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1987ref. 144132Sydney: Melaleuka 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film with occasional manuscript annotations. Adapted from Morris West's novel of the same name. Just after World War II ends a British major in Austria seeks revenge on the man who killed his sergeant. Shot on location in Salzburg Austria and at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire England. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Morris L. West. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Melaleuka unknown
1953ref. 156132N.p.: Allianz Filmproduktion 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 German film. Text and titles in German. An American millionaire returns to his native Dubrovnik in his yacht accompanied by his flighty beautiful young daughter. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. Allianz Filmproduktion unknown
1948ref. 156124N.p.: Verleih Schorchtfilm 1948. Vintage program for the 1948 German film. Text and titles in German. While in Vienna buying new robes for her coworkers an angel accidentally loses her wings and superpowers and falls in love with a Viennese composer. 8 x 11.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus with moderate wear on the top edge. Verleih Schorchtfilm unknown
1976ref. 147259N.p.: N.p. 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the true story of Padre Pio an Italian friar and mystic who was later venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Screenwriter Giampaolo Lomi was best known for "Tropic of Cancer" 1972 and "The Barons" 1975. Set in Italy. Mustard cloth covered titled boards. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for screenwriter GIANMPAOLO LOMI sic. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and boards Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 160358Paris: Cinedis 1963. Vintage French program for the 1963 film. Based on the 1936 play by Jean Sarment. A country stationmaster dreams of vacationing in the famous resort town of Biarritz with his family hoping that the trip will help repair his relationship with his son. The final film appearance of Arletty. Set and shot on location in Biarritz. 9.5 x 12 inches folded 20 x 12 inches unfolded. Near Fine with some curling at the bottom right edge and corner. Cinedis unknown
1959ref. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown
ref. 147316N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A gubernatorial candidate faces the unexpected exposure of his private life when his ex-wife declares her intentions to release his early love letters to her in the local newspaper. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter GINA KAUS and translator Albert Julian. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly soiled bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 137769Rome: Eldorado Films 1987. Original treatment script for the 1987 film "The Gold Rimmed Glasses" here under the working title "The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles." Based on Giorgio Bassani's 1958 novel "Gli occhili d'oro." Dr. Fadigati Noiret is a homosexual doctor living in Fascist Italy where he befriends a Jewish family. Bassani also helped write the screenplay for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1953 film "I vinti" as well as Luchino Visconti's 1954 film "Senso." Self titled wrappers with a credit for writer Bassani on the front wrapper. Title page integral with front wrapper. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Xerographically reproduced. Very Good plus bound with string. Eldorado Films unknown
1985ref. 166435Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the third episode of the 1985 NBC series which aired on April 12 1985. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the uncredited role of the chauffeur with manuscript ink annotations relating to his character's dialog on two pages. "Half-Nelson" was an NBC detective comedy-drama series which aired for one season from March 24 to May 10 1985. Joe Pesci stars as Rocky Nelson a former New York cop trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood who works for a private security agency catering to Hollywood's elite until he gets his big break. In this episode Rocky attempts to break an auto theft ring after Kurt Bubba Smith and Beau Dick Butkus end up in jail. Shot on location in Los Angeles Beverly Hills and Southern California. Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 18 1985. Title page present dated March 18 1985 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Simon Muntner and Story by Janice Hendler. 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 59. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with green yellow and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated March 18 1985 and March 19 1985. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown
1982ref. 166549N.p.: Glen Larson Productions 1982. Final Draft script for the twentieth episode of the first season of the ABC television series which aired on April 7 1982. Created by Glen A. Larson for ABC "The Fall Guy" starred Lee Majors Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas as Hollywood stunt performers who moonlight as bounty hunters. The show premiered on November 4 1982 and aired for five seasons and 112 episodes before ending on May 2 1986. In this episode Colt Majors attends a stunt man's convention and meets up with an old acquaintance stunt woman Charlie Tricia O'Neil and agrees to try to help her save her brother Mel John David Carson who is on the run from mobsters. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated February 23 1982. Title page present dated February 23 1982 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter David Braff. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/26/82 and 3/1/82. Pages with foxing on the first two leaves else Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Glen Larson Productions unknown
1970ref. 138454Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1970 UK film. Featuring an image of Glenda Jackson seated looking pensive in a nightdress. Hand-retouched affixed to a backing board and prepared for use in advertising. Based on the 1937 collection of personal correspondence between Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadezha von Meck edited by her granddaughter Barbara von Meck and Catherine Drinker Bowen. Director Ken Russell's dramatic and visually stunning depiction of composer Tchaikovsky's turbulent life where his passion for his music spills over into his personal life as well. Presented largely in flashbacks nightmares and fantasy sequences the film illustrates the true stories of his nymphomaniac wife his homosexual feelings for Count Anton Chiluvsky and his unusual relationship with his widowed patron to whom he never spoke. Shot on location in Somerset England. Photo 8 x 10 inches on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown
1954ref. 168145Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1954. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1955 Western film. Two with provenance stamps on the versos. A Texan cowboy hand-delivers high-priced Brahman bulls to Brazil encountering outlaws and beautiful women in the process. Shot on location in São Paolo. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 82. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1968ref. 152561Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1968 film one showing Brown with basketball star Bill Russell the other showing Brown play-fighting with boxer Muhammad Ali. Mimeo snipe to the verso. In 1967 Brown and Russell both participated in the infamous "Cleveland Summit" a meeting of prominent Black athletes to discuss the controversy around Ali's draft dodging charges. Based on the 1966 Parker novel "The Seventh" by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. A gang of thieves begins to fall apart when half a million dollars stolen from the Los Angeles Coliseum goes missing. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1949ref. 160343London: Kinematograph Weekly 1949. Vintage advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1949 film noir. Indicated on the recto as volume 388 number 2196 and dated June 2 1949. Also on recto is a small snippet and illustration about the box office success of "Easter Parade" 1948. Kinematograph Weekly was a British trade paper written for the British film industry that ran from 1889 until 1971. Based on the 1947 play by William Douglas-Home. In a British prison following the war prisoners all have back stories that lead them to their incarceration including one charged with murder. 8.5 x 11 inches. About Near Fine with some very slight creasing along the top edge and the top right corner. Selby UK. Selby US. Spicer UK. Kinematograph Weekly unknown
ref. 143946London: Losey Williams Partnership Limited. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set on an island in England amongst eerie old castles a group of explorers search for buried relics and antique treasure and inadvertently unearth the island's haunted past. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gordon Williams. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a silver two piece prong fastener. Losey Williams Partnership Limited unknown
1959ref. 141359Culver City CA: Kingsmead Productions / Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage photograph of Alec Guinness from the 1959 film. The third and final collaboration between director Carol Reed and author Graham Greene with Guinness starring as a spy caught in the midst of an espionage mechanism far beyond his control. A film that predicted the onslaught of British and American espionage films and television that would follow in the 1960s. Very Good or better in general faded to sepia color with light wear and red blue ink and graphite manuscript annotations to the verso. Kingsmead Productions / Columbia Pictures unknown
1969ref. 147417N.p.: N.p. 1969. Draft script for an unproduced film. Three decades in the life of a German family beginning after World War II. Set in Geneva and Germany. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter GRAHAM MacABEE. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 161706N.p.: Walnut International 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. All three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. An early ambitious skin flick period piece wherein John Alderman stars as a playboy gangster running a bootlegging racket in the east side of Chicago with the help of Playboy Playmate Vicki Carbe who runs his speakeasy. Shot on location in MacArthur Park and Spahn Ranch Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good one with a diagonal crease to the lower right and one with a center horizontal crease. Walnut International unknown
1971ref. 163565Universal City: Universal Pictures 1971. Two vintage reference photographs of actor Gregory Peck on the set of the 1971 Western film including one borderless and one bordered. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on Will James' 1930 novel "The Lone Cowboy" about a bank robber who is forced to care for a young girl while searching for his duplicitous former partner. Shot on location in Santa Fe Cerrillos Chama and Los Alamos New Mexico and in Lake Crowley Inyo National Forest and Round Valley California. One 8 x 10 inches the other 7.5 x 9.75 inches. About Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1952ref. 163556N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1952 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1936 short story by Ernest Hemingway. As he lies dying from an infection while on safari a writer recalls his past relationships and travels. 7.5 x 10 inches trimmed as shown see image. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 163562N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film including one borderless and one bordered. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen and the film debut of Robert Duvall as the iconic Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning three including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb Alabama shot on location in Monroeville Alabama and Pasadena California. One 10 x 8 inches one 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Penzler 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 156173N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage program for the 1947 German film. Text and titles in German. A sawmill administrator at the center of a remote forest contends with the wishes of the factory heiress who wishes to borrow an astronomical sum in order to open a nightclub in town. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 156167N.p.: N.p. 1943. Vintage program for the 1943 German film. Text and titles in German. A doctor finds herself caught between her former lover now a paraplegic seeking her treatment and a highly respected fellow doctor in Vienna. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1989ref. 146402Studio City CA: Starvision 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film. Internally produced agency script with photocopied holes issued prior to the film's production. Missing 14 pages likely as used or issued. Two long-lost brothers-one from Cambodia one from Los Angeles-must avenge their father's untimely death at the hands of a crime boss. Set in Cambodia and California shot on location in Las Vegas. Blue generic STARVISION Inc. wrappers. Title page present with credits for director H. Kaye Dyal. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with faint toning to the extremities bound with three gold brads. Starvision unknown
1965ref. 161466N.p.: SRO Film Distributors 1965. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Each with provenance stamps on the versos one with a label obscuring an older provenance stamp. Anna a divorced dance instructor begins a relationship with Erik one of her students. Set in Gothenburg Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with a wax pencil annotation in the top left margin. SRO Film Distributors unknown
