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1961ref. 141438Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1961. Treatment script for the 1961 film. Text in Japanese. A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who might be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
1963ref. 141423Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. A metaphor for the experience of Japanese citizens in the postwar era told through the perspective of a woman named Tome born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. Yellow titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22. Nikkatsu unknown books
1933ref. 131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in manuscript ink above it. Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 143374Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1959. Treatment script for the 1959 Japanese film. Based on the 1956 novel by Tanizaki Jun'ichir "Kagi" or "The Key". Annotations and stamps throughout noting a date of March 28 1959 mention of a presentation and "Script Research Library Holding." Winner of the 1960 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Adapted from the 1956 novel "The Key" by Jun'ichir Tanizaki and remade Tinto Brass Koji Wakamatsu and others. A satirical late-noir treatise on the decay of human physical ability mental health and sexual desire told in a seemingly reserved family context with stunning cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa "Yojimbo" "Rashomon" "Floating Weeds" and cinematic style that masterfully blends Ozu and Hitchcock. Restored in 2024 by the Kadokawa Corporation for screening at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and subsequent international screenings through 2026. Shot on location in Japan. Titles and text in Japanese. White titled wrappers with black and gold titles and various rubber stamps on the front wrapper. Title page not present. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-28." Mechanical duplication. Near Fine with light age toning. Daiei Studios unknown books
ref. 152527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Dialogue transcript for the infamous unfinished film musical undated circa 1968. Copy belonging to Frank Zappa with a single annotation in Zappa's hand on the top of the first page. Full provenance available. A transcript detailing multiple takes of ten scenes shot by Zappa for his long-planned but never finished experimental film. Transcript primarily addresses scenes featuring Don Preston and Phyllis Smith Altenhaus but also contains dialogue intended to be spoken by Carl Zappa Billy Mundi Aynsley Dunbar Jimmy Carl Black and Zappa himself. Originally innovated in 1967 by Zappa featuring his then-band the Mothers of Invention the film would morph in various ways over the course of the next decade but would ultimately never come to fruition due to a lack of financing. In 1969 the Mothers of Invention released the acclaimed double album "Uncle Meat" an instrumental soundtrack to the unfinished film. Finally in 1987 a direct-to-video "making of" documentary of the uncompleted film was released. Transparent front wrapper with orange back wrapper and spine. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages with light stain on first leaf else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 153250N.p.: N.p. 1975. Archive of 95 vintage borderless reference photographs essentially keybook photos demonstrating sequences from the 1975 French pornographic film. Included with the collection is a French pressbook for the film. Class barriers dissolve and invert in unusual and unexpected ways at the reading of an aristocratic patriarch's will. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Bier 160. N.p. unknown books
ref. 172179N.p.: N.p. 1977. Early Draft script for the 1979 film dated October 31 1977 two years before the film's release. Seen here under the working title "Rocky II: Redemption." Sequel to the 1976 box office hit. Rocky returns to fight world champion Apollo Creed hoping to regain his honor and prove his worth in a rematch. Shot on location in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 31 1977 with credit for Sylvester Stallone. 101 leaves with last page numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 172180N.p.: N.p. 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1982 film dated September 12 1980 two years before the film's release. The third film in the massively successful Rocky series set five years after "Rocky II." Rocky loses both his heavyweight title and his trainer to competitor Clubber Lang and must start from scratch to regain his glory. Shot on location in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated September 12 1980 with credit for Sylvester Stallone. 117 leaves with last page numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 161400N.p.: N.p. 1953. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1953 film with rainbow revisions. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 short story "Miss Thompson" wherein a Christian missionary makes the salvation of a Hawaiian nightclub singer his personal project. Set and shot on location in Kauai Hawaii. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present dated March 31 1953 noted as THIRD REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Harry Kleiner. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow pink teal goldenrod and white revision pages throughout dated variously between April 3 1953 and June 5 1953. Pages Near FIne binding Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
ref. 160904N.p.: N.p. 1977. Early First Draft script for the seminal 1980 film here under the working title "California Girls." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Jim Brown no relation to the actor we suspect with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. A bleak seminal coming-of-age drama about four teenage girls grappling with their families drugs and relationships in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Adrian Lyne's directorial debut. Shot on location in San Fernando Hollywood and Los Angeles California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Nov. 28 1977 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Gerald Ayres. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographiic duplication with the exception of the title page which is a carbon typescript copy rectos onl. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. N.p. unknown books
ref. 150024Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Archive of three screenplays for the classic 1989 film including one Shooting script one Re-shoot script and one Final Draft script. Shooting script with several manuscript ink annotations throughout mostly noting editorial revisions. Bound in after the Shooting script is a 34-page xerographically duplicated Re-shoot script dated November 4 1988. Cameron Crowe's directorial debut following the romance that develops between an awkward but noble army brat and the beautiful class valedictorian after graduation. One of the defining high school films of the 1980s and a breakthrough role for actor John Cusack. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Seattle. Shooting script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated February 29 1988 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reshoot script: Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 8 1988 noted as RESHOOT SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Final Draft script: Lacking front wrapper but retaining its manila rear wrapper. Title page present dated November 10 1987 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1944ref. 161403N.p.: N.p. 1944. Final script for the 1944 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. 14 reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Two Army sergeants spend a three-day holiday pass in Pasadena where they fall for two young women working in a parachute factory. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present with receipt intact dated 3/2/44 noted as FINAL. Title page present with credits for director Delmer Daves and screenwriter Alvah Bessie. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/3/44 and 4/10/44. Pages about Near Fine binding Poor with front and rear boards detached from the hinges. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 133391London: British Broadcasting Corporation BBC 1965. Draft script for the 1965 BBC television movie "Tea Party" adapted by Pinter from his 1963 short story. The film first aired live on March 25 1965 on the BBC program "The Largest Theatre in the World." INSCRIBED by screenwriter Pinter on that day: "March 25th 1965 / To Peter Colin Holder / Congratulations on being born! / Hooray! / Lots of Love / Harold Pinter." The story of an industrial tycoon who comes to believe that his new secretary second wife and brother-in-law are all conspiring against him to the point where his health is affected by the conviction. Blue titled wrappers lacking the rear wrapper. Front wrapper present but detached with a credit for screenwriter Pinter. Title page present also with a credit for screenwriter Pinter. 59 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine side stapled front wrapper Very Good. British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] unknown books
1965ref. 135614Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard behind the camera on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by photographer Georges Dudognon in the summer of 1965 with his stamp on the verso. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 9 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires de cinema. Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC] unknown books
1960ref. 141447Tokyo: Shockiku Ofuna 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. A young woman is hitchhiking when the driver who picks her up attempts to molest her. A young gangster comes to her aid and then leads her on a wild relationship through the Japanese underground towards the eventual destruction of both of them. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. Godard Histoires du cinema. Shockiku Ofuna unknown books
ref. 145780Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Illustrated front wrapper based on Saul Bass' poster design for the film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member David Hitchcock with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Manuscript annotations throughout primarily indicating deleted scenes. Also included is a carbon typed letter signed by Otto Preminger dated 19th October 1979 to dubbing editor Peter Pennell terminating his employment at the conclusion of production. The final film directed by director Otto Preminger based on the 1978 novel by Graham Greene with screenplay written by Tom Stoppard about a low-level bureaucrat in the British Secret Service M16 who finds himself unknowingly used by the Soviets as he struggles with his love for his family and the ambiguity of his ethical responsibilities. Set and shot on location in UK and Kenya. White illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriter Tom Stoppard and novelist Graham Greene rubber stamped copy No. 146. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong binding. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1969ref. 141375New York: Two Faces / New Yorker Films 1969. Vintage poster for the 1969 film an experimental mix of documentary and fiction. Poster designed by Robert Frank. Director Robert Frank's first feature film in which he follows poet Peter Orlvosky and his mentally ill and mostly catatonic brother Julius as they move through the late 1960s Beat scene. When Julius wanders off he is replaced in the film by actor Joseph Chaikin. A meditation on the boundaries of reality and sanity featuring the screenwriting debut of Sam Shepard and the first feature film appearance of Christopher Walken. The film was released in a new restoration by Steidl in 2007 along with a book publication outlining the film. From the Steidl book: "Frank's feature debut was first screened in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank's art up to that point turns up in this film - the look at America 'from the outside' the poetic libertinage of the Beats the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage and skillfully weaves together opposites plays counterfeits against the authentic pornography against poetry acting against being Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater." 26.75 x 20.75 inches. Near Fine. In a custom frame. Two Faces / New Yorker Films unknown books
1957ref. 154183Hollywood: Howco Productions 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller with his manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Miller was apparently considered for the role of Stanley as many of Stanley's lines are marked with manuscript pencil and then struck through but was ultimately cast in the role of Ben. The gangster owner of a nightclub on a carnival pier is tormented by his love for the club's star who herself is in love with a local businessman with dreams of buying out the club. An early role for Miller who appeared in 14 films directed by legendary independent filmmaker Roger Corman between 1955 and 1961 and would continue to work with Corman throughout his career. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Leo Lieberman. 72 leaves with last page of text numbered 71. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Howco Productions unknown books
1966ref. 141426Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Takashi Suzuki a repressed Catholic young man living in a boardinghouse is infatuated with the landlady's daughter and when he cannot express his feelings he turns to violence. He joins a gang and begins a fighting routine exploiting the weakness of classmates. Set in Okayama shot on location in Japan. Red titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Criterion Collection 269. Nikkatsu unknown books
1959ref. 141461Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Sueko Yasumoto's novel and one of the first examples of media dealing with the plight of zainchi or ethnically Korean Japanese citizens and their identity and struggles. One man has always worked faithfully for the Toho Company and another man is working for an underworld boss trying to scam Toho. They find each other again when one begins trailing and investigating the other. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 16. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two staples. Nikkatsu unknown books
ref. 162755Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. First Draft script for the 1990 film. Tim Burton's second "Modern Prometheus" film following his 1984 short "Frankenweenie" about a mad scientist who dies before he can complete his latest creation: a nearly complete human being. The creation is left with scissors for hands and doomed to live a life of solitude until a kindly mild-mannered Avon Lady welcomes him into her home. Often cited as the director's masterpiece released two years after his hilarious and creepy romp "Beetlejuice" 1988 one year after his beloved comic adaptation "Batman" 1989 and two years before his second and final contribution to the Dark Knight legend "Batman Returns" 1992. Self wrappers integral with title page dated October 21 1987. Noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication circa late 1980s font rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 160028Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. Revised First Draft script for the 1990 film. Tim Burton's second "Modern Prometheus" film following his 1984 short "Frankenweenie" about a mad scientist who dies before he can complete his latest creation: a nearly complete human being. The creation is left with scissors for hands and doomed to live a life of solitude until a kindly mild-mannered Avon lady welcomes him into her home. Often cited as the director's masterpiece released two years after his hilarious and creepy romp "Beetlejuice" 1988 one year after his beloved comic adaptation "Batman" 1989 and two years before his second and final contribution to the Dark Knight legend "Batman Returns" 1992. Mustard titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers undated. Title page present dated February 22 1990 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated between 4/27/90 and 6/27/90. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1969ref. 143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking." Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. Set in and shot on location in Japan. White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown books
1969ref. 167422Los Angeles: Paragon Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Count Dracula and his wife are alive or undead and well in modern-day Arizona where they use their hunchbacked butler to capture and kill young girls allowing them to drink their victims' blood in martini glasses as Bloody Marys. A humorously campy entry in the Dracula canon produced by noted exploitation studio Crown International Pictures. Set in Arizona shot on location in Lancaster California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Good moderately soiled and dampstained on the left and right sides bound with two gold brads. Paragon Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 154178N.p.: N.p. 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1957 film here under the working title "Viking Women." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Dick Miller with his name in manuscript ink to the title page and manuscript pencil annotations throughout underlining lines for Ottar although the role was played by actor Jonathan Haze. A group of Viking women-warriors go on a sea voyage to recover the missing men from their village but an encounter with a massive dragon-serpent forces them to take shelter on a mysterious island. Beige titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper. Title page present dated undated noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Lawrence Louis Goldman and story credits to Irving Block. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
