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1954Best.-Nr. 149741N.p.: N.p. 1954. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1954 film. With agency labels on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 166412Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1983. Draft script for the 1983 pornographic film. With annotations in manuscript pencil on the first leaf presumably made by screenwriter-director Phil Prince indicating the name of the actor to be associated with each character. A cult leader called "The Confessor" hears confessions from rape victims "cleanses" the female ones with sex and then arranges for all victims and sometimes himself to then recursively rape their own male or female rapists. IMDB. Title page integral with cast of characters no wrapper as issued undated. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. Avon Productions unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 167724N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for the 1979 film. Script incomplete presumably as issued ending on page 102. A hitchhiker is sent to prison after being wrongly accused of a murder. There he joins an underground boxing tournament organized by corrupt guards in order to win his freedom. Basis for two sequels in 1982 and 1987. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present copyright year noted as 1977 with credit for director and screenwriter Jamaa Fanaka. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a closed tear on the front wrapper repaired with cello tape on the verso. Bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 161590N.p.: N.p. 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1951 film showing actor James Arness in costume as the titular Thing with his stunt double just behind. Annotations in manuscript ink noting the same on the verso. Based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella "Who Goes There" which also served as the basis for John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece "The Thing." US Air Force crew and scientists at an arctic research station accidentally thaw out the still-living body of a humanoid alien which promptly begins to attack them. Set in Anchorage shot on location throughout Los Angeles and in Glacier National Park Montana. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 156298Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Striking vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing James Dean Raymond Massey and Julie Harris in a mournful moment. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for James Dean's lead performance. Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 158480Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage studio still photograph showing actor James Dean posing his then-lover Italian actress Pier Angeli in preparation for a photograph. Warner stamps on the verso. Angeli and Dean enjoyed a passionate romantic relationship after having met on the Warner Brothers film lots in 1954 while Dean was filming "East of Eden" and Angeli was filming "The Silver Chalice." Although Angeli's mother would force her to break up with Dean on the grounds that he was not Catholic Angeli would later say that Dean was "the only man I ever loved deeply as a woman should love a man" and rumors persisted that the couple were secretly in a relationship until Dean's death in September 1955. 8 x 10 inches. Corners slightly creased else about Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 156675London: Merchant Ivory Productions 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Rita Tushingham. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Culture clash ensues when a successful self-absorbed pop musician travels to India to learn to play the sitar from an older renowned sitar musician. Set and shot on location in India. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Merchant Ivory Productions unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 157080Laren NH: Actueel Film NV 1976. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1976 UK film. Included with the photographs is a press sheet specific to the film's release in The Netherlands with text in Dutch. Struggling to finish his second book while experiencing vivid nightmares and increasing paranoia an author rents a cottage in the British countryside and hires an attractive mysterious secretary to help type the manuscript. Shot on location in Essex. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn with pinholes at the corners. Actueel Film NV unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 146172Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes dated February 28 1936 also with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent lifestyle and pay off his debts. When he falls in love with a copper heiress in the process of trying to swindle her he must decide between the wealth and power their marriage would bring him and the social disgrace she would encounter if his prior indiscretions were ever made public. Final shooting script 10-2-35: Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 10-2-35 with credits for screenwriter Allen Rivkin and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/4/35 and 11/2/35. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Revisions and Retakes: Blue partial wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / REVISIONS & RETAKES on the front wrapper dated February 28 1936 with credits for associate producer Edward T. Lowe and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/2/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor quite dry with some cracking and a lower right corner of the front rear wrapper detached bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 169554Paris: Ciné-Revue 1976. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 film both showing Jane Birkin behind a truck stop counter gazing longingly at Joe Dallesandro. Cine-Revue stamps and French release stamps on the versos. A tomboyish waitress develops a crush on a gay garbage truck driver and in spite of all odds they begin a relationship. Serge Gainsbourg's directorial debut. 9.25 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Ciné-Revue unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 169559Rome: Fotografica Pierluigi 1967. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film both showing director Roger Vadim with cast and crew members on the set. Fotografica Pierluigi stamps on the versos along with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest published in the French magazine "V" in 1962 and 1964. Likely the campiest space-opera sex comedy in film history. Though not popular upon its release it was re-released to greater acclaim in 1977 and has since influenced countless fashion designers films and musicians including Duran Duran whose name is a play on that of the main villain. Set in outer space and shot in Rome. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Fotografica Pierluigi unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 154246New York: Filmarte 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing L-R Jean Gabin Gaston Modot Pierre Fresnay Julien Carette Jean Daste and Marcel Dalio. Provenance stamp and library stamps to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown books
1931Best.-Nr. 148495N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and two overlapping National Film Archive stamps on the verso. A key French film noir antecedent based on the 1929 novel by Georges de La Fouchardiere and the 1930 play by Andre Mouezy-Eon. An aspiring painter trapped in an abusive marriage falls in love with a prostitute who scams him out of the money for his paintings with the help of her pimp. The second sound film by Jean Renoir. Remade in 1945 as Scarlet Street directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 818. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 159822Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean Renoir talking with actors Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan on the set of the 1947 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a provenance stamp and the stamp of RKO photographer John Miehls. Renoir's last Hollywood film one of his most impressionistic and artistic efforts. A coast guard officer with post-traumatic stress disorder becomes involved with the beautiful wife of a blind painter. Shot on location in Malibu and Sequit Point California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 170769N.p.: N.p. 1975. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 Belgian film. Based on Maud Frère's 1961 novel "La délice." In the 1950s a young woman struggles to find love after a traumatic past: a sexual assault during the war and the suicide of her father shortly after. Shot on location in Blankenberge Belgium. Approximately 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 169539N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1975 French adult film a rare image showing director and in this case co-star Jean Rollin with script in hand and holding a magnificent pipe. Joining Rollin are actresses Rachel Mhas and Claudia Zante on the set. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A horror-influenced hardcore film about a count who ensnares beautiful women in his castle. The first and only pornographic film in which Rollin was credited under his own name and not a pseudonym. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 1364. Hinds 222. N.p. unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 149588N.p.: Nordia Films 1974. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 erotic horror film. A young woman watching over her cousin's house is mistakenly kidnapped by a crazed sex cult. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. Nordia Films unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 138551Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of Jean Seberg from the 1957 film. An image we have never seen. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 161101Amsterdam: Actueel Film NV 1973. Two vintage oversize photographs from the 1973 film. Both with the stamp of Actueel Film on the versos. A group of Interpol agents investigate the seemingly random killings of drug and pornography traffickers. Director Romain Gary was married to the film's star Jean Seberg at the time of production. Shot on location in Afghanistan in Comunidad Valenciana Murcia and Madrid Spain and in Tunisia. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners repaired with paper tape on the verso. Actueel Film NV unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 142630France: Ulysse Productions 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and manuscript annotations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused of passing fake currency who then tracks down and interviews the counterfeiter in the segment "Le grand escroc" "The Great Swindler" directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Other segments were directed by Claude Chabrol Ugo Gregoretti Hiromichi Horikawa and Roman Polanski. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1339. Ulysse Productions unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 151698N.p.: N.p. 1960. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1960 film one showing director Jean-Luc Godard and a camera crew filming a scene with actor Michel Subor the other showing Godard and cinematographer Raoul Coutard. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. During the Algerian War a French agent is ordered to assassinate a member of the National Liberation Front of Algeria FLN but cannot complete the mission due to his involvement with a pro-FLN woman. Shot in 1960 but not released until 1963 due to a French ban on torture scenes thus Godard's second feature film but fourth to be released. Set in Algeria shot on location in Switzerland. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1010. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 149386N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1967 film with actors Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Leaud and Mireille Darc. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso with celo tape from the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema for a July 5 1968 showing with annotations of actors names in manuscript ink. In one of Godard's most misanthropic films a loveless bourgeois couple Corinne Darc and Roland Yanne fantasize about killing each other when they aren't cheating on the other. They ponder these matters as they take a nearly never-ending nightmarish road trip to visit Corinne's parents intent on securing an inheritance resolved to murder if necessary. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 149967N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four borderless reference photographs one oversize of Jean-Pierre Melville Catherine Deneuve Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set of and on location for the 1972 film. A police detective played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville pictures is on the trail of a gang of thieves unaware that they are led by a friend. Melville's final film. Shot on location in Paris and Bordeaux France. Oversize photo 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Other photos variously from 9 x 7 inches to 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. N.p. unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 147461Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1986. Revised Third Draft script for the 1987 film. INSCRIBED by actor Kristy Swanson on the title page to an unknown crew member. Based on the 1979 Gothic novel by Virginia C. Andrews about the incestuous plight of four unlucky siblings whose mother abandons them in the attic of her family's decaying ancestral home after their father's death in an automobile accident. While Andrews' novel was wildly popular among teenage girl readers of the 1970s and 80s test audiences were revolted by some of the film's more taboo scenes leading producers to heavily re-cut the film and even create a new ending-a decision which Bloom purportedly despised and refused to direct. Partially set in Pennsylvania shot on location in California and Massachusetts. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated April 30 1986 noted as REVISED THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter JEFFREY BLOOM and novelist V.C. ANDREWS. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
