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1967rif. 151964N.p.: N.p. 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a brief typed letterdated May 14 1968 addressed to agent Irene Heymann introducing the script. A cold-hearted mob boss is jailed on a vagrancy charge and seeks vengeance upon his release. Screenwriter Sy Bartlett worked as a screenwriter and producer for four decades most notably co-writing "Sergeant Murphy" 1938 and "13 Rue Madeleine" 1946 and producing "Cape Fear" 1962. Blue titled wrappers noted as First Draft and Production No. 8864 dated February 17 1967 with credits for screenwriter Sy Bartlett. Title page present dated February 17 1967 with credits for screenwriter Sy Bartlett. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light creasing and wear to page 142 wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and edgeworn bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1973rif. 141286Los Angeles: Filmways 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1971 novel by Jack Curtis about a Kansas farm boy with a big heart who grows up and becomes a crime boss. Set in Kansas. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 27 1973 with credits for screenwriter Dennis Shryack and author Jack Curtis. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Filmways unknown books
1961rif. 160411N.p.: Europ-Films 1961. Vintage French poster for the 1961 Hungarian film seen here under the French title "Les cignognes s'envolent a l'aube." Based on a true love affair between a Hungarian doctor and a Russian girl during World War II. A man recalls through flashback the parting words of a woman "I'll Come Back." Director Mihaly Szemes' best-known film winner of a Silver Prize at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival 1961. Shot on location in Hungary. 22.5 x 30 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Europ-Films unknown books
1957rif. 161062Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Five vintage photographs taken on the set of the 1958 film including four studio still photographs showing director Douglas Sirk talking with actors Lisa Pulver and John Gavin and one borderless photograph showing novelist screenwriter and actor Erich Maria Remarque. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Remarque's 1954 novel about a German soldier who returns home to find his home bombed and his parents gone. Shot on location in Berlin. Studio still photographs 8 x 10 inches borderless photograph 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus several with light toning and wear on the edges. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown books
1972rif. 160796N.p.: Fred Baker Films 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the little-seen 1972 documentary. At 25 x 38 inches a bit smaller than the standard one sheet poster size of 27 x 41 inches. The second documentary to be produced on Bruce after his death in 1966 though the first "Lenny Bruce in 'Lenny Bruce' 1967 was basically a film of a single performance. Baker's film combines footage of Bruce from "The Steve Allen Show" audio-only clips an interview by Nat Hentoff with a broken-down Bruce near the end of his life and the infamous video footage of Bruce dead in his bathroom of an overdose. A brutal and non-judgmental examination of the man who changed not only the nature of comedy but the nature of performance itself. Made by Bruce's longtime friend filmmaker actor screenwriter and jazz musician Fred Baker. 25 x 38 inches Folded as Issued. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Fred Baker Films unknown books
1949rif. 151394Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1949. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1949 film. Based on Tiffany Thayer's 1947 novel "One Woman." A South Side reporter discovers the body of a dead call girl and tries to track down her killer using her address book. Set in Chicago. Tall white titled wrappers noting 10 reels dated February 21 1949. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads at the top edge. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1982rif. 151092Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1982. Vintage press kit for the 1982 film containing four black-and-white photographs and three gatherings of promotional reading material. A young track-and-field athlete prepares to compete in the 1980 Olympic Games finding romance with a fellow competitor along the way. Featuring noted real-life track-and-field athlete Patrice Donnelly and cameos by many contemporary athletes including Evelyn Ashford Jodi Anderson Earl Bell Pam Spencer Deby LaPlante and many others. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1959rif. 160691N.p.: Audubon Films 1959. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1959 Spanish film showing strippers onstage. Two travelers meet on a beach in the Mediterranean and swiftly concoct plans to commit murder. Shot on location in Catalonia Spain. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Audubon Films unknown books
1982rif. 141263N.p.: N.p. 1982. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two letters to agent Walter Kohner dated December 29 1982 and January 24 1983 respectively-the first introducing the script and the second from an agency reader critiquing the script. The brother of a horse breeder is in a successful country western band. When one of the bandmates begins running drugs the band's private jet gets bombed with the brothers being the lead suspects in the subsequent investigation. They work to clear their names and find the true criminals. Set in Atlanta. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised with credit for screenwriter Howard B. Kreitsek. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a spiral binding. N.p. unknown books
1974rif. 160802N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1974 film. Rare. Noted female exploitation and pornographic director Roberta Findlay's ninth properly documented film. Georgina Spelvin stars as Dr. Tessy Tighttwat director of the Tighttwat Institute for Sexual Research who treats Eric Edwards as Harry Flattout impotent and unemployed after getting carried away and raping his boss' secretary during Spurt Over Oil's daily sex hour. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 25 x 38 inches Folded as issued. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1981rif. 152296Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to special effects crew member John Burke with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and his manuscript pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout. Missing two pages likely as used or issued. While visiting his daughter in a small Colorado town a retired New York policeman becomes involved in solving the case of a string of cattle mutilations. Shot on location in Colorado New York and Wyoming. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 218 dated 2/27/81 with credits for director Alan Rudolph. Title page present noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 2/27/81 with credits for director Alan Rudolph. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/13/81 and 10/1/81. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1981rif. 160661N.p.: N.p. 1981. Collection of ten vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1981 film including six in black-and-white and four in color. Black-and-white photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso. Loosely based on the classic 1866 novella. In nineteenth-century London a party guest turns up dead at a respectable couple's engagement gathering leading the remaining guests into a whirlpool of sex and debauchery in pursuit of the culprit. 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970rif. 141267N.p.: Kings Road Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel by Irving A. Greenfield about early man and his struggles. Named for the one of the many gods worshipped by the people living in the Mesopotamian Valley. Set in the Mesopotamian Valley. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Paul Young and author Irving A. Greenfield. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Kings Road Productions unknown books
1970rif. 141470N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. While surrounded by people who question his Christianity an American living in India must search for his daughter after she runs off with a dangerous gang. Set in India. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Horatius Haeberle. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine perfect-bound. N.p. unknown books
1985rif. 146957N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the life of Ernest Hemingway's younger brother Leicester the father of screenwriter Hilary Hemingway. Set in Florida. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 1985 with credits for screenwriter Hilary Hemingway. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948rif. 160687London: The Rank Organization 1948. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1948 British film showing the film's famous and impressionistic "ballet sequence." Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all five with stamps of The Rank Organisation on the versos. Loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen following an up-and-coming prima ballerina whose personal life is strained by her ballet master's obsessive demand that she devote herself entirely to her career. Michael Powell's tenth collaboration with his longtime partner Emeric Pressburger a critical success and worthy successor to their 1947 Technicolor classic "Black Narcissus." Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus some with light toning. Criterion Collection 44. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 41. The Rank Organization unknown books
1962rif. 141261Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a suicide call and head to the scene only to find the caller shooting wildly at anyone who tries to approach him. To make matters worse police discover one of the building's other inhabitants has declared that he plans to use his homemade bomb to destroy the building and everyone in it. Set in New York City. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter David P. Harmon. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1984rif. 146966N.p.: N.p. 1984. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Fiercely competitive rivals at an industrial plant pass time by playing games of backgammon. Lacking titled wrappers housed in a transparent yellow plastic folder. Title page present dated April 14 1984 with credits for screenwriters Susan R. Friedman Anthony Lawless and Jim Johnson. 10 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. N.p. unknown books
1982rif. 146959N.p.: N.p. 1982. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. With a blank memo note on the letterhead of screenwriter Craig Kellem attached to the first leaf with a paper clip. A consumer safety manager and a madcap inventor try to hide their marriage from the toy company where both work. Set in downtown Los Angeles. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 7 1982 with credits for screenwriters Christopher Koseluk and Steven L. Kravitz. 14 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light rust from a paper clip to the top edge of the first leaf bound with one staple at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1985rif. 146958N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on Winston Groom's 1980 novel. In the late 1950s an elderly Black woman fights to keep the land she was given by the former owner of the plantation where she worked for years. Set in southern Louisiana shot on location in Valdosta Georgia. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated FEBRUARY 28 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jeff Andrus. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly dampstained on the front wrapper bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982rif. 146960N.p.: N.p. 1982. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. The discount section of an unfashionable department store is staffed by a motley crew of social misfits. Set in Manhattan. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 24 1982 with credits for screenwriters Christopher Koseluk and Steven L. Kravitz. 10 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light rust from a paper clip to the top edge of the verso of the last leaf bound with one staple at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1971rif. 141472N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a three page letter dated April 5 1971. A professional soldier augments his income by selling drugs. His ex-wife arrives at his outpost in San Juan and decides to start blackmailing him leading him to question his choices. Set in San Juan. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter JP Miller. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1964rif. 160660N.p.: N.p. 1964. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film all four showing actors Jean Desailly and Françoise Dorleac. One with the stamp of "L'Express" and a date stamp on the verso. Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess. Set and shot on location in Portugal and France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1966rif. 160658N.p.: N.p. 1966. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of director Jacques Rivette and actress Anna Karina on the set of the 1966 film. Both with distribution stamps on the verso and one with layout annotations in manuscript pencil and the stamp of "Télé Poche." Based on Denis Diderot's eighteenth century novel following a young woman whose family forces her into a convent. A flurry of controversy surrounded the film's production and release as a result of its critical stance toward the Catholic Church leading the French Minister of Information to ban its release. A large-scale campaign was subsequently launched in its defense and the ban was lifted in 1967 when it was shown at Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Villeneuve-les-Avignon Gard France. 7 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1986rif. 142133Paris: Greenwich 1986. Two Draft scripts for the 1986 French film. One script in English the other in French. A British diplomat's wife takes a chimpanzee named Max to be her lover. Nominated for a Palme d'Or. Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière producer Serge Silberman and actress Milena Vukotic all worked with Luis Buñuel and accordingly brought much of Buñuel's surrealist sensibility to the film. Set and shot on location in Paris. French script: Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director and screenwriter Nagisa shima and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a white spiral binding. English script: Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director and screenwriter Nagisa shima and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver clasps. Greenwich unknown books
