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1951ref. 158855Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Based on an original story by Alfred Hayes and Stewart Stern. A soldier in Italy during WWII meets and marries an Italian woman. They return to the US together and struggle to adjust. Set in Italy and New York City shot on location in Italy and New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950ref. 137544Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1950. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the 1950 film. Pictured are Richard Erdman Ray Teal and Marlon Brando left to right. Ken Brando is a paralyzed WWII vet trying to adjust to living without the use of his limbs. Nominated for an Academy Award and one of the earliest portrayals of post-WWII vets assimilating back into society emphasizing PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few bruises to the verso and recto. United Artists unknown books
1948ref. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1945ref. 148593Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Complete Draft script for the 1947 film. Single annotation on front wrapper crossing out "who talked" in manuscript pencil with "talks" above in manuscript ink changing the working title "My Brother Who Talked to Horses" as it is on first two pages of script to "My Brother Talks to Horses" the released title. Stamped "Complete" and "Rerun" "Nov 1 1945" on front wrapper. Single annotation of name after "Checked By:" in manuscript pencil on verso of front wrapper a printed form for tracking revisions "Date" "Chgs" "Adds" and "Name" revision form un-entered. Based on the short story "Louie the Boy Who Talked with Horses" which was Chapter Ten of the 1945 novel "Joe the Wounded Tennis Player" by Morton Thompson who wrote the screenplay. Nine year old Baltimore boy Lewie Penrose Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins believes he can converse with horses and pick the winners of races attracting the attention of gambler Rich Roeder Charles Ruggles looking to win in the upcoming Preakness Stakes. Set in Baltimore Maryland. Yellow titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 126 dated 7.26-45 with credits for screenwriter Morton Thompson and "Okayed by:" producer Mr. Samuel Marx. Title page integral with the first page of text dated 7-24-45. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6-4-45 and 7-24-45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1977ref. 163608Beverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Vintage bi-fold program for the 1977 film. Printed on the recto and the verso. Based on the 1973 novel "Pentimento" by Lillian Hellman about a young partisan in Germany determined to bring down the Nazi regime. Noiminated for eleven Academy Awards and winner of three including Best Supporting Actor to Jason Robards and Best Supporting Actress to Vanessa Redgrave. Set in Nazi Germany shot on location in England and France. Near Fine. Twilight Time 210. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960ref. 147919Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Peter Ustinov and Glynis Johns from the 1960 film. Based on the 1952 John Cleary novel and shot in Technicolor. Paddy Carmody Robert Mitchum and his wife Ida Deborah Kerr live with their son Sean Michael Anderson Jr. as impoverished nomads in the Australian outback. Ida and Sean want to settle down but Paddy never wants to stay in one place for too long. Nominated for five Academy Awards Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Set in and shot on location in Australia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
ref. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown books
1964ref. 163559Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Gregory Peck and Paolo Stoppa. Annotation in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on Emeric Pressburger's 1961 novel "Killing a Mouse on Sunday" about a famous bandit who after living in exile in France for two decades returns to Spain in order to visit his ailing mother. Shot on location in the Pyrenees. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with an annotation in manuscript ink on the bottom right corner. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 160495N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of screenwriter Carl Foreman on the set of the 1952 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 8.25 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown books
1952ref. 150381N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph of director Fred Zinnemann and assistant director Emmett Emerson on the set of the 1952 film. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 7.25 x 5 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown
1952ref. 160495N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of screenwriter Carl Foreman on the set of the 1952 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 8.25 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown
1952ref. 150381N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph of director Fred Zinnemann and assistant director Emmett Emerson on the set of the 1952 film. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 7.25 x 5 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 163608Beverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Vintage bi-fold program for the 1977 film. Printed on the recto and the verso. Based on the 1973 novel "Pentimento" by Lillian Hellman about a young partisan in Germany determined to bring down the Nazi regime. Noiminated for eleven Academy Awards and winner of three including Best Supporting Actor to Jason Robards and Best Supporting Actress to Vanessa Redgrave. Set in Nazi Germany shot on location in England and France. Near Fine. Twilight Time 210. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1945ref. 148593Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Complete Draft script for the 1947 film. Single annotation on front wrapper crossing out "who talked" in manuscript pencil with "talks" above in manuscript ink changing the working title "My Brother Who Talked to Horses" as it is on first two pages of script to "My Brother Talks to Horses" the released title. Stamped "Complete" and "Rerun" "Nov 1 1945" on front wrapper. Single annotation of name after "Checked By:" in manuscript pencil on verso of front wrapper a printed form for tracking revisions "Date" "Chgs" "Adds" and "Name" revision form un-entered. Based on the short story "Louie the Boy Who Talked with Horses" which was Chapter Ten of the 1945 novel "Joe the Wounded Tennis Player" by Morton Thompson who wrote the screenplay. Nine year old Baltimore boy Lewie Penrose Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins believes he can converse with horses and pick the winners of races attracting the attention of gambler Rich Roeder Charles Ruggles looking to win in the upcoming Preakness Stakes. Set in Baltimore Maryland. Yellow titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 126 dated 7.26-45 with credits for screenwriter Morton Thompson and "Okayed by:" producer Mr. Samuel Marx. Title page integral with the first page of text dated 7-24-45. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6-4-45 and 7-24-45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1948ref. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 166433N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1976 blaxploitation film here under the working title "Adventures of Jesse Crowder II: Journey to Nowhere." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Henchman" with marker annotations of his name copy number "12" and date "1-9-76" on the front wrapper. Script with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on twenty pages and with manuscript marker annotations of page numbers throughout. Bound in preceding the script is a two page cast contact sheet and a five page schedule dated January 13 1976. The second of four Jesse Crowder films starring Fred Williamson and the first film made by Williamson's production company "Po' Boy Productions." Preceded by "Death Journey" 1976 and followed by "Blind Rage" 1978. Ex-cop turned private detective Jesse Crowder is on the hunt for a fugitive named Woolf and his girlfriend Candy until he runs into trouble with Candy's pimp Bernie and his gang. Set in and shot on location in Venice Mill Valley Newport Beach and Santa Monica California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 with credits for screenwriter Fred Williamson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 85. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 167406N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. Script with the manuscript marker annotation of "Po Boy Productions / Fred Williamson / Director 1982" on the title page. Fred Williamson's unofficial sequel to his 1974 film "Three the Hard Way" which also starred Williamson Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson and Brown are a pair of tough cops who go after the mob that fixed their friend Richard Roundtree's martial arts tournament and shot their friend Jim Kelly. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. Maroon untitled wrappers. Title page present. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Black Action Films p. 225. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 166433N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1976 blaxploitation film here under the working title "Adventures of Jesse Crowder II: Journey to Nowhere." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Henchman" with marker annotations of his name copy number "12" and date "1-9-76" on the front wrapper. Script with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on twenty pages and with manuscript marker annotations of page numbers throughout. Bound in preceding the script is a two page cast contact sheet and a five page schedule dated January 13 1976. The second of four Jesse Crowder films starring Fred Williamson and the first film made by Williamson's production company "Po' Boy Productions." Preceded by "Death Journey" 1976 and followed by "Blind Rage" 1978. Ex-cop turned private detective Jesse Crowder is on the hunt for a fugitive named Woolf and his girlfriend Candy until he runs into trouble with Candy's pimp Bernie and his gang. Set in and shot on location in Venice Mill Valley Newport Beach and Santa Monica California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 with credits for screenwriter Fred Williamson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 85. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 167406N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. Script with the manuscript marker annotation of "Po Boy Productions / Fred Williamson / Director 1982" on the title page. Fred Williamson's unofficial sequel to his 1974 film "Three the Hard Way" which also starred Williamson Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson and Brown are a pair of tough cops who go after the mob that fixed their friend Richard Roundtree's martial arts tournament and shot their friend Jim Kelly. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. Maroon untitled wrappers. Title page present. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Black Action Films p. 225. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 167875Beverly Hills CA: Lorimar 1986. Two photographs from the 1986 film including one studio still and one reference photograph. One with a printed snipe affixed to the verso. An autistic teenage orphan's positivity and optimism help a widowed woman and her children settle into their new suburban home. The film debut of child actor Fred Savage. Shot on location throughout British Columbia. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Lorimar unknown books
1961ref. 172938Burbank CA: Walt Disney 1961. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1961 film. Based on the 1943 short story "A Situation of Gravity" by Samuel W. Taylor. A chemistry professor creates a new substance that gains energy when it bounces off of something. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Shot on location in Claremont California and Reno Nevada. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Godard Histoires du cinéma. Weldon 1983. Walt Disney unknown books
1944ref. 171768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the classic 1944 film noir showing Tom Powers on the train tracks. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Billy Wilder making the right decision at the right time as usual decided it was time to bring in lauded hard-boiled crime fiction author Raymond Chandler to work on a great crime drama using James Cain's seminal hard-boiled novella. Wilder and Chandler worked on the script for several weeks together and at one point Cain was even brought in to resolve some questions. The result was a film that set the standard for all that would follow in what came to be known as the noir style using a cut-up time structure Barbara Stanwyck in a blonde wig Fred MacMurray as a soulless sucker and Edward G. Robinson as the straight man who brings pathos to the proceedings. Nominated for seven Academy Awards a rare feat for a genre picture including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenwriter Best Cinematography and Best Actress. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
