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1974ref. 149645Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actress Valerie Perrine in costume or arguably lack thereof as Lenny Bruce's wife stripper Honey Bruce. With manuscript annotations in ink and pencil on the verso regarding layout. Based on Julian Barry's 1971 play which followed the career decline and death by morphine overdose of controversial comedian Lenny Bruce. A tour de force shot in black and white with documentary-like direction interspersed with interviews. Bob Fosse's third film as director and first non-musical. Nominated for six Academy Awards and the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Miami Beach Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 153808N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The adventures of roguish gambler and man-about-town Anthony "Mink" Romano. A later effort by comic book writer and artist Bob Kane best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Batman alongside artist Bill Finger. In his later career Kane turned to screenwriting and film work serving as a consultant on Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation "Batman" and its three sequels. Mustard titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 153237Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1945. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1945 animated short film. A fox and a crow each scheme to capture the other in order to claim a $5000 reward for a wanted animal which is instead intended for the capture of a notorious wolf. 10 x 8 inches overall with wide margins images measuring 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 139053N.p.: Madison Productions Inc 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. An early exploitation take on the deathless we had to say that topic of clone research which was in its infancy at the time the film was released. Leslie Nielson plays a hard-nosed reporter who witnesses a car crash involving a senator and whose subsequent investigation reveals an intricate conspiracy involving high-level blackmail and advanced medical research. Set in Alamogordo New Mexico shot on location in Albuquerque New Mexico. Red titled front wrapper green rear wrapper. Title page present dated 12/01/70 with credits for screenwriters Jay Simms and Tom Rolf. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication first generation copy with no copied punch holes with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/23/70. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Madison Productions Inc unknown
ref. 153222N.p. Two vintage color reference photographs of director Brian De Palma and actress Angie Dickinson along with a camera crew on the set of the 1980 film. A defining De Palma film suspenseful in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock and opening with an homage to the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho." The sixth of nine highly distinctive films De Palma made between 1973 and 1984. Set in New York shot on location in New York and Pennsylvania. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 842. Criterion Collection 770. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. unknown
1973ref. 167109N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1973 French film showing Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin in bed together. Director Roger Vadim's attempt to explore women's sexual liberation by changing the classical figure of Don Juan into a woman here played by Bardot in her fifth film with Vadim. Shot in Paris. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good with some light wear at the corners but still quite bright and clean. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 160654N.p.: N.p. 1978. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight color reference photographs from the 1978 adult film. Labels affixed to versos noting the film's French title. A man's increasingly obsessive thoughts about his next-door neighbor lead his wife to force him into sex therapy. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. About Near Fine. Bier 793. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 160698N.p.: N.p. 1980. Three vintage oversize color reference photographs from the 1980 French adult film all three showing actress Brigitte Lahaie. After the closure of her establishment by the police a madam decides to open a new brothel in the disguise of a private all-girls school. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1327. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 159697Bradford: W.E. Berry 1972. Vintage British quad poster for the 1972 Australian film. Based on the character originally created by cartoonist Barry Humphries a loutish beer-guzzling Australian named Barry "Bazza" McKenzie. The first Australian film to surpass one million dollars in Australian box office receipts. Shot on location in London. 40 x 30 inches folded. Near Fine. W.E. Berry unknown
1976ref. 149310Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Collection of one vintage reference photograph and one contact sheet containing twelve test shots from the 1976 film all images publicity shots of actress Caroline Munro for the film. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1914 fantasy novel the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American adventurer drill through to a strange land where they lead a rebellion of Stone Age humans against their masters who happen to be intelligent flying reptiles with psychic powers. Set hundreds of miles underneath Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1961ref. 162353Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Carroll Baker talking with director Jack Garfein on the set of the 1961 film with a rubber stamp crediting photographer Fredric Franklin on the verso. Based on Alex Karmel's 1958 novel "Mary Ann." A traumatized college student is held captive by a mechanic after he witnesses her attempting to commit suicide on the Manhattan Bridge. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. United Artists unknown
1973ref. 159690Bradford: W.E. Berry 1973. Vintage British quad poster for the 1973 Italian-English film. Based on John Gardner's 1969 novel "A Complete State of Death." A detective uncovers a plot by the mob to use Vietnam veterans in a vast murder scheme. Shot on location in New York and California. 40 x 30 inches folded. Fine. Grant Italy. W.E. Berry unknown
1976ref. 146929N.p.: 5 Continents 1976. Vintage oversize borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film. Bizarre 1970s softcore sci-fi film about disembodied aliens from the dying planet Spermula who take the form of Earth women to collect semen to save their planet. featuring Udo Kier 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus pinholes at the corners else clean and bright. 5 Continents unknown
1987ref. 139456Los Angeles: TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation 1987. British Draft script for the 1988 television film originally airing on December 21 1988 on TNT the first made-for-television movie produced for the fledging network. Brief annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during the English Reformation. Previously filmed in a 1966 Academy Award winning theatrical release directed by Fred Zimmerman and starring Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller and Leo McKern. Tan wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated November 16 1987 with a credit for screenwriter Bolt. 180 leaves with last page of text numbered 177. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation unknown
1964ref. 149462London: Hammer Films 1964. Four vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release affixed to the verso noting the film's German title "Die brennenden Augen von Schloss Bartimore." A small village in the early twentieth century is terrorized by Megaera the Gorgon a monster so hideous that even glancing at her face turns humans to stone. Set in eastern Europe. Two photographs 10 x 8 inches two photographs 9.25 x 7 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded in portions. Johnson and Del Vecchio Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography pp. 241-242. Hammer Films unknown
1962ref. 151511Paris: Lux Film 1962. Vintage pressbook for the 1962 French film noir. Laid in with the pressbook is a xerographically duplicated cast list and synopsis of the film. Text in French. A failed journalist in southern Germany befriends a young married couple but the friendship begins to deteriorate when he takes compromising photographs of the wife with another man. A key Chabrol film predecessor to his thrillers made later in the decade. Set and shot on location in Germany and France. 12 x 9.5 inches. Two leaves folded vertically and bound with two staples. Very Good plus with light edgewear creasing and pinholes to the corners. Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. Lux Film unknown
1972ref. 151979N.p.: Fildebroc 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Sami Frey Romy Schneider and Yves Montand on the set of the 1972 film. Two "Le Spectacle du Monde" stamps and a "NOV 1972" stamp on verso. Cesar Montand is desperate to win the affections of Rosalie Schneider only to be complicated by the arrival of her old flame David Frey. Set in and shot on location in Paris and Ile de Noirmoutier France. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Fildebroc unknown
1970ref. 139655Paris: Fida Cinematografica / Lira Films 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1970 French-Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Michel Ginfray on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel "Intersections" by Paul Guimard who also worked on the screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and remade in 1994 as "Intersection" directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich. 12 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. Fida Cinematografica / Lira Films unknown
1967ref. 130313Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1964 play by Murray Schisgal about a man who strikes up a deal with his old friend to seduce his wife so that he may spend time with his girlfriend. Shot on location in New York and Long Beach. Red titled wrappers noted as final draft on the front wrapper noted as production No. 8801 dated August 4 1966. Title page present dated August 2 1966 noted as final draft with credits for screenwriter Elliott Baker and playwright Murray Schisgal. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between August 17 1966 and October 13 1966. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1987ref. 166807Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. Third Draft script for the 1988 film seen here under both the release title and the working title "To Live and Drive in L.A." A summer comedy about a teenage boy who decides to take a wild joyride with his friends in his grandfather's prized Cadillac resulting in increasingly grievous damage to the vehicle. The second feature film to costar "the two Coreys" Corey Feldman and Corey Haim following "The Lost Boys" 1987. Set in Southern California shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated September 21 1987. Title page present dated September 21 1987 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Neil Tolkin. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between October 15 and October 28 1987. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1968ref. 171040N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Dalton Trumbo on the set of the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud. A poor Jewish man assumes the identity of a gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken prejudiced man. When the man is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Nominated for an Academy Award for Alan Bates. Set in Czarist Russia shot on location in Hungary 9 x 7 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 143481Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Noirish in theme and based on true-life accounts. Murphy played by Paul Newman and Corelli Ken Wahl are police officers in the decaying South Bronx region of New York. Together they try to bring peace and justice to their corrupt precinct. Ethnic minorities play a major role in the film particularly African Americans and Puerto Ricans though community groups from the Bronx found their depiction lacking overall. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 22 1980 with a credit for screenwriter Gould. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mechanical duplication with pink blue yellow purple brown orange and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/80 and 4/18/80. Pages and wrapper Near Fine prong bound. Hardy BFI Crime Companion. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1982ref. 163721N.p.: N.p. 1982. Five vintage borderless oversize color reference photographs from the 1982 film. One with a Dutch distributor label on the verso. A conservative American couple explore sexuality and exhibitionism while on vacation in Greece culminating in a threesome with a French archaeologist. Shot on location on the islands of Greece in Crete Delos Mykonos and Santorini Greece. 7.25 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 163900Los Angeles: Linguini Productions 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A British bartender and a magic-obsessed waitress at a successful brasserie in Chelsea decide to team up to rob the restaurant. 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 films including "The Last Seduction" "Pulp Fiction" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "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. Set in New York shot on location in New York City and Los Angeles. Blue rear wrapper lacking front wrapper. Title page present dated April 26 1990 with credits for screenwriters Tamar Brott and Richard Shepard. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with a large binder clip. Linguini Productions unknown
1975ref. 148809N.p.: N.p. 1975. Two promotional portrait photographs of David Bowie likely used as part of a press release announcing Bowie's casting in the 1976 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Each with a fold over mimeo snipe from public relations firm Rogers and Cowan dated 5-29-75. One photograph with Bowie's name and RCA Records and Tapes printed in the bottom margin. Just three weeks prior RCA had released Bowie's ninth studio album "Young Americans" and earlier that year the BBC had broadcast the documentary "Cracked Actor" about the singer which led director Nicholas Roeg to cast Bowie in his upcoming adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1963 novel. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with slight even fading else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 304. N.p. unknown
