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1953ref. 150545N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger with director William Dieterle and crew from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic now considered a camp classic wherein Princess Salome Hayworth daughter of King Herod a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton returns home from banishment and falls in love with Roman Commander Claudius Granger but is maliciously used by her evil mother Queen Herodias Judith Anderson to insure the execution of her critic John the Baptist Alan Badel. Shot on location in Israel. 10.25 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and two small closed tears to right margin. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 171024N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film showing William Friedkin behind the camera during filming on location in Georgetown with an unidentified crew member at the right. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's nonfiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York City with glorious period detail in nearly every frame. The screenplay was written by author Ernest Tidyman one year after the publication of his seminal Harlem-based crime novel "Shaft." Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Gene Hackman along with three additional nominations. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 137956Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1967. Final Shooting script for the 1967 film. INSCRIBED by actor George Segal on the title page: "To Grayson / All Best Wishes." Based on the 1964 novel by William Goldman. A serial killer with an obsession with his dead mother begins taunting the investigator in charge of his case. Set in New York City shot on location in Manhattan and the New York harbor. Green untitled studio wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated June 13 1967 noted as Final Shooting script rubber-stamped copy No. 139 with credits for screenwriter John Gay and director Jack Smight. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 150123N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1967 film. All with "Les Films Armon BON" stamps two with "L.F. Films" stamps stuck with manuscript marker two with "5 / 20" one with "4 / 20" and one with "15 / 20" stamps all on verso. Stock car driver Rod Tillman Steve Alaimo goes undercover as a getaway driver for the California biker gang Satan's Angels. Shot on location in Florida. 8.5 x 6.75 inches 8.5 x 6.5 inches 8.75 x 6.25 inches and 8.25 x 7 inches. Very Good with light creasing and a few tiny pinholes. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 161049N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film including one showing director Héctor Babenco talking with actor William Hurt on the set. Based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig about two cellmates who form an unusual bond during their imprisonment in a Brazilian prison. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Puig's novel also served as the basis for a Broadway musical produced in 1993 with a book by Terrence McNally. Set and shot on location in São Paolo Brazil. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 153886N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 French film showing director William Klein with actors Delphine Seyrig Philippe Noiret and other cast members between takes. Manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film's title along with stamps noting "PM 1020" and "1968". 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. 3.5 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 149374Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Charlton Heston and his son in a chariot on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamps of Time Press and Dalmas press agency on the verso along with a numbered stamp reading 008818. Based on the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will Ben-Hur endures hard labor and slavery in prison and once released vows revenge on Messala. The most expensive film ever made at the time of its release with a 15 million dollar budget and a massive elaborate set. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winning 11 including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor. Shot on location in Italy and California. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965ref. 149311Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of actor-screenwriter Woody Allen and actress Paula Prentiss on the set of the 1965 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter a movie that Allen today describes as "dreadful" but one that was a box office smash at the time. A soon-to-be-married womanizer attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 8.25 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall with light creasing to the right edge and lower right corner reinforced with white tape on the verso. United Artists unknown books
1968ref. 148700N.p.: Plaza Pictures 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Woody Strode began his career as an American decathlete and football star and went on to become a film actor working in American and international films. Both a modern Marxist re-imagining of the Christ story and a poetic and allegorical depiction of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba the film was to debut at the Cannes Film Festival but did not screen due to the festival being canceled in support of the May 1968 Paris uprising. 26.75 x 38 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with closed tears to top corners two chips to bottom corners and pinholes. Plaza Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 151339Tokyo: Shochiku 1958. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. With the stamp of Shochiku Co. on the verso along with a mimeo snipe noting the film's Japanese title "Higanbana." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Ton Satomi's 1957 novel. A businessman hopes to arrange a marriage for his headstrong youngest daughter who has fallen in love with a musician. Director Yasujiro Ozu's first color film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1071. Criterion Eclipse 3. Shochiku unknown books
1953ref. 149721N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1953 French film showing actress Michele Morgan. With manuscript ink annotations regarding layout on the verso along with the stamp of City Film N.V. In the midst of a deadly typhoid outbreak a French tourist finds herself widowed and stranded in a small Mexican village where she begins to fall in love with a depressed alcoholic expatriate. Set and shot on location in Veracruz and Mexico City Mexico. 8.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creases to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 158727London: Woodfall Films 1966. Shooting Script for the 1967 British short film. Two annotations in manuscript ink: one on the title page noting copy No. 11 and one on page eight noting a deletion. Clad in an ornate and eye-catching costume an opera singer must make his way through a succession of busy city streets in order to arrive on time for his performance. Originally commissioned by producer Oscar Lewenstein as one third of a planned anthology film titled "Red White and Zero." OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows no holdings. Tall red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 17.3.66 noted as Shooting Script with credit for director and screenwriter Peter Brook. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Woodfall Films unknown books
1972ref. 157321N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 French film. One photograph with a printed label affixed to the verso crediting a Dutch photo archive. A Parisian bookseller goes through a mid-life crisis and decides to convert his store into a sex shop in order to spice up his marriage and make more money. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 152359Los Angeles: Cinerama International Releasing Organization 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Daniel Mann laughing with actors Abbey Lincoln and Joseph Attles on the set of the 1968 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. In order to prevent their maid from leaving their employment to attend secretarial school the youngest son of a wealthy white Long Island family searches for a handsome executive to wine and dine her. Set in Long Island and New York. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned and soiled to the right edge with brief wear to the corners. Cinerama International Releasing Organization unknown books
1958ref. 150599N.p.: N.p. 1958. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. The anemic undead governor of a nineteenth century prison for the criminally insane conducts cruel illegal experiments on his inmates mostly involving blood transfusions. Set in Transylvania. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 150004N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Sylvia Kristel from the 1977 film. The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy following "Emmanuelle" 1974 directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Kristel and Alain Cuny and "Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman" "Emmanuelle II" 1975 directed by Francis Giacobetti and starring Kristel and Umberto Orsini. Miramax film founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein acquired the rights to the film at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival capitalizing on the popularity of what had become an international franchise broadcasting a unique appeal as an erotic film series with feminist leanings. 7 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 155786N.p.: N.p. 1974. Original studio still photograph of actress Charlotte Rampling and director Liliana Cavani on the set of the 1974 Italian film. Stamp of the British Film Institute on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. Shot on location in Vienna Austria and Rome Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners. Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 163793N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1955 French film showing actors Lia Di Leo and Marcel Raine in an intimate moment. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas and Frédéric Gaillardet about Queen Margaret of Burgundy who kills her partners after their dalliances have ended in order to leave no trace of her sexual misdeeds. Partially shot on location in Paris. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with multiple pinholes and accompanying wear at the corners and light soil on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 151612Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film showing director Alfred Hitchcock's cameo in the film passing Tippi Hedren in a doorway while walking two small dogs. Hitchcock's last great film a grim psychological study made all the more terrifying by the lack of motivation assigned to its violence. Shot in various locations throughout California including Bodega Bay Bloomfield Valley Ford the Venice Canals and Union Square in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 152363N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 Russian film showing actress Irma Raush. Director Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th-century drama capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. Set in medieval Russia shot on location in Moscow. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 34. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 154505N.p.: Film-Makers' Distribution Center 1966. Vintage studio still photograph of Gerard Malanga from the 1966 film. Disregarding formal narrative the film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City during 1966 presented in a split screen with a single audio track associated with only one side of the screen. The release marked a critical moment in Andy Warhol's career as it was the first film he directed to receive international success and distribution or even be screened outside cine-clubs in New York City. Set and shot on location in Chelsea New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Film-Makers' Distribution Center unknown books
2001ref. 163921N.p.: N.p. 2001. One Draft script and two Revised Draft scripts for the 2002 film. Two scripts with label affixed to front wrapper of the name of crew member Brian Markey. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A high school student's plans to go to Stanford are temporarily halted when his guidance counselor sends the incorrect transcripts. Set in Orange County California 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. Blue Revised: Blue titled self-wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Blue Draft on the front wrapper dated January 18 2001 with credits for screenwriters Mike White. Title page integral with front wrapper. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Pink Revised: Pink titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Revised on the front wrapper dated January 22 01 with credits for screenwriter Mike White. Title page integral with front wrapper. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only comprised solely of pink undated revision pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a paperclip at the top left corner. Yellow Revised: Yellow titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as Revised on the front wrapper dated January 31 01 with credits for screenwriter Mike White. Title page integral with front wrapper. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only comprised solely of yellow revision pages dated 1/31/01. Pages Near Fine wrapper About Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 164292N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1967 Yugoslavian film all showing actress Eva Ras. Two with a printed French mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and three with provenance stamps and labels on same. A young switchboard operator begins a relationship with a serious beau but finds herself subject to a colleague's advances when her boyfriend is out of town on business. Told in non-chronological order with imaginative digressions and frequent interruptions creating a critique of communist society and censorship. The second feature film of Du an Makavejev the most celebrated Yugoslavian director of the 1960s. Two photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus. Criterion Eclipse 18. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 168496Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actress Françoise Hardy sitting outside in a rattan chair. John Frankenheimer like many directors who came into their prime during the 1950s and 1960s finally embraced the idea of doing an epic picture. But rather than making yet another overblown war picture or an epic romance he chose the Grand Prix with spectacular results. Shot on location in England Belgium France Monaco Italy the Netherlands and California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
2009ref. 154815N.p.: N.p. 2009. Draft script for the 2011 film. Enoch a young man who attends funerals in an attempt to cope with the death of his parents is befriended by the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot when he meets the lovely Annabel at a funeral a young woman with terminal cancer and only three months to live. Shot on location in Portland Oregon. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated October 15 2009 with credits for screenwriter Jason Lew. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated November 2 2009. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
