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1971ref. 149392US: National General Pictures 1971. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director Lee H. Katzin and actors Steve McQueen and Elga Andersen on the set of the 1971 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. McQueen stars as a racing driver competing in Le Mans one year after an accident killed a fellow racer one which both the racer's widow and others feel McQueen is partially responsible for. A passion project for McQueen originally developed with director John Sturges who left the project after the sale of Warner Brothers to Kinney National Services forced them to move to National General Pictures. Filmed on location in Le Mans France including during the running of the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race. 11.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the top and bottom edges. National General Pictures unknown
1974ref. 144624New York: Janus Films 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock with about half of the film comprised of archival footage of British training missions and the London Blitz borrowed from the Imperial War Museum in London director Stuart Cooper had originally intended to create a documentary though his aims changed as his research expanded. An underappreciated film with no distribution in the US until Janus re-released the film in 2006. Restored and released by the Criterion Collection in 2014. Set in England and France shot on location in England. Tall dark green wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriters Stuart Cooper and Christopher Hudson. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Criterion Collection 382. Janus Films unknown
1961ref. 163707N.p.: Topaz Film Corporation 1961. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1960 British film originally released in the UK as "Too Hot to Handle." Uncommon in this format. Jayne Mansfield stars as showgirl Midnight Franklin headliner at the Pink Flamingo club in Soho run by her tough guy boyfriend Johnny Solos. When Johnny starts getting threats and demands for protection money from a rival club owner he fights back. Featuring famously risqué musical numbers featuring Mansfield in see-through clothing some frames from which were published in Playboy magazine and were visually altered for the US release to meet censor requirements. 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with some rubbing to the lower left and upper right causing modest color loss. Bright and unfaded. Grant UK. Topaz Film Corporation unknown
1977ref. 161031N.p.: N.p. 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film copy belonging to unidentified cast or crew member George Santander with the manuscript ink annotation of "Geo. Santander" and the manuscript marker annotation of copy number "96" on the front wrapper with manuscript ink and red pencil annotations on 15 pages and four groupings of two and three pages bound with paperclips on pages 36 through 46. Loosely based on the 1974 off-Broadway play "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road" with a book by Robin Wagner and Tom O'Horgan and directed by O'Horgan. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a 1970s film musical represented by a star-studded ensemble with appearances by Donald Pleasence George Burns the only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song Steve Martin Alice Cooper Jack Bruce Keith Carradine Carol Channing Donovan Leif Garrett Etta James Dr. John and music groups Aerosmith as the "Future Villain Band" and Earth Wind and Fire. The Fab Four are conceptually represented by Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 21 1977 noted as REVISED DRAFT. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Carlson Destroy All Movies. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 144513Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. With actor Betty Anne Rees' first name and phone number in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Karen Claudia Jennings quits her job at a cannery and joins a roller derby team. She quickly clashes with Mickey Betty Anne Rees the star skater and stirs jealousy amongst the whole team as she dominates the rink. Following in the wake of the successful roller derby film "Kansas City Bomber" released earlier the same year starring Raquel Welch. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Howard R. Cohen and Vernon Zimmerman. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mechanical duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 9/17. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1981ref. 160661N.p.: N.p. 1981. Collection of ten vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1981 film including six in black-and-white and four in color. Black-and-white photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso. Loosely based on the classic 1866 novella. In nineteenth-century London a party guest turns up dead at a respectable couple's engagement gathering leading the remaining guests into a whirlpool of sex and debauchery in pursuit of the culprit. 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 151554Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed outer folder containing 13 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between director Werner Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967ref. 149499London: Contemporary Films 1967. Eight vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 French anthology film. With printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the verso. Also included with the set is a two-page mimeographally duplicated press pamphlet in English. An anti-war anthology documentary film by seven prominent French directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. Shot in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better. Contemporary Films unknown
1969ref. 152346N.p.: N.p. 1969. Six vintage borderless satin-finish photographs from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's directorial debut the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell a terribly inept bank robber whose life is told documentary-style with an FBI voiceover as well as interviews with his family and friends. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 145850Burbank CA: Palomar Pictures 1969. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Woody Allen's mug shot from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's first film as a director one of the great American comedies the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Set in and shot in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Palomar Pictures unknown
1965ref. 154957Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor-screenwriter Woody Allen from the 1965 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso and the stamp of photographer Louis Goldman along with Goldman's signature just below his stamp. Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter about a soon-to-be-married womanizer as he attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1974ref. 158144N.p.: N.p. 1974. Six vintage borderless reference photographs and two contact sheets from the 1974 French sexploitation film. Contact sheets with twelve images each. While housesitting for her cousin a young girl is kidnapped by a vengeful sadomasochistic sex cult. An early adult film by noted French director Jean Rollin. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Contact sheets 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Three photographs 7 x 5 inches three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Good with some moderate fading and edgewear. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 166668N.p.: N.p. 1976. Nine vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 Italian film including one photograph of director Luchino Visconti on the set. Stamp of photographer Mario Tursi on the versos. Based on Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1892 novel "The Intruder" about an unfaithful aristocrat who falls back into love with his wife when he suspects her of cheating on him. Luchino Visconti's final directorial effort considered by many among his finest films released three months after his death. Set and shot on location in Rome and Lucca. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 154638Los Angeles: ICM International Creative Management 1973. Draft Agency script for an unproduced film written by Paul Schrader. Undated but according to the 1979 James Monaco book "American Film Now: The People the Power the Money the Movies" written by Schrader in 1973. Schrader wrote the script to Martin Scorsese's acclaimed 1976 film "Taxi Driver" in fifteen days in 1972. The year following 1973 would be a very proflici period resulting in "The Yakuza" shot by Sydney Pollack in 1974 "Deja Vu" made as "Obsession" by Brian De Palma in 1976 "Rolling Thunder" made by John Flynn in 1977 and "Quebecois." Monaco notes in "American Film Now": "In seven years 1972-1978 Paul Schrader has written ten scripts all originals no adaptations each of them contrasting strongly with the dominant mood of the industry. All but one have been sold for better than satisfactory prices and six out of ten have been shot and released. Two have been major hits. Four were written in 1973." "Quebecois" was optioned to Lewis Allen but never went into production. The story of a modern day French-Italian gang war set in Montreal. Tan ICM Agency wrappers with white label on upper right with title and credits for screenwriter Paul Schrader. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Paul Schrader. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two flat metal brads. ICM [International Creative Management] unknown
1986ref. 165725N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for the 1987 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with his name on the title page and his annotations in manuscript ink throughout indicating props. Incomplete script ending on page 122. A police detective is called to protect a socialite when she becomes the key witness in a murder trial. Set and shot on location in New York City. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 19 1987 noted as "Seltzer draft". 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 83473New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1975. First Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. John Swope Photographs Nigel Cooke Photographs. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.5 inches. xi 1 176 2 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Ruth Prawer Jahbvala on the title page. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has wear tears soiling and chips. Includes Acknowledgments Foreword Glossary and Photo Credits. Chapters cover From Warrior to Sybarite: A Portrait Gallery 1870-1900; Dazzling Rulers and their Dazzled Guests: The 1920' and 1930's; Deposed and Dispossessed; The Land of Death; Palaces as Sets: Alwar and Bikaner; Autobiography of a Princess; and Sets for a film to Come. Also includes Glossary; and Photo Credits. James Francis Ivory born June 7 1928 is an American film director producer and screenwriter. For many years he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant his domestic as well as professional partner and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions whose films have won seven Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars winning one. Ivory's directorial work includes A Room with a View 1985 Maurice 1987 Howards End 1992 and The Remains of the Day 1993. For his work on Call Me by Your Name 2017 which he wrote and produced Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Writers Guild of America the Critics' Choice Awards and the Scripter Awards among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89 Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE 7 May 1927 - 3 April 2013 was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England she married him and moved to India in 1951; Jhabvala was an Indian-Parsi architect. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. John Swope August 23 1908 - May 11 1979 was a photographer for Life and a commercial pilot who trained United States Army Air Force pilots during World War II. His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936. Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly he co-founded Southwest Airways no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War. He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death on May 11 1979. This book is a film maker's response in print and not on celluloid to what is called Royal India--land of Maharajas. It contains the overflow from the author's films in which Royal India appears. It is a collection of photographs anecdotes and other items which the author believes are worth saving. When India became independent in 1947 the princeses were guaranteed their titles properties and certain privileges. But more and more their special status came to be seen as an anachronism and it has now been legally abolished. For the princes it was like the French Revolution except that none of them went to the guillotine; they merely became private citizens. Many of these former rulers are still doing very well. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
1964ref. 151000Paris: Parc Film 1964. Five vintage borderless photographs from the 1964 film including three reference photographs showing Jacques Demy on the set and one of Demy and composer Michel Legrand. Three with French release stamps on the verso and one with a provenance stamp on the same. One of Demy's most beloved films about a young woman in Cherbourg who falls in love with a man who is promptly drafted into the Algerian War. A classic of French cinema with every word of dialogue sung in recitative. The first French film musical shot in color and the movie that made Deneuve a star. Winner of the Palme d'Or and two other prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Cherbourg Normandy France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Some light edgewear else Near Fine overall. Criterion Collection 716. Godard Histoires du cinema. Parc Film unknown
1973ref. 162732Los Angeles: Chocolate Chip / Pinto 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 Blaxploitation film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper noting copy No. 04. Four estranged cousins three Black one white convene at a mansion called Skull Mountain to attend the reading of their late great-grandmother's will unaware that her voodoo powers from beyond the grave will involve them in a murderous re-birthing ritual. Set and shot on location in Atlanta Georgia. Red pictorial titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated 3-28-73 with credits for director Ron Honthaner and screenwriter Mildred Pares. Title page present dated 4-23-73 noted as Final Draft with credit for Pares. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Chocolate Chip / Pinto unknown
1964ref. 164248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs and six vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all with annotations in manuscript pencil on the same. Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor for Harrison reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus overall. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown
1958ref. 171031Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage press kit for the 1958 film. Includes a full-color pocketed folder with 17 black-and-white photographs from the film a French newspaper clipping about the film and a printed illustration of a soldier returning home. Three photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Notable among the photographs are two showing cast and crew members on the set one of John Gavin holding his young children and a portrait of Liselotte Pulver that has been INSCRIBED by Pulver at the bottom left corner: "Cordialement Cordially / Liselotte Pulver." The pocket of the folder notes additional materials provided although these are missing from the kit. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel set during World War II on the Eastern Front. A German soldier returns home to find his family's house bombed and his parents gone. He begins to struggle to keep his sanity and survives with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. Shot on location in Berlin. Folder Very Good or better with some wear to the folds photographs Very Good to Very Good plus with some wear curling and toning. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown
1983ref. 167723N.p.: N.p. 1983. Nine vintage color transparencies from the 1983 French film. A woman on the verge of divorce takes a trip to the beach with her teenage niece where she rekindles an old flame. The third film in Éric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" film series following "The Aviator's Wife" 1981 and "Le Beau Mariage" 1981. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director. All transparencies 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 150498N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve then Truffaut's wife and Jean-Paul Belmondo on location for the 1969 French neo-noir film. With the stamp of Cahiers du Cinema on the verso along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations. Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph. Set on Reunion Island and Nice France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1998ref. 166262Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. Each page with a numeric watermark 2850. A black comedy about a gold heist executed by four American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the First Gulf War. Director David O. Russell's third feature film. Shot on location in the deserts of Casa Grande Arizona and in California and Mexico. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 17 1998 with credit for director and screenwriter David O. Russell and story writer John Ridley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine with first page lightly worn and partially detached from the binding bound with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1962ref. 164225N.p.: Contempora Productions 1962. Vintage banner poster for the 1962 Cold War documentary film. Rare in this format. A feature length anti-Communist documentary comprised of still photographs and newsreel footage tracing the history of Communism from the birth of Karl Marx to the construction of the Berlin wall. The title was taken from the phrase famously used by Nikita Khruschchev while addressing Western ambassadors in 1956.which some modern translators have suggested was misinterpreted. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light creasing faint soiling a small chip to the bottom right corner and a seven inch closed tear to the center top repaired with cello-tape on the verso. Contempora Productions unknown
1964ref. 164256N.p.: N.p. 1964. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film including one of director Jean-Luc Godard pushing longtime cinematographer Raoul Cotard seated in a wheelchair on the set. Layout annotations in ink and pencil on the versos and one with a Télérama stamp. Godard used a cameraman seated in a wheelchair instead of a camera dolly in several films including "Breathless" 1959. During a period of romantic tumult a woman discovers she is pregnant with two possible fathers. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival the film was briefly banned in France for its scandalous depiction of infidelity and was only passed by the censors after forcing Godard to make several small changes including changing the film's title from "The Married Woman" to the slightly less inflammatory "A Married Woman." Four photographs 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Masters of Cinema 80. N.p. unknown
