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1965ref. 147218Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1965. First Draft script for the 14th and final episode of the first and only season of "Blue Light" originally aired on ABC on May 18 1966. With manuscript ink annotations to the cast list noting the names of prospective actors for each role. An American spy living in Germany during World War II receives orders to kill a scientist who appears to be completing an atomic bomb for the SS but soon realizes the man may be working against the Nazis after all. Set in Germany. Red titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated DECEMBER 22 1965. Title page present dated December 22 1965 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Harold Livingstone. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown
1957ref. 144615Nice: Studios de la Victorine 1957. Original black-and-white still photograph from the 1957 French film here under the original title "Une manche et la belle." Vidal and Demongeot are seen sunbathing worriedly on marble. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil French film title and Demongeot's and Vidal's names in manuscript ink on the versos. Noirish murder drama loosely based on Chase's novel "The Sucker Punch" 1954. Betty Farnwell Miranda is a rich widow living in Nice with a bewitching daughter Eva Demongeot. Betty marries Philippe Vidal a good-looking but self-interested man. Cue Eva. Philippe falls for the calculating femme fatale who has plans to marry someone else. Betty's life is in danger as Philippe struggles with his transgressions. 7 x 9.25 inches small white border at the foot. Very Good plus with brief ink on the recto and faint creases. Selby France. Studios de la Victorine unknown
1967ref. 173112N.p.: Continental 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Based on the 1922 novel by James Joyce. Two men spend a day together in Dublin somewhat mirroring the story of Odysseus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Dublin. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and a small tear to the margin on the right edge. Continental unknown
1974ref. 147348Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed synopsis of the film. An Army veteran travels to California to convince the most highly-decorated man in the US military now an aged comic book lending librarian to come out of retirement to lead a mercenary mission to recoup 30 million dollars on behalf of the Prime Minister of a small South American country. Set on the California coast and the fictional town of Playa del Oro. Orange non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1974 with credits for screenwriter James Poe. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1960ref. 153165N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced Western film. Based on the 1959 novel by James Woodruff Smith. A solitary cowboy ventures into the wilderness seeking to take his revenge on the gunslinger who kidnapped his mother and left his father to die. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for novelist and screenwriter James Woodruff Smith. 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
1940ref. 162233N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A drama about a young farm girl who years for an education after seeing several of her siblings die from poor medical treatment. Jan Fortune is today best remembered for penning several films in the 1930s and 1940s most notably "Dark Command" 1940 and "Mokey" 1942. Blue titled front wrapper missing rear wrapper dated March 8 1940 with credit for Fortune. Title page integral with front wrapper as issued. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good moderately edgeworn wrapper Good side stapled. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 153168London: Hemisphere Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A dramatization of the life of infamous English aristocrat Jane Elizabeth Digby who married four times and had a succession of unusual lovers including an earl two European kings a sheik an Austrian statesman and the generals of India and Austria. English screenwriter Arthur Hopcraft was best known for his literary adaptations for television including "Hard Times" 1977 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" 1979 "Bleak House" 1985 and "Rebecca" 1997. Brown untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for director Waris Hussein and screenwriter Arthur Hopcraft. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a light tide mark to the left edge of the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Hemisphere Productions unknown
1978ref. 150162N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless black and white reference photograph from the 1978 film showing actors Lily Tomlin and John Travolta. With an agency stamp on the verso. A socialite divorcee begins a May-December romance with a handsome younger drifter. A notorious box office flop at the time of its release noted by one of the film's crew members as "like being on the voyage of the damned" now considered a camp classic. Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills and Malibu California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141382N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text and titles in German. White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Janusz Henryk Kryst. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a Very Good black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 166475N.p.: Reno & Osborn Productions 1994. Revised Final Draft for Season 2 Episode 7 for the 1994-1997 television series. Originally aired April 24 1995 on USA Network. This adult animated series based on the 1990 comic by Everett Peck follows a duck who works as a private investigator. In this episode someone arrives claiming to be the illegitimate son of Duckman's business partner conceived when he was fighting in Vietnam. White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated August 31 1994 with credits for uncredited screenwriters Jeffrey S. Astrof and Mike Sikowitz. Title page integral with front wrapper. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reno & Osborn Productions unknown
1961ref. 162511N.p.: Phaeton Productions 1961. Vintage studio still photograph of Doris Gohlke from the 1961 film. A Prohibition-era bookkeeper attempts to hide from gangsters at a health farm teeming with beautiful scantily-clad women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Phaeton Productions unknown
1957ref. 144607Paris: Chronos Films 1957. Collection of 6 original black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film all featuring starring actor Richard in uniforms on bicycles and drinking Perrier bottled water. Film title in manuscript ink on the versos 1 photo with a "Le Parisien libere" press rubberstamp. A little seen comedy about a two French towns who compete at football soccer the goalie of what town who is traded to the other for a cow becomes infatuated by a local young woman Tanguy. Director Bastia was an assistant director in the 1940s and 1950s when he worked almost exclusively with director Jean Boyer until his debut with this film the first in this series involving gendarmes and Champignol followed by "The Gendarm of Champignol" 1959 and "The Boss of Champignol" 1966. Photographs range 3 x 4.25 inches to 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good overall light curling a few brief creases slight discoloration to one a few with pinholes. Chronos Films unknown
1958ref. 159350N.p.: Intermondia Films 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. With a two page press sheet detailing captions for photographs from the film. A serial killer has been targeting women. A detective suspects he may know who the killer is until a woman questions his reasoning. Shot on location in Paris France. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Grant France. Intermondia Films unknown
1961ref. 140962Paris: G. de Boissiere 1961. Original French press kit for the 1961 French-Italian film "Le rendez-vous." Text in French. Resembling the star biography and film credit packets often seen with US press kits this material details film credits cast and crew biographies and a synopsis. The film was produced by Cinetel but here is credited to publicity manager G. de Boissiere with their cute cat logo. Unseen noir based on Patrick Quentin's 1955 novel "The Man with Two Wives" released in France as "La Verite du Mensonge." Pierre Pascal witnesses a murder while with his wife Madeleine Girardot the decease being a photographer who snapped some lurid photos of Pierre's sister-in-law Daphne Parisy. Pierre gives Daphne a false alibi and the police discover the photographer was Madeleine's lover. 22 leaves printed rectos a few corner-stapled on "DEB de Boissiere parchment mimeograph duplication. Housed in a DEB pocketed paper folder 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine overall. G. de Boissiere unknown
1965ref. 146061N.p.: N.p. 1965. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Incomplete as issued with an annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and a single manuscript annotation in pencil on page 29. A pilot returning to the US after being blinded in the Vietnam War is trapped in his own fear and post-traumatic memories leading his fiancee to take drastic measures to snap him out of his depression. Screenwriter Jean Holloway wrote the 1966 drama "Madame X" as well as the musical adaptations of "Words and Music" and "Til the Clouds Roll By" as well as extensive story writing for television. Set in Maryland. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 20 1965 noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Jean Holloway. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 130714Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1986. Combined Continuity script for the 1986 film. A young girl in Paleolithic Europe is separated from her tribe and subsequently attacked by a cave lion. When she is taken in by a clan of Neanderthals she must prove herself worthy of being a member of their community. Set in Europe shot on location in Canada. Tall white titled self-wrappers with back wrapper missing noted as Combined Continuity on the front wrapper with credits for director Michael Chapman. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine unbound. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 159061Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe and one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1951 story by James A. Michener. During WWII three sisters fall in and out of love with the soldiers who are stationed in Christchurch though one sister is married. Set and shot on location in New Zealand. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with some small splashes at the top center. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1981ref. 151184Universal City: Universal Pictures 1981. Vintage press kit for the 1981 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing ten black and white photographs and eleven gatherings of promotional reading material. A middle-aged executive in the midst of a midlife begins an affair with his son's girlfriend a suburban housewife who is married to a volatile fireman. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1985ref. 146958N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on Winston Groom's 1980 novel. In the late 1950s an elderly Black woman fights to keep the land she was given by the former owner of the plantation where she worked for years. Set in southern Louisiana shot on location in Valdosta Georgia. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated FEBRUARY 28 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jeff Andrus. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly dampstained on the front wrapper bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 161724N.p.: Lurco Films 1973. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1973 French/German film. One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A quintet of beautiful young girls travel for the summer to one of the girls' father's remote villa and spend their days shoplifting hitchhiking and having orgies. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Lurco Films unknown
ref. 149250Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the 1977 French film. Jean-Jacques Annaud's directorial debut. A scathing black comedy in which the residents of a French outpost in Africa learn of France's 1915 declaration of war on Germany conscript the local population and plan an attack on a nearby German garrison. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set in and shot on location in Ivory Coast. 27 x 41 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists Pictures unknown
1984ref. 151105N.p.: International Spectrafilm Distribution 1984. Vintage reference photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Valerie Dreville from the 1984 US release of the 1983 French film. Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. International Spectrafilm Distribution unknown
1970ref. 162154N.p.: Valoria Films 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 French film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The penultimate film in François Truffaut's five-film series about the character Antoine Doinel. In this entry Doinel and his wife are expecting their first child when he has an affair with a woman he meets in a business meeting at his new job. Shot on location in Paris. 9.25 x 12.5 inches. Single leaf printed on recto and verso. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 187. Valoria Films unknown
1978ref. 151102Universal City: Universal Pictures 1978. Vintage press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 2 black and white photographs and 18 gatherings of promotional reading material. A radical hippie turned private eye is hired to investigate a fake campaign flyer showing the incumbent governor of California with a Berkeley activist who has been missing for years. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Universal Pictures unknown
1965ref. 162542N.p.: Sam-Pam Production 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. An artist searches for the woman with the most beautiful body to paint. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Sam-Pam Production unknown
