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1960réf. 167550Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the American release of the 1959 Italian film. A team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins discover a giant blob monster which appears to be related to a comet passing near the earth. An early directorial effort by influential Italian filmmaker Mario Bava who would go on to define the giallo genre. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn and soiled to the top right corner. United Artists unknown books
1988réf. 163947Los Angeles: AckermanBenson 1988. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Not to be confused with the 2015 film directed by Emily Lapisardi starring Maria Olsen and Bill Townsend. Screenwriter Stephen Bonds previously made a low budget independent film under this title in 1980 the Second Draft script found here dates from 1988 and is an apparent attempt at getting a feature film made of the story. Based on the Northern Ohio urban myth regarding the ruins of Swift Mansion later the Light of Hope Orphanage which alleges a fire was set killing many children and a woman all who now haunt the ruins. 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 Vermilion Ohio. Front wrapper integral with title page dated January 20 1988 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Stephen Bonds. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. AckermanBenson unknown books
réf. 146946N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Saloon owner and brothel madam "Ladyfingers" Lindsey strikes out on a hunt for hidden Japanese gold in the Philippines with help from her one-time beau and a posse of gunslingers. Screenwriter Robert Vincent O'Neil was best known for "The Baltimore Bullet" 1980 as well as a string of erotic thrillers during the 1980s including "Vice Squad" 1982 "Deadly Force" 1983 and "Angel" 1984. Set in Manila and Corregidor Island. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters William Mercer and Robert V. O'Neil. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly dampstained bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1991réf. 163986N.p.: N.p. 1991. Early Revised Draft script for the 1993 television film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the 1989 book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. A satirical depiction of F. Ross Johnson CEO of RJR Nabisco and his attempts at buying the company leading to leveraged buyouts and bidding wars. Nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards winner of Best Picture. 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. Untitled Rastar wrappers. Title page present dated 1 November 1991 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Larry Gelbart. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1944réf. 161403N.p.: N.p. 1944. Final script for the 1944 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. 14 reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Two Army sergeants spend a three-day holiday pass in Pasadena where they fall for two young women working in a parachute factory. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present with receipt intact dated 3/2/44 noted as FINAL. Title page present with credits for director Delmer Daves and screenwriter Alvah Bessie. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/3/44 and 4/10/44. Pages about Near Fine binding Poor with front and rear boards detached from the hinges. N.p. unknown books
réf. 146853N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Leo Tolstoy's 1872 novella about two Russian soldiers who are kidnapped by rival militia. Screenwriter Eugene Lourie was best known as an art director but also had success in screenwriting "Revolt in the Big House" 1958 and "The Giant Behemoth" 1959 and in directing "The Colossus of New York" 1958 and "Gorgo" 1961. Set in the North Caucasus. Green titled card wrappers with credit for screenwriter E. LOURIE. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Eugene Lourie and novelist Leo Tolstoy. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1973réf. 146818N.p.: N.p. 1973. Agency Draft script for the 1975 film. With 31 pages of director Ingmar Bergman's commentary bound in after the script. Text in Swedish. Based on the 1791 German opera about a young prince tasked with rescuing a princess from a mysterious high priest. Widely considered one of the most successful operatic adaptations to film ever released. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. Pale yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1973 with credits for director Ingmar Bergman and screenwriter Alf Henrikson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a black comb binding. Criterion Collection 71. N.p. unknown books
1923réf. 167801Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage program for the 1923 silent film. A wildly popular two-part Christian epic beginning with a retelling of the Book of Exodus and closing with a modern story of two brothers in the 1920s and their relationship to the Ten Commandments. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture. 9 x 12 inches. 17 leaves printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good wrappers Good only with an owner name on the front wrapper and moderate wear along the spine. Side-stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1933réf. 167824New York: Columbia Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 pre-Code film. A lawyer embarks on a promising career while her husband's football career begins to fade causing discord and resentment between the two. When he is wrongly accused of murdering another woman she comes to his defense. 12 x 17.75 inches. 12 pages side-stapled. Very Good plus moderately rubbed. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1934réf. 167816Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Vintage pressbook for the 1934 pre-Code film. Based on the 1932 novel by Stuart Palmer. Intrepid teacher Hildegarde Withers and police inspector Oscar Piper join forces again to solve the murder of a music teacher at Withers' school. The second of three films to pair Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as Withers and Piper respectively following "The Penguin Pool Murder" 1932 and preceding "Murder on a Honeymoon" 1935. 12 x 18 inches. 12 leaves side-stapled. About Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1954réf. 167826New York: Excelsior Pictures 1954. Vintage souvenir program for the 1954 nudist film. A widowed woman leaves the home of her tyrannical father-in-law accompanied by her young daughter and moves into a nudist camp in Florida. "Nudist" movies were typically shot at nudist campgrounds in order to skirt laws prohibiting on-screen nudity. "Garden of Eden" was nevertheless the subject of a court case in the late 1950s regarding obscenity. The court ruled that on-screen nudity was not obscene opening the door to more open depictions of nudity in film. Shot on location at the Lake Como Family Nudist Resort in Lutz Florida. 9 x 12 inches. About Fine. Excelsior Pictures unknown books
1933réf. 167804Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 film. Based on the 1926 novel by Lester Cohen who also wrote the screenplay. A widowed businessman hopes to bequeath his department store to his children after his death-only to realize that they are disinterested incompetent or simply unable to manage the business. Set in Chicago. 12 x 18 inches. Ten pages side-stapled. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1952réf. 148166N.p.: Valoria Films 1952. Seven vintage French lobby cards from the 1952 film one with "Agence Mediterraneenne" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Jeux Interdits" by Francois Boyer. Paulette Brigitte Fossey a young Parisian girl orphaned by a Nazi air raid befriends an older peasant boy Michel Georges Poujouly whose family takes her in. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in France. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall pinholes at corners with some small chipping to corners one with bruise and cello tape on top center. Vogel "Film as a Subversive Art." Ebert III. Criterion Collection 318. Valoria Films unknown books
1972réf. 148271N.p.: Greenwich Film Productions 1972. Five vintage French lobby cards from the 1972 film. Six bourgeois friends try to sit down to a meal together and are repeatedly interrupted by surreal dream-like happenings in Buñuel's satiric masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film also nominated for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 4 11.5 x 8.25 inches 1 11 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus two with pinholes at top corners one with crease on far lower left. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 102. Schrader 33. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
1984réf. 165396N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to costume designer Jane Hamilton with her annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the first 13 leaves all relating to costuming. Included with the script are multiple gatherings of manuscript and xerographically duplicated leaves relating to costuming including measurements of actors and extras in the film details for specific scenes and lists of props and period costumes needed. In the 1920s a young woman embarks on a worldwide journey of sexual exploration determining to lose her virginity and ultimately find her ideal lover. Shot on location in Andalucía Spain and in Hampshire England. Housed in a three-ring green binder. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1957réf. 167566Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. While looking for a lost pilot in the Mexican jungle members of a search party begin finding giant mutated animals-and later discover that the pilot has mutated into a heavily disfigured 25-feet-tall monster. An early career release for noted B-film producer and director Bert I. Gordon best remembered today for his "giant monster" films. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with six pinholes on the margins and a short closed tear at the center right. Allied Artists unknown books
1963réf. 167560Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. A man seeks revenge after his family is killed and he is disfigured in a fire set by his jilted mistress. Featuring an early appearance by noted Spanish actress and singer Soledad Miranda. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1934réf. 167828New York: Columbia Pictures 1934. Collection of three vintage pressbooks for three pre-Code films written by noted hard-boiled novelist Horace McCoy: "Hold the Press" 1933 "Fury of the Jungle" 1933 and "Speed Wings" 1934. McCoy moved to Hollywood in 1931 hoping to pursue a career as an actor. After a failed screen test at MGM McCoy discovered a talent for writing treatments and film scenarios and would go on to pen numerous films for Columbia Paramount and other studios through the next three decades. 12 x 18 inches. Generally Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1972réf. 148289Universal City: Universal Pictures 1972. Vintage French color lobby card from the 1972 film. Based on the 1966 novel "Goodbye Piccadilly Farewell Leicester Square" by Arthur La Bern. London is terrorized by a serial rapist who then strangles his victims with a necktie. Police suspect Richard Blaney Jon Finch whose wife was brutally killed. Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film. Set in and shot on location in London. 11.25 x 9 inches. Pinholes at corners else Near Fine. Grant UK. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Universal Pictures unknown books
1960réf. 167563New Orleans: Mardi Gras Films 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. The mistress of a Louisiana plantation raises her brother from the dead in a voodoo rite planning to use him to maintain control over the property. A Z-budget regional horror film shot on location in New Orleans and produced by Mardi Gras Films an independent studio that only financed one other movie-"Face of Fire" in 1959. Considered lost for many years the film was rediscovered and released on Blu-ray by Severin in 2023. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Mardi Gras Films unknown books
1964réf. 167561Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1964. Vintage photograph from the US release of the 1963 Italian film. An American tourist witnesses a murder committed by a long-sought-after serial killer becoming both the key witness for the police and the key target of the murderer. Director Mario Bava's final black-and-white film and a seminal entry in the giallo canon. Shot on location throughout Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Two pinholes at the bottom right corner of the photograph else Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1961réf. 167579Universal City: Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 British film showing Oliver Reed in costume as Leon Corledo the werewolf. Based on Guy Endore's 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris." Reed's first starring role in a feature film and the first werewolf film to be shot in color. Released as a double feature with another Hammer film "Shadow of the Cat" 1961. Set in Spain and shot on location in Buckinghamshire and Surrey England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the margins. Johnson and Del Vecchio. Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films unknown books
1963réf. 167576N.p.: Topaz Film 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1960 Italian film. A stripper is disfigured in a car accident and becomes obsessed with restoring her beauty. She tracks down a scientist who can provide a cure but the concoction requires the use of glandular fluid removed from adult women causing their deaths. 10 x 7.75 inches trimmed along the top margin. Near Fine. Topaz Film unknown books
1957réf. 167577Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing scientists in hazmat suits preparing to confront the insect. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A volcanic eruption in the South Seas frees a long-dormant 200-foot-tall mantis which proceeds to make its way to the US. Filmmakers constructed a 200-foot-tall mantis for the film from papier-mâché with a hydraulic system in addition to two smaller models for different flying or walking effects. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1962réf. 167574Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1962. Vintage photograph of a promotional design for the 1962 science fiction horror film. A mad scientist develops a method for keeping human body parts alive deciding to use his recently deceased fiancée as a guinea pig. Released as a double feature with "Invasion of the Star Creatures." Shot in Tarrytown New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
