Jack Clayton (director); Ray Bradbury (screenwriter, novel); Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd (starring)ABAA
réf. 133045Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark Jonathan Pryce who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. In 1977 Bradbury sold the film rights to his novel to Paramount. He and director Jack Clayton whom Bradbury had previously worked with on Moby Dick produced a completed script. However production never began and the film was eventually put into turnaround. At the time Walt Disney Pictures was concentrating on films with more mature themes in an attempt to break free from their stereotype as an animation and family film studio. After the success of darker children's fantasy pictures by competing studios such as Time Bandits and The Dark Crystal Disney decided to purchase the adaptation's rights and hired Bradbury to produce a new script from scratch. .Set in Greentown Illinois but shot on location in Morrisville and Waterville Vermont. Gray titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper marked production No. 0233 dated 8/24/81 with credits for novelist and screenwriter Bradbury. Title page wit integral with the first page of the text dated 8/24/81. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 9/30/81. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown books
1969réf. 148989Paris: Adel Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 French film noir here under the working title "Marseille 1930." Text in French. Annotation on front wrapper of release title written large and boldly in cursive manuscript pencil with working title on title page. Erased annotations in manuscript pencil still visible on upper left of title page of names of actors "Alan Delon" and "Belmondo" with two other names illegible. A few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on several pages circling characters or props and one noting the camera field of vision otherwise changes to scene numbers. Based on the 1959 history of Marseille gangsters "Bandits a Marseille" by Eugene Saccamano. Two small time gangsters Belmondo and Delon in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business themselves vying for control against mob bosses. Director Jacques Deray released the sequel "Borsalino and Co" in 1974 starring Alain Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla. Set in and shot on location in Marseille and Paris. Gray untitled wrappers bound at the left in black cloth tape as issued. Title page present. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with first two pages separating from binding near top wrapper with light soiling else Near Fine bound with binding tape. Grant France. Spicer France. Adel Productions unknown books
réf. 160843Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1994 film. Copy belonging to crew member Kevin E. Patterson credited as Cable Person with his name and signature in manuscript ink on the recto of the rear wrapper. One of the best action films of the 1990s launching the careers of both Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went uncredited as the film's script doctor and screenwriter Graham Yost went on to create and write the acclaimed television series "Justified" 2010. Blue titled wrappers dated August 6 1993. Title page present dated August 6 1993 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Graham Yost. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1935réf. 146988Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. 11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
réf. 158711Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1982. Small archive of material from the 1982 film including a Master Stencil Final Revised Draft screenplay with studio secretarial annotations throughout a press kit with eight studio still photographs and six gatherings of promotional material and a complete set of eight lobby cards. Based on John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" 1945 and "Sweet Thursday" 1954. David S. Ward's directorial debut. In 1940s Monterey a self employed marine biologist and former baseball star befriends a drifter working at the local bordello. Set and shot on location in Monterey and San Diego California. Screenplay: Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 24 1980 noted as FINAL REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter David S. Ward and novelist John Steinbeck. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/17/80 and 2/17/81. Pages Near Fine unbound. Lobby cards 14 x 11 inches. About Fine. Press folder photographs and promotional photographs Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958réf. 161198N.p.: N.p. 1958. Final Draft script for the 1959 film. Based on the first play on Broadway to have been written by an African American playwright about the challenges of a Black youth growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood. In 1991 "Jump Cut" magazine reassessed the play and subsequent screenplay calling it a pioneering work. Yellow titled wrappers with credits for production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster along the bottom edge of the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 1 1958 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Julius Epstein and Louis Peterson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock pages dated variously between 10/1/58 and 10/2/58 rectos only with blue and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/22/58 and 11/3/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
réf. 131876Rome: C C. Champion 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. Bound at the rear are an additional 11 pages that include a complete Cast List and Unit List. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams." A lesser known film in the director's oeuvre a comedic and highly sexualized homage to Alice in Wonderland starring Sydne Rome as an American hitchhiker who stumbles upon an increasingly bizarre and decadent party at an Italian villa. Blue wrappers as originally used. Title page present noted as copy No. 4 in pink manuscript ink with credits for screenwriters Brach and Polanski. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. C C. Champion unknown books
réf. 141462Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect-bound wrappers rubber stamped production number 133 dated 1980. Title page present. 201 leaves with last page of text numbered 192. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Imamura Productions unknown books
1933réf. 138407Germany: Kinematrade 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933 as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era "Kuhle Wampe oder" is according to screenwriter Brecht a "Collective Presentation" that tells the tale of a family in early 1930s Berlin. After the son is prolongedly unemployed he commits suicide and the family is forced to relocate to a shantytown known as "Kuhle Wampe" or "Empty Stomach." Created under severely limited material conditions with filming constantly being broken up by the Weimar government's paramilitary SA agency the film attempts to depict archetypes of the times including an intellectual clash on a subway between members of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Banned first by the failing Weimar Republic and subsequently by the Nazi Reich the film was believed to have been lost until it reappeared over 20 years later in East Germany in 1958. This poster likely originates from screenings held in November 1933 by an unknown pro-communist organization in Philadelphia at the short-lived left-leaning Philkino theater. A US screening of this film dating before the film's disappearance and only just after the very beginnings of Hitler's rise to power makes this poster not only very scarce but one of significant historical value. The poster touting "Kuhle Wampe" as "The Film Hitler Burned" features an image of a man with a hammer and sickle attacking two snakes that form the Nazi swastika and touts the involvement of members of the "Labor Sports Union" in the film. 9.5 x 13 inches letterpress on pale faded pink stock. Very Good with expected moderate wear. Kinematrade unknown books
1967réf. 152383N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso one with the stamp of Globe Photos and one with a provenance stamp. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1967réf. 152383N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso one with the stamp of Globe Photos and one with a provenance stamp. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1923réf. 151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on verso. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1958réf. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
réf. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown
réf. 150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one manuscript pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950réf. 157957N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1950 film showing actress Marilyn Monroe surrounded by admirers. Based on an original story by Horace McCoy about a runaway orphan who becomes a champion roller-skater and the women he meets along the way. Monroe's eighth screen appearance. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing overall. N.p. unknown
1968réf. 168093N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 film showing director William Klein talking with Serge Gainsbourg who appears in a cameo in the film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A satire of superhero films and American imperialism following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom a beer-swilling white nationalist cop who moonlights as an anticommunist vigilante superhero. Klein's second film following "Who Are You Polly Maggoo" 1966. 7.75 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1923réf. 151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on verso. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958réf. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
réf. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown books
réf. 150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one manuscript pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950réf. 157957N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1950 film showing actress Marilyn Monroe surrounded by admirers. Based on an original story by Horace McCoy about a runaway orphan who becomes a champion roller-skater and the women he meets along the way. Monroe's eighth screen appearance. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing overall. N.p. unknown books
1968réf. 168093N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 film showing director William Klein talking with Serge Gainsbourg who appears in a cameo in the film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A satire of superhero films and American imperialism following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom a beer-swilling white nationalist cop who moonlights as an anticommunist vigilante superhero. Klein's second film following "Who Are You Polly Maggoo" 1966. 7.75 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
réf. 160435N.p.: N.p. 2017. Archive of two Draft scripts for the 2020 film one undated and with the ownership name of screenwriter Christ Zois on the title page-this being from Zois' archive collection-with Zois' extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout the other dated June 27 2017. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. The sixth collaboration between actor Willem Dafoe and director Abel Ferrara a psychological thriller heavily based on the work of Carl Jung about an American living a largely solitary existence in Siberia. Undated script: Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. June 27 2017 script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text dated June 27 2017. 37 leaves with last page of text dated 37. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown
réf. 143465Tokyo: Shochiku Films 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film dated May 28 1990 about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts leading up to the bomb. Kurosawa's response was simple: he wanted his film to say that war was between governments not people. Richard Gere plays one of the family's Asian-American cousins a decision falling somewhere between stunt casting and commentary. Set in Nagasaki and shot on location there. Blue titled wrappers dated 5.28.1990. Title page present. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Shochiku Films unknown
