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1952ref. 148166N.p.: Valoria Films 1952. Seven vintage French lobby cards from the 1952 film one with "Agence Mediterraneenne" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Jeux Interdits" by Francois Boyer. Paulette Brigitte Fossey a young Parisian girl orphaned by a Nazi air raid befriends an older peasant boy Michel Georges Poujouly whose family takes her in. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in France. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall pinholes at corners with some small chipping to corners one with bruise and cello tape on top center. Vogel "Film as a Subversive Art." Ebert III. Criterion Collection 318. Valoria Films unknown
1966ref. 148170Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Collection of 16 vintage oversize French color photographs from the 1966 film. Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan to rescue his wife from a Mexican revolutionary only to discover the job in not exactly what it seems. A sometimes overlooked and underrated entry into the Western canon despite being nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in Mexico and Texas shot on location in Mexico Arizona Nevada and California. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1990ref. 164014Los Angeles: Astoria Films 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the 1981 novel by Richard Hugo. A kindhearted homicide cop moves from Seattle to rural Montana hoping to lead a more peaceful life-a hope that is dashed when he is called to investigate a string of gruesome ax murders. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for Hugo and screenwriter Michael Hacker. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Astoria Films unknown
2007ref. 164068N.p.: Out of Nowhere Productions 2007. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 2010 film. Manuscript ink annotation of copy number "241" on the title page. Copy belonging to carpenter/estimator Chris Scher. Rob Schneider who directed and co-wrote the screenplay stars as a suicidal middle-aged car salesman who while preparing his third suicide attempt is interrupted by a tribe of Columbian shaman who traveled from South America believing he is The Chosen One. Shot in 2007 the film took three years before it was finally released direct to video in 2010 primarily due to confusion over marketing as it is primarily a dramatic film and was inaccurately marketed as a straightforward comedy. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles California and Costa Rica. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 15 2007 noted as Final with credits for screenwriters Rob Schneider and Boon Collins. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between June 20 2007 and August 17 2007. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Out of Nowhere Productions unknown
1968ref. 150411N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film one showing actors Beryl Reid and Susannah York the other showing director Robert Aldrich. A tyrannical aging actress is a long-standing staple on a soap opera but her increasingly unstable behavior causes the producers to kill off her character. As she spirals out of control she lashes out at her lover a young and beautiful actress. Director Aldrich spent $75000 fighting the film's mature rating earned as a result of its explicit content most notably a sex scene between two women which limited the film's screening and advertisement platforms but was unsuccessful. Shot on location in London. Approximately 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1949ref. 160942Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. Based on the 1944 short story by Damon Runyon. Gangster Martin Martin is hoping to give up his career in crime for a career in politics when the district attorney attempts to arrest him for a murder five years earlier. On the lamb Martin holes up in an abandoned house and is befriended by a little girl Elsie and her dog Skipper who Martin names Johnny One-Eye. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing at the extremities. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1973ref. 163693Los Angeles: Wolper Productions 1973. Treatment script for the 1974 television movie seen here under the working title "Trial By Fire." Originally aired on January 20 1974 on ABC. A dramatization of the struggle for power between President Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan focusing on the events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation. Gray untitled Wolper Productions wrappers with a die-cut title window on the front wrapper. Title page present dated July 6 1973 with credit for screenwriter Theodore Strauss. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine lightly faded on the fore-edges with a black Velo binding. Wolper Productions unknown
1944ref. 170938Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film including a photograph of a mockup of the Tower edition of the Cornell Woolrich William Irish novel released the same year. Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1962ref. 159693Various cities: Stafford 1962. Vintage British quad poster for the 1962 American film. Based on Jules Verne's 1868 novel "Captain Grant's Children" about a search for a missing shipwrecked captain. The third of six Disney films to star child actress Hayley Mills. 40 x 30 inches folded. About Fine. Stafford unknown
1967ref. 151844Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Three striking vintage reference photographs from the 1967 Roger Corman film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer. A dramatization of the 1929 mass murder of seven members of the Northside Gang by members of Al Capone's gang led by George "Bugs" Moran. Set in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1974ref. 167738London: New Realm Film Distributors 1974. Vintage borderless satin-finish color reference photograph from the 1974 French sexploitation film showing a topless Sirpa Lane. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. An adventurous young woman is determined to enjoy every sexual experience life has to offer even if the pursuit leads her into danger. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. New Realm Film Distributors unknown
1966ref. 142164France: Les Films Marceau-Cocinor / Mega Film 1966. Four vintage press photographs from the 1966 film. Each with the stamp of Robert Levy on the verso and two with the stamp of press agency Parimage. One image shows director Roger Vadim carrying a smiling Jane Fonda whom he married just prior to the start of filming. A modern adaptation of the 1872 novel "La Curee" by Emil Zola about a wealthy young woman who marries and older man only to be tricked out of her fortune when she falls for his son. The second of four films Vadim and Fonda would make together. 9.25 x 7.25 inches three photographs with wide bottom margins. Near Fine. Les Films Marceau-Cocinor / Mega Film unknown
1970ref. 148340Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Edy Williams and David Gurian from the 1970 film. Based on an original story by Roger Ebert who also helped write the screenplay. Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big with their rock band "The Kelly Affair" stopping first to visit Kelly MacNamara's 1966 Playboy Playmate Dolly Read estranged aunt. Kelly's aunt introduces the band comprised of Kelly Read Casey Anderson 1968 Playboy Playmate Cynthia Myers and Petronella Danforth Marcia McBroom to a flamboyant producer named Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell John LaZar who changes their name to "The Carrie Nations" and has them perform at one of his orgiastic parties after a set by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Throughout the success of the new band the girls use drugs and alcohol attempt to maintain romantic relationships even a lesbian tryst with Erica Gavin director Meyer's "Vixen" and find "Z-Man" to be a murderous transsexual. The film proved to be sexploitation and exploitation to its psychedelic limits at the time was Meyer's biggest box-office draw to date and gave the director a new audience: mainstream filmgoers in mainstream cinemas. Originally intended as a sequel to "Valley of the Dolls" 1967 with an original screenplay by Jacqueline Susann Twentieth Century-Fox found the script unsatisfactory and sought new material. The film was released as part of a settlement with Susann with the disclaimer "This is not a sequel to VALLEY OF THE DOLLS." One of few X-rated films released by Twentieth Century-Fox another being "Myra Breckenridge" 1970. Pam Grier got her start in this film as an uncredited party attendant. Meyer regulars like Charles Napier Lavelle Roby and Haji all make appearances. Set in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. Criterion Collection 836. Meyer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 155647N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Cynthia Myers and Erica Gavin. Dealer label affixed to the verso. After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic and most entertaining cult favorite once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first exploitation-horror-camp-musical." The film follows three members of an all-girl rock band called The Kelly Affair who relocate to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Their success comes at the price of their friendship and integrity however and the girls eventually succumb to a nonstop train of decadence drugs and betrayal. Featuring one-hit wonders the Strawberry Alarm Clock supporting performances by Meyer regulars Charles Napier and Haji and a bit part from future Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier the film proved to be Meyer's biggest box-office success. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 836. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 161325N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1985 film showing a sex scene with actors Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rutger Hauer. In sixteenth-century Italy an army of mercenary peasants kidnaps a nobleman's fiancée as revenge for unpaid debts. Although disgusted by the brutality of the peasants the woman soon falls in love with the group's leader. Although the film's cynicism and violence made it unsuccessful at the box office upon release it has since become a cult favorite. Shot on location in Spain in Belmonte Cáceres and Ãvila. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 170448N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing Charlton Heston talking with Sam Peckinpah during filming on location. Dell Publishing stamp and provenance label on the verso. During the Civil War an obsessed glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers Confederate POWs and Native American scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns in the US. Shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 168503Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1969. Vintage transparency from the 1969 film showing Sidney Poitier on the set. Loosely based on F.L. Green's 1945 novel "Odd Man Out." A Black militant intends to rob a factory payroll in order to aid his imprisoned revolutionaries but through an unexpected turn of events he is forced to rely on a young social worker to help pull off the heist. 5 x 4 inches. Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1959ref. 152565Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage reference photograph of actor Gregory Peck between takes during location filming on the set of the 1959 film. Provenance stamps to the verso. Based on Nevil Shute's 1957 post-apocalyptic novel. In the wake of WWIII what remains of the human race is rapidly annihilated by radiation poisoning. The only habitable part of the planet is southern Australia which will soon become toxic as air currents bring the poisonous fumes south. Survivors grapple with their impending mortality hopeful that somehow they might be spared. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Australia and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a faint crease to the bottom edge. United Artists unknown
1968ref. 161637N.p.: Distribpix / A.F.P.I. 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Rare. The exploits of "college girls" who'll do anything for a good grade. 8 x 10 inches.Very Good plus one with a bruise to the center of the photograph. Distribpix / A.F.P.I. unknown
1985ref. 153201N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1985 film showing director Susan Seidelman reviewing the script on location. A bored New Jersey housewife gets involved in the life of a free spirited New Yorker through a series of events involving farcical elements such as amnesia and mistaken identity. Madonna's first major screen role and a breakthrough turn for Rosanna Arquette. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 158228N.p.: N.p. 1960. Original borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1960 film showing actress Susan Strasberg with two Nazi officers in the background. A Jewish women is sent to a concentration camp during World War II but decides to lead an escape attempt even as the turmoil of war threatens to defeat her will. An engaging war film with feminist undercurrents by director Gillo Pontecorvo largely overshadowed by what would become his best-known film "The Battle of Algiers" 1966. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 14.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners. N.p. unknown
1932ref. 159945London: National Film Archive 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the 1932 film showing director Tay Garnett and a camera crew capturing a scene with Lew Ayres. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A dramatization of the rise to fame of a gossip columnist based closely on real-life columnist Walter Winchell. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown
1985ref. 140818Universal City CA: Embassy Pictures / Universal Pictures 1985. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1985 film showing director Gilliam and crew during a quiet moment between takes. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Embassy Pictures / Universal Pictures unknown
1967ref. 157320N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 British film showing director John Schlesinger talking with actress Julie Christie between takes. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel about a young flirtatious heiress who is relentlessly pursued by three young men. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location throughout Dorset and Wiltshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141077N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Joseph Dispenza's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1927 novel. A bridge woven by the Incas collapses in Peru killing five people. A monk witnesses the event and afterwards becomes obsessed with finding information about the five victims in order to prove that the collapse was part of God's plan. Set in Peru. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for author Thorton Wilder and screenwriter Joseph Dispenza. 42 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 40. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
