James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall (starring); Francis Ford Coppola (director, screenwriter)ABAA
1970rif. 168143Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage reference photograph from a circa early 1970s re-release of the 1969 film showing James Caan squatting next to rabbit and chick cages. A Long Island housewife runs away from her marriage after learning that she is pregnant forming a friendship with a man with brain damage from a college football injury. Shot on location in Nebraska Tennessee West Virginia Colorado Pennsylvania and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1965rif. 166115London: Gibraltar Productions 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers obis sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight" following the success of "The Exorcist" with new color sequences with an American cast which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback. Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 28.5.1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a black plastic comb-binding. Gibraltar Productions unknown books
1969rif. 167924Burbank CA: Warner Brothers - Seven Arts 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing actors Faye Dunaway and Kirk Douglas. Directed and written for the screen by Elia Kazan based on his 1967 novel. A Greek-American advertising executive begins break down as he is caught between his unhappy marriage his obligations to his aging father and his affair with his mistress. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 7.5 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with two closed tears at the bottom edge. Warner Brothers - Seven Arts unknown books
1982rif. 168141Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1982. Two vintage reference photographs from a 1982 re-release of the 1979 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1977 Broadway play by Neil Simon about the whirlwind romance between a widower and a divorcée. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Marsha Mason. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1972rif. 168139Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Two vintage studio still photographs taken on the set of the 1974 film one showing director Richard Rush and actor James Caan the other showing Caan with motorcycle stunt instructor Mike Bast. A blueprint for the buddy cop movie about two inept police officers portrayed with wonderful chemistry by Alan Arkin and James Caan who wreak utter mayhem and destruction while trying to bring down a local mob boss. Director Richard Rush's ludicrous politically incorrect black comedy satirizing the popular revenge and police action films of the period. Set and shot on location in San Francisco California. 7.5 x 10 inches. Warner Brothers unknown books
1963rif. 168146Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. During the Cold War a Strategic Air Command B-52 wing commander attempts to whip his unit into shape in time to pass a readiness test. 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968rif. 164210Beverly Hills CA: Campbell Silver Cosby 1968. Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Dalton Trumbo's meditation on the horror of war was first published in 1939 by J.B. Lippincott winning the National Book Award then called the American Book Sellers Award and was subsequently serialized in 1940 in the leftist newspaper "The Daily Worker." Trumbo's left-leaning views and ultimately his direct association with the Communist Party in the early 1940s caused him to be called before the House Un-American Activities committee where along with nine other writers and directors he refused to testify about Communist activity in Hollywood. The group dubbed The Hollywood Ten was subsequently blacklisted and Trumbo spent eleven months in prison. Thirty years after the book's publication Trumbo himself directed the film adaptation of his novel which won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 21 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for Trumbo. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated yellow blue pink and green revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled bound with two gold brads. Campbell, Silver, Cosby unknown books
1980rif. 163482N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the pilot of an unproduced television series. Bound in preceding the script is a one-page treatment a "Suggested Casting" page a "Set" page a two-page description of the primary characters an "Occasional Characters" page and a two-page description of "Guest Characters." Attached to the title page by a paper clip is a business card for agent Judy McHugh of John La Rocca and Associates. 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. A sitcom about a small local bar "Screwdriver Heaven" in San Diego where a wide variety of customers seek refuge from their life's troubles and the advice of the crusty but endearing bartender Albert. Clear mylar front wrapper orange rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Stephen Thomas Sustarsic II. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three metal brads. N.p. unknown books
1980rif. 164088N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the pilot of an uproduced television series. 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. Bill Brenner a DJ from Crabapple Ohio begins his new job as a DJ at the Seattle talk radio station KPUK whose manager appears more concerned with the football game against radio station KZAP than the operations of the station. Clear mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Stephen Thomas Sustarsic II. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three metal brads. N.p. unknown books
1968rif. 161541N.p.: Sam Lake 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. A dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker and takes him to a farmhouse where she and two other dominatrixes take turns abusing and humiliating him and each other. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Sam Lake unknown books
1968rif. 161538N.p.: ScreenCom International 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film both with provenance stamps on the versos. A playboy is framed for the murder of a girl he met at a discotheque and finds himself drawn into the seedy underworld of London. Shot on location in Brighton England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one photograph with wax pencil annotations and a small chip in the right margin. BFI B1106. ScreenCom International unknown books
1974rif. 161544N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. Also released as "Street Sisters." Based on the 1969 play "Don't Leave Go My Hand" by director and screenwriter Arthur Roberson. A mixed-race boy raised on a farm by his grandmother attempts to reconnect with his mother a Black prostitute. Set in and shot on location in Long Beach and Stockton California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Parish and Hill Black Action Films. N.p. unknown books
1957rif. 161526N.p.: Parnassus Films 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 Greek sexploitation film. Anna Brazzou stars as Agioupa a beautiful orphan girl the child of a brutal rape who tries to live outside the village and away from prejudiced villagers. 8 x 10 inches. Light creasing and toning at the far margins else Near Fine. Parnassus Films unknown books
1957rif. 161509N.p.: Gaston Hakim Productions 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 Swedish sexploitation film with a provenance stamp on the verso Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble are bumbling criminals involved in a safe-cracking heist. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Gaston Hakim Productions unknown books
1971rif. 161530N.p.: Sherpix 1971. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 Danish film. Each photograph with a provenance stamp on the versos. A popular virginal school teacher Max has thirty days to marry in order to become headmaster and is initiated into the world of sex with the help of his students and the wife and daughter of the former headmaster. The first of the eight "Bedside Films" series directed by John Hilbard. Shot on location in Sjaelland Denmark. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Sherpix unknown books
1973rif. 161525N.p.: International Coproductions 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. Film debut of actress Sylvia Kristel. Based on the 1963 novel by Nicolas Freeling the second in his Van der Valk series. A gang of wealthy young men break into a couple's house and rape the wife forcing the husband to watch. A dogged police inspector is determined to identify the men and bring them to justice. Set in and shot on location in the Netherlands. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. International Coproductions unknown books
1976rif. 164201Universal City CA: Universal Studios 1976. Final Draft script for the 1977 film here under working title "9/30/55". Based on the 1966 play "How Many Times Have You Seen East of Eden' by James Bridges. A college student who idolizes James Dean tries to cope with Dean's sudden death on September 30 1955. Set in and shot on location in Conway Arkansas. Red titled self wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper production No. 02088 dated March 12 1976. Title page present noted as Final Draft Screenplay with credits for director screenwriter and playwright James Bridges. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Weldon 1996. Universal Studios unknown books
1962rif. 161534N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. A re-edited version of the 1958 German film "The Sin Began with Eva" by Fritz Umgelter with additional nude scenes featuring Playboy model June Wilkinson shot by a young Francis Ford Coppola then still a film student. A bellboy aspiring to be a private eye spies on the suspicious activities of women in the hotel who turn out to be representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. Shot on location in Bavaria and San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962rif. 161520N.p.: Aurora Productions 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. Three young women are stranded on the roadside in the woods and encounter plenty of mischief before ending up at a nudist camp. Lost for 40 years before being rediscovered with a subsequent restoration by Independent International Films. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some light splashing faint creasing and several pinholes. Aurora Productions unknown books
1967rif. 161527N.p.: Chellee Films 1967. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film each with a provenance stamp on the versos. An early film by prolific sexploitation pioneer Joseph W. Sarno now presumed lost. A married woman kills her lover in a private room at a racketeer's nightcub and must dispose of the body without other patrons and employees knowing. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Chellee Films unknown books
1963rif. 161531N.p.: Griffith Productions 1963. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. Early sexploitation film directed and shot by Herschell Gordon Lewis who would become better known a year later with the release of "Two Thousand Maniacs" and many other Z-budget blood-soaked horror films. A young millionaire is obsessed by a woman appearing in a dream. After an investigation he discovers burlesque performer Gina Adair and searches for her at her favorite nudist camp. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Griffith Productions unknown books
1969rif. 161571N.p.: Provocative Films 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the verso one also with a label obscuring an older provenance stamp. Jennifer Welles stars as a young aspiring starlet whose stage mother will ensure her and her daughter will do anything it takes to become a star. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Provocative Films unknown books
1970rif. 161649N.p.: Chevron Pictures 1970. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 Danish film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the verso two with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. The third installment in Mac Ahlberg's "I a Woman" series preceded by "I a Woman" 1965 and "I A Woman Part II" 1968. Siv's 17-year-old daughter Birthe is frigid but her sexuality soon awakens. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine one with a wax pencil annotation to the recto on the top left. Chevron Pictures unknown books
1965rif. 161652N.p.: Audubon Films 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Danish film. One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. Quickie and Rabbit organize a wild party for their friend Kim who was just released from jail for attempted rape. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with light creasing and several pinholes. Audubon Films unknown books
1968rif. 161646N.p.: American Film Distributing 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. One of two sequels along with the 1968 film "The Kiss of Her Flesh" to exploitation maestro Michael Findlay's 1967 breakthrough "The Touch of Her Flesh." Strip club owner Steve a killer of strippers seeks revenge after catching his stripper wife with another man. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. American Film Distributing unknown books
