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1956ref. 170491Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1956 film. One with a provenance label on the verso. Humphrey Bogart's final film about a faded sportswriter facing the dissolution of his career and personal life. Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" 1954 the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg a film widely seen as justifying their decision to name names during the HUAC Hollywood blacklist trials. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in California Chicago and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 160684N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage reference photograph from the 1976 film showing director and actor Burt Reynolds with a camera crew on the set. Annotations in mimeograph ink and pencil on the verso. Reynolds's directorial debut about an ex-con hired to help capture a corrupt politician. Sequel to "White Lightning" 1973. Shot on location in Georgia. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 151694N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage reference photograph of director Carol Reed with his camera crew on the set of the 1949 film noir. With a London Film Studios stamp to the verso. An unemployed pulp fiction novelist travels to postwar Vienna to investigate the death of an old school friend. Screenwriter Graham Greene's first and only original screenplay and second collaboration with Carol Reed following "The Fallen Idol" 1948 and preceding "Our Man in Havana" 1959. Set and shot on location in Vienna Austria and England. 10 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 64. Ebert I. Grant UK. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 18. Selby UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown books
1947ref. 168074London: J. Arthur Rank / Eagle-Lion 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 British film noir showing an outdoor scene with James Mason shot on location in Shoreditch London. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance label on the verso. Based on the 1945 novel by F.L. Green about an injured Nationalist revolutionary who goes on the run after a botched hold-up. A taut psychological noir featuring the work of noted cinematographer Robert Krasker who would go on to collaborate again with Carol Reed on the 1949 noir "The Third Man." Set in Belfast Northern Ireland shot on location in Belfast and London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 754. Grant UK. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby UK Masterwork. Spicer UK. J. Arthur Rank / Eagle-Lion unknown books
1963ref. 157290N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing director Carol Reed in conversation with actress Lee Remick on the set. Based on Shelley Smith's 1961 novel "The Ballad of the Running Man" about a man who fakes his own death in the hopes of gaining a substantial insurance payout but encounters trouble in the form of the company's nosy claim investigator. Shot on location in Cadiz Spain in Gibraltar and in Ireland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 167736New York: P.I.P. Photo 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Catherine Spaak and Nino Manfredi on the set of the 1963 Italian film. Agency stamps stamp of photographer Georg Michalke and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An orphan is driven out of her small village after a love affair later beginning a new affair in Parma with a petty criminal. Shot on location in Rome Lombardia and Emilia-Romagna Italy. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. P.I.P. Photo unknown books
1964ref. 161335Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Vintage studio still photograph of designer and photographer Cecil Beaton standing next to his costume design illustration for the 1964 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Beaton won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film and alongside Gene Allen and George James Hopkins won an Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown books
1934ref. 164247N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage reference photograph from the 1934 film showing actors Clark Gable and Joan Crawford canoodling while Robert Montgomery looks on. French mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1933 Broadway play by Edward Barry Roberts and Frank Morgan Cavett about a years-long love triangle between three friends. Crawford's first of nine collaborations with screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 167499N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Janine Magnan in her underwear. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Five teenagers decide to leave school and study instead at a "school for criminals." Director Claude Lelouch's first commercial success. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light toning along three edges. N.p. unknown books
1937ref. 163739Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1937. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film showing Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in an intimate moment. Mimeo snipe provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A woman is unexpectedly caught in a love triangle during a trip to Paris. Shot on location in Sun Valley and Ketchum Idaho. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creases at the bottom corners. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1983ref. 148363N.p.: N.p. 1983. Collection of ten vintage French lobby cards including the title card from the 1983 erotic film. Based on the 1981 semi-autobiographical erotic novel by Joy Laurey the pen name of Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris. The story of Joy Claudia Udy who falls in love with an older man Marc Gerard-Antoine Huart and travels around Paris with him and his companion Margo Agnes Torrent looking for sexual encounters. Set in Paris shot on location in Paris and Ontario Canada. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Bier 1003. Severin Films. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 160667N.p.: Cinema International 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Clint Eastwood on the set of the 1973 Western film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. One of few Western films connected with the New Hollywood cinema thanks to Eastwood's abstraction as both director and actor nuanced cinematography and a script penned by "Shaft" novelist Ernest Tidyman. Shot on location at Mono Lake in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinema International unknown books
1978ref. 169541N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1978 film showing Clint and his crew and by that we do not mean the film crew. Provenance label and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A trucker turned prizefighter cruises through the west with his pet orangutan and manager-brother searching for his lost love an aspiring country music singer. Set and shot on location in New Mexico California Colorado and Wyoming. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly faded generally Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 151682N.p.: Cinema V. 1969. Vintage press kit for the 1969 film for use by distributors and the press containing five black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and one gathering of promotional material. Based on the 1967 novel by Vassilis Vassilikos. In 1960s Greece a pacifist left-wing politician's assassination is covered up by prominent government officials leaving a determined magistrate to expose the fraud. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two including Best Foreign Film. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Criterion Collection 491. Cinema V. unknown books
1970ref. 158269N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the US release of the 1970 Italian film showing actress Suzy Kendall. An American expatriate witnesses the murder of an art gallery owner in Rome and decides to find the culprit without the help of the police. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 145078Universal City CA: Joel Productions 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1962 film. Shown are Kirk Douglas director David Miller cinematographer Philip Lathrop and other crew members. Based on Edward Abbey's 1956 novel "The Brave Cowboy." Drifter cowboy Jack Burns Kirk Douglas hears that his old friend Paul Bondi Michael Kane is serving time in jail. Burns gets himself arrested with the intention of helping Bondi escape with him. Once inside he finds that Bondi would rather serve his sentence than risk a longer one leading Burns to break out on his own. Shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Joel Productions unknown books
1966ref. 171072Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Dean Martin and camera operator Albert Meyers and assistant on location for the final "train" sequence of the 1966 film. From the archive of camera operator Albert Meyers. Columbia Pictures stamp on the verso. Albert Myers usually credited as Al Myers was a noted camera operator in Hollywood for over 50 years beginning in the late 1920s credited in 30 films between 1927 and 1978. Notable in his filmography are "The Virginian" 1946 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 and "The Defiant Ones" 1958. Based on the 1962 spy novel by Donald Hamilton. Women of the world mourn the tragic death of handsome secret agent Matt Helm Dean Martin-faked naturally so that he can find the inventor of the Helium laser beam and kingpin of the underground criminal organization Big-O Karl Malden. The second of four films in the Matt Helm series starring Dean Martin preceded by "The Silencers" 1966 and followed by "The Ambushers" 1967 and "The Wrecking Crew" 1969. Shot on location in England Monte Carlo and France. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
2000ref. 171273Los Angeles CA: Viacom Productions 2000. Rainbow Revised Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. With a label affixed to the front wrapper identifying two unknown cast or crew members one name written in manuscript ink. Series following group of police officers at an almost entirely women-lead precinct. In this episode two officers with very different styles discover they are each other's new partner. Set in San Francisco. Salmon titled self wrappers noted as Production Draft on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 801 and production No. 001 dated September 13 2000 with credits for screenwriter Deborah Joy Levine. Title page integral with front wrappers. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/13/2000 and 10/16/00. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Viacom Productions unknown books
1974ref. 157287Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actors Michael Caine and Delphine Seyrig talking with director Don Siegel on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Clive Egleton's 1973 novel "Seven Days to a Killing" about the kidnapping of a British agent's son and the agent's subsequent quest for revenge. Shot on location in England and in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 162018N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Blaze Starr from the 1962 film here under its alternative release title "Nature Girl." Famed stripper Blaze Star escapes from the pressure of stardom by becoming a member of a nudist colony much to the dismay of her manager and boyfriend who worries she may loose her acting contract. The only feature to feature the famed Baltimore stripper. Shot on location in Homestead Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with even toning and faint creasing overall with two pinholes in the lower left margin. N.p. unknown books
1993ref. 147073Los Angeles: Orbit Entertainment 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film here under the working title "Cross Bait." After being accidentally given an invaluable coin from the age of King Herod while traveling through Jerusalem an Arabic boy and an American teenager travel across Israel to protect the treasure from a British man obsessed with procuring the coin by any means. Set and shot in Jerusalem. Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Dror Soref and Howard Delman. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good lightly dampstained and soiled bound with three gold brads. Orbit Entertainment unknown books
1974ref. 161305N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1974 film showing Dustin Hoffman in a mug shot as Lenny Bruce. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Bob Fosse's third directorial effort and first non-musical. A tour de force shot in black-and-white in a documentary style interspersed with interviews jumping back and forth from Bruce's early rise to fame to his twilight days and eventual death. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1934ref. 167816Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Vintage pressbook for the 1934 pre-Code film. Based on the 1932 novel by Stuart Palmer. Intrepid teacher Hildegarde Withers and police inspector Oscar Piper join forces again to solve the murder of a music teacher at Withers' school. The second of three films to pair Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as Withers and Piper respectively following "The Penguin Pool Murder" 1932 and preceding "Murder on a Honeymoon" 1935. 12 x 18 inches. 12 leaves side-stapled. About Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 151344Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage press kit for the 1954 film containing one full-color illustrated promotional pamphlet three black-and-white photographs of cast and crew members holding Academy Awards and one page of promotional reading material introducing the photographs. Based on screenwriter Budd Schulberg's 1955 novel "Waterfront." A dockworker and would-be prizefighter witnesses a murder at the hands of the local mob boss' men and is forced to stand up to his corrupt union leaders. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning eight including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 162523N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actress Florinda Bolkan talking on the phone and smoking in the bath. Annotations in manuscript ink regarding cropping on the verso. A Kafkaesque satire about corruption in policing about a high-ranking police inspector who kills his mistress and proceeds to cover up his involvement in the crime. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome. 8 x 10.25 inches. Lightly worn at the corners else about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 682. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown books
