rif. 049457Istanbul. Soft cover. Very Good. Original autograph letter signed as 'Sadi' sent to Vasfi Riza Zobu. 1 p. In Ottoman script. Letterhead 'Ferah: Sinema-varyete-tiyaro'. Dated 31-12-1929 Istanbul. It starts as 'Muhterem Vasfi Riza bey'. Used black ink with fountain pen. It's a letter of appeal. Vasfi Riza Zobu was born on December 5 1902 in Constantinople Ottoman Empire. He was an actor known for Karim beni aldatirsa 1933 Ankara postasi 1928 and Milyon avcilari 1934. He died on November 23 1992 in Istanbul Turkey. Aktör Sadi started his art career as a theater actor. He appeared on the stage at school along with Muvahhit actor husband of paintress Bedia Muvahhit writer Refik Halit Karay and Refi 'Cevat Ulunay. After the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy he started the professional theater company which was founded by Resat Ridvanand the playwright Ibnürrefik Ahmet Nuri Sekizinci. Bican Efendi series in which he played the title role after the WW 1 was accepted from the first comedy of Turkish cinema history. paperback
1969rif. 167422Los Angeles: Paragon Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Count Dracula and his wife are alive or undead and well in modern-day Arizona where they use their hunchbacked butler to capture and kill young girls allowing them to drink their victims' blood in martini glasses as Bloody Marys. A humorously campy entry in the Dracula canon produced by noted exploitation studio Crown International Pictures. Set in Arizona shot on location in Lancaster California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Good moderately soiled and dampstained on the left and right sides bound with two gold brads. Paragon Pictures unknown
1969rif. 167422Los Angeles: Paragon Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Count Dracula and his wife are alive or undead and well in modern-day Arizona where they use their hunchbacked butler to capture and kill young girls allowing them to drink their victims' blood in martini glasses as Bloody Marys. A humorously campy entry in the Dracula canon produced by noted exploitation studio Crown International Pictures. Set in Arizona shot on location in Lancaster California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Good moderately soiled and dampstained on the left and right sides bound with two gold brads. Paragon Pictures unknown books
1956rif. 150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso. Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr. Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film. Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. Paramount Pictures unknown
1956rif. 150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso. Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr. Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film. Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1975rif. 149647N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Al Goldstein Jody Maxwell and Jim Buckley from the 1975 film. Legendary pornographer and pornography activist Al Goldstein's attempt at bringing his weekly tabloid "Screw" magazine to the cinema a pastiche of sexually explicit shorts. Maxwell appears in the finale a "Tonight Show" like segment the longest segment in the film starring Buckley as host and Goldstein as sidekick. Maxwell starred in the film "Portrait" the year earlier directed by Gerard Damiano famed director of "Deep Throat" 1972 and "The Devil in Miss Jones" 1973. Shot on location in New York City Mount Vernon New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with small staining on mid right and light edgewear. Manuscript ink notation of the number "60" at the bottom margin with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. N.p. unknown
1975rif. 149647N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Al Goldstein Jody Maxwell and Jim Buckley from the 1975 film. Legendary pornographer and pornography activist Al Goldstein's attempt at bringing his weekly tabloid "Screw" magazine to the cinema a pastiche of sexually explicit shorts. Maxwell appears in the finale a "Tonight Show" like segment the longest segment in the film starring Buckley as host and Goldstein as sidekick. Maxwell starred in the film "Portrait" the year earlier directed by Gerard Damiano famed director of "Deep Throat" 1972 and "The Devil in Miss Jones" 1973. Shot on location in New York City Mount Vernon New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with small staining on mid right and light edgewear. Manuscript ink notation of the number "60" at the bottom margin with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. N.p. unknown books
1979rif. 168017Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage printed caricature for the 1979 film showing Lee Marvin Linda Evans and Robert Shaw drawn by noted caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and issued by Twentieth Century-Fox to publicize the film. A defecting Russian general collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making the film a final effort for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1972rif. 170735N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film the final outdoor scene with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Annotations in manuscript ink in French on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Marlon Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine lightly edgeworn. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader Canon Fodder 16. Sight and Sound 2022. N.p. unknown
1997rif. 171672Culver City CA: Columbia TriStar Films 1997. Two vintage composite studio still photographs from the 1997 film. Based on the 1988 book "Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia" by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley. An undercover FBI agent is unwittingly pulled into the Bonanno crime family and begins to rise in the family's ranks angering the older hitman who brought him in. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia TriStar Films unknown books
1972rif. 170735N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film the final outdoor scene with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Annotations in manuscript ink in French on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Marlon Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine lightly edgeworn. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader Canon Fodder 16. Sight and Sound 2022. N.p. unknown books
1965rif. 149476Chicago: Esquire 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With the stamp of R.I.C. Productions in Brussels on the verso. A so-called modeling agency in New York City secretly operates as an undercover prostitution ring. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and edgeworn. Esquire unknown
1965rif. 149476Chicago: Esquire 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With the stamp of R.I.C. Productions in Brussels on the verso. A so-called modeling agency in New York City secretly operates as an undercover prostitution ring. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and edgeworn. Esquire unknown books
1981rif. 144586Paris: Sara Films 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. Noel Yves Montand a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole Catherine Deneuve is met by two fugitives one is Serge Pierre Forget an old accomplice who is dying from a recent gun wound the other is Mickey Gerard Depardieu an unstable maniac. Mickey's paranoia and violent outburst pulls Noel into the conflict as the police are on his tail. A high stress series of shoot-outs ensues. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sara Films unknown
1981rif. 144586Paris: Sara Films 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. Noel Yves Montand a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole Catherine Deneuve is met by two fugitives one is Serge Pierre Forget an old accomplice who is dying from a recent gun wound the other is Mickey Gerard Depardieu an unstable maniac. Mickey's paranoia and violent outburst pulls Noel into the conflict as the police are on his tail. A high stress series of shoot-outs ensues. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sara Films unknown books
1970rif. 162139Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film showing actor Alain Delon. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on Eugene Saccomano's 1959 book "Bandits a Marseille." Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel "Borsalino and Co" in 1974 starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla. Set and shot on location in Marseille and Paris. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn with two pinholes at each corner and adhesive residue on the verso. Grant France. Spicer France. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970rif. 135622Spain: Adel Productions 1970. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the Spanish release circa 1970 of the 1969 French-Italian film. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil in Spanish on the recto and verso. Presumably a press photograph with a cropping note on the recto translated: "contrast a little background". Jeff Rouquier is the mastermind who has planned a successful robbery but fails to show up for share-out. His girlfriend Eva Darc is tortured by accomplices until she squeals and begins search for Jeff with the help of his confidant Laurent Delon. Director Herman and Alain Delon also collaborated on the 1968 crime adventure "Farewell Friend" also starring Charles Bronson. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and foxing. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Adel Productions unknown
1969rif. 168995Paris: Apis-Paris 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Romy Schneider on the set of the 1969 film. Photograph with French "APIS" stamps on the verso. A searing erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur where a couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Written by the noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Apis-Paris unknown
1969rif. 169582Paris: Gamma 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Romy Schneider and Alain Delon swimming together on the set. Gamma stamp crediting photographer J.P. Bonnotte on the verso along with layout annotations in manuscript pencil. A searing psychologically complex erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur. A couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Co-written by noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Gamma unknown
1970rif. 135622Spain: Adel Productions 1970. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the Spanish release circa 1970 of the 1969 French-Italian film. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil in Spanish on the recto and verso. Presumably a press photograph with a cropping note on the recto translated: "contrast a little background". Jeff Rouquier is the mastermind who has planned a successful robbery but fails to show up for share-out. His girlfriend Eva Darc is tortured by accomplices until she squeals and begins search for Jeff with the help of his confidant Laurent Delon. Director Herman and Alain Delon also collaborated on the 1968 crime adventure "Farewell Friend" also starring Charles Bronson. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and foxing. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Adel Productions unknown books
1970rif. 162139Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film showing actor Alain Delon. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on Eugene Saccomano's 1959 book "Bandits a Marseille." Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel "Borsalino and Co" in 1974 starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla. Set and shot on location in Marseille and Paris. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn with two pinholes at each corner and adhesive residue on the verso. Grant France. Spicer France. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1969rif. 159011N.p.: Les Productions Fox Europa 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 French film noir. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton. A small Mafia family plans to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Les Productions Fox Europa unknown books
1969rif. 168995Paris: Apis-Paris 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Romy Schneider on the set of the 1969 film. Photograph with French "APIS" stamps on the verso. A searing erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur where a couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Written by the noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Apis-Paris unknown books
1969rif. 169582Paris: Gamma 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Romy Schneider and Alain Delon swimming together on the set. Gamma stamp crediting photographer J.P. Bonnotte on the verso along with layout annotations in manuscript pencil. A searing psychologically complex erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur. A couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Co-written by noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Gamma unknown books
1973rif. 145320Burbank CA: A.J. Films 1973. Vintage borderless photograph of actor Alain Delon nude along with various members of the cast on a beach location during shooting of the 1973 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. After a breakup Helene Masson Annie Girardot takes her vacation at a rejuvenation clinic run by Dr. Devilers Alain Delon and his partner Dr. Berbard Michel Duchausso to prevent aging. Although the treatment helps Helene feel well she is disgusted when she realizes the disturbing source of the revitalizing formula. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. A.J. Films unknown