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2000ref. 163706Los Angeles: Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment 2000. Draft script for the 2001 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with two manuscript leaves bound in after the title page listing special effects and audio elements of the film and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the script underlining the same. Loosely based on Guy Elmes' 1957 film "Across the Bridge" based in turn on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene. After he is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel for flagging a transaction as illegal an investment banker decides to swap identities with a fast-talking con man. Set in New York Texas and Mexico and shot on location in New York City Los Angeles CA and Needles CA. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 2/17/00 with credit for director and screenwriter George Gallo. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication rectos only with a single white revision page dated 2/18/00. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment unknown books
1953ref. 161400N.p.: N.p. 1953. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1953 film with rainbow revisions. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 short story "Miss Thompson" wherein a Christian missionary makes the salvation of a Hawaiian nightclub singer his personal project. Set and shot on location in Kauai Hawaii. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present dated March 31 1953 noted as THIRD REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Harry Kleiner. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow pink teal goldenrod and white revision pages throughout dated variously between April 3 1953 and June 5 1953. Pages Near FIne binding Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 161406Los Angeles: RKO Studios Inc 1951. Revised Final Draft script for the 1951 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages each with an RKO stamp on the versos and four with a mimeo snipe on the versos. Original wrapper bound in with the manuscript ink annotation of Wald's name on the top right as well as six pink revision pages of an "Optional Ending" following the script. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Remake of the 1942 French film "Le volle bleu" direced by Jean Stelli and starring Gaby Morlay and Elvire Popesco. Jane Wyman stars as a WWI war widow who after loosing her only child spends her life as a children's nurse. Bound in light green cloth with dark green quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page integral with title page with receipt removed dated April 9 1951 noted as REVISED FINAL SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Norman Corwin and story credit for Francois Campaux. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered "143-146." Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/51 and 5/25/51. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with light rubbing and edgewear. RKO Studios, Inc unknown books
1947ref. 156254Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1947. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. Based on the 1941 short story "He Looked Like Murder" by Cornell Woolrich about a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with moderate edgewear and age toning. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 147899Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1963. Vintage studio still photograph of Sterling Holloway from the 1963 film. Stanley Kramer's outrageous comedy about a massive group of strangers fighting over hidden treasure with one of largest unrivaled ensemble of players including Spencer Tracy Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Phil Silvers Jonathan Winters and many many others. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for five others including Best Cinematography. Shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 692. United Artists unknown books
1951ref. 162338N.p.: N.p. 1951. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film including three showing Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron and one showing a dejected Kelly with four military officers. Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm." Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light age toning on a few margins. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 152838Los Angeles: ZIV Television Programs 1954. Final Master script for the 1954 television episode. Script supervisor's copy with their manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the front wrapper and virtually every page. A farm girl hides her brother from the police when he is framed for murder. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL MASTER SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 13 1954 with credits for screenwriter Leonard St. Clair and story credits to Stephen Crane. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4/26/54. Wrapper and pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown books
1985ref. 160776Buenos Aires: Aries Film International 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 film here under the working title "The Fine White Line" with manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the rectos and/or versos of 36 pages regarding dialogue and character motivation with three pages with annotated post-its regarding wardrobe attached to the versos. Script preceded by a two page "Character Notes." An undercover DEA agent played by John Schneider has infiltrated South America's largest cocaine cartel and is ordered by the organization's kingpin to assassinate a journalist running for president. One of ten films produced by Roger Corman in Argentina during the 1980s. Set in Bolivia shot on location in Argentina and Mexico. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 2/16/85 noted as FINAL DRAFT - revised with credits for screenwriter Steven M. Krauzer and story by David Vinas and Hector Olivera. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only with goldenrod revision pages throughout dated 3/12/85. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Aries Film International unknown books
1971ref. 153809N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage script for an unproduced musical. Manuscript ink annotations to the title page adding the address of composer Fred Spielman. A musical comedy based on the 1819 short story by Washington Irving apparently never produced. Light green titled wrappers. Title page present undated with lyrics credits to Kermit Goell book credits to Goell and Janice Torre and music credits to Fred Spielman. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-34. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 147011N.p.: N.p. 1968. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. An elite team of beautiful highly educated young women work in tandem with an international hotel chain to provide services for guests upon request-whether that be a dining date private hostess tennis partner interpreter or whatever "the busy traveler far away from home" needs. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present dated 3/29/68 with credits for screenwriter MARCIA BORIE and story credits to CHARLES BRONSON. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 160936Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film. Based on the 1923 short story "My Old Man" by Ernest Hemingway. John Garfield stars as a crooked washed-up expatriate jockey on the run from a racketeer for not throwing a race while trying to redeem himself for the sake of his son. Remade in 1979 as the CBS television film "My Old Man" directed by John Erman and starring Kristy McNichol and Warren Oates. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1961ref. 160411N.p.: Europ-Films 1961. Vintage French poster for the 1961 Hungarian film seen here under the French title "Les cignognes s'envolent a l'aube." Based on a true love affair between a Hungarian doctor and a Russian girl during World War II. A man recalls through flashback the parting words of a woman "I'll Come Back." Director Mihaly Szemes' best-known film winner of a Silver Prize at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival 1961. Shot on location in Hungary. 22.5 x 30 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Europ-Films unknown books
1948ref. 160687London: The Rank Organization 1948. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1948 British film showing the film's famous and impressionistic "ballet sequence." Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all five with stamps of The Rank Organisation on the versos. Loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen following an up-and-coming prima ballerina whose personal life is strained by her ballet master's obsessive demand that she devote herself entirely to her career. Michael Powell's tenth collaboration with his longtime partner Emeric Pressburger a critical success and worthy successor to their 1947 Technicolor classic "Black Narcissus." Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus some with light toning. Criterion Collection 44. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 41. The Rank Organization unknown books
ref. 147046N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "99." A young man who learns he was born out of wedlock is driven to succeed in life to prove himself greater than his sullied heritage eventually becoming a prizewinning bullfighter. But his success comes at the expense of his friends and family whom he drives further and further away as he grows famous. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter PETER PACKER and story credits to REGINALD LEBORG. Title page present with credits for screenwriter PETER PACKER and story credits to REGINALD LEBORG. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 152256N.p.: N.p. 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotations on the front wrapper noting the title and "First Draft" as well as annotations to the bottom right corner of the title page noting "first draft" and the name of screenwriter Johnny Crawford. Note that this script bears no relationship at all to the "Predator" action film series that began in the 1980s. Housed in a white envelope with manuscript ink annotations noting the title date and draft and crediting Crawford and story writer Ernest Haycox. Based on the 1948 story "Dead-Man Trail" by Ernest Haycox. A man carrying a large shipment of gold dust tries to shake bandits off his trail on his way from California to The Dalles Oregon. Blue card wrappers. Title page present dated December 1966 with credits for screenwriter Johnny Crawford and story credits to Ernest Haycox. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1939ref. 152229N.p.: N.p. 1939. Treatment script for the 1939 film here under the working title "The Investors." With manuscript ink annotations on the title page and throughout noting substantive and editorial revisions. Based on the 1925 short story "The Investors" by Edgar Wallace. Elderly Mr. Reeder Will Fyffe investigates the mysterious disappearances of 27 people involved in shady financial dealings. The second Wallace adaptation directed by Jack Raymond and featuring Will Fyffe and Kay Walsh preceded by "The Mind of Mr. Reeder" in 1939. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Richard Starr and story credits to Edgar Wallace. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly edgeworn with soil to the first ten leaves bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2008ref. 160458Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 2008. Vintage program for the 2008 film. Based on the 1922 short story by F. Scott Fizgerald. David Fincher's melancholic and surprisingly heart-warming saga of the life of a man Brad Pitt who is born old and ages in reverse and the woman who he was always destined to love Daisy Cate Blanchett. Featuring remarkable visual effects deftly executed by Fincher. Winner of three Academy Awards nominated for ten others including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. 5.5 x 8.5 inches side-stapled 4 leaves. Near Fine Criterion Collection 476. Warner Brothers unknown books
1948ref. 158992Buckinghamshire: London Film 1948. Two vintage reference photographs of director Carol Reed on the set of the 1948 British film one showing Reed with a camera crew on location and the other showing Reed between takes with actors Ralph Richardson and Bobby Henrey. Both photographs with printed mimeo snipes affixed the versos one with the stamp of photographer Leslie Baker on the verso and one with a studio stamp incorrectly crediting Anthony Asquith's 1948 film "The Winslow Boy." Based on Graham Greene's 1936 short story "The Basement Room" about a diplomat's son who comes to suspect that his family's beloved butler has committed a murder. Shot on location in London. One photograph 9.75 x 8 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 357. Grant UK. Penzler 101. Selby UK Masterwork. Spicer UK. London Film unknown books
1964ref. 158812Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. One vintage studio still photograph and one vintage reference photograph from a 1964 re-release of the 1953 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1950 short story "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" by Paul Gallico. A young girl takes up a job at a carnival in a puppet act unaware that the puppeteer is in love with her. Nominated for six Academy Awards and the Palm D'or. Set in provincial France. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with one photograph missing a chip along the left edge. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1939ref. 159033Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe newspaper clipping and stamps relating to the photograph's use in an evening news broadcast on the verso. The troubled son of a missing war hero runs into trouble with authority while attending Culver Military Academy. His father's sudden reappearance changes both of the pair's erratic behavior. Nathaniel West's first film credit at Universal Studios. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with evidence of touch-ups on the recto. Universal Pictures unknown books
1986ref. 158427N.p.: Twentieth Century-Fox 1986. Eight vintage glossy Italian Photobusta posters for the 1986 film. Based on the 1957 short story by George Langelaan. Remake of the 1958 film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Al Hedison Patricia Owens and Vincent Price. Director David Cronenberg's classic remake wherein eccentric inventor Seth Brundle Jeff Goldblum begins to undergo unexpected and horrific mutatio when a common house fly slips into his newly invented teleportation device. Winner of an Academy Award. 26.25 x 18.25 inches. Near Fine overall. Carlson Destroy All Movies. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1956ref. 159575London: British Film Institute BFI 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film. With a stamp from the National Film Archive on the verso. Based on the 1906 short story by H.G. Wells. A man is haunted by a supernatural door that keeps reappearing to him leading to a seemingly perfect other world. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. British Film Institute [BFI] unknown books
1951ref. 160083Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1951. Four items consisting of two vintage studio still photographs and two vintage reference photographs all from the 1951 film. Based on the 1877 story "The Sire de Malétroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A wealthy gentleman seeks revenge on his brother for marrying his childhood sweetheart who subsequently died giving birth to their child. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus one photograph with a small tear at the left edge. One photograph Poor with a tide mark at the bottom edge. Weldon 1983. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1939ref. 160372N.p.: Walter Wanger Productions 1939. Vintage color promotional flyer for the 1939 film with a theater stamp on the verso for "Roxy Theatre / Argyle Minn / Oct. 29-30 / Mat. Sun." circa 1939. The bi-fold flyer features a one-color pink "It's a Date!" recto with Ann Sheridan and a full color interior spread featuring Sheridan film stills and illustrations with an unprinted verso for a theater's information as found here with the Roxy Theatre's stamp. Based on the short story "Echoes That Old Refrain" by Corey Ford published in The Saturday Evening Post May 29 1937. Sheridan stars as a divorced glamour girl who returns to her college for the annual Winter Carnival and falls in love with an old boyfriend Richard Carlson now a tweedy professor. Set in and shot on location at Dartmouth College New Hampshire. 6 x 6.75 inches Bi-fold. Faint toning and light creasing on the verso else Near Fine. Walter Wanger Productions unknown books
1955ref. 160373Vienna: Metropolverlages 1955. Vintage Austrian program for the 1954 film here under the German release title "Die Faust im Nacken." Text in German. Terry Malloy Brando who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny Lee J. Cobb witnesses a murder at the hands of Johnny's men. After meeting the victim's sister Eva Marie Saint Malloy confesses he feels culpable for the murder and is persuaded to implicate the dock racketeers by Father Barry Karl Malden. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominated for another four. Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City. 6.5 x 9.5 inches Bi-fold. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Metropolverlages unknown books
