réf. 158051Hollywood: Frsco Productions 1976. Archive of three draft scripts for an unproduced film including One First Draft script one Second Draft Shooting script and one Third Draft Shooting script. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page of the First Draft and cast pages of the Second Draft Shooting script. A musical spoof of John Huston's classic 1941 film noir "The Maltese Falcon." Screenwriter Frank Saletri a criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles worked as a part-time screenwriter and producer primarily of exploitation especially Blaxploitation films. Saletri's screenwriting work was largely unproduced with the exception of the 1973 film "Blackenstein" and the possible exception of "Black the Ripper" a questionably apocryphal film whose existence has been debated for decades among grindhouse fans. First Draft: Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First Draft in manuscript pencil annotation with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Draft Shooting script: Green untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Third Draft Shooting script: Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Frsco Productions unknown books
réf. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown
réf. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown books
1949réf. 139871Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear as well as a number of manuscript annotations primarily denoting the titles of various musical numbers. Based on the short story "Stork Don't Bring Babies" by S.K. Lauren Grable and Dailey play a showbiz couple who discover in successive order that they cannot have children that they can adopt children and that they aren't really fit to raise children. But things get better with the help of several musical numbers scored by Harold Arlen. Bound in green faux leather boards with gilt titles and rule and marbled endpapers. Title page present dated Dec. 1 1949 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Trotti and Binyon. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/19 and 1/5/50. Pages Very Good plus photographs Near Fine with some bruising or chipping to the verso of the preceding page on either the top or bottom edge. Boards Near Fine with a bump to the upper rear corner. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1949réf. 139871Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear as well as a number of manuscript annotations primarily denoting the titles of various musical numbers. Based on the short story "Stork Don't Bring Babies" by S.K. Lauren Grable and Dailey play a showbiz couple who discover in successive order that they cannot have children that they can adopt children and that they aren't really fit to raise children. But things get better with the help of several musical numbers scored by Harold Arlen. Bound in green faux leather boards with gilt titles and rule and marbled endpapers. Title page present dated Dec. 1 1949 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Trotti and Binyon. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/19 and 1/5/50. Pages Very Good plus photographs Near Fine with some bruising or chipping to the verso of the preceding page on either the top or bottom edge. Boards Near Fine with a bump to the upper rear corner. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1954réf. 156283Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1954. Collection of 14 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1954 Swedish film. Several with stamps of Nordisk Films on the versos. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. After 15 years of marriage a man and a woman decide to divorce but realize at the last minute that their extramarital affairs have not diminished their love for each other. Shot on location in Sweden and Denmark. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1960réf. 130114Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films from "The Last House on the Left" 1972 to "Irreversible" 2002. The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961réf. 130180Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 27.5 x 38.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961réf. 130113Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 27.5 x 39.5 inches linen-backed. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1963réf. 130176Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1963réf. 130145Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 27.5 x 39.25 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1960réf. 130114Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films from "The Last House on the Left" 1972 to "Irreversible" 2002. The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1954réf. 156283Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1954. Collection of 14 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1954 Swedish film. Several with stamps of Nordisk Films on the versos. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. After 15 years of marriage a man and a woman decide to divorce but realize at the last minute that their extramarital affairs have not diminished their love for each other. Shot on location in Sweden and Denmark. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
1961réf. 130180Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 27.5 x 38.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1961réf. 130113Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 27.5 x 39.5 inches linen-backed. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1963réf. 130176Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1963réf. 130145Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 27.5 x 39.25 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
réf. 143477Tokyo: Shinchosha Company 1988. Preparation Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1967 short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. Text in Japanese. A draft script of the film in which the ending had not yet been finalized. "Grave of the Fireflies" follows the final days of two Japanese children during World War II and though it contains few combat scenes remains one of the most riveting war films ever made. Short story author Akiyuki Nosaka heartily approved of the animated film of his work noting that he believed it was impossible to create the bleak backdrop or find child actors able to create a film of the subject in any other way. The second film animated by Studio Ghibli best known for its animated films directed by Hayao Miyazaki and the only Ghibli film under Tokuma Shoten ownership that had no involvement from them. Black perfect-bound wrappers with silver titles. Title page present. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mechanical duplication with three green title pages pages at the front of the script. Pages Fine wrapper Fine. Shinchosha Company unknown
réf. 143477Tokyo: Shinchosha Company 1988. Preparation Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1967 short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. Text in Japanese. A draft script of the film in which the ending had not yet been finalized. "Grave of the Fireflies" follows the final days of two Japanese children during World War II and though it contains few combat scenes remains one of the most riveting war films ever made. Short story author Akiyuki Nosaka heartily approved of the animated film of his work noting that he believed it was impossible to create the bleak backdrop or find child actors able to create a film of the subject in any other way. The second film animated by Studio Ghibli best known for its animated films directed by Hayao Miyazaki and the only Ghibli film under Tokuma Shoten ownership that had no involvement from them. Black perfect-bound wrappers with silver titles. Title page present. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mechanical duplication with three green title pages pages at the front of the script. Pages Fine wrapper Fine. Shinchosha Company unknown books
1958réf. 143634Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address as well as film information on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 111. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Gaumont unknown
1958réf. 143634Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address as well as film information on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 111. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Gaumont unknown books
1965réf. 168104N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1965 French film showing a scene with Anna Karina perched in a 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner on a lift with director Jean-Luc Godard looking on in the foreground. Stamp of photographer Georges Dudognon on the verso. Based on the 1962 novel "Obsession" by Lionel White about an unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. Shot on location throughout France. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1965réf. 168104N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1965 French film showing a scene with Anna Karina perched in a 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner on a lift with director Jean-Luc Godard looking on in the foreground. Stamp of photographer Georges Dudognon on the verso. Based on the 1962 novel "Obsession" by Lionel White about an unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. Shot on location throughout France. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
réf. 144510Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens. In 1930s Hollywood a stunt pilot comes into possession of a jet-pack after getting caught in the crossfire between FBI agents and a group of gangsters. He subsequently becoming the target of both FBI and Nazi agents who are after the jet-pack. An early entry in the superhero movie canon following the success of 1989's "Batman" and a cult classic in its own right. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 11 1988 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Danny Bilson Paul De Meo William Dear and graphic novelist Dave Stevens. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Photocopy rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown
réf. 144510Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens. In 1930s Hollywood a stunt pilot comes into possession of a jet-pack after getting caught in the crossfire between FBI agents and a group of gangsters. He subsequently becoming the target of both FBI and Nazi agents who are after the jet-pack. An early entry in the superhero movie canon following the success of 1989's "Batman" and a cult classic in its own right. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 11 1988 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Danny Bilson Paul De Meo William Dear and graphic novelist Dave Stevens. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Photocopy rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown books
