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1964ref. 162201N.p.: Production Releasing 1964. Vintage oversize studio still photograph from the US release of the 1964 British film. Released in the UK as "Sandy the Reluctant Nudist." Annette Bryant stars as Sandy a young woman who hires a private detective to find out where her boyfriend has been spending his weekends only to discover that he joined a nudist camp. Shot on location in Hertfordshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Production Releasing unknown books
1970ref. 162707N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft typescript for an unproduced television episode. With annotations in manuscript pencil at the top right corners of 16 leaves noting pagination. A brief comedy about a mad scientist who has been keeping a dead body in his haunted mansion. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s most memorably for the television series "Alice" 1976-1985 and "The Jeffersons" 1975-1985. Sustarsic was also one of the creators of the children's animated series "The Wild Thornberrys" 1998-2004. Lacking wrappers presumably as issued. Title page present undated with credit for Sustarsic. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 16. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single staple at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 133422Beverly Hills CA: Levy-Garner-Laven / United Artists 1972. Eight vintage full-color still photographs from the 1972 film. A poorly publicized but well regarded film about an aging rodeo champion a "honker" whose arrogance hurts everyone around him including his family. A must for Slim Pickens and James Coburn fans. Shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Levy-Garner-Laven / United Artists unknown books
1960ref. 173094London: Gala Film Distributors 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the circa 1960s British release of the 1960 film. With a Gala Film Distributors stamp on the verso and a mimeo snipe affixed tot he verso. A young girl imprisoned in a concentration camp curries favor with an SS guard becoming a Kapo and eventually using her position to help plan a mass escape of prisoners. Set in Europe shot on location in Yugoslavia. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with toning and a small chip out of the top left corner. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1983ref. 150556Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1983 film. Numbered E-1 through E-5 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on the 1978 Frank De Felitta novel which was in turn loosely based on the 1974 case of a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted multiple times by poltergeists. De Felitta was present during the initial investigation by with two parapsychologists one of whom also served as a technical advisor on the film. Shot on location in El Segundo and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1984ref. 150350N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani on the set of the 1984 film. Based on four short stories from Luigi Pirandello's 15 volume "Novelle per un anno" "Short Stories for a Year" published 1922-1937. Four stories followed by an epilogue which take place around the birthplace of author Pirandello Girgenti on the southern coast of Sicily with each story threaded by a raven with a bell around it's next put there by locals. Shot on location in Sicily and Tuscany Italy. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 152529London: Scotia-Barber Distributors 1971. Vintage pressbook for the 1971 film. At his home on the North Cornish coast a demented sculptor murders a young woman in order to cast a bronze sculpture of her form. Shot on location in Cornwall and London. Bi-fold. 6.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Scotia-Barber Distributors unknown books
1974ref. 127463Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1974. Vintage insert poster for the 1974 film. Based on Mordechai Richler's 1959 novel about a young working-class Jewish man who embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes in an attempt to buy the land around a lake. Set and shot on location in Montreal. 14 x 36 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 167558Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 British horror film. Hammer's third Dracula film and the second to feature Christopher Lee as the titular vampire in an entirely dialogue-free role. Set in 1895 at the fictional Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian Mountains shot on location in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Johnson and Del Vecchio. Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films unknown books
1976ref. 168156Universal City CA: Universal Studios 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film showing Richard Pryor and the Pointer Sisters. Mimeo snipe on the verso. The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work including a Muslim revolutionary Bill Duke a power-hungry evangelist Pryor with a singing entourage The Pointer Sisters and a man posing a potential bomb threat Irwin Corey. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles and Palos Verdes Peninsula CA. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 114. Universal Studios unknown books
ref. 146475N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by noted screenwriter Thomas Rickman whose produced work includes "Kansas City Bomber" 1972 "The Laughing Policeman" 1973 and "Coal Miner's Daughter" 1980. Not to be confused with the 1989 film starring Patrick Swayze. On a train bound for Kentucky an unnamed soldier murders a honor guard sent to escort the body of a soldier killed in battle to his family stealing the sergeant's identity in order to avoid being court-martialed for previously killing a different officer. A friendship develops between the soldier posing as the now-deceased "Sergeant Peck" and the fallen soldier's family and fiancee who believe him to be a valiant kind man sending the soldier into escalating guilt and shame. Set in Western Kentucky. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Thomas Rickman. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1937ref. 159673Beverly Hills CA: London Film Productions / United Artists 1937. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. A group of British soldiers who just finished their tour in India are told they are going to be immediately redeployed. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. London Film Productions / United Artists unknown books
1937ref. 159838Beverly Hills CA: London Film Productions / United Artists 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1937 novel by Mary Borden. A man accuses the man who is having an affair with his wife of cheating during a card game. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. London Film Productions / United Artists unknown books
1988ref. 160126Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1988. Vintage reference photograph of actress Valentina Cortese from the 1988 film. With a manuscript ink annotation on the verso identifying Cortese her character and the name of the film. In the late 18th Century Baron von Munchausen of Austria wants to save a city besieged by a Turkish Sultan. He travels the world to assemble a team to help him succeed. Shot on location in Spain Italy and England. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 1166. Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 167591Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage publicity portrait photograph from the 1957 British film showing actress Martine Carol. A ship captain is hired by a French woman who wants him to track down and free her brother a political prisoner in Albania. Set in Albania and Greece shot on location in Almuñécar Spain and Athens Greece. 8 x 10 inches. Lightly toned else about Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970ref. 161843N.p.: Evergreen Film 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1968 Swedish film. Provenance stamp on the verso. The companion film to director screenwriter and actor Vilgot Sjöman's groundbreaking 1967 film "I Am Curious Yellow." Sjöman originally intended both films to be combined as one three and a half hour film. The continuation of Sjöman's examination of social and political mores of 1960s Sweden with Sjöman's then lover actress Lena Nyman. Taking place before and after "I Am Curious Yellow" "Blue" focuses more on personal relationships and religion and less on class consciousness and non-violent social movements. Set and shot on location in Stockholm. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Evergreen Film unknown books
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
