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1976ref. 138189Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1976. Vintage press kit for the 1976 film. Included in the kit are 18 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs and 58 pages of promotional and production information. Based on the 1964 novel "Le locataire chimerique" by Roland Topor. The third final film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy" following "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" in which Polanski plays the role of a man who finds out that the previous tenant of his Parisian apartment attempted suicide by jumping out the window. Slowly the man becomes obsessed with the tenant taking on more and more of her habits ultimately including her attempts at self destruction. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in Paris and shot there on location. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. 18 pages of production information saddle stapled 8.5 x 11 inches with an additional 40 pages of corner stapled production information. All materials about Fine housed in a Very Good plus studio folder. Paramount Pictures unknown
1934ref. 302814New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. 1934. First American edition from English sheets. 8vo. Translated by Ann Gretton. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good. 286 pages. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols' copy signed by him on the front free endpaper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. hardcover
1977ref. 130496Los Angeles: Stephen Friedman / Kings Road Productions 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Ron Turbeville's only produced screen credits were for "Buster and Billie" 1974 and a few episodes of television "Adam-12" "The Name of the Game". A coming-of-age story with what would appear to be a nearly all-Black cast about a 14-year-old Black teenager named Jimmy who lives in an unnamed part of the rural American South. He dreams of life in the city and finds his induction by way of urban denizen Skeeter Magee. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Turbeville. 132 leaves Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Stephen Friedman / Kings Road Productions unknown
1956ref. 145939N.p.: Sumar Productions 1956. Vintage studio photograph of Gloria Grahame on location from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and French Twentieth Century Fox Stamp on verso. Based on Ewen Montagu's 1954 book based on a true story about a British attempt to trick their German enemies using the name and credentials of a dead man as bait. The real intelligence plan was called "Operation Mincemeat" and was devised to deceive the Axis powers into thinking "Operation Husky" an invasion of Sicily would take place elsewhere. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at the margins. Sumar Productions unknown
1975ref. 135433Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1975. Draft script for the 1976 film "St. Ives" here under the working title "St. Ives' Big Score." Included are several unbound revision sheets dated 10/11/75 on pink stock. Based on the 1972 crime novel "The Procane Chronicle" by Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck. The first of no fewer than ten films director J. Lee Thompson would make with badass Charles Bronson and ironically one of the last with a major studio behind it. The pair would go on to make taut violent potboilers such as "10 to Midnight" 1983 "The Evil That Men Do" 1984 and "Murphy's Law" 1986. Raymond St. Ives Bronson is a novelist drawn back into the world of his former profession of crime reporting by wealthy Abner Procane Houseman. St. Ives is hired to locate stolen documents with ties to the local mob. Janet Whistler Bisset is an associate of Procane's accompanying St. Ives but her motives are vague. Features early supporting roles by Jeff Goldblum and Robert "Freddy" Krueger Englund. Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles and Pasadena California. Blue titled wrappers with gilt titles. Title page present dated September 29 1975 noted as ST. IVES' BIG SCORE with credits for actor Bronson producers Pancho Kohner and Stan Canter director Thompson and screenwriter Beckerman. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 114 with 9 laid-in pink revision pages dated 10/11/75. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Hardy The Gangster Film p. 365. Warner Brothers unknown
1947ref. 148811West Hollywood: Eagle-Lion Films 1947. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1948 British film. One with Dion McGregor Collection stamp on the verso. After sustaining a head injury in a bus crash young scientist convalesces in a boardinghouse where a young woman is brutally murdered. Now a prime suspect with a poor memory due to the accident and no alibi he begins to wonder if he could have done it. Roy Ward Baker's directorial debut. Shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light corner and edgewear one with small chip to upper left corner two with pinholes and modest bruising. Selby Master. Selby UK. Grant UK. Spicer UK. Eagle-Lion Films unknown
1990ref. 134461Los Angeles: Discovery Productions 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1949 Jim Thompson novel. The story of a small town movie theater owner who gets mixed up in a murderous love triangle with his wife and lover. Though a film from this script was never made the original Thompson story adapted by a different writer remains in possible development. Lacking front wrapper with a red rear wrapper. Title page present dated June 1 1990 with credits for screenwriter Birkin and novelist Thompson. 113 leaves photocopy. Fine condition bound with three gold brads. Discovery Productions unknown
1964ref. 139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. "Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. 5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown
1986ref. 139240Madrid Spain: RM Films International 1986. Original Spanish one sheet poster for the 1986 release of the 1975 US film. Features buxom Christy Hartburg who starred as SuperLorna. Hartburg along with Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard has become one of the more recognizable faces of Russ Meyer filmdom even though this was her only film. Meyer's successful return to independent filmmaking after the big-budget "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" 1970 and the unfortunate films "The Seven Minutes" 1971 and "Black Snake" 1973. Arguably the most entertaining Meyer project with all the trademarks present: strong sexual women impotent men and healthy doses of sex violence and nudity with a nod to the desert violence of Italian Euro Westerns of the 1960s. Shot on location in Arizona California and New Mexico. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Scarce. RM Films International unknown
1959ref. 134256Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. A Eight vintage still photographs from the 1959 film. Included are 4 stills from the US release and 4 stills from the UK release under the title "Mr. Teas and His Playthings." From a cursory glance one can immediately see the differences with regard to nudity paid by both US and UK publicists the UK stills decidedly more liberal with regard to the "forbidden flesh." The US stills were taken directly from scenes of the film and the UK stills appear to be from either a deleted scene or a mock setup designed for foreign publicity with Mr. Teas seen in a bathhouse with the "Buxom Bath House Beauties" Baby Dahl Chicky Fricase Frenchie Tost Teri Clawthe that were not seen in the final cut. The UK stills purport "Monstrous Murder!" and "Sizzling Suspense!" taglines however the final cut features neither murder nor suspense. The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. All stills 8 x 10 inches some differ slightly in size. Two US stills Very Good plus others Near Fine. UK stills Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1961ref. 134255Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Original pressbooks two variants for 1961 re-releases of the 1959 film. Featured are the two most commonly seen layouts used for publicity: the full-color illustrated "hat" variant and the other with Mr. Teas surrounded by a bevy of well-developed women the female leads of the film from left to right: Ann Peters Michele Roberts Dawn Danielle and Marilyn Wesley. The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. Both pressbooks 11 x 17 inches folded horizontally. "Hat" variant includes a 9 x 12 ad mat dated "Fri. Aug. 18 1961." Light rubbing overall rubber stamps from "Sack Amusement Enterprises" in Dallas Texas and a few light creases and tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1958ref. 173029Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Eight vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1958 Disney Western film. Based on David Appel's 1951 novel "Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse" about the bond between a young Sioux boy and the titular horse who end up on opposite sides of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Set in Montana Territory and shot on location in Oregon. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1975ref. 141891Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Here under the working title "Scandal." Eliane is a pharmicist with a dull husband and teenage daughter. A fellow pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her one night after mistaking her for someone else and she allows it to happen ultimately becoming his complete sex slave. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with gold brads. Ciesi unknown
1965ref. 143145Culver City CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions 1965. Seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War an obsessed glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers Confederate POWs and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns in the US. 11.75 x 9.25. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners. Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions unknown
1967ref. 148300N.p.: Produzioni Europee Associate PEA 1967. Collection of eleven vintage black-and-white lobby cards from the French release of the 1967 film. The second in Leone's iconic trilogy "For a Few Dollars More" is another tale of gunslingers revenge double-crossing and robbery. Starring Clint Eastwood as Manco the "man with no name" and Gian Maria Volonte as the ruthless psychopath El Indio. Set in Texas shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Very Good with pinholes to corners. Alex Cox10000 Ways to Die. Grant Any Gun Can Play p. XXX. Pitts 572. Produzioni Europee Associate [PEA] unknown
2012ref. 171932Los Angeles: Thunder Buddies 2012. Draft script for the 2012 film. A lonely young boy wishes that his oversized teddy bear would come to life and his wish is granted. Thirty years later the teddy bear is still alive and living with the boy now an immature hedonistic adult. Basis for a 2015 sequel and a 2024 prequel television series. Shot on location throughout Boston. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Seth MacFarlane Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine bound with two gold brads. Thunder Buddies unknown
1963ref. 170477N.p.: Cinema V. 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film both showing actor Hampton Clanton. Printed mimeo snipes and date stamps on the versos. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke following "The Connection" 1961. Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite and while appearing improvisational were in fact semi-documentaries with carefully scripted dialogue. Clarke aspired to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent in Hollywood "social issue" films. It was the first film to be produced by Frederick Wiseman who would go on to become a legendary documentary filmmaker and was scored by noted jazz composer and pianist Mal Waldron with performances by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Cinema V. unknown
1974ref. 146919N.p.: EMI Film Distributors 1974. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Sidney Lumet on the set of the 1974 film. Mimeo Snipe "PHOTO A RENDRE" and "CAMERA PRESS LTD." stamps and "IMAPRESS" stamp on sticker over "PARIMAGE" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1934 novel by Agatha Christie which finds her series detective Hercule Poirot investigating a murder aboard a train with the suspects portrayed by a who's who of Hollywood stars. Ingrid Bergman won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and the film was nominated for five more including Best Actor for Albert Finney and Best Adapted Screenplay. Remade in 2017 directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. 8.25 x 12 inches. Near Fine some curling wear and creasing at the far corners. Penzler 101. EMI Film Distributors unknown
1986ref. 169088N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film. Dated December 24 1986 only five days before the commencement of production on December 29 according to the AFI Catalog. Sydney Poitier stars as an FBI agent working to uncover Soviet sleeper agents posing as an all-American family living in San Diego and develops a friendship with their unsuspecting son played by River Phoenix. Shot on location in San Diego San Ysidro Monrovia and La Mesa California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 24 1986 with credits for screenwriter Bo Goldman. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 149927N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Donen and actors Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant on the set of the 1958 British film. Based on screenwriter Norman Krasna's 1953 play "Kind Sir" wherein a lovelorn theatre actress begins an affair with a handsome married economist. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 526. N.p. unknown
1951ref. 145957Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage studio photograph of Jane Powell and Musical Director Johnny Green on the set of the 1951 film. Mimeo snipe French annotations in manuscript ink and crop marks on the verso. Tom and Ellen Bowen Astaire and Powell are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a gig in London while the Royal Wedding is in progress. On their cruise to England Ellen meets Lord John Brindale Lawford and she misses rehearsal. Upon arriving Tom holds auditions for dance partners and meets Anne Churchill. The siblings are at arms defending their romances and trying to keep their dance act stable. Loosely based on the real-life dancing partners Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus light creasing. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1978ref. 138126Beverly Hills CA: Mel Simon Productions 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Father Brian Dyke is a priest in a depressing mining town until one day a new Sister Rita Quinlan joins his parish and changes his perception of life. She is trusting and kind and listens to Father Brian but their relationship takes a turn for the worse landing Father Brian in the role of suspect. Blue production company Mel Simon Productions wrappers. Title page present dated May 10 1978 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stitt and director Kramer. Last leaf of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Mel Simon Productions unknown
1970ref. 141804Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1970 film. The first film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quintet" followed by "Private Duty Nurses" 1971 "Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. The second film released by Corman's later legendary New World Picutres. Set and shot on location in Torrance California. 27 x 41. Folded. Very Good plus with some light toning and a bump to the upper portion of the poster. New World Pictures unknown
2005ref. 148372N.p.: N.p. 2005. Draft script for the 2006 film. An intimate look at the British Royal family from May to September of 1997 following the death of Princess Diana on August 31 1977 and the struggle between Queen Elizabeth's Helen Mirren desire to treat it as a private affair and Prime Minister Tony Blair Michael Sheen and Prince Charles' Alex Jennings desire to quell the public's demand for a more overt and public expression of grief. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mirren nominated for five others including Best Film Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in England Scotland and France. Pink titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper light creasing to top right else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
2002ref. 163347N.p.: Muddfilms 2002. Vintage press kit for the 2004 film. The press kit was produced in 2002 following the film's screening at the 2002 NoDance Film Festival in Park City Utah where the film won the "Best Director" jury prize. The press kit referred to as a "Media Pack" on the label on the enclosing folder includes a gathering of 24 pages which include film reviews synopses statements and bios of the cast and crew a two page review by Michael Edwards a March 2002 issue of "Entertainment Showcase" a CD of image files from the film six color promotional flyers and collages on photographic paper promoting the film and four flyers promoting the films screening at the 2002 NoDance Film Festival. A surprisingly disturbing and entertaining black comedy. Millard Mudd a struggling alcoholic cartoon writer with writer's block finds himself at the end of his rope until he accidentally hits a stray dog Lucky while out on a liquor run. While nursing Lucky back to health Lucky begins talking teaching Mudd how to craft award winning scripts and to kill. Folder and contents Near Fine overall. Muddfilms unknown
