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1958ref. 162526N.p.: N.p. 1958. Two vintage reference photographs of director Richard Brooks on the set of the 1958 film one showing Brooks talking with Elizabeth Taylor the other showing Brooks with Paul Newman. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos along with the printed labels of Stillphoto in Amsterdam. Based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams about the deeply dysfunctional family of a dying plantation owner on the Mississippi Delta. Nominated for six Academy Awards. Shot on location in Long Island New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 162526N.p.: N.p. 1958. Two vintage reference photographs of director Richard Brooks on the set of the 1958 film one showing Brooks talking with Elizabeth Taylor the other showing Brooks with Paul Newman. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos along with the printed labels of Stillphoto in Amsterdam. Based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams about the deeply dysfunctional family of a dying plantation owner on the Mississippi Delta. Nominated for six Academy Awards. Shot on location in Long Island New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1922ref. 158645N.p.: N.p. 1922. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1922 film showing director and actor Erich von Stroheim. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The legendary von Stroheim's third film as a director at time the most expensive film ever made and the first to cost over one million dollars although the original budget was $250000. The overruns led to the first of many clashes between von Stroheim and Irving Thalberg then just 21 years old and still in his first year as the head of Universal. Thalberg eventually shut down production and took over editing the film himself cutting nearly three hours from the footage in the first of several instances in the next few years that would assert the primacy of the studio over that of the director. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1922ref. 158645N.p.: N.p. 1922. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1922 film showing director and actor Erich von Stroheim. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The legendary von Stroheim's third film as a director at time the most expensive film ever made and the first to cost over one million dollars although the original budget was $250000. The overruns led to the first of many clashes between von Stroheim and Irving Thalberg then just 21 years old and still in his first year as the head of Universal. Thalberg eventually shut down production and took over editing the film himself cutting nearly three hours from the footage in the first of several instances in the next few years that would assert the primacy of the studio over that of the director. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 152832Logan IA: The Perfection Form Company 1958. Complete bound set of ten literary photographic prints published in conjunction with the 1958 film made for educational use. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two more including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. Housed in blue wrappers measuring 13 x 10 inches. Photographs 12 x 9 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased. The Perfection Form Company unknown
1958ref. 152832Logan IA: The Perfection Form Company 1958. Complete bound set of ten literary photographic prints published in conjunction with the 1958 film made for educational use. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two more including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. Housed in blue wrappers measuring 13 x 10 inches. Photographs 12 x 9 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased. The Perfection Form Company unknown books
1933ref. 152591N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph of actress Fay Wray spotting something large and tentacled outside a boat window with a camera crew to the far left capturing the shot. Mimeo snipe to the verso. A wealthy woman funds a marine biology expedition but trouble arises when her crew declares their intentions to search for lost gold bullion in the wreckage of a German World War I U-boat instead. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear to the corners. N.p. unknown
1933ref. 152591N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph of actress Fay Wray spotting something large and tentacled outside a boat window with a camera crew to the far left capturing the shot. Mimeo snipe to the verso. A wealthy woman funds a marine biology expedition but trouble arises when her crew declares their intentions to search for lost gold bullion in the wreckage of a German World War I U-boat instead. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 150040N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Giulietta Masina Federico Fellini and crew on the set of the 1965 film. "Rizzoli Press" and "Atlantic Press" stamps on verso. Set in and shot on location in Rome. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 49. Ebert II. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 150040N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Giulietta Masina Federico Fellini and crew on the set of the 1965 film. "Rizzoli Press" and "Atlantic Press" stamps on verso. Set in and shot on location in Rome. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 49. Ebert II. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 160548Oslo: Billed Sentralen 1962. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director Francesco Rosi on the set of the 1962 Italian film. Distribution stamp on the verso along with a stamp crediting photographer Patrick Morin. Based on the true story of Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano who rose to prominence within the Mafia after the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Shot in nonlinear documentary style with Giuliano's character off-screen for most of the film Rosi's narrative today stands as an example of minimalist neo-realism at its finest. Shot on location in Sicily. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners. Arrow Academy 970. Criterion Collection 228. Schrader 50. Billed Sentralen unknown
1962ref. 160548Oslo: Billed Sentralen 1962. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director Francesco Rosi on the set of the 1962 Italian film. Distribution stamp on the verso along with a stamp crediting photographer Patrick Morin. Based on the true story of Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano who rose to prominence within the Mafia after the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Shot in nonlinear documentary style with Giuliano's character off-screen for most of the film Rosi's narrative today stands as an example of minimalist neo-realism at its finest. Shot on location in Sicily. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners. Arrow Academy 970. Criterion Collection 228. Schrader 50. Billed Sentralen unknown books
1972ref. 151998London: Gala Film Distributors 1972. Three vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1972 French film. With a promotional gold foil label at the bottom right corner of each recto as issued. Based on the 1967 novel by Henry Farrell. A young criminologist falls in love with his subject a woman accused of murdering her lover and her father. 15.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus overall with tiny punch holes at the corners as issued. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1973ref. 150485N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film four showing actors Dani Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Leaud and one showing director François Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title "Nuit Americain" on the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. A couple lightly edgeworn else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 151998London: Gala Film Distributors 1972. Three vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1972 French film. With a promotional gold foil label at the bottom right corner of each recto as issued. Based on the 1967 novel by Henry Farrell. A young criminologist falls in love with his subject a woman accused of murdering her lover and her father. 15.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus overall with tiny punch holes at the corners as issued. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1973ref. 150485N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film four showing actors Dani Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Leaud and one showing director François Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title "Nuit Americain" on the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. A couple lightly edgeworn else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown books
1943ref. 157113Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Final script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name on the front wrapper and his notations throughout. A propagandistic musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 42 dated November 25 1942 with credits for screenwriter Delmer Daves. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the front wrapper. X leaves with last page of text numbered X. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/21/42 and 1/4/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1943ref. 157113Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Final script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name on the front wrapper and his notations throughout. A propagandistic musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 42 dated November 25 1942 with credits for screenwriter Delmer Daves. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the front wrapper. X leaves with last page of text numbered X. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/21/42 and 1/4/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 166433N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1976 blaxploitation film here under the working title "Adventures of Jesse Crowder II: Journey to Nowhere." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Henchman" with marker annotations of his name copy number "12" and date "1-9-76" on the front wrapper. Script with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on twenty pages and with manuscript marker annotations of page numbers throughout. Bound in preceding the script is a two page cast contact sheet and a five page schedule dated January 13 1976. The second of four Jesse Crowder films starring Fred Williamson and the first film made by Williamson's production company "Po' Boy Productions." Preceded by "Death Journey" 1976 and followed by "Blind Rage" 1978. Ex-cop turned private detective Jesse Crowder is on the hunt for a fugitive named Woolf and his girlfriend Candy until he runs into trouble with Candy's pimp Bernie and his gang. Set in and shot on location in Venice Mill Valley Newport Beach and Santa Monica California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 with credits for screenwriter Fred Williamson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 85. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 166433N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1976 blaxploitation film here under the working title "Adventures of Jesse Crowder II: Journey to Nowhere." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Henchman" with marker annotations of his name copy number "12" and date "1-9-76" on the front wrapper. Script with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on twenty pages and with manuscript marker annotations of page numbers throughout. Bound in preceding the script is a two page cast contact sheet and a five page schedule dated January 13 1976. The second of four Jesse Crowder films starring Fred Williamson and the first film made by Williamson's production company "Po' Boy Productions." Preceded by "Death Journey" 1976 and followed by "Blind Rage" 1978. Ex-cop turned private detective Jesse Crowder is on the hunt for a fugitive named Woolf and his girlfriend Candy until he runs into trouble with Candy's pimp Bernie and his gang. Set in and shot on location in Venice Mill Valley Newport Beach and Santa Monica California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 with credits for screenwriter Fred Williamson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 85. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown books
1936ref. 132489Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie considered one of his finest efforts and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others brought to Hollywood from Germany beginning in the early 1930s. 6.75 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine quite bright with a coupe of tiny closed tears and light creasing to the top edge. National Film Registry. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Precursor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1936ref. 132489Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie considered one of his finest efforts and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others brought to Hollywood from Germany beginning in the early 1930s. 6.75 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine quite bright with a coupe of tiny closed tears and light creasing to the top edge. National Film Registry. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Precursor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1971ref. 167650N.p.: N.p. 1971. Five vintage oversize borderless color reference photographs from the 1971 film. A disillusioned museum curator unexpectedly finds romance with a gregarious parking lot attendant. The sixth feature film directed by John Cassavetes and the fourth of eleven films Cassavetes made with his wife actress Gena Rowlands. Set and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
