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1944réf. 149848Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1944. Draft script for the 1944 film. Based on the popular Arsene Lupin mystery series created by Maurice Leblanc. In this entry roguish gentleman thief Lupin robs a young heiress of her jewels while on a train to England but later reconsiders his actions and saves her life. Set in England. Tan titled wrappers dated May 24 1944 with credits for screenwriter Bertram Millhauser and character credits to Maurice Leblanc. Title page present dated April 27 1944 with credits for screenwriter Bertram Millhauser and character credits to Maurice Leblanc. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only with five blue revision pages bound in after the script dated 10/24/44. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good dry and brittle with wear to the top and bottom edges of the front wrapper bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown books
1966réf. 147190N.p.: N.p. 1966. Draft script for the fourth episode of the fourth season of "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre." With two manuscript pencil annotations to the first leaf noting names of prospective actors for the roles of Vicky and Ramon. While the Chrysler Theatre program was primarily known for actor Bob Hope's comedy routines many of the episodes presented musical and dramatic storylines. In "Crazier Than Cotton" after being forced to borrow money from his girlfriend to attend his father's funeral an unsuccessful young sculptor realizes he must drastically change his life. Set in New York City. White self-wrappers lacking front wrapper and title page. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with the first leaf detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple. N.p. unknown books
1987réf. 146831Los Angeles: Cannon Films 1987. Revised Shooting script for the 1988 film. Based on Rex Burns' 1983 novel "The Avenging Angel." A newspaper reporter investigates the ritualistic slaying of a group of Mormons in Colorado. The penultimate film leading man Charles Bronson would make with director J. Lee Thompson following "St. Ives" 1976 "The White Buffalo" 1977 "Caboblanco" 1980 "10 to Midnight" 1983 "The Evil That Men Do" 1984 "Murphy's Law" 1986 and "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" 1987 and followed by "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects" 1989 Thompson's final film. Set and shot on location in Colorado. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 16 1987 noted as REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter RICHARD SALE and novelist REX BURNS. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining to the top page edges bound internally with two gold brads. Grant US. Olive Films 1102. Cannon Films unknown books
1969réf. 147106N.p.: N.p. 1969. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Loosely based on Eve Brown's 1967 novel. A group of wealthy socialites and celebrities staying at the Plaza Hotel are taken hostage for an enormous ransom soon realizing that their time is limited by a scant 18-hour supply of food water and light. Set in Manhattan. Black titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt intact noting copy No. 87. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT B. ALDRICH. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted near the binding bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1980réf. 151183Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film containing five black and white photographs and two gatherings of promotional reading material. A high school English teacher and his friend a fashion photographer fall in love with the same girl a sexually liberated young woman who has recently relocated to New York from Kentucky. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963réf. 146254N.p.: N.p. 1963. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A traveling preacher persuades an outlaw to join him in his holy mission but the outlaw finds it hard to leave behind his gunslinging ways in Trail City where sin abounds. Screenwriter Charles K. Peck was known for writing adventure and western films in the 1950s most notably "Seminole" in 1953. Set in the American West. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 9 1963 noted as Original Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Charles K. Peck Jr. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with splashes on the front wrapper and fading bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950réf. 146343London: Ealing Studios 1950. Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and consumed by guilt donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton Wirral Cheshire and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 13th January 1950. Title page present noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Ealing Studios unknown books
1970réf. 141610N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Sigrid Undset's 1920 trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter." The trilogy is the story of Kristin a Norwegian living during the Middle Ages the daughter of an affluent father who in difficult times often found solace in her Catholicism. The popularity as well as its accurate descriptions of Medieval life led to Undset being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Set in Norway. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for author Sigrid Undset and screenwriter Laurence W. Beilenson. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948réf. 146321London: Highbury Studios 1948. Shooting script for the 1949 film. Based on the 1930 play. Inhabitants of a sleepy British village rise up in protest when a large corporation announces a plan to build a large development on their cricket field. The matter is appropriately settled through a cricket match. Set in Britain. Green titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with three undated revision pages printed on white stock laid in. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good side stapled. Highbury Studios unknown books
1961réf. 151020N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1961 film. Provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" and provenance label of "de Selva - Tapabor" on verso. Jacques Demy's tribute to Max Ophuls with title and character inspired by Josef von Sternberg's "Der Blaue Engel" 1930 starring Marlene Dietrich. Roland Cassard is a bored layabout until he has a chance encounter with Lola a girl he dated in his teens before the war. Roland finds a renewed purpose in life realizing he is still in love with Lola now a cabaret dancer and mother who hopes her son's father her true love may still return. Shot on location in Nantes France. 8.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with some edge and corner wear. Criterion Collection 714. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
réf. 146327N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man with amnesia in the aftermath of a bloody car accident finds himself embroiled in a mysterious government plot. Tall burnt orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriters James Foster and John Davis. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with dampstaining to the title page and final leaves wrapper Very Good plus with some fading and rusting near the binding bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 146330London: Merton Park Studios 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 British film noir here under the working title "The Man Who Knew." Loosely based on Edgar Wallace's 1918 crime novel "The Man Who Knew." A man who has arranged his business partner's murder finds his plan has gone awry when the hitman does not properly dispose of the murder weapon which is stolen and eventually makes its way into the hands of the police. Tall white titled self wrappers housed in a tan folder dated September 1960 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Robert Stewart and novelist Edgar Wallace. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with rust to the binding and title page detached side stapled. Grant UK. Merton Park Studios unknown books
1934réf. 146328Elstree: British International Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the front wrapper and first leaf. A wimpy foppish clerk is fired from his job and as a last resort enlists in the Navy. Tall orange titled wrappers noted as copy No. 1 dated 25th January 1934. Title page present dated 25th January 1934. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with soiling and dampstaining to both and rusting near the page binding with silver prong binding. British International Pictures unknown books
1985réf. 141557Berlin: Silent Night GbR 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Silent Night." The true story of how Father Joseph Mohr an Austrian priest falls in love with a prostitute hopes to reform her does not and ends up composing the popular Christmas hymn "Silent Night" with schoolteacher Franz Gruber in 1818. Set in Austria. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for screenwriter Monica Teuber. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Silent Night GbR unknown books
1969réf. 150979N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Claude Jade from the 1969 film. "Raymond Depardon-Gamma" photographer stamp on verso. Raymond Depardon is a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist who in 1966 co-founded the prestigious photojournalism agency Gamma and became director in 1973. He also the director of several documentary shorts and feature films having directed 17 films since 1969 including the 1990 documentary short "La Captive du Desert" which was nominated for the Palm d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. The third of Truffaut's series of five films wherein Léaud portrays Truffaut's semi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 8 x 11.75 inches. Light creasing else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 186. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1953réf. 146323N.p.: N.p. 1953. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Included with the script are four partially-bound identical sets of carbon typescript pages listing prospective filming locations and camerawork and two smaller unbound leaves one blank and one with manuscript ink annotations to the recto. Screenwriter Vera Caspary was best known for her 1942 novel "Laura" the basis for the classic 1944 film noir and the project that most strongly established her presence among Hollywood studios as a desirable writer for film. Years later however in the midst of the HUAC investigations Caspary became persona non grata as she had been an active member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and never fully shed her proletarian leanings. In order to avoid prosecution and the potential destruction of her career Caspary moved to Europe and spent several years searching for studio financing and writing film treatments including the never-produced "Street Song." The project tells the story of an acclaimed but vain opera singer who falls in with a group of street musicians and learns humility and ultimately love. Tall orange titled wrappers noted as Treatment on the front wrapper dated 14th April 1953 noted as Copy No. 15 with credits for screenwriter Vera Caspary. Title page present dated 14th April 1953 noted as Treatment with credits for Caspary. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with some rust to the first few leaves and light foxing wrapper Very Good plus bound with green string. N.p. unknown books
1969réf. 146246N.p.: N.p. 1969. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink notation to page 21. Loosely based on the 1946 novel. A bleak retelling of the somewhat apocryphal failed 1212 "Children's Crusade"-a Christian campaign to regain Jerusalem from the Muslims led by a young boy who claimed to possess prophetic powers followed by thousands of children. In screenwriter Albert Band's version following Humphrey Slater's novel the tragedy plays out through the plight of three young children who take to the streets to hide from zealous Christian press gangs who seek to train them for the crusade sleeping in alleys and surviving on cats and stolen bread. In the mid- and late 1960s Band worked primarily in Italy producing several Euro Westerns and writing screenplays for "Massacro al Grande Canyon" 1964; "Gli uomini dal passo pesante" 1965 which he also directed; "I crudeli" 1967; and "Un minuto per pregare un instante per morire" 1968. Orange titled wrappers with a printer's stamp on the verso of the front wrapper reading "teena mayers s.r.l. / via marche 84 / 00187 roma / tel. 485785 - 482470." Title page present noted as REVISED dated November 1969 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band and novelist Humphrey Slate. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with offsetting on the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1976réf. 146261N.p.: N.p. 1976. Draft script for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed letter addressed to Paul Kohner from screenwriter Leo Gordon dated November 19 1976 with manuscript ink annotations to the recto: "Leo Gordon wrote a script for you in Turkey . Now he has written a turkey for the USA Please note comment at the end." With some photocopied revisions throughout the script noting deletions and some changes to the dialogue. The small town of Rimrock exists mostly as a tourist attraction advertising an authentic Western experience for frontier visitors who want to see desperadoes and lawmen battle. Matters are complicated however when a real outlaw rides into town. Screenwriter Leo Gordon was known for his prolific writing for Western films and television shows including episodes of "Bonanza" "Cheyenne" and "Maverick" in the 1950s and the screenplay for "You Can't Win 'Em All" 1970. Red wrappers with a white titled label at the center of the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Paul Leslie Piel and Leo V. Gordon. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with some rusting to the title page attributable to a paperclip bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1964réf. 151004Paris: Parc Film 1964. Two vintage oversize borderless photographs one of Catherine Deneuve and Anne Vernon and one of Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo from the 1964 film. Both with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" one with layout annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. One of director Demy's most beloved films about a young woman in Cherbourg who falls in love with a man who is promptly drafted into the Algerian War. A classic of French cinema with every word of dialogue sung in recitative. The first French film musical shot in color and the movie that made Deneuve a star. Winner of the Palme d'Or and two other prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Cherbourg Normandy France. 12 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear one with three pinholes to corners and one with a single pinhole and a small piece of cello tape on recto to upper left corner. Criterion Collection 716. Godard Histoires du cinema. Parc Film unknown books
1961réf. 148697Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1961. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1962 film. Based on the 1958 book by Alexander Klein. William Holden as an ex-American citizen living in Sweden who gets blackmailed into spying for the Allies during WWII. He is reluctant to help until his relationship with a beautiful German double agent causes him to rethink his decision. The great Klaus Kinski even makes a brief appearance. Set and shot on location in Denmark Sweden and Germany. 26.75 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus several pinholes primarily to margins. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1954réf. 148790Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Vintage three-sheet poster for the 1953 film. Based on the 1949 novel "The Girl on the Via Flaminia" by Alfred Hayes. Visiting Villefrance in the early 1950s Robert Teller Kirk Douglas reminisces on his time in the US Army in Paris nearing the end of WWII and his romance with the beautiful French peasant girl Lise Dany Robin. Set in and shot on location in Paris and the French Riviera France. 40.75 x 78 inches. Two panels folded as issued. Very Good with large closed tear to mid-right splitting to some folds several small closed tears at the extremities and light soiling. Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. United Artists unknown books
1959réf. 148742Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1958 British film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Donald MacKenzie. Con-artist Paul Gregory George Nader charms an old widow Bessie Love and steals her husbands coin collection hides it and then waits to get arrested thinking he'll get a minor sentence and retrieve it afterward. When the judge gives him a substantially longer term than expected he decides to escape from prison but his attempts at recovering the stash proves more difficult than expected. Maggie Smith's theatrical debut and the penultimate film produced by the British production company Ealing Studios. Set in and shot on location in London. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with large horizontal closed tear along top right crease and some small chips and closed tears at the extremities. Spencer UK. Selby UK. Grant UK. Lyons UK. Spicer UK. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968réf. 148700N.p.: Plaza Pictures 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Woody Strode began his career as an American decathlete and football star and went on to become a film actor working in American and international films. Both a modern Marxist re-imagining of the Christ story and a poetic and allegorical depiction of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba the film was to debut at the Cannes Film Festival but did not screen due to the festival being canceled in support of the May 1968 Paris uprising. 26.75 x 38 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with closed tears to top corners two chips to bottom corners and pinholes. Plaza Pictures unknown books
1980réf. 151130Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 13 black and white photographs and 10 gatherings of promotional reading material. A divorced father fights for visitation rights of his children when his ex-wife and their children disappear after joining the federal witness protection program with his ex-wife's new husband who is a shady low-tier mobster. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1978réf. 151181Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1978. Vintage press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 17 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 17 gatherings of promotional reading material. A New York gallery worker struggles to adapt to the changing sexual and moral climate of the 1970s when she is abandoned by her husband of sixteen years. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1032. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
