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1998Best.-Nr. 171263Santa Monica: Steven Bochco Productions 1998. Vintage Draft script for Season 1 Episode 17 of the 1997-1998 television series. Originally aired March 9 1998 on CBS. This short-lived procedural followed the uniformed police officers at a Brooklyn precinct. In this episode tensions are high at the precinct following one of the officers acting as an informant for Internal Affairs. Winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for its Pilot episode. Set in Brooklyn. White titled self-wrappers lacking rear wrapper production No. C117 dated February 9 1998 with credits for screenwriters Doug Palau and Nicholas Wootton and director Marc Buckland. Title page integral with front wrapper. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Steven Bochco Productions unknown
2012Best.-Nr. 171932Los Angeles: Thunder Buddies 2012. Draft script for the 2012 film. A lonely young boy wishes that his oversized teddy bear would come to life and his wish is granted. Thirty years later the teddy bear is still alive and living with the boy now an immature hedonistic adult. Basis for a 2015 sequel and a 2024 prequel television series. Shot on location throughout Boston. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Seth MacFarlane Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine bound with two gold brads. Thunder Buddies unknown
2000Best.-Nr. 171937N.p.: N.p. 2000. Draft script for the 2002 film. A mother and daughter lock themselves in their New York brownstone's safe room to hide from three burglars who seek a large sum in bearer bonds stowed in the house by its previous owner. Director David Fincher's fifth feature film following "Fight Club" 1999. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 23 2000 with credit for screenwriter David Koepp. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 171933N.p.: N.p. 1992. Revised First Draft for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1997 film starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. A legal drama about a nurse who fights for justice after being sexually assaulted by a powerful wealthy bachelor. Set in Los Angeles. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/3/93 noted as 1st Revision with credit for screenwriter Todd Graff. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 171899N.p.: Blake Edwards Entertainment 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "Mickey and Maude." With rainbow revisions. A tabloid television reporter is torn between his wife and his girlfriend both of whom have recently announced that they are pregnant. Ann Reinking's final film performance. Silver generic Blake Edwards Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1984 with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between March 7 and 22 2984. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Blake Edwards Entertainment unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 171935N.p.: N.p. 1997. Draft script for the 1998 film. An awkward 31-year-old mama's boy works as the water boy for a university football team but becomes an unexpected success as an outside linebacker. Set in Louisiana and shot on location in central Florida. Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 15 1997 with credits for screenwriters Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1993Best.-Nr. 171950Burbank CA: Touchstone Television 1993. Two scripts a Table Draft script and a 2nd Revised Table Draft script for Season 1 Episode 13 the series final episode of the 1994 television comedy series which aired on NBC on April 12 1994. Copies belonging to producer Steve Stustarsic with labels of his name and title on the title pages of both scripts and manuscript ink annotations checking scenes on every page of the Table Draft script and amending dialogue on eleven pages of the 2nd Revised Table Draft script. Based on a character created by stand-up comedian John Caponera the series followed John Bowman a working class middle manager and family man as he attempts to balance work and family and improve his lot in life. In this episode Tommy develops a crush on John's new office assistant. Table Draft: Front wrapper integral with the title page dated October 20 1993 noted as TABLE DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Suzanne Martin. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. 2nd Rev. Table Draft: Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 21 1993 noted as 2ND REV. TABLE DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Suzanne Martin. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication on pink leaves rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Touchstone Television unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 171259Universal City: Universal City Studios 1992. Draft script for Season 2 Episode 17 of the ongoing television series. Originally aired March 3 1992 on NBC. This long-running police procedural follows criminal cases from investigation to trial. In this episode a teenage runaway accuses a nun at her halfway house of rape. Set in and shot on location in New York City. Pink titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Rev. on the front wrapper production No. 67423 dated January 7 1992 with credits for screenwriter Rene Balcer. Title page integral with front wrapper. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 65. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown
1981Best.-Nr. 170401N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to uncredited producer Kelvyn H. Cullimore with his name and address in manuscript pencil on the title page and his ownership stamp to the title page and first page of text. In 1944 a young divorcée and single mother has an affair with a sailor on leave. Based on the 1979 novel by Sara Clark and William D. Wittliff. The directorial debut of Jack Fisk the husband of actress Sissy Spacek. Shot on location in Lockhart Maxwell Seguin and Corpus Christi Texas. White untitled front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page present with credit for screenwriter William D. Wittliff. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
2000Best.-Nr. 171952Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 2000. Draft script for the 2000 comedy film. Two deadbeat stoners wake up from a long night of partying and embark on a journey to find their car whose cargo includes anniversary gifts for their girlfriends. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 25 2000 with credit for screenwriter Philip Stark. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
Best.-Nr. 171961Universal City: Medway Productions 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Dated June 3 1979 a full two years prior to its release. A well-loved homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 1940s "Raiders" is the first entry in the lauded Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of the highest grossing films of all time. Winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture. Set in Peru Egypt Nepal and Washington DC shot on location in England France Tunisia California and Hawaii. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. National Registry. Ebert II. Medway Productions unknown
1999Best.-Nr. 171957N.p.: Rutland Weekend Television 1999. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1999 science fiction comedy novel by former "Monty Python" member Eric Idle published by Boxtree in the UK and Pantheon in the US about two comedians on the interplanetary comedy circuit and their robotic secretary. Self wrappers. Title page present undated noted as 2nd Draft with credit for Idle. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with silverfish damage to the first and last five leaves bound with two gold brads. Rutland Weekend Television unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 170402N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. A bawdy military comedy starring Redd Foxx as an aging zany sergeant. Screenwriter Reginald H. Farmer is better known as an actor in comedy films including "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" 1982 "Car Wash" 1976 and "National Lampoon's Animal House" 1978. Blue pictorial titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Farmer. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 166020Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Vintage keybook set design photograph from the 1943 film showing the exterior of a nightclub advertising a one-night-only performance by Duke Ellington and his band. Property Department stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1940 Broadway musical. A compulsive gambler killed in a nightclub shooting is visited by God and the Devil who agree to give him six months to atone for his earthly misdeeds and decide the fate of his eternal soul. A star-studded affair featuring jazz great Louis Armstrong as one of Satan's minions and a showcase musical number by Ellington and his orchestra. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 166018Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film both showing director Gordon Parks on the set. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on director Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. Set and shot on location in Kansas. 8 x 10 inches one with a wide bottom margin. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 166001N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Sam Peckinpah and a camera crew on the set of the 1972 Western film. Perhaps the most sympathetic of Peckinpah's films about a rodeo rider who returns to his hometown to participate in the annual Independence Day rodeo and reunite with his estranged parents and brother. Set and shot on location in Prescott Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1947Best.-Nr. 170495Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the American release of the classic 1947 British film noir. Four with provenance labels and stamps on the versos. Based on the 1945 novel by F.L. Green about an injured Nationalist revolutionary who goes on the run after a botched hold-up. A taut psychological noir featuring the work of noted cinematographer Robert Krasker who would go on to collaborate again with Carol Reed on the 1949 noir "The Third Man." Set in Belfast Northern Ireland shot on location in Belfast and London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 754. Grant UK. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby UK Masterwork. Spicer UK. Universal-International unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 165563Universal City: Universal Pictures 1938. Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film showing actor Jimmy Savo consulting his script between takes. Printed mimeo snipe and credit stamp of photographer Ed Jones on the verso. Savo enjoyed a successful career as a stage performer on Broadway and the vaudeville circuit before turning to film in the late 1920s. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1974Best.-Nr. 148219Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Eight vintage color lobby cards from the 1974 film. One of the greatest and most garish rock musicals ever made imposing a wild psychedelic pop veneer on the "Phantom of the Opera" and Faust stories and updating them to the present-day of 1970s mega-record-label-dominated culture. Written and directed by De Palma at the beginning of his "classic" period of the 1970s and 1980s on the heels of "Sisters" 1973. Singer Paul Williams is unforgettably ambitiously nasty as Swan the head of an evil conglomerate that ruins the life of young Winslow William Finley with a teeth-clenching opening narration by Rod Serling. Twentieth Century-Fox bought the film for two million dollars the largest sum ever paid by the company for an independent film but failed to properly market it and the film did not reach a large audience. "Phantom" did please the critics however notably Pauline Kael who called the film "a new Guignol in a modern idiom out of the Guignol of the past." Shot on location in Beverly Hills California and Dallas Texas. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 148189N.p.: Embassy Pictures 1984. Eight vintage lobby cards from the 1984 film. The film that invented the "rockumentary." Rob Reiner's debut now a timeless cult classic. Film director Mary DiBergi Reiner chronicles the American comeback tour of the aging heavy-metal band Spinal Tap. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2002. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 12. Embassy Pictures unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 167512N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing director Luchino Visconti as his cigarette ash dangles dangerously adjusting the bedding during a scene with actors Ingrid Thulin and Dirk Bogarde. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 165558Universal City: Universal Pictures 1937. Vintage photograph of actor William Lundigan enjoying a cup of coffee between takes on the set of the 1937 film. Printed mimeo snipe provenance stamp and the stamp of photographer Ed Jones on the verso. A small town reporter ends up in jail after attempting to pressure a notorious gangster's girlfriend into an interview. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Neat pinholes at each corner else about Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 167514N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1972 French softcore film. A married American journalist is seduced by two stewardesses kicking off a series of unusual and occasionally political occurrences. 5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 734. N.p. unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 171982N.p.: N.p. 1953. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1953 horror film. Two with the stamp of Stempel-Olenick Agency on the versos and all three with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil relating to actor John Dodsworth. Based on the 1945 novel by Maurice Sandoz. A Scotsman breaks off his engagement and returns to Scotland moving into his uncle's castle. His fiancée and her aunt follow him only to discover that the castle has caused him to rapidly age. The second 3-D film directed by William Cameron Menzies. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus moderately curled. Complete collation details available on request. N.p. unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 171983Montreal: Cinépix 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 Canadian film. Text in French. A mixed-race car salesman flees to an indigenous reserve after being wrongly accused of killing his half-sister but finds himself just as much an outsider there as in white society. Shot on location in Montreal. 8.5 x 11 inches saddle-stapled. 14 pages. Near Fine. Cinépix unknown
