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1960réf. 150233N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage candid reference photograph from the 1960 film featuring members of "The Crazy Gang" director Val Guest Shirley Eaton circus impresario Billy Smart and wife and guests. "The Crazy Gang" were a much-loved British comedy troupe who performed for over three decades. Formed in the early 1930s they performed largely at the London Palladium as well as numerous Royal Command performances and made five feature films "Life is a Circus" being their last. Core members were Bud Flanagan Chesney Allen Jimmy Nervo Teddy Knox Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold. Billy Smart was a popular British showman and founder of Billy Smart's New World Circus. The circus was featured in two 1960 films "Life is a Circus" and Anglo-Amalgamated's "Circus of Horrors" directed by Sidney Hayers. "The Crazy Gang" save the struggling Joe Winter's Monster Circus with an Aladdin's magic lantern. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958réf. 153669Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Archive of material for the 1958 television episode originally aired on August 13 1958 on NBC including one Revised First Draft script a ten-page typescript treatment and approximately 70 unnumbered typescript draft leaves. Revised First Draft script treatment script and one draft page signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen with Cohen's manuscript annotations throughout all materials noting substantive revisions and deletions. "Kraft Theatre" was a dramatic anthology television series which aired on NBC from 1947 to 1958. In this installment based on William L. Stuart's 1948 novel a tough troubled cop is assigned to a homicide case and begins to use brutal tactics to force the lead suspect to confess. The television debut of actor Peter Falk. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set and shot on location in New York. Revised First Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/4/58 noted as 1ST REVISION with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered III-97. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with first and last leaves detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Treatment: Self wrappers. Title page present undated noted as OUTLINE with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen and novelist William L. Stuart. 10 leaves not numbered. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Treatment and loose draft pages housed in a manila envelope. Pagination for typescript draft materials available upon request. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1952réf. 154485Culver City CA: Loew's Incorporated 1952. Treatment script for the 1953 film on yellow paper created by screenwriter Louis Morheim who received a story credit in the final film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil changing the revision date on page five. Robert Aldrich's directorial debut wherein a baseball scout at a New York Giants training camp in Florida evaluates prospective hopefuls for a minor league contract. Starring Edward G. Robinson in his first major role after being threatened with blacklisting by the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC. Shot on location in Melbourne Florida. Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2 stamped "Incomplete" dated 6-18-52 with credits for screenwriter Louis Morheim. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Mimeograph duplication rectos only on yellow pages dated variously between 6-18-52 and 6-20-52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Loew's Incorporated unknown books
1963réf. 153714New York: Plautus Productions 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1963 television episode originally aired on October 17 1963 on CBS. Manuscript ink annotations by screenwriter Larry Cohen to the first 19 pages noting substantive revisions and Cohen's playful annotation to the title page crossing through "The Nurses" and writing "Florence Nightmare" possibly a working title over the printed title. The series title was changed from "The Nurses" to "The Doctors and the Nurses" for the second season. The series ran from 1962 to 1965 and followed the interpersonal dramas of a group of doctors and nurses at the fictitious Alden General Hospital in New York. In this episode a man attempts suicide and is left partially paralyzed and is tended by Nurse Kelly. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in New York. Self wrappers housed in a manila envelope. Title page present dated April 5 1963 noted as Revised Mimeo and production No. 34 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 84 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-77. Mimeograph duplication on pink stock rectos only. Title page Very Good plus with light wear and dampstaining to the edges else Pages Near Fine unbound. Envelope Very Good plus overall. Plautus Productions unknown books
1972réf. 154493New York: Metromedia Producers Corporation 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1973 television film which aired on March 1 1973 on CBS. Copy belonging to uncredited still photographer Jack Stager his name in manuscript marker on top of the title page with the annotations of production dates "12-11-72 to 12-22-72" in manuscript ink and copy number "17" in manuscript green marker. Laid in are a four page and a single page Crew and Staff List a two page Schedule and a three and a single page Cast List all with the annotation of Stager's name in manuscript marker to top right of first page. Based on the 1971 book by Gay Talese about the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s. Salvatore Bonanno takes control of the family business after the kidnapping of his father causing a rift in the family and inciting a bloody Mafioso war. Yellow untitled card wrappers with a titled Metromedia Producers Corporation label. Title page present dated 12-9-72 noted as REVISE with credits for screenwriter Lewis John Carlino and author Gay Talese. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Metromedia Producers Corporation unknown books
1958réf. 153663Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Archive of six Revised Draft scripts for the 1958 three-part television episode originally aired on June 25 1958 on NBC. Collection includes three scripts noted as Acts I-III and one script duplicate of Act I only and two scripts compiling all three acts. Also included are two typescript pages noting story outlines for a proposed "87th Precinct" television series. Each script signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen and three scripts with manuscript pencil and ink annotations by Cohen throughout noting deletions and substantive revisions. "Kraft Theatre" was a dramatic anthology television series which aired on NBC from 1947 to 1958. In this episode loosely based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" novel series a solitary widow whose frequent calls to the police to report a burglar are usually ignored turns up dead in her apartment. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set and shot on location in New York. Act I Revised Script with pencil annotation on the front wrapper: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered I-24. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the last leaf detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Act II Revised Script: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered II-68. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Act III Revised Script: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered III-103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Act I Revised Script with no pencil annotation on the front wrapper: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED dated 6/17/58 with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered I-24. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Complete script: Lacking wrappers and title page possibly as issued. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered III-136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. Revised complete script: Lacking and title page possibly as issued. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered III-87. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single staple to the top left corner. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1963réf. 153686New York: Filmways 1963. Draft script for the 1963 television episode originally aired on October 12 1963 on CBS. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page. The series which ran from 1961-1965 followed the legal adventures of a father-son defense attorney team. In this episode the duo become involved in an international espionage case. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated May 15 1963 noted as FIRST MIMEO with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Very Good plus slightly edgeworn bound with two gold brads. Filmways unknown books
1960réf. 153710N.p.: N.p. 1960. Archive of loose typescript materials for four unproduced television series. Two pages signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen and many pages with manuscript ink and pencil annotations by him noting editorial and substantive revisions. Included in the collection are treatment drafts and draft script pages for four television series: one show called "Play Ball" a quiz show based on baseball trivia one show called "The Adventures of the Dude" about a New York police officer who moves west to become a cowboy one show called "The Producer" about the early days of Hollywood and one show called "Cannonball" an adventure series about two truckers. Four unproduced early ventures by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Approximately 65 pages in total. Pages generally loose some partially bound with a single staple. Housed in a manila envelope with manuscript ink annotations to the recto noting "Old Treatments by Larry Cohen". Pages and envelope Near Fine. Pagination available upon request. N.p. unknown books
1964réf. 153682New York: Filmways 1964. Draft script for the 1964 television episode seen here under the working title "Fade Away" originally aired on April 18 1964 on CBS. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page below an annotation noting the episode name. The series which ran from 1961-1965 followed the legal adventures of a father-son defense attorney team. In this episode an aging wartime hero becomes fanatical about United States foreign policy towards China and plans a military takeover of the government. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 5 1964 noted as FIRST MIMEO with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single paper clip to the top left corner. Filmways unknown books
1963réf. 153700New York: Filmways 1963. Draft script for the 1963 television episode originally aired on April 27 1963 on CBS. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page. The series which ran from 1961-1965 followed the legal adventures of a father-son defense attorney team. In this episode the duo arrive in a small southern town to prepare for a trial only to discover their client a man accused of murdering a young child has been lynched. An early venture for screenwriter Larry Cohen who would go on to write Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Shot on location in Pelham New York. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated February 19 1963 noted as FIRST MIMEO with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. Filmways unknown books
1973réf. 147708N.p.: Alfa Film 1973. Collection of ten vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 film. Six photographs shown. Please inquire to see the others. After being involved in a deadly car accident a wealthy German businessman finds himself the subject of extreme scrutiny by the media who uncover his past criminal dealings during World War II. Set in Germany shot on location in Jaffa Israel and Germany. Six photographs 8.25 x 9.5 inches three photographs 7.5 x 10 inches one photograph 8 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with faint edgewear. Alfa Film unknown books
1973réf. 147719Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1973. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs and 2 borderless portraits of actors Elayne Heilveil and Rip Torn all from the release of the 1973 film. Six photographs shown. Please inquire to see others. A ruthless manipulative country western singer tours the southern nightclub circuit in his big Cadillac accompanied by a bevy of girlfriends and copious amounts of liquor and drugs. Set in the American South shot on location in Selma Alabama. 13 photographs 10 x 8.25 inches 2 photographs 7.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cinerama Releasing unknown books
1981réf. 151952N.p.: Filmways 1981. Vintage reference photograph of Brian De Palma on the set of the 1981 film. Based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow Up" with an audio recording replacing a photograph early 1980s Philadelphia replacing Swinging London and a tight political thriller plot replacing the looser and less immediate one in the original. Shot on location in Philadelphia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 562. Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir. Filmways unknown books
réf. 150990N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film including eight borderless and one with narrow margins and wide bottom margin. Two bear provenance stamps on the verso and one bears the stamp of photographer Andre Marinie. Three in the collection are on the set photographs featuring director Jacques Demy. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault and loosely based on Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 10.5 x 7 inches. Generally about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. N.p. unknown books
1972réf. 150607Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Four photos shown please inquire to see the others. Loosely based on the 1950 film "The Asphalt Jungle" which was in turn based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel. A former inmate decides to gather a gang of criminals to execute a diamond heist in the hopes of using the profits to start a community bank for black-owned businesses. Set in Los Angeles and San Quentin. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Parish and Hill 66. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 69 119-121. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1973réf. 150828Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of John Huston and Paul Newman on the set of the 1973 film. Based on the 1971 novel "The Freedom Trap" by Desmond Bagley. Director John Huston's neo-noir Cold War spy thriller with Paul Newman as a British Intelligence officer who allows himself to be imprisoned to infiltrate a spy organization. Screenwriter Walter Hill's third produced screenplay. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 9.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1977réf. 151940Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage reference photograph of Steven Spielberg and François Truffaut on the set of the 1977 film. Roy Neary Dreyfuss is one of several people who witness UFOs at night and subsequently begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy and the agents join together and are led to a place not unlike the place in Roy's visions where they have a close encounter of the third kind: contact. Winner of an Academy Award Best Cinematography 1978 and Spielberg's third feature as director following "Jaws" 1975 and "The Sugarland Express" 1974. Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. 9.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1974réf. 150864N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson and crew on the set of the 1974 film with two provenance stamps of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1979réf. 151011N.p.: N.p. 1979. Two vintage reference photographs with bottom margins from the 1979 film one of Catriona MacColl and Barry Stokes and one on the set photograph of MacColl Stokes and director Jacques Demy. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" and layout annotations in manuscript red pencil on verso. Based on the 1972-1973 Japanese manga series "The Rose of Versailles" by Riyoko Ikeda which was also made into a 40 episode anime series under the same name directed by Tadao Nagahama and Osamu Dezak and broadcast on Nippon Television from October 10 1979 to September 3 1980. Oscar Francois de Jarjayes captain of the guards at the Palace of Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was born a girl and raised as a boy by her militant father. She now finds herself conflicted while in the maw of the French Revolution with the boy she loved in her youth Oscar on the opposite side of the struggle. Shot on location in Paris Seine-et-Marne Oise and Versailles France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Some faint creasing else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969réf. 150969N.p.: N.p. 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1969 film. Provenance stamps of film scholar and author J. P. Berthome on versos of all three and one with a National Film Archive stamp on the verso. Demy's first English language film recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s. A young discontented man in a dead-end relationship learns his draft notice has arrived and he is due to report for Army duty the following week. While out trying to raise money to keep his car from being repossessed he sees and becomes obsessed with the beautiful Lola an older French model who works in a "model shop" posing for photographers. Set and shot on location in Laurel Canyon Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time 327. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 152019N.p.: Pennebaker Productions 1960. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Marlon Brando Joanne Woodward Anna Magnani Sydney Lumet and cinematographer Boris Kaufman on the set of the 1960 film. Based on Tennesee Williams' 1957 play "Orpheus Descending" which itself was a revision of Williams' 1940 play "Battle of Angels." A man flees the law in New Orleans and finds work at a small-town store run by the resentful and frustrated Lady Torrance whose husband lies ill in the apartment above the store. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with thin two inch bruise to upper left portion of the image. Criterion Collection 515. Pennebaker Productions unknown books
1958réf. 151065N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph with wide vertical right border and cropped bottom of Douglas Sirk and Lana Turner on the set of the 1959 film. "Telegram and Gazette" stamp dated "AUG 15 1958" "Associated Press" stamp and descriptive newspaper clipping of photo now separated all on verso. Based on the 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst. Two single mothers-one white one black-struggle to raise their rebellious daughters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in New York City shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with two small closed tears in right margin and cropped bottom. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1956réf. 152016Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage reference photograph of Anne Baxter director Rudolph Mate and Charlton Heston on the set of the 1956 film. Capt. Colt Saunders Heston returns to Texas from the Civil War to find his land wanted by carpetbaggers and his town controlled by corrupt Yankees. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 4373. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968réf. 150870N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vntage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Claude Brialy from the 1968 film. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A beautiful widow hunts down then seduces and kills the five men responsible for accidentally killing her beloved on their wedding day. An unforgettable performance from Moreau. Shot on location throughout France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967réf. 150827N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of John Huston and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1967 film. Illegible release stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. John Huston's lurid and campy adaptation of Carson McCuller's 1941 novel. A melodrama of lust infidelity repressed homosexuality self mutilation suicide and murder with a spectacular cast: Elizabeth Taylor Marlon Brando Brian Keith Julie Harris and Robert Forster. Shot on location in New York and Lazio Italy. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
