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1962Best.-Nr. 144077Paris: France Cinema 1962. Original French invitation for the premier of the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title. Presented as a wedding invitation for the fictional characters portrayed by Saval and Poiret cursive font on lightweight card stock with a laid-in list of starring actors appearing at the Cine Le Rex for the November 16 premiere. Based on Annette Wademant's screnplay one of twelve written by Wademant for director Boisrond. Bernard Poiret is a new publisher who falls in love with Sophie Saval but their foolish love nearly destroys them and his job. 5.75 x 7.5 inches folded horizontally. Near Fine. France Cinema unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 144084Rome: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Collection of 64 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1960 Italian film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos five with Contino's rubberstamp and two are dupes made by the original developer. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. 7 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall with curling and a few scattered creases. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 143480Tokyo: Toei Animation 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun" also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. A milestone in the history of Japanese animation heralded as the first animated feature to successfully disrupt the Walt Disney paradigm and seen as one of the first to intentionally address an adult audience. Isao Takahata's directorial debut and the first major film of famed Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki who worked on scene design and key animation for the film. Ostensibly a film about young boy living in ancient Scandinavia who must help instill a community to fight against a great oppressor it carried a strong pro-union and pro-Socialist subtext as Takahata and Miyazaki were staunch union organizers. Studio Toei executives in part in retaliation released the film into theaters for only ten days and it would be some years before the feature would be appreciated fully. Off white wrappers perfect-bound with black titles. Title page present. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Mimeograph duplication with pink orange green and yellow revision pages. Pages lightly toned else Fine wrapper Near Fine. Toei Animation unknown books
1938Best.-Nr. 144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 144156London: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the near future the Ayatollah Khomeini has recently died and the new leftist regime in Iran has begun to work together with the Soviet Union. The young and untraditional US president embarks on an diplomacy trip to address The Soviet Unions recent breach of an anti-nuclear treaty. His first stop is the UK where he narrowly avoids assassination. White titled wrappers Title page present dated 1980 with credits for screenwriter Michael Joseph. 28 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine comb binding. N.p. unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 144150Burbank CA: Sequoia Pictures 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Thriller set in Spain. American gangsters find themselves in the cross fire between armed revolutionaries and the military. Light blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter S. Lee Pogostin. Title page present with credits for screenwriter S. Lee Pogostin. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Sequoia Pictures unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 144125N.p.: N.p. 1960. Typescript for an unproduced television series including an introduction short synopsis and full treatments of each episode. The series follows the childhood adventures of Robby Mcdonald a turn of the century mountain boy raised by his pioneer grandmother. Set in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Yellow untitled Paul Kohner INC. wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Elaine Ryan. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 11. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional manuscript annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 144132Sydney: Melaleuka 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film with occasional manuscript annotations. Adapted from Morris West's novel of the same name. Just after World War II ends a British major in Austria seeks revenge on the man who killed his sergeant. Shot on location in Salzburg Austria and at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire England. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Morris L. West. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Melaleuka unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 144149N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Marisa immigrates to Los Angeles from Guatemala to go to a university for the deaf. She struggles to find work without a green card and as she is forced into increasingly precarious situations she must defend herself from violent and predatory men. Set in Guatemala and Los Angeles California. Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Larry Davis. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 144139Rome: N.p. 1974. Draft script for the first episode Episode 1 of an unproduced television series. Based on "De Novelle Della Pescara" or "The Stories of Pescara" by Gabriele D'Annunzio published in 1902. The whole collection was envisioned as a miniseries and here is the first episode based on the first story "The Virgin Orsola." A schoolteacher in a convent is threatened with an illness that brings her to the edge of death when she is suddenly brought back. A virgin she has a sudden sexual awakening and longs for the touch of a certain soldier but is instead seduced by a pimp leading her to the brink of madness and eventual death. Set in Italy. Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriter Pasquale Prunas and novelist Gabriele D'Annunzio . 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 144236Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film showing the film's principal characters Catherine Jim and Jules playing dominoes around a table as seen through the window of their cottage. Based on Henri-Pierre Roche's 1953 novel of the same name a story of a love triangle set in France throughout the First World War. Shot on location in France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 281. Ebert II. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 144226Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1964. Vintage photograph of actors Peter Fonda Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty from the 1964 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. Based on J. R. Salamanca's 1961 novel of the same name. Vincent Warren Beatty a recent Korean War veteran is in training at a mental institution as an occupational therapist where he becomes obsessed with Lilith Arthur Jean Seberg a schizophrenic patient whose seductive behavior stirs the order of the mental institution and destabilizes Vincent's own sense of reality. Set in Rockville Maryland. Shot on location in Virginia Long Island and Maryland. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 144208Tokyo: Toho Company 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 Japanese film. Manuscript annotations in pencil and black ink on the verso. A drug smuggler's death stumps the police until they are convinced by a young scientist of the presence of "H-Men" slimy radioactive creatures who dissolve anything they come into contact with. The scientist refers to a ghost ship that washed up in the harbor as evidence of the H-bomb tests role in creating these monsters. Shot on location in Tokyo Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Toho Company unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 144209Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly from the 1959 film. With manuscript annotations in graphite on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. A disturbed young woman is coerced by her aunt into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. Set in New Orleans and various Locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 144217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard about a cowboy who on the run from the law travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 144397Rome: Iterfilm 1982. Agency draft script in English for the 1982 Italian film. Antonioni's rarely discussed final feature but generally considered one of his greatest achievements. Niccolo Tomas Milian a recently divorced movie director pursues a new relationship with a younger woman Mavi Daniela Silverio who he imagines could play the leading role in his next film. She quickly vanishes and he embarks on a search to find her sparking up a series of romances with other women. Winner of the 35th Anniversary Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Venice and Rome. Blue untitled agency wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Michelangelo Antonioni. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Criterion Collection 585. Iterfilm unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 144308Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1959. Collection of 6 vintage US publicity photographs from the 1959 Japanese pink film. The first of several films based on the Junichiro Tanizaki. Released in Japan as "Kagi" and with the alternate English language title "The Key." An elderly antique dealer struggles with his aging body and looming impotence. To grapple with his anxiety he introduces his daughter's boyfriend a handsome doctor to his younger wife. The jealousy and voyeurism that follow invigorates his dying spirit but the chaos he has introduced eventually takes a horrific toll. Winner of the 1960 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Weisser and Weisser Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films pp. 219-220. Sharp Behind the Pink Curtain p. 372. Daiei Studios unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 144353Rome: Lux Film 1961. Original Italian program for the 1961 film here under the original Italian title "Divorzio all'italiana." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white still photos from the film full-color front wrapper fold-out art and the program details a synopsis and cast and crew credits. Notations throughout in manuscript ink mostly amending certain words of the synopsis. Ferdinando Mastroianni is bored with life and his wife Rocca. He falls in love with his cousin Sandrelli and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover instead of killing her. Seems simple enough. The first of Mastoianni's four "Italian Style" films and winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing a BAFTA three Golden Globes and nominated for a host of others. 9.5 x 13.25 inches 9 leaves saddle-stapled. Very Good overall lacking staples with creases brief tears and foxing. Criterion Collection 286. Lux Film unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 144442Paris: Cinedis 1956. Original borderless single weight still photograph from the 1956 French-Italian film. Bergman and Marais enjoy a moment sharply dressed. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil and a rubber-stamp crediting starring actors director and French film title on the verso. One of director Renoir's final films a turn of the century romantic comedy about Polish princess Elena Bergman and various men of military rank in pre-WWI Paris. Shot on location throughout France. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and brief creases at the corners and a faint dampstain. Criterion Collection 244. Godard Histoire du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Cinedis unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 144275Paris: France Cinema 1962. 75 original black-and-white film still photographs for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title. Starring actress Saval is prominently featured as is costar Poiret with metal crutches in tow and actress Maillan. Several images show members of the crew during filming rainy scenes cars and large cameras. All with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Housed in an original French Gevaert photo paper box. Based on Annette Wademant's screenplay one of twelve written by Wademant for director Boisrond. Bernard Poiret is a new publisher who falls in love with Sophie Saval but their foolish love nearly destroys them and his job. 5 x 7 inches borderless. Very Good plus overall with slight curling and foxing to photos box lightly rubbed. France Cinema unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 144266France: Limot 1961. Archive of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots pinup images of actress Castel Bourvil mending fences and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes gunfights in the town square and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of Clair's final films. Nearly all are rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Housed in an original French Kodak photo paper box. One photograph shown. Please inquire for others. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos 5 x 7 inches with a few trimmed slightly smaller and box slightly larger. Photos Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing and box Very Good Plus two splits to the lid. Limot unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 144440Paris: Filmsonor 1955. Collection of 17 vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso of one portrait photograph and several with annotations in manuscript pencil and ink noting numbers and title on the versos. Based on Peter von Mendelssohn's 1935 novel "Douloureuse Arcadie." Shot in both French and German versions each with a different cast with the exception of Marianne Hold in the lead role. Director Julien Duvivier's other films include "Pépé le Moko" 1937 "Maria Chapdelaine" 1934 and "Panique" 1946 Set and shot on location in Bavaria. Photos range from 3.25 x 4.5 inches to 7 x 9.5 inches several with small white borders. Very Good plus with light curling and a few faint creases. Filmsonor unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 144268France: Limot 1961. Original black-and-white single weight photograph from the 1961 French film. Actor Philippe Noiret is seen anxiously conversing on a telephone. Rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and with numerical annotations 641 in manuscript pencil. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. One of Clair's final films. Shot on location throughout France. 5 x 7 inches tiny white border at the foot. Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing. Limot unknown books
