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1961ref. 166645Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1961. Three vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1961 film including two bordered and one borderless. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos noting the name of actor Anthony Quinn. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel wherein a group of Allied soldiers plan to destroy an airtight German fortress in order to save British naval ships stranded in the Aegean Sea. Set and shot on location on the Greek islands. Approximately 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1956ref. 139914N.p.: The Rank Organization 1956. Vintage UK three-sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya where she was previously a POW with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during World War II. Set in Malaysia shot on location in Malaysia Australia and England. 41 x 81 inches rolled and mounted on archival linen. Near Fine. Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. The Rank Organization unknown
1956ref. 139915N.p.: The Rank Organization 1956. Vintage UK one sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya where she was previously a POW with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during the war. Set in Malaya shot on location in Malaya and England. 27 x 41 inches folded. Near Fine with light toning and black manuscript annotations to the verso. The Rank Organization unknown
1971ref. 139058Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage Australian insert poster for the 1971 US film. Printed by Robert Burton Pty. in Sydney. Based on screenwriter Larner's 1964 novel. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s as well as a New Hollywood film albeit lesser-known. Hector Tepper plays college basketball superbly but his lover Olive Black has reservations about their relationship. All the while Hector's friend Gabriel Margotta contemplates and protests the Vietnam War. Nicholson's directorial debut after astonishing performances in "Easy Rider" 1969 and "Five Easy Pieces" 1970. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout the state. 12.75 x 30 inches folded twice as issued. Very Good plus with light toning brief edge creasing and a few central tears. Scarce. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 130202Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Estimating script for the 1972 film. Actor Jackie Cooper's directorial debut a set of stories that follow multiple women as they engage with the Women's Liberation movement. One of the first major Hollywood films to depict the second wave of feminism showing militant women's rights groups mass political demonstrations and women who shirk traditional familial structures though due to its tone at turns humorous and melodramatic the film is often critically considered to have touched on the movement in a shallow manner. Shot on location in Denver. Pale pink titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 9 1971 noted as ESTIMATING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Slade. 112 leaves mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1969ref. 153071N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Jacques Demy with actors Gary Lockwood and Anouk Aimee on the set of the 1969 film. Demy's first English language film recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s. A young discontented man in a dead-end relationship learns his draft notice has arrived and he is due to report for Army duty the following week. While out trying to raise money to keep his car from being repossessed he sees and becomes obsessed with the beautiful Lola an older French model who works in a "model shop" posing for photographers. Set and shot on location in Laurel Canyon Los Angeles. 10 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time 327. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 157108Paris: France-Soir 1967. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 French film. Both with stamps on the verso crediting photographer André Grassart. In search of love two sisters leave their small hometown and begin working as traveling carnival singers. Director Jacques Demy's charming follow-up to his 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg." Shot on location in Rochefort Charente-Maritime France. Both photographs approximately 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. BFI. Criterion Collection 717. Rosenbaum 1000. France-Soir unknown
1958ref. 155857N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1958 film showing director Jacques Tati filming an outdoors scene. National Film Archive stamp on the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Tati's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Set in the Parisian suburbs. 7.75 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 162412N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the classic 1954 film showing Jacques Tati on the beach. Number stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 9.25 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners and a couple of tiny bruises at the bottom right corner. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 149741N.p.: N.p. 1954. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1954 film. With agency labels on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 166412Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1983. Draft script for the 1983 pornographic film. With annotations in manuscript pencil on the first leaf presumably made by screenwriter-director Phil Prince indicating the name of the actor to be associated with each character. A cult leader called "The Confessor" hears confessions from rape victims "cleanses" the female ones with sex and then arranges for all victims and sometimes himself to then recursively rape their own male or female rapists. IMDB. Title page integral with cast of characters no wrapper as issued undated. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. Avon Productions unknown
1977ref. 167724N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for the 1979 film. Script incomplete presumably as issued ending on page 102. A hitchhiker is sent to prison after being wrongly accused of a murder. There he joins an underground boxing tournament organized by corrupt guards in order to win his freedom. Basis for two sequels in 1982 and 1987. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present copyright year noted as 1977 with credit for director and screenwriter Jamaa Fanaka. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a closed tear on the front wrapper repaired with cello tape on the verso. Bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1951ref. 161590N.p.: N.p. 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1951 film showing actor James Arness in costume as the titular Thing with his stunt double just behind. Annotations in manuscript ink noting the same on the verso. Based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella "Who Goes There" which also served as the basis for John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece "The Thing." US Air Force crew and scientists at an arctic research station accidentally thaw out the still-living body of a humanoid alien which promptly begins to attack them. Set in Anchorage shot on location throughout Los Angeles and in Glacier National Park Montana. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 156298Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Striking vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing James Dean Raymond Massey and Julie Harris in a mournful moment. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for James Dean's lead performance. Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1969ref. 156675London: Merchant Ivory Productions 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Rita Tushingham. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Culture clash ensues when a successful self-absorbed pop musician travels to India to learn to play the sitar from an older renowned sitar musician. Set and shot on location in India. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Merchant Ivory Productions unknown
1976ref. 157080Laren NH: Actueel Film NV 1976. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1976 UK film. Included with the photographs is a press sheet specific to the film's release in The Netherlands with text in Dutch. Struggling to finish his second book while experiencing vivid nightmares and increasing paranoia an author rents a cottage in the British countryside and hires an attractive mysterious secretary to help type the manuscript. Shot on location in Essex. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn with pinholes at the corners. Actueel Film NV unknown
1935ref. 146172Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes dated February 28 1936 also with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent lifestyle and pay off his debts. When he falls in love with a copper heiress in the process of trying to swindle her he must decide between the wealth and power their marriage would bring him and the social disgrace she would encounter if his prior indiscretions were ever made public. Final shooting script 10-2-35: Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 10-2-35 with credits for screenwriter Allen Rivkin and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/4/35 and 11/2/35. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Revisions and Retakes: Blue partial wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / REVISIONS & RETAKES on the front wrapper dated February 28 1936 with credits for associate producer Edward T. Lowe and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/2/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor quite dry with some cracking and a lower right corner of the front rear wrapper detached bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown
1976ref. 169554Paris: Ciné-Revue 1976. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 film both showing Jane Birkin behind a truck stop counter gazing longingly at Joe Dallesandro. Cine-Revue stamps and French release stamps on the versos. A tomboyish waitress develops a crush on a gay garbage truck driver and in spite of all odds they begin a relationship. Serge Gainsbourg's directorial debut. 9.25 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Ciné-Revue unknown
1967ref. 169559Rome: Fotografica Pierluigi 1967. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film both showing director Roger Vadim with cast and crew members on the set. Fotografica Pierluigi stamps on the versos along with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest published in the French magazine "V" in 1962 and 1964. Likely the campiest space-opera sex comedy in film history. Though not popular upon its release it was re-released to greater acclaim in 1977 and has since influenced countless fashion designers films and musicians including Duran Duran whose name is a play on that of the main villain. Set in outer space and shot in Rome. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Fotografica Pierluigi unknown
1931ref. 170746N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage double weight publicity photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film showing actress Jean Harlow in a low-cut dress and sparkling earrings. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1930 W.R. Burnett novel about a prizefighter whose unfaithful wife tricks him into hiring her lover as his new manager. "Blonde Bombshell" Jean Harlow was one of the defining actresses of pre-Code cinema and a leading sex symbol of the early 1930s. Harlow was only in the film industry for nine years before her untimely death of kidney failure in 1937 at the age of 26 while filming the romantic comedy "Saratoga" with Clark Gable. Her best remembered films include "Hell's Angels" 1930 "Red-Headed Woman" 1932 "Dinner at Eight" 1933 "Reckless" 1935 and "Suzy" 1936. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1931ref. 148495N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and two overlapping National Film Archive stamps on the verso. A key French film noir antecedent based on the 1929 novel by Georges de La Fouchardiere and the 1930 play by Andre Mouezy-Eon. An aspiring painter trapped in an abusive marriage falls in love with a prostitute who scams him out of the money for his paintings with the help of her pimp. The second sound film by Jean Renoir. Remade in 1945 as Scarlet Street directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 818. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1937ref. 154246New York: Filmarte 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing L-R Jean Gabin Gaston Modot Pierre Fresnay Julien Carette Jean Daste and Marcel Dalio. Provenance stamp and library stamps to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown
1975ref. 170769N.p.: N.p. 1975. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 Belgian film. Based on Maud Frère's 1961 novel "La délice." In the 1950s a young woman struggles to find love after a traumatic past: a sexual assault during the war and the suicide of her father shortly after. Shot on location in Blankenberge Belgium. Approximately 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 149588N.p.: Nordia Films 1974. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 erotic horror film. A young woman watching over her cousin's house is mistakenly kidnapped by a crazed sex cult. 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. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. Nordia Films unknown
1975ref. 169539N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1975 French adult film a rare image showing director and in this case co-star Jean Rollin with script in hand and holding a magnificent pipe. Joining Rollin are actresses Rachel Mhas and Claudia Zante on the set. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A horror-influenced hardcore film about a count who ensnares beautiful women in his castle. The first and only pornographic film in which Rollin was credited under his own name and not a pseudonym. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 1364. Hinds 222. N.p. unknown
