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1969ref. 148773New York: Grove Press 1969. Six vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 Swedish film. Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques stars Sjoman's then lover actress Lena Nyman as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden and her own sexuality. Parallel is the plot of the actors and filmmakers reacting as themselves to the film they are in the process of making. Seized by customs upon entry to the US and banned from numerous US cities for sexually explicit scenes it was found in 1969 not to be obscene by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opening the door to more frank and explicit subject matter in American film. The companion to Sjoman's 1968 film "I Am Curious Blue" which was initially intended to be combined with "I Am Curious Yellow" as one three and a half hour film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine most with very slight even fading. Criterion Collection 180. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Grove Press unknown books
1956ref. 159665Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1953 play by Robert Anderson. A teenage boy is tormented by his classmates and his father for not being masculine enough. His high school coach's wife pursues him because he reminds her of her first husband who died in World War I. Shot on location in Malibu California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962ref. 167574Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1962. Vintage photograph of a promotional design for the 1962 science fiction horror film. A mad scientist develops a method for keeping human body parts alive deciding to use his recently deceased fiancée as a guinea pig. Released as a double feature with "Invasion of the Star Creatures." Shot in Tarrytown New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1972ref. 150658Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Seven black and white studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Loosely based on the 1950 film "The Asphalt Jungle" which was in turn based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel. A former inmate decides to gather a gang of criminals to execute a diamond heist in the hopes of using the profits to start a community bank for black-owned businesses. Set in Los Angeles and San Quentin. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Parish and Hill 66. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 69 119-121. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1964ref. 158807Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. The third of three feature films based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel following the 1934 film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis and the 1946 film starring Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker. A waitress and a medical student engage in a tumultuous years long romance. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1991ref. 167891Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1991. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1991 film including four compilation photographs. A dramatization of the doomed love affair between famed mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and his moll Virginia Hill. Nominated for ten Academy Awards winning two. Shot on location throughout California. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 132601London: Warner-Pathe 1969. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs of Warren Oates from the 1969 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso of 1 still. Both stills feature the great Warren Oates. A comedy about two crooks hired to rob an old lady but she proves to be too charming and the robbers can't muster the guts to steal from her. 8 x 10 inches and 7.25 x 9.25 inches no borders as issued. Smaller still with a tiny closed tear else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1967ref. 162241N.p.: Crescent International 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A policeman's wife becomes hooked on heroin and begins secretly working at the dreaded "Club Lesbo" a sex club patronized and run by gangsters. Shot on location in Dallas Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with slight waviness pinholes and light soiling. Crescent International unknown books
1979ref. 158840Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Two vintage reference photographs and one vintage studio still photograph from the 1979 film. Two roller-skating rivals compete against each other for a cash prize. Shot on location in Santa Monica and Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 159366Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. While trying to save a hot air balloonist Lassie and Timmy get stuck in the balloon and must fend for themselves in the wild. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Weldon 1983. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950ref. 156151N.p.: Herzog Film 1950. Vintage program for the 1950 West German film. Text and titles in German. Based on the twentieth century play "Don't Promise Me Anything" by Charlotte Rissmann. The wife of a talented artist sells his paintings by posing as the artist in order to make ends meet but is forced to reveal her deception to her husband when she is commissioned to make a mural. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. Herzog Film unknown books
1954ref. 134915New Orleans LA: Howco Productions 1954. Vintage black and white studio photograph from the 1954 film. With distributor's red warehouse stamp on the verso. Cult director Ed Wood Jr.'s attempt at film noir with the director's usual flare for bad music acting sets dialogue etc. resulted in a film that is in both the B-noir pantheon and the realm of the Psychotronic. 8 x 10 inches. Archival repair to a long closed tear at the verso some faint creasing but no loss or staining. Good to Very Good overall. Lyons. Spicer US. Howco Productions unknown books
1955ref. 172438Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage hand-tinted color British front-of-house card from the 1955 film. Based on the 1940 novel "High Sierra" by W.R. Burnett and a remake of the 1941 film of the same name. A newly released bank robber decides to pull one last heist by robbing a hotel. Shot on location in Owens Valley CA. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a tear at the right edge. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Weldon 1983. Warner Brothers unknown books
1955ref. 172360Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. Based on the 1940 novel "High Sierra" by W.R. Burnett and a remake of the 1941 film of the same name. A newly released bank robber decides to pull one last heist by robbing a hotel. Shot on location in Owens Valley CA. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Weldon 1983. Warner Brothers unknown books
1948ref. 173095London: Curzon Film Distributors 1948. Vintage reference photograph from the British release of the 1948 French film. With a Curzon Film Distributors stamp on the verso with a manuscript ink annotation identifying the film under the English language title "Dedee." Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbé. A sex worker falls in love with a sailor and tries to escape life with her pimp. Set in Antwerp. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with creasing at the left of the photograph. Grant France. Selby France. Curzon Film Distributors unknown books
1961ref. 143998Paris: Gaumont 1961. Original program for the 1961 French film here under the original French title. Illustrated in red black and white and stills from the film with laid-in synopsis sheets featuring the "Fenouillard" family and oversize umbrella illustration on the rectos. Based on the 19th century French comic by Marie Louis Georges Colomb Christophe one of the earliest in the country's history. Leocadie Fenouillard Desmarets and her family travel to France to visit the Eiffel Tower but end up on a boat headed for Brazil. They escape being eating by cannibals and sail to somewhere in the Arctic where they take refuge in an igloo. Their adventures take them to Japan where they imitate geishas and finally through Africa's riverbanks until they return home all without once seeing the Eiffel Tower. Program 9.25 x 12 inches saddle-stapled 4 leaves with 2 loose sheets slightly smaller. Very Good plus with light foxing and a few short creases. Gaumont unknown books
1970ref. 161450N.p.: Manson Distributing 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film here under the working title "Africa Erotica." One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. A travelogue of young women and a photographer traveling around the African continent. Shot on location in Tanzania and Uganda. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing and edgewear. Manson Distributing unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1987ref. 153170N.p.: N.p. 1987. First Draft script for an unproduced film. The white heir to a substantial fortune wakes up one day to discover that his skin has rapidly darkened leading his family to mistake him for an African American and subsequently disown him. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Abraham Eban. Title page present dated August 1987 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Abraham Eban. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine black tape binding. N.p. unknown books
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 books
1965ref. 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
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 books
