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1971ref. 161644N.p.: Cambist Films 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film. Provenance stamp on the verso on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Based on the 1968 novel "Lie a Little Die a Little" by Michael Brett. The misadventures of a slobbish private detective hired by a millionaire to investigate a murder who gets mixed up in sex and blackmail. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cambist Films unknown
1974ref. 161912N.p.: Premier Releasing Organization 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Gloria Grahame stars as Mama a black widow who with the aid of her conniving daughters marries for money and leaves the husbands pushing up daisies. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Premier Releasing Organization unknown
1963ref. 145423Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Three vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1963 film. Based on Philip MacDonald's 1959 novel. A star-studded film about a former intelligence officer who receives a list of eleven names all people who have died under mysterious circumstances. Set in London shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1972ref. 140774Madrid Spain: The Monovox Company 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. A mysterious man posing as an artist is luring young women to his apartment in 1936 Madrid where he asks them to pose and then kills them and takes their photo. Forty years later a young woman is living in the apartment these unspeakable acts occurred in and she decides to find out who lived there before her. When she ends up dead her friends become concerned with who killed her and who is stalking them. Set in Madrid. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Melson and author Ryan Anderson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound in a spring binder. The Monovox Company unknown
1957ref. 137347Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Original Pressbook for the 1957 film based on John Steinbeck's 1947 novel. 13 x 16.5 inches. 16 pages saddle stapled. About Near Fine. Horizontal fold as issued with some light soil. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 141189N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young woman dreams of being a painter but is forced by her controlling mother into being a concert pianist. She begins to break down when her mother decides to be a matchmaker bringing home prospective suitors for her daughter. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Tarangelo. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 141284N.p.: N.p. 1983. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are three pages of cast lists. After a young girl witnesses the death of her father at the hands of assassins she is taken in by her uncle who aids her in tracking down the assassins. He also gives her a magic ring that allows her to wield the power of the Fist of Lightning. Set in Vietnam. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1983 noted as Second Draft with credit for screenwriter Jon Wokuluk. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 141420New York: Theatre Guild Productions 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. A washed-up musician and music publisher travels around Europe meeting and unsuccessfully pursuing women. Set in Europe. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Jonothan Moses. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Theatre Guild Productions unknown
ref. 146518N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation to the title page stating "ROUGH TRANSLATION / VERY ROUGH" and a few small proofreader's annotations. Text in English. Incomplete apparentlhy as issued. An assassin becomes involved with a solitary young woman and gives her a handgun to protect herself while he's out of the country on an assignment-a gift which invariably only lands her in deeper trouble. Screenwriters Eugenio Martin and Jose G. Maesso were best known for their work on "The Ugly Ones" 1968 a violent heavily influential Euro Western film. Set in the US and Uruguay. Tan untitled side stapled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jose G. Maesso and Eugenio Martin. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with the final few leaves loose from the binding. Pitts 4631. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 148885Hong Kong: Hong Hwa Film 1971. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. A young girl finds an injured warrior who is being hunted by seven devils. He begins training her in a secret form of "evil karate" and once she grows up they set out to defeat the seven devils and their master. 14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a shallow vertical crease. Light toning to one side of the flyer. Hong Hwa Film unknown
1959ref. 132441London: Rank Film Distributors 1959. Seven British front-of-house cards from the 1959 UK release of the 1958 US film. Based on the novel and written for the screen by Ernest K. Gann about a disgraced former Navy captain piloting a disparate group of passengers through a storm on a rundown schooner. 8 x 10 inches. A few light creases and some light stains on the versos else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown
ref. 142403N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A biopic about the silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle who died of a heart attack in 1933 at age 46. Considered an important figure in the early development of film studios he mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. In 1920 he was one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Set in Hollywood. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph Van Winkle. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication first generation. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141068N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Three pages with annotations in manuscript ink. Returning home from a trip to the fort a man finds his friend and wife dead and his money and livestock stolen. He searches for the men responsible in order to seek vengeance. Set in Arizona. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Joy Dexter. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with staples. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 141472N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a three page letter dated April 5 1971. A professional soldier augments his income by selling drugs. His ex-wife arrives at his outpost in San Juan and decides to start blackmailing him leading him to question his choices. Set in San Juan. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter JP Miller. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 146137Universal City: Universal 1975. Draft script for the television film that first aired on February 6 1977 on NBC. A dramatization of the rise and fall of US Senator Joseph McCarthy whose Red Scare fearmongering and persecution of suspected communists and homosexuals and other so-called subversives at the height of his political power proved to be his eventual downfall. Nominated for six Emmy awards and winning two including one for Best Screenplay. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 20 1975 with credits for screenwriter Lane Slate. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Xerographically reproduced on yellow stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/8/76 and 6/28/76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with creasing to the binding bound with two gold brads. Universal unknown
1978ref. 151975N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. In 1958 an American actress visiting France is conscripted into the Algerian effort for independence. Set in France. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 7 1978 with credits for screenwriter Judith Braun. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 141665Paris: Paris Film Productions 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film. Snipe affixed to the verso. The young handsome Octave arrives in Paris and becomes an object of considerable attention in the female community. Shot on location in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a small manuscript notation to the verso. Paris Film Productions unknown
1962ref. 143309Paris: Filmsonor 1962. Original black-and-white borderless still photograph from the 1962 French-Italian film. Costarring actors Alain Delon Georges Wilson and Madeleine Robinson share a drink in the segment "Tes pere et mere honoreras" Honor they Father and Mother. Rubber-stamped "Photo LIMOT" and numerical notation in manuscript pencil on the verso. An epic comedy on the Book of Exodu's most epic tale with elements based on David Alexander's novel "Murder Points a Finger" 1953. Over a series of 8 episodes various commandments are portrayed by prominent European actors including Mel Ferrer Louis de Funés Danielle Darrieux Charles Azvanour Fernandel and Dany Saval. Photographer Limot's debut film was "They Were Five" 1936 another Duvivier film followed by work with notable directors like Sascha Guitry Christian-Jaque Henri Verneuil and Marcel Carné. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Filmsonor unknown
1962ref. 143284Paris: Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex 1962. Original French program for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Le diable et les 10 commandements." Illustrated wrappers featuring esoteric cartoons by Vaissier with original glassine. Contents of the program include film credits synopsis actor biographies and advertisement campaigns; often these programs are illustrated throughout with still photographs from the film this production seems to have invested the visual element entirely in the wrapper art. An epic comedy on the Book of Exodu's most epic tale with elements based on David Alexander's novel "Murder Points a Finger" 1953. Over a series of 8 episodes various commandments are portrayed by prominent European actors including Alain Delon Mel Ferrer Louis de Funés Danielle Darrieux Charles Azvanour Fernandel and Dany Saval. 9.25 x 11.75 inches 18 leaves. Very Good plus with light dampstaining and foxing most reserved to the wrapper and glassine. Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex unknown
1963ref. 162092Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1963. Two vintage studio still photographs from the American release of the 1963 French film one showing Barbara Lass and Michel Vitold the other showing Lass and Karlheinz Böhm. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Loosely based on the 1953 novel by Auguste Le Breton. A gangster arrives in Tokyo planning on stealing a precious diamond from a bank vault but is forced to rely on a friend of a friend when his second-in-command is killed. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1988ref. 140791Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. After one too many liabilities Joe is demoted from sports writer to gossip columnist at a New York newspaper especially after the former columnist entered rehab and does not plan to leave. His befriends Samantha Worthington who gives him the goods on the dirt around the city as she struggles to find a rich husband after her rich father told her he is cutting her off financially. From hating each other to tormenting each other's lives to loving each other Samantha finds a wealthy Hungarian count to marry and breaks it off in the eleventh hour for Joe who she has loved this whole time. Set in New York City. Pink titled wrappers dated November 1 1988. Title page present dated November 1 1988 noted as Second Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Kathy Cohen. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
ref. 147204N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Bound research materials for an unproduced film. Members of the French Foreign Legion experience their own conflicts of romance and resentment in the final weeks before they leave Algiers. Prolific screenwriter Ken Englund was known for "No No Nannette" 1940 "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" 1943 and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 1947 among others. Set in Algiers and France. Yellow titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Ken Englund. 10 leaves with last page of text numbered 10. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 149785N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With an annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting the film's title and the name of screenwriter Ken Hyman. Two CIA agents tail a neo-Nazi murderer in West Berlin. Hyman was best known as a producer during the 1960s and 1970s. Set in West Berlin and Virginia. White untitled wrappers. Lacking title page. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly dampstained on the front wrapper and first several leaves bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 144295North Hollywood: N.p. 1979. First Draft for an unproduced film. Occasional manuscript annotations throughout. Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah is a young man from rural California who has spent his whole life on his family's small farm. Now an orphan he sets out for Hollywood where he faces a whole new reality. He also possesses a complicated gift he refers to as "The Evil Eye" which arouses females human and-non human alike. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 18 1979 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Ken Mayer. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with one gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 150716Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1967. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 British film. With a stamp noting production No. 68-43 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Len Deighton's 1966 novel. A private eye takes on a case involving a sophisticated computer used by an anticommunist global spy network. The third and last film in the Harry Palmer series preceded by "The Ipcress File" 1965 and "Funeral in Berlin" 1966. Set and shot on location throughout Finland and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
