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ref. 141945Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1975. Draft script for the 1976 Disney comedy film "No Deposit No Return" seen here under the working title "Double Trouble." Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones who played the role of Policeman #2 with his name on the front wrapper in black ink. A heist film Inspired by two O. Henry short stories "The Ransom of Red Chief" and "A Retrieved Reformation." Set in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers noted as production No. 0144 dated May 14 1975 with credits for story writer Joe McEveety and screenplay writers Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson. Title page integral with the first page of text as issued dated 6/24/75. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication with blue green pink and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/2/75 and 7/15/75. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
ref. 161096Los Angeles: Tse Tse Fly Productions 2001. Two Final Draft scripts for the 2002 film. Scripts belonging to costume designer Judith Brewer Curtis with her annotations in manuscript ink throughout and housed in her production binder with wardrobe test photographs and ephemera relating to costuming for the film. Binder includes an eight page shooting schedule an eight page continuity breakdown four pages of Curtis' xerographically duplicated costume design sketches and 29 Polaroid wardrobe test shots. An amnesiac wakes up in an asylum for the criminally insane discovering that he has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend-a crime he does not recall. As his fellow inmates begin showing up dead he begins to wonder if the murder is somehow linked to the asylum's sinister director. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Final Draft no revisions: Title page present undated noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Jeremy Kasten and Rogan Russell Marshall. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine. Final Draft with revisions: Title page present undated noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Jeremy Kasten and Rogan Russell Marshall. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine. Black three-ring binder Very Good plus with light soil on the extremities. Tse Tse Fly Productions unknown
ref. 161096Los Angeles: Tse Tse Fly Productions 2001. Two Final Draft scripts for the 2002 film. Scripts belonging to costume designer Judith Brewer Curtis with her annotations in manuscript ink throughout and housed in her production binder with wardrobe test photographs and ephemera relating to costuming for the film. Binder includes an eight page shooting schedule an eight page continuity breakdown four pages of Curtis' xerographically duplicated costume design sketches and 29 Polaroid wardrobe test shots. An amnesiac wakes up in an asylum for the criminally insane discovering that he has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend-a crime he does not recall. As his fellow inmates begin showing up dead he begins to wonder if the murder is somehow linked to the asylum's sinister director. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Final Draft no revisions: Title page present undated noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Jeremy Kasten and Rogan Russell Marshall. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine. Final Draft with revisions: Title page present undated noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Jeremy Kasten and Rogan Russell Marshall. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine. Black three-ring binder Very Good plus with light soil on the extremities. Tse Tse Fly Productions unknown books
ref. 162444N.p.: N.p. 1995. Final Draft script for the 1996 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations on the title page noting phone numbers and on several pages in the script highlighting dialogue for police officers. With a production memo and a call sheet dated November 15 1995 laid in with the script along with a FedEx receipt. Based on Robert Daley's 1993 novel "Tainted Evidence" and on the true story of the escape of criminal Larry Davis about a newly elected district attorney's drive to eliminate corruption in the police department. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. Clear generic front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 27 1995 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Sidney Lumet and novelist Robert Daley. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated September 22 1995. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good with wear on the top and bottom edges of the rear wrapper silver prong binding. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
ref. 162444N.p.: N.p. 1995. Final Draft script for the 1996 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations on the title page noting phone numbers and on several pages in the script highlighting dialogue for police officers. With a production memo and a call sheet dated November 15 1995 laid in with the script along with a FedEx receipt. Based on Robert Daley's 1993 novel "Tainted Evidence" and on the true story of the escape of criminal Larry Davis about a newly elected district attorney's drive to eliminate corruption in the police department. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. Clear generic front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 27 1995 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Sidney Lumet and novelist Robert Daley. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated September 22 1995. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good with wear on the top and bottom edges of the rear wrapper silver prong binding. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 149451Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Kubrick and cinematographer Oswald Morris on the set of the 1962 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso regarding layout. A stunning image of both Kubrick and legendary cinematographer Morris. Morris' achievements apart from "Lolita" include "Oliver Twist 1948 "Moulin Rouge" 1952 "Moby Dick" 1956 "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965 "Fiddler on the Roof" 1971 and "The Man Who Would Be King" 1975. Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece about a man's all-consuming and destructive romantic desire for a prepubescent girl. Shot on location in Albany and the Adirondacks in New York Newport and Westerly in Rhode Island and Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in England. 14 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and a shallow crease along the right edge. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1962ref. 149451Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Kubrick and cinematographer Oswald Morris on the set of the 1962 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso regarding layout. A stunning image of both Kubrick and legendary cinematographer Morris. Morris' achievements apart from "Lolita" include "Oliver Twist 1948 "Moulin Rouge" 1952 "Moby Dick" 1956 "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965 "Fiddler on the Roof" 1971 and "The Man Who Would Be King" 1975. Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 masterpiece about a man's all-consuming and destructive romantic desire for a prepubescent girl. Shot on location in Albany and the Adirondacks in New York Newport and Westerly in Rhode Island and Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in England. 14 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and a shallow crease along the right edge. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1959ref. 143239Tokyo: Toho Company 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film crediting Masahiro Makino as the director who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi originally released in 1937 as two parts "Saga of the Vagabonds Part One Tiger Wolf" and "Saga of the Vagabonds Part Two Forward at Dawn." Toshiro Mifune plays a feudal bandit accused of stealing money he was entrusted and assembles a revenge party to storm the family castle and attack his brother who betrayed him. Kurosawa would serve as 3rd assistant director to Eisuke Takizawa for both films and go on to write the latter screenplay previously penned by Sadao Yamanaka. Set in Japan's Edo period. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered f-16. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on paper edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Toho Company unknown
1959ref. 143239Tokyo: Toho Company 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film crediting Masahiro Makino as the director who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi originally released in 1937 as two parts "Saga of the Vagabonds Part One Tiger Wolf" and "Saga of the Vagabonds Part Two Forward at Dawn." Toshiro Mifune plays a feudal bandit accused of stealing money he was entrusted and assembles a revenge party to storm the family castle and attack his brother who betrayed him. Kurosawa would serve as 3rd assistant director to Eisuke Takizawa for both films and go on to write the latter screenplay previously penned by Sadao Yamanaka. Set in Japan's Edo period. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered f-16. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on paper edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Toho Company unknown books
1948ref. 135635Culver City CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film "Joan of Arc" here under its working title "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946 ran for 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre and closed in 1947. Ingrid Bergman who stars as Joan in the film also starred in the play and won the 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film won three Academy Awards. Director Victor Fleming's final film featuring Bergman as Joan of Arc the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English. Bergman portrays the martyr as a strong and spiritual figure who proves her devotion to the Dauphin Jose Ferrer later to become the King of France. She wins an alliance with the Governor of Vaucouleurs and the courtiers at Chinon leads her army in the Battle of Orleans is betrayed by the Burgundians. Joan was captured tortured and ultimately executed by the English and was later made a Catholic saint. Set in the village of Domremy shot on location in California. Tan titled wrappers. Distribution page present undated with receipt removed noted as copy No. 400. Title page integral with distribution page. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1948ref. 135635Culver City CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film "Joan of Arc" here under its working title "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946 ran for 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre and closed in 1947. Ingrid Bergman who stars as Joan in the film also starred in the play and won the 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film won three Academy Awards. Director Victor Fleming's final film featuring Bergman as Joan of Arc the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English. Bergman portrays the martyr as a strong and spiritual figure who proves her devotion to the Dauphin Jose Ferrer later to become the King of France. She wins an alliance with the Governor of Vaucouleurs and the courtiers at Chinon leads her army in the Battle of Orleans is betrayed by the Burgundians. Joan was captured tortured and ultimately executed by the English and was later made a Catholic saint. Set in the village of Domremy shot on location in California. Tan titled wrappers. Distribution page present undated with receipt removed noted as copy No. 400. Title page integral with distribution page. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
ref. 160172Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. A unique script in terms of the narrative with each scene described in fragmented sentences. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" 1967 with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway driver whose elusive escapes torment a self-assured police detective driving the detective to the brink of obsession. Cream titled wrappers dated May 23 1977. Title page present dated May 23 1977 noted as FINAL with a credit for Hill. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Silver and Ward US Neo-Noir. Spicer US. Twilight Time 53. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown books
1961ref. 143276Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film about a widower and his daughters who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3. Takarazuka Productions unknown
1961ref. 143276Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film about a widower and his daughters who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3. Takarazuka Productions unknown books
1923ref. 151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on verso. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1923ref. 151959N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1923. Vintage reference photograph of the cast crew and onlookers from the set of the 1925 film. Mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on verso. Based on the 1899 novel "McTeague" by Frank Norris. An impoverished miner-turned-dentist wins the lottery but the ensuing fortune threatens to ruin the lives of everyone it touches. Director Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece one of the first films to be shot entirely on location in San Francisco and Death Valley using what were then considered sophisticated and relatively new filming techniques such as montage editing and deep focus. Stroheim's first cut of the film was a mammoth 9.5 hour presentation edited down to two and a half hours against his wishes. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin and faint creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
ref. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown
ref. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown books
ref. 150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one manuscript pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one manuscript pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 157957N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1950 film showing actress Marilyn Monroe surrounded by admirers. Based on an original story by Horace McCoy about a runaway orphan who becomes a champion roller-skater and the women he meets along the way. Monroe's eighth screen appearance. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing overall. N.p. unknown books
