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1959ref. 149704N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of actress Edith Scob-a haunting scene where a mentally ill girl sings in church-from the 1959 French film noir. Maître Gérane Jean Galland has his troublesome son François Jean-Pierre Mocky committed to a mental hospital. François soon makes friends with Heurtevent Charles Aznavour an innocent epileptic and both decide to attempt an escape. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Spicer France. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 143876Rome: Cineriz 1960. Collection of 18 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Strasberg is seen in all photographs before and after a buzz cut always in pinstripes with a candid image of director Pontecorvo discussing aspects of Strasberg's trimmed hair. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos of all but one and five with Contino's rubber-stamp on the versos. Strasberg portrays a Jewish women sent to a concentration camp during WWII leading an escape plan even as the turmoil of war threatens to defeat her will. Pontecorvo's engaging war film with feminist undercurrents albeit overshadowed by what would become his most accomplished film "The Battle of Algiers" 1966. Nominated for an Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine slight curling. Cineriz unknown books
1965ref. 140922France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio 1965. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Four with manuscript pencil annotations on the verso crediting photographer Georges Pierre one with the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. Godard transplants fictional detective Lemmy Caution played by Eddie Constantine as he was in several French films based on the character created by pulp novelist Peter Cheyney into a dystopian future where he is on a mission to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed. 7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio unknown books
1968ref. 149585Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel. A brooding New York detective investigates the murder of a gay man-a crime that none of his fellow officers will take seriously due to the victim's sexuality. Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas a box office success and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to explicitly depict and discuss the lives of gay men. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creases to the edges and a light splash to the right edge. Grant US. Twilight Time. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974ref. 145245Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film likely for a specific theatre as it advertises "Starts May 1" about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. A Blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. Shot on location in New Mexico. 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with vertical and horizontal folds and light edgewear. Manuscript annotations on the verso. Parish and Hill Black Action Films 213. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 210. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 159136Berlin: CCC-Film CCC-Filmkunst / Bavaria Film 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Gottfried Reinhardt on the set of the 1960 West German film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp specific to the film's German release. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the life of Renate Müller a German film actress whose mysterious death in 1937 was widely attributed to Nazi pressure over her relationship with a Jewish diplomat. Set in Berlin. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst] / Bavaria Film unknown books
1973ref. 148870N.p.: The American Film Theatre 1973. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film housed in their original brown paper envelope stamped "The Homecoming 8 Stills." Based on the 1965 play by Harold Pinter who also wrote the screenplay. Teddy Michael Jayston brings his wife Ruth Vivien Merchant to visit his estranged and abrasive family in a dingy claustrophobic North London flat after a nine year absence. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. The American Film Theatre unknown books
1998ref. 163928Culver City CA: Tingle Productions 1998. Shooting Draft script for the 1999 film here under working title "Killing Mrs. Tingle." From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A high school student seeks revenge on a teacher who gave her a bad grade threatening her ability to become valedictorian. Shot on location in Southern California. 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 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "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. Yellow titled self wrappers lacking rear wrappers noted as Shooting Draft on the front wrapper dated 5/17/98 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Title page integral with front wrapper. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/30/98 and 5/16/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Tingle Productions unknown books
1949ref. 129324Berlin: Central Cinema Company Film CCC 1949. Draft script English translation for the 1950 German film noir. Likely a translation produced by the German film production company responsible for the film for purposes of US distribution and promotion made well prior to the commencement of film production. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Kautner and Stemmle. 136 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Spicer p. 459. Central Cinema Company Film [CCC] unknown books
1956ref. 140198Strasbourg France: Jean Jungmann 1956. Archive of 38 vintage black-and-white press photographs of actress Francoise Arnoul at a release party for the 1956 French-Italian film at the Cinema des Arcades. All photos with annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. Photographed by Jean Jungmann and developed in his Strasbourg photography store Portrait d'Art with his imprint in the lower right of the photos and all inside an original envelope from the story. Arnoul is seen signing autographs gracefully smoking a cigarette and accepting flowers on stage as well as cavorting with costars of the film including French-Armenian director Verneuil. Fracoise Arnoul is a hotel employee smitten with a valet named Gerard Risso and may or may not be related to wealthy businessman Henri Boyer Gerard's boss. Arnoul's last collaboration with director Verneuil the others being "Forbidden Fruit" 1952 "The Sheep Has Five Legs" 1954 "The Lovers of Lisbon" 1955 and "People of No importance" 1956. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling. Envelope Good. Jean Jungmann unknown books
1957ref. 146973Paris: Filmsonor 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. Text in English. Loosely based on Egon Hostovsky's 1954 novel "The Midnight Patient." In order to finance his failing private clinic a psychiatrist accepts a bribe to temporarily shelter a defecting Soviet scientist hotly pursued by a number of international secret agents. Set and shot in Maisons-Laffitte Yvelines France. Teal titled wrappers. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two silver clasps. Filmsonor unknown books
1957ref. 146091Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. First Draft script for the 1958 film with single "" notation in manuscript pencil. Good-guy Max Tom Ewell and mooch Gus Mickey Rooney are horse-race loving pals whose lives are going nowhere. Desperate they turn to bank robbery and actually pull it off. Using the money to buy a race horse their bookie pal Rocky Mickey Shaughnessy wants in. When they loose their bank roll after their horse is disqualified they figured they'd rob a bank again. Blue titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper and production No. 767 dated October 9 1957. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 9 1957 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Sydney Boehm. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970ref. 139851Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris a book initially banned in the US. Miller Torn and his wife Ellen Burstyn dally in France's finer things while he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon takes a boy to a bordello and aids his asylum-bound friend who's in love with a prostitute. 27 x 41 inches folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus with small central holes faint creases. Uncommon. Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions unknown books
1940ref. 130425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final script for the 1940 film. The AFI Catalog notes: "According to a Twentieth Century- Fox press release this was the first writing effort for Fox sound man William Brent. After his story was bought Brent was made a writer at the studio. Also the first screenwriter assignment for Irving Cummings Jr. and William Conselman Jr. Both men were "second generation Hollywood" as Cummings' father was a director and Conselman's a screenwriter. "According to Twentieth Century-Fox press releases the football sequences were shot at the Los Angeles Olympic Stadium and at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Despite a summer heat wave the extras were required to wear heavy winter coats. As such large wind machines behind huge cakes of ice were used to cool off the fields. Thirty-four college football players from local universities were used as extras in this film. They included USC's Ambrose Schindler Bill Howard Red Morgan Tony Tonelli Ollie Day and Owen Hansen and UCLA's Billy Bob Williams Bill Overlin and Bill Radovich. Location filming was done at the Inglewood Railway Station as the station received little use. Because only two freight trains used the station each day movie extras were the only passengers ever to use the station. The press release also reported that the rental cost of a four-car train at the station was $150 per day. HR reported that Fox borrowed Lewis Howard from Universal Pictures for this film." A Fox programmer about a doctor reflecting on his college days how he was lured onto the football team and away from his studies a flirtation with a widow and meeting his true love. A strong early vehicle for actor Robert Sterling and featuring two notable women from the serial film era Jean Rogers Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 149 and production No. 518 dated June 24 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 24 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Conselman Jr. and Cummings Jr. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/25/40 and 7/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1942ref. 131997Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window" here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne created by Brett Halliday. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with two pinholes to the center of the card a tiny closed tear to the top edge and a small chip to the lower left corner. Grant p. 651. Spicer p 420. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964ref. 137549N.p.: N.p. 1964. Draft script for an unproduced fictional film set on a kibbutz in Israel by documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline. Accompanying the script is a typed letter signed by Kline dated "May II 1964" discussing casting of the film plans for script rewrites including the removal of some "overt political statements" that aided in getting Israeli financing and his hope that the success of this film would "lead to a series of modest budget" films shot in Israel. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Kline. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper lightly soiled else Near Fine bound with tape. Letter: 8.5 x 11 inches recto only folded horizontally. Very Good with a jagged tear to one edge and some light creasing. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 146495N.p.: N.p. 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced television project variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits encapsulated in the "glass bead game" an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music math and culture to win. Hesse's novel follows Joseph Knecht as he becomes a master of the game eventually rising to the top of the hierarchy to become Magister Ludi the executive officer of the game administrators. Although "Das Glasperienspiel" was begun in 1931 publication in Germany was stalled due to the novel's anti-fascist messages leading Hesse to eventually seek publication in Switzerland in 1943. Set in Castalia a fictional province of central Europe in the 25th century. Clear untitled plastic wrappers. Title page present dated 1983 noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter TITUS LEBER novelist Hermann Hesse and music credits to Johann Sebastian Bach. 21 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white clip binding. N.p. unknown books
1964ref. 143965France: Filmel 1964. Revised Draft script for the 1964 French film here under the original French title. Printed and bound by the Studio de la Copie in Paris operated by Mme. L. Lucienne Sotier with credits on the first page. Text in French. Based on Daniel-Rops' 1934 eponymous novel. Laure Audret is a young woman nearly raped by a member of her family Terzieff but she meets Jean Auclair who takes her in to help his dying wife and his children. Daniel-Rops was a member of the French Academy wrote dozens of works from 1926 to 1965 and was an active Christian and scholar. Director Bromberger was active in French film noir during the late 1940s including his sole debut "Paris Vice Squad" 1951 nominated at Cannes and he made a few sexploitation films notably "Secrets of a French Nurse" 1958 and this film was his second-to-last as director before "A Night in Tiberias"1965. Partially set in a castle in foggy France. Blue untitled wrappers with vellum spine. Title page present undated with credits for novelist/screenwriter Daniel-Rops screenwriter Grendel and director/screenwriter Bromberger. #PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 270. Mimeograph duplication with pink and yellow revision pages throughout all pages undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled some loss to the spine. Filmel unknown books
1957ref. 145964N.p.: Bel-Air Productions 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings" Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings" despite it being a low-budget "second feature" film is surprisingly enjoyable mostly due to its exceptional cast. LA lawyer David Hewson Lex Barker arrives at a Utah lodge for a peaceful vacation only to find women being mutilated and murdered and everyone is suspect. Featuring a young Anne Bancroft as pretty young Beth Dixon switchboard operator and assistant to the bitter wheelchair-bound lodge owner Edmund Parry Ron Randell. Mamie Van Doren is Harriet Ames the flirtatious bombshell of course and "the Queen of the B's" the fabulous Marie Windsor is Julia Parry Edmund's dutiful companion and sister. Filmed in and around the Parry Lodge in Kanab Utah. The Parry lodge opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers was built to lodge Hollywood film crews filming early Westerns in the area and was popular among movie stars of Hollywood's golden age. Set in Kanab Utah shot on location in Kanab Utah and Fredonia Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light creasing and edgewear. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Bel-Air Productions unknown books
1971ref. 167421Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Final script for the 1972 feature-length television pilot originally aired on February 21 1972 on NBC. A science fiction thriller about a technologically advanced group of detectives known as "probes" following one such figure as he searches for a valuable cache of gemstones hidden by Nazis during World War II. The series was later picked up by NBC and renamed "Search" since "Probe" was already in use by a different series. Screenwriter Leslie Stevens is better remembered today as the creator of the cult science fiction television series "The Outer Limits" 1963-1965 and as the director of the 1966 horror film "Incubus" starring William Shatner. Mustard titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL SCRIPT dated November 16 1971. Title page present dated November 16 1971 noted as FINAL SCRIPT with credit for screenwriter Leslie Stevens. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1956ref. 125417Universal City CA: Hugo Haas Productions / Universal 1956. Original pressbook for the 1956 film. A later film from noted director Hugo Haas and actress Francesca de Scaffa's only credited role. One of the "milder" Haas films where a man and his dog try to survive on tough streets. One sheet folded once as issued with one insert sheet 12 x 18 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages and a few short closed tears and creases. Hugo Haas Productions / Universal unknown books
1964ref. 149498Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film showing noted science fiction author Forrest J. Ackerman who makes a cameo appearance in the film in costume as a space technician. With the stamps of Israel Film Archive on the verso. A team of scientists create a time traveling device which teleports them to Earth in the year 2071 where mutated humans are the norm as a result of nuclear war. Shot on location in Barstow California with some scenes at the University of Southern California's Doheny Library and Mudd Hall. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1972ref. 149441Stockholm: Cinematograph AB 1972. Three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1972 film two showing director Ingmar Bergman and the other showing Bergman with actresses Harriet Andersson Kari Sylwan and Ingrid Thulin. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations to the verso. In her last days a woman dying of uterine cancer is moved to her childhood home where she is cared for by her emotionally distant sisters and distraught maid. Bergman's abstracted portrait of his mother with each of the women in the film representing an aspect of her personality. Shot on location at Taxinge-Nasby Castle in Mariefred Sweden. Two photographs 5 x 7 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Cinematograph AB unknown books
1968ref. 147185Stockholm Sweden: AB Svensk Filmindustri 1968. Treatment script for the 1969 film. With a few small manuscript ink annotations to the title page and throughout most noting grammatical revisions. A newly divorced man befriends a woman whose husband and son have recently been killed in a car accident gradually beginning a relationship in spite of their mutual emotional fragility and disconnect. Shot on location in Gotlands Ian Sweden. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 1968 with credits for director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman and translator Alan Blair. 38 leaves with last page of text numbered 37. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. AB Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1973ref. 141542Stockholm: Sveriges Television SVT 1973. Draft script for the 1975 television film. Text in Swedish. Based on Mozart's 1791 opera "The Magic Flute" titled in German "Die Zauberflote" and here under the Swedish title "Trollflojten." Nominated for one Academy award. The Queen of the Night offers her daughter Pamina to Tamino but also offers Tamino a magic flute to bring Pamina to him. The Queen also gives magic bells to the bird hunter Papageno who joins Tamino on his journey for them both to find wives and learn about themselves. Shot on location in Stockholm. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1973 with credits for screenwriter Ingmar Bergman and translator Alf Henriksson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a spiral binding. Criterion Collection 71. Sveriges Television [SVT] unknown books
