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1982ref. 141766Australia: Embassy Pictures 1982. Shooting script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with manuscript annotations highlighting camera shots throughout. Rogue KGB agents posing as Islamic terrorists steal a nuclear weapon and threaten to blow up Saudi oil fields unless their demands are met. Enter The Soldier a CIA operative whose actions have been disavowed by the US government who must find and stop the terrorists before the nuke is launched. Self wrappers with credits for Glickenhaus. Title page present dated 6/29/81 noted as First Draft Shooting Script. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 80. Xerographic duplication first generation with no copied holes. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine housed in a generic ring binder. Embassy Pictures unknown
1973ref. 149156Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. Laid in are six blue revision pages dated 2/26/73. Based on the 1942 novel "The Stranger" by Lillian Bos Ross. Later re-released under the title "For Better For Worse." Gene Hackman stars as a rural rancher who sends away for a mail-order bride looking for an extra ranch hand. His headstrong bride played by Liv Ullman is a tough bargain and the two eventually fall in love through shared hardship and growing respect. An early effort of screenwriter Marc Norman twenty-five years before he would receive an Oscar for his work on "Shakespeare in Love." Set in a remote region of the American West shot on location in Big Sur California. Orange titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated February 26 1973. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 2/26/73 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Marc Norman. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1982ref. 141680London: Channel Four Films 1982. Draft script for the 1987 French film. A washed-up Hollywood actor a French financier a British director and a group of other misfits converge in a small hotel in Paris. Set in France. Title page present dated August 18 1982 with credits for screenwriter Jana Bokova. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 179. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper. Channel Four Films unknown
1961ref. 160674New York: Globe Photos 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1961 film showing actress Jayne Mansfield having her makeup touched up on the set. Mimeo snipe in German on the verso along with several copyright stamps. A fictionalized portrayal of the prolific Hollywood star and nightclub dancer George Raft known for his many roles portraying gangsters and known for having real-life underworld connections made while Raft was still living. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 8.5 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Globe Photos unknown
1956ref. 143289Paris: Cite Films 1956. Collection of 24 vintage reference photographs from the 1956 French film here under the French title "Le couturier de ces dames." 13 photographs with numeric annotations on the versos in pencil and one with "Le couturier de ces dames" in mimeograph duplication to same. A tailor needs to create a lasting fashion line to save his business. He does but he also cavorts a little with the models only for his wife to discover his infidelity. A send-up of the new haute couture popular at the time with notable designers Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Cardin who worked on the film and Japanese native Hanae Mori representing the "new look." Shot on location in Val-de-Marne France. One photo 3.25 x 4.25 inches the balance 5 x 7 inches. Generally Near Fine. Cite Films unknown
1952ref. 149876Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean Negulesco and actress Beatrice Straight on the set of the 1952 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with manuscript annotations regarding layout. While waiting for a delayed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles a lawyer meets three fellow travelers all of whom have painful conversations waiting for them in California. The plane crashes and the lawyer is one of the few survivors compelling him to contact the families of the three travelers he met before their untimely deaths. Set in Chicago and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches with a wide top margin. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1956ref. 143992Paris: Franco London Film S.A. 1956. Original program for the 1956 English language release of the 1955 French-Italian film. Deluxe program in English text illustrated throughout in black-and-white stills from the film detailing the film synopsis. Also includes 8 full-color borderless film stills akin to lobby cards a brief filmography of director Renoir and transcript of an interview between Renoir and Georges Van Parys from January 1 1955 and sheet music for the theme song "Complainte de la butte." Housed in a Franco London Film folder with tipped-in plate reproducing Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Le Moulin de la Galette" and film title in red on the front wrapper. Based on an idea by Andre-Paul Antoine his second to last film credit before "La dulce enemiga" 1957. Set in 1890s Paris Henri Danglard Gabin is the owner of a cafe where his mistress Lola Felix performs as a belly dancer. With the cafe nearly bankrupt Henri inspired by an old-fashioned cancan in Montmartre decides to add a new dancer to revive his business. Cue a laundress named Nini Arnoul who soon finds fame at the Moulin Rouge. François Truffaut's review in "Arts" magazine May 1955 was highly supportive even though other critics like Bernard Chardere criticised the music the sets even the final cancan scene. Regardless the film was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Academie du Cinéma 1956. Program 9 x 12.5 inches saddle-stapled and string-bound 4 leaves in slightly larger folder. 8 film stills 9 x 12 inches. Interview slightly smaller than stills single leaf printed on both sides and sheet music slightly larger dated 1954 single leaf folded twice 3 sides printed. Very Good plus overall with a few small scattered creases and brief dampstains to the folder. Criterion Collection. Roger Ebert Great Movies IV. Franco London Film S.A. unknown
1976ref. 146900N.p.: Films du Berry 1976. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs and one contact sheet from the 1976 film. Two larger gloss finish photographs and two smaller matte finish photographs and contact sheet containing eleven images. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Two photographs 7 x 9.5 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches Contact Sheet 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Hinds 222. Films du Berry unknown
1967ref. 152327Universal City: Universal Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 British film showing actors Jean Shrimpton and Paul Jones dancing. Mimeo snipe to the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. An outrageous paranoiac satire following a beloved pop star named Steven Shorter whose actions beliefs and performances are controlled by a totalitarian British government. Set in a near-future England shot on location in London and Birmingham. 8 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creases to the corners. BFI Flipside 7. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown
1933ref. 146133Paris: Franfilmdis 1933. Collection of 3 vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus corner pinholes. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis unknown
1973ref. 149662N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 French film showing actress Brigitte Fossey in silhouette. A man recently released from the hospital falls in love with a woman who is identical in appearance to his wife. Shot on location in Morbihan France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 149448France: JLG Films 1985. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Claude Brasseur Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday playing pool on the set of the 1985 film. Two detectives staying at a Parisian hotel investigate a murder which occurred two years prior. Released the same year as Godard's highly and pointlessly controversial film "Je Vous Salue Marie." Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. JLG Films unknown
1980ref. 149979N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Luc Goddard and crew on the set of the 1980 film. "Sauve qui peut / la Vie" stamp on verso with last three lines of stamp which include copyright date and photograph credit for Anne-Marie Mieville struck through with manuscript marker. A most Godardian examination of sexual relationships in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Switzerland. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 744. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 149696London: Institute of Contemporary Arts 1969. Two vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1969 French film. With printed mimeo snipes for the film's British release affixed to the verso. A man and a woman meet to discuss the Vietnam War student protests the changing relationship between the US and France and other current events of the 1960s interspersed with news clips music and narration by director Jean-Luc Godard. 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Institute of Contemporary Arts unknown
1961ref. 138215Paris: N.p. 1961. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Godard and Macha Meril on the set of the 1961 film. With the Paris stamp of photographer Claude Schwartz on the verso. 9 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 140845Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. With a single notation to the title page in manuscript ink indicating this copy is from Barry Levinson. Based on the 1955 novel "Le Blockhaus" by Jean-Paul Clebert the story follows a mixed-group of forced laborers held by German forces taking shelter in a German bunker on D-Day. However due to the heavy shelling they are entombed in the blockhouse. Fortunately it is a storehouse as well so the prisoners have food to last them for years but unfortunately they are permanently trapped in there. The film deals with how they lived in their underground prison and their eventual deaths. Set in Normandy shot on location in Guernsey Channel Islands. Blue blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Gould and author Jean-Paul Clebert. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1970ref. 171748Paris: Valoria Films 1970. Vintage borderless composite reference photograph from the 1970 film the top image showing François Truffaut examining his ankle and shoe the bottom image showing Jean-Pierre Leaud doing the same. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with provenance stamps and layout annotations in manuscript pencil. The penultimate film in François Truffaut's five-film series about the character Antoine Doinel. In this entry Doinel and his wife are expecting their first child when he begins an affair with a woman he meets in a business meeting at his new job. Shot on location in Paris. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 187. Valoria Films unknown
1960ref. 149354Paris: Balzac 1960. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1960 French film showing director Jean-Pierre Mocky actors Juliette Mayniel Jean Kosta and other members of the cast and crew. With numbered stamps on the verso. A husband and wife decide to separate when they realize their relationship lacks sexual excitement after three years together. Shot on location in France. 6.75 x 5.5 inches. About Near Fine. Balzac unknown
1978ref. 149428Los Angeles: Cinema Shares International 1978. Vintage borderless matte reference photograph from the 1977 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with a provenance stamp. An exploitative horror film late on the coattails of cautionary drug movies of the 1960s about a string of violent murders in Los Angeles linked to a dangerous LSD strain called "Blue Sunshine." Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cinema Shares International unknown
1951ref. 149617N.p.: N.p. 1951. Vintage reference photograph of Maxwell Reed from the 1951 British film noir. Provenance stamp on the verso. Molly Natasha Parry a young actress is witness to a double murder by "The Dark Man" Reed and is stalked by the killer. Inspector Viner Edward Underdown assigned to the murders develops romantic feelings for Molly. Shot on location in Sussex and East Sussex England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 146940N.p.: N.p. 1984. First Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English. Based on the 1960 German novel wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script written seven years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Germany. Navy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 27 1984 noted as first draft with credits for screenwriter David Taylor and novelist Siegfried Lenz. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with slight yapping to the fore edge of the rear wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 170362London: ITC Films 1981. Vintage reference photograph from the 1981 film showing actress Jessica Lange. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain. Along with "The Verdict" a film that brought writer David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world leading to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. ITC Films unknown
1991ref. 149341Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1991. Vintage reference photograph of director-screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen and actor John Turturro having a conversation between takes on the set of the 1991 film. One of the more ambitious films in the Coen brothers' oeuvre a nuanced comedy about Hollywood success and the interaction between intellectuals and "the common man." Based largely on the experiences of playwright and erstwhile screenwriter Clifford Odets. Winner of the Palme d'Or Best Actor and Best Director awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for three Academy Awards in 1992. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 141036N.p.: Faces Music 1970. Original borderless photograph of John Cassavetes behind the camera on the set of the 1970 film. "Husbands" was personal to Cassavetes who was struggling with the recent loss of his 30 year old brother. The film follows three middle aged men all very close in the aftermath of the death of their friend. Shot on location in England and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Faces Music unknown
1944ref. 130722Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1944. Shooting Script for the 1944 film. A thriller completely dominated by the formidable Stephanie Bachelor. The statuesque sophisticated Republic leading lady is cast as Muriel the scheming widow of the fabulously wealthy Hartford Chaney 3rd. Muriel's husband has disappearance under mysterious circumstances freeing her to marry her playboy paramour Frederick St. Clair George Meeker. Hal Erickson AllMovie Goldenrod titled wrappers with the original title written in manuscript ink and changed in manuscript pencil noted as Shooting Script on the front wrapper as production No. 1258 dated April 4 1944. 77 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Republic Pictures unknown
