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1974ref. 142679Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Draft script for the 1979 film here under the working title "The Ravagers." Copy belonging to uncredited producer Walter Mirisch with his name in blue holograph ink on the title page and with a holograph note in the same blue ink paper-clipped to the front wrapper. Based on the 1966 novel "Path to Savagery" by Robert Edmond Alter. A grim "Mad Max" style film set post-World War III nuclear holocaust in which Richard Harris plays a man whose wife was raped and murdered by a brutal gang and who eventually seeks a home where he may live in peace. Shot on location in Alabama. Olive green titled wrappers dated October 14 1974. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Donald S. Sanford and novelist Robert Edmond Alter. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 151229N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes wearing matching wetsuits. An awkward young man seeks out the help of his womanizing friend in learning how to seduce women but trouble arises when both men fall for the same woman a shy young country girl. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 140955Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1979. First Draft script for the 1979 film SIGNED by the director Richard Lester. With three pages of synopsis laid in. A former British major lands in Cuba to train the Cuban army to resist Castro where he encounters an old flame who is recently brushed off by her husband. Finally a strike and the overhaul by Castro causes the British and Americans to flee leaving his girlfriend crying and facing a new Communist government. Set in Cuba shot on location in Spain. Purple blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as a first draft screenplay with credits for screenwriter Charles Wood. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. United Artists unknown books
1973ref. 152368Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1973 film showing actor Lee Marvin to the far left with a camera crew capturing the shot to the right. With the stamps of Warner Brothers and still photographer Mac Julian to the verso. Director Robert Aldrich's portrait of the hard-boiled men who made their reputations by way of the railroad during the Depression. One of the best and most underrated American films of the early 1970s. Set and shot on location in Oregon. 9.5 x 4 inches with wide margins. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Warner Brothers unknown books
1978ref. 130194Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Final Draft screenplay for the 1979 film "The Frisco Kid" seen here under the early working title "No-Knife." Though first offered to John Wayne the part of "Tommy" went to Harrison Ford when Wayne declined having been offered less than his usual fee. Director Aldrich's second Comedy Western following his 1963 Frank Sinatra film "Four for Texas." Gene Wilder plays a Polish rabbi who ventures into the American West to lead a synagogue. Things don't go well on the way where he is nearly burned at the stake and killed by outlaws fortunately encountering Ford in the nick of time. Set in the Old West largely on a desert road between Pennsylvania and San Francisco and shot on location in various locations in Colorado California and Arizona. Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 10/16/78 Rev. 10/25/78. Title page present dated October 16 1978 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Elias and Shaw. #PAGES leaves mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated either 9/26/78 or 10/25/78. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1974ref. 139505Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1974. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1974 film based on the 1971 novel by Evelyn Anthony. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with holograph notation on the verso in his hand. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 11 x 14 inchescm. Near Fine. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 139510Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1970 film showing director David Lean as he imparts some advice to star Christopher Jones during a smoke break. Winner of two Academy Awards for cinematographer Freddie Young and supporting actor John Mills. Nominated for two more as well as ten BAFTA awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 9.25 x 13.25 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961ref. 139506Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 musical film based on both the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and the 1957 novel by C.Y. Lee. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner. Hirschhorn p. 373. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 139533Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1958 film of a stone faced David Niven and smiling Deborah Kerr water skiiing on a break from filming on the French Riviera. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp and a lengthily holograph description of the scene on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 14 x 9.5. Near Fine with light edgewear. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 143336Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1956. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film showing director Robert Bresson demonstrating a small action to the film's lead actor Francois Leterrier. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1956 memoir "A Man Condemned to Death has Escaped" by Andre Devigny about a French Resistance member's escape from the Nazi controlled prison of Montluc. Like Devigny Bresson himself was a French POW during the war. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. 6.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with shallow diagonal creasing to the corners. Criterion Collection 650. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. Gaumont unknown books
1966ref. 151335London: Gala Film Distributors 1966. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1966 French film. With printed mimeo snipes specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso. A donkey named Balthazar is followed through his life in rural France as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Revered as one of the masterpieces of French cinema. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several with faint soil on the edges. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1959ref. 140945France: Compagnie Cinematographie de France 1959. Vintage borderless press photograph from the 1959 film showing director Robert Bresson on a Paris metro set going over a script while actor Martin LaSalle and crew look on. With the stamp of French photo agency Dalmas and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout and identifying the image on the verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay as opposed to one adapted from existing material perhaps the finest of his many fine films and according to one of its greatest champions Paul Schrader "as close to perfect as a film can be." 5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 314. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosebaum 1000. Schrader 4. Compagnie Cinematographie de France unknown books
1969ref. 147017London: Columbia British Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Ornamental Art Nouveau Mucha-esque imprinted front wrapper design. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in holograph ink on the title page as well as an encircled "71" in red holograph marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to find suitable romantic partners for each other. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in England Spain and Sweden. Tall ornamental titled wrapper. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter Peter Draper and novelist Janice Elliott. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads. Columbia British Productions unknown books
1965ref. 144183Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Vintage photograph of star Natalie Wood in bed and surrounded by members of the crew on the set of the 1965 film. A superb example of what lies beyond the fourth wall mixing the intimate with the technical. Mimeo snipe and holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Gavin Lambert. Daisy Clover is a young girl seen as a tomboy who lives with her mother in Santa Monica. She submits an audition tape to a Hollywood studio and is picked up and made a star at the cost of the dramatic life of Hollywood fame. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Holograph ink annotations in the margins and light creasing in the bottom corner. Warner Brothers unknown books
1946ref. 143449Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Vintage photograph showing director Robert Siodmak meeting star Ava Gardner and her then-husband band leader Artie Shaw on the set of the 1946 film. With a fold-over mimeo snipe on the verso. A breakthrough role for Gardner as well as the screen debut of Burt Lancaster the film follows Hemingway's story closely for the first 20 minutes then explores both what led to the killing and its aftermath. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light soil and shallow diagonal creasing to the corners. National Film Registry. Arrow Academy 1024. Criterion Collection 176. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Selby Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1945ref. 143451Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1944 film noir showing director Robert Siodmak conferring with star Stanley Ridges while some extras relax behind them. With a mimeo snipe and date stamp of "12 Apr 1945" on the verso. Based on the 1939 novel "This Way Out" by James Ronald about an unhappily married man who falls in love with a younger woman only to be investigated by a Scotland Yard detective when his wife dies in what appears to be an accident. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light diagonal creasing to the corners and a slight curl. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1942ref. 139695Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Collection of 34 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown card front wrapper present with film title printed on the wrapper. Based on the 1937 Austrian play co-written by Hungarian playwright Landislas Fodor and Austrian writer Gina Kaus based on her 1932 novel "Morgen um Neun." George Nordyke Allen is dismayed that his wife Lynn Bari is too good for him and they both decide to separate the night of their wedding anniversary. Lynn is accused of murdering her subsequent partner Victor Asther and is hidden by George aboard their yacht. 8 x 10 inches. With two hole punches at left margin as called for. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970ref. 136662Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1970. Collection of seven borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the set of the film shot in April 1960. Five of the six remarkable photographs show Wise both in the desert and in the midst of the elaborate sets designed to simulate the film's massive underground laboratory. With printed snipes on the verso of each photograph. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Universal Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 152129N.p.: N.p. 1962. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs showing actors Brigitte Bardot Macha Méril and Robert Hossein director Roger Vadim and crew members playing music and dancing between takes on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1958 novel "Le repos du guerrier" by Christiane Rochefort. A young independent woman is slowly embroiled in an abusive isolating relationship with a man she helps recover from a suicide attempt. Set and shot on location in Paris. Approximately 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 151518N.p.: International Classics 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Brigitte Bardot and director Roger Vadim on the set of the 1961 film. "Photo Walter Carone" stamp two "La Bride sur le cou" stamps and faint recurring "Paris Match Marie Claire" stamps on verso. Sophie learns her boyfriend is thinking of leaving her for another woman and her first thought is to win him back or kill the woman but with the help of her friend Alain she resolves on the former. Shot on location in Alps Haute-Savoie France. 7.75 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. International Classics unknown books
1968ref. 152385Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1968 film showing stylist Vidal Sassoon shaping Mia Farrow's iconic pixie cut. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film one of the best genre pictures ever made from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director established producer William Castle young star Mia Farrow and Hollywood veteran John Cassavetes. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ruth Gordon and nominated for Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 630. Rosenbaum 1000. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1925ref. 137138Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses a well known figure in Hollywood because of his friendship with William Randolph Hearst. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with diagonal chips missing from two corners but the image largely unaffected. United Artists unknown books
1989ref. 139236France: Eve Productions 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity a rarity even in sexploitation films at the time and quite the introduction to soon-to-be Meyer's regular Charles Napier. Meyer shot several new sequences late in production about a quarter of the film's runtime either to replace footage lost by a photo lab or because an actress left the shoot early the reason is disputed. The new sequences unrelated to the original ones give the film an almost surreal quality leading Roger Ebert to call it "possibly the only narrative film ever made without a narrative." The film was one of the most successful of Meyer's career leading him to return to and refine this style in subsequent films peaking with Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens in 1979. 47 x 63 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Eve Productions unknown books
1975ref. 141891Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Here under the working title "Scandal." Eliane is a pharmicist with a dull husband and teenage daughter. A fellow pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her one night after mistaking her for someone else and she allows it to happen ultimately becoming his complete sex slave. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with gold brads. Ciesi unknown books
1952ref. 135865Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with brief annotations in holograph pencil on the verso of the last page of text and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod Windsor runs a town where law states that men are illegal. The tough McLeod is soon caught in the lusty lasso of Woody Callaway Rober a handsome and persistent cowboy. The Poverty Row studio Lippert Pictures lasted nearly two decades 1948-1969 and would resurface as the production company for "Don't Do It" 1994. Notable films produced or distributed by Lippert include "Jungle Goddess" 1948 "I Shot Jesse James" 1949 forgotten films noir like "Radar Secret Service" and "Motor Patrol" both 1950 Samuel Fuller's "The Steel Helmet" 1951 Sam Newfield's "Lost Continent" 1951 and Terence Fisher's classic Hammer noir "Man Bait" 1952. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text undated with a credit for screenwriter Hampton. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Hardy The Western p. 218. Okuda 486. Lippert Pictures unknown books
