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1975rif. 143326Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1975 film showing cinematographer Gerry Fisher behind the camera filming a scene between stars Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn. Wilder's directorial debut from his own original script a musical comedy about Sigerson Holmes the younger brother of Sherlock investigating missing government documents with the aid of a Scotland Yard detective Marty Feldman and a deceitful musical hall singer Kahn. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971rif. 142743New York: Magic Lantern Inc 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal played by Max von Sydow is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater" where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create including building a relationship with the Hesse family in order to acquire the rights. While "Steppenwolf" is a precisely-realized film replete with Jungian symbols and created with some of the best special effects available at the time the film has remained somewhat obscure due to problems with its marketing and distribution including the color of the prints having been incorrectly developed. Set in 1920s Germany shot on location in Germany and Switzerland. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for novelist Hermann Hesse. Title page present dated April 1971 with credits for screenwriter Fred Haines. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Magic Lantern Inc unknown books
1971rif. 143084London: Russflix / MGM 1971. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1971 musical with director Ken Russell staring intently at stars Twiggy and Christopher Gable. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a touring musical after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straight forward pastiche of 1920s musicals Russell's adaptation is a full blown parody of 1930s musical films particularly Busby Berkeley with heavy metatextual elements as the more lavish numbers take place in the imagination of a Hollywood producer watching the simple touring stage show. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Russflix / MGM unknown books
1956rif. 142890N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative manuscript black ink presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards corresponding with the script that follows all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of Bierce's short story the first one titled "The Bridge" was made by Charles Vidor in 1929 virtually unknown preceding both the well known 1959 version filmed for the fifth season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" and the French version made in 1962 by Robert Enrico. According to the 1956-57 Film Review of Student Productions presented by Department of Cinema and Delta Kappa Alpha at the University of Southern California USC the film was part of the Productions of the Graduate Workshop in the fall of 1956. Laid in is an invitation to premiere screening held at CineManor where USC's California National Honorary Cinema Fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha hosted screenings and social events. Douglas W. Gallez served as President of the Alpha USC Chapter at the time. Not in IMDB. Presumably shot in Southern California. Set in Civil War era Alabama. Pale untitled wrapper with credits for screenwriter. Title page present with credits for story writer Ambrose Bierce and screenwriter Douglas W. Gallez. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 22. Mimeograph both storyboards and script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1918rif. 143521US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying manuscript notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd about a young socialite and a millionaire who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand respectively. No known prints of the film survive and it is considered lost. 8.75 x 7.75 inches irregularly trimmed. Very Good plus. Diagonal crease to the top corner with a short closed horizontal tear to one edge. Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company unknown books
1961rif. 143580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake" with the release title in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK the film was a US co-production and this is a US draft of the script noting the US production company Playstar Productions on the front wrapper. A doctor injects his pregnant wife with snake venom causing her to give birth to a snake woman who grows up to terrorize the local town. Set in Victorian England. Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph Pages Fine. Front wrapper detached. Now encapsulated in mylar else Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. United Artists / Caralan Productions unknown books
1963rif. 143365Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1963 film showing director Elia Kazan and crew on a scaffolding shooting across a large lake. With some manuscript pencil annotations including the film title on the verso. Based on Kazan's own 1962 novel based on the life of his uncle about a young Greek man living in 19th century Ottoman Turkey and his long and poverty stricken journey to emigrate to America. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in Turkey and Greece. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
rif. 142842N.p.: N.p. 1981. Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film "Energy and How to Get It" circa 1980-1981. Includes tipped in ephemera drawings business cards and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer Robert Frank June Leaf and "Lightning" Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included are 4 reference photos all likely unique from the shooting of the film: two showing both Wurlitzer and Frank one showing Wurlitzer and one of the "Enola Gay" aircraft in the film. Mead Memo notebook spiral bound. Green wrappers. 4.25 x 6 inches Very Good overall tipped in photos Near Fine. Reference photos 8 x 10 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
rif. 143728N.p.: Objektiv Film 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Objektiv Film unknown books
1957rif. 143707Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs 1957. Draft script for the May 11 1958 episode of the television series "Harbormaster" 1957-1958. Faint annotations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil "Captain Hates the Sea" "Leon Benson" and an illegible name. Copy presumably belonging to Benson. A television series about crime-fighting sailboat captain Scott Sullivan on the shores of New England. In this episode Captain Owens Tweddle is willing to commit murder to oppose his daughter's Bain marriage to a lobster fisherman Hagman. Steve Fisher went uncredited upon the episode's release and his credits for other series the same year include "Wire Service" "The George Sanders Mystery Theater" "tombstone Territory" and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre." Leon Benson's credits include "West Point" 1956-1957 "Sea Hunt" 1958-1961 "Ripcord" 1961-1963 and "Bonanaza" 1967-1970 as well as another ZIV production "Harbor Command" 1957-1958 directing three episodes in 1957. Set and shot on location in Rockport Massachusetts. Orange titled wrappers noted as "Harbourmaster / 23-B" on the front wrapper dated 1957 with credits for Fisher and Drake. Title page present noted as HARBOURMASTER PROD. #23-B. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown books
1964rif. 143227Paris: Les Films Ariane 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film "That Man from Rio" here under the original French title "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio Les Films Ariane still photographer Trigo Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title several with annotations in manuscript ink also on the verso several with Trigo's name in manuscript ink. Over 100 smaller photos bear white borders and credit for photographer Voinquel. Also included is an issue of French magazine "Telérama" Sunday August 18 1963 No. 709 featuring cover and editorial on Belmondo and the film an original Somarco accordion folder dated 1963 and original mailing envelope addressed to Maryse Martres Ariane Films Champs-Élysées from Télé-photo Paris. Martres Martin was a prolific French actress who was later involved in press relations at Cinedis a notable film agency in operation since the Silent Film era. Airman Adrien Dufourquet Belmondo is in Paris on shore leave eager to see his Agnes Dorléac. When he finally sees her only briefly before she's kidnapped and held for ransom by a treasure-hungry family friend. A James Bond spoof in the wake of Belmondo's swashbuckling success "Cartouche" 1962 opposite Claudia Cardinale with puzzle solving murder in Brasilia art thieves and a pursuit to find sacred Amazon treasure. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing Story and Screenplay: Written Directly for the Screen 1965 and winner of a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1964. Members of the cast and crew are featured throughout the collection including director de Brocca who earlier worked under directors Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut Belmondo cameramen and an extensive look at the scenery of Brazil and Paris. Boats racing Belmondo dangling from a speeding car and languid down times as cast and crew break for naps in the shade photographer Trigo's often provocative angles capture the director in dimly lit noirish scenarios and a glimpse of the action-packed thrill-ride of shooting a Bond spoof with elements of MacGuyver. Coincidentally photographer Voinquel's direct approach shows stills from a more casual standpoint not without generous documentation of the crew behind the camera. Photographs 7 x 9.25 inches and 3.5 x 5 inches some varying slightly overall. Mailing envelope and folder each 10 x 12.5 inches. Photos Very Good Plus overall moderate curling several with bruises or insect wear at the edges several with moderate dampstains. Envelope and folder Good with short tears and similar dampstains. Magazine Very Good wavy brief toning. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1980rif. 143481Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Noirish in theme and based on true-life accounts. Murphy played by Paul Newman and Corelli Ken Wahl are police officers in the decaying South Bronx region of New York. Together they try to bring peace and justice to their corrupt precinct. Ethnic minorities play a major role in the film particularly African Americans and Puerto Ricans though community groups from the Bronx found their depiction lacking overall. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 22 1980 with a credit for screenwriter Gould. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mechanical duplication with pink blue yellow purple brown orange and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/80 and 4/18/80. Pages and wrapper Near Fine prong bound. Hardy BFI Crime Companion. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
rif. 143729N.p.: Mafilm 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Mafilm unknown books
1960rif. 143202Tokyo: Toho Company 1960. Draft script for the 1960 Japanese film. Manuscript ink and stamp on the outer page edges. Production designer's script with manuscript underlining on numerous pages regarding objects needed for a given scene swimsuits sun cream summer kimonos Persian cat etc. Other annotations in the same hand fill in the names of actors who have been chosen to play the parts of various characters whose names are printed. The double directed feature intentionally creates a juxtaposition between each director's lens and the credits give no indication of how the two collaborated also intentional. According to Audie Bock author of "Japanese Film Directors" Naruse filmed all of the older generation scenes and the Japanese restaurant scenes while Kawashima did the younger generation and the geisha house scenes comparatively the 'comic relief'. A family love triangle sees a mother and daughter in competition and parallels the conflicting nature of new and older generations in modern society. Set in Japan. White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1960. Title page present. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered g-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two staples wrapped in paper on spine. Toho Company unknown books
1969rif. 143372Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage photograph on director Elia Kazan conferring with a lounging Kirk Douglas holding a prop baby doll and Faye Dunaway during an outdoor shoot on the set of the 1969 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Adapted by Kazan from his own 1967 novel about a suicidal advertising executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown dealing with his unhappy wife younger mistress and dying father. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1956rif. 143359Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage borderless photograph of a contemplative Alfred Hitchcock on the set of the 1956 film. With the stamp of Warner Brothers Netherlands on the verso. Based on the real life story of Manny Balestrero accused of a series of robberies he didn't commit as detailed in the nonfiction book "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero" by Maxwell Anderson who co-wrote the screenplay and the "Life" magazine article "A Case of Identity" by Herbert Brean. Hitchcock's final film for Warner Brothers and an influence on both Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese. 7.25 x 9.25. About Near Fine. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1957rif. 142885N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Manuscript ink on front wrapper noting title screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947 starring Cary Grant Loretta Young and David Niven and "Portrait of Jennie" in 1949 starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films included "Racket Busters" in 1938 "Chasing Danger" in 1939 "Monsoon" in 1953 and two foreign films that he produced and directed as well as wrote "Square of Violence" in 1963 and "Story of a Woman" in 1970. Bercovici was blacklisted during the McCarthy era losing his US passport regaining it in 1956 and then moving to Europe for several years. Bercovici later became a respected teacher of writing at UCLA and the American Film Institute work that he continued until shortly before his death. Set in Rome. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated January 15 1957 with credits for screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1965rif. 143249Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC. Based on the 1962 novel "Obsession" by Lionel White about a 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. 9.5 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires de cinema. Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC] unknown books
rif. 140754N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Former Korean War vet and baseball player and current junkie has been completely out of his son's life as a father and only involved later on as a "friend" who happens to meet him on the street. His son is pursuing his dream of being a filmmaker while his father struggles to get clean and be a role model for his son. Set in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Richard Grand and Laurie Post. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1973rif. 140783N.p.: N.p. 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paul is a little person dealing with life the only way he knows how. He is typecast in Hollywood and frequently plays a ventriloquist's dummy and stared at when he is just trying to go about his day. He has great luck with women but not so much in forging close relationships. His only friends are other freaks and he hopes to hit it big at the horse races and on the stock market. Set in Hollywood. Title page present with credits for screenwriter J. Michael Nicholson. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between January 3 1973 and November 21 1973. Pages Near Fine bound in a standard three ringed binder with an affixed title label on the front board. N.p. unknown books
1978rif. 140768Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With three pages of synopsis laid-in. Peter Conrad is a successful American defense attorney and he is on a tour of Europe revisiting places he had seen during World War II places where his friends died. He ends up in Sicily where he hopes to reconnect with a young woman he met during the war. He finds her but she has been promised to another and amidst a backdrop of Mafia activity he vows to win her over and prove his true Sicilian heritage. Set in Sicily. Black titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter David Chantler. Title page present with credits for screenwriter David T. Chantler. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1974rif. 140771Hollywood: Goldwyn Studios 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a steel magnate is kidnapped from her college and being held for ransom by a group called the Army of the Oppressed whose insane leader demands ten million dollars in food for the poor. His enemy Turkey the leader of the Liberators in Detroit exacts his own revenge by kidnapping Malcolm Z's mother and wife but is apprehended by the FBI. A convict is allowed to escape from jail to lead the local cops to the gang but he too is killed onsite. With all the leads and hopes dashed one investigator risks his life for one more trick in getting the girl home safely. Set in California and Detriot. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1974 with credits for screenwriter Charles Martin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Goldwyn Studios unknown books
1957rif. 143949Japan: Towa 1957. Two original uncut Japanese stamp sheets for the 1957 French-Italian film. Bardot is amply represented in red and green variants 10 stamps per sheet also with an image of the Eiffel Tower. Produced by the Towa Corporation Japan with "BB" and film titles in Japanese represented. The film was released in Japan in December about one week after the French premiere. Scarce and cool Bardot ephemera and a unique Japan-France collaboration circa 1957-1958. Boisrond's fourth directorial credit is a comedy starring Bardot as the flirtatious daughter of the prime minister of France who marries a member of the cabinet Vidal who happens to be a womanizer. Taking control of the situation she has an weekend affair with a prince Boyer and ultimately reunites with her husband after somewhat passive apologies. Sheets 4.5 x 8 inches stamps 1.25 x 1.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with a little light handling and toning. Towa unknown books
1962rif. 144013Paris: France Cinema Productions 1962. Original scenario with dialogue script for the 1962 film here under the French title and also the title "Venus Imperiale." Notations on several pages in manuscript ink and pencil and a few typed corrections. Based on Annette Wademant's screenplay one of twelve recorded screenplays written by Wademant for director Boisrond. Bernard Poiret is a new publisher who falls in love with Sophie Saval but their foolish love nearly destroys them and his job. Unbound carbon typescript. Title page present undated noted as "Scenario et dialogues" with credits for director Boisrond and screenwriter Wademant. 224 leaves with last page of text numbered 224. Pages and folder Very Good plus. France Cinema Productions unknown books
1970rif. 143874Hollywood: Goldfarb-Lewis Agency 1970. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Guy Endore's novel of the same name about the life of Alexandre Dumas. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Dale Wasserman and novelist Guy Endore. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Goldfarb-Lewis Agency unknown books
