1967ref. 157986N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. One with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A bold film adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by Amiri Baraka writing here as he often did in the 1960s as Leroi Jones. An erratic white woman meets an African American man on a subway car. When he begins to respond to her erotic advances she begins to taunt him viciously goading him until he explodes into violence. Anthony Anthony Harvey's important and still impactful first directorial effort followed by many successful films including "The Lion in Winter" 1968 "They Might Be Giants" 1971 and "The Glass Menagerie" 1973. Set in New York with subway exteriors shot in Manhattan and interiors shot in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 153877N.p.: Excelsior 1975. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1975 film. Stamp of Excelsior Films to the verso. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who has resorted to appearing in porn films to make a living. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creasing to the corners. Excelsior unknown books
1975ref. 139641Paris: Albina Productions 1975. Vintage photograph of Romy Schneider dressed as Marlene Dietrich in a scene from the 1975 film. With the stamp of photographer Giancarlo Botti on the verso as well as printed mimeo snipes in both English and French. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who is starring in cheap softcore films. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. Fine. Albina Productions unknown books
1973ref. 160513N.p.: N.p. 1973. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 film. An X-rated Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary Shelley's 1818 classic novel featuring Warhol superstar Udo Kier as Baron von Frankenstein a man obsessed with creating a new Serbian race to obey his every command. Shot on location in Vojvodina Serbia. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1943ref. 130866Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1944 film. The second of Universal's Technicolor fantasy adventures after "Arabian Nights" 1942 and "White Savage" 1943 loosely based on the classic Arabian Nights tales with a fitting score by Edward Ward to match Lubin's directorial flair. A fun but often overlooked desert romp. Gray titled wrappers noted as Revised and copy No. 113 on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7142 dated 5-20-43 with credit for screenwriter Hartmann. 114 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor with front wrapper starting bound with three gold brads. Weaver p. 565. Universal Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 151976Rome: Mars Film 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli from the 1970 film. Stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on verso. An intricate and incisive examination of the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal." Marcello Clerici Trintignant a young and upper-middle class Italian joins Mussolini's Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism and his first assignment is to assassinate his former teacher a political dissident now residing in France with his attractive young wife. Under the guise of taking his new bride Gulia on a honeymoon Marcello travels to France to complete his mission. Lauded for its fantastic cinematography and expressionistic style often compared stylistically to early German Expressionist works such as Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" or Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Arrow Academy 709. Schrader's Canon Fodder 14. Grant Italy. Mars Film unknown books
1940ref. 156009N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1940 film showing director William Wyler and actress Bette Davis enjoying tea on the set. A rubber plantation owner's wife claims self defense after shooting her secret lover but a damning letter in her own hand may uncover the truth. 9 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 171907N.p.: N.p. 1987. Draft script for the 1988 film. Copy belonging to stunt coordinator Joe Dunne with his annotations in manuscript ink on several pages indicating stunt sequences. Crew contact list and eight white revision pages bound in at the rear of the script. Based on an unpublished novel by Rod Amateau. In Hollywood during the transition to sound film US Marshal Wyatt Earp and Western actor Tom Mix team up to solve a murder involving a violent gangster. The second film in which James Garner portrayed Wyatt Earp following "Hour of the Gun" in 1967. Cream titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present dated March 20 1987 with credits for Amateau and screenwriter Blake Edwards. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 3/27/87 and 3/30/87 respectively. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus extremities lightly toned bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 169091N.p.: N.p. 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 film. Blake Edwards remake of Francois Truffaut's 1977 film about sculptor David Fowler Burt Reynolds whose obsessive love of women leads to his eventual death told from the perspective of his analyst and eventual lover Marianna Julie Andrews. Shot on location in Texas New York and California. Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 1982 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Blake Edwards Geoffrey Edwards Milton Wexler. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 11/2/82 and 2/23/83. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 171906N.p.: N.p. 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 film. Copy belonging to stunt coordinator Joe Dunne with his annotations in manuscript ink on several pages. Based on the 1977 François Truffaut film about a middle-aged man whose single-minded obsession with sex and beauty disrupts his life and eventually leads to his downfall. Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 1982 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Blake and Geoffrey Edwards. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 11/2/82. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 156029Geneva: Septima Film 1978. Four vintage oversize double weight photographs from the Swiss release of the 1978 adult film. With the stamp of Swiss distributor Septima Film on the verso. A failing pizza restaurant in San Francisco begins to offer more than just pizza with their deliveries. Directed by noted Chinese-American adult filmmaker Bob Chinn re-released in a new restoration by Vinegar Syndrome in 2014. Shot on location in Oakland San Francisco and Berkeley California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine unusually mounted on thick stock with keybook style holes at the corners for use in adult film theaters. Vinegar Syndrome 55. Septima Film unknown books
1967ref. 151850Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1967. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film all featuring actress Brigitte Bardot. Four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer. A French woman is tempted to stray from her older English husband when she meets a vibrant younger man. Shot on location in London and Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good moderately toned and lightly creased. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1964ref. 155082N.p.: Cinema Syndicate 1964. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Printed label crediting "Bunny Yeager Photography" affixed to photograph versos. A magazine hires photographer and erstwhile pinup model Bunny Yeager to shoot a pictorial on the showgirls of Las Vegas leading to a number of nude hijinks. Yeager was one of the first pinup photographers to work outdoors in natural light and subsequently became one of the most successful and prolific pinup photographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Yeager is perhaps best remembered today for her 1954 photographs of a then little-known Bettie Page shooting a number of images which ran in "Playboy" magazine and would lead to Page's later stardom. Set and shot on location in Las Vegas and at the Hoover Dam. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinema Syndicate unknown books
1948ref. 172458Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1948. Four vintage reference photographs and four vintage keybook photographs from the 1949 film. Four keybook photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Don Tracy. A man returns home hoping to repair his relationship with his ex-wife only to find she is now married to the head of a crime syndicate. Set in Los Angeles CA shot on location in Long Beach and Los Angeles CA. 8 x 10 inches. Keybook photographs and three reference photographs Very Good plus. One reference photo Very Good with creasing and a small tear at the margin in the bottom left corner. Grant US. Godard Histoires du cinema. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1939ref. 158591Culver City CA: Selznick International 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1939 film showing director John Cromwell and crew members watching as Carole Lombard and James Stewart rehearse a scene. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. During the Depression an ambitious lawyer finds himself torn between his high-powered career the demands of his difficult mother and his life with his young wife and child. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Selznick International unknown books
1957ref. 152741London: Pinewood Studios 1957. Shooting script for the 1958 British film. Annotation in manuscript ink of copy number "64" on front wrapper. Laid in are two loose pink revision pages and 36 bound pink revision pages. Based on the 1957 novel by Catherine Cookson. John Gregson in a memorable performance stars as Dublin trash collector James Ignatius Rooney who competes as a Gaelic sportsman on the weekends. Set in and shot on location in Dublin. Tall blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 13th August 1957 with credits for author Catherine Cookson and screenwriter Patrick Kirwan. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages laid in one undated one dated 21.11.57 and 36 dated 2.9.57. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with chipping closed tears and creasing at the extremities and spine bound with prong binding. Loose revision pages Very Good plus with toning and creasing at outer edge. Bound revision pages with some creasing to first leaf else Near Fine bound with a single flat metal brad. Pinewood Studios unknown books
1978ref. 162390N.p.: N.p. 1978. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film. A Belgian filmmaker travels across western Europe to promote her latest film encountering a wide range of figures both strangers and important people from her past along the way. Set and shot on location in Belgium France and West Germany. 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse 19. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1925ref. 167106N.p.: N.p. 1925. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1925 film showing then-US vice president Charles G. Dawes visiting the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. In 1860 a gambler-turned-rider for the Pony Express learns of a secret plan to aid the Confederate cause. Shot on location in Cheyenne Wyoming. Approximately 10 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 3139. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 167517Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Two call sheets and a magazine clipping showing a review of the film laid in with the script. A newly divorced librarian is unwittingly drawn into a crime investigation after accepting a pack of cigarettes with an incriminating roll of film hidden inside. Basis for the short-lived 1981 television series starring Barry Bostwick and Deborah Raffin. Set and shot on location in San Francisco. Beige titled Paramount wrappers dated September 23 1977 and noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper with a stamp for Miller-Milkis Productions at the top right corner. Title page present dated September 23 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for director and screenwriter Colin Higgins. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between October 17 and 19 1977. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 154556N.p.: N.p. 1966. Collection of 13 vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. Loosely based on the 1946-1950 memoirs of Gilbert Renault writing as Colonel Remy about a small town in the Jura divided by a narrow river which forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone. The first of four World War II films directed by Claude Chabrol followed by "The Blood of Others" 1984 "Story of Women" 1988 and "L'oeil de Vichy" 1993. Shot on location in Belmont Chissey Dole and Port-Lesney Jura. 12 photographs 10.5 x 9.5 inches one photograph 9 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1939ref. 160626Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage publicity photograph of James Stewart and Claudette Colbert from the 1939 film. Printed mimeo snipe and MGM label on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of Ben Hecht's most brilliant and underrated screenplays. A novice private eye is unjustly fingered alongside his wealthy client in a murder case. Colbert's first film for MGM. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1974ref. 162345Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1974 film showing actor Count Basie on the set with Cleavon Little and Mel Brooks respectively. Two with stamps and labels of an Amsterdam photograph agency on the versos. Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire on the racism and misogyny inherent in Hollywood's depiction of the American West among many other targets. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in the fictional frontier town of Rock Ridge shot on location in California. 9.5 x 7 inches. Two Near Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and discoloration at one corner. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown books
1997ref. 138625Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp Douglas teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh struggles writing his second novel and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university McDormand. Grady's editor Downey Jr. inquires about the novel but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students Maguire as well as having other more intimate intentions. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song "Things Have Changed" and the film was nominated for two more. Blue wrappers noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 1997 with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1988ref. 166665N.p.: N.p. 1988. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1988 film including three showing cast and crew members between takes on the set. Based on Milan Kundera's 1984 novel set during the Prague Spring about a womanizing brain surgeon who struggles between his childlike wife and his free-spirited lover. Set in 1960s Prague and Switzerland shot on location in Paris and Lyon France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 55. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 141710N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman after previously being owned by screenwriter Maxwell Shane with both of their names and addresses on the first page. Based in part on an adventure story by Daniel Defoe. The film opens with a man trying to drown himself in the ocean as he reflects on his journey to this point of his life. Maxwell Shane began as a screenwriter and found his greatest recognition as a director of five key films noir in the 1940s and 1950s including "Fear in the Night" and "City Across the River." Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Maxwell Shane and author Daniel Defoe. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
