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1993ref. 150422N.p.: N.p. 1993. Third Revision Draft script for the 1995 Western film with script divided into the four days of the tournament. From the collection of novelist-screenwriter William Hjortsberg. Sam Raimi's exuberant homage to the spaghetti western criminally underrated at the time of its release it has since been reassessed a unique and finely crafted revisionist Western. Featuring memorable performances all around including Russell Crowe's first US film role and an up-and-coming Leonardo Di Caprio. A woman gunfighter "The Lady" Sharon Stone rides into the town of Redemption run by the ruthless outlaw John Herod Gene Hackman to participate in a deadly quick draw elimination tournament with 15 other gunfighters and to exact revenge. Set in the fictional town of Redemption shot on location in Arizona. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 1993 noted as 3red Revision with credits for screenwriter Simon Moore. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with some toning and splashing bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1976ref. 151965Paris: President Films 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jane Birkin from the 1976 film. "Societe Nationale" stamp on verso. Waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck stop lonely and longing for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that Krassky is gay. Krassky likes Johnny too perhaps because of her boyish physique. But both of them fail to notice the growing jealousy of Krassky's boyfriend Padovan and trouble sets in. Billy Stevenson of notes in the "A Film Canon" blog: "Serge Gainsbourg directed this film based on his iconic song and it plays as an extended gloss on that song an attempt to visualize what was happening during those infamous sighs and pants . It is a testament to Gainsbourg's commitment to the song and his own status as sexual outlaw that he presents us with a film that's just as confronting and titillating some 30 years later. "Set against a drifting rambling desert backdrop part New Wave part New Hollywood. Johnny and Krassky's attraction is sexually charged and yet it doesn't seem to conform to their sexual proclivities.with an audioverite that makes you wonder whether these scenes might actually involve real sex. In its yearning to experience sex in every conceivable way-as a gay man as a lesbian as a man as a woman as pleasure as pain-the film ends up virtualizing it or at least generalizing it into an undifferentiated sexual access that feels quite incorporeal a clear forerunner to both the Cinema du Look and art porn movements." 6.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. President Films unknown books
1984ref. 137587Hollywood: The Ladd Company 1984. Original press kit for the 1984 Italian-American film. Included in the press kit are 24 black-and-white still photographs including one photograph of director Sergio Leone biographies of select cast and crew final credits production information and insight into Leone's process. Based on Harry Grey's 1952 novel "The Hoods." David Aaronson De Niro is a former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster who after thirty years of absence returns to Manhattan where he confronts the foibles of his past and the painful truth of his life to date. Actress Jennifer Connelly's film debut and director Leone's final film a film that like his similarly titled 1968 classic "One Upon a Time in the West" remains one of his few American productions. Film stills various sizes. Biographies credits and production information printed on 8 x 10 leaves corner-stapled rectos only. Stills and printed leaves Near Fine house in a Very Good plus full-color 9 x 12 studio single-pocket folder. Complete collation details available upon request. The Ladd Company unknown books
1978ref. 138440Italy: Dania Film 1978. Draft script for the 1979 Italian film "L'isola degli uomini pesce" Island of the Fishmen here under the working title "Volcano Island." Rereleased in America in 1980 as "Something Waits in the Dark" and again in 1981 as "Screamers" by Roger Corman's New World Pictures and in 2009 under its directly translated title "Island of the Fishmen" by MYA Communication. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Brief notation in holograph ink on one page. Set in the year 1891 where Claude de Ross Claudio Casssinelli has survived two shipwrecks and washed ashore an uncharted Caribbean island along with some convicts. One by one the convicts meet their fate at the fins of mysterious "fishmen" and Claude just may meet his at the hands of a sadistic inhabitant Edmond Richard Johnson and his wife Bach. Voodoo the lost city of Atlantis and the manuipulation of human genetics all figure in to this exploitation masterpiece. Director Martino would return with a sequel "Queen of the Fishmen" 1995. Untitled green wrappers. Title page present undated. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. MYA Communication 19. Dania Film unknown books
1985ref. 141111N.p.: N.p. 1985. Revised Draft script for the 1985 play. Copy belonging to Peter Mark Richman who played the character of Lewis in this production with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and annotations throughout in holograph ink. The story of a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who can not seem to finish any screenplays and thus is haunted by his unfinished characters including Adolf Eichmann a gorilla and a blue-collar worker named "The Raincoat." Steve Shagan was a critically acclaimed novelist playwright and screenwriter who came to prominence working on the television series "Tarzan." Throughout his long career he was nominated for both Academy Awards and Emmy Awards. Set in Los Angeles. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Draft with credits for playwright Steve Shagan. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1981ref. 149684Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage reference photograph of director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas on the set of the 1981 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. An homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 40s "Raiders" is the first in the well-loved Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of the highest grossing films of all time winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture. Set in Peru Egypt Nepal and Washington DC shot on location in England France Tunisia California and Hawaii. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of tiny stray marks on the bottom right corner within the white margin. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1974ref. 149625Tokyo: Toei 1974. Collection of 13 vintage borderless double weight reference studio still photographs from the 1974 Japanese pinku pink film. 6 x 4.25 inches. Very Good plus with light adhesive residue on the verso of some of the prints. Toei unknown books
1935ref. 146083London: Criterion 1935. Shooting script for the 1936 film. Based on the 1913 novel. When a former boxing champion turned innkeeper is wrongly accused of stealing jewelry from wealthy guests staying at the inn his son travels to London and impersonates an aristocratic gentleman in order to prove his father's innocence and catch the true thief. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Clemence Dane. 235 leaves with last page of text numbered 230. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with foxing and edgewear side stapled. Criterion unknown books
1975ref. 149362Austin Texas: Vortex 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film showing director Tobe Hooper coaching actress Marilyn Burns in between shots with cinematographer Daniel Pearl adjusting the camera in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Loosely based on the crimes of serial murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. Shot on a shoestring budget with the cast mostly composed of unknown Texan actors Tobe Hooper's second feature film courted controversy upon release for its grisly violence and critical view of US politics and is now rightfully considered a slasher cult classic. Set and shot on location in Round Rock Watterson Austin and San Marcos Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Vortex unknown books
1969ref. 149558London: New Cinema Presentations 1969. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film. With the label of New Cinema Presentations on the verso. Based on Rochelle Owens' 1967 play wherein a farmer's sexual relationship with his pet pig sets off an erotic increasingly unhinged chain of events among the local hicks in his small town. Shot on location in Stockton California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. New Cinema Presentations unknown books
1994ref. 131335Santa Monica CA: Home Box Office HBO 1994. 1st Draft script with blue and pink revisions for the 1995 film. Copy belonging to actress Lilyan Chauvin INSCRIBED to her by actors Holt McCallany Michael Jai White George C. Scott George Murdock James Sikking Tony Lo Bianco screenwriter Robert P. Johnson director Uli Edel and producer David Blocker. Based on Jose Torres' book "Fire and Fear" and aired as a television movie on HBO "Tyson" highlights the early days of "Heavyweight Champion of the World" Mike Tyson from his childhood to professional boxing and even his lesser career happenings to date. Two years after the film's airing Tyson fought Evander Holyfield and was disqualified for biting Holyfield's ears-both ears twice. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/1/94 noted as Pink Pages with credits for screenwriter Johnson. 135 leaves mechanical duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated either 7/22/94 or 8/1/94. Pages about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
1946ref. 130828Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1946. Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin with his holograph signature to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. A miscommunication leads to an ill-fated marriage in Victor Saville's 1946 film. Starring Lana Turner Van Heflin and Donna Reed and winner of one Academy Award. Goldenrod titled wrappers rubber-stamped as Complete on the front wrapper copy No. 93 dated 8-20-46 with credit for producer Wilson. 158 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1976ref. 149849N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Margarethe von Trotta Volker Schlondorff cinematographer Igor Luther and other crew members on the set of the 1976 film. Based on the 1939 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Young left-wing aristocrat Sophie von Reval von Trotta sides with the Bolsheviks after being rejected by a young German soldier Matthias Habich preparing to fight the Red Army. The third and final collaboration between husband and wife team Schlondorff and von Trotta von Trotta here co-writing and starring before von Trotta would branch off into her own esteemed career as director. Previously they worked together on "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" 1971 which von Tratt starred in and co-wrote with director Schlondorff and the New German Cinema masterwork "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" 1975 which they co-wrote and co-directed together. Set in 1919 Latvia during the Russian Civil War. 12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at far corners. Criterion Collection 192. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 149305Rome: 2T Produzione Film 1983. Vintage grande French poster from the 1983 erotic film. Inspired by Ovid's 1 BCE collection of poems "Ars Amatoria" "The Art of Love". Set in ancient Rome the poet Ovid Massimo Girotti teaches courses in the art of love. Cornelius Philippe Taccini one of Ovid's students sets out to test his skill on Claudia Marina Pierrro whose husband Macarius Michel Placido has gone to war. 47 x 63 inches. One panel. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Bier p. 58. 2T Produzione Film unknown books
1968ref. 142320N.p.: Amicus Productions 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film. Typed Letter Signed in holograph ink laid in three pages total dated August 21 1968. Based on the 1965 novel "The Millstone" by Margaret Drabble and adapted by her to the screen. Produced by Amicus Productions a company typically known for its blood-drenched horror films. Venturing into another genre the studio produced this drama that follows Rosamund Stacey Dennis a bookish doctoral candidate who is perpetually dodging the sexual advances of the men in her life. This comes to an end when she meets George Matthews McKellen. The film was not a box office success on its release but is today viewed as one of the best films made by the studio. Set in London shot on location there. Green untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Margaret Drabble. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Amicus Productions unknown books
1940ref. WRCLIT68839Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. 112pp. Folio. Pictorial self-wrappers. Heavily illustrated throughout. Horizontal fold with a bit of wear to upper wrapper along fold some minor dust marking pencil booking date erased from white area of upper wrapper otherwise an unusually good visually striking example. A vintage campaign pressbook for the 1940 RKO production based on an original script by Nathanael West produced by Howard Benedict directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Richard Dix Wendy Barrie Kent Taylor et al. West is given prominent full credit for the screenplay on the pressbook and the publicity paper for the film -- status he by no means enjoyed for all of the films he scripted. The upper wrapper is a variant on the poster art for the film with images of the lead players filling the bottom half of the sheet; the upper portion is filled with a spectacular image of a man wing-walking and making a leap to another plane with the title emblazoned diagonally just below. A great example of a classic-style American film pressbook with images of all the paper a synopsis and substantial text. WHITE p.42 ref. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 150122Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage reference photograph of choreographer and director of musical numbers Herbert Ross with a line of 15 girls in bikinis from the casting of the 1968 film. Ross had previously worked with Streisand in her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" 1962. 1967 "Columbia Pictures Corp." stamp on verso. Based on the 1964 musical with music by Julie Stein lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Isobel Lennart which was based on Lennart's 1964 biography detailing the life of Broadway star Fanny Brice and her tumultuous relationship with playboy Nick Arnstein. Lennart also adapted the work for the screen. The film debut of Barbra Streisand reprising her Tony nominated Broadway role. Streisand would go on to win an Academy Award for Best Actress and the film would be nominated for seven others including Best Supporting Actress for Kay Medford and Best Picture. Set in New York shot on location in California New York and New Jersey. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 144527Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of director William Wyler and actor Terence Stamp on the set of the 1965 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1963 novel by John Fowles. Hal Erickson at AllMovie notes: "Fowles' original story was written in the form of a dual diary one kept by a kidnapper the other by his victim. The film is told almost exclusively from the point of view of the former a reclusive British bank clerk named Freddy Clegg Terence Stamp. A neurotic recluse whose only pleasure is butterfly collecting Clegg wins $200000 in the British Football Pool. He purchases a huge country estate fixes up its cellar with all the comforts of home then kidnaps Miranda Samantha Eggar an art student whom he has worshipped from afar. The demented Clegg doesn't want ransom nor does he want to rape the girl-he simply wants to 'collect' her." Nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of Best Actor and Best Actress awards at The Cannes Film Festival. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 152355Amsterdam: Scorpio Films 1966. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Dutch film. With the stamps of Scorpio Films and still photographer Frans Bromet on the verso along with holograph ink and pencil annotations. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A man returns to Amsterdam after a long absence and finds himself lost among the countercultural changes made after the arrival of the Provos movement. The second film by key "Dutch Wave" director Wim Verstappen who was best known for founding Scorpio Films with screenwriter Pim de la Parra a collaboration which most notably produced the groundbreaking 1971 Dutch film "Blue Movie." Set and shot on location in Amsterdam. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Scorpio Films unknown books
1984ref. 138378Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1985 film. Copy belonging to Fox production executive Douglas Stern with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Based on a 1979 novella by Barry Longyear. Willis Davidge Quaid is a human fighter pilot who is stranded along with Jeriba Shigan Gossett on a hostile planet. Jeriba is of a race of asexual aliens reptilian in appearance and is initially Willis' enemy. The two quickly realize that the key to survival is by helping one another. Set in the year 2100. Shot on location in Germany Spain and Iceland. Cream titled wrappers dated February 24 1984. Title page present dated February 24 1984 noted as REVISED DRAFT and Final with credits for screenwriter Khmara and novelist Longyear. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lentz US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965ref. 149311Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of actor-screenwriter Woody Allen and actress Paula Prentiss on the set of the 1965 film. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter a movie that Allen today describes as "dreadful" but one that was a box office smash at the time. A soon-to-be-married womanizer attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 8.25 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned with light creasing to the right edge and lower right corner reinforced with white tape on the verso. United Artists unknown books
1972ref. 151309Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless photograph of actor Woody Allen from the 1972 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Allen's 1969 play. The predecessor of many great films Allen would write and direct throughout the 1970s in terms of shooting style timing romantic themes and the actors involved. Allen had already directed two films at this point "Take the Money and Run" in 1969 and "Bananas" in 1971 but this film is significant in that it predicted the more substantive romantic comedies that would later place him among the most important filmmakers of his era. 10 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1983ref. 150126Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1983. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure in Japanese from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" "The Family Game" 1983 and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" "Like Asura" 2003 and nominated for eight others. Mayumi and her friend Mai make a killing when they open a barber and beauty shop which serves customers in the nude. A Japanese "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series. Pink film is a broad genre of low budget Japanese softcore films though often with artistic and visual inventiveness and narrative drive far beyond their American counterparts. Nikkatsu was particularly well known for allowing almost unlimited artistic freedom to filmmakers as long as they met the studio mandated requirement of four nude or sex scenes per hour of running time. Photographs: 6 x 4.25 inches Brochure: Folded 4.75 x 6.75 inches. Open 28.75 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Nikkatsu unknown books
1947ref. 138070Beverly Hills CA: Victor Glaser 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development with brief annotations throughout in holograph ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser with his name and address on the front wrapper in holograph ink and the person to whom the internal annotations presumably belong. Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbe. Dedee Signoretworks in a bar and lives Marco Dalio the bouncer and her pimp. When she meets Francesco Pagliero she sees a way to a better life but must avoid the menacing embrace of Marco. Set in Antwerp. Censored upon release in both Finland and France. Blue wrappers with a credit for Ashelbe on the front wrapper. 145 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Victor Glaser unknown books
1976ref. 164201Universal City CA: Universal Studios 1976. Final Draft script for the 1977 film here under working title "9/30/55". Based on the 1966 play "How Many Times Have You Seen East of Eden' by James Bridges. A college student who idolizes James Dean tries to cope with Dean's sudden death on September 30 1955. Set in and shot on location in Conway Arkansas. Red titled self wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper production No. 02088 dated March 12 1976. Title page present noted as Final Draft Screenplay with credits for director screenwriter and playwright James Bridges. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Weldon 1996. Universal Studios unknown
