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1955ref. 121593N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage Japanese B2 poster for the 1955 Japanese film lacking the bottom 8.5 inch text panel. Text in Japanese and English. Based on Eiji Yoshikawa's 1935 novel "Musashi" which was loosely based on the life of the famous Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. The second film of director Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy preceded by the Academy Award winning 1954 film "Samurai I: Musasi Mijamoto" and followed by the 1956 film "Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island" all three starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto. Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence and comes face to face with hordes of rivals intent on cutting him down. 20 x 19.5 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with a small chip to the top right corner and a bruise to the top left corner several pieces of cello tape to the rectos and versos at the far extremities and moderate overall edgewear. Criterion Collection 15. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 140417N.p.: Laurel Productions 1965. Three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. George Takei appears in a pre-"Star Trek" role which also features James Caan Laura Devon and Marianna Hill as well as an uncredited appearance by Teri Garr as a go-go dancer. Shot on location in various motor speedways across the United States including the Daytona International Speedway in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing to one image and pin holes and a manuscript ink notation to another. Rosenbaum 1000. Laurel Productions unknown books
1970ref. 129814Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Draft script for an unproduced television pilot by Howard Rodman whose brief but extremely impressive docket includes the screenplay for three Don Siegel-directed films: "Madigan" 1968 "Coogan's Bluff" 1968 and "Charley Varrick" 1973. Rodman also served as a writer and story supervisor on three major television series: "Naked City" 1960-1963 "Route 66 1960-1963 and "Harry O" 1973-1976. Light blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Rodman. 93 leaves mechanical duplication with red annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1962ref. 150883N.p.: Embassy Pictures 1962. One vintage studio still photograph and one vintage reference photograph from the 1963 US re-release of the 1948 Swedish film here seen under the English title "Night is My Future." One with a stamp on the verso noting the film's title in Swedish "Musik i Morker." Based on Dagmar Edqvist's 1946 novel. A pianist falls into an angry depression after being blinded in an accident but finds compassion for others and himself through his growing love for a servant in his family's home. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1986ref. 162605N.p.: N.p. 1986. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a failing comedy duo invite a woman to join their act but one of them is distracted by his attraction to her. Beige titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 02/05/86 with credits for screenwriter Jack Burns. Title page integral with front wrapper. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with tear at top hole punch bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 163249Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. With xerographically duplicated Paramount Pictures script duplication form laid in the back of the script. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a new bartender is confused by a couple who comes in and reenacts the night they first met. Gray titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1-090 dated 12-11-85 with credits for screenwriter Jack Burns. Title page integral with front wrapper. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 14. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 168143Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage reference photograph from a circa early 1970s re-release of the 1969 film showing James Caan squatting next to rabbit and chick cages. A Long Island housewife runs away from her marriage after learning that she is pregnant forming a friendship with a man with brain damage from a college football injury. Shot on location in Nebraska Tennessee West Virginia Colorado Pennsylvania and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1980ref. 134735London: Granada Television 1980. Two borderless photographs from the 1981 film. One photo with a snipe attached to the verso. Directed by Bob Rafelson and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain "Postman" was one of the gems of late 1970s cinema along with "The Verdict" and brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world leading to his working not only as a screenwriter but an important director. Mamet's grim update of Cain's classic hard-boiled novel was somewhat panned on release but is today held in high regard and is considered a major influence on the genre. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Granada Television unknown books
1963ref. 131631Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1963 film. Ditto-style mimeograph still credits printed on the verso of each photo. Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother Adam who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1973ref. 150575New York: National General Pictures 1973. Three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1973 film. An erotic thriller following a television reporter who becomes increasingly obsessed with filming his neighbors' private lives. Noted author Michael Crichton's first original screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 163218N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a man sets up a fake mugging of a woman he likes so he can defend and impress her. Lime titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1-061 dated 11/26/85 with credits for screenwriter Jeff Abugov. Title page integral with front wrapper. 21 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerogrpahic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 168044Los Angeles: Showtime 1982. Three vintage reference photographs and one studio still photograph from a Showtime re-release of the 1982 film. During the Cold War a Soviet ballerina attempts to leave Russia hoping to defect and permanently settle in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with the film title and layout annotations in manuscript ink on the margins of two of the reference photographs. Showtime unknown books
1993ref. 167930Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1993. Four vintage studio still publicity photographs from the 1993 film. Based on Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip about a young boy's mischievous misadventures with his friends and beloved dog. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1987ref. 150243Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. Vintage reference photograph of Joel Coen behind the camera on the set of the 1987 film. Joel and Ethan Coen's slapstick madcap second film was as far removed from their first the 1984 neo-noir "Blood Simple" as is conceivable but equally as brilliant firmly establishing them as one of the most distinctive filmmakers to come out of the 1980s. Recidivist criminal H.I. Nicolas Cage and police officer Ed Holly Hunter fall in love over time as Ed photographs H.I.'s many mugshots. The couple marry but can't have children and when they hear about the famous "Arizona Quints" they figure the family can spare one. Featuring one of the most memorable chase sequences in film history. Shot on location throughout Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very faint dampstaining to top margin else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1986ref. 163269N.p.: N.p. 1986. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a sentient cupid statue narrates himself shooting his arrow and setting two people up on Valentine's day. Green titled self wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1-20-86 dated 1-20-86 with credits for screenwriter John Boni. Title page integral with front wrapper. 17 leaves with last page of text numbered 16. Xerogrpahic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 163213N.p.: N.p. 1985. Second Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a mountain man and a real estate developer get stuck in the mountain man's cabin which she plans to bulldoze over to build condos. Gray titled wrappers noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1-052 dated 11/11/85 with credits for screenwriter John Boni. Title page integral with front wrapper. 21 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1941ref. 145094Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Vintage photograph of actor Henry Ford director John Brahm and cinematographer Lucien Ballard and various members of the crew on the set of the 1941 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Stewart Edward White. Henry Fonda portrays a lumberjack who leaves Seattle for Alaska in order to find gold. Arriving there he meets and marries dance hall girl Joan Bennett and subsequently discovers much about her past he did not know. Shot on location in San Bernardino National Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1983ref. 151125Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures Industries 1983. Vintage reference photograph of John Carpenter on the set of the 1983 film. Carpenter was originally not interested in directing this film which he felt lacked significant horror for the genre following a daemonic car whose owners inevitably become fatally obsessed with "her." "Christine" has since firmly established itself as a cult classic. Set in Northern California and shot on location in Los Angeles California. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Twilight Time 5240. Columbia Pictures Industries unknown books
1961ref. 141022Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. A struggling jazz musician pursues a beautiful singer to the detriment of his career. The duo prove toxic to one another and the film follows the dissolution of their relationship and their band. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with two annotations to the verso one in red manuscript pencil and the other in purple manuscript pencil. Olive Signature 391. Rosenbaum 1000. Paramount Pictures unknown books
ref. 148278Vintage studio still photograph of Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Gozzi from the 1965 film. Not to be confused with the 1964 anthology film "La Fleur de L'Age ou Les Adolescentes" directed by Jean Rouch Hiroshi Teshigahara Michel Brault and Gian Vittorio Baldi. Agnes Gozzi is a young lonely teenager living with her widower father Frederick Douglas and caretaker Karen Gunnel Lindblom on an isolated farm on the Brittany coast and take in and befriend an escaped convict Joseph Dean Stockwell. Set in Brittany France shot on location in Brittany Cotes-d'Armor and Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. unknown books
1985ref. 148241N.p.: ABC Motion Pictures 1985. Vintage photograph of John Huston on the set of the 1985 film. One of John Huston's greatest films a black comedy made late in his career. Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner are two paid killers who fall in love only to discover that they have been paid to kill each other. Winner of an Academy Award Anjelica Huston Best Actress and nominated for 7 others including Best Picture Best Screenplay and Best Director. Set in and shot on location in New York City and Brooklyn New York Palisades Park and Alpine New Jersey Las Vegas Nevada and West Hollywood California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. ABC Motion Pictures unknown books
1950ref. 129339Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film adapted from the 1949 novel by John Mason Brown. A comedic story about parents and children the parent in this case being a conservative mystery novelist named John Timothy Adams. Blue titled wrappers noted as treatment on the front wrapper dated August 9 1950 with credit for screenwriter Taylor. Title page present noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter Taylor and writer Brown. 40 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three silver brads. David O. Selznick unknown books
1955ref. 168147Universal City: Universal-International 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. Based on the 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Joseph Kramm about a successful stage director who is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering vengeful wife. José Ferrer reprised his role from the stage production. Shot on location in New York City around Times Square and in Bellevue Hospital. 10 x 8 inches. Good with a horizontal crease along the bottom margin and a short closed tear on the top right corner. Universal-International unknown books
1960ref. 135342London: Fanfare Films 1960. Vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1960 film. Though the film was released in the UK as "The Criminal" it is here under its working title "The Concrete Jungle" with a corresponding negative code. Set in England and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Masterwork US. Spicer US. Fanfare Films unknown books
1966ref. 135049Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1966 film. A split still showing Vitti in two different guises as a brunette spy and as a seductive blonde who is actually a brunette spy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
