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1940Best.-Nr. 150156N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Bela Lugosi Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. A popular band takes on a job performing at a wealthy heiress' birthday bash in her large haunted mansion. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light adhesive residue and wear to the corners. N.p. unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 150177N.p.: N.p. 1939. Vintage borderless portrait photograph from the 1939 film showing actor Henry Fonda in costume as a young Abraham Lincoln. A dramatization of the early years of future president Abraham Lincoln following his upbringing in a log cabin to his first loves to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield Illinois. 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the top corners and adhesive residue on the bottom edge of the verso. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 320. N.p. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 150225N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight satin-finish black and white photograph from the 1969 film one showing actors Robert Stephens Geraldine McEwan and Laurence Olivier the other showing Olivier alone. With a photographer's stamp on the verso noted only as "Dominic" along with a library stamp. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A filmed version of the National Theatre Company play originally directed by Glen Byam Shaw which was based in turn on the 1900 play by August Strindberg. In their isolated home on the coast of Sweden an aging mentally ill ex-military captain engages in vicious battles of will with his wife a former actress whose marriage ended her career. Set in Sweden. One photograph 8 x 9.5 inches one photograph 7.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 150335N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage photograph of director Ingmar Bergman setting up a shot with actors Elliott Gould Bibi Andersson and Max Von Sydow. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp noting No. 11620 and the stamps of PIX Inc. and Camera Press Ltd. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home an emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust. Bergman's first English language film shot in England and Sweden and his first film to involve a major American actor Gould working alongside Bergman regulars Sydow and Andersson. Set and shot on location in Sweden and England. 12 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus faintly toned along the top edge. N.p. unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 147395N.p.: N.p. 1980. Set of two treatment scripts for an unproduced television project variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German and English. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits encapsulated in the "glass bead game" an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music math and culture to win. Hesse's novel follows Joseph Knecht as he becomes a master of the game eventually rising to the top of the hierarchy to become Magister Ludi the executive officer of the game administrators. Although "Das Glasperienspiel" was begun in 1931 publication in Germany was stalled due to the novel's anti-fascist messages leading Hesse to eventually seek publication in Switzerland in 1943. Set in Castalia a fictional province of central Europe in the 25th century. Yellow text in German: Ordered but unbound leaves housed in a yellow plastic folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Titus Leber. 22 leaves not numbered. Xerographically reproduced on blue and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. Black text in English: Ordered but unbound leaves housed in a black plastic folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Titus Leber. 22 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographically reproduced on blue and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 149692N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1930 film with actors Constance Bennett and Kenneth MacKenna standing together on the right along with director Paul Stein on location at a racetrack. With an agency stamp on the verso. A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only. Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some faint soil at the margins. N.p. unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 147252N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. With what we assume to be translator Alan Blair's handwritten ink annotations throughout the script mostly in English but occasionally in Swedish noting many substantive revisions and deletions. Text in English. Bergman's first English language film shot in England and Sweden and his first film to involve a major American actor Elliott Gould working alongside Bergman regulars Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson. A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home an emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust. Set and shot on location in Sweden and England. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Ingmar Bergman and English translator Alan Blair. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with a black comb binding. N.p. unknown
1983Best.-Nr. 146495N.p.: N.p. 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced television project variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits encapsulated in the "glass bead game" an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music math and culture to win. Hesse's novel follows Joseph Knecht as he becomes a master of the game eventually rising to the top of the hierarchy to become Magister Ludi the executive officer of the game administrators. Although "Das Glasperienspiel" was begun in 1931 publication in Germany was stalled due to the novel's anti-fascist messages leading Hesse to eventually seek publication in Switzerland in 1943. Set in Castalia a fictional province of central Europe in the 25th century. Clear untitled plastic wrappers. Title page present dated 1983 noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter TITUS LEBER novelist Hermann Hesse and music credits to Johann Sebastian Bach. 21 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white clip binding. N.p. unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 148808N.p.: N.p. 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures AIP third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy beginning with "The Food of the Gods" 1976 directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner and Pamela Franklin and followed by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" 1977 directed by Don Taylor and starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York. Another classic "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon following "King Dinosaur" 1955 "The Amazing Colossal Man" 1957 "Earth vs. the Spider" 1958 "Village of the Giants" 1956 and "Food of the Gods" 1976 this time featuring giant ants mutated by radioactive waste which attack a shady land developer and her prospective clients and threaten to take over a whole island town. Set in the Florida everglades and shot on location in Fort Pierce Belle Glade and Jensen Beach Florida. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 8 1976 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jack Turley and story by Bert I. Gordon. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 149849N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Margarethe von Trotta Volker Schlondorff cinematographer Igor Luther and other crew members on the set of the 1976 film. Based on the 1939 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Young left-wing aristocrat Sophie von Reval von Trotta sides with the Bolsheviks after being rejected by a young German soldier Matthias Habich preparing to fight the Red Army. The third and final collaboration between husband and wife team Schlondorff and von Trotta von Trotta here co-writing and starring before von Trotta would branch off into her own esteemed career as a director. Previously they worked together on "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" 1971 which von Tratt starred in and co-wrote with director Schlondorff and the New German Cinema masterwork "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" 1975 which they co-wrote and co-directed together. Set in 1919 Latvia during the Russian Civil War. 12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at far corners. Criterion Collection 192. N.p. unknown
1978Best.-Nr. 150552N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut and Laurence Ragon from the 1978 film. Layout annotations in manuscript ink "La Chambre Verte" stamp and "June 78" stamp all on verso. Based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James with elements of James' 1903 novella "The Beast in the Jungle" and his 1896 short story "The Way it Came." One of Truffaut's least successful films but also one of his most personal and critically acclaimed a meditation on death and on an individual's inability to live in the face of it. Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne a journalist who writes obituaries in an unfashionable journal obsesses about the loss of his wife Julie and those members of his WWI squad lost in the war which lead him to build a shrine as a memorial so that they may never be forgotten. The third and final film which Truffaut would both direct and star. Shot on location in Calvados and Eure France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1940Best.-Nr. 150548N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photographs of director Wesley Ruggles on the set of the 1940 film by photographer Irving Lippman. Mimeo snipe and photographer "Irving Lippman" stamp on verso. Based on the 1919 play by W. Somerset Maugham which was based on the 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Tennyson. Soon after presumed window Vicky Jean Arthur marries her late husband's friend and business partner Henry Melvyn Douglas her first presumed dead husband Bill Fred MacMurray shows back up and now she's got one too many. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 150517N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1937 film showing Mireille Balin and Jean Gabin in a flirtatious moment. Based on the 1931 novel by screenwriter Henri La Barthe. A seminal noir antecedent oddly produced by the French who would go on to consider the Americans to be the inventors of the style. Remade in 1938 as "Algiers" starring Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer and in 1948 as "Casbah" a film musical starring Tony Martin and Marta Toren. Notorious French criminal Pepe le Moko is safe from the police in the Casbah but begins to reconsider his future in France after meeting and falling for a beautiful Parisian woman. Set and shot on location in Algiers Algeria. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 172. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary. During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 146208N.p.: N.p. 1977. Fourth Draft script for the 1977 film. With a single manuscript ink notation on the front wrapper's right top corner. Based on the 1977 novel by Colin Forbes about a defecting Russian general who collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making "Avalanche Express" a final film for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. Tan titled wrappers noted as FOURTH DRAFT on the front wrapper dated December 30 1977 with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. Title page present dated December 30 1977 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with tearing on the front wrapper binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 146470Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1944 film. With a few small manuscript pencil annotations throughout noting the name of an unknown crew member. A condemned murderer escapes from jail when Nazis bomb the French prison where he is being held. Encountering the body of a dead French soldier he steals the man's identification papers and uniform and escapes to Africa joining the Resistance Movement and in doing so finding new purpose and a sense of patriotism to France. Set in France and French Equatorial Africa. Beige titled wrappers noted as REVISED on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7126 dated AUGUST 4 1943 with credits for director JULIEN DUVIVIER. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/12/43 and 10/4/43. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with front wrapper detached from binding bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 151084N.p.: N.p. 1935. Two vintage reference photographs of Cecil B. DeMille on the set of the 1935 film one with Henry Wilcoxon and C. Aubrey Smith. Mimeo snipes printed on versos. DeMille's typically spectacular dramatization of the Third Crusade launched by King Richard the Lionheart in 1187 AD. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear and creasing in margins. N.p. unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 149763N.p.: N.p. 1976. Two vintage color reference photographs from the 1976 film one showing actor Jodie Foster the other showing actor Scott Jacoby and the back of Connie Foster Jodie's older sister and body double for the scene. One with a collector label on the verso and manuscript ink annotations noting the film's German title the other with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's Dutch release. Based on Laird Koenig's 1974 novel wherein a teenage girl living alone attempts to hide a dark familial secret from her upper-crust neighbors. To the displeasure of several producers Jodie Foster who was 13 years old at the time of filming refused to appear in a sex scene with Jacoby leading director Nicolas Gessner to call in Foster's 21 year-old sister as a nude body double. Set in Wells Harbor Maine and shot on location in Montreal and Knowlton Quebec. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners and light fading overall. N.p. unknown
1985Best.-Nr. 149739N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1985 French film three showing director Agnes Varda and actress Sandrine Bonnaire one showing Varda and cinematographer Patrick Blossier and one showing Varda and a film crew inspecting Bonnaire as she poses as a dead body in a ditch. With the stamp of Cinemagence three with provenance stamps and one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso. Varda's most successful and critically acclaimed film beginning with the discovery of a young migrant woman's body frozen in a ditch in northern France and retracing her life up until the time of her death. As an important and influential French director writer and artist Agnes Varda garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Shot on location in Gard Herault and Bouches-du-Rhone France. Four photographs 7 x 5 inches one photograph 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 74. N.p. unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 151451N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the 1925 film showing actors George K. Arthur Bruce Guerin Otto Matiesen and Georgia Hale. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An impoverished group of dockside dwellers decide to move to the city to make their fortunes. Josef von Sternberg's directorial debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light foxing to the verso. N.p. unknown
1959Best.-Nr. 151411N.p.: N.p. 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series originally aired on February 5 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper and his manuscript ink annotations throughout noting deletions and substantive changes. A kinescope of the program survived and is available for viewing only at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles. Based on Michel del Castillo's autobiographical 1957 novel "Tanguy." A young Spanish-French refugee is captured by the Nazis and interned in a concentration camp but finds happiness in Spain after the war. An early effort from the great George Roy Hill who was best known in the ensuing years for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 1969 and "The Sting" 1973. Set in France and Germany. Housed in an untitled black spring binder. Title page present dated 1-19-59 with credits for director George Roy Hill novelist Michel del Castillo and screenwriter Irving Gaynor Neiman. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/23/59 and 2-3-59. Pages Near Fine binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 147426N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. Title page contains "#40" written in manuscript pencil on the upper right likely a copy number as well as several pages with annotations again in manuscript pencil commenting circling and striking scenes action and dialogue. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. A year before Peter Billingsley would become the familiar face of Ralphie Parker in Bob Clark's 1983 "A Christmas Story" he was Billy a child coping with his parent's recent divorce flying to California with his mom Sally Catherine Hicks to meet her high school sweetheart Mike Paul Le Mat for a vacation in Death Valley. It isn't long before Billy comes across a killer's crime scene leading the killer to them and it is up to little Billy to outsmart him. Set in Death Valley California and New York shot on location in California Arizona and New York. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 28 1980 with credits for screenwriter Richard Rothstein. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
2005Best.-Nr. 148372N.p.: N.p. 2005. Draft script for the 2006 film. An intimate look at the British Royal family from May to September of 1997 following the death of Princess Diana on August 31 1977 and the struggle between Queen Elizabeth's Helen Mirren desire to treat it as a private affair and Prime Minister Tony Blair Michael Sheen and Prince Charles' Alex Jennings desire to quell the public's demand for a more overt and public expression of grief. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mirren nominated for five others including Best Film Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in England Scotland and France. Pink titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper light creasing to top right else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1965Best.-Nr. 148894N.p.: N.p. 1965. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1965 film. Two studio still photographs of Ursula Andress on production designer Piero Poletto's striking minimalist set and two compilation fashion photographs of Andress in costume bookending Costume Designer Giulio Coltellacci's concept drawings. Two photographs with "La Decima Victima" stamp on verso. An international cult classic based on the 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckley. Sheckley wrote the novelization of the film in 1956 and two sequels "Victim Prime" and "Victim" in 1987 and 1988 respectively. The worldwide officially sanctioned "Big Hunt" is the world's most popular television show giving those inclined to violence and those in search of celebrity a chance to act as "hunter" and "victim." The games top two assassins Caroline Meredith Andress and Macello Poletti Marcello Mastrianni who may be in love are pitted against each another. A descendant of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" 1924 and the first of the televised death game films such as "The Gladiators" 1969 "Death Race 2000" 1975 "The Running Man" 1987 and "The Hunger Games" 2012. Shot on location in New York Rome Geneva and Vatican City. 2 - 9.5 x 7.25 inches 2- 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 149379N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Orson Welles from the 1963 film. Italian "ROGOPAG / LA RIOTTA" stamp on verso. An anthology film of four short films titled after the names of the four directors: "Illibatezza" directed by Roberto Rossellini "Il Nuovo Mondo" directed by Jean-Luc Godard "La Ricotta" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and "Il Pollo Ruspante" directed by Ugo Gregoretti Pasolini's scathing comic rebuke on social inequality and religious hypocrisy wherein a lavish film production of the crucifixion of Christ in a poor region outside Rome finds the extra playing the "good thief" Stracci Mario Cipriani quite literally starving during the production trying everything to get some food all while being berated by the bombastic insufferable director Orson Welles. The film resulted in Pasolini being convicted of blasphemy and the film being banned in Italy. Pasolini was sentenced to a four month prison term which he avoided by paying a fine. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 236. N.p. unknown
