1969rif. 150572Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A young man and his girlfriend make plans to kill the man's aunt in the hopes of receiving her large fortune but their nefarious plans are waylaid by the aunt's dozens of psychic murderous cats. Shot in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1969rif. 150573Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Seven vintage color studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A young man and his girlfriend make plans to kill the man's aunt in the hopes of receiving her large fortune but their nefarious plans are waylaid by the aunt's dozens of psychic murderous cats. Shot in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall one with a few pinholes to the corners. Universal Pictures unknown
1973rif. 150575New York: National General Pictures 1973. Three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1973 film. An erotic thriller following a television reporter who becomes increasingly obsessed with filming his neighbors' private lives. Noted author Michael Crichton's first original screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1973rif. 150574New York: National General Pictures 1973. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film. An erotic thriller following a television reporter who becomes increasingly obsessed with filming his neighbors' private lives. Noted author Michael Crichton's first original screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1983rif. 168214Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / United Artists 1983. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1983 film showing actors Nastassja Kinski and James Toback. An independent young woman moves from Wisconsin to New York where she starts a career as a fashion model although her dreams of big city life are challenged by encounters with a stalker and a terrorist. Shot on location in New York and Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists unknown books
1959rif. 145128France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir and actor Jean-Louis Barrault on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamp of photographer Albert Decamps on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] unknown books
1959rif. 144576France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF 1959. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and members of the crew on the set of the 1959 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. 11 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] unknown books
1959rif. 142159France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine with each sheet containing manuscript ink annotations with the name of the production credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet and with three dated January 26 1959 and one dated April 4 1959. Accompanying the photographs are 35 negatives for photographs in the archive and 1 negative for a photograph that was not struck and mounted. All the photographs featuring cast and crew working on the set and 16 feature images of Renoir on the set. Also included are two vintage borderless press photographs depicting scenes for the film. Each with the stamp of "Telerama" on the verso along with manuscript annotations identifying the film and for layout. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. Proof photographs and negatives roughly 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Proof sheets 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Card stock. About Near Fine with some wear at the corners. Press photographs 7.25 x 5 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the upper corner of one photograph else Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir unknown books
1959rif. 145128France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir and actor Jean-Louis Barrault on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamp of photographer Albert Decamps on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] unknown
1959rif. 144576France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF 1959. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and members of the crew on the set of the 1959 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. 11 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] unknown
1959rif. 142159France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine with each sheet containing manuscript ink annotations with the name of the production credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet and with three dated January 26 1959 and one dated April 4 1959. Accompanying the photographs are 35 negatives for photographs in the archive and 1 negative for a photograph that was not struck and mounted. All the photographs featuring cast and crew working on the set and 16 feature images of Renoir on the set. Also included are two vintage borderless press photographs depicting scenes for the film. Each with the stamp of "Telerama" on the verso along with manuscript annotations identifying the film and for layout. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. Proof photographs and negatives roughly 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Proof sheets 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Card stock. About Near Fine with some wear at the corners. Press photographs 7.25 x 5 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the upper corner of one photograph else Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir unknown
1921rif. 148293Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1921. Vintage press portrait photograph of Nita Naldi to publicize the 1921 film. With a seller stamp on the verso. Based on the 1914 Broadway play. A moral allegory wherein Youth Richard Barthelmess leaves home at the urgings of Ambition guided by Experience and Opportunity and hopefully not waylaid by Pleasure Beauty Temptation or Chance. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a horizontal crease to the bottom edge and light even toning. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1995rif. 157245N.p.: Alliance International 1995. Vintage portrait matte photograph of director Atom Egoyan from the 1995 film. Bruce Greenwood depressed and grieving over the loss of his child is obsessed with Mia Kirshner a young stripper at an upscale strip club whose ex-boyfriend Elias Koteas the club's MC still jealously pines for her. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Toronto. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Alliance International unknown books
1975rif. 147480N.p.: Grafopress-Ciampino 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film here under the title "Le Viziose." "Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles including "Le Viziose" and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires" as well as an X-rated version "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym of James P. Johnson or L.P. Johnson as on the poster is the screenwriter under the pseudonym David Khune and acts under the pseudonym Jess Frank. Franco's "Exorcisme" features Franco in the lead as Mathis Vogel a psychotic defrocked priest who writes S&M stories by day and tortures and murders Satanic black mass dinner theater patrons by night. Also starring Franco's longtime collaborator and later wife Lina Romay as the free spirit Anne. 13 x 27.5 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Thrower Stephen. Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two 1975-2013. Grafopress-Ciampino unknown books
1975rif. 147480N.p.: Grafopress-Ciampino 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film here under the title "Le Viziose." "Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles including "Le Viziose" and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires" as well as an X-rated version "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym of James P. Johnson or L.P. Johnson as on the poster is the screenwriter under the pseudonym David Khune and acts under the pseudonym Jess Frank. Franco's "Exorcisme" features Franco in the lead as Mathis Vogel a psychotic defrocked priest who writes S&M stories by day and tortures and murders Satanic black mass dinner theater patrons by night. Also starring Franco's longtime collaborator and later wife Lina Romay as the free spirit Anne. 13 x 27.5 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Thrower Stephen. Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two 1975-2013. Grafopress-Ciampino unknown
1960rif. 151692N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1960 film showing director Otto Preminger and a camera crew between takes with actor Paul Newman in the foreground whose head is in a box. With a stamp crediting still photographer Leo Fuchs on the verso. Based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel about the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 following a ship carrying Jewish immigrants whose passage to the holy land is blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. Shot on location in Israel and Cyprus. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1960rif. 151692N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1960 film showing director Otto Preminger and a camera crew between takes with actor Paul Newman in the foreground whose head is in a box. With a stamp crediting still photographer Leo Fuchs on the verso. Based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel about the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 following a ship carrying Jewish immigrants whose passage to the holy land is blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. Shot on location in Israel and Cyprus. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1940rif. 140978N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A recently paroled ex-con gets out of prison and immediately murders someone leading to a large-scale media scandal. Screenwriter Christy Cabanne was one of the most prolific directors in the history of early American film beginning in the Silent era later working with Universal on a string of low-budget movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Goldenrod untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Christy Cabanne. 55 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1940rif. 140978N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A recently paroled ex-con gets out of prison and immediately murders someone leading to a large-scale media scandal. Screenwriter Christy Cabanne was one of the most prolific directors in the history of early American film beginning in the Silent era later working with Universal on a string of low-budget movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Goldenrod untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Christy Cabanne. 55 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1952rif. 135967Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1952. Report and Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Script notes Jennifer Jones as recommendation for the titular role. The events of the life of first lady of Argentina Eva Perón. Red titled wrappers noted as Report and Synopsis on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter David Weiss. 17 leaves with last page of text numbered 17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine unbound. Vanguard Films unknown books
rif. 133217New York: Warner Brothers 1996. First edition of the draft script for the 1996 film boldly signed by Oliver Stone based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber which was in turn based on Rice and Webber's 1976 concept album following the brief life of Argentinean first lady Eva Peron from her impoverished illegitimate beginnings to her later idolatry. The film went through many iterations of production passing between studios and directors with Parker returning to direct in 1994 after having initially rejected the opportunity in 1979. Warner Brothers unknown
1981rif. 151236N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown books
1981rif. 151236N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown
1971rif. 151406Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing director-actor Woody Allen at the chopping block. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1971rif. 150578Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Noted as 6 and 8 on the bottom left corners. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus one Very Good edgeworn with vertical creasing across the center of the photograph. United Artists unknown books
