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1962ref. 131827Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1962. Treatment script for the 1963 film. Paul Brenner at AllMovie: It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent basing his exploration of the African subcontinent on old diaries of his uncle. When an American space capsule crashes in an uncharted region of Africa Merriwether based on his alleged expert knowledge of the region is selected to recover the capsule. Joining Merriwether and his pre-Kervorkian suicide kit is security agent Frederica Larsen Edie Adams. Hot on their heels are Russian agents Luba Anita Ekberg and Dr. Ezra Mungo Lionel Jeffries who want to get to the space capsule first. Self wrappers. Title page present integral with front wrapper dated 1st June 1962 noted as Original Screen Treatment on the front wrapper with credits for producers Saltzman and Broccoli. 35 leaves mimeograph on gray stock. Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine side stapled with a single staple. United Artists unknown books
1959ref. 141014N.p.: Lion International 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film. The first film by Cassavetes for which he raised the entirety of the production budget himself the story of three African American siblings in Harlem two of whom often pass for white. Begun as an acting exercise in a workshop Cassavetes was conducting with Burt Lane the story was originally filmed in 1958 with completely improvised dialogue and action based on scene outlines created by Cassavetes. After the film was poorly received at its three initial screening by just about everyone Cassavetes knew he reworked the ideas into a more traditional script with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur and reshot the film replacing between half and two thirds of the original footage and dramatically altering the story. Released in 1959 this version better reflected his vision for the film and received a critics award when shown at the Venice Film Festival the following year. A watershed moment in American independent films heralding not just the arrival of a new iconoclastic director but the birth of an entire movement. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Lion International unknown books
1988ref. 140598N.p.: Golden Sun / Artisan Entertainment 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film here under the working title "Death Squad." A special forces combat unit is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated 8/8/84 with credits for screenwriters Sandra K. Bailey Douglas Borton. 106 leaves mechanical duplication with last page of text numbered 103. Pages near Fine wrapper Near Fine with light rubbing on the front wrapper internally bound with three gold brads. Golden Sun / Artisan Entertainment unknown books
1971ref. 161988N.p.: Morgan Pictures Corporation 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 re-release of the 1966 film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. A suburban housewife turns her stenography business into a highly profitable prostitution ring made up of neighborhood wives. Based on an actual 1964 scandal in Nassau County NY. Director Joseph W. Sarno's first color film. Shot on location in Long Island and South Fallsburg New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nilsen Warped and Faded. Morgan Pictures Corporation unknown books
1965ref. 167080N.p.: Paramount Studios 1965. Draft script for the 33rd episode of the second season of the 1965-1966 NBC Western television series which aired on January 9 1966. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Young Hawk" with marker and ink annotations of his name his character's name and "Office" on the front wrapper with manuscript marker annotations of actor's names adjacent to the character's names on the Cast page. Created by Larry Cohen his first series as creator and producer the series was originally intended as an allegory about blacklisting during McCarthyism which according to Cohen lead to him being fired from the series after mistakenly telling its right-wing star Chuck Connors. Following star Connors' popular 1958-1963 Western series "The Rifleman" Connors stars as Jason McCord a former US cavalry captain who was court-martialed after being unjustly accused of cowardice. The series premiered on January 24 1965 and aired for two seasons and 48 episodes ending on April 24 1966. In this episode Connors comes upon a bound white Indian woman who says three wolfer brothers kidnapped and attacked her who he decides he needs to find and kill while returning her to her people. Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Frank Paris. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank Paris. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with two blue revision pages dated 11/4/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light toning and foxing to the extremities bound with two gold brads. Paramount Studios unknown books
1945ref. 148158N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage black-and-white glossy photographic French lobby card from the 1945 film. The French classic centered around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan Arletty and four men who love her. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in shot on location in France. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good with three closed tears one 3 inches two repaired on verso with cello tape pinholes to corners and edgewear. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 141. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 146001Culver City CA: Lorimar 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A woman dying from a blood disease who needs a bone marrow transplant contacts the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth in the hopes that they might be a match. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 920102 dated February 5 1980. Title page present dated February 5 1980 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter John Sayles. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Lorimar unknown books
1949ref. 137414Hollywood: Monogram Pictures 1949. Revised Draft script for the 1949 film. "Brand of Fear" here under the working title "Range Rogues." Copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed who played "Cal Derringer" in the film with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and annotations throughout in manuscript ink and pencil. One of Wakely's final films at Monogram Pictures where he became a popular musical Western actor under his own name beginning with "Springtime in Texas" 1945 and ending with "Lawless Code" 1949. This time Wakely and his partner Cannonball Taylor escort a school teacher Davis to Oreville where she is accosted by two outlaws. The local marshal London wrangles with one of the outlaws who informs his cohort that the marshal is actually wanted by the law himself and they attempt to blackmail him. Wakely and Cannonball show up to help the marshal who in reality is the school teacher's father and nab the outlaws. Wakely eventually had his own comic book series published by DC Comics 1949-1952 and he was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Western Music Association Hall of Fame. Shot on location at Melody Ranch and Walker Ranch in Newhall California. Blue titled wrappers with a credit for Wakely. Distribution page present with receipt removed rubber-stamped copy No. 221 with credits for Wakely and screenwriter Dickey noted as production No. 4905. Title page integral with distribution. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 20 twentieth page of a shooting schedule. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Hardy p. 390. Pitts 492. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1973ref. 172052N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film showing one of the eponymous "prison babies" with a promotional illustration for the film at the left margin. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a tiny bruise to the left portion of the recto. N.p. unknown books
1944ref. 129803Burbank CA: Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers 1944. Draft script for the 1947 film. This is an early draft developed at Vanguard Films prior to the property being sold to Warner Brothers. An American remake of the 1935 British film of the same name. Largely set in Italy the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok Errol Flynn and unwed mother Gemma Smith Ida Lupino. Suspecting that her fiance Caryl Gig Young Sebastian's brother is the father of Gemma's child young heiress Fennella McLean Eleanor Parker retreats to the Italian Alps. Attempting to straighten out the situation Sebastian finds himself falling in love with Fennella. For his brother's sake Sebastian breaks off the relationship and marries Gemma but while awaiting the birth of her child he writes a heartfelt ballet score dedicated to Fennella. However when Gemma's baby dies the conscience-stricken Sebastian changes the dedication to his wife whom he has learned to genuinely love. Notable for a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Blue titled wrappers dated August 21 1944 with credits for playwright Margaret Kennedy. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 131 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with tearing at the left hole punches bound with three gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in protective mylar. Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers unknown books
1985ref. 141530Berlin: Filmedis 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Text in English for a German film. Here under the working title and translation of the original French novel "Do You Want to Die With Me." Based on Francis Ryck's novel "Voulez-vous Mourir Avec Moi." A man and a woman enter into a very intense relationship accentuated by the fact that this man has murdered four previous girlfriends and this one might be his next victim. Set in Finistere France shot on location there. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Filmedis unknown books
1970ref. 149020N.p.: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Nature-boy shepherd Serafino Adriano Celentano inherits his aunt Gesuina's Nerina Montagnani fortune and proceeds to frivolously spend it on family and friends. After destroying a new convertible his uncle Agenore Saro Urzi files to have him declared mentally incompetent. Shot on location in Marche Lazio and Abruzzo Italy. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with small split in crease pinholes to top corners and manuscript annotation on verso visible on recto. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1942ref. 130516Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. First Draft Continuity for the 1942 film. This is a pre-production continuity not to be confused with a post-production continuity. The "other woman" in this early 1940s Twentieth Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily Virginia Gilmore faithful secretary to master architect Henry Summers James Ellison. Hoping to trap her boss into marriage Emily begins sending "mash notes" to Henry purportedly from a mysterious female admirer. She then coerces her old pal Ralph Dan Duryea to pose as her jealous Southern-fried boy friend of the nonexistent letter-writer. Poor Henry convinced that Ralph is the gangster who's been threatening him with bodily harm takes off for parts unknown. Our heroine spends the rest of the picture chasing Henry until he finally catches her Hal Erickson Rovi. From the AFI Catalog: "The working title of this film was 'Leap Year' also the title of Lamar Trotti's original story. According to a September 4 1941 memo in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department located at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library Trotti wrote the story "sometime ago" and sold it to the studio for one dollar when producer Walter Morosco decided to make it as a "low budget picture." Although the legal records indicate that Jerry Sackheim worked on a screenplay for the picture the extent of his contribution to the completed film has not been determined. Orange titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 185 and production No. 730 dated June 6 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 6 1942 noted as 1st Draft Continuity with a sole credit for screenwriter Jungmeyer. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with revision pages on blue stock dated variously between 6/10/42 and 6/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967ref. 149453Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Thorpe and actors Angie Dickinson and Glenn Ford looking over a script on the set of the 1967 Western film. With a printed mimeo snipe noting the film's original title "The Pistolero of Red River" which has been crossed out and retitled "The Last Challenge" in manuscript ink annotation affixed to the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations and a mimeo snipe. Based on John Sherry's 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress." A young gunslinger heads into a small western town with the intention of dueling the local sheriff who is famed for his skill and speed with a gun. Thorpe's final film concluding a decades-long affiliation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shot on location in California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few light creases to the top right corner. Pitts 2185. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1979ref. 145288Los Angeles: California Pictures 1979. Collection of 51 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1979 film. Also included are eight large format negatives for photographs in the collection. Two US Navy divers taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines are forced to search for millions of dollars worth of silver that the retreating American forces dumped into Manila Bay. Set and shot in the Philippines. 41 photographs 8 x 10 inches. Ten photographs 5 x 4 inches. Two negatives 8 x 10 inches. Five negatives 5 x 4 inches. Overall Near Fine. Parish and Hill Black Action Films 159. California Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 134942Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1961. Final White script for the 1962 film "Escape from Zahrain" here under the film's working title "Zahrain" with ESCAPE FROM in manuscript ink just above it. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil on the front wrapper recto and verso though the associations are unknown. Based on Michael Barrett's 1960 novel "Appointment in Zahrain." A wanted revolutionary Brynner and his gang including a protege played by Sal Mineo travel through the desert in an attempt to elude the Arab security forces. A story set in the Middle East shot on location in the Mojave Desert in California. Self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 122 and production No. 11541 dated June 6 1961 with credits for producer-director Neame and screenwriter Estridge. Title page integral with front wrapper. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication dated variously 6/5/61 and 6/6/61. Near Fine overall bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 148770N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Laurence Olivier and Brenda de Banzie from the 1960 British film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1957 play written at the behest of actor Laurence Olivier who reprised his role as Archie Rice an embittered third-rate music hall performer facing the dissipation of his industry and personal life. Olivier was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Shot on location in Morecambe Lancashire and West Yorkshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with layout annotations to top corners in manuscript wax pencil. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 130703Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1968. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 television movie. A marshal returns home to find his town has been nearly wiped out by Mexican bandits and with the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother seeks to hunt them down. Set in New Mexico territory shot on location in Utah. Rust colored titled wrappers noted as Third Revised Final Draft on the front wrapperdated September 24 1968 with credit for screenwriter Savage. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with blue white yellow pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-30-68 and 10-24-68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reyes 131. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown books
1944ref. 128914Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment featuring spiritualists a haunted house and a murder by suffocation in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly the film's failure superseded its potential even with all the right elements of a chilling melodrama. ChaneyJr. plays attorney Wayne Fletcher who is engaged in an affair with his secretary Donna Joyce who is tied to a rich family. He arrives home after a late night at the office to discover his wife has been murdered a death by asphyxiation with Wayne as the suspect. With the help psychic Julian Julian Bromberg the police investigate the murder. The psychic's motives are questionable but he says he can contact Wayne's dead wife. At a seance to reach Vivian's spirit the reluctant Wayne hears what he thinks is her voice but discovers Julian Julian in the shadows and accuses him of conspiracy. After several sleepless nights haunted by the voice of his lost wife Wayne finally "gives in" to her spirit and attempts to kill Donna with a pillow but is overpowered by police and leaps from a window to his death per his wife's instructions. Gray card titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7285 dated February 19 1945 with credits for screenwriter Bricker and story writer Babcock. 106 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good lacking rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1978ref. 161019Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1978. Complete set of eight color studio still photographs for the 1978 film. Stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services of Canada on the versos. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" 1967 with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway driver whose elusive escapes torment a self-assured police detective driving the detective to the brink of obsession. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Silver and Ward US Neo-Noir. Spicer US. Twilight Time 53. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1949ref. 137478Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1949. Final shooting script for the 1950 film. Copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed who here plays the role of the villain with his name in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A ruthless man attempts to rekindle a settled feud between two rancher families in order to take both their lands when they kill each other off. Luckily the town has a good sheriff and a standup rancher gal to help save the day. An odd short musical western with a good crop of the genre's favorite themes bar brawls ambushes sharpshooters to help round out the plot. Red titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper production No. A7 dated November 2 1949. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph O'Donnell. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fair wrapper Fair bound with three gold brads. Foxing and dampstaining to much of the wrappers and extremities. Universal Pictures unknown
1976ref. 166654Universal City: Universal Studios 1976. Draft script for the eighth episode of the fourth season of the CBS television series printed on yellow leaves which aired on November 14 1976. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with the pencil annotation of his name on the title sheet next to his character "Lucas" credited as "Dagger's Associate" with manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Bound in preceding the script are three "Shooting Call" sheets with an additional "Shooting Call" sheet bound in following the title page with pencil annotations underlining Dimitri's name and character name on two of the sheets and a thirteen page "Shooting Schedule" dated March 12 1976. One of the most beloved police dramas in television history "Kojak" was loosely based on the 1967 book "Justice in the Back Room" by Selwyn Raab and premiered on CBS on March 8 1973 with the pilot film "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" and aired for 5 seasons and 118 episodes ending on March 2 1977. The character was revived by CBS for two television films in 1985 and 1987 and in 1989-1990 by ABC for five additional television films. Telly Savalas stars as the titular bald lollipop-sucking New York City police detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak a tough and incorruptible cop with a penchant for the expression "Who loves ya baby" Winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards. Kojak's investigation into the deaths of two longshoremen is complicated by their co-workers code of silence and desire to deal out justice themselves. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated March 1 1976 with credits for screenwriter Chester Krumholz. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 65. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with green revision pages throughout dated 3/10/79. Pages Very Good plus with the penultimate leaf partially detached and the last leaf separated with light foxing to the front "Shooting Call" sheet bound with two gold brads. Universal Studios unknown
1961ref. 138761Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage borderless black-and-white still photograph from the French release of the 1961 film. Featuring Ingrid Bergman holding up Anthony Perkins as he seems to be falling backwards outside of a large doorway. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller with their sticker to the verso. Also on the verso is the rubber stamp of Maurice Bessy from whose archives the photo originally came alongside another small rubber stamp and light manuscript annotations in ink. Based on the 1959 novel "Aimez-vous Brahms" by Francoise Sagan. Ingrid Bergman is the mistress of a philandering business executive who refuses to change his ways until Bergman begins seeing the son of one of his wealthy clients played by Anthony Perkins. Fresh from his role as Norman Bates in Hitchcock's "Psycho" Perkins shines as a charming aimless bachelor in what would be one of the few non-typecast characters of his career. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes where Anthony Perkins also won Best Actor. 6.75 x 9 inches. United Artists unknown
1952ref. 145121Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1952. Three vintage linen backed keybook photographs of members of the cast and crew on the set of the 1952 film. Mimeo snipe and manuscript annotations on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see others. A family facing financial troubles realizes that the two trees they recently brought home from the nursery are money trees each bearing five and ten dollar bills. At first this mysterious luck is a relief but quickly the police the IRS and media outlets all get involved and the family struggles to discern the right way to handle all this new cash. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal International Pictures unknown
1958ref. 139786Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Revised Final Draft script for the 1958 television episode of "The Ed Wynn Show." Copy belonging to actor Tom Irish with his name in green manuscript ink on the front wrapper and notation in green ink to a single page. Irish played an uncredited bit part named "Biff." In 1958 veteran vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn creator of the innovative live skit-based 1949 television show of the same name tried his hand at a third television series: a short-lived sitcom that would last only one season. Though Wynn was one of few beloved vaudevillians to make a successful transition to the small screen with his first show featuring high profile Hollywood guests and winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Live Show in 1950 his success would not last indefinitely. As television grew he would shift towards more serious dramatic roles. The 1958 iteration of "The Ed Wynn Show" would be the last series he put his name on before taking a spate of guest appearances and dramatic roles in various television shows and films. Yellow titled wrappers noted as production No. 4477 dated October 29 1958 with credits for screenwriters Laurence Marks and Milton Pascal. Title page present dated October 29 1958 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Marks and Pascal. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock with yellow revision pages throughout dated October 31 1958. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
