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1955ref. 164817Universal City: Universal-International 1955. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1955 film showing actress Mamie Van Doren leaning against a jukebox. Based on Ben Benson's 1954 novel "Girl in the Cage" about an undercover cop working to stop an automobile theft ring run by teenagers. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Universal-International unknown
1989ref. 130299Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film. 17 year old Henri Young Bacon steals five dollars from a grocery store to feed his little sister. He is caught his sister is sent to an orphanage and he never sees her again and unfortunately for him the grocery store also housed a post office making the crime a federal offense. He is sent to Alcatraz where he attempts escape and is foiled by a fellow inmate leaving him sentenced to solitary confinement in the basement of the island prison. Upon his release he has a psychotic episode in which he stabs his betrayer to death with a spoon. James Stamphill Slater is to defend him alleging that Alcatraz drove him insane. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 23 1989 noted as Revised Rewrite with credits for screenwriters Gordon and Ponicsan. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown
1972ref. 146825Rome: N.p. 1972. Treatment script for the 1975 film. Text in English. A young Italian priest is sent to New York where he becomes involved with a group of hippies that declare their plan to publicly commit mass suicide as a protest against modern society. Set in Italy and New York. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 1972 with credits for screenwriters MARIO CHIARI SUSO CECCHI D'AMICO MICHELE SAKKARA and translator MELTON S. DAVIS. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light offsetting on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 132245Germany: P. R. Wilk Ffm 1971. Original German A1 re-release poster circa 1971 for the 1938 Russian film. Artwork by Lenicka. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23.25 x 33 inches rolled. Near Fine. P. R. Wilk, Ffm unknown
1967ref. 119761Universal City CA: Universal City Studios 1967. Final script for the 1968 film. Prop master C.S. Chrisman's copy with his trademark manuscript ink initial on the front wrapper and profuse manuscript annotations throughout the text regarding scenes that will require props. Based on the 1966 novel "The Wrong Venus" by Charles Williams. An author on a European cruise is slacking on finishing her newest novel when her publisher sends someone to check in on her progress. The first of two screenplays Williams wrote in Hollywood. Williams was one of the most popular hard-boiled authors in the Gold Medal stable. Beginning in the early 1960s he found work as a screenwriter adapting his novel "All the Way" first adapted in 1960 in the US as an obscure late film noir "The 3rd Voice" as a comedy for French director Marcel Ophuls. Set in Europe. Red titled wrappers noted as Final draft on the front wrapper production No. 02000 dated February 6 1967. Title page present noted as Final draft with credits for author and screenwriter Charles Williams. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown
1945ref. 135327New York: Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures 1945. Original program for the 1945 film. Features ad layouts side-by-side comparison of Lawrence Tierney and the real John Dillinger and various headline suggestions. Dillinger Tierney robs a store meets fellow gangster Specs Lowe in jail and continues his heists once freed from prison this time with a moll named Helen Jeffreys who eventually rats him out to the Fuzz. Nominated for an Academy Award. Director Nosseck made good use of stock footage from previous gangster films. Illustrated wrappers saddle-stapled. 16 leaves. Very Good with light foxing faint bruising and a vertical fold at the center. Grant US. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Okuda 440. Selby US. Spicer US. Stephens pp. 85-86. Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures unknown
1975ref. 161837N.p.: Group 1 Int. Dist. Org 1975. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1974 French film. Two photographs with provenance stamps on the versos one of which also has a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A beautiful woman undresses in the back of Marcel's taxi and proceeds to take him to the "Private Club" a sex club where he can live out his wildest sexual fantasies unfortunately Marcel's mind is on Lisa a girl he met in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with a wax pencil annotation on the top right of the recto. Group 1 Int. Dist. Org unknown
1985ref. 149992N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film. With a manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting copy No. 356. Missing five pages likely as used or issued. A young librarian poses as a police officer for a one-time charity dance event but attempts to maintain the ruse when he catches the attentions of a young attractive policewoman. Light blue illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 12 1985 with credits for director Michael Dinner and screenwriter Mark Medoff. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/20/85 and 7/16/85. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 171549N.p.: N.p. 1987. Revised Draft script for Season 2 Episode 3 of the 1986-1988 television series. Originally aired October 20 1987 on NBC. With revisions by Michael Mann prior to developing "Miami Vice" and moving on to a massive film career. Series following a detective with plans to stop a mobster in 1960s Las Vegas. In this episode the detective sets up a sting operation to catch a family involved in the marijuana trade. Set in 1960s Las Vegas. Generic brown wrappers with tape affixed to the front wrapper with manuscript ink annotations indicating the series and episode titles and with credits for screenwriter Tom Towler. Title page present dated 8/21/87 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Tom Towler. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication rectos only with revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/18/87 and 8/21/87. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 150675Universal City: Universal Pictures 1976. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs for the 1976 film. The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work including a Muslim revolutionary Bill Duke a power-hungry evangelist Richard Pryor with a singing entourage The Pointer Sisters and a man posing a potential bomb threat Irwin Corey. Set and shot on location in Westlake Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several with pinholes to the corners. Universal Pictures unknown
1981ref. 142543Moore Park Australia: First City / Embassy Pictures 1981. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. An executive's life takes an unexpected turn when his illegitimate son shows up. Featuring Denzel Washington in his film debut. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Stanley Shapiro and director Michael Schultz. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. First City / Embassy Pictures unknown
1957ref. 143949Japan: Towa 1957. Two original uncut Japanese stamp sheets for the 1957 French-Italian film. Bardot is amply represented in red and green variants 10 stamps per sheet also with an image of the Eiffel Tower. Produced by the Towa Corporation Japan with "BB" and film titles in Japanese represented. The film was released in Japan in December about one week after the French premiere. Scarce and cool Bardot ephemera and a unique Japan-France collaboration circa 1957-1958. Boisrond's fourth directorial credit is a comedy starring Bardot as the flirtatious daughter of the prime minister of France who marries a member of the cabinet Vidal who happens to be a womanizer. Taking control of the situation she has an weekend affair with a prince Boyer and ultimately reunites with her husband after somewhat passive apologies. Sheets 4.5 x 8 inches stamps 1.25 x 1.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with a little light handling and toning. Towa unknown
1985ref. 141557Berlin: Silent Night GbR 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Silent Night." The true story of how Father Joseph Mohr an Austrian priest falls in love with a prostitute hopes to reform her does not and ends up composing the popular Christmas hymn "Silent Night" with schoolteacher Franz Gruber in 1818. Set in Austria. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for screenwriter Monica Teuber. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Silent Night GbR unknown
1947ref. 140757Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Three vintage photographs of director Orson Welles from the 1947 film. Photographer's stamp on the versos and two with mimeo snipes on the versos. Welles promised to write produce and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film based on Raymond Sherwood King's 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" courted controversy not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. Shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1972ref. 150707Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters who married and had children at a young age and who express dissatisfaction and frustration with their stagnant lives. One of the few blaxsploitation films of the 1970s to depict the everyday lives and dreams of blue collar Black women. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 97-98. Cinerama Releasing unknown
1936ref. 146047Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film here under the working title "Turmoil." With manuscript annotations in ink and blue pencil on the front wrapper and title page and a single manuscript pencil notation to the verso of page 80. Based on the 1930 novel "Job." Grieved by the death of his wife an Austrian sexton is abandoned by his eldest son who goes to America and finds success as an engineer and abandons his younger son at a monastery upon learning that the child is a deaf-mute. Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated FEB. 28 1936. Title page present dated February 28 1936 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for novelist Joseph Roth and screenwriter Samuel G. Engel. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/20/35 and 3/3/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor with usual dryness and chipping common to Fox wrappers of this era and detached. Pages supple bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1973ref. 137578Vienna: Lisa-Film 1973. Collection of 12 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs for the 1973 German film based on the controversial 1897 play "Reigen" "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler Adapted three time previously; by Max Ophuls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964 both as "La Ronde" and by Richard Lerner and Paul Glickler in 1971 as "Hot Circuit" as well as several time subsequently. Schnitzler's play which satirizes the sexual and class morals of its era was not produced on stage until 1920 although published versions in various languages were available as early as 1900. With its frank sexual nature and depictions of relationships that crossed class and cultural lines the play was immediately condemned as pornography and withdrawn from the German stage although it remained popular elsewhere. The play consists of a series of vignettes each featuring a pair of lovers with each character appearing in two consecutive scenes with one character in the first scene appearing in the last. The photographs in this collection are from four scenes each featuring either Sydne Rome or Maria Schneider as follows: One photograph of Hans Bremmer and Rome as "The Soldier and the Parlor Maid." Four photographs of Rome and Helmut Berger as "The Parlor Maid and the Young Gentleman." Five photographs of Peter Weck and Schneider as "The Husband and the Little Miss." Two photographs of Schneider and Michael Heltau as "The Little Miss and the Poet." 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine. Lisa-Film unknown
1959ref. 167630N.p.: F.F.F. Films 1959. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1957 West German film. An eighteen-year-old in postwar Berlin develops feelings for his male friend and is eventually drawn into the underground world of gay bars. His mother attempts to bring him back onto a heterosexual path by encouraging a romance with the family's housemaid. Director Veit Harlan is best remembered today for his work with the Nazis most notably the antisemitic propaganda film "Jud Süß" 1940. Set and shot on location in Berlin. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus. F.F.F. Films unknown
1985ref. 147215N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink proofreading annotations throughout. A Cold War comedy about a kind but unstable translator for the USSR who must balance the amorous intentions of the US President's aide with the warring factions of their separate countries over the course of a prolonged summit meeting. Screenwriter Paul D. Zimmerman was best known for the successful crime film "The King of Comedy" Scorsese 1982. Set in Russia Vienna and Washington DC. White titled self-wrappers. Title page present dated December 1985 noted as First-Draft with credits for screenwriters Paul D. Zimmerman and Peter Benchley. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 171378Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film showing Peter Sellers getting down at a dance party surrounded by hippies and other distinctive characters. Dissatisfied with his life and impending marriage a mid-thirties attorney gets high and runs off with a young hippie only to discover he's still unhappy. The title of the film is a reference to "Alice B. Toklas brownies" a slang term for pot brownies. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly creased at a couple of corners else Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1968ref. 158501N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actress Leigh Taylor-Young dancing. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Dissatisfied with his life and impending marriage a mid-thirties attorney gets high and runs off with a young hippie only to discover he's still unhappy. The title of the film is a reference to "Alice B. Toklas brownies" a slang term for cannabis brownies. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light wear at the bottom right corner. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 135639Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1966. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With reference information in manual type on the verso of each photograph. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown
1966ref. 132242Germany: Obpacher Aktiengesellschaft / Atlas Films 1966. Original 1966 German A1 poster for the 1965 French film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23 x 33.25 inches rolled. Near Fine. Obpacher Aktiengesellschaft / Atlas Films unknown
1965ref. 149484N.p.: N.p. 1965. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Each borderless except for a bottom margin see image. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Pierre Etaix finds happiness his lost love and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 4.75 x 3.75 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 143860Montreal: Cooperation Productions 1964. Original French scenario script for the 1964 film here under the original French-Canadian title "Trouble-fete." Bound at the front of the script is a Canadian program from the premiere of the film in Montreal Friday March 20 1964. The program features film reviews by Jean Le Moyne and Jacques Godbout and extensive film credits. Lucien Hamelin is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics inciting protests and fighting to change the moral face of his college. He changes the life of an incompetent teacher is expelled from school and accidentally causes the death of a gay man. Religious themes human sexuality and an early entry in Canadian feature film industry just as the country's federal government took measures to expand cinema audiences. Director Patry's first feature film his earlier ventures part of the cinema verite movement include "Eye Witness No. 99" 1958 "The Little Sisters" 1959 "Le chanoine Lionel Groulx historien" 1960 "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine" 1962 and "Francoise" 1964. Set in Montreal. Green and white untitled wrappers. Title page present undated noted as "Scenario" with credits for screenwriters Lord and Patry. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus side-stapled. Bound-in program 9 leaves Near Fine. Cooperation Productions unknown
