Best.-Nr. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown books
Best.-Nr. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 148411New York: International News Photos 1953. Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe dated May 17 1953 "International News Photos" and "Return to: Chronicle Files" stamps on verso. The International News Photos snipe addresses the movie as "New Wine." While we could not verify that working title Rossellini and co-screenwriter Vitaliano Brancati had drawn on a script by Antonio Pietrangeli entitled "New Vine" for "Journey to Italy" and was likely an error by the news agency. Loosely based on the 1934 novel "Duo" by Colette. An English couple Alex George Sanders and Katherine Joyce Bergman eight years married travel to Italy to sell a villa inherited from Alex's uncle. Along the drive and during their stay at the villa they come to the realization they really don't know one another and have little desire to spend time together. Set in and shot on location in Naples and Rome Italy. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. BFI 540. Scorcese My Voyage to Italy. International News Photos unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 148885Hong Kong: Hong Hwa Film 1971. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. A young girl finds an injured warrior who is being hunted by seven devils. He begins training her in a secret form of "evil karate" and once she grows up they set out to defeat the seven devils and their master. 14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a shallow vertical crease. Light toning to one side of the flyer. Hong Hwa Film unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 148888Hong Kong: Kwong Ming Film 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. In early 20th century China a worker accidentally kills his boss in a fight. He flees to Thailand with his friends where they are forced to fight in an underground fighting ring. 14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and occasional light foxing. Kwong Ming Film unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 137207Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO 1999. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the HBO television movie "The Jack Bull." Loosely based on the 1810 novella "Michael Kolhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist. A tale of revenge following a rancher who refuses to sell his ranch to a greedy land baron. The landowner slowly eats away at Cusack's livelihood charging tolls abusing his horses and later killing his wife. Set in Wyoming just prior to its statehood shot on location in Alberta. 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
Best.-Nr. 149074Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. Uncredited makeup artist Rick Schwartz's copy with his ownership name on the title page in manuscript link and with penciled check marks throughout relating to close-ups in the film. Secretarial notation of supervising producer Irwin Allen's name on the title page. A stunt-heavy 1970s powerhouse designed to capitalize on the enormous success of the 1971 film "Evel Knievel" but with this entry featuring inimitable motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel as himself. Also cast are Gene Kelly as his alcoholic mechanic and Leslie Nielsen as a power-hungry Mexican drug lord. Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico unaware that a drug cartel intends to kill him and use his tour bus to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine. Set in California and Mexico shot on location in Monterey Park Burbank and Long Beach California. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated February 13 1976 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter Antonio Santillan sic. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 128815London: Merton Park Studios 1961. Final Shooting Script for the 1962 UK film. The 18th film out of 47 of the "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" a British film series that showed as 1-hour second features on British film screens between 1960 and 1965 then later on television. White titled wrappers noted as Final Shooting script on the front wrapper dated October 1961 with credits for screenwriter Mackie and writer Wallace. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 64 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Merton Park Studios unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 140838N.p.: Wolper Pictures 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on the book of the same name by Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton. Based on the 1966 book by Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton in turn based on the true story of a specially trained unit of misfit American and Canadian soldiers given the seemingly impossible task to capture Mt. La Difensa and prove their merit. Set in America England and Italy shot on location in Utah and Italy. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1/13/67 noted as Final Revised with credits for William Roberts. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Rubber stamped on the title page #79. Wolper Pictures unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 128816London: Merton Park Studios 1962. Final Shooting script for the 1962 UK film. The 21st film out of 47 of the "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" a British film series that screened as 60-minute second features on British film screens between 1960 and 1965 then later on television. A shady businessman has perpetrated a fraud that has resulted in the death of a large number of people. His business partner has evidence of the fraud and threatens the fraudster with exposure in the event of any further dishonest dealing. But when the fraudster suddenly receives death threats he decides to fake his own murder. . Light blue tall titled wrappers noted as Final Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated January 1962 with credits for screenwriter Harris and writer Wallace. 55 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver British-style brads. Merton Park Studios unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 147136Beverly Hills CA: Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm 1984. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and a few copied manuscript annotations to page 59 and 60 noting grammatical revisions. A young pizza delivery worker falls for his new roommate a single mother who wants to be an actress but can only find work as a telegram-singing stripper. Meanwhile their next door neighbor an Austrian bodybuilder idolizes Arnold Schwarzenegger and dreams of true love. Set and shot on location in Echo Park Los Angeles and Vienna Austria. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1 1984 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael Ventura. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm unknown books
2010Best.-Nr. 149043Minneapolis: Werc Werk Works 2010. Original working script from the 2012 film belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis with her name on a handwritten slip of paper tucked into the front of the binder including a Revised Draft script a two-page xerographically duplicated document regarding costume fitting and two photographs from the set of the film. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by various crew and cast members including actors Diane Keaton Kevin Kline Sam Shepard and Elisabeth Moss. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. An unhappily married lonely woman finds love when she rescues a stray dog named Freeway. Shot on location in Utah. Housed in a blue three-ring binder. Title page present dated 9/20/10 noted as BLUE REVISION with credits for screenwriter Meg Kasdan and screenwriter-director Lawrence Kasdan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. Werc Werk Works unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 149058Los Angeles: Gracie Films 2001. Shooting Draft script for the 2001 television episode originally aired on October 2 on ABC. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by actress Joan Cusack: "Molly -- / my god you are so wonderful / Thank you for your ideas-and your great smarts / Joan Cusack / P.S. you were the highlight of sophistication in this show." Missing 13 pages likely as used or issued. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. A Chicago schoolteacher juggles a new relationship and fields day-to-day interactions in the workplace. The show aired for two seasons. Set in Ravenswood Chicago. Blue titled self-wrappers dated 8/3/01 noted as Shooting Draft with credits for director Terry Hughes and screenwriter Katherine Green. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 147341N.p.: N.p. 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout noting substantive revisions. Based on Bill Pronzini's 1974 novel wherein a small town's entire population is cut off from the outside world by a massive blizzard unaware that three professional killers are trapped in their midst. Set in the Sierra Nevadas. White non-standard titled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated October 11 1974 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Christopher Knopf and director Peter Yates. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly soiled bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 149053Beverly Hills CA: Imagine Entertainment 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going Sabrina Grdevich Carlos Jacott Heidi Schanz and Eric Stoltz. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. An early darkly comic screenwriting effort from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach best known for "Kicking and Screaming" 1995 "The Squid and the Whale" 2005 and "Marriage Story" 2019 following a group of friends struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 4/29/99 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach and director Thomas Schlamme. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only with one white revision page dated 4/23/99. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Imagine Entertainment unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 149124N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Roman Polanski and Mia Farrow in front of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Ave New York City during the filming of the 1968 film. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film one of the best genre pictures ever made from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director established producer William Castle young star Mia Farrow and Hollywood veteran John Cassavetes. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ruth Gordon and nominated for Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine National Film Registy. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 630. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 148516Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1938 film musical showing actor Buddy Ebsen dressed as a jockey astride a horse. With an ink stamp to the verso identifying the film by its working title "Broadway Melody of 1937" along with the reference number 988-14B. A backstage musical revue most notable for featuring a young Judy Garland in an unexpectedly popular singing role which would eventually lead to her casting in "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. Set in New York. 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 148429Burbank CA: Warner Brothers - First National 1942. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso one with "National Screen Service Corp" and "227- 42" stamps on verso and two with a "Photograph by Madison Lacy" stamp on versos. Included is a two-color press flyer for the film. Two migrant workers attempt to organize farmers against monopolistic packing plant owner with the help of a dancer at a local club. Set in the fictional town of Cat Tail Florida shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear two uniformly faded one with four pinholes to far left two with small closed tears and one with one inch closed tear with cello tape repair on verso. Press Flyer 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine. Warner Brothers - First National unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 149117Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage photograph of Preston Sturges adjusting Claudette Colbert's outfit made of men's pajamas and a pullman blanket on the set of the 1942 film. Studio label affixed to bottom margin of recto with ambiguous initials and "May 30" written in manuscript ink. Mimeo snipe on verso. In the minds of some critics Sturges closed out the screwball comedy era with a bang in this breakneck venture which had dialogue flying back and forth at a speed that was radical even by Sturges' standards. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some creasing and edgewear. Criterion Collection 742. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 146703N.p.: Bryna Productions 1957. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Marshal Tate Rory Calhoun finds himself caught in a conflict between a bigoted town led by the racist and cowardly Cavalryman Cpt. George Lloyd Bridges and Cheyenne out for revenge when one of Cpt. George's men kill Chief Yellow Wolf Frank DeKova. Featuring Joanne Gilbert as Pretty Willow Chief Yellow Wolf's daughter and Tate's love interest and Gloria Grahame as Amy Porter a widow in love with Tate. Set in the Dakotas shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. 1 Near Fine others Very Good to Very Good plus mostly light creasing 3 with open tears at corners 4 with uniform fading. Pitts 3432. Bryna Productions unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 148501N.p.: N.p. 1989. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Not related to the 1997 movie of the same name. After his father's death a young man travels to the small town of Anaconda to uncover the secrets of his father's past which seem to include a long-lost half-sister. Set in Pennsylvania Ohio and Montana. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 9/89 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Laurie Taylor-Williams and Merce Williams. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light foxing and several partial ring stains on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 148498Universal City: Universal Pictures 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of James Taylor and director Monte Hellman on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. After cutting his teeth under the tutelage of guerilla filmmaker Roger Corman Monte Hellman made two landmark and still rarely screened existential Westerns with Jack Nicholson as producer and star. But it was with "Two-Lane Blacktop" the first screenplay by noted novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer that maverick director Monte Hellman helmed his first masterpiece and a cornerstone of the New Hollywood movement. Shot on location in Arizona Tennessee Oklahoma California Arkansas and New Mexico. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 414. Eureka MOC 26. Universal Pictures unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 148510N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau cinematographer Floyd Crosby a sound engineer and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story "Turia" based on a South Sea legend Flaherty had heard while working on W.S. Van Dyke's "White Shadows in the South Seas" 1928 which would later evolve into "Tabu." Two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora find themselves in danger when an old warrior declares the girl to be the Chosen Maid. Refusing the lovers run off to a "westernized" island were the boy earns a living as a pearl diver and lands in debt. When the old warrior discovers their location they plan another escape requiring the boy paying off his debts by pearl diving in shark-infested waters. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Tahiti and the Leeward Islands French Polynesia. 5.75 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine lightly faded. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Eureka! 61. N.p. unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 146744Beverly Hills CA: H.B.L. Productions 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. Based on the 1969 heist novel by Lawrence Block about a burnt-out former Green Beret who gets a tip-off about a valuable shipment of tactical nuclear weapons which he intends to steal with the help of a trained killer. Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. was known for his action and thriller films including "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting" 1969 "Papillon" 1973 and "Never Say Never Again" 1983. Set in the Florida Keys and Washington DC Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter LORENZO SEMPLE JR. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. H.B.L. Productions unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 149234Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego California. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 37 and production No. 701 dated OCTOBER 29 1941. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 29 1941 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
