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1946Best.-Nr. 153867N.p.: N.p. 1946. Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film showing director Billy Wilder and actress Kim Novak. Based on the 1944 play "L'ora della fantasia" "The Dazzling Hour" by Anna Bonacci. A jealous piano teacher playing host to an infamous nightclub singer sends his beautiful wife away in the hopes of keeping the lecherous singer from seducing her. Set in Climax Nevada shot on location in Los Angeles. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 153851N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 French hardcore film showing actress Brigitte Lahaie. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Bier 370. N.p. unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 153874N.p.: N.p. 1945. Eight vintage reference photographs from the 1945 animated film. A short film following the misadventures of the eponymous main characters a group of river workers including two animated characters in blackface. The group is given control of a Mississippi steamboat called "The Spook" but must contend with a wily ghost onboard. Sequel to the 1943 short film "Professor Small and Mr. Tall." 10 x 8 inches overall with wide margins images measuring 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Generally Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 153860Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1958 film showing a car scene with actors Mylene Demongeot David Niven and Jean Seberg while a camera crew captures the shot in the foreground. With a provenance stamp to the verso. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. A teenage girl feels her comfortable life begin to change when her widowed father proposes to his girlfriend and the girl becomes determined to end their relationship. Set and shot on location in Saint-Tropez France. 7.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Twilight Time. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 153855N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director Alain Resnais with a camera on the set of the 1961 French film. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso. An enigmatic dreamlike film about an unnamed man and woman who meet at a party where he insists they have met before and she that they haven't. A divisive film viewed by critics as either an ambiguous surreal masterpiece or an incomprehensible mess. Shot on location in Germany and France. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 153882N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize borderless satin-finish reference photograph of Jim Brown and Raquel Welch between takes on the set of the 1969 film. A Native American man robs a bank in the US in order to buy guns for his people who are being repressed by the government. A lawman quickly sets out into Mexico to capture him but the two eventually create an alliance. Set in Mexico shot on location in Spain. 11.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 2903. N.p. unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 153884Amsterdam: Stichting C.F.M. Filmverhuur 1973. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1973 French erotic film showing actress Karin Schubert in a complex bondage outfit and tall black boots. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso along with the stamp of Dutch distributor Stitchting C.F.M. Filmverhuur. Based on the 1971 novel. A call girl is punished by the owner of the brothel where she works and is subsequently forced to take on a variety of sadomasochistic clients. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine lightly creased to the corners. Bier 1451. Stichting C.F.M. Filmverhuur unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 153886N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 French film showing director William Klein with actors Delphine Seyrig Philippe Noiret and other cast members between takes. Manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film's title along with stamps noting "PM 1020" and "1968". A satire of superhero films and American imperialism following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom a beer-swilling white nationalist cop who moonlights as an anticommunist vigilante superhero. Klein's second film following "Who Are You Polly Maggoo" 1966. 3.5 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 153877N.p.: Excelsior 1975. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1975 film. Stamp of Excelsior Films to the verso. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who has resorted to appearing in porn films to make a living. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creasing to the corners. Excelsior unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 153863London: VPS 1972. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film showing actors Natalya Bondarchuk and Donatas Banionis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso specific to the film's UK release. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem about a psychologist who is sent to a distant space station in order to observe and treat the station's crew who have fallen into unexplained mental and emotional disorder. An open-ended and conceptually faithful adaptation of Lem's novel concerning itself with the inability of the human species to communicate with other intelligent life forms based simply on the fact that a more advanced life form would exist outside the sphere of human experience and understanding. Set in outer space and shot on location in Ukraine Japan and Russia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 164. VPS unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 154176Hollywood: Roger Corman Productions 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller who had a sizable role in the film with his name to the title page and his manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. The finished film runs a little over an hour so the script at 127 pages was cut down substantially in the filming and editing process leaving a remarkable amount of content for study. An alienated wealthy coed at an all-girls boarding school inflicts increasing cruelties on the other students until her manipulation goes too far. An early role for Miller who appeared in 14 films directed by legendary independent filmmaker Roger Corman between 1955 and 1961 and would continue to work with Corman throughout his career. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Ed Waters. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Roger Corman Productions unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 154016N.p.: N.p. 1972. Collection of 32 vintage keybook snapshot photographs from the 1972 film. Possibly unique. A lesser known film in director Roman Polanski's oeuvre a comedic and highly sexualized homage to Alice in Wonderland starring Sydne Rome as an American hitchhiker who stumbles upon an increasingly bizarre and decadent party at an Italian villa. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams." 5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 153967Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Vintage borderless reference photograph of producer Darryl F. Zanuck with a camera crew on the set of the 1957 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A fairly faithful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel about a group of British and American expatriates in Paris who travel to Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls. Featuring a career revitalizing performance from Errol Flynn as a hedonistic hard living drunk which would lead to him being cast as an alcoholic in several more films-roles he had a literal lifetime of experience preparing for. Set in Spain and France shot on location in Spain France and Mexico the latter much to the consternation of Hemingway who said "You're meant to be in Spain and all you see walking around are nothing but Mexicans. It looked pretty silly" and reportedly walked out after 25 minutes. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 153963N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film both attributed to the film's photographer Chris Marker. One photograph shows director Costa-Gavras the other a crew member with a clapboard. Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London a defendant in the violent antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1952. Reference photographs taken by Costa-Gavras' friend and colleague Chris Marker who would go on to become an important figure in the French New Wave in his own right directing "A Grin Without a Cat" 1977 and "Sans Soleil" 1983. Shot on location in Nord Alpes-Maritimes and Pas-de-Calais France. 9 x 6.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 759. N.p. unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 154012N.p.: N.p. 1936. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1936 film showing actress and ballerina Harriet Hoctor dancing between two lions. A dramatization of the rise to fame of Broadway producer and impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. An extravagant runaway production with a massive budget lavish sets and costumes by noted designer Adrian. At the time of its release the film was the longest talking film of the time running just over three hours. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning three including Best Picture and Best Actress for Luise Rainer. 11 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners and right edge. N.p. unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 154002Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Vintage reference photograph of actors Joanne Woodward and James Olson during an amorous scene with director Paul Newman and a camera crew to the left. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Canadian writer Margaret Laurence's 1966 novel "A Jest of God" about the varied romantic and sexual experiences of a timid schoolteacher living with her widowed mother in an apartment in rural Connecticut. Shot on location throughout Connecticut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 154001Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film showing actors Warren Oates and Michelle Phillips. A dramatization of the crimes of folk hero midwestern bank robber and notorious mobster John Dillinger best known for killing five FBI agents during a shootout in Kansas City. Hot on the heels of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967 a movie that reignited the US public's interest in 1930s gangster films. Set and shot on location throughout Arizona and Oklahoma. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 154003N.p.: Trans American Films 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 documentary film showing a nurse applying seaweed to a naked woman's back and legs. Layout annotations to the verso. A mondo documentary although many scenes were staged by the filmmakers presenting unusual torture methods across the world including ritual sacrifices by Satanists and pagans Nazi concentration camps medieval torture instruments and fertility rites. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Trans American Films unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 153996Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage reference photograph of novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her husband Sir Frederick Browning visiting actors Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Du Maurier about a lonely university professor who meets his lookalike a wealthy but discontented count while vacationing in France and finds himself unwittingly forced to swap places and assume the count's life. Shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 153990Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1946. Vintage reference photograph of director Robert Florey arranging a shot with actor Peter Lorre on the set of the 1946 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a Warner Brothers stamp the stamp of photographer Mac Julian and a provenance stamp. Based on the 1919 short story by W.F. Harvey. A wealthy disabled pianist with an interest in the occult is found murdered in his Italian villa leading local villagers to suspect evil forces involved in his death. Peter Lorre's final film for Warner Brothers ending a five-year involvement. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK. Warner Brothers unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 153973London: Contemporary Films 1960. Eight vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1960s UK re-release of the 1934 French film. Manuscript ink annotations identifying scenes on the versos. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A classic of French cinema Jean Vigo's only theatrical feature a film that in the minds of many including Francois Truffaut predicted and even helped define the French New Wave that would come 20 years later. Shot on location in Paris Yvelines and Seine-Maritime France. 10 x 8 inches. Four Near Fine four Very Good plus with faint dampstains to the bottom edges. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Contemporary Films unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 153966N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Resnais setting up a shot with a camera crew on the set of the 1961 French film. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations. An enigmatic dreamlike film about an unnamed man and woman who meet at a party where he insists they have met before and she that they haven't. Shot on location in Germany and France. 7 x 9.25 inches with a wide bottom margin. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 153971London: Hammer Films 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Tallulah Bankhead during filming on location for the 1965 Hammer film while to the right a camera crew captures the shot. Provenance stamp to the verso. Based on the 1961 novel "Nightmare" by Elizabeth Linington writing as Anne Blaisdell about a woman who is stalked and terrorized by her deceased fiance's mother. Bankhead's final feature film before her death in 1968 produced hot on the heels of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" 1962 and "Hush. Hush Sweet Charlotte" 1964. Shot on location in Hertfordshire England. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Johnson and Del Vecchio Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography pp. 251-254. Hammer Films unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 153977London: Hemdale International Films 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pete Townshend Keith Moon and John Entwistle performing onstage in the 1975 film. Printed mimeo label affixed to the verso. Based on the 1969 rock opera written by The Who about a deaf dumb and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball and subsequently becomes the idol of a religious cult. The cast included among others every member of The Who Jack Nicholson Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. Shot on location in Cumbria Buckinghamshire and Hampshire England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hemdale International Films unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 153961Various cities: Les Films du Carrosse / SEDIF 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director François Truffaut and his longtime cinematographer Raoul Coutard setting up a shot with actress Françoise Dorleac on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess. Truffaut and Coutard worked together on a number of films including "Breathless" 1960 "Shoot the Piano Player" 1960 "Jules and Jim" 1962 and "The Bride Wore Black" 1968. Set and shot on location in Portugal and France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse / SEDIF unknown books
