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1948rif. 159793Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1948. Vintage reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Orson Welles and Glenn Anders in a pensive moment. Columbia Pictures stamp and printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King. Welles promised to write produce and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film courted controversy not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. Shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Master List. Selby US Masterworks. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1969rif. 152994Los Angeles: Sigma Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript ink annotations to the title page and throughout pages 136-179 regarding props for scenes at the beach. Missing five pages likely as used or issued. Based on the 1968 novel by Marjorie Kellogg about a young woman who suffers severe facial scarring after being attacked with battery acid but finds comfort in friendship with two other social outcasts. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California. White wrappers with a vertical tear to the partial front wrapper obscuring the title. Title page present dated May 1 1969 with credits for director Otto Preminger and screenwriter-novelist Marjorie Kellogg. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 184. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/27 and 8/11. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good bound internally with a silver prong. Sigma Productions unknown
1989rif. 169082Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1989. Revised First Draft script for the beloved 1990 film. Patrick Swayze stars as a murdered Manhattan banker whose spirit remains behind to help protect his lover Demi Moore from the person who arranged his murder with the help of a psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg nominated for three other Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shot on location in New York City and Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 23 1989 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 7/13/89. Pages Very Good plus with creasing and edgewear to the title page and final leaf bound with two gold brads. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Paramount Pictures unknown
1972rif. 148721Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "Love in Blume." Single numeric annotation in manuscript marker on front wrapper. Paul Mazursky followed his acclaimed film "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" 1969 with this sharp romantic comedy about Stephen Blume George Segal who after cheating on his wife Nina Susan Anspach realizes he cannot live without her. Nina naturally has already dumped him and what follows is a poignant and comedic film about the complexity of modern marriage. Shot on location in Venice Italy and California. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated July 11 1972. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 7/11/72 with credits for screenwriter Paul Mazursky. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus wavy with creasing and light edgewear bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1976rif. 170355Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Ten vintage reference photographs from the 1976 film including nine borderless and one bordered. Director Paul Mazursky's semi-autobiographical comedy about a young Jewish man from Brooklyn who moves to then-bohemian enclave Greenwich Village befriending a motley cast of characters in the process including a Black gay man a WASP poet and a wacky hippie girl. Featuring early performances by Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Walken. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1994rif. 171840Los Angeles CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1994. One Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 1 of the 1994 television series. THis episode originally aired September 4 1994 on Fox. An early effort by noted actor Paul Rudd. A very short-lived series featuring the lives of a group of friends in their twenties. In this episode one of the boys asks a friend for his ex-girlfriend's number. Set in Chicago. Red titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated April 18 1994. Title page present dated April 18 1994 noted as Rev. Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Lon Diamond and director James Widdoes. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 42A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated revision pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown
1984rif. 169090Universal City: Universal Pictures 1984. Third Draft Revised script for the 1985 film. Laid in is a Shooting Call sheet dated 5/7/84. Loosely based on the life of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis played by Eric Stoltz a boy with a rare skeletal disorder causing disfigurement and a shortened life expectancy who along with his mother Cher attempts to live a normal life regardless of people's preconceptions. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in southern California. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as THIRD DRAFT REVISED SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated April 19 1984. Title page present dated April 191984 noted as Third Draft Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Anna Hamilton Phelan. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on pale green leaves rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 4/27/84. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1961rif. 153065Hollywood: Sonney Amusement Enterprises 1961. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1961 B-film. All three with the stamp of International Films on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations noting the film's title. The only material we have ever handled from a film released by Sonney Amusement Enterprises or directed by the notorious low-budget director Peter Perry Jr. Honeymooners on a supposedly abandoned beach on remote Thunder Island soon discover the island is not as abandoned as it appears. A notable horror cheapie that indulges early "nudie"-style sexploitation as well as "auteur" trappings such as a title card reading "Finis" even though the film is an American production. Set in Las Vegas and on Thunder Island. 9.25 x 7 inches. Very Good overall. Sonney Amusement Enterprises unknown
1973rif. 151980London: Galactacus Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Laid in with the script are two letters addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from producer Antony Rufus Isaacs introducing the script and suggesting the part of Grabinski for actor Charles Bronson as well as a four-page typed synopsis of the script. Based on the 1955 novel by Jean-Paul Clebert. On D-Day a group of prisoners-of-war take shelter from the bombardment inside a German bunker but find themselves permanently trapped underground when the entrances are blocked. Set in Germany shot on location in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter John Gould and novelist Jean-Pierre Clebert. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Galactacus Productions unknown
1971rif. 163605Los Angeles: Joseph Shaftel Films 1971. Revised Final script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to actor Norman Alden with his name and character's name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations indicating dialogue throughout the script. Xerographic duplication call sheet additional script pages and undated pink revision pages laid in at the rear of the script. Based on the 1970 novel "The Operator" co-written by screenwriters Rod Amateau and Budd Robinson. A greedy corrupt hospital administrator is eventually jailed for his fraudulent activities but plans his revenge on the hospital. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 1971 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter and novelist Rod Amateau and novelist Budd Robinson. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soil and toning on the rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Joseph Shaftel Films unknown
1988rif. 161011Los Angeles: A.I.P. Productions 1988. Draft script for the 1990 film copy belonging to actor Aldo Ray with the manuscript ink annotation of his signature on the title page and copied annotations on one page. A group of outcast US Army soldiers who care more about partying than soldiering are chosen to represent their base for annual war games and pit off against a group of sultry female soldiers and the Red Vipers a vicious group of elite solders with the brass all betting against them including General Makepeace played by Aldo Ray. Shot on location in Corona California. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Jeff Mandel Michael Bogert and Peter Yuval. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the first and last leaves bound with three gold brads. A.I.P. Productions unknown
1982rif. 166419Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 horror-pornographic film with manuscript annotations by screenwriter-director Phil Prince throughout. Six of the eight leaves on "Avon Theatre" stationery a sub-name of "Avon Productions" the studio associated with most of Phil Prince's work as a director and screenwriter. A group of young women gather for a slumber party where each tells a story about their wildest sexual experience. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown
1964rif. 154245N.p.: N.p. 1964. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1964 independent film. Philip Kaufman's directorial debut a humorous then-present-day retelling of the biblical story of Elijah starring many local actors from the improvisational Chicago comedy troupe The Second City as well as author Nelson Algren appearing as himself. Shot on location in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969rif. 160975N.p.: Aetos 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 Italian film showing actress Silvana Mangano. With the stamps of photographer Angelo Frontoni and ABC on the verso along with annotations in manuscript pencil regarding layout. Over the course of several days a mysterious visitor seduces each member of a bourgeois Milanese family. The second film in director Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mythical Cycle preceded by "Oedipus Rex" 1967 and followed by "Porcile" and "Medea" both 1969. Set and shot on location in Rome and Milan. 9 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with light toning on the verso and faint tide marks on the top edge. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. BFI 1166. Aetos unknown
1940rif. 148508Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1940. Vintage borderless photograph of Preston Sturges and Muriel Angelus on the set of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe and "Paramount Photo by G.E. Richardson" stamp on verso. Sturges had become a very successful Hollywood screenwriter by the late 1930s and with his screenplay for "The Biography of a Bum" wanted so much to direct the film that he offered to do the job for free. With very few exceptions notably Charlie Chaplin the notion of an established studio writer directing a film was nearly unheard of in Hollywood where writers were typically not even allowed on the set. Only the irresistible cheapness of Sturges' offer made it possible for the film to get made. Over the six year period during which the script remained unproduced the title changed to "The Vagrant" then "Down with McGinty" then finally just prior to production to "The Great McGinty." It was not only a success but won Sturges an Oscar for Best Screenplay. More importantly he was allowed to continue as a writer-director with a magnificent career that included one classic after another including "Sullivan's Travels" "The Lady Eve" "Unfaithfully Yours" "The Palm Beach Story" and "Hail the Conquering Hero." 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint creasing else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1933rif. 165076Paris: Films Sonores Tobis 1933. Collection of six vintage double weight photographs from the 1933 film. One with provenance stamps on the verso. A quintessential entry in René Clair's oeuvre about a young cab driver who falls in love with his neighbor with the couple forced to persevere in a world where all odds are against them. Five photographs approximately 9 x 7 inches one photograph 6.75 x 5 inches. Generally Near Fine five with neat pinholes at each corner. Films Sonores Tobis unknown
1961rif. 144266France: Limot 1961. Archive of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots pinup images of actress Castel Bourvil mending fences and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes gunfights in the town square and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of Clair's final films. Nearly all are rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Housed in an original French Kodak photo paper box. One photograph shown. Please inquire for others. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos 5 x 7 inches with a few trimmed slightly smaller and box slightly larger. Photos Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing and box Very Good Plus two splits to the lid. Limot unknown
1972rif. 140225Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Notably with a credit for screenwriter Eleanor Perry wife and frequent co-writer with her husband director Frank Perry. Jay Grobart Reynolds kills a man who raped and murdered his wife Cat Dancing. He is arrested but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then meets Catherine Miles who is escaping her abusive husband and finds an unlikely mate. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah USA. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated October 31 1972 with credits for screenwriter Eleanor Perry and novelist Marilyn Durham. 159 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 6 1972 and November 7 1972. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1988rif. 166941N.p.: Showscan Film Corporation 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 joint French-US short film. Attached by staple to the top corner of the title page is a small hand-written note "Vicki" a phone number and "Call from Space office." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Nick Dimitri with two copies of a January 16 1989 call sheet laid in. The 29-minute short film was the first film shot using the "Showscan" process developed by Douglas Trumbull which is photographed and projected on 70mm film at 60 frames per second 2.5 times the standard film speed and was only screened twice in 1989 once at the "Big Bang Schtroumpf" amusement park now "Walygator Parc" in Maizières-les-Metz France and once at the Omnimax Theatre at Ceasars Palace Las Vegas. A film director Richard Brestoff and his nephew Bill Campbell an aspiring actor and eccentric inventor make a low-budget science fiction film when one of the nephew's inventions begins to bring visitors from the past and future into the present including Napoleon Archimedes and cavemen making what they believe may be one of the greatest movies ever made. Featuring a cameo from James Coburn as an irate studio head and the voice of Charlton Heston as an alien visitor. Director Richard Fleischer's final film. Shot on location in Simi Valley California. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 1-6-89 noted as revised with credits for screenwriter Sarah Paris and story by Peter Beal and Sarah Paris. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 26. Xerographic duplication rectos only with yellow green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/22/88 and 1/6/89. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Showscan Film Corporation unknown
1965rif. 151229N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes wearing matching wetsuits. Based on Ann Jellicoe's 1962 play. An awkward young man seeks out the help of his slick womanizing flatmate in learning how to seduce women but trouble arises when they both set their marks on the same girl. Although nominally a comedy a film that bears far more similarity to a kitchen sink drama due largely to its polarizing final act. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1959rif. 170456N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing rock-and-roll icons Ritchie Valens and Jimmy Clanton chatting over a record player. Provenance label on the verso. Valens' only film appearance released months after his death in a plane crash alongside Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper and the final film of American disc jockey Alan Freed. Freed would later become embroiled in a "payola" controversy that would end his career. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1974rif. 150503N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Robert Bresson and still photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue on the set of the 1974 film with cinematographer Pasqualino de Santis just visible at the top left corner. With a provenance stamp on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1969rif. 155087New York: Contemporary Films 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Robert Frank Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Israel Film Archive. Director Robert Frank's first feature film and Sam Shepard's screenwriting debut following Frank as he accompanies poet Peter Orlovsky and Orlovsky's catatonic mentally ill brother Julius through the late 1960s Beat scene. When Julius wanders off he is replaced in the film by actor Joseph Chaikin pushing the boundaries of cinematic reality. The film was released in a new restoration by Steidl in 2007 alongside a book publication outlining the film which notes: "Frank's feature debut was first screened in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank's art up to that point turns up in this film - the look at America 'from the outside' the poetic libertinage of the Beats the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage and skillfully weaves together opposites plays counterfeits against the authentic pornography against poetry acting against being Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Contemporary Films unknown
1990rif. 160456Los Angeles: European American Entertainment 1990. Second Draft script for the 1991 film here under the working title "Chained Heat II" with a manuscript marker annotation of copy number "40" on the front wrapper. Not to be confused with the 1993 film "Chained Heat II" directed by Lloyd Simandl and starring Brigitte Nielsen and Paul Koslo. Copy likely belonging to actor Ray Sharkey with manuscript annotations in blue highlighter and ink on five pages highlighting all the dialogue of Sharkey's character "Hayes." Also released under the title "Hotel Oklahoma." David Keith stars as Tommy an ex-con who disguises himself as a warden to free his innocent girlfriend Kristen Cloke from a women's penitentiary after she took the fall for a crime he committed. Shot on location in McAlester Oklahoma. Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/20/90 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Bobby Houston. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. European American Entertainment unknown
1957rif. 160501N.p.: N.p. 1957. Six vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1957 French film showing director Jacques Becker talking with cast and crew members. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Based on the popular Arsène Lupin mystery series created by Maurice Leblanc. Roguish gentleman thief Lupin outwits several prestigious jewelers the prefect of police and even Kaiser Wilhelm II. Set and shot on location in Paris. Three photographs 7.25 x 5 inches three photographs 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Generally Near Fine. N.p. unknown
