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1982Best.-Nr. 160696N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage color publicity photograph from the 1983 film showing actress Carrie Fisher frolicking in the ocean in her iconic gold bikini. Note that the "crown" watermark is digital and not present on the photograph itself. The third in a trilogy of films that started a multibillion dollar media empire pun intended which now includes ten additional live action films animated shows novels comic books video games and tons of officially licensed merchandise with no signs of slowing down. Winner of six Academy Awards nominated for four more including Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness. Set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and shot on location in California Arizona Mexico Guatemala Tunisia and the UK. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 137880N.p.: ITC Entertainment 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow with a star-studded cast including Richard Harris Martin Sheen and producer Carlo Ponti's wife Sophia Loren. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for director Cosmatos and screenwriter Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with a green Vello binding. ITC Entertainment unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 137880N.p.: ITC Entertainment 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow with a star-studded cast including Richard Harris Martin Sheen and producer Carlo Ponti's wife Sophia Loren. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for director Cosmatos and screenwriter Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with a green Vello binding. ITC Entertainment unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 167495London: Reader's Digest Films 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 British film seen here under the working title "Sarah." Sketch in manuscript pencil likely of a set design on the verso of the colophon page. A dramatization of the storied and frequently scandalous life of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location throughout England in London Didcot and Buckinghamshire. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated June 26 1975 noted as Revised Second Draft with copy No. 32 noted in manuscript ink with credit for screenwriter Ruth Wolff. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Reader's Digest Films unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 167495London: Reader's Digest Films 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 British film seen here under the working title "Sarah." Sketch in manuscript pencil likely of a set design on the verso of the colophon page. A dramatization of the storied and frequently scandalous life of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location throughout England in London Didcot and Buckinghamshire. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated June 26 1975 noted as Revised Second Draft with copy No. 32 noted in manuscript ink with credit for screenwriter Ruth Wolff. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Reader's Digest Films unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 129268Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Final Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 novel by Roderick Thorp about a brooding detective who becomes embroiled in a case that uncovers a deep vein of police corruption within the department. Frank Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas a box office success. One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to include explicit depictions of the lives of gay men including the violence suffered by the gay community due to the indifference of the police. In 1979 Thorp wrote a sequel to "The Detective" entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" adapted in 1988 as "Die Hard." Although Sinatra had contractual rights to star in the sequel he wisely turned it down due to his age and action movie history-and Bruce Willis' career-were made. Set in New York and shot on location in New York and in California. Light blue titled wrappers noted as Final and production No. 116 on the front wrapper dated August 17 1967. Title page present dated August 17 1967 noted as Final with credits for screenwriter Abby Mann and writer Roderick Thorp. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 129268Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Final Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 novel by Roderick Thorp about a brooding detective who becomes embroiled in a case that uncovers a deep vein of police corruption within the department. Frank Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas a box office success. One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to include explicit depictions of the lives of gay men including the violence suffered by the gay community due to the indifference of the police. In 1979 Thorp wrote a sequel to "The Detective" entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" adapted in 1988 as "Die Hard." Although Sinatra had contractual rights to star in the sequel he wisely turned it down due to his age and action movie history-and Bruce Willis' career-were made. Set in New York and shot on location in New York and in California. Light blue titled wrappers noted as Final and production No. 116 on the front wrapper dated August 17 1967. Title page present dated August 17 1967 noted as Final with credits for screenwriter Abby Mann and writer Roderick Thorp. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 130511London: The Rank Organization 1957. Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noir A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain but represented as Mexico "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's short story bringing more specifics to the author's intentionally empirical outline. Steiger plays a crooked businessman on the run who steals a man's passport in order to hide out in Mexico only to discover that the passport belongs to a wanted political assassin. 30 x 40 inches. Near Fine. Phillips US. Spicer US. The Rank Organization unknown
1957Best.-Nr. 130511London: The Rank Organization 1957. Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noir A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain but represented as Mexico "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's short story bringing more specifics to the author's intentionally empirical outline. Steiger plays a crooked businessman on the run who steals a man's passport in order to hide out in Mexico only to discover that the passport belongs to a wanted political assassin. 30 x 40 inches. Near Fine. Phillips US. Spicer US. The Rank Organization unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 146434Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1980. Revised Final Draft for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper. One of Steve Martin's earliest and most bizarre critical successes and along with "The Singing Detective" 1986 the work for which the late Dennis Potter is best remembered. Potter's trademark dark sensibilities permeate the film's mood punctuated by wildly complex choreographed musical numbers. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in Illinois. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 27 dated October 22 1980 with credits for director Herbert D. Ross and screenwriter Dennis Potter. Title page present dated 10/22/80 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Dennis Potter. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 146434Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1980. Revised Final Draft for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name in manuscript pencil annotation on the front wrapper. One of Steve Martin's earliest and most bizarre critical successes and along with "The Singing Detective" 1986 the work for which the late Dennis Potter is best remembered. Potter's trademark dark sensibilities permeate the film's mood punctuated by wildly complex choreographed musical numbers. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in Illinois. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 27 dated October 22 1980 with credits for director Herbert D. Ross and screenwriter Dennis Potter. Title page present dated 10/22/80 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Dennis Potter. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 154904N.p.: Dore Productions 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 musical film. Considered the first nudie musical about a nightclub singer and a comedian who are drawn into the world of nudism through their girlfriends. Two pages bi-fold. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine. Dore Productions unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 154904N.p.: Dore Productions 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 musical film. Considered the first nudie musical about a nightclub singer and a comedian who are drawn into the world of nudism through their girlfriends. Two pages bi-fold. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine. Dore Productions unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 153203Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1953. Five vintage reference photographs of flying saucer or other special effects from the classic 1953 science fiction film. Based on the 1898 novel by H.G. Wells. The first feature film adaptation. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for two more. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037. Paramount Pictures unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 153203Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1953. Five vintage reference photographs of flying saucer or other special effects from the classic 1953 science fiction film. Based on the 1898 novel by H.G. Wells. The first feature film adaptation. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for two more. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout. Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout. Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 156925Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Revised Estimating script for the 1969 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Frank O'Rourke. A genre-bending film combining a heist feature and a comedy Western in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. Tan titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 99 dated August 1 1968. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated August 1 1968 with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph on yellow stock with pink Confidential page and white distribution page bound in at the front. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Pitts 1631. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 152375N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1969 film showing Kim Novak topless mid-costume change aided by two wardrobe ladies. Based on the 1961 novel. A genre-bending film combining heist comedy and Western genres in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 152375N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1969 film showing Kim Novak topless mid-costume change aided by two wardrobe ladies. Based on the 1961 novel. A genre-bending film combining heist comedy and Western genres in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 156925Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Revised Estimating script for the 1969 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Frank O'Rourke. A genre-bending film combining a heist feature and a comedy Western in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. Tan titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 99 dated August 1 1968. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated August 1 1968 with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph on yellow stock with pink Confidential page and white distribution page bound in at the front. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Pitts 1631. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
