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1957ref. 138551Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of Jean Seberg from the 1957 film. An image we have never seen. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1973ref. 161101Amsterdam: Actueel Film NV 1973. Two vintage oversize photographs from the 1973 film. Both with the stamp of Actueel Film on the versos. A group of Interpol agents investigate the seemingly random killings of drug and pornography traffickers. Director Romain Gary was married to the film's star Jean Seberg at the time of production. Shot on location in Afghanistan in Comunidad Valenciana Murcia and Madrid Spain and in Tunisia. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners repaired with paper tape on the verso. Actueel Film NV unknown
1960ref. 151698N.p.: N.p. 1960. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1960 film one showing director Jean-Luc Godard and a camera crew filming a scene with actor Michel Subor the other showing Godard and cinematographer Raoul Coutard. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. During the Algerian War a French agent is ordered to assassinate a member of the National Liberation Front of Algeria FLN but cannot complete the mission due to his involvement with a pro-FLN woman. Shot in 1960 but not released until 1963 due to a French ban on torture scenes thus Godard's second feature film but fourth to be released. Set in Algeria shot on location in Switzerland. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1010. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 142630France: Ulysse Productions 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and manuscript annotations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused of passing fake currency who then tracks down and interviews the counterfeiter in the segment "Le grand escroc" "The Great Swindler" directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Other segments were directed by Claude Chabrol Ugo Gregoretti Hiromichi Horikawa and Roman Polanski. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1339. Ulysse Productions unknown
1967ref. 149386N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1967 film with actors Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Leaud and Mireille Darc. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso with celo tape from the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema for a July 5 1968 showing with annotations of actors names in manuscript ink. In one of Godard's most misanthropic films a loveless bourgeois couple Corinne Darc and Roland Yanne fantasize about killing each other when they aren't cheating on the other. They ponder these matters as they take a nearly never-ending nightmarish road trip to visit Corinne's parents intent on securing an inheritance resolved to murder if necessary. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 149967N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four borderless reference photographs one oversize of Jean-Pierre Melville Catherine Deneuve Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set of and on location for the 1972 film. A police detective played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville pictures is on the trail of a gang of thieves unaware that they are led by a friend. Melville's final film. Shot on location in Paris and Bordeaux France. Oversize photo 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Other photos variously from 9 x 7 inches to 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 147461Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1986. Revised Third Draft script for the 1987 film. INSCRIBED by actor Kristy Swanson on the title page to an unknown crew member. Based on the 1979 Gothic novel by Virginia C. Andrews about the incestuous plight of four unlucky siblings whose mother abandons them in the attic of her family's decaying ancestral home after their father's death in an automobile accident. While Andrews' novel was wildly popular among teenage girl readers of the 1970s and 80s test audiences were revolted by some of the film's more taboo scenes leading producers to heavily re-cut the film and even create a new ending-a decision which Bloom purportedly despised and refused to direct. Partially set in Pennsylvania shot on location in California and Massachusetts. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated April 30 1986 noted as REVISED THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter JEFFREY BLOOM and novelist V.C. ANDREWS. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1980ref. 142637Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. Satirical horror farce based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Jerry Belson's cinematic directorial debut based on a late-night sketch from ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live "Fridays" wherein comedian Mark Blankfield played a recurrent cocaine-snorting pharmacist. Belson most often noted for sharing writing credits with Steven Speilberg for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and winning three Emmy's for "The Tracey Ullman Show" co-wrote with notable sitcom screenwriters Michael J. Leeson two time Emmy winner for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series 1981 "Taxi" and "The Cosby Show" 1985 sister Monica Johnson "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" "Laverne & Shirley" and Harvey Miller head writer director of "The Odd Couple". The script was championed at Paramount by Michael Eisner and part of Paramount's "Magnificent Seven" a reaction to increasing budgets and a potential director strike in 1981 where six films were rushed to production under budget in order to finance a seventh. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jerry Belson Michael Leeson Monica Johnson and Harvey Miller. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus velo binding. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. Olive Films 1264. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 144863Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Chrislaw Productions 1970. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. and director Jerry Lewis on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Chris Pepper Peter Lawford and Charlie Salt Sammy Davis Jr. are about to lose their London nightclub. In desperation they turn to Pepper's aristocrat twin brother for help who shortly after they contact is murdered. Pepper assumes his dead brothers identity and together with Salt they try to solve the crime. Shot on location in Herefordshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists / Chrislaw Productions unknown
1970ref. 150635N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vntage borderless reference photograph of Jerzy Skolimowski and Jane Asher on the set of the 1970 film. A teenage boy takes a job at a local swim club becomes obsessed with his older coworker and tries to sabotage her engagement to another man. Shot on location in Munich Germany and London. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Light creasing and edgewear else Near Fine. BFI 1063. Grant UK. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 147480N.p.: Grafopress-Ciampino 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film here under the title "Le Viziose." "Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles including "Le Viziose" and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires" as well as an X-rated version "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym of James P. Johnson or L.P. Johnson as on the poster is the screenwriter under the pseudonym David Khune and acts under the pseudonym Jess Frank. Franco's "Exorcisme" features Franco in the lead as Mathis Vogel a psychotic defrocked priest who writes S&M stories by day and tortures and murders Satanic black mass dinner theater patrons by night. Also starring Franco's longtime collaborator and later wife Lina Romay as the free spirit Anne. 13 x 27.5 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Thrower Stephen. Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two 1975-2013. Grafopress-Ciampino unknown
1970ref. 163716London: Commonwealth United Entertainment 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 Italian film one showing Maria Rohm having her ankle caressed by Dennis Price the other showing Rohm standing alone. Not to be confused with the Massimo Dallamano film from the same year. A jazz trumpeter discovers a beautiful corpse washed up on a beach. Hours later a woman who looks exactly like the corpse arrives at the door of his apartment. The original Italian release was heavily edited by distributors at American International and due to censors in Italy seizing the original prints the American cut is most often seen today. Set in Istanbul. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Commonwealth United Entertainment unknown
1980ref. 149409N.p.: N.p. 1980. Five vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film. Title labels affixed to the verso of each. Jim Jarmusch's directorial debut made just after dropping out of film school his signature patient ambling and dryly humorous approach to storytelling firmly established. Set against the backdrop of a grungy late-1970s New York City we follow the young unemployed Allie Chris Parker full of ennui meandering through the city contemplating his life and encountering curious and odd characters along the way. Set in and shot on location in New York City. Four photographs 5.5 x 3.75 inches one 5.25 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 400. Destroy All Movies The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 166249Burbank CA: Saban/Scherick Productions 1990. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 2003 film starring Jeremy Sumpter and Jason Isaacs. Based on J.M. Barrie's classic 1904 play and subsequent 1911 novel. Lacking front wrapper with a blue rear wrapper. Title page present dated May 1990 noted as First Draft with credits for Barrie and screenwriter John Goldsmith. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good bound with a silver prong. Saban/Scherick Productions unknown
1957ref. 164297N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage reference photographs of actress Joanne Woodward on the set of the 1957 film-one showing Woodward with Lee J. Cobb the other showing Woodward with David Wayne. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the case of Chris Costner Sizemore a woman believed to have dissociative identity disorder then called multiple personality disorder. Woodward received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 171776N.p.: Handmade Films 1987. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1988 film including Jodie Foster as a young adult a young John Turturro and a photo showing director Tony Bill talking with Tim Robbins on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. One of the most important independent films of the 1980s and the movie that launched Jodie Foster into her adult film career as well as one that featured striking early performances by John Turturro and Tim Robbins. A violent ex-con returns to his old neighborhood in the Bronx where he begins harassing a young woman whom he previously attempted to sexually assault. An early script by Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley best known for "Moonstruck" 1987 and "Doubt" 2008. Set in 1960s New York and shot in New York on location. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine lightly toned to the edges. Handmade Films unknown
1978ref. 169547N.p.: N.p. 1978. Four vintage borderless reference photographs of characters in various states of bodily distress from the 1978 film. A satirical low-budget cult classic wherein a school of flesh-eating piranhas is released into a summer resort's river. Purportedly named by Steven Spielberg as "the best of the Jaws rip-offs." Shot on location in California and Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 169951Los Angeles: Rankin/Bass Productions 1974. Draft script for the 1974 animated Christmas television special originally aired on CBS on December 8 1974. From the archive of screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. A children's Christmas tale loosely based on Clement Moore's classic 1823 poem. Although produced in the US the special was animated in Japan by Topcraft an animation studio later linked to Studio Ghibli. Topcraft would collaborate numerous times with Rankin/Bass throughout the 1970s and 1980s most notably on "The Hobbit" 1977 and "The Last Unicorn" 1982. Script housed in a mylar folder with a navy blue binding. Pink titled William Morris Agency wrappers. Title page present dated 3-12-74 with credits for Moore and screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Rankin/Bass Productions unknown
1944ref. 146004Hollywood: Republic Productions 1944. Shooting script for the 1944 film. Single manuscript pencil notation on the front wrapper. A physician researching life-after-death is possessed by the spirit of an executed murderer who uses the doctor's body to exact vengeance on those involved in his death. A Jekyll-and-Hyde-style supernatural horror B-movie unusual for Republic Productions who were better known for their Western pictures. Tan partial titled wrapper noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper noted as production No. 1463 dated October 3 1944 with credits for screenwriter John K. Butler. Title page integral to the first page of text dated October 3 1944. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 80. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 10/14/44. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with splashes on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Republic Productions unknown
1980ref. 142430New York: LaMarca Productions 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1960 novel by John Hersey. A satire about the American educational system in which a man tries to buy a smart young child with a difficult home life in order to utilize him in an experiment to engineer super-intelligent humans. Adaptation written by Lee Minoff writer of the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine." Tan untitled agency wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lee Minoff and novelist John Hersey. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. LaMarca Productions unknown
1985ref. 162764Wembley: Lee International Film Studios 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 television movie originally aired on December 2 1985 on NBC and seen here under the working title "Imagine: John and Yoko." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting "Final Script" and copied annotations on three leaves. A dramatization of the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their first meeting in 1966 to Lennon's murder by Mark David Chapman in 1980. Shot on location in London and New York. Gray generic Carson Productions Group wrappers. Title page present dated 11th July 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for director-screenwriter Sandor Stern. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Lee International Film Studios unknown
1974ref. 149688N.p.: N.p. 1974. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1974 British film. A young writer accepts a weekend invitation to visit her reclusive friend's country mansion unaware that her friend and the house itself hold a variety of dark secrets. Set and shot on location in England. 10 x 7.5 inches. Very Good lightly and evenly toned. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 162366N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz sitting on the set surrounded by crew members. Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 149438London: EMI Films 1971. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of director Joseph Losey filming a scene on location in Norwich with actor Dominic Guard with cast and crew members looking on. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. EMI Films unknown
1963ref. 146913N.p.: Estree Distributors 1963. Vintage borderless photograph of Sarah Miles and Joseph Losey on the set of the 1963 film. Crop annotations in manuscript marker on recto crop annotations in manuscript pencil and "Theo Cowan LTD" and "Paris-Presse" stamps and 1 1/4" mimeo snipe on the verso. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a servant-becomes-master tale but goes beyond what could have been a mediocre finish and journeys into the psyche and personal problems of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set in and shot on location in London. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus some faint creasing. Estree Distributors unknown
