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1974réf. 146534Los Angeles: Selznick/Glickman Productions 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter on Selznick/Glickman Productions letterhead introducing the screenplay addressed to an agent at the Paul Kohner casting agency and signed by film producer Daniel Selznick. Based on the 1972 novel. An American physician is the only doctor who can perform a surgery that will save a Soviet scientist's life-but the scientist is on the verge of an atomic breakthrough that could kill millions. Set in Russia and Paris. Yellow untitled card wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Gene R. Kearney and novelist Marshall Goldberg. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. Selznick/Glickman Productions unknown books
1970réf. 147286London: Winkast Film Productions 1970. Two scripts a first draft script and a draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on two pages one with what appears to be a question mark and another with a question mark and a strike. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. English novelist and playwright Barry England is best known for his first novel the 1968 thriller "Figures in a Landscape" made into the 1970 Joseph Losey film of the same name starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell. 1900 in the Arizona border town of Berwick a group of thieves and entertainers are hatching a plan to break into the vault at the bank. The sheriff and mayor are on guard and everyone is suspicious of the weathered inscrutable old Jed Bounty. First draft screenplay: Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Draft screenplay: Orange untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Winkast Film Productions unknown books
réf. 146547N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink annotations to the title page. After a dissatisfying experience with a prostitute a man begins to have a number of hallucinatory experiences while sitting in a bar. Blue untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank Flannery. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound with a silver clasp. N.p. unknown books
1970réf. 146525N.p.: N.p. 1970. Eight-page Treatment script for an unproduced film. Attached on the front wrapper is a handwritten note from producer Anthony Unger to casting agent Paul Kohner on Academy Players Directory letterhead introducing the script. A veteran posts an ad in the newspaper offering to perform any service-especially seeking out risky and problematic endeavors-for $107941.72 which he intends to give to the family of a friend killed in the war. According to the final page of the script based on a real ad posted in the International Herald Tribune in February 1970. Set in Southeast Asia and London. Navy titled card label wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ted Strauss. 9 leaves with last page of text numbered 8. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
réf. 146548N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the film title and screenwriter's name. A scientist accidentally creates a new strain of the influenza virus unaware that his coworkers intend to use the virus to solve the world's overpopulation problem by killing millions of people. Orange titled card wrappers with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1970réf. 147269N.p.: N.p. 1970. First draft screenplay for an unproduced film from British director Clive Donner circa early 1970s. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock with two small annotations one on page 16 of the word "ice" written into the dialogue in manuscript marker and the page number "100" underlined in manuscript ink at the top margin of that page. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Based on the 1971 novel by Donald MacKenzie the third entry in his Henry Chalice Mystery series preceded by "Salute from a Dead Man" 1966 and "Death is a Friend" 1967. Jewel thief Paul Henderson has had a run of bad luck when he is offered a job on a big heist from a career criminal he's worked with before but when he arrives in Switzerland for the crime he faces a double cross and a kidnapping. Blue untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Clive Donner and novelist Donald Mackenzie misspelled. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Tall Pages 8.5 x 11.75 inches with standard size wrappers 8.5 x 11 inches. Pages Very Good plus title page trimed about 1 1/4" from bottom wrapper Very Good plus two closed tears at top of die-cut window bound internally with two flat metal brads. N.p. unknown books
1974réf. 147278St. Albans: Tillman Trevone Productions 1974. Final draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. John Briley Academy Award winning screenwriter for Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic "Gandhi" adapts his 1968 Vietnam War novel "The Traitors" released in England in 1971 as "How Sleep the Brave." Five soldiers ambushed by the Vietcong are taken to a camp where they are indoctrinated by an American defector who persuades two of the soldiers that America's cause is immoral and unjust. Not to be confused with the 1981 film by Lindsay Shonteff. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated April 1974 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter and novelist John Briley. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Tillman Trevone Productions unknown books
1969réf. 147024Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Six vintage temporary tattoos issued as a promotional item for the 1969 film by the beloved but short-lived film studio Warner Brothers-Seven Arts. With both the original envelope housing the tattoos and a Warner Brothers-Seven Arts mailing envelope addressed to film critic photographer and poet Michael S. Dworkin. The decals shown in reverse here for the sake of readability are inspired by the designs for the tattoos sported by actor Rod Steiger in the film with the promotional copy inviting the recipient to "be your own illustrated man." The only example we have encountered unsurprising given the temporary nature of the item. Based on three short stories from Bradbury's acclaimed collection "The Veldt" "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World." Tattoos variously sized between 4.25 x 5.75 and 8.75 x 4 inches. All but one of the tissue guards are still fully attached. Bright and Near Fine. Promotional envelope 5.25 x 10 inches. Chip to the envelope flap and some bruising from having been opened else Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1935réf. 146988Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. 11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1930réf. 146907N.p.: Gloria Productions 1930. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1930 film. Stamps on the verso reading: "Gloria Swanson in 'What a Widow' Directed by Allan Dwan United Artists Picture" and "United Artists Corporation." A young woman inherits a fortune from her late elderly husband and is pursued by several high society suitors. Gloria Swanson's first picture originally filmed with sound and the final film produced by her Gloria Productions studio. Now considered a lost film its trailer is preserved at the Library of Congress and soundtrack is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Set in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Gloria Productions unknown books
1936réf. 147033Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful of films to feature an all-Black cast made by a major Hollywood studio during the Golden Age becoming the highest grossing such film and remaining so until surpassed by "Carmen Jones" in 1954. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and light vertical creasing down the center. Warner Brothers unknown books
1935réf. 146172Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes dated February 28 1936 also with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent lifestyle and pay off his debts. When he falls in love with a copper heiress in the process of trying to swindle her he must decide between the wealth and power their marriage would bring him and the social disgrace she would encounter if his prior indiscretions were ever made public. Final shooting script 10-2-35: Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 10-2-35 with credits for screenwriter Allen Rivkin and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/4/35 and 11/2/35. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Revisions and Retakes: Blue partial wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / REVISIONS & RETAKES on the front wrapper dated February 28 1936 with credits for associate producer Edward T. Lowe and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/2/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor quite dry with some cracking and a lower right corner of the front rear wrapper detached bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1956réf. 141754France: Illria Film 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1876 oft-produced novel by Jules Verne of the same title. Michael Strogoff is the courier of the Tsar tasked to deliver a very important message to the Tsar's brother who is in Siberia cut off from the main army due to the Tatar Army during the Crimean War. Set in the Russian Empire shot on location in Serbia. 203 leaves with last page of text numbered 203. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking front wrapper bound with a silver prong binding. Illria Film unknown books
1953réf. 146144Hollywood: Allied Artists 1953. Draft script for the 1953 film. With a single manuscript pencil notation reading "1952" to the top left corner of the front wrapper. In Tangier an American spy posing as a black marketeer is on a mission to stop three atomic scientists who plan to pool their government secrets and make a profitable deal with the Communists. A late-career project from prolific director Lew Landers best known for his low-budget western and adventure films at RKO and Columbia. Blue titled wrappers noted as production No. 203. Title page integral with the distribution page with receipt intact rubber-stamped copy No. 46 with story and screenwriting credits to George Bricker. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 9/13/52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and light fading bound with two gold brads. Allied Artists unknown books
1950réf. 147453Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1950. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1950 Italian film showing director Roberto Rossellini with the camera and lighting crews setting up a wide shot with Ingrid Bergman and other actors in the distance. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout and noting the film's title. After World War II a Lithuanian refugee marries an Italian POW in order to be released from an internment camp only to find herself miserable on the barren volcanic island he calls home. A classic example of Italian neorealism featuring documentary-esque footage from the island of Stromboli and footage from the island's evacuation during one of its many volcanic eruptions. Set on Stromboli Island shot on location in Lazio and Sicily Italy. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with a pinhole to the lower right corner and light soil. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Criterion Collection 673. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1981réf. 141480N.p.: N.p. 1981. First Draft script for an unproduced film. David a constant disappointment is floundering coming up with new ways to make money. A doctor friend of his asks him to donate some sperm for an artificial insemination experiment and the First Lady is destined to give birth to his child. Set in New York. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1981 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael K. Lange. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine housed in a black binder. N.p. unknown books
1936réf. 146047Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film here under the working title "Turmoil." With manuscript annotations in ink and blue pencil on the front wrapper and title page and a single manuscript pencil notation to the verso of page 80. Based on the 1930 novel "Job." Grieved by the death of his wife an Austrian sexton is abandoned by his eldest son who goes to America and finds success as an engineer and abandons his younger son at a monastery upon learning that the child is a deaf-mute. Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated FEB. 28 1936. Title page present dated February 28 1936 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for novelist Joseph Roth and screenwriter Samuel G. Engel. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/20/35 and 3/3/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor with usual dryness and chipping common to Fox wrappers of this era and detached. Pages supple bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970réf. 147367London: Winkast Programming 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Stanley Ellin's screen adaptation of his 1970 novel. Film rights for Ellin's novel had been bought in 1969 prior to its publication by producer Phil Waxman wanting Robert Redford in the lead. It would not be made into a motion picture until 1979 when Richard C. Sarafian filmed a loosely based comedic adaptation entitled "Sunburn" written by James Booth John Daly and Stephen Oliver and starring Farrah Fawcett-Majors Charles Grodin and Art Carney. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Jake Deker is a Miami Beach insurance investigator looking into possible insurance fraud in the death of Walter Thoren uncovering false identities blackmail and organized crime. Set in Miami Beach Florida. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for novelist and screenwriter Stanley Ellin. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two flat metal brads. Winkast Programming unknown books
1972réf. 147379London: K.L.K. Films 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Nicholas Luard's 1967 novel a political thriller. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Down on his luck news photographer Sear is offered a large payment to cover the secret exodus of 10000 Hungarian refugees across the border and finds himself embroiled in a game of international espionage. Blue untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present February 1972 with credits for screenwriter Ian La Frenais. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. K.L.K. Films unknown books
1986réf. 146118Los Angeles: RLC/Finnegan 1986. Shooting script for the television film here under the working title "Hoover" first aired on Showtime on January 11 1987. A biopic documenting the rise to power and final years of J. Edgar Hoover the long-standing and controversial director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Loosely based on William C. Sullivan's 1979 memoir "The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover's FBI." Set in Washington DC Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 14 1986 noted as SHOOTING DRAFT with credits for director and screenwriter Robert Collins. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with some foxing and light fading to the extremities bound with two gold brads. RLC/Finnegan unknown books
1976réf. 147447Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1976. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1976 film showing director Bernardo Bertolucci giving instructions to actors Robert De Niro Gerard Depardieu and Romolo Valli. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film was a gargantuan undertaking requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the small town of Parma the film follows two best friends born in 1901 whose lives diverge drastically as a result of their class differences and the rise of Fascism in Italy. Set in Parma Italy shot on location in Rome Lombardia and Campagnia Italy. 6 x 4 inches. Near Fine. Eureka 135. Olive Films 345. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1959réf. 147470Rome: Panitalia 1959. Vintage borderless candid photograph of Antonella Lualdi and members of the film crew on the set of the 1959 film. With a stamp for photographer Jacques Six and mimeo snipe to the verso. Based on Stanley Ellin's 1952 novel. A wealthy vintner finds it difficult to balance the demands of his wife his children his best friend and his recently murdered mistress. Set and shot on location in Aix-en-Provence France. 9 x 6 inches. Very Good plus with faint soil. Grant France. Panitalia unknown books
1951réf. 146109Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1951. Draft script for the 1952 film. A Red Scare narrative wherein two all-American parents unsuccessfully attempt to lure their brainy son John away from the call of Communism. Actor Robert Walker unexpectedly died before production for the film ended leading director Leo McCarey to heavily revise the script and edit in footage from Walker's scenes in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" 1951 in order to finish the film. Although nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing and praised by the American Legion and Catholic Press Institute the film was eviscerated by New York critics for its hot-blooded anti-intellectualism bigotry and push for conformity in the name of anti-Communism a touchstone for the country's fears during the McCarthy era. Titled self wrappers in the Paramount style. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated February 27 1951 noted as 1ST PRELIMINARY GREEN with adaptation credits for John Lee Mahin. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with some fading and edgewear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Olive Films 418. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970réf. 147475Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Vintage double weight borderless candid photograph of actor-singer Charles Aznavour and his wife Ulla Thorsell on the set of the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Hugh Atkinson. The story of four marathon runners from different countries as they prepare to compete in the Olympic games in Rome. Set and shot on location in Austria Denmark England Australia Italy and Japan. 8 x 10.5 inches. Light curling with two small imperfections to the top edge else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964réf. 147446Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1964. Vintage oversize borderless photograph from the 1964 French film. Manuscript pencil annotations on the verso noting the name of the film and photographer. Legendary director and French New Wave auteur François Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess. Set and shot on location in Portugal and France. 11 x 8 inches. Very Good with a slight curl light creasing to the bottom edge and pinholes to the corners. Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
