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1986ref. 139240Madrid Spain: RM Films International 1986. Original Spanish one sheet poster for the 1986 release of the 1975 US film. Features buxom Christy Hartburg who starred as SuperLorna. Hartburg along with Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard has become one of the more recognizable faces of Russ Meyer filmdom even though this was her only film. Meyer's successful return to independent filmmaking after the big-budget "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" 1970 and the unfortunate films "The Seven Minutes" 1971 and "Black Snake" 1973. Arguably the most entertaining Meyer project with all the trademarks present: strong sexual women impotent men and healthy doses of sex violence and nudity with a nod to the desert violence of Italian Euro Westerns of the 1960s. Shot on location in Arizona California and New Mexico. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Scarce. RM Films International unknown books
1964ref. 139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. "Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. 5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown books
1958ref. 173029Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Eight vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1958 Disney Western 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. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1975ref. 141891Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Here under the working title "Scandal." Eliane is a pharmicist with a dull husband and teenage daughter. A fellow pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her one night after mistaking her for someone else and she allows it to happen ultimately becoming his complete sex slave. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with gold brads. Ciesi unknown books
1965ref. 143145Culver City CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions 1965. Seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War an obsessed glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers Confederate POWs and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns in the US. 11.75 x 9.25. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners. Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions unknown books
1967ref. 148300N.p.: Produzioni Europee Associate PEA 1967. Collection of eleven vintage black-and-white lobby cards from the French release of the 1967 film. The second in Leone's iconic trilogy "For a Few Dollars More" is another tale of gunslingers revenge double-crossing and robbery. Starring Clint Eastwood as Manco the "man with no name" and Gian Maria Volonte as the ruthless psychopath El Indio. Set in Texas shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Very Good with pinholes to corners. Alex Cox10000 Ways to Die. Grant Any Gun Can Play p. XXX. Pitts 572. Produzioni Europee Associate [PEA] unknown books
2012ref. 171932Los Angeles: Thunder Buddies 2012. Draft script for the 2012 film. A lonely young boy wishes that his oversized teddy bear would come to life and his wish is granted. Thirty years later the teddy bear is still alive and living with the boy now an immature hedonistic adult. Basis for a 2015 sequel and a 2024 prequel television series. Shot on location throughout Boston. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Seth MacFarlane Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine bound with two gold brads. Thunder Buddies unknown books
1963ref. 170477N.p.: Cinema V. 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film both showing actor Hampton Clanton. Printed mimeo snipes and date stamps on the versos. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke following "The Connection" 1961. Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite and while appearing improvisational were in fact semi-documentaries with carefully scripted dialogue. Clarke aspired to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent in Hollywood "social issue" films. It was the first film to be produced by Frederick Wiseman who would go on to become a legendary documentary filmmaker and was scored by noted jazz composer and pianist Mal Waldron with performances by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Cinema V. unknown books
1974ref. 146919N.p.: EMI Film Distributors 1974. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Sidney Lumet on the set of the 1974 film. Mimeo Snipe "PHOTO A RENDRE" and "CAMERA PRESS LTD." stamps and "IMAPRESS" stamp on sticker over "PARIMAGE" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1934 novel by Agatha Christie which finds her series detective Hercule Poirot investigating a murder aboard a train with the suspects portrayed by a who's who of Hollywood stars. Ingrid Bergman won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and the film was nominated for five more including Best Actor for Albert Finney and Best Adapted Screenplay. Remade in 2017 directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. 8.25 x 12 inches. Near Fine some curling wear and creasing at the far corners. Penzler 101. EMI Film Distributors unknown books
1986ref. 169088N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film. Dated December 24 1986 only five days before the commencement of production on December 29 according to the AFI Catalog. Sydney Poitier stars as an FBI agent working to uncover Soviet sleeper agents posing as an all-American family living in San Diego and develops a friendship with their unsuspecting son played by River Phoenix. Shot on location in San Diego San Ysidro Monrovia and La Mesa California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 24 1986 with credits for screenwriter Bo Goldman. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 145957Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage studio photograph of Jane Powell and Musical Director Johnny Green on the set of the 1951 film. Mimeo snipe French annotations in manuscript ink and crop marks on the verso. Tom and Ellen Bowen Astaire and Powell are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a gig in London while the Royal Wedding is in progress. On their cruise to England Ellen meets Lord John Brindale Lawford and she misses rehearsal. Upon arriving Tom holds auditions for dance partners and meets Anne Churchill. The siblings are at arms defending their romances and trying to keep their dance act stable. Loosely based on the real-life dancing partners Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus light creasing. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958ref. 149927N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Donen and actors Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant on the set of the 1958 British film. Based on screenwriter Norman Krasna's 1953 play "Kind Sir" wherein a lovelorn theatre actress begins an affair with a handsome married economist. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 526. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 138126Beverly Hills CA: Mel Simon Productions 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Father Brian Dyke is a priest in a depressing mining town until one day a new Sister Rita Quinlan joins his parish and changes his perception of life. She is trusting and kind and listens to Father Brian but their relationship takes a turn for the worse landing Father Brian in the role of suspect. Blue production company Mel Simon Productions wrappers. Title page present dated May 10 1978 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stitt and director Kramer. Last leaf of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Mel Simon Productions unknown books
1970ref. 141804Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1970 film. The first film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quintet" followed by "Private Duty Nurses" 1971 "Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. The second film released by Corman's later legendary New World Picutres. Set and shot on location in Torrance California. 27 x 41. Folded. Very Good plus with some light toning and a bump to the upper portion of the poster. New World Pictures unknown books
2005ref. 148372N.p.: N.p. 2005. Draft script for the 2006 film. An intimate look at the British Royal family from May to September of 1997 following the death of Princess Diana on August 31 1977 and the struggle between Queen Elizabeth's Helen Mirren desire to treat it as a private affair and Prime Minister Tony Blair Michael Sheen and Prince Charles' Alex Jennings desire to quell the public's demand for a more overt and public expression of grief. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mirren nominated for five others including Best Film Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in England Scotland and France. Pink titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Peter Morgan. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper light creasing to top right else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2002ref. 163347N.p.: Muddfilms 2002. Vintage press kit for the 2004 film. The press kit was produced in 2002 following the film's screening at the 2002 NoDance Film Festival in Park City Utah where the film won the "Best Director" jury prize. The press kit referred to as a "Media Pack" on the label on the enclosing folder includes a gathering of 24 pages which include film reviews synopses statements and bios of the cast and crew a two page review by Michael Edwards a March 2002 issue of "Entertainment Showcase" a CD of image files from the film six color promotional flyers and collages on photographic paper promoting the film and four flyers promoting the films screening at the 2002 NoDance Film Festival. A surprisingly disturbing and entertaining black comedy. Millard Mudd a struggling alcoholic cartoon writer with writer's block finds himself at the end of his rope until he accidentally hits a stray dog Lucky while out on a liquor run. While nursing Lucky back to health Lucky begins talking teaching Mudd how to craft award winning scripts and to kill. Folder and contents Near Fine overall. Muddfilms unknown books
1995ref. 146338London: Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment 1995. Four shooting scripts for the 1996 television film first aired in four parts on BBC on November 13 1997 complete in four volumes. With two typed leaves detailing the proposed cast list laid in. Several scripts missing pages as noted below likely as used or issued. Based on the 1993 crime novel. An author sets out to write a book about Olive Martin a young woman convicted of brutally killing her mother and sister and subsequently sentenced to life in prison. As the author delves deeper into the details of the crime she begins to uncover a conspiracy and is gradually persuaded of Olive's innocence. Set in the UK. Housed in a generic blue folder with a manuscript ink notation from screenwriter Reg Gadney on the front flap. Part One: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 25th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 58 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8.9.95 and 28.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Part Two: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 25th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8.9.95 and 20.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with rusting to the binding and the front wrapper partially detached with silver prong binding. Part Three: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 30th AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 13.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Part Four: White titled self wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 31st AUGUST 1995 with credits for screenwriter Reg Gadney and novelist Minette Walters. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 13.9.95 and 28.9.95. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with rusting and creasing to the binding with silver prong binding. Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment unknown books
1976ref. 141309Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Revised First Draft script for the 1977 film. Bobby Peter Fonda is a struggling musician who gets a chance to showcase some of his songs to country star Garland Dupree Callahan. The country star steals Bobby's best song "Outlaw Blues" and makes it a hit. Receiving no credit Bobby confronts Garland and when Garland is found shot dead shortly afterward Bobby becomes the prime suspect. Only Garland's back-up singer Tina Waters James believes Bobby's innocence. Together they hit the road looking for the killer. Fonda did his own singing in the film. Shot on location in Texas. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 21 1976 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Norton and producer Steve Tisch as well as Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller representatives of the production company. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969ref. 140811Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film. Anouk Aimee walks down a Rome street toward the camera while director Sydney Lumet and crew look on. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Lumet was nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes for the film about a man who becomes suspicious that his new wife is really a high priced escort. Set and shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975ref. 144355France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Vintage borderless photograph of Sylvia Kristel from the 1975 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgangers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arcadie Productions unknown books
1962ref. 162514N.p.: Rialto International Film Releasing 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of Brenda Denaut from the 1962 film. With a subhead reading "Starring the City of New York and a cast of New Faces from its stages." Notable for starring a young Taylor Mead. Director screenwriter and star Raymond Phelan best known as cinematographer for sexploitation impresario Doris Wishman originally began making "Too Young Too Immoral!" in 1957 about a brother reflecting on the tragically short life of his murdered addict brother. This early version was titled "Rebels Die Young." Unable to find distribution Phelan added what turned out to be some of the earliest known sexploitation scenes filmed in the US. It starred Brenda Denaut subject of this photograph the mother of Roseanne Patricia David and Alexis Arquette. as well as Andy Warhol mainstay Taylor Mead in his first film role. It wouldn't be until five years later after sexploitation films began to gain traction with US distributors that Phelan was able to get the film booked at the Rialto Theatre on Broadway. It played for four months there before getting limited US distribution. It re-emerged in 2017 when it was screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Featuring some of the most striking footage of New York City found in the late 1950s. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rialto International Film Releasing unknown books
1953ref. 142336London: Jack Parsons 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. Title page present dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Jack Parsons unknown books
1939ref. 147689Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash" with "Those Were the Days" written in manuscript pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Missing one page likely as used or issued. Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha William Holden Bonita Granville reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met. Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. Self wrappers front wrapper dated October 23 1939 rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1988ref. 151216Sherman Oaks CA: The New Ingot Company 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on April 24 on Turner Network Television. A dramatization of the life of noted twentieth century photographer Margaret Bourke-White best remembered as the first Western photographer permitted to take photographs of Soviet industry in the 1930s. Shot on location in Lafourche Parish Louisiana. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 9 1988 noted as Revised Turner Preproduction Draft with credits for screenwriters Marjorie David and Vicki Goldberg. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The New Ingot Company unknown books
1932ref. 137137Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
