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1957ref. 162245Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Eight vintage photographs from the 1957 film including one reference photograph and seven studio still photographs. One of the great antiwar films based on the 1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb about a group of French soldiers who are charged with cowardice after refusing to complete a suicidal attack during World War I. 8 x 10 inches. Good with moderate fading and cracking to the finish throughout and several with chips and bruises at the edges. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 538. United Artists unknown
1972ref. 70572Los Angeles: Betnic Productions Inc 1972. Wraps. Very good. Revised Draft of this unproduced screenplay. Veteran producer Frank P. Rosenberg hired Ernest Tidyman 1928-84 to adapt Jeanne Rejaunier's best-selling novel which deals with the glamourous sometimes sleazy life of topflight New York fashion models. Tidyman began work on the project in 1970 immediately prior to writing the screenplays for Shaft 1971 based on his 1970 novel and French Connection 1971 which established him as one of the top screenwriters in the business. The production was ultimately abandoned. However this draft includes casting notes with potential candidates for each role listed in order of preference - for instance the actresses targeted for the role of Charlene include Eleanor Parker Bette Davis Joan Crawford Susan Hayward Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury - as well as brief bios of the preferred producer Gordon Oliver director Gordon Douglas and production manager Nate Barrager. Green titled vinyl wrappers noted as "Revised Draft" on the title page which is dated November 8 1972 and includes credits for Tidyman Rejaunier and Betnic Productions. 169 mimeographed pages with the last page numbered 154. The contents are crisp and clean. Some very light edgewear to the wrappers which are bound with two brads with the remnants of a paper label to the spine; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates no copies. Betnic Productions Inc unknown
1976ref. 152868N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film showing actress Jane Birkin nude on a bathroom floor. A tomboyish waitress at a truck stop 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 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 146435Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film thus incomplete as issued dated April 9 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo's name in manuscript ink on two revision leaves and his character's name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with manuscript ink notations including the name of director Lou Foster actors Fess Parker and Jerome Courtland and characters White Bull and Captain Keogh. Parker was originally hired for the role of Keogh but refused second billing and was replaced by Philip Carey. Jerome Courtland played the role of Lieutenant Henry Nowlan in the 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. Tan titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 112 and production No. 5812 dated APRIL 9 1958 with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. Title page present dated April 9 1958 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/10/58 and 5/15/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1961ref. 148730New York: Janus Films 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1948 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. The last film in the "war" trilogy that began Polish director Wajda's career as a director preceded by "Pokolenie" 1955 and "Kanal" 1957. A strong anti-war statement framed in the personae of two men given orders - from the part of the resistance that opposes the new Communist regime and on the last day of World War II in Poland - to murder a leading communist. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend Zbigniew Cybulski plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader with unexpected results. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 282. Janus Films unknown
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown
1957ref. 133039N.p.: N.p. 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." Based on the 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones. The second time the novel was filmed following the 1932 version directed by Frank Borzage and preceding a three part British television miniseries in 1966. 11 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine with a small corner crease at the bottom right. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 169054N.p.: Castle Rock Entertainment 1991. Rainbow Revision Shooting script for the 1992 film. Copy with the marker annotations of "Set Copy / Please Do Not Take" written on the front wrapper and a manuscript marker annotation of copy number "193" on the top of the title page. Billy Crystal's directorial debut about the rise and fall of a standup comedian named Buddy Young Jr. The film was adapted for the stage in 2021 with Crystal reprising his performance as Young. Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated September 26 1991 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Billy Crystal Lowell Ganz and Babloo Mandel. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green goldenrod and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/27/91 and 10/31/91. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Castle Rock Entertainment unknown
1984ref. 171899N.p.: Blake Edwards Entertainment 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "Mickey and Maude." With rainbow revisions. A tabloid television reporter is torn between his wife and his girlfriend both of whom have recently announced that they are pregnant. Ann Reinking's final film performance. Silver generic Blake Edwards Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1984 with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between March 7 and 22 2984. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Blake Edwards Entertainment unknown
1953ref. 148513Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager Van Heflin is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911 when corrupt administrator Ruiz George Dolenz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel Adams then finds there's a price on his head. Set in Mexico shot on location in the Simi Hills and the Ray Corrigan Ranch Simi Valley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing near the edges. Universal Pictures unknown
1964ref. 160701Beverly Hills CA: Mirisch G.E. Productions / United Artists 1964. Collection of vintage photographs and ephemera from the 1963 film including four reference photographs one internal studio-issued photograph of the proposed artwork for the one sheet poster one stapled gathering of press release material and a flyer advertising the film's German release. The first film in the classic wildly successful "Pink Panther" series about an inspector's botched attempts to catch a notorious jewel thief before he steals a priceless diamond. Set in Switzerland shot on location in France Italy and California. Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Press gathering: 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus. Flyer: 12.25 x 4 inches. Very Good folded once vertically as issued with a small dampstain and accompanying tear at the top of the fold. National Film Registry. Mirisch G.E. Productions / United Artists unknown
1967ref. 129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Xerogaphic duplication dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969ref. 154541N.p.: Debrod Productions Inc 1969. Third Draft script for the 1969 film dated January 13 1969 noted as copy No. 24 in manuscript ink at the top right of the title page. Three sets of revision pages blue green and pink laid in. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar sleep together and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas an examination of the uncertainties of young adulthood during an age of turbulence set within the hookup culture of late 1960s New York City. Shot on location in New York City. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated Jan. 13 1969 noted as Final Version / Third Draft with credits for screenwriter John Mortimer and author Mervin Jones. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue green and pink revision pages laid in dated variously between 1/27/69 and 3/4/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold screw brads. Debrod Productions, Inc unknown
1975ref. 117917N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. Vintage as assembled mostly from xerographically duplicated leaves with two leaves pp. 138 and 139 being ribbon copy. Written as a screenplay with dialogue and location information but lacking camera direction typical of a draft that is past the treatment stage but prior to the advanced draft screenplay stage. This would appear to have no relation to the later produced adaptation of the same novel director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" 2003. Based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh about the dissolute lives of aristocrats and socialites living in postwar London. Pink wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated September 1975 noted as Amended first draft with credits for screenwriter John Wells and author Evelyn Waugh. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 167. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 148846New York: Bill Doll and Company 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Bill Doll and Company unknown
1975ref. 151533Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn and cast and crew members on the set of the 1976 film. French and English printed snipe and "Sygma" and photographer "Simonpietri" stamps on verso. An interrelated series of vignettes about the lives of children in a small French town primarily using non-professional actors ranging in age from infancy to 14 years old. One of Truffaut's best loved and most financially successful films. Set in and shot on location in and around Thiers France. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1942ref. 130849Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Script is lacking front cover and some early pages. Rear cover is goldenrod. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated 3-23-42. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold pins. Hirschhorn p. 212. Warner Archive. Warner Brothers unknown
1982ref. 167406N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. Script with the manuscript marker annotation of "Po Boy Productions / Fred Williamson / Director 1982" on the title page. Fred Williamson's unofficial sequel to his 1974 film "Three the Hard Way" which also starred Williamson Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson and Brown are a pair of tough cops who go after the mob that fixed their friend Richard Roundtree's martial arts tournament and shot their friend Jim Kelly. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. Maroon untitled wrappers. Title page present. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Black Action Films p. 225. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 132454London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. 1928. Vintage UK program for the 1928 German film released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis" and penultimate silent film an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career including a spectacular train crash at the film's climax. 9.5 x 12 inches 12 pages side stapled in card wrappers. Wrappers Very Good plus overall interior bright and Near Fine. Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. unknown
1963ref. 146931Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs of Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke rehearsing on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe "ORIGINAL A RENDRE PARIMAGE" "COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD." and a struck through with manuscript pencil "Holmes-Lebel" stamps on the verso. One contains an "impress" sticker on verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Unsuccessful songwriter Albert Peterson Van Dyke is convinced he can make his fortune and marry girlfriend Rosie Leigh if he can get recently drafted Rock and Roll star Conrad Birdie Jessie Pearson on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss high school girl Kim MacAfee Ann Margret goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 1 - 9 x 12 inches 1 - 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus edgewear and creasing to far corners. Godard Histoires du cinema. Columbia Pictures unknown
1995ref. 166472Santa Monica: Beacon Communications 1995. Draft script for the 1997 film. Communists hijack Air Force One with the First Lady and her daughter onboard forcing the president to decide whether he will break his vow never to capitulate to terrorist demands or sacrifice the lives of his family. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Washington DC throughout California and in Cleveland and Mansfield Ohio in the US and in Moscow Russia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated August 22 1995 with credit for screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Beacon Communications unknown
1969ref. 149604Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship the other with actors Robert Forster Peter Bonerz and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures the other with the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso. A hardened and dubiously ethical television cameraman finds out he is being watched by the FBI amidst the tumultuous protests taking place around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Highly influential for its groundbreaking use of factual historical events interspersed with fictional narrative. Featuring early music by Frank Zappa's band Mothers of Invention and addressing underlying social issues of race gender and poverty the film frankly depicted much of the growing countercultural movement of the late 1960s even going so far as to use real-life footage of civil disobedience occurring in 1968 Chicago. Due to its startlingly political narrative as well as nudity and language the film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA though by 1970 this would be downgraded to an R. One photograph 10 x 8 inches one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 658. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960ref. 149725N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1960 French film showing actors Charles Vanel and Brigitte Bardot. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso regarding layout along with the stamp of Parimage agency and ICI Paris. A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover forcing her to reflect on her memories of their turbulent relationship. Set in Paris. 11 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with a few touch-ups on the recto for press use. N.p. unknown
1932ref. 149643N.p.: N.p. 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film showing actors Paul Muni George Raft Karen Morley Purnell Pratt and others. Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" released only a few months prior generally considered to be the quintessential American gangster film one that Capone himself came to embrace and even screen in his home. Set in Chicago. Both photos 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine and Very Good plus respectively. First photo Muni and Morley dancing has two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with conservator's tape on the verso. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Penzler 101. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 130748Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties changing both the time and motivation for the raid. In the film a group of Confederate POWs escape across the US-Canada border to plan an attack on St. Albans Vermont. They send ahead of them a spy who begins to question the ethics of their mission. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as Revised Shooting Final on the front wrapper dated December 10 1953. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated December 10 1953 noted as Revised Shooting Final with credit for screenwriter Boehm. 116 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12-12-53 and 1-6-54. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Shooting Schedule: 10 leaves with annotations. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
