1995Best.-Nr. 146338London: Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment 1995. Four shooting scripts for the 1996 television film first aired in four parts on BBC on November 13 1997 complete in four volumes. With two typed leaves detailing the proposed cast list laid in. Several scripts missing pages as noted below likely as used or issued. Based on the 1993 crime novel. An author sets out to write a book about Olive Martin a young woman convicted of brutally killing her mother and sister and subsequently sentenced to life in prison. As the author delves deeper into the details of the crime she begins to uncover a conspiracy and is gradually persuaded of Olive's innocence. Set in the UK. Housed in a generic blue folder with a manuscript ink notation from screenwriter Reg Gadney on the front flap. Part One: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 25th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 58 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8.9.95 and 28.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Part Two: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 25th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8.9.95 and 20.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with rusting to the binding and the front wrapper partially detached with silver prong binding. Part Three: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 30th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 13.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Part Four: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 31st AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 13.9.95 and 28.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment unknown
1995Best.-Nr. 146338London: Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment 1995. Four shooting scripts for the 1996 television film first aired in four parts on BBC on November 13 1997 complete in four volumes. With two typed leaves detailing the proposed cast list laid in. Several scripts missing pages as noted below likely as used or issued. Based on the 1993 crime novel. An author sets out to write a book about Olive Martin a young woman convicted of brutally killing her mother and sister and subsequently sentenced to life in prison. As the author delves deeper into the details of the crime she begins to uncover a conspiracy and is gradually persuaded of Olive's innocence. Set in the UK. Housed in a generic blue folder with a manuscript ink notation from screenwriter Reg Gadney on the front flap. Part One: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 25th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 58 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8.9.95 and 28.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Part Two: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 25th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8.9.95 and 20.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with rusting to the binding and the front wrapper partially detached with silver prong binding. Part Three: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 30th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 13.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Part Four: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 31st AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 13.9.95 and 28.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 141309Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Revised First Draft script for the 1977 film. Bobby Peter Fonda is a struggling musician who gets a chance to showcase some of his songs to country star Garland Dupree Callahan. The country star steals Bobby's best song "Outlaw Blues" and makes it a hit. Receiving no credit Bobby confronts Garland and when Garland is found shot dead shortly afterward Bobby becomes the prime suspect. Only Garland's back-up singer Tina Waters James believes Bobby's innocence. Together they hit the road looking for the killer. Fonda did his own singing in the film. Shot on location in Texas. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 21 1976 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Norton and producer Steve Tisch as well as Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller representatives of the production company. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 141309Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Revised First Draft script for the 1977 film. Bobby Peter Fonda is a struggling musician who gets a chance to showcase some of his songs to country star Garland Dupree Callahan. The country star steals Bobby's best song "Outlaw Blues" and makes it a hit. Receiving no credit Bobby confronts Garland and when Garland is found shot dead shortly afterward Bobby becomes the prime suspect. Only Garland's back-up singer Tina Waters James believes Bobby's innocence. Together they hit the road looking for the killer. Fonda did his own singing in the film. Shot on location in Texas. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 21 1976 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Norton and producer Steve Tisch as well as Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller representatives of the production company. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 140811Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film. Anouk Aimee walks down a Rome street toward the camera while director Sydney Lumet and crew look on. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Lumet was nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes for the film about a man who becomes suspicious that his new wife is really a high priced escort. Set and shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 140811Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film. Anouk Aimee walks down a Rome street toward the camera while director Sydney Lumet and crew look on. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Lumet was nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes for the film about a man who becomes suspicious that his new wife is really a high priced escort. Set and shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 144355France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Vintage borderless photograph of Sylvia Kristel from the 1975 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgangers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arcadie Productions unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 144355France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Vintage borderless photograph of Sylvia Kristel from the 1975 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgangers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arcadie Productions unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 162514N.p.: Rialto International Film Releasing 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of Brenda Denaut from the 1962 film. With a subhead reading "Starring the City of New York and a cast of New Faces from its stages." Notable for starring a young Taylor Mead. Director screenwriter and star Raymond Phelan best known as cinematographer for sexploitation impresario Doris Wishman originally began making "Too Young Too Immoral!" in 1957 about a brother reflecting on the tragically short life of his murdered addict brother. This early version was titled "Rebels Die Young." Unable to find distribution Phelan added what turned out to be some of the earliest known sexploitation scenes filmed in the US. It starred Brenda Denaut subject of this photograph the mother of Roseanne Patricia David and Alexis Arquette. as well as Andy Warhol mainstay Taylor Mead in his first film role. It wouldn't be until five years later after sexploitation films began to gain traction with US distributors that Phelan was able to get the film booked at the Rialto Theatre on Broadway. It played for four months there before getting limited US distribution. It re-emerged in 2017 when it was screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Featuring some of the most striking footage of New York City found in the late 1950s. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rialto International Film Releasing unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 162514N.p.: Rialto International Film Releasing 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of Brenda Denaut from the 1962 film. With a subhead reading "Starring the City of New York and a cast of New Faces from its stages." Notable for starring a young Taylor Mead. Director screenwriter and star Raymond Phelan best known as cinematographer for sexploitation impresario Doris Wishman originally began making "Too Young Too Immoral!" in 1957 about a brother reflecting on the tragically short life of his murdered addict brother. This early version was titled "Rebels Die Young." Unable to find distribution Phelan added what turned out to be some of the earliest known sexploitation scenes filmed in the US. It starred Brenda Denaut subject of this photograph the mother of Roseanne Patricia David and Alexis Arquette. as well as Andy Warhol mainstay Taylor Mead in his first film role. It wouldn't be until five years later after sexploitation films began to gain traction with US distributors that Phelan was able to get the film booked at the Rialto Theatre on Broadway. It played for four months there before getting limited US distribution. It re-emerged in 2017 when it was screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Featuring some of the most striking footage of New York City found in the late 1950s. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rialto International Film Releasing unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 142336London: Jack Parsons 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. Title page present dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Jack Parsons unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 142336London: Jack Parsons 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. Title page present dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Jack Parsons unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 147689Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash" with "Those Were the Days" written in manuscript pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Missing one page likely as used or issued. Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha William Holden Bonita Granville reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met. Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. Self wrappers front wrapper dated October 23 1939 rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 147689Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash" with "Those Were the Days" written in manuscript pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Missing one page likely as used or issued. Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha William Holden Bonita Granville reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met. Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. Self wrappers front wrapper dated October 23 1939 rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 151216Sherman Oaks CA: The New Ingot Company 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on April 24 on Turner Network Television. A dramatization of the life of noted twentieth century photographer Margaret Bourke-White best remembered as the first Western photographer permitted to take photographs of Soviet industry in the 1930s. Shot on location in Lafourche Parish Louisiana. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 9 1988 noted as Revised Turner Preproduction Draft with credits for screenwriters Marjorie David and Vicki Goldberg. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The New Ingot Company unknown
1988Best.-Nr. 151216Sherman Oaks CA: The New Ingot Company 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on April 24 on Turner Network Television. A dramatization of the life of noted twentieth century photographer Margaret Bourke-White best remembered as the first Western photographer permitted to take photographs of Soviet industry in the 1930s. Shot on location in Lafourche Parish Louisiana. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 9 1988 noted as Revised Turner Preproduction Draft with credits for screenwriters Marjorie David and Vicki Goldberg. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The New Ingot Company unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 137137Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 137137Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 139681Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. 34 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1947 film. Printed snipes on the versos. From the collection of actor Van Heflin who played Timothy Haslam in the film in his personal tabbed file folder. Based on Goudge's 1944 novel "Green Dolphin Country." Love interest upon love interest gathers in the English Channel and New Zealand in the 19th century with Donna Reed Lana Turner Edmund Gwenn and Richard Hart "having a go of it." Van Heflin plays a carpenter who kills a man for love's sake and flees. Winner of an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches some slightly varied in size. Near Fine overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1947Best.-Nr. 139681Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. 34 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1947 film. Printed snipes on the versos. From the collection of actor Van Heflin who played Timothy Haslam in the film in his personal tabbed file folder. Based on Goudge's 1944 novel "Green Dolphin Country." Love interest upon love interest gathers in the English Channel and New Zealand in the 19th century with Donna Reed Lana Turner Edmund Gwenn and Richard Hart "having a go of it." Van Heflin plays a carpenter who kills a man for love's sake and flees. Winner of an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches some slightly varied in size. Near Fine overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 172431Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Based on a July 1955 Reader's Digest article "Gangsters in the Dress Business" by Lester Velie. Gangsters hired to union-bust for a garment company continue to gravely injure and kill union organizers and people in the company who question their presence. Shot on location in Los Angeles CA and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Six photographs Very Good plus to Near Fine one photograph Very Good with a loss at the top right corner and chips from the right edge. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1957Best.-Nr. 172431Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Based on a July 1955 Reader's Digest article "Gangsters in the Dress Business" by Lester Velie. Gangsters hired to union-bust for a garment company continue to gravely injure and kill union organizers and people in the company who question their presence. Shot on location in Los Angeles CA and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Six photographs Very Good plus to Near Fine one photograph Very Good with a loss at the top right corner and chips from the right edge. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 137795Rome: Ultra Film S. p. A. 1974. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1973 Italian film" Baciamo le mani" here under the English title "The Family." Released internationally as "I Kiss the Hand" "Family Killer" and "Kiss My Hand" and re-released in the US as "Sin City Confidential." Brief annotations in manuscript ink on the first page noting the role of Luca played by Spiros Focas and on a few other pages. Rubber-stamped on the title page as an Ultra Film production however Aquila Cinematografica would receive final credit. Based on Schiraldi's 1972 titular novel. Stefano Ferrante Joshua Sinclair the son of a Mafia boss Kennedy is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone Saxon because he refused to sell a piece of land. Eventually Ardizzone becomes the new Don and the prior is soon killed by some indifferent construction workers. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Schiraldo and translator Denis Hall. 208 leaves with last page of text numbered 207. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Ultra Film S. p. A. unknown
1974Best.-Nr. 137795Rome: Ultra Film S. p. A. 1974. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1973 Italian film" Baciamo le mani" here under the English title "The Family." Released internationally as "I Kiss the Hand" "Family Killer" and "Kiss My Hand" and re-released in the US as "Sin City Confidential." Brief annotations in manuscript ink on the first page noting the role of Luca played by Spiros Focas and on a few other pages. Rubber-stamped on the title page as an Ultra Film production however Aquila Cinematografica would receive final credit. Based on Schiraldi's 1972 titular novel. Stefano Ferrante Joshua Sinclair the son of a Mafia boss Kennedy is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone Saxon because he refused to sell a piece of land. Eventually Ardizzone becomes the new Don and the prior is soon killed by some indifferent construction workers. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Schiraldo and translator Denis Hall. 208 leaves with last page of text numbered 207. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Ultra Film S. p. A. unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 137314Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / Seven Arts 1964. Collection of 13 studio photographs from the 1964 film. The third of three feature films adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey following the 1934 film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis and the 1946 film starring Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker. Set in London and filmed by MGM British Studios at Ardmore Studios in County Wicklow Ireland. 10 x 8 inches 25 x 20. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Seven Arts unknown
