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Martin Scorsese director; Paul D. Zimmerman screenwriter; Robert De Niro Jerry Lewis and Diahnne Abbott starring
The King of Comedy Original photograph from the 1983 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1982. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1983 film. <br/><br/>In this black-comedy a delusional aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin Robert De Niro stalks and eventually kidnaps his idol a late night talk show host Jerry Langford Jerry Lewis. The fifth film collaboration between De Niro and Scorsese preceded by the classic "Raging Bull." <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in New Jersey and New York. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Bookseller reference : 139511
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Martin Scorsese director; Paul Schrader screenwriter; Robert De Niro Jodie Foster Harvey Keitel Cybill Shepherd Peter Boyle
Taxi Driver Original photograph from the 1976 film
Culver City CA: Mitchell J. Hamilburg Agency / Columbia Pictures 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film. <br/><br/>A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese screenwriter Paul Schrader and actors Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster and one that has only gained significance with the passage of time. Exhibiting elements of both American experimental filmmaking and vanguard European narrative and a perfect example of American neo-noir drawing influences from Bresson Antonioni Godard Hitchcock Lang and Malle. <br/><br/>Set in New York City and shot on location there. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the top margin. <br/><br/><br/>Elsaesser US. Grant US. Hardy BFI Companion to Crime. Spicer US. Silver Classic Noir. Mitchell J. Hamilburg Agency / Columbia Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 139820
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Martin Scorsese director; Paul Schrader screenwriter; Robert De Niro Jodie Foster Harvey Keitel Cybill Shepherd Peter Boyle
Taxi Driver Original press kit for the 1976 film
Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1976. Vintage press kit for the 1976 film. Included in the press kit are 13 vintage black- and-white studio still photographs two pages of photo captions and a 17 page booklet of production information. <br/><br/>A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese screenwriter Paul Schrader and actors Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster and one that has only gained significance with the passage of time. Exhibiting elements of both American experimental filmmaking and vanguard European narrative and a perfect example of American neo-noir drawing influences from Bresson Antonioni Godard Hitchcock Lang and Malle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture. <br/><br/>Set in New York City and shot on location there. <br/><br/>17 pages of production information saddle stapled 8.5 x 11 inches. Two pages of photo captions corner stapled 8.5 x 11 inches. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. All materials Fine housed in a Near Fine studio folder. <br/><br/>Elsaesser Horwath King The Last Great American Picture Show US. Grant US. Hardy BFI Companion to Crime. Spicer US. Silver Classic Noir. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 138168
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Martino Sergio director screenwriter; Cesare Frugoni Luciano Martino Sergio Donati screenwriters; Barbara Bach Claudio Cssi
L'isola degli uomini pesce Island of the Fishmen Screamers Volcano Island Original screenplay for the 1979 film
Italy: Dania Film 1978. Draft script for the 1979 Italian film "L'isola degli uomini pesce" Island of the Fishmen here under the working title "Volcano Island." Rereleased in America in 1980 as "Something Waits in the Dark" and again in 1981 as "Screamers" by Roger Corman's New World Pictures and in 2009 under its directly translated title "Island of the Fishmen" by MYA Communication. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Brief notation in holograph ink on one page. Set in the year 1891 where Claude de Ross Claudio Casssinelli has survived two shipwrecks and washed ashore an uncharted Caribbean island along with some convicts. One by one the convicts meet their fate at the fins of mysterious "fishmen" and Claude just may meet his at the hands of a sadistic inhabitant Edmond Richard Johnson and his wife Bach. Voodoo the lost city of Atlantis and the manuipulation of human genetics all figure in to this exploitation masterpiece. Director Martino would return with a sequel "Queen of the Fishmen" 1995. Untitled green wrappers. Title page present undated. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. MYA Communication 19. Dania Film unknown
Bookseller reference : 138440
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Martino Sergio director screenwriter; Fernando Popoli screenwriter; Susan Player Riccardo Cucciolla Alfredo Pea Hugh Griffi
Loving Cousins High School Girl Original Film Pressbook
New York: Independent-International Pictures 1975. Original Pressbook for the 1976 film first released in Italy 1974. A hint of "Lolita" releases under a few different titles and an eager young face on the celluloid scene Player helped propel this film to its mediocre status both in Italy and the United States. 4 pages plus an ad supplement sheet folded 11 x 17 inches. Black-and-white interior color exterior. A horizontal fold at the middle and a single tiny closed tear else Near Fine. Independent-International Pictures unknown
Bookseller reference : 128129
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Martinson Leslie H. director; John McGreevey screenwriter story writer; Chuck Connors Lori Nelson John Smith starring
Hot Rod Girl Collection of eight original photographs from the 1956 film
Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1956. Collection of eight vintage reference studio still photographs from the 1956 film. Featuring images of tough greasers their cars and their gals. A newcomer in the hot rodding race circuit attempts to goad the star drag racer back onto the track after his brother is killed. Released as a double feature with "Girls in Prison" though slightly less exploitational than made out to be. Set in suburban America shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with mild creasing and pinhole tears at the corners. Complete collation details available on request. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
Bookseller reference : 145753
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Marton Andrew director; Allen Rivkin screenwriter; Ronald Reagan starring
Prisoner of War Original Pressbook for the 1954 film
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1954. Original pressbook for the 1954 film where the future president of the United States plays Web Sloane an Army officer who parachutes behind enemy lines to investigate the condition of US soldiers in North Korean POW camps. 12.5 x 17 inches. Seven pages saddle stitched. Very Good. Horizontal fold with light soil and small dampstain to the left edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
Bookseller reference : 137334
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Mary Astor Edward G. Robinson starring; Roy Del Ruth director; Robert Lord screenwriter
The Little Giant Little Giant Original photograph from the 1933 film
Burbank CA: First National Pictures / Warner Brothers 1933. Vvintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1933 film. With a typewritten snipe affixed to the verso as issued. <br/><br/>Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. First National Pictures / Warner Brothers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 131639
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Mary Ellen Bute director screenwriter; James Joyce novel; Romana Javitz Mary Manning Ted Nemeth screenwriter; Martin J. Kelle
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Original screenplay for the 1966 film
Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell with his holograph annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. <br/><br/>Mary Ellen Bute's final film and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband Ted Nemeth were longtime collaborators and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965 it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York City and Dublin. <br/><br/>Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 4 1963 and December 3 1962 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute Romana Javitz and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding. Expanding Cinema unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140604
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Mary Shelley subject; Ivan Passer director; Lewis John Carlino screenwriter; Anne Edwards novel; Philip Anglim Laura Dern Alic
Haunted Summer Original screenplay for the 1988 film
N.p.: N.p. 1985. Second Draft script for the 1988 film. Based on Anne Edwards' 1972 novel recreating the infamous summer of 1816 in which Lord Byron Mary and Percy Shelley and Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont spend the summer at Byron's villa a vacation which quickly dissolves into copious laudanum use sex and psychological manipulation. Set at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva shot on location in Rome and Lombardia Italy. White untitled Creative Artists Agency wrappers. Title page present dated April 9 1985 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter LEWIS JOHN CARLINO and book credits to Anne Edwards. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
Bookseller reference : 147134
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Maslansky Paul director; Tim Kelly screenwriter; Marki Bey Robert Quarry Don Pedro Colley starring
Sugar Hill Two original photographs from the 1974 film
N.p.: American International Pictures AIP 1974. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Snipe printed on the verso of each image. A 1974 blaxploitation zombie film produced on a $350000 budget starring Marki Bey Robert Quarry and Don Pedro Colley. The film follows Sugar Hill a young voodoo priestess who with the help of a voodoo queen raises a hoard of zombies to exact revenge on the gang that murdered Sugar's boyfriend. Shot on location in Houston Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Stamps to the verso else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
Bookseller reference : 140397
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Masters Quentin director; Jackie Collins novel screenwriter; Dave Humphries Christopher Stagg screenwriters; Joan Collins Ol
The Stud Original British poster for the 1978 film
England: Artoc Films 1978. Original British quad poster for the 1978 British film. Distributed by Brent Walker Film Distributors. Distributor annotations on the verso in holograph pencil. Based on Jackie Collins' 1969 novel. Fontaine Joan Collins is a nymphomaniac and wife of a boring man. She hires a stud Tobias to manage her nightclub and her sexual desires. The stud would rather spend time with Fontaine's daughter who uses him to get revenge on Fontaine for cheating her father. Rated "X" in the UK. 30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with a few short tears a few tape ghosts. Scarce. Artoc Films unknown
Bookseller reference : 139938
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Mastroianni Armand director; Scott Parker screenwriter; Don Scardino Caitlin O'Heaney Elizabeth Kemp Tom Rolfing Lewis Arlt
He Knows You're Alone The Uninvited Original screenplay for the 1980 film
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1979. Second Draft script for the 1980 film here under the working title "The Uninvited". An early slasher film about a killer who stalks and kills brides-to-be and whoever else he encounters in his pursuit of them. Shot on location in New York City. Black titled studio duplicating service wrappers. Title page present dated October 13 1979 noted as second Draft with credits for screenwriter Scott Parker. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Carol J. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
Bookseller reference : 145623
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MAT
La jungle pour rire
in 12 carré broché, couverture illustrée en ouleurs, 14 pages illustrées en couleurs plus la couverture de MAT. Les éditions de l’Ame Française sans date. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 11277
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Mate Rudolph director; Andrew Solt screenwriter; Mario Lanza Johanna von Koczian Kurt Kasznar Hans Sonker starring
For the First Time Collection of 5 photographs from the 1959 film
London: National Screen Service / MGM 1959. Collection of 5 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1959 UK release of the 1959 American-German film. A sentimental musical featuring Mario Lanza the great tenor singer and considered among his best roles his last film. 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing and a few faint creases overall else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Hirschhorn p. 365. National Screen Service / MGM unknown
Bookseller reference : 132671
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Mate Rudolph director; James Edward Grant screenwriter; Charlton Heston Anne Baxter Gilbert Roland Tom Tryon starring
Three Violent People Original poster for the 1956 film
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1956 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso as well as a rubber stamp for the Capitol Theatre in Kamsack Saskatchewan Canada. Capt. Colt Saunders Heston returns to Texas from the Civil War to find his land wanted by carpetbaggers and his town controlled by corrupt Yankees. Shot on location in Arizona. 27 x 41 inches folded. Very Good plus with a few small chips tears and stains. Pitts 4373. Paramount Pictures unknown
Bookseller reference : 138529
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Matt Lipsey director; Richard Lumsden Chris Niel screenwriter; Kelly Reilly Greg Wise Tony Gardner starring
Complete archive of scripts for Wonderful You Eleven original screenplays for all seven episodes of the 1999 television miniseries
Cardiff Wales: Hartswood Films 1998. An archive of 11 scripts for the complete 7 episode British television miniseries "Wonderful You." Copies belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly with her holograph name and annotations throughout in highlighter and ink. Included in the listing are Archive also includes 20 pages of call sheets and shooting schedules with Kelly's holograph annotations. <br/><br/>Almost certainly begun as an attempt to at least in part mimic the early success of the long-running sitcom "Friends" "Wonderful You" follows a group of thirty-something aged friends in London as they navigate their convoluted interpersonal relationships. Unlike "Friends" however in which all the main characters start out as single and slowly acquire partners "Wonderful You" contains a number of different states of romantic relationships right from the beginning including a few single people a successful couple in a long term relationship a gay couple and an unhappily married couple with a young son. Though "Friends" may be considered one of the more successful sitcoms of the late 1990s and certainly one of the longest-running "Wonderful You" instead makes a much more succinct and arguably much less saccharine statement about the nature of relationships themselves. Shot on location in London. <br/><br/>Scripts all housed in tall white self wrappers as issued some unbound sheets and some prong bound. One script then further housed in a red spring binder. All have credits for screenwriters Niel and Lumsden. Title page integral with the front wrappers. Mechanical duplication some with pink blue or yellow revision pages. Very Good plus condition or better. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available upon request. Hartswood Films unknown books
Bookseller reference : 135856
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Matthew Robbins director screenwriter; Hal Barwood screenwriters; Mark Hamill Annie Potts Eugene Roche starring
Corvette Summer Stingray Original screenplay for the 1978 film
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Stingray."<br/><br/>A teenage boy Mark Hamill heads to Las Vegas determined to track down his high school shop class' stolen project car a tricked-out Corvette. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in southern California and Nevada. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 506 dated March 4 1977 with credits for director Matthew Robbins and screenwriter Hal Barwood. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 3-14-77 and 9-2-77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Bookseller reference : 151600
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Matthew Robbins director; Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins screenwriter; Peter MacNicol Caitlin Clarke and Ralph Richardson sta
Dragonslayer Original photograph from the 1981 film
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the American release of the 1981 film. Snipe affixed to the image. <br/><br/>Peter MacNicol best known for his role in the Academy Award winning drama "Sophie's Choice" plays a young magician apprentice faced with stopping a ferocious dragon. The film was notable for its advanced visual effects even receiving two Academy Award nominations. Cinematographer Derek Vanlit shot the seminal science fiction classic "Alien" two years earlier. <br/><br/>Set in a 16th century kingdom shot in various locations across the UK. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 139433
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Matthiessen Peter author; Hector Babenco director screenwriter; Jean Claude Carriere Vincent Patrick screenwriters; Tom Beren
At Play in the Fields of the Lord Original screenplay for the 1991 film
Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown
Bookseller reference : 141322
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Maugham W. Somerset novel; Edmund Goulding director; Catherine Turney screenwriter; Paul Henreid Eleanor Parker Alexis Smith
Of Human Bondage Original screenplay for the 1946 film script editor's copy
Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1944. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1946 film. Copy belonging to the film's editor Clarence Kolster with his name in holograph pencil on the first revision page and annotations throughout mostly noting cut or completed scenes. Actress Bette Davis' name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil though Davis was the lead role in the earlier 1934 John Cromwell version. This second film version of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel stars Paul Henreid as a clubfooted medical student. Eleanor Parker is Mildred the vulgar cockney waitress adored by Philip Carey Henreid. The subject matter of Maugham's novel exploring how sexual obsession can lead to ruin was missing in the 1946 version thanks to studio censors and Alexis Smith who played the second female lead said the remake should never have been produced. Orange titled wrappers noted as 2nd REV FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 40 dated June 22 1944. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/22/44 with a credit for screenwriter Turney. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 219 several pages omitted. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/12/44 and 8/29/44. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with an archival repair to a long tear in the front wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
Bookseller reference : 134788
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Maugham W. Somerset novel; Edmund Goulding director; Catherine Turney screenwriter; Eleanor Parker Paul Henreid Alexis Smith
Of Human Bondage Original screenplay for the 1946 film presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith
Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves all featuring Smith and costar Paul Henreid. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel about a forlorn artist in France who gives up the trade to become a doctor. Philip Cary Henreid the artist meets Mildred Rogers Eleanor Parker a waitress and becomes dreadfully infatuated in spite of the waitress' complete disregard for him. Eventually the waitress' charms wane and Cary reconnects with a beautiful young writer Nora Nesbitt Smith and their romance flourishes-until Mildred Rogers returns pregnant and in need. First adapted to film in 1934 directed by John Cromwell and starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis the novel was also adaptated in 1964 by Ken Hughes starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey and has been adapted several times for television. Brown full sheepskin boards with gilt titles. Distribution page present receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/22/44 with credits for screenwriter Turney. 179 leaves including black and white publicity photos bound in mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 8/12/44 and 8/29/44. Very Good. Warner Brothers unknown
Bookseller reference : 131507
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Maugham W. Somerset sourcework and Lester Cohen screenwriter
Pictorial Advertising Sheet for: OF HUMAN BONDAGE
Np: RKO 1934. Single pictorial sheet 31 x 23 cm printed recto and verso in color. Very nice. A highly pictorial studio promotional for the 1934 film adaptation of Maugham's novel based on a screenplay by Lester Cohen. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis starred under the direction of John Cromwell. The format suggests this may be an insert from an RKO Exhibitor's manual. RKO unknown
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT76334
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Maugham W. Somerset source work: Swerling Jo screenwriter
THE PAINTED VEIL
Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures 1947. 1116 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers with label upper wrapper in duplicate. Title of later remake lettered on spine otherwise very good to near fine. A composite script with later stamp denoting it a Vault Copy of this unproduced adaptation of Maugham's novel comprised of pages dated variously through August September and October. In 1934 MGM released John Meehan's adaptation starring Greta Garbo and were evidently exploring the possibility of a remake of the popular property. Swerling was a solid writer to bring to the task having worked recently on LIFEBOAT IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN and other significant titles. But for whatever reason the project did not come to fruition and the film based on this script was not made. MGM returned again to Maugham's novel in 1957 and released an adaptation by Karl Tunberg under the title THE SEVENTH SIN. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures unknown
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Maugham W. Somerset source work: Swerling Jo screenwriter
THE PAINTED VEIL
Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures 1947. 1116 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers with label upper wrapper in duplicate. Title of later remake lettered on spine otherwise very good to near fine. A composite script with later stamp denoting it a Vault Copy of this unproduced adaptation of Maugham's novel comprised of pages dated variously through August September and October. In 1934 MGM released John Meehan's adaptation starring Greta Garbo and were evidently exploring the possibility of a remake of the popular property. Swerling was a solid writer to bring to the task having worked recently on LIFEBOAT IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN and other significant titles. But for whatever reason the project did not come to fruition and the film based on this script was not made. MGM returned again to Maugham's novel in 1957 and released an adaptation by Karl Tunberg under the title THE SEVENTH SIN. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT61188
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Maugham W. Somerset sourcework and Lester Cohen screenwriter
Pictorial Advertising Sheet for: OF HUMAN BONDAGE
Np: RKO 1934. Single pictorial sheet 31 x 23 cm printed recto and verso in color. Very nice. A highly pictorial studio promotional for the 1934 film adaptation of Maugham's novel based on a screenplay by Lester Cohen. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis starred under the direction of John Cromwell. The format suggests this may be an insert from an RKO Exhibitor's manual. RKO unknown books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT76334
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Maurice Cazeneuve director screenwriter; Paul Guimard Henri Francois Rey screenwriters; P. Apoteker still photographer; Mylene
Night Heat Cette nuit la Collection of 71 original keybook contact sheets from the 1958 film
Paris: Cinedis 1958. Collection of 71 vintage single weight keybook contact sheets amounting to over 800 numbered images from the 1958 French film. Much of the film is represented in minute detail along with test shots set design shots and many candid moments from the set. Dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors Demongeot answering telephones and in heated embraces with several sheets capturing a formal dinner with the cast and crew presumably the film's premiere. Most with 12 images per sheet a few with 6-frame strips of 35mm film each image with a series number and all sheets credit at the top the photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Cinedis film title and photographer Apoteker. Housed in a red paper 2-ring binder with French titles printed on the front. Several with brief numerical annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Noirish crime thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. <br/><br/>Photos 8.25 x 10.25 inches a few slightly variant sizes hole-punched and two with square cuts. Very Good plus overall with curling and light foxing creases to the binder. Cinedis unknown books
Bookseller reference : 144082
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Maurice Cazeneuve director screenwriter; Paul Guimard Henri Francois Rey screenwriters; Mylene Demongeot Maurice Ronet Jean
Night Heat Cette nuit la photograph from the set of the 1958 film featuring Mylene Demongeot
Paris: Francoise Pages 1958. Vintage black-and-white photograph from the set of the 1958 film "Night Heat" here under the original French title "Cette nuit la." Featured is actress Mylene Demongeot with costar Maurice Ronet. <br/><br/>With over 70 films to her credit Demongeot 1935- began acting in the early 1950s her first film being Leonide Moguy's "Children of Love" 1953. Notable films would follow including Raymond Rouleau's "The Crucible" 1957 Otto Preminger's "Bonjour Tristesse" 1958 Marc Allegret's "Be Beautiful But Shut Up" 1958 Andre Hunebelle's "Fantomas" 1964 and several Marc Simenon films in the 1970s and 1980s a director she was married to for over thirty years. <br/><br/>3.25 x 4.25 inches small white borders "298H" rubberstamp on versos: 182. Very Good plus with curling and slight discoloration overall. Francoise Pages unknown books
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Maurice Delbez director screenwriter; Robert Sabatier novel; Jean Cosmos screenwriter; Madeline Robinson Rene Lefevre Serge N
Un gosse de la butte Original double weight photograph from the 1964 film
Paris: Les Films de Mai 1964. Vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the 1964 French film. Featuring an image of two men boxing in front of a couple onlookers. <br/><br/>A woman Madeline Robinson begins a relationship with a West Indian boxer Rene Lefevre twenty years her junior who wins the admiration of her young son until neighborhood drama forces the two apart. <br/><br/>Set in Paris and shot there on location. <br/><br/>8 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Les Films de Mai unknown books
Bookseller reference : 139875
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Maurice Elvey director; John Chapman screenwriter; Ronald Shiner Brian Rix Peggy Mount Lee Patterson starring
Dry Rot Original photograph from the 1956 film
London: Independent Film Distributors / British Lion 1956. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1956 UK film. <br/><br/>A well-received farce about a couple of dim-witted bookmakers who decide to fix a horse race. <br/><br/>8 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus withand light stains and creases. Independent Film Distributors / British Lion unknown books
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Maurice Geraghty director screenwriter; George Montgomery Paual Corday Berry Kroeger starring
The Sword of Monte Cristo Original photograph from the 1951 film
London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1952 UK release of the 1951 US film. <br/><br/>In 1858 France Emperor Napoleon sends military officers to Normandy in search of a group of rebels. They encounter a masked cavalier and his companions including an heiress to the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and a hint of rubbing. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Bookseller reference : 132396
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Maurice Phillips director screenwriter; AJ. Tipping James Whaley screenwriters; Elizabeth Perkins Judge Reinhold Jeffrey Jon
Enid Is Sleeping Original screenplay for the 1990 film
Los Angeles: Davis Entertainment 1988. First Draft script for the 1990 film. <br/><br/>After accidentally killing her sister Enid a young woman and her lover Enid's husband Harry attempt to conceal the crime from local law enforcement. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location throughout New Mexico. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated 11/30/88 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for director and screenwriter Maurice Phillips and screenwriters A.J. Tipping and James Whaley. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Davis Entertainment unknown books
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Maurice Pialat director screenwriter; William Karel Luc Roux still photographers; Cathreine Breillat Sylvie Danton Jacques F
Police Original photograph of Maurice Pialat from the set of the 1985 film
N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Maurice Pialat on the set of the 1985 film. <br/><br/>Brutish and jaded police detective Louis Mangin Gerard Depardieu in one of his strongest performances investigates a Tunisian drug gang and begins to fall for the girlfriend Sophie Marceau of one of the criminals. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris France. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Olive Films 1326. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
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Maurice Tourneur director; Harley Granville Barker Laurence Housman play; Charles Maigne screenwriter; Isabel Berwin Nora Ceci
Prunella Original photograph from the 1918 film
N.p.: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation 1918. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1918 film. Based on Harley Granville-Barker and Laurence Housman's 1906 play "Prunella or Love in a Dutch Garden."<br/><br/>A delightful romantic fantasy now almost entirely lost in which Margierite Clark plays a young woman living in a garden with her three aunts completely shielded from the exterior world. One day a troupe of traveling players arrives in town and Clark runs off with Pierrot their leader. In the still we see Clark perched upon the edge of a fountain as Jules Raucourt Pirrot leans in and whispers in her ear. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A stamp to the verso else Near Fine. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140323
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Mauro Bolognini director; Pier Paolo Pasolini novel screenwriter; Jacques Laurent Bost screenwriter; Rosanna Schiaffino Elsa M
The Big Night La notte brava Original photograph from the 1959 film
Rome: Union Photos 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 Italian film showing actress Elsa Martinelli. With the stamps of Union Photos and Atlantic Press on the verso.<br/><br/>Loosely based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 novel "Ragazzi di vita" following three amoral young men as they make their way through Rome's seedy criminal underworld. The third collaboration between director Mauro Bolognini and screenwriter Pasolini who would of course go on to become a great and arguably better-known filmmaker in his own right preceded by "Marisa" 1957 and "Giovani mariti" 1958 and followed by "Bell' Antonio" 1960 and "From a Roman Balcony" 1960.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome.<br/><br/>7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Union Photos unknown books
Bookseller reference : 149576
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Maury Dexter director; Harry Spalding screenwriter; Kent Taylor Marie Windsor William Mims and Betty Beall starring
The Day Mars Invaded Earth Original screenplay for the 1963 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. First Draft script for the 1963 film. <br/><br/>A nuanced "invasion from Mars" film that borrows cleverly from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" aliens use human beings as physical hosts and Val Lewton threat of a creature but creature is only implied not shown. An unusually heavy emphasis on dread atmosphere and characterization makes this one of the most overlooked "adult" science fiction films of the 1960s. <br/><br/>Black three-ring binder noted as "DAY MARS INVADED EARTH" on the front wrapper with a credit for screenwriter Spalding as "Spaulding". Title page present with the title "SPACERAID 63" with a credit for screenwriter Spalding production No. 6277 dated June 22 1962. 96 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 6/28/62. Pages Near Fine with a few small creases binder wrapper Near Fine with a bit of wrinkling to the front title label. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Bookseller reference : 126547
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Max Linder director screenwriter starring; Alta Allen Caroline Rankin Lincoln Stedman starring
Be My Wife Original promotional photograph from the 1921 film promoting the film's April 1922 run at Los Angeles' California Theatre
Los Angeles: Max Linder Productions 1922. Vintage borderless promotional reference photograph of Max Linder from the 1921 film promoting the film's run at Los Angeles' California Theatre in April 1922. An image which if it had been seen by David Lynch seems likely to have been inspirational to his experimental 1977 film "Eraserhead."<br/><br/>Max Linder the onscreen persona of French actor director screenwriter producer and comedian Gabriel Leuvielle was one of the first recognizable recurring characters in motion pictures frequently cited as the first international movie star. Max is determined to woo Mary despite Aunt Agatha's objections and competing suitor Simon.<br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Max Linder Productions unknown books
Bookseller reference : 151906
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Max Nosseck director; Philip Yordan screenwriter; Edmund Lowe Anne Jeffreys Eduardo Ciannelli Lawrence Tierney starring
Dillinger Original program for the 1945 film
New York: Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures 1945. Original program for the 1945 film. Features ad layouts side-by-side comparison of Lawrence Tierney and the real John Dillinger and various headline suggestions. <br/><br/>Dillinger Tierney robs a store meets fellow gangster Specs Lowe in jail and continues his heists once freed from prison this time with a moll named Helen Jeffreys who eventually rats him out to the Fuzz. <br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award. Director Nosseck made good use of stock footage from previous gangster films. <br/><br/>Illustrated wrappers saddle-stapled. 16 leaves. Very Good with light foxing faint bruising and a vertical fold at the center. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Okuda 440. Selby US. Spicer US. Stephens pp. 85-86. Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 135327
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Max Ophuls director screenwriter; Jacques Natanson screenwriter; Guy de Maupassant stories; Claude Dauphin Jean Galland Gaby
Le Plaisir House of Pleasure Original photograph from the 1952 French film
Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 French anthology film showing actors Jean Galland Paul Azais and Gaby Bruyere who appear in the episode "Le Masque." With holograph pencil annotations on the verso.<br/><br/>Based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: "Le Masque" 1889 "La Maison Tellier" 1881 and "Le Modele" 1883. An exploration of pleasure and its repercussions.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris and Calvados France<br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with a light diagonal crease to the bottom right corner. Columbia Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 149568
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Max Ophuls director screenwriter; Jacques Natanson screenwriter; Guy de Maupassant stories; Claude Dauphin Jean Galland Gaby
Le Plaisir House of Pleasure Original photograph of Max Ophuls and Jean Gabin on the set of the 1952 French film
Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1952 French anthology film showing director Max Ophuls with a camera crew filming a scene with actor Jean Gabin who appears in the episode "La Maison Tellier." <br/><br/>Based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: "Le Masque" 1889 "La Maison Tellier" 1881 and "Le Modele" 1883. An exploration of pleasure and its repercussions.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris and Calvados France<br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 149919
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Max Ophuls director screenwriter; Jacques Natanson screenwriter; Guy de Maupassant stories; Claude Dauphin Jean Galland Gaby
Le Plaisir Original photograph of Max Ophuls on the set of the 1952 film
N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Max Ophuls on the set of the 1952 film. With a few small holograph pencil annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: "Le Masque" 1889 "La Maison Tellier" 1881 and "Le Modele" 1883. An exploration of pleasure and its repercussions.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris and Calvados France <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 151429
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Max Ophuls director screenwriter; Louise de Vilmorin novel Marcel Achard Annette Wademant screenwriters; Charles Boyer Danie
Madame De. The Earrings of Madame De. Original film still of Charles Boyer from the 1953 film
Paris: Franco London Films 1953. Vintage film still photograph of Charles Boyer as "General Andre de." in the 1953 French-Italian film. In the film he wears a mustache not so in this image and likely this session occurred just before or after filming was complete. <br/><br/>Based on de Vilmorin's 1951 novel. Generally considered to be Max Ophuls' masterpiece the third of four acclaimed films he made after his return to France in 1950 and a 1950s masterpiece. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Black-and-White Rosine Delamare and Georges Annenkov. <br/><br/>11.5 x 14.75 inches small white border double weight full-color printed on Agfa photo paper. Very Good with moderate rubbing and curling a few short tears and creases.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection. Ebert II. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franco London Films unknown books
Bookseller reference : 144522
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Max Pecas director; Claude Mulot screenwriter; Sandra Julien starring
I Am a Nymphomaniac Je Suis un Nymphomane Collection of three original photographs from the 1971 French film
N.p.: N.p. 1971. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 French sexploitation film. <br/><br/>A provincial French woman falls down an elevator shaft and survives but finds herself uncontrollably addicted to sex following the incident. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly rubbed. <br/><br/><br/>Bier p. 562. N.p. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 151283
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Maxim Gorky novel; Vsevolod Pudovkin director Nathan Zarkhi screenwriter Vera Baranovskaya Nikolai Batalov Aleksandr Chistya
Mother Original Program for the 1926 silent film
Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film in Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy" followed by "The End of St. Petersburg" 1927 and "Storm Over Asia" 1928 and a key film in the development of montage techniques in film although in contrast to his colleague Eisenstein Pudovkin tended to use montage to capture individual character rather than mass movements. <br/><br/>Six pages in self wrappers. Holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Presenting as Very Good with light chipping and a few short closed tears. Disbound binding repaired with cello tape. Mezhrabpom-Rus unknown books
Bookseller reference : 141367
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Maximilian Schell Jacqueline Bisset starring; Armenia Balducci director screenwriter; Ennio De Concini screenwriter;
Together Amo non amo Original screenplay for the 1979 film
Rome: Compagnia Europea Cinematografica 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film here under its Italian title "Amo Non Amo." Text in English. <br/><br/>A young divorcee moves to a resort town on the outskirts of Rome and attempts to start a new life with her son with a new career and a new boyfriend but finds that her life has not particularly improved. Director Armenia Balducci's film debut.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome. <br/><br/>Yellow textured untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Armenia BALDUCCI and screenwriter Ennio De CONCINI. 217 leaves with last page of text numbered 215. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining to the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. Compagnia Europea Cinematografica unknown books
Bookseller reference : 146514
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Maxine Herman screenwriter
Blue Heaven Original screenplay for an unproduced film
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1988. Third Draft for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Mike is an unruly teenage boy who gets sent to a psychiatric hospital after being charged with stealing a car. <br/> <br/>Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 4 1988 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter Maxine Herman.125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
Bookseller reference : 144294
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May Elaine director; Neil Simon screenwriter; Stephen Wever still photographer; Charles Grodin Cybill Shepherd Eddie Albert s
The Heartbreak Kid Collection of 8 photographs from the 1972 film
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Collection of 8 vintage color still photographs from the 1972 film. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
Bookseller reference : 137470
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Mayer Gerald director; Emmet Lavery screenwriter; Mary Elizabeth Vroman story writer; Dorothy Dandridge Harry Belafonte starri
Bright Road Set of 4 lobby cards for the 1953 film
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road" based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. Notable for its nearly all-black cast "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. 14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
Bookseller reference : 134790
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Mayer Ken screenwriter
Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah Original screenplay for an unproduced film 1979
North Hollywood: N.p. 1979. First Draft for an unproduced film. Occasional holograph annotations throughout. Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah is a young man from rural California who has spent his whole life on his family's small farm. Now an orphan he sets out for Hollywood where he faces a whole new reality. He also possesses a complicated gift he refers to as "The Evil Eye" which arouses females human and-non human alike. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 18 1979 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Ken Mayer. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with one gold brads. N.p. unknown
Bookseller reference : 144295
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Mayes Wendell screenwriter; Charles Bronson starring
A Small Adventure Original screenplay for an unproduced film
Los Angeles: Mark VII 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With two pages stapled to front wrapper one a note from Paul Kohner and the other a synopsis stating how the script is being resubmitted and how Charles Bronson is being considered for the starring role. With a single page of annotations in holograph pencil. Screenwriter Wendell Mayes is known for a number of successful films made between 1957 and 1982 notably "The Spirit of St. Louis" 1957 "Anatomy of a Murder" 1959 "Advise and Consent" 1962 "The Poseidon Adventure" 1972 and "Death Wish" 1974. A rugged truck driver has had enough of his alcoholic wife and he leaves her to drive his truck into the great wide open. There he finds a boy who he hopes to reunite with his long-lost dog and a schoolteacher who has a crush on the trucker and an interest in repatriating the boy back to Mexico so that he can be reunited with his dog. In the end the trucker heads home to his wife and finds her in their favorite bar right at the moment Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. White titled wrappers dated January 5 1977 with credits for screenwriter Mayes. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Mayes. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Mark VII unknown
Bookseller reference : 140753
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