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ref. 162444N.p.: N.p. 1995. Final Draft script for the 1996 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations on the title page noting phone numbers and on several pages in the script highlighting dialogue for police officers. With a production memo and a call sheet dated November 15 1995 laid in with the script along with a FedEx receipt. Based on Robert Daley's 1993 novel "Tainted Evidence" and on the true story of the escape of criminal Larry Davis about a newly elected district attorney's drive to eliminate corruption in the police department. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. Clear generic front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 27 1995 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Sidney Lumet and novelist Robert Daley. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated September 22 1995. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good with wear on the top and bottom edges of the rear wrapper silver prong binding. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 149451Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Kubrick and cinematographer Oswald Morris on the set of the 1962 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso regarding layout. A stunning image of both Kubrick and legendary cinematographer Morris. Morris' achievements apart from "Lolita" include "Oliver Twist 1948 "Moulin Rouge" 1952 "Moby Dick" 1956 "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965 "Fiddler on the Roof" 1971 and "The Man Who Would Be King" 1975. Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece about a man's all-consuming and destructive romantic desire for a prepubescent girl. Shot on location in Albany and the Adirondacks in New York Newport and Westerly in Rhode Island and Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in England. 14 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and a shallow crease along the right edge. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1959ref. 143239Tokyo: Toho Company 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film crediting Masahiro Makino as the director who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi originally released in 1937 as two parts "Saga of the Vagabonds Part One Tiger Wolf" and "Saga of the Vagabonds Part Two Forward at Dawn." Toshiro Mifune plays a feudal bandit accused of stealing money he was entrusted and assembles a revenge party to storm the family castle and attack his brother who betrayed him. Kurosawa would serve as 3rd assistant director to Eisuke Takizawa for both films and go on to write the latter screenplay previously penned by Sadao Yamanaka. Set in Japan's Edo period. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered f-16. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on paper edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Toho Company unknown
1948ref. 135635Culver City CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film "Joan of Arc" here under its working title "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946 ran for 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre and closed in 1947. Ingrid Bergman who stars as Joan in the film also starred in the play and won the 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film won three Academy Awards. Director Victor Fleming's final film featuring Bergman as Joan of Arc the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English. Bergman portrays the martyr as a strong and spiritual figure who proves her devotion to the Dauphin Jose Ferrer later to become the King of France. She wins an alliance with the Governor of Vaucouleurs and the courtiers at Chinon leads her army in the Battle of Orleans is betrayed by the Burgundians. Joan was captured tortured and ultimately executed by the English and was later made a Catholic saint. Set in the village of Domremy shot on location in California. Tan titled wrappers. Distribution page present undated with receipt removed noted as copy No. 400. Title page integral with distribution page. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures unknown
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown
1961ref. 143276Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film about a widower and his daughters who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3. Takarazuka Productions unknown
1923ref. 151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on verso. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
ref. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown
ref. 150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one manuscript pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 168093N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 film showing director William Klein talking with Serge Gainsbourg who appears in a cameo in the film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A satire of superhero films and American imperialism following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom a beer-swilling white nationalist cop who moonlights as an anticommunist vigilante superhero. Klein's second film following "Who Are You Polly Maggoo" 1966. 7.75 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 152383N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso one with the stamp of Globe Photos and one with a provenance stamp. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 145319Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film with rainbow revisions. Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" 1954 the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of a promising young fighter. Nominated for an Academy Award. Humphrey Bogart's final film. Shot on location in California Chicago and New York. White studio wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1315 dated Oct. 12 1955. Title page present dated October 12 1955 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with a credit for screenwriter Yordan. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock with yellow blue pink and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/2/55 and 12/15/55. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Grant US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1958ref. 125081London: The Rank Organization 1958. Vintage French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama "A Night to Remember" here under its French title "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees." Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible with no added fictional subplots. In addition to being massively entertaining the film is today held in high regard by "Titanic" historians compared to the more melodramatic and big-budget take by James Cameron in 1997. Director Baker noted in a 1991 interview "The whole purpose of making the film was to show a society that had persuaded itself that you could make a ship which could never to be sunk." 34 x 52 inches on archival linen Fine condition. Criterion Collection 7. McFarlane p. 51. The Rank Organization unknown
ref. 133045Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark Jonathan Pryce who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. In 1977 Bradbury sold the film rights to his novel to Paramount. He and director Jack Clayton whom Bradbury had previously worked with on Moby Dick produced a completed script. However production never began and the film was eventually put into turnaround. At the time Walt Disney Pictures was concentrating on films with more mature themes in an attempt to break free from their stereotype as an animation and family film studio. After the success of darker children's fantasy pictures by competing studios such as Time Bandits and The Dark Crystal Disney decided to purchase the adaptation's rights and hired Bradbury to produce a new script from scratch. .Set in Greentown Illinois but shot on location in Morrisville and Waterville Vermont. Gray titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper marked production No. 0233 dated 8/24/81 with credits for novelist and screenwriter Bradbury. Title page wit integral with the first page of the text dated 8/24/81. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 9/30/81. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown
1969ref. 148989Paris: Adel Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 French film noir here under the working title "Marseille 1930." Text in French. Annotation on front wrapper of release title written large and boldly in cursive manuscript pencil with working title on title page. Erased annotations in manuscript pencil still visible on upper left of title page of names of actors "Alan Delon" and "Belmondo" with two other names illegible. A few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on several pages circling characters or props and one noting the camera field of vision otherwise changes to scene numbers. Based on the 1959 history of Marseille gangsters "Bandits a Marseille" by Eugene Saccamano. Two small time gangsters Belmondo and Delon in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business themselves vying for control against mob bosses. Director Jacques Deray released the sequel "Borsalino and Co" in 1974 starring Alain Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla. Set in and shot on location in Marseille and Paris. Gray untitled wrappers bound at the left in black cloth tape as issued. Title page present. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with first two pages separating from binding near top wrapper with light soiling else Near Fine bound with binding tape. Grant France. Spicer France. Adel Productions unknown
ref. 160843Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1994 film. Copy belonging to crew member Kevin E. Patterson credited as Cable Person with his name and signature in manuscript ink on the recto of the rear wrapper. One of the best action films of the 1990s launching the careers of both Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went uncredited as the film's script doctor and screenwriter Graham Yost went on to create and write the acclaimed television series "Justified" 2010. Blue titled wrappers dated August 6 1993. Title page present dated August 6 1993 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Graham Yost. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1935ref. 146988Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. 11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1958ref. 161198N.p.: N.p. 1958. Final Draft script for the 1959 film. Based on the first play on Broadway to have been written by an African American playwright about the challenges of a Black youth growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood. In 1991 "Jump Cut" magazine reassessed the play and subsequent screenplay calling it a pioneering work. Yellow titled wrappers with credits for production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster along the bottom edge of the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 1 1958 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Julius Epstein and Louis Peterson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock pages dated variously between 10/1/58 and 10/2/58 rectos only with blue and eye-rest green revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/22/58 and 11/3/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 131876Rome: C C. Champion 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. Bound at the rear are an additional 11 pages that include a complete Cast List and Unit List. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams." A lesser known film in the director's oeuvre a comedic and highly sexualized homage to Alice in Wonderland starring Sydne Rome as an American hitchhiker who stumbles upon an increasingly bizarre and decadent party at an Italian villa. Blue wrappers as originally used. Title page present noted as copy No. 4 in pink manuscript ink with credits for screenwriters Brach and Polanski. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. C C. Champion unknown
ref. 141462Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect-bound wrappers rubber stamped production number 133 dated 1980. Title page present. 201 leaves with last page of text numbered 192. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Imamura Productions unknown
1933ref. 138407Germany: Kinematrade 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933 as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era "Kuhle Wampe oder" is according to screenwriter Brecht a "Collective Presentation" that tells the tale of a family in early 1930s Berlin. After the son is prolongedly unemployed he commits suicide and the family is forced to relocate to a shantytown known as "Kuhle Wampe" or "Empty Stomach." Created under severely limited material conditions with filming constantly being broken up by the Weimar government's paramilitary SA agency the film attempts to depict archetypes of the times including an intellectual clash on a subway between members of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Banned first by the failing Weimar Republic and subsequently by the Nazi Reich the film was believed to have been lost until it reappeared over 20 years later in East Germany in 1958. This poster likely originates from screenings held in November 1933 by an unknown pro-communist organization in Philadelphia at the short-lived left-leaning Philkino theater. A US screening of this film dating before the film's disappearance and only just after the very beginnings of Hitler's rise to power makes this poster not only very scarce but one of significant historical value. The poster touting "Kuhle Wampe" as "The Film Hitler Burned" features an image of a man with a hammer and sickle attacking two snakes that form the Nazi swastika and touts the involvement of members of the "Labor Sports Union" in the film. 9.5 x 13 inches letterpress on pale faded pink stock. Very Good with expected moderate wear. Kinematrade unknown
1929ref. 151068N.p.: N.p. 1929. Seven vintage oversize double weight reference photographs four of William Dieterle and Lien Deyers two of Dieterle and one of Dieterle and Nikolai Malikoff from the 1929 German silent film-made prior to Dieterle fleeing Germany. Viola von Birkenfeld Deyers falls madly in love with the young Friedrich von Bornim Dieterle while he cares for her grandfather after an accident. Upon finding out Friedrich is married her grandfather seeks retribution for breaking his granddaughter's heart. 15.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
2011ref. 167669Burbank CA: DMP Productions 2011. Vintage set designer's reference bible for the 2011 film with 18 full-color film sets represented. The seventh Muppets feature film in which Kermit and two human friends attempt to reunite the Muppets who have been disbanded for years in order to save the Muppet Theater from destruction. Intended to revive the franchise after years of inactivity following Disney's acquisition of the Muppets in 2004. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Bret McKenzie's "Man or Muppet." Set in Los Angeles Paris Reno and the fictional city of Smalltown and shot on location in Los Angeles Reno and Zürich. Housed in a generic white three-ring binder with board inserts noting the film's title and the names email addresses and phone numbers of leadman Lou Mugavero decorator Tracey Doyle and assistant decorator Leighanne Haddock. Binder and contents about Fine. DMP Productions unknown
ref. 152444N.p.: N.p. 1994. Collection of 17 vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film by photographer Shade Rupe. Variously featured are director Abel Ferrara actress Lili Taylor cinematographer Ken Kelsch screenwriter Nicholas St. John and other cast and crew members all photographed over the course of a single evening near Manhattan's Puck Building Lafayette Street an alley off Jersey Street NYU and Keith Haring's Pop Shop on Lafayette Street. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives these being the only existing prints. Full provenance available with letter from Rupe stating "no other prints have ever or will ever be struck." Stamp on verso of each photo crediting Rupe as photographer. A conceptual black-and-white reimagining of the vampire movie about a philosophy graduate student who is forced to reconsider the nature of evil and humanity after succumbing to a vampire and developing an addiction to human blood. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. 12 x 9 inches. Fine. Arrow 1769. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
