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1990Best.-Nr. 168777N.p.: N.p. 1990. Small archive of production documents for the 1990 film including six gatherings of Call Sheets two to ten pages each dating from "24th April 1990" to "6th May 1990" a sixteen page "Movement Order No. 4" for "Friday 27th and Saturday 28th April 1990" and a twenty-five page "Provisional Unit List" dated "29.6.90." The call sheets and "Movement Order" found here were made during location shooting in Dover and Aberdeen/Stonehaven and include the daily schedule for cast and crew as well as locations and maps to the day's shooting location. Earliest Call Sheet dating "24th April 1990" with a single manuscript ink annotation of copy number "308" in the top margin. Director Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy starring Mel Gibson in the title role. Also starring Glenn Close Alan Bates Ian Holm and Helena Bonham Carter. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in England Scotland France and Italy. 8.25 x 11.75 inches 78 total pages in eight gatherings each corner stitched with a single staple to the top left. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 162929N.p.: N.p. 1987. Draft script for an unproduced television episode from the 1987-1988 television series. This one season television series follows a controversial sportswriter constantly on the brink of being fired from the newspaper he works for. In this episode the titular character must get a physical done and is scared when they find something out of the ordinary. Set in the American Southwest. White untitled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper with adhesive label for the Rosen/Turtle Group Inc. talent agency at bottom right corner of front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Steve Cuden. Title page integral with front wrapper. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1981Best.-Nr. 168974N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Francis Ford Coppola Nastassja Kinski and Frederic Forrest on the set of the 1981 film with a French snipe printed on the verso. Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort after his 1979 Vietnam masterpiece "Apocalypse Now" shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studios. Screenwriter Bernstein had originally planned the story to be set in Chicago but the setting moved to Las Vegas at Coppola's insistence viewing the western city as a more romantic atmosphere. Hank Forrest and Franny Garr live on the outskirts of Las Vegas but after five years their relationship has deteriorated and they both yearn for new love. Hank meets Leila Kinski a beautiful high-wire artist and Franny meets Ray Julia a dashing actor-waiter. Throughout their separation Hank and Franny still love each other and their search for romance brings them back to each other. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits received an Oscar nomination for his original score performed with country singer Crystal Gayle. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 164140N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced television series with manuscript marker annotations on one page. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s most memorably for the television series "Alice" 1976-1985 and "The Jeffersons" 1975-1985. Sustarsic was also one of the creators of the children's animated series "The Wild Thornberrys" 1998-2004. An outrageous satire of a soap opera wherein a half dozen characters fall in and out of love with each other and cheat on each other. Front wrapper integral with goldenrod title page with credits for screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 168061N.p.: N.p. 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1943 film showing director G.W. Pabst with a camera crew on the set. Photographer's stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A dramatization of the life of Renaissance-era Swiss physician Paracelsus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim focusing on his work during the plague. Released in honor of the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death in 1541. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light toning affecting the top right portion of the photograph. N.p. unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 169196N.p.: N.p. 1997. Production Draft #2 for an unproduced film a duplicated working copy with copied hole punches with manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the versos or rectos of 26 pages. Film is noted in IMDB but we found no other evidence of it having been completed or distributed. Based on Mark Leyner's 1992 absurdist postmodern novel wherein a hyper-narcissistic author named Mark Leyner with tattooed internal organs and cyborg-enhanced bodyguards becomes an intergalactic celebrity. Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 3 1997 noted as Production Draft #2 with credits for screenwriter Jefery Levy and author Mark Leyner. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 141053N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the title page. A motorcycle racer decides to settle down and open a motorcycle garage in a small town. He soon realizes his dangerous past has earned him the scorn of the local government which is revealed to be intent on shutting him down. Set in Freedom Arizona. Brown untitled wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Temma Kramer. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 149781N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Passengers on a ship heading to the Caribbean in the 1940s contend with a group of black marketeers who wish to commandeer the vessel for their own nefarious means. Beige pictorial front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1980 with credits for screenwriter Roger Ernest. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good unbound. N.p. unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 147084N.p.: N.p. 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. Amid citywide protests over increasingly brutal gang violence a middle-aged police officer decides to take matters into his own hands by donning a World War II officer's uniform and taking to the streets as a Thompson-toting crime-fighting vigilante. Set in Huntington Park Los Angeles. Gray titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Roger Karshner. Title page present dated 1987 with credits for screenwriter Roger Karshner. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good lightly dampstained along the top page edges bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 147417N.p.: N.p. 1969. Draft script for an unproduced film. Three decades in the life of a German family beginning after World War II. Set in Geneva and Germany. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter GRAHAM MacABEE. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1982Best.-Nr. 149773N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single copied manuscript annotation on the title page reading "Please return to: Pancho Kohner." A baby-crazy 35 year-old woman recruits a newly divorced stranger to impregnate her over the course of a no-strings-attached weekend but their time together takes a turn when they start to fall for each other. Screenwriter Carl Kleinschmitt was best known as a television writer including episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "MASH." Set in Santa Barbara California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated MARCH 29 1982 noted as 2nd REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter CARL KLEINSCHMITT. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 163339N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actor Charles Aznavour and director François Truffaut on the set of the 1960 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and a printed provenance label on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece one of the great French noirs based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this his most playful film. Part thriller part comedy part tragedy Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie Charles Aznavour in a triumph of hangdog deadpan as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags guns clowns and thugs this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 315. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1991Best.-Nr. 163972N.p.: N.p. 1991. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A comedy about a dysfunctional family converging on their home in the countryside at Christmas. Canadian director and screenwriter John Kent Harrison is best known for his work in television most notably "The Sound and the Silence" 1992 and his 1997 adaptation of William Faulkner's "Old Man." Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Black wrappers with a printed agency title label crediting Harrison affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present dated August 12 1991 with credit for Harrison. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with front wrapper partially detached from the binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1995Best.-Nr. 163974N.p.: N.p. 1995. Draft script for the 1995 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her numeric annotation in manuscript ink on page 2 and her annotations in manuscript pencil regarding props on the rear wrapper. In an alternate America where the social and economic positions of white and Black Americans are reversed a white factory worker kidnaps the factory owner as revenge for an unjust firing. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Red untitled wrappers. Lacking title page presumably as issued. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
2006Best.-Nr. 164005N.p.: N.p. 2006. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. After getting fired a lumber yard worker falls in with a violent trapper in the remote snowy countryside. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 7 2006 with credits for screenwriter Jerrold E. Brown. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 163975N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A group of young adults navigate love sex holidays and drugs in the early 1990s. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Jim Chambers. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1933Best.-Nr. 156284N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film showing actors Colin Clive mansplaining while Katharine Hepburn is having none of it. Manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding cropping along with a printed provenance label. Based on the 1932 British novel by Gilbert Frankau about a middle-aged politician who falls in love with a beautiful adventurous aviator. Hepburn's second screen role directed by Dorothy Arzner one of the few female directors in Hollywood from the silent era into the early 1940s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 163927N.p.: N.p. 1992. Third Draft script for the 1993 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the award-winning semi-autobiographical 1988 play by John O'Keefe about two teenage boys who create a shared fantastical world in order to mentally escape from their abusive confinement in a juvenile detention center. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in the rural midwest shot on location in Toledo and Waterloo Iowa. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 15 April 1992 noted as Third Draft with credit for O'Keefe. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 148337N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of 12 vintage French color lobby cards from the 1970 film. Housed in original labeled paper envelope. Based on the 1967 novel "Intersections" by Paul Guimard who also worked on the screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and remade in 1994 as "Intersection" directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich. Shot on location in Paris La Rochelle and Thoiry France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1998Best.-Nr. 169960N.p.: N.p. 1998. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film. An agency copy printed on the rectos and versos written seven months prior to the commencement of the production with the marker annotation of "O" on the front wrapper. A modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello" set in a US high school wherein Odin James Mekhi Phifer the only black student at Palmetto Grove Academy who is the star basketball player and dating the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi Julia Stiles is the envy of his troubled friend Hugo Josh Hartnett who plots a deadly scheme to sow mistrust between Desi and Odin. Shot on location in Charleston South Carolina. Untitled International Creative Management wrappers. Title page present dated 08/12/98 noted as Revision with credits for screenwriter Brad Kaaya. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication on the rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the rear board bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 170252N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film seen here under two titles: "Once Upon a Poor Boy" and "Flavor Tale" the latter in manuscript ink on the title page. A modern take on "Cinderella" about an unpopular African-American teenager who is helped out by his "Funky Freshfather" a magical being sent to help the boy get ready for the school formal. Screenwriter Tyger Williams wrote the screenplay for "Menace 2 Society" 1993 and continues to write prolifically for television. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Williams. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1966Best.-Nr. 148322N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage French lobby card from the 1966 film. Revered as one of the masterpieces of cinema Robert Bresson follows a donkey Balthazar through his life as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creasing to corners. Criterion Collection 297. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. N.p. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 170392N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Marguerite Duras and actor Michael Lonsdale during filming on location. Stamp of photographer Michel Lioret on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Duras a dark psychological drama about four visitors to a rural French hotel. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 164614N.p.: N.p. 1945. Two vintage borderless publicity photographs from the 1945 film one showing actor Glenn Strange in costume as Frankenstein's monster the other showing Strange with Onslow Stevens. Second photograph with annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein" which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters all in Dracula's house including the Prince of Darkness himself Carradine the Wolf Man Chaney Jr. and Frankenstein Glenn Strange along with the requisite mad scientist Onslow Stevens and hunchbacked assistant Jane Adams. 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. Approximately 7 x 9 inches trimmed irregularly. Very Good plus one with adhesive residue on the verso. N.p. unknown
