the same name. In the vein of "The Wizard of Oz" complete with a personified dog cat and various inanimate objects. Two you peasants venture forth on a quest to find the Blue Bird of Happiness and are aided in their quest by a host of unusual creatures. Shot on location in Russia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
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Cukor George director; Clarence S. Bull photographer; Philip Barry play; Donald Ogden Stewart screenwriter; Cary Grant Kathari
The Philadelphia Story Original photograph from the 1940 film
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1940 film. Starring actress Ruth Hussey is seen in action stealthily snapping photographs. Rubber-stamps on the verso crediting "Silver Screen Archives" and photographer Clarence S. Bull. Based on Barry's 1939 eponymous play. A socialite Hepburn with plans to marry is interrupted by her ex-husband Grant and a tabloid photographer Stewart and his partner a female photographer Hussey. Winner of two Academy Awards Best Acto Best Writing and four nominations Outstanding Production Best Director Best Actress Best Supporting Actress. The film has been deemed "culturally historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. 8 x 10 inches double-weight small white border. Short corner creases else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedies. Criterion Collection 901. National Film Registry. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
Référence libraire : 145413
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Cukor George director; Graham Greene novel; Jay Presson screenwriter; Hugh Wheeler screenwriter; Maggie Smith starring
Travels With My Aunt Original screenplay for the 1972 film
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Final Shooting script for the 1972 film. Based on Graham Green's 1969 novel. One of George Cukor's final films described by Roger Ebert as a "sort of art deco journey across Europe on the Istanbul Express" wherein a bank clerk is summoned by his elderly but still youthful aunt to rescue her lover Mr. Visconti who is being held for ransom in the Turkey. Merging the early 1970s with high British culture the film explores marijuana hippies brothels paramours fancy trains gigolos and a preference for journey over destination. Goldenrod titled wrappers dated February 25 1972 with credits for screenwriters Wheeler and Allen and for director Cukor. 109 leaves mechanical duplication. Studio information at the top of the front wrapper has been crossed through in black marker. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
Référence libraire : 143098
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Cummings Irving director; William Anthony McGuire screenwriter; Alice Faye Don Ameche Henry Fonda Edward Arnold Warren Will
Lillian Russell Original photograph from the set of the 1940 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Vintage photograph of director Irving Cummings cinematographer Leon Shamroy and actresses Alice Faye and Helen Westley on the set of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. The life story of the 19th century American musical star. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
Référence libraire : 145329
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Cummings Irving director; Walter Bullock Ken Englund Jacques Thery Philip Wylie screenwriter; Betty Grable Carmen Miranda
Springtime in the Rockies Original screenplay for the 1942 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film musical "Springtime in the Rockies" directed by Irving Cummings based on the screenplay for the 1936 comedy "Second Honeymoon" written for the screen by Walter Bullock Ken Englund Jacques Thery and Philip Wylie and starring Betty Grable Carmen Miranda John Payne Cesar Romero Edward Everett Horton and Harry James. Betty Grable's starring debut remains one the greatest Technicolor musicals produced by Fox in the 1940s making grand use of the "let's move the action from the city to the country" approach employing Harry James and his orchestra at their peak and pulling out all the stops on the musical numbers-with Carmen Miranda's version of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and the debut of the classic song "I Had the Craziest Dream" topping things off. Red titled wrappers stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 763 and copy No. 47 dated June 11 1942 and with the holograph file notation "Env. #1443" at the top right corner. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present with a date matching the front wrapper. 129 leaves with 1 retake page paper-clipped to the rear wrapper mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/13/42 and 7/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Hirschhorn p. 203. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
Référence libraire : 116171
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Cummings Irving director; Ken Englund William R. Lipman Frederick Stephani Edward van Every screenwriter; Betty Grable Robe
Sweet Rosie O'Grady Original photograph from the 1943 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1943 film. A loose remake of the 1937 film "Love is News" with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" finds Betty Grable in London seeking to better herself as an artist which in 1943 means landing a wealthy duke for a husband. But newspaperman Robert Young has other plans for her love life. Remade once more as a comedy in 1948 as "That Wonderful Urge" with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Good with profuse holograph annotations to the verso and three to the recto although not obscuring the image. Stamped to the verso. Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
Référence libraire : 139821
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Cunha Richard director screenwriter; H. E. Barrie screenwriter; Brian Donlevy Andrea Bayard and Elizabeth Howard starring
Girl in Room 13 Thirteen Original Film Pressbook
N.p.: Layton Film Productions 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Brian Donlevy plays a US detective sent to Brazil to find an American woman accused of murder. He finds his target but not before getting sucked into his own brand of crime. Richard Cunha who directed a few minor but pertinent films in 1958 "Frankenstein's Daughter "Missile to the Moon" and "Giant from the Unknown" sets the pace with a television serial-like quality. A solid second feature from the post-noir period. One sheet folded twice as issued 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a small numerical notation at the bottom of the front wrapper and light rubbing overall. Hinged diecut of the door on the front wrapper and issued in color on thick stock characteristics unique amongst pressbooks. Layton Film Productions unknown
Référence libraire : 125415
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Curt Siodmak novel; George Sherman director; Val Guest director screenwriter; John Alton cinematographer
Lady and the Monster / The Day the Earth Caught Fire Original screenplays Forrest J. Ackerman's copy
Universal City CA: Republic Pictures / Pax Films / Universal Pictures 1961. Forrest J. Ackerman's copy of scripts from two key science fiction films bound together including original front wrappers in red buckram with Ackerman's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>"The Lady and the Monster": Shooting script for the 1944 film. The first of three adaptations of Curt Siodmak's classic 1942 novel in which an honest hard-working scientist preserves a dead man's brain only to be remote-controlled by it. Shot by the legendary John Alton at the very peak of his work in the mid-1940s. Yellow front studio wrapper noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT at the top right dated October 13 1943 a penciled notation of the working title "The Lady and the Monster" just below the printed title noted as production No. 1194 and with credits for associate producer George Sherman and Republic Studios at the bottom. Two-page cast of characters with the actors' names added in ribbon copy type just below the character names. Title page present with credits for director Sherman and novelist Siodmak. <br/><br/>94 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue yellow green and pink revision pages leaves dated variously between 10/18/43 and 11/8/43. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine. <br/><br/>"The Day the Earth Caught Fire": An early and apparently abandoned draft by director Val Guest to film his screen story for Pax Films as a five-part British serial. Guest ultimately directed the story as a feature-length movie for Pax one of the most understated and intelligent science fiction films ever made. Light green wrappers both front and rear wrappers present. The front wrapper reads: "A Five Part Serialisation of / THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE / A Val Guest Production." Just below in holograph ink and in what we would assume is Guest's hand is written "Dedicated to Brian Aldiss." We think it likely that the script was gifted to the very connected Ackerman by Guest though the provenance beyond Ackerman's ownership is unknown. <br/><br/>41 pages divided into five parts each beginning with a two-color memo on PAX stationery describing what will happen in the following section. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine. <br/><br/>Buckram binding containing the two scripts is Very Good with some light scuffing and soil. <br/><br/>Martin 413. Republic Pictures / Pax Films / Universal Pictures unknown books
Référence libraire : 122148
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Curt Siodmak screenwriter
For Kings Only Original screenplay for an unproduced film
N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid" discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. <br/><br/>Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" 1941 "I Walked with a Zombie" 1943 and "Donovan's Brain" 1953 and many other science fiction and horror classic. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined modern scientific findings with fictional pseudo-scientific themes. <br/><br/>Set largely at the Paris World Exhibition of 1867 centered on the life of soprano singer Hortense Schneider and famed composer Jacques Offenbach largely describing Schneider's wide-ranging effect on European history based on her affairs with various heads of state. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Curt Siodmak. Title page present with credits for novelist and screenwriter Curt Siodmak. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong bound. N.p. unknown books
Référence libraire : 143499
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Curtis Dan director screenwriter; Robert Marasco novel; Elliott Marks and Wynn Hammer still photographers; William F. Nolan sc
Burnt Offerings Collection of 3 photographs from the 1976 film
Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1976. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1976 release of the 1976 American-Italian film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos of 2 stills and cropping annotations on the versos of 2 stills. Based on Robert Marasco's 1973 novel about a haunted house and the summer caretakers moving in with their young son. 8 x 10 inches. Slight discoloration to 2 stills else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown
Référence libraire : 132852
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Curtis Dan director producer; Richard Matheson screenwriter; Jack Palance Simon Ward Nigel Davenport Pamela Brown starring
Dracula Post-production script for the 1974 film
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1974. Post-production Export script for the 1974 television movie. Represents the full European version screened in the UK upon release. An edited version later screened in the US on television only. Written by noted novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Pink and blue clip-bound titled wrappers noting 10 reels and footage of 8957 feet. Mechanical duplication. Near Fine. 145 leaves. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
Référence libraire : 130712
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Curtis Dan director producer; Herman Wouk screenwriter novel; Robert Mitchum Ali MacGraw Jan Michael Vincent John Houseman
The Winds of War Part VI: The Changing of the Guard Original teleplay script for the 1983 television episode
Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1980. Draft script for the season one episode six of the 1983 television mini-series originally broadcast on February 11 1983 on ABC. The President of the United States asks Pug Henry to lead 70 merchant ships to England in order to deliver much needed supplies at the promise by the president of command of a battleship following the operation. First he heads to Moscow to reunite with an old lover as well as asking the President for help in getting Aaron Jastrow's passport approved. The episode ends with Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union. Mustard titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper dated September 15 1980 with credit for screenwriter Wouk. Title page present dated September 15 1980 noted as Revised with credit for screenwriter Wouk. 130 leaves mechanical duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/18/80 and 9/30/80. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown
Référence libraire : 129375
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Curtis Dan director producer; Herman Wouk screenwriter novel; Robert Mitchum Ali MacGraw Jan Michael Vincent John Houseman
The Winds of War Part IV: Defiance Original teleplay script for the 1983 television episode
Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1980. Draft script for the season one episode four of the 1983 television mini-series originally broadcast February 9 1983 on ABC. As per request of the President Pug Henry visits London to see the efficiency of the RAF and he is very impressed. He meets Pamela Tudsbury and her fiance who is later shot down over the English Channel. At this point the French have surrendered to Germany and the Bombing of London has begun prompting the bombing of Berlin a mission on which Pug Henry is invited and participates in. Tan titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper dated September 15 1980 with credit for screenwriter Wouk. Title page present dated September 15 1980 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Wouk. 119 leaves mechanical duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated between 9-15-80 and 9-29-80. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown
Référence libraire : 129398
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Curtis Bernhardt director; Harry Kleiner screenwriter; Rita Hayworth Jose Ferrer Aldo Ray Russell Collins Diosa Costello Ha
Miss Sadie Thompson Original photograph from the set of the 1953 film
Culver City CA: The Beckworth Corporation 1953. Vintage photograph of script supervisor Frances McDowell actor Aldo Ray and director Curtis Bernhardt on the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe and studio stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Sadie Thompson Rita Hayworth is stranded on a military outpost in American Samoa where the Marines take an interest in her particularly the self righteous and proselytizing Mr. Davidson Jose Ferrer who tries to save Miss Thompson's soul after learning she worked as a bar girl in Hawaii. The film was shot as a 3-D production though by the time of the film's release the frenzy around 3D films had died down and after a two week run the technology was dropped and the film was screened "flat." The story had to be reworked to meet Hays Code standards in its handling of scandalous themes this reworking gave way to the films musical numbers brought in to revive the now tamed down story. The film's "Sadie Thompson's Song Blue Pacific Blues" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Kaua'i Hawaii. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. The Beckworth Corporation unknown books
Référence libraire : 144867
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Curtis Hanson director; Michael Chabon novel; Steve Kloves screenwriter; Michael Douglas Tobey Maguire Frances McDormand Robe
Wonder Boys Original screenplay for the 2000 film
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp Douglas teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh struggles writing his second novel and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university McDormand. Grady's editor Downey Jr. inquires about the novel but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students Maguire as well as having other more intimate intentions. <br/><br/>Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song "Things Have Changed" and the film was nominated for two more. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 1997 with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
Référence libraire : 138625
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