11.046 Ergebnisse
1975Best.-Nr. 153977London: Hemdale International Films 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pete Townshend Keith Moon and John Entwistle performing onstage in the 1975 film. Printed mimeo label affixed to the verso. Based on the 1969 rock opera written by The Who about a deaf dumb and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball and subsequently becomes the idol of a religious cult. The cast included among others every member of The Who Jack Nicholson Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. Shot on location in Cumbria Buckinghamshire and Hampshire England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hemdale International Films unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 149512N.p.: Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinematographiques 1960. Five vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1960 French film including one borderless photograph. One with a manuscript ink annotation and stamp on the verso noting the photograph as No. 756. A dramatization of the Battle of Austerlitz wherein Napoleon enjoyed the greatest victory of his career driving away both Austrian and Russian forces. Set and shot on location in Zagreb Croatia. Four photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches one photograph 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinematographiques unknown
2006Best.-Nr. 171766Culver City CA: N.p. 2006. Fifth Numbered Draft / White Shooting Draft script for the 2007 film. Copy belonging to uncredited senior model maker Greg Jein with their name on a label on the bottom right corner of the cover sheet. Two straight single New York firefighters Chuck and Larry Adam Sandler and Kevin James pretend to be a gay couple to receive domestic partner benefits so Larry a widowed father can provide life insurance for his two children. Featuring Dan Aykroyd Jessica Biel Steve Buscemi and Ving Rhames in supporting roles. Set in and shot on location in Brooklyn New York Los Angeles and Niagara Falls Canada. Front wrapper integral with cover sheet memo noted as 5th Numbered/White Shooting Draft on the front wrapper dated 8/23/06. Title page present dated 8/23/06 noted as 5th Numbered Draft - White Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Barry Fanaro treatment by Lew Gallo revisions by "Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel / Gary Ross / Jon Favreau / Stephen Engel / Peter Tolan / ALexander Payne and Jim Taylor / Adam Sandler Allen Covert and Nick Swardson / Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy / Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel / Adam Sandler Robert Smigel Tim Herlihy and Tom Shadyac" and "Current Revisions" by Adam Sandler Allen Covert and Donna Langley. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with dampstaining to the bottom of the final ten pages bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 132899Paris: Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films 1962. Four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 French film. Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film prefigures stylistically the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Varda was nominated for the Palme d'Or for "Cleo from 5 to 7" her second feature film about a female pop singer whose spends two adventurous and winsome hours on her own and talking to friends while awaiting the results of a biopsy. Set and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Edges lightly toned. Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films unknown
1956Best.-Nr. 150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso. Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr. Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film. Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. Paramount Pictures unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 149647N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Al Goldstein Jody Maxwell and Jim Buckley from the 1975 film. Legendary pornographer and pornography activist Al Goldstein's attempt at bringing his weekly tabloid "Screw" magazine to the cinema a pastiche of sexually explicit shorts. Maxwell appears in the finale a "Tonight Show" like segment the longest segment in the film starring Buckley as host and Goldstein as sidekick. Maxwell starred in the film "Portrait" the year earlier directed by Gerard Damiano famed director of "Deep Throat" 1972 and "The Devil in Miss Jones" 1973. Shot on location in New York City Mount Vernon New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with small staining on mid right and light edgewear. Manuscript ink notation of the number "60" at the bottom margin with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. N.p. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 168995Paris: Apis-Paris 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Romy Schneider on the set of the 1969 film. Photograph with French "APIS" stamps on the verso. A searing erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur where a couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Written by the noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Apis-Paris unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 142089France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. 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 she appears in two of the photographs here than in the actual film. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Arcadie Productions unknown
1974Best.-Nr. 163777N.p.: N.p. 1974. Collection of ten vintage color lobby cards and two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 French film. Housed in the original distributor's envelope. A young woman goes mad after the murder of her lover and is incarcerated in a sexually sadistic convent. Photographs: 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Lobby cards: 11 x 8.75 inches. Near Fine. Envelope: 11.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus lightly foxed and edgeworn. Bier 764. N.p. unknown
1993Best.-Nr. 170168Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1993. Revised Final Draft script for the 1994 film. Loosely based on a 1976 "New Yorker" article by Roger Angell about a baseball scout who discovers a promising new player and successfully negotiates his signing with the Yankees only to realize that the man is emotionally stunted after years of childhood abuse. Shot on location in Zempoala and Veracruz in Mexico in Bracken County Kentucky and in New York. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 12/5/93 noted as FINAL DRAFT and Revised. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/20/93 and 3/15/94. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 135571Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of Anthony Perkins on the set of the 1960 film silhouetted against the Bates Motel. The most sought after image from the known stills produced. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career nominated for 4 Academy awards including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination and a key film in expanding allowable depictions of both violence and sexuality under the eroding Production Code. Selected by the National Film Registry in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1944Best.-Nr. 129341Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1944. Draft script for the 1944 short documentary film. A rare script for an obscure short directed by Hitchcock. Salmon titled wrappers dated February 1 1944. 12 leaves mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated 2-10-44. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three small gray brads. Vanguard Films unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 154401New York: Independent International Pictures Corporation 1975. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1970 German exploitation film. Detective Perrak's investigation into the murder of a transgender woman leads into an underworld of sexual corruption and blackmail. Shot on location in Bendestorf and Hamburg Germany. 11 x 17 inches Bi-fold. Horizontally Folded as issued. Near Fine. Independent International Pictures Corporation unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 146907N.p.: Gloria Productions 1930. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1930 film. Stamps on the verso reading: "Gloria Swanson in 'What a Widow' Directed by Allan Dwan United Artists Picture" and "United Artists Corporation." A young woman inherits a fortune from her late elderly husband and is pursued by several high society suitors. Gloria Swanson's first picture originally filmed with sound and the final film produced by her Gloria Productions studio. Now considered a lost film its trailer is preserved at the Library of Congress and soundtrack is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Set in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Gloria Productions unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 130749Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Safari guide Van Heflin is hired to hunt murderer Abel McCracken in the wilds of Africa but soon finds his guide's motives may go beyond the role for which he was hired. Pink titled wrappers noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper dated September 24 1953. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 147 leaves Multilith duplication with yellow carbon typescript revision pages collected at the end dated variously between 10-3-53 and 10-10-53. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 140631Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1939 film. A musical drama that follows the romantic and professional arc of two performers. Louise Hall abandons her humble beginnings to become a singer in New York City where she meets and falls in love with John Ramsey the star of Victor Herbert's operas. Ramsey takes her under his wing introducing her to New York's musical society. Their relationship is tested however when Louise's career begins to eclipse her husband's. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in California. Titled white self wrappers dated July 11 1939 and July 14 1939. Title page present with credits for the entire cast. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Two small chips to the top margin of the front wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 140234Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. An older rancher is threatened by bandits stealing his cattle. Together with Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid he participates in the Lincoln County War a war against a dry goods monopoly that attempted to control cattle and water supplies as well which had sprung up in the New Mexico territory and led to great bloodshed. Set in New Mexico territory shot on location in California Arizona and New Mexico USA. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Andrew J. Fenady. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mechanical duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between June 25 1969 and November 3 1969. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 165085N.p.: N.p. 1971. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1971 film both showing actress Candy Darling. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. A satire of the women's liberation movement starring Warhol superstars Darling Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn about three New York women who join a militant feminist group Politically Involved Girls P.I.G. in an attempt to find happiness apart from men. The last film to use footage filmed directly by Andy Warhol himself. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with faint discoloration on the center right of the verso. N.p. unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 169567N.p.: N.p. 1972. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 French film. French release stamps on the versos. Based on the 1951 novel by Belgian author Françoise Mallet-Joris who also co-wrote the screenplay with director Guy Casaril. A wealthy lonely 15-year-old girl is seduced by her father's girlfriend a manipulative older woman who hopes to marry the girl's widowed father. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine to Fine. N.p. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 161143N.p.: N.p. 1969. Five vintage reference photographs from the classic 1969 British science fiction film including one borderless and three double weight. A womanizing secret agent uncovers a secret race of beautiful alien superwomen who are kidnapping human women to help repopulate their planet. Shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Jezebel 6. N.p. unknown
1956Best.-Nr. 152105Los Angeles: Alco Pictures 1956. Final script for the 1957 television film. Text divided into three scripts titled "Blessed Event" "Brand New Shoes" and "Decision" bound together in blue card wrappers. Copies belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name to front wrappers and title page and manuscript ink annotations noting his lines throughout. Based on Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel "Black Beauty." A young boy receives a foal from his emotionally distant widowed father as a present on his tenth birthday and soon forms a strong bond with the animal. All screenplays housed together in blue card wrappers bound with a silver prong. "Blessed Event": Yellow wrappers undated with credits for screenwriter Steve Fisher. Title page present undated noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Steve Fisher. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered I-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. "Brand New Shoes": Orange wrappers undated with credits for screenwriter Steve Fisher. Title page present undated noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Steve Fisher. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered II-23. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. "Decision": Blue wrappers undated with credits for screenwriter Steve Fisher. Title page present undated noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Steve Fisher. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered III-28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Alco Pictures unknown
1965Best.-Nr. 146897N.p.: N.p. 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. With a "With Compliments" card from Seven Arts Productions laid in with the script along with a set of three stapled revision pages on pink stock. In order to provide a father figure for her infant son a recently widowed woman attempts to choose between two marital prospects-the grumpy child psychologist for whom she works or her hippie next-door neighbor. Set in Greenwich Village NY. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages laid in dated 21.1.65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 158484N.p.: Advent Films / Union Films 1963. Collection of 14 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 British film. A "naturist" film about a woman who falls in love with a Korean War veteran and decides to join in with his nudist lifestyle. Shot on location in Kent. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus slightly age toned. Advent Films / Union Films unknown
1954Best.-Nr. 131088Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1954. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. The fifth of seven films in the popular "Francis the Talking Mules series all made in the 1950s. Copy belonging to technical advisor Major Lane Carlson with his name in manuscript blue ink on a label affixed to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Carlson acted as a consultant on the military aspects of the film as the film involves Francis joining the Army going to the Pentagon etc. Salmon titled wrappers noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper dated February 9 1954. 157 leaves Multilith duplication with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-17-54 and 4-5-54. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus in a three ring binder used during production. Universal Pictures unknown
1966Best.-Nr. 151319N.p.: N.p. 1966. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1966 film showing Herman's Hermits who appear as fictionalized versions of themselves in the film. A NASA scientist is sent to covertly gather information about Herman's Hermits after the children of US astronauts pick "Herman's Hermits" to be the name of the newest Gemini space capsule. The second US film to feature the British-based band following "When the Boys Meet the Girls" 1965. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
