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1980rif. 171136N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. A wealthy young woman is sent to prison for five years for her involvement in creating explosives as part of revolutionary political movements. Screenwriter Ellen Kesend co-wrote the 1987 television movie "Convicted: A Mother's Story" and the 1984 comedy "In 'n Out." Tan generic International Creative Management wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Ellen Kesend. 115 leaves last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1986rif. 171135N.p.: Carson Productions Group 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Drama about a top basketball player's struggle with drug addiction. Screenwriter Arthur Heinemann worked as a producer and writer for television between the 1950s and 1980s writing numerous episodes of "Crime Photographer" "Suspense" "Studio One" "The United States Steel Hour" "Little House on the Prairie" and many others. Gray untitled Carson Productions Group wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Arthur Heinemann and producer Jim Thebaut dated 10/15/86. Carson Productions Group unknown
1962rif. 171100Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Swedish film. Copy belonging to actor Bertha Sånnell with her name in manuscript ink on a label affixed to the front wrapper her annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on two script pages and on a sheet of lined paper bound in at the rear of the script. The second entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched an important phase in the director's career. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Bergman. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good perfect-bound with the spine of the wrapper and the first two leaves detached from the text block. Criterion Collection 210. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1965rif. 162284N.p.: American International Pictures 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1963 Italian film. Provenance stamp on the verso. An early mondo-style shockumentary focusing on various curious and repulsive customs and practices around the globe. Original US release narrated by Vincent Price. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and faint creasing with three spots of toning two to the top left and one to the margin of the top right corner. American International Pictures unknown
1973rif. 162086N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1973 Canadian film. Also released in the US under its Canadian title "Corrupted." Photograph with provenance stamps on the verso. An unhappily married wealthy man has an affair with an attractive clerk at a photography studio that specializes in having male clients to take nude photos of their models. Shot on location in Toronto. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in the lower right margin. N.p. unknown
1969rif. 162051Hollywood: Canyon Distributing 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A group of sex-crazed cave people do a lot of eating and lovemaking when not avoiding a threatening Tyrannosaurus Rex. Written by famed B-movie maestro Ed Wood Jr. under the pseudonym Akdon Telmig. Shot on location in Bronson Caves Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a wax pencil annotation to the top right and light edgewear with a small closed tear to the top right margin. Canyon Distributing unknown
1999rif. 170727Hollywood: Do We 1999. Revised shooting script for the 1999 television movie originally aired on December 5 1999 on ABC. Based on Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir about his time spent with his former college professor who is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. Winner of several Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Lead Actor for Jack Lemmon and Outstanding Supporting Actor for Hank Azaria. Lemmon's final film role before his death in 2001. Set in Detroit and Boston shot on location in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita. Self wrappers. Title page present dated June 4 1999 noted as Shooting Script with credits for Albom screenwriter Tom Rickman and director Mick Jackson. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 6 and August 9 1999. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Do We unknown
1969rif. 162138N.p.: Entertainment Ventures 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 US/German film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A sexploitation version of the tales of the legendary English outlaw by exploitation director Richard Kante starring Robin Hood's "lusty men and baudy wenches." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Entertainment Ventures unknown
1969rif. 162058N.p.: UM Film Distributors 1969. Five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1968 Swedish and German film. All photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A young college violinist student spends the summer at his family's estate with his mother and has several trysts with young women of the area. Shot on location in Södermanlands län Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. UM Film Distributors unknown
1972rif. 161989N.p.: Mature Pictures 1972. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Two with provenance stamps on the versos. Booking agent investigates the brutal murder of his sister Gay leading him to his best friend Parker who owns the strip club where Gay worked. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Mature Pictures unknown
1968rif. 162119New York: Cinex Film Industries 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamp and a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp on the verso. A struggling New York PR man attempts to blackmail a Texas hillbilly singer by hiring an actress to seduce him and catching the action on hidden camera at his Long Island home. Shot on location in Long Island and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light soiling and pinholes at the corners. Cinex Film Industries unknown
1971rif. 162137N.p.: Cambist Films 1971. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Danish film. Provenance stamps on the verso of one photo the other verso blank. Based on the 1967 novel "Nu" by Johannes Allen. Sixteen year old Sonja is a porn model with an obsessed middle aged lover who spies on her. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cambist Films unknown
1969rif. 162453N.p.: 21st Century Films 1969. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Two of the photographs with a provenance stamp on the verso. Teresa a young housewife is taken to a local brothel by her husband after finding out his only other experience with women was with prostitutes. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. 21st Century Films unknown
1971rif. 162055N.p.: Edmondo Amati 1971. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 European film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the verso. A 1969 giallo by Lucio Fulci. An unscrupulous doctor suspected of murdering his asthmatic wife encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late spouse. Shot on location in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Edmondo Amati unknown
1965rif. 162136N.p.: Stardust Productions 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one obscured by two labels. Backwoods moonshiner Skeeter protects his business by offering his voluptuous daughter Bessie Lou to Sheriff Bird. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Stardust Productions unknown
1967rif. 161991N.p.: Amalfi Productions 1967. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Shot in the heat of Joseph Sarno's busiest year one of eight films he directed in 1967 alone. Marcia hitch-hikes from the country to the city to see her sister only to find her murdered. She then takes her sister's old job at a seedy roadhouse in order to find the murderer. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing overall and one photograph with a chip to the bottom right corner. Nilsen Warped and Faded. Amalfi Productions unknown
1971rif. 161988N.p.: Morgan Pictures Corporation 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 re-release of the 1966 film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. A suburban housewife turns her stenography business into a highly profitable prostitution ring made up of neighborhood wives. Based on an actual 1964 scandal in Nassau County NY. Director Joseph W. Sarno's first color film. Shot on location in Long Island and South Fallsburg New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nilsen Warped and Faded. Morgan Pictures Corporation unknown
1965rif. 162057Los Angeles: Mark Brown Productions 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A business man and his wife move from Michigan to Los Angeles and there discover a world awash in decadence and swinging. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Mark Brown Productions unknown
1958rif. 162097N.p.: Kingsley-Union 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1958 French film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A sailor aboard a French merchant ship arrives at the Port of Hamburg and searches for a woman he knew when he was a prisoner of war in the city during the Second World War. Shot on location in Hamburg Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Kingsley-Union unknown
1972rif. 162093N.p.: Kirt Films International 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Documentary on the history of pornography in Holllywood including interviews with the owner of a topless/bottomless bar a gay church adult filmmakers adult bookstore owners and patrons and adult film stars. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Kirt Films International unknown
1970rif. 162059N.p.: MFD Productions 1970. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. Obscure 1970 sexploitation film by prolific exploitation director Victor Petrashevic. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing and one with a wax pencil annotation along the bottom edge. MFD Productions unknown
1996rif. 170717Los Angeles: Atlas Entertainment 1996. Draft script for the 1998 film. An American remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 film "Wings of Desire" the setting moved to Los Angeles about an angel who falls in love with a human and decides to become mortal in order to live with her. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Generic white Atlas Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated May 29 1996 with credit for screenwriter Dana Stevens. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Atlas Entertainment unknown
1973rif. 162062N.p.: Times Films 1973. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 release of the 1970 sexploitation film here under its alternative title "Part-Time Virgins." All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Times Films unknown
1970rif. 161942N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp and a label on the verso. Jackie Uschi Digard arrives in Los Angeles without a dime and goes on a sexual odyssey through its steamy underbelly. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one photograph with pinholes in the margins. N.p. unknown
1966rif. 161982Los Angeles: Olympic International Films 1966. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Provenance stamps and labels on the verso. "Documentary" exploitation classic featuring mostly faked travelogue footage including a Kyoto message parlor a Lebanese white slavery auction the Los Angeles art and peace scene and spring breakers on Balboa Island. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Newport Beach California Kyoto and Nassau Bahamas. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Olympic International Films unknown
