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1993ref. 166446N.p.: N.p. 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper noting the address of a production company in Beverly Hills. A man is diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer months before the birth of his first child leading him onto a voyage of self-discovery including attempting to reconcile with his estranged Ukrainian family. Shot on location in Chicago and Naperville Illinois and in Santa Clarita and Simi Valley California. Blue wrappers. Title page present dated January 19 1993 noted as REVISED with credit for director and screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1936ref. 171495Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1936. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1936 film one double weight and showing Norma Shearer the other single weight and showing Basil Rathbone. MGM snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso of one photograph. Studio head Louis B. Mayer was reluctant to film a version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy but agreed after a 1934 Broadway revival was met with widespread success. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Shearer. 8 x 10 inches. Both Very Good evenly toned and one with moderate soil to the margins and a small chip to one corner. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1975ref. 169560Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1975 film showing director Norman Jewison and actor James Caan on the set between takes. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1974 novel by William Harrison who wrote the screenplay. A dystopian sports film in which the world has been overtaken by a corporatocracy with the titular "rollerball" an ultra-violent sports game used to placate the population. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. United Artists unknown
1957ref. 157302Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actors Dan Dailey and Ginger Rogers filming a scene with a camera crew in the foreground. Studio stamp specific to the film's German release on the verso. Based on the 1953 play by Edward Chodorov about a wealthy New York psychiatrist who begins to suspect his fiancée of infidelity after hearing about her from several of his patients. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1978ref. 161000Lille: Transunivers-Films 1978. Two vintage oversize borderless color reference photographs from the 1978 French film. Stamps of Transunivers-Film on the versos. A vice squad pursues a drug and prostitution ring culminating in a takedown of a sadomasochistic club frequented by high-ranking government officials. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with pinholes at the corners. Bier 201. Transunivers-Films unknown
1960ref. 151692N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1960 film showing director Otto Preminger and a camera crew between takes with actor Paul Newman in the foreground whose head is in a box. With a stamp crediting still photographer Leo Fuchs on the verso. Based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel about the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 following a ship carrying Jewish immigrants whose passage to the holy land is blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. Shot on location in Israel and Cyprus. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 162381N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 Dutch film showing actress Monique van de Ven. Mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. Based on Jan Wolkers' 1969 novel. A gifted but poor sculptor marries a beautiful wealthy young woman but their relationship is tumultuous and soon sours. Director Paul Verhoeven's second feature film the screen debuts of both Rutger Hauer and van de Ven and the most successful release in the history of Dutch cinema. Set and shot on location in Noord-Holland and Rotterdam Netherlands. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 156710N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1974 film showing a topless Nathalie Courval. Two couples visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampires but soon begin to question whether his sinister behavior is indeed a performance. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with moderate wear and creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 162507N.p.: Ceres-Film 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 German film showing a half-nude Hanna Schygulla with Ulli Lommel reclining in bed on the right. Printed mimeo snipe in German affixed to the verso. A small-time pimp is caught between his obligations to his mistress and to a powerful violent crime syndicate. Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first feature film heavily influenced by the French New Wave. Shot on location in Munich. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus. Arrow 15. Criterion Collection Eclipse 39. Grant Germany. Ceres-Film unknown
1949ref. 170744Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film noir. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Loosely based on the Faust myth about a district attorney who makes a deal with the devil in order to put a criminal ringleader behind bars. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better lightly toned with creasing at three corners. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 158122N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1970 French film. A successful model finds herself torn between her photographer boyfriend and a beautiful advertising executive. Shot on location in Martinique. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 161068N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the stark 1969 neo-noir film both showing actress Rita Moreno. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on Lionel White's 1953 novel "The Snatchers" about a wealthy young woman who is kidnapped and held hostage in a remote French beach house. Set and shot on location in Le Touquet France. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 167654Paris: Sygma 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film one showing Robert Altman on the set the other showing Altman talking with actor Sam Shepard. Based on Shepard's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about two ex-lovers with an exceedingly troubled past who inadvertently find themselves at the same run-down motel in the Mojave Desert. Shot on location in El Dorado New Mexico. 9.5 x 7 inches. Both with two neat pinholes at one corner each else about Fine. Sygma unknown
1967ref. 152709Paris: Compagnie Francaise de Distribution Cinematographique CFDC 1967. Vintage French pressbook for the 1967 French film. In a rural French village a young girl named Mouchette or "Little Fly" lives a lonely difficult life supporting her alcoholic father sickly mother and infant brother and finds nothing but unkindness and despair in her daily interactions. One of Robert Bresson's greatest achievements at turns grim and graceful purportedly a favorite of Andrei Tarkovsky and Kelly Reichardt. Shot on location in Vaucluse France. Bi-fold 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine with a small crease to the bottom left corner. Criterion Collection 363. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Compagnie Francaise de Distribution Cinematographique [CFDC] unknown
1961ref. 152418N.p.: N.p. 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Doon Spile a mute escapes from the asylum he has been committed to and encounters his estranged nephew Leroy in the woods. When Leroy almost drowns while swimming in the lake Doon overcomes his fear of water and rescues the boy only to be misinterpreted by a mob as hurting the boy. Beige titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Robert Lewin. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Robert Lewin. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1946ref. 156250New York: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir seen here under the working title "What Nancy Wanted" showing actor Robert Mitchum in an artist's studio. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso crediting photographer Alex Kahle. Moments before his wedding a man learns that his fiancée is a kleptomaniac who has cheated lied and even killed in her previous relationships. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1963ref. 157998Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film showing director Robert Mulligan examining negatives during filming on location in New York. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young Italian-American salesgirl realizes she is pregnant after a one-night-stand with a jazz musician and seeks him out in order to raise money for an abortion. Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Paramount Pictures unknown
1974ref. 160802N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1974 film. Rare. Noted female exploitation and pornographic director Roberta Findlay's ninth properly documented film. Georgina Spelvin stars as Dr. Tessy Tighttwat director of the Tighttwat Institute for Sexual Research who treats Eric Edwards as Harry Flattout impotent and unemployed after getting carried away and raping his boss' secretary during Spurt Over Oil's daily sex hour. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 25 x 38 inches Folded as issued. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 157300N.p.: N.p. 1990. Vintage reference photograph from the 1990 film showing director Roger Corman directing John Hurt on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1973 novel by Brian Aldiss. Low-budget horror king Roger Corman's final directorial effort and his first film after a hiatus of nearly 20 years about a scientist from future Los Angeles who accidentally travels back to 1817 Switzerland where he meets both Mary Shelley and confusingly her fictional creation Victor Frankenstein. INXS frontman Michael Hutchence makes a humorous appearance as Shelley's husband Percy as well. Set in Los Angeles and Switzerland shot on location in Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 162388London: New Realm Film Distributors 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the UK release of the 1974 French film showing actors Sirpa Lane lying naked in a giant plastic hand and Mathieu Carrière observing. Printed mimeo snipe in English affixed to 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. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. New Realm Film Distributors unknown
1942ref. 148429Burbank CA: Warner Brothers - First National 1942. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso one with "National Screen Service Corp" and "227- 42" stamps on verso and two with a "Photograph by Madison Lacy" stamp on versos. Included is a two-color press flyer for the film. Two migrant workers attempt to organize farmers against monopolistic packing plant owner with the help of a dancer at a local club. Set in the fictional town of Cat Tail Florida shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear two uniformly faded one with four pinholes to far left two with small closed tears and one with one inch closed tear with cello tape repair on verso. Press Flyer 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine. Warner Brothers - First National unknown
1970ref. 158514N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1970 novel by screenwriter Erich Segal. An enormously successful romantic drama about the tumultuous relationship between a working-class musician and a wealthy law student. Shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light wear at the corners. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 164097N.p.: Stage Struck Productions / Entertainment Pyramid 1974. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1974 Blaxploitation film. A former Green Beret turned detective and nightclub owner seeks revenge on the men responsible for his girlfriend's death. Written produced and directed by Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts the film was for years considered lost until 2022 when it was re-released in a restoration by Deaf Crocodile Films. Set in California and the Middle East shot on location in Oakland. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus lightly worn at the creases with a couple small chips at the left and right edges. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. Stage Struck Productions / Entertainment Pyramid unknown
1971ref. 170449N.p.: Cinerama 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing director Sam Peckinpah talking with Dustin Hoffman between takes. Provenance label on the verso. Based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel. An American returns with his wife to her hometown in England only to run afoul of the locals with increasingly violent consequences. Controversial in its depiction of physical and sexual violence even within Sam Peckinpah's often controversial filmography the film is also frequently considered one of the director's best. Set in Dando Cornwall and shot on location in Cornwall and Middlesex England. 9.5 x 8.25 inches. About Near Fine. Criterion Collection 182. Grant US. Cinerama unknown
1972ref. 170451Los Angeles: First Artists / National General Pictures 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film showing director Sam Peckinpah behind the camera. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A ballet of violence and to date easily the finest adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel ever produced. Other grand alliances made this one of the great crime films of the New American Cinema including a supremely confident Steve McQueen as an antihero and a young Walter Hill-who first encountered McQueen on the set of "Bullitt" four years prior-handling the screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Light toning to margins else Near Fine. Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. First Artists / National General Pictures unknown
