1973réf. 150485N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film four showing actors Dani Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Leaud and one showing director François Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title "Nuit Americain" on the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. A couple lightly edgeworn else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown
1943réf. 157113Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Final script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name on the front wrapper and his notations throughout. A propagandistic musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 42 dated November 25 1942 with credits for screenwriter Delmer Daves. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the front wrapper. X leaves with last page of text numbered X. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/21/42 and 1/4/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1985réf. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown
1975réf. 166433N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1976 blaxploitation film here under the working title "Adventures of Jesse Crowder II: Journey to Nowhere." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Henchman" with marker annotations of his name copy number "12" and date "1-9-76" on the front wrapper. Script with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on twenty pages and with manuscript marker annotations of page numbers throughout. Bound in preceding the script is a two page cast contact sheet and a five page schedule dated January 13 1976. The second of four Jesse Crowder films starring Fred Williamson and the first film made by Williamson's production company "Po' Boy Productions." Preceded by "Death Journey" 1976 and followed by "Blind Rage" 1978. Ex-cop turned private detective Jesse Crowder is on the hunt for a fugitive named Woolf and his girlfriend Candy until he runs into trouble with Candy's pimp Bernie and his gang. Set in and shot on location in Venice Mill Valley Newport Beach and Santa Monica California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 with credits for screenwriter Fred Williamson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 85. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. N.p. unknown
1936réf. 132489Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie considered one of his finest efforts and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others brought to Hollywood from Germany beginning in the early 1930s. 6.75 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine quite bright with a coupe of tiny closed tears and light creasing to the top edge. National Film Registry. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Precursor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1971réf. 167650N.p.: N.p. 1971. Five vintage oversize borderless color reference photographs from the 1971 film. A disillusioned museum curator unexpectedly finds romance with a gregarious parking lot attendant. The sixth feature film directed by John Cassavetes and the fourth of eleven films Cassavetes made with his wife actress Gena Rowlands. Set and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1951réf. 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
1956réf. 161713N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 13 of the 1956 television series seen here under the working title "The Thayer Girls." The short-lived series followed the students and professors of the US Military Academy at West Point in New York. In this episode a group of socialites visit the academy to attend a dance. Originally aired on December 28 1956. Beige wrappers with a title label affixed to the front wrapper dated October 2 1956 with credit for screenwriter Gene Roddenberry. 44 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Mimeograph duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1956réf. 161712Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs 1956. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 1956 television series seen here under the working title "The Operator." Script supervisor Larry Lund's working copy with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his extensive annotations throughout in manuscript pencil. The short-lived series followed the students and professors of the US Military Academy at West Point in New York. In this episode two cadets-one an overachiever the other a rule-breaker-must cooperate and learn from each other. Originally aired on October 12 1956 on CBS. Beige titled wrappers dated April 25 1956 noted as production No. 3B with credit for screenwriter Gene Roddenberry. 44 leaves with last page of text numbered 42A. Mimeograph duplication on blue stock rectos only with two yellow revision pages dated 5/18/56. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown
1956réf. 161711N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 10 of the 1956 television series seen here under the working title "Water Main." Laid in with the script is a four-page carbon typescript reader's analysis of the script. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast or crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink throughout. The short-lived series followed the students and professors of the US Military Academy at West Point in New York. In this episode a cadet is tasked with proving himself academically after pulling several disruptive stunts. Originally aired on December 7 1956 on CBS. Beige wrappers with a title label affixed to the front wrapper with credit for screenwriter Gene Roddenberry. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Mimeograph duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1956réf. 161714N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 19 of the 1956 television series. Working copy belonging to editor Bob Seiter with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his extensive annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Laid in with the script are seven annotated revision pages six carbon typescript and one mimeograph and nine manuscript pages on yellow lined paper. The short-lived series followed the students and professors of the US Military Academy at West Point in New York. In this episode a fearful cadet is sent on a jet flight with an experienced pilot. Originally aired on February 8 1957. Beige titled wrappers dated December 18 1956 with credit for screenwriter Gene Roddenberry. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeograph duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1977réf. 166312N.p.: N.p. 1977. Rainbow Revision Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri. Bound in with the script is a Typed Letter Signed on custom letterhead for the film addressed to Dimitri from Wilder's secretary Kate Kovacs dated February 22 1977. Also bound in with the script are five revision pages. The script also appears to have been used by actor Sal Viscuso with his annotations in manuscript ink on pages 80-A and 81. A parody of 1920s silent film and actors particularly actor Rudolph Valentino. A studio that rivals Valentino's decides to hire an actor to compete with him choosing a neurotic baker from Milwaukee. Shot on location in California. Tan illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 3 1977 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Gene Wilder. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimdographic duplication rectos only with blue pink green yellow and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/19/77 and 4/20/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1982réf. 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
1977réf. 160496N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director George Lucas sitting with actor Alec Guinness on the set of the 1977 film. The film 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 countless 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. 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1976réf. 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
1975réf. 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
1967réf. 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
1957réf. 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
1950réf. 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
1950réf. 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
1980réf. 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
1963réf. 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
1953réf. 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
1930réf. 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
1968réf. 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
