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1963ref. 152260London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Archive of production material from the 1965 British film including a Revised Draft screenplay three original character design illustrations and a hand drawn storyboard. A British newspaper offers a substantial prize to the winner of a cross-channel air race bringing aviators from around the world to compete for the chance at victory and grabbing the attentions of various women. A number of authentic airplanes from the 1900s were used during production including a 1910 Deperdussin Monoplane and a 1912 Blackburn Monoplane. Set and shot on location in England including at Book Airfield in Buckinghamshire. Fuchsia titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1963 noted as REVISED SCRIPT with credits for director-screenwriter Ken Annakin and screenwriter Jack Davies. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Multilith duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly faded on the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Storyboard and design illustrations varying sizes Near Fine overall housed in a manila folder. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1928ref. 167295Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film showing the infamous "office set" with dozens of identical desks in a largely windowless room. Provenance label mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A bleak populist film heavily influenced by German cinema and nominated for several awards at the very first Academy Awards ceremony including Best Director for King Vidor. Shot on location throughout New York and in Los Angeles. 10 x 7.25 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn with old cello tape at the corners and center bottom edge. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 44. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1995ref. 151599N.p.: N.p. 1995. Final Shooting script for the 1995 film. Copy belonging to noted crime writer Mickey Spillane who appeared in a cameo in the film as a personal favor to director Max Allan Collins. With Spillane's name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and annotations highlighting lines to pages 56-59. A woman's increasingly psychotic obsession with her young daughter culminates in a string of gruesome murders. Collins' debut film following a lengthy career as a mystery novelist and comic writer. Followed by a sequel "Mommy 2: Mommy's Day" in 1997. Shot on location in Muscatine Iowa. White titled wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper with credits for director Max Allan Collins. 79 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 150683N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film one of Michelangelo Antonioni with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti and one of Antonioni and crew shooting a scene in Rome from scaffolding built in the water. One with French "L'Eclipse" stamp and provenance stamp of film historian "Maurice Bessy" on verso one with "P.I.P." and "Copyright" stamps on verso. A woman's newfound relationship with a power-hungry stockbroker gradually erodes as she becomes dissatisfied with his shallow interests. The final film in Antonioni's modernity trilogy all starring Vitti preceded by "L'avventura" 1960 and "La notte" 1961. Awarded the Jury Special Prize and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Rome and Verona Italy. 6.75 x 9.25 inches and 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Criterion Collection 278. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 163784Universal City: Universal Pictures 1971. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 film including one showing a camera crew setting up a scene on the set. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and all five with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and provenance stamps and labels on the versos. Milo Forman's first film made in the US. A suburban couple return home one evening to find their teenage daughter has run away. While out looking for their daughter they come across other parents whose children are missing and form a self-help group only to discover they feel happier and freer with the children gone. Set and shot on location in New York City. Four 7.5 x 9.5 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 157906London: Morison Film Group 1979. Third draft for the 1981 UK horror film. Second generation duplication made internally by the filmmakers during production and in original wrappers. Vintage as issued. Two terrorists accidentally unleash a deathly venomous snake into the home where they have trapped a number of hostages. Set in London and shot on location in London and Hertfordshire England. Grey titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 31 1979 noted as third draft with credits for Robert Carrington and Alan Scholefield. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerox duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with faint soil on page edges and a faint tide mark along the fore-edge of the title page wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Blue Underground 7070. Morison Film Group unknown books
1973ref. 160085Beverly Hills CA: Crown International Pictures / Saber Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film seen here under the working title "Policewoman." Annotations in manuscript ink on every page checking scene numbers. Included with the script is a pressbook and 15 vintage reference photographs from the film. An exploitation film about a policewoman who infiltrates an all-women criminal gang. Shot on location in Los Angeles and the Channel Islands California. Screenplay: Brown wrappers with titles and illustration in gilt. Title page present dated August 1973 with credits for director-screenwriter Lee Frost and screenwriter Wes Bishop. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Pressbook: 11 x 17 inches. Eight pages side-stapled. Near Fine. Photographs 15: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Crown International Pictures / Saber Productions unknown books
1984ref. 165396N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to costume designer Jane Hamilton with her annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the first 13 leaves all relating to costuming. Included with the script are multiple gatherings of manuscript and xerographically duplicated leaves relating to costuming including measurements of actors and extras in the film details for specific scenes and lists of props and period costumes needed. In the 1920s a young woman embarks on a worldwide journey of sexual exploration determining to lose her virginity and ultimately find her ideal lover. Shot on location in Andalucía Spain and in Hampshire England. Housed in a three-ring green binder. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 167218N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. A teenage pinball prodigy joins forces with an aspiring country music singer in order to raise money for a demo tape. Set and shot on location in West Hollywood Santa Cruz and Los Angeles California and in Corpus Christi Texas. Green titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for director Rudy Durand and uncredited screenwriters James Creech and Martin Zweiback. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 171051Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Collection of 27 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film including four photographs showing proposed advertising material for the film. All but the advertising promos photos have provenance labels on the versos. With a pink mimeograph production sheet laid in showing credits and a brief synopsis. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force about a Daily Globe journalist who in an attempt to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum recently implicated in a murder case. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine with some faint toning to the margins and light curling and studio still photographs with manuscript ink and pencil layout annotations and numeric annotations on the rectos. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown books
1980ref. 163765Burbank CA: The Ladd Company 1980. Collection of 32 vintage color slides from the 1981 film as well as one vintage studio still photograph showing actress Kathleen Turner. Three slides with annotations in manuscript ink on their cardboard sleeves. A young woman manipulates her lover a small-town lawyer into killing her wealthy husband. A watershed neo-noir update to the classic femme fatale of the 1940s and 1950s. Set and shot on location in Florida. Photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Slides 2 x 2 inches. Near Fine. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. The Ladd Company unknown books
1966ref. 137871Paris: Parc Film 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in manuscript marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife mute from a car accident move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality fact and fiction begin to blend together as he transforms the villagers into characters in his story. In his 1969 review Roger Ebert called The Creatures "a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels but in fact it operates on only one illustrating how fantasy reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer." Three photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light scratches. Remaining photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches. A few photographs lightly worn else Near Fine overall. Parc Film unknown books
1992ref. 148720Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers perfect-bound dated 1992.11.5. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 197. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. Dentsu Music and Entertainment unknown books
1970ref. 149801Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Archive of five vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1970 film four of which are borderless. One photograph SIGNED and dated 1969 by photographer Alan Pappe on the verso all photographs with his stamp. All five photographs feature legendary Italian director Federico Fellini in his cameo role as himself with one showing the director on the set with a clapboard and crew members in front of him while a second features a manuscript pencil annotation describing Fellini and actor Donald Sutherland discussing a scene with an out-of-frame director Paul Mazursky. Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. A young filmmaker struggles to come up with ideas for new film after his previous commercial and critical success while ruminating on his past present and possible futures. One photograph 11 x 11 inches four photographs roughly 14 x 11 or 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 162442N.p.: Sherpix 1968. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's satirical take on Hollywood Westerns features five gay cowboys a rowdy ranch lady and her stoned nurse handsome drifter Julian and a drag queen sheriff. Set and shot on location in Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the edges else about Near Fine. Sherpix unknown books
1970ref. 137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown books
1986ref. 162487N.p.: Cannon Films 1986. Shooting script for the 1987 film. Annotation noting copy No. 62 in manuscript ink on the first leaf. Last three pages of script pages 109-111 is a epilogue "Background Bar Talk" a series of two character jokes and dialogue "to be barely heard if needed in various bar scenes." Largely based on screenwriter Charles Bukowski's life in Hollywood during the 1970s about a misanthropic alcoholic Bukowski's literary alter-ego Henry Chinaski who spends his evenings drinking at a dreary Los Angeles watering hole where he enjoys a romance with fellow barfly Wanda. Bukowski published the screenplay with illustrations by the author in 1984 while the film was still pending production. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles California. With no wrappers presumably as issued. Title page present dated 12 August 1986 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Bukowski and director Barbet Schroeder. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus moderately soiled on first and last leaves with first leaf detached from the binding partially bound with a single gold brad. Cannon Films unknown books
1987ref. 170992Universal City: Mirage Productions 1987. An early "Rewrite" Draft script for the 1988 film dated fourteen months prior to the beginning of production. An internally duplicated copy in production company wrappers with copied hole punches as issued and copied annotations on 37 pages. A selfish yuppie learns that the inheritance he expected to gain after his father's passing has instead gone to his estranged brother an autistic savant. Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning four including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Director. Set in Los Angeles Las Vegas and Cincinnati shot on location in various locations throughout Ohio Nevada Kentucky Indiana Oklahoma and California. Blue untitled Mirage Production wrappers. Title page present dated February 24 1987 noted as Rewrite with credits for screenwriter Ronald Bass. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Mirage Productions unknown books
1962ref. 145348United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures AIP 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Copy from the StudioCanal archives with a letter of provenance laid in. Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway about a professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague suspected to be a Russian double agent who killed himself after undergoing similar experiments. Released in the US as a double feature with "Operation Bikini." Shot on location in England. Tall blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated March 1962. Title page present dated 26.3.62 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter James Kennaway. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine internal prong binding. Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1979ref. 145328Los Angeles: Maverick International 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and title page and manuscript annotations on nearly every page. Also included is an extensive archive of material relating to the production including contracts budgets cast and crew lists call sheets script supervisor reports publicity and press information and several pages of handwritten notes by Weathersby. A record producer sets out to promote his newest discovery unaware that this will put him in conflict with the mob who control a rival act. Featuring real life late 1970s R&B group The Love Machine appearing as a thinly fictionalized version of themselves as the main music act. Green untitled wrappers with paper title label. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Bernard H. Rollins and story by Rollins and John Daniels. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/30/79 and 6/14/79. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with dampstaining to both bound internally with silver prong binding. Maverick International unknown books
1966ref. 136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1989ref. 167211Hollywood: Austin Enterprises 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film seen here under the working title "Beverly Hills Vampire." Copy belonging to makeup artist Richard Miranda with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a five-day shooting schedule along with a call sheet dated May 24 1988. A straight-to-video comedy about three nerds who hook up with vampiric call girls during a trip to Hollywood. Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills. Blue titled wrappers. Missing title page. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Austin Enterprises unknown books
1994ref. 160129Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film seen here under the working title "Simon Says: Die Hard III." The third film in the Die Hard series following "Die Hard" 1988 and "Die Hard 2" 1990 and preceding "Live Free or Die Hard" 2007 and "A Good Day to Die Hard" 2013. In this installment NYPD Lieutenant John McClane teams up with a local electrician to stop a mysterious terrorist from setting off bombs across New York city. Shot on location in New York South Carolina and Maryland. Orange titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated July 10 1994. Title page present dated July 10 1994 noted as Version 3.31 with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1979ref. 156737Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1979. Revised Shooting script for the 1979 television film here under the working title "Can You Hear the Laughter The Freddie Prinze Story." Copy belonging to sound mixer Keith A. Wester with his name in manuscript ink on the top right of the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on 20 pages. Bound in preceding the script are a six page Staff and Crew contact list a 30 page Shooting Schedule 17 pages of Call Sheets with annotations in manuscript ink and a map to the Comedy Store West. Originally aired on CBS on September 11 1979. Based on the article "Good Night Sweet Prinze" by Peter Greenberg published in the June 1977 issue of Playboy magazine. A portrayal of the sudden rise and success of the troubled Puerto Rican stand-up comedian and actor Freddie Prinze who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 29 1977. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 60. Title page present dated March 19 1979 noted as REV. SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/79 and 5/4/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown books
1979ref. 149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in manuscript marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set. Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell. Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one. Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown books
