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1985ref. 009755No Place: Arrow International Pictures Inc. - Lee Group Production. Offered is the screenplay for the proposed film "The Rage of the Tiger" by screenwriter James Bruner no date circa mid-1980s. A shooting script each scene is numbered the film to my knowledge was never made at least not with this title. The screenplay contains 73 three-hole punched mimeographed loose leaf pages including the title page with title name of screenwriter and "An Arrow International Pictures Inc. - Lee Group Production". The pages measure 8-1/2" by 11" and are printed on one side. The screenplay is bound in red card covers containing the same information as the title page; the covers and internal pages are held together with three brass brads. James Bruner's works among many include Braddock: Missing in Action III 1988 Delta Force 1986 Invasion U.S.A. 1985 and Missing in Action 1984. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1985. Arrow International Pictures Inc. - Lee Group Production paperback
1999ref. 139964Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1999. Vintage press kit for the 1999 film. Includes six page pamphlet on the cast filmmakers synopsis and film production. Also includes a black and white film still photograph. Housed in a photo illustrated folder. Director Malcom D. Lee's directorial debut in part financed by his cousin Spike Lee. The first major lead role for Taye Diggs who plays an author whose upcoming autobiographical novel will spill the beans on all the dirt between his friends set to release with unfortunate timing just around a wedding at which he will see many of them. "The Best Man" proved the mainstream commercial viability of African American romantic comedies. Folder Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing. Contents about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
ref. 2130149 Grains Road Delph Oldham Lancashire. 18 September 1986. 1p 8vo. In good condition lightly aged folded twice. He does not have a copy of his book 'Flying Eggs' but intends 'to order a few. Since computerization ordering is a longwinded business but there's reasonable hope they'd arrive before the Christmas post.' He gives instruction concerning payment and postage. He makes a suggestion if McPherson should 'at any point in the future be tempted to buy my first book of short stories PENNINE TALES' go for the paperback which is cheaper and 'much better edited'. The letter ends: 'One thing about the new computerized typesetting you can correct an error or an author's gaffe with a touch of the button instead of having to reset the whole page for one typo.' Livings' comments on modern printing developments gain interest in the light of his 1964 play satirising the future of employment 'Eh' and the film it spawned 'Work is a Four-Letter Word' 1968. 49 Grains Road, Delph, Oldham [Lancashire]. 18 September 1986. paperback
1986ref. 141902N.p.: N.p. 1986. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The true story of Benjamin Franklin traveling to France after the American Revolution where he acts as a diplomat from the newly-established United States of America and he makes sure to throw around the new weight of this budding country. Set in Paris. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1986 with credits for screenwriter Dennis Whelan. 53 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 50. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 132008New York: Louis de Rochemont Associates 1963. Third Draft script for an unproduced film about John Knox the Scottish clergyman and theologian considered to be the founder of the Presbyterian denomination in Scotland. Screenwriter Sloane credited as Sloan here was a screenwriter and wardrobe consultant whose film credits include "Martin Luther" 1953 "Stalag 17" 1953 "The Monster That Challenged the World" 1957 and a host of television movies and episodes. Presumed the only screen treatment on Knox the leader of the Protestant Reformation. Titled self wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated March 15 1963 with credits for screenwriter Sloane as Sloan and presenter Lothar Wolff. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mechanical duplication. Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Louis de Rochemont Associates unknown
1970ref. 143943Hollywood: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Don and Irene are a young and unhappy married couple whose lives and relationship are thrown asunder as Don gravitates toward Spiritology a spiritual organization that promises the 'Ultimate Release." Gold titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Aaron Nash. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 130699N.p.: N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Four interrelated vignettes about life in the American West featuring Will Bill Hickok praised Indian killer coming a wild town without law enforcement and him acting as sheriff until he humiliated by a woman followed by a story in which he is found in a different town drinking himself to death. A different woman helps him get back on his feet which ultimately leads to him enforcing justice again only to be gunned down. The final two stories involve vengeance on the part of Hickok's friends seeking retribution for their gunned-down friend. Mint green titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter MacKenzie. 59 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 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
1985ref. 141888Munich Munchen: Alex Tudor 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An older man holds a party at his castle and attracts the attention of a young woman though no one present understands what one sees in the other. Dr. Alexe Tudor is an independent German documentarian who focuses primarily on symbols and expression spotlighting the artist's case for both. Tudor's works include profiling events and exhibitions related to the work of clergyman and artist Ivo Schaible SDS 1999-2012 Der Antifter: Freemasonry 2008 surveying the work of Otmar Alt and the documentary Die Begegnung. Set in Blue untitled wrappers with a business card for director and screenwriter Alex Tudor affixed at the lower right corner of the front wrapper. Title page present dated 17.03.85 with credits for screenwriter Tudor. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 17. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with four staples. Alex Tudor unknown
1940ref. 148990Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1940. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Melvyn Douglas Una O'Connor and Loretta Young. With a manuscript pencil annotation to the verso noting the date 8-12-40. A communist fugitive hides from the police in the apartment of the wife of the man he intended to kill. Set in Paris. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. Very Good plus with light toning. Columbia Pictures unknown
1989ref. 152816N.p.: N.p. 1989. Draft script for the 1990 television film here under the working title "Fast Lane." A woman discovers that the man with whom she has just had a one-night stand is a hired assassin and tries to stop him from completing his next hit. Set in New York. Self wrappers. Missing title page presumably as issued. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only with pink yellow and green revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reyes 39. N.p. unknown
1939ref. 144998Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1939. Vintage photograph of director Alfred Werker and actors Preston Foster Lynn Bari George Barbier and Russell Gleason on the set of the 1939 film. Printed description on the verso. Steve Drum Preston Foster a crusading newspaper editor helps free a man framed for a crime and aids in finding the real culprit. Staff reporter Maxine Thomas Lynn Bari goes along for the ride. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1936ref. 130393N.p.: N.p. 1936. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A newsboy meets a professional dancer and the pair become highly respected in the couples dance circuit in New York City before the newsboy's boss desires the dancer for himself and sends the newsboy to cover the dance circuit nationwide in order to get him out of the picture. Untitled manila wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of the script dated April 22 1936 with credits for screenwriter Rivkin. 12 leaves mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stiched. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 147126Brussels: Monome 1980. Draft script for an unproduced French film written by French director-screenwriter Andre Soupart. With a manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the film's title and to the first leaf noting a change of address for Monome Films. Text in French. The lives of two women intersect in dreamlike mysterious ways. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Decoupage technique avec amorce de dialogues cutting and dialogue script with credits for screenwriters Andre SOUPART Paul PAQUAY and Jean-Marie VERVISCH. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a few light splashes throughout wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Monome unknown
1976ref. 143866N.p.: N.p. 1976. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in autograph letter signed by Andrea Ireland Stapley addressed to an anonymous editor recipient dated March 4th 1976. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Andrea Ireland Stapley. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographically reproduced Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 132863Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1967. Eight vintage full-color still photographs from the 1967 UK release of the 1967 US film. Josie Doris Day is a widowed sheep farmer in a cattle-farming town and her independence and strong ethics lead to disruption of the town's misogynist leaders when she convinces the local women to band together. An entertaining B-movie that with a strong women's liberation theme. A story set in the Southwest shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1963ref. 132580London: National Screen Service / MGM 1963. Collection of 6 vintage full-color and 3 black-and-white still photographs from the 1963 UK film. A star-studded drama that takes place in a New York airport at the V. I. P. lounge. Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection and this is Taylor's and Burton's second collaborative film credit. Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for her supporting role. 8 x 10 inches some slightly smaller. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown
1973ref. 161894N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1972 German film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Nadine longs to loose her virginity but has no luck in Germany so she visits her mother in Tunisia and shares her mother's lover. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1998ref. 143688Los Angeles: Freyda Rothstein Productions 1998. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired July 19 1998 on Lifetime Television. Elaine Marshall Jean Smart catches her husband John Terry with his male lover in a hotel room. Their idyllic family life is turned upside down as they are forced to confront his long kept secret. Shot on location in Portland Oregon. Green titled self-wrappers dated 3/21/98 with credits for screen writers Aaron Mendelsohn Ken Carter and Annette Haywood-Carter. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/16/98 and 3/21/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Freyda Rothstein Productions unknown
1970ref. 161892N.p.: Cinetron 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A white slavery ship travels through Asian waters searching for clients and captors. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and a red wax pencil annotation to the bottom right margin else Near Fine. Cinetron unknown
ref. 141931N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. After her father loses his grip on reality and murders his wife Annie is picked up and taken in by her aunt and soon falls for a pony rider in the local fair. Set in the American Southeast. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Barry Schneider. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 140830N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation in manuscript ink. Pete is a freeloader who makes a little money at the swap meet but has a keen propensity for getting laid off and living off his current wife. When wife number two tells him he has to keep his job for six months so that she won't run out on him with their child he gets fired in a matter of weeks for insulting a receptionist and being a bad bowler. Rather than go home he hitches to Las Vegas and is picked up by a smut dealer who robs him before he gets to his destination. After getting fired from a restaurant he ends up at Caesar's Palace looking for his ex-wife who is getting too old to be a showgirl and wants nothing to do with Pete. Set in California and Nevada. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper with credits for screenwriter Brian Mori. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a comb binding. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 161784New York: CIP 1966. Vintage still photograph from the 1966 film. Two labels on the verso. Joyana Frederics stars as Poontang Plenty a secret agent dedicted to defeating evil and cracking the secret of invisibility. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. CIP unknown
1956ref. 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
1970ref. 138036Los Angeles: ABC Pictures 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A story about an old man named Doc his days as a horse thief and the young boy and his mother who give Doc a new outlook. Blue untitled studio wrappers with back wrapper missing. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Carroll Ballard. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. ABC Pictures unknown
