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1960ref. 150233N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage candid reference photograph from the 1960 film featuring members of "The Crazy Gang" director Val Guest Shirley Eaton circus impresario Billy Smart and wife and guests. "The Crazy Gang" were a much-loved British comedy troupe who performed for over three decades. Formed in the early 1930s they performed largely at the London Palladium as well as numerous Royal Command performances and made five feature films "Life is a Circus" being their last. Core members were Bud Flanagan Chesney Allen Jimmy Nervo Teddy Knox Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold. Billy Smart was a popular British showman and founder of Billy Smart's New World Circus. The circus was featured in two 1960 films "Life is a Circus" and Anglo-Amalgamated's "Circus of Horrors" directed by Sidney Hayers. "The Crazy Gang" save the struggling Joe Winter's Monster Circus with an Aladdin's magic lantern. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 161313Paris: Cinemagence 1975. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1975 French film. Stamp of Paris photograph distributor on the verso. Originally conceived as a short film used as the final installment of director Walerian Borowczyk's anthology film "Immoral Tales" 1973 and expanded in 1975 by the director into a surreal chamber drama. Loosely based on Prosper Merimee's 1869 novella "Lokis." A young newlywed in the French countryside suspects her husband may be hiding a bestial secret. Noted director Walerian Borowczyk's sixth film banned in the UK and US at the time of release now rightfully considered a cult classic. Set in the woods of France. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Cinemagence unknown
1950ref. 149951N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Walter D. Edmonds' 1942 novel which follows a young man who moves to New York in the early 19th century where he seeks employment in an importing/exporting business. Screenwriter Leonard Lee was best known for his espionage crime and action films in the 1940s and 1950s including "Whispering City" 1947 "Spy Hunt" and "Wyoming Mail" 1950 "Smuggler's Island" 1951 and "The Glass Web" 1953. Green textured faux-leather wrappers with a label affixed to the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Leonard Lee and novelist Walter D. Edmonds. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Leonard Lee and novelist Walter D. Edmonds. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 150116N.p.: N.p. 1980. Collection of materials related to post-production editing for the 1981 film including notes on film reels and pages of proposed sequences for each reel. Director screenwriter and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning three for Best Director Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography. 16 pages housed in a clear blue plastic folder. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 164648Universal City: Universal Pictures 1940. Vintage publicity photograph of W.C. Fields with Una Merkel and Evelyn Del Rio from the 1940 film. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. An American comedy classic wherein W.C. Fields stars as a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and becomes the bank security as the result. Shot on location in Lompoc California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 78. Ebert II. Universal Pictures unknown
1968ref. 162456N.p.: Globe Pictures 1968. Six vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1966 German film. All photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. Attractive model Alexandra comes to Berlin to try and rekindle an old affair and becomes involved with her ex-lover as well as his employee. Shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Globe Pictures unknown
1976ref. 152516London: Brent Walker Film Distributing 1976. Vintage flyer for the UK release of the 1976 Canadian exploitation thriller. Included with the flyer are two pages of promotional material for the film. A wealthy dentist and his girlfriend are terrorized by a group of psychotic thugs. When it seems the man is too afraid to do anything Diane steps in to exact revenge. Hot on the heels of Wes Craven's successful 1972 revenge thriller "Last House on the Left." Shot on location in Ontario Canada. Flyer 10 x 7.5 inches. Flyer and promotional materials Very Good plus lightly creased. Canuxploitation Complete. Brent Walker Film Distributing unknown
1950ref. 154518Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir showing actors William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald. A woman suspects several fellow train passengers of being the culprits in a highly publicized kidnapping case. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Grant US. Olive Films 256. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
ref. 146946N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Saloon owner and brothel madam "Ladyfingers" Lindsey strikes out on a hunt for hidden Japanese gold in the Philippines with help from her one-time beau and a posse of gunslingers. Screenwriter Robert Vincent O'Neil was best known for "The Baltimore Bullet" 1980 as well as a string of erotic thrillers during the 1980s including "Vice Squad" 1982 "Deadly Force" 1983 and "Angel" 1984. Set in Manila and Corregidor Island. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters William Mercer and Robert V. O'Neil. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly dampstained bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 155991Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force who seek to avoid public exposure of the interracial affair. Director William Wyler's final film. Set in the fictional town of Somerset Tennessee and shot on location in Humboldt Tennessee. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and a small closed tear at the center. Columbia Pictures unknown
1955ref. 15219London London: Rank Organisation 1955. 1955. Eight original borderless press photographs for the seminal 1955 Ealing Comedy. All eight with British press stamps and typed layout slips to the verso. The curtain call of the famous "Ealing Comedies" the Ladykillers was the last major masterpiece produced by the iconic Ealing Studios before the studio was sold to the BBC. Darkly macabre the film was deeply subversive at the time and satirised Britain's inability to move beyond its Empire past. William Rose famously purportedly dreamt the whole film and simply sat down wrote out the script from memory. London, London: Rank Organisation, 1955. unknown
1970ref. 158635Madison WI: Pm Productions 1970. Vintage window card flyer for a series of screenings of the 1971 film at the University of Wisconsin circa mid 1970s. A risqué mockumentary and mondo parody wherein director and famed hoaxer Alan Abel stars as Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation seeking out luminary figures in the world of sex and people on the street for the answers to a number of absurd sex-related questions climaxing with the International Sex Bowl competition. Featuring Buck Henry Robert Downey Sr. Holly Woodlawn James Randi and Mink Stole. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine with a faint horizontal crease and an illegible annotation in manuscript ink on the verso. Pm Productions unknown
1970ref. 143871Rome: Fair Film 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. An English language script for consideration by US filmmakers though the film was shot in Italian. Based on Alberto Bevilacqua's 1964 novel of the same name. The widow of a worker killed by police joins the militant strike against the factory owners one of which falls in love with her and is forced to face his glaring conflicts of interest. Shot on location in Parma Italy. Grey titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter and director Alberto Bevilacqua. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Fair Film unknown
1970ref. 143874Hollywood: Goldfarb-Lewis Agency 1970. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Guy Endore's novel of the same name about the life of Alexandre Dumas. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Dale Wasserman and novelist Guy Endore. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Goldfarb-Lewis Agency unknown
1969ref. 146544Munich: Roxy-Film and Co KG 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Text in German. Director Harald Philip who presumably worked on the film in addition to its credited director Alfred Vohrer is credited on the title page. A reticent widower is forced to take on the uncomfortable task of educating his 16 year old daughter about sex leading her to request that he find her a boyfriend. Set in West Germany. White untitled self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ernst Flugel. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with gold prong binding. Roxy-Film and Co, KG unknown
1957ref. 146759N.p.: Edward L. Alperson Productions 1957. Collection of 22 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. A classic underrated Dwan film a revenge western in which a young gunslinger Scott Brady seeks to avenge his father's killings and Anne Bancroft plays a young Native American girl who falls in love with him along the way. Written by the pulp fiction writer Steve Fisher one of few who would successfully transition from pulps to Hollywood films with credits including film noirs such as "Lady in the Lake" "Song of the Thin Man" "Johnny Angel" and many more. Set in the border town of Mission Texas shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine light edgewear and some with light creasing in corner margins. Pitts 3367. Edward L. Alperson Productions unknown
1975ref. 166078New York: Cinerama 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1975 film showing director Andrzej Zulawski and actress Romy Schneider on the set. Printed mimeo snipe in German on the verso. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who has resorted to appearing in porn films to make a living. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 6.5 x 7 inches trimmed irregularly. Light wear at the top left corner else Near Fine. Cinerama unknown
1965ref. 158490Universal City: Universal Studios 1965. Vintage reference photograph of director Norman Jewison producer Ross Hunter and actor Angie Dickinson on the set of the 1965 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A struggling American artist in Paris decides to fake his own death in order to increase the value of his paintings. Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners. Universal Studios unknown
1960ref. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1964ref. 162031N.p.: N.p. 1964. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A woman travels to Manhattan seeking to become a nude model. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 147105Arzo Switzerland: Al Castello 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in German. A romance develops between a German actor and a Japanese student. Director Beat Kuert was best known for "Eine Frau fur Alfie" 1989 and for a documentary series focusing on contemporary architects including Herzog and de Meuron Jean Nouvel and Luigi Snozzi. Set and shot on location in Zurich and Cantone Ticino Switzerland and Kyoto and Osaka Japan. Clear mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter ADOLF MUSCHG. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Al Castello unknown
1976ref. 147447Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1976. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1976 film showing director Bernardo Bertolucci giving instructions to actors Robert De Niro Gerard Depardieu and Romolo Valli. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film was a gargantuan undertaking requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the small town of Parma the film follows two best friends born in 1901 whose lives diverge drastically as a result of their class differences and the rise of Fascism in Italy. Set in Parma Italy shot on location in Rome Lombardia and Campagnia Italy. 6 x 4 inches. Near Fine. Eureka 135. Olive Films 345. Paramount Pictures unknown
1956ref. 158429N.p.: N.p. 1956. Third Draft script for the circa 1956 television episode. Copy belonging to child actor Johnny Crawford with his character's name on the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout. Two young boys befriend the new kid at their school in spite of their aunt's belief that the child is a bad influence. No information about this series is available on IMDB. Housed in a brown card folder with a label noting the script title affixed to the front. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/56 noted as 3rd Draft with credit for screenwriter Betty Luerssen. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 147193N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for the 1981 Spanish-American film here under the working title "Bloody Mary." Laid in with the script is a typed letter from casting agent Paul Kohner to producer John R. Pepper returning the script. Text in English. A disquieting satire of Catholicism in the late 20th century from noted Spanish director Bigas Luna wherein a Texan televangelist in need of a new miracle guest for his show travels to Italy to bring back a woman who suffers from stigmata-a rare medical condition which causes the hands and feet to bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. Set in Italy and Austin Texas shot on location in Barcelona Texas and Los Angeles. White non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 19 with credits for director Bigas Luna. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rust on the front wrapper and first leaf likely from a staple with a white Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 167480Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Final Draft script for Season 2 Episode 25 of the 1969-1971 television series. Copy belonging to actor Jack Naughton with his annotations in manuscript ink on two leaves denoting dialogue. Laid in with the script is a single-page call sheet dated September 30 1970. Not to be confused with the 1984-1992 sitcom "The Cosby Show." The two-season series followed a beleaguered gym teacher at an inner-city high school in Los Angeles. In this episode an eccentric millionaire enlists the teacher's help in reliving his youth by creating a life-size replica of his childhood neighborhood. Originally aired on March 14 1971 on NBC. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Light green titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 17088 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated September 23 1970 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Art Wallace. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
