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1972ref. 164079N.p.: Camelot Entertainment 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 Blaxploitation film. Two enslaved African-American brothers-one albino one non-albino-discover a treasure map on their enslaver's plantation and decide to run away to hunt for the treasure. Director and actor Chris Robinson is best remembered today for his roles in soap operas in the later half of the twentieth century including "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "General Hospital." Shot on location in Hobe Sound Florida. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus lightly toned along the creases. Camelot Entertainment unknown books
1972ref. 160079Burbank CA: Hammer Films / Warner Brothers 1972. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1972 film. With manuscript pencil annotation on the verso identifying the film and actors Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beachum. In 1872 Dracula is killed by a professor with a stake through his heart and then buried by his servant. In present day 1972 the great grandchildren of the professor and the servant accidentally resurrect Dracula and he wants revenge. Set in London shot on location in Hertfordshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some small creasing at the corners. Weldon 1983. Hammer Films / Warner Brothers unknown books
1972ref. 127087N.p.: Fanfare Films 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 film. A Black cop tolerates his fellow white officers' disrespect and racism as well as disdain from his community for joining the force but is finally pushed over the edge after being passed over for a promotion. He goes on a violent personal crusade punctuated by psychedelic fever dreams including himself as a famous astronaut. Shot on location in Washington DC and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes to the corners dampstaining to the left side folds with two small accompanying chips and a closed tear to the center left margin. Fanfare Films unknown books
1988ref. 126666Paris: MK2 Films 1988. Vintage French grande poster for the 1988 French film. Not to be confused with the 2000 French film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Claire Denis' remarkable directorial debut a semi-autobiographical meditation about a French woman reflecting on her childhood in Cameroon and her relationship with her family's African servant. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. 46 x 62 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with light edgewear and a touch of starting at the center folds. MK2 Films unknown books
1914ref. 160375New York: World Film Corporation 1914. Vintage program for the 1914 lost silent film printed for the Grand Theatre of Butler Pennsylvania printed on the verso with a dramatic pictorial center spread featuring two World Film Corporation elephant logos. Silent film star Clara Kimball Young's first film with World Film Corporation re-released in 1916 with new intertitles under the title "Without a Soul" both now lost. A variation of both Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" wherein the caring and dutiful daughter Lola Young killed in a street accident is revived by her scientist father using an electric-ray machine he invented only to find she's returned as a soulless and heartless creature of the flesh. 5.5 x 8 inches Bi-fold. Very Good plus with a vertical crease with light foxing and toning at the crease and small closed tears at the top of the crease on both leaves. World Film Corporation unknown books
1973ref. 161867N.p.: Peppercorn-Wormser 1973. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 French film. Claude a married man and father of two decides to transform his bookstore into a sex shop. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Peppercorn-Wormser unknown books
1965ref. 154508N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing the scantily clad posterior of Amidou. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Five teenagers decide to leave school and study at a "school for criminals." Director Claude Lelouch's first commercial success. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 158669N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actress Claudia Cardinale. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel "Muscle Beach" by Ira Wallach about a beach tourist who becomes entangled in two romances. Set and shot on location in Southern California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1915ref. 171489Los Angeles: Jesse Lasky 1915. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1915 silent film showing Cleo Ridgely and Marjorie Daw. Based on the 1906 play by James Forbes. A chorus girl's attempts to keep her younger sister away from the depravities of show business fall flat when the sister is given a part in a stage play by a womanizing theatre patron. Currently considered lost. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus moderately toned. Jesse Lasky unknown books
1997ref. 151528Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1997. Vintage press kit for the 1997 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing three black and white photographs and three gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel the third in his L.A. Quartet series. Three detectives are tasked with investigating a serious of grisly murders in 1950s Los Angeles which they learn are linked to a notorious gang leader high-class escorts and widespread corruption within the police force. A formidable nod to film noir. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning two for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1972ref. 162267N.p.: New World Pictures 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Tab Hunter stars as Eddie Collins a frustrated impotent man who finds after accidentally killing a women that he can get aroused by women when they are dead. Written and directed by Curtis Hanson who would later receive an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the 1997 neo-noir "L.A. Confidential" with Brian Helgeland. Shot on location in Venice California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. New World Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 157624Hollywood: General Film 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Cynthia Denny from the 1970 film. A freewheeling eighteen-year-old girl leaves behind her family to try to make it in California but finds herself in increasingly exploitative and unpleasant situations. Shot on location in Van Nuys. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a light crease on the bottom right corner. General Film unknown books
1957ref. 150484Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film showing actress Betty Hutton mugging for the camera while sitting with actor Dana Andrews while director Robert Pirosh looks on. A successful businesswoman runs into an old flame at her high school reunion leading to a rekindling albeit somewhat troubled of their romance. Hutton's intended screen comeback after leaving Paramount Studios five years prior and ultimately her last feature film appearance. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners. United Artists unknown books
1970ref. 155109N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1970 French film showing actress Bernadette Lafont undressing behind a curtain. A modern retelling of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. 9 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded at the edges. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 132299N.p.: N.p. 1977. Original Polish one sheet poster for the Polish release of the 1975 British/American film designed by Anna Mikke. Based on the 1973 play by Adrian Mitchell which was based on the classic 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. A post-civil rights movement take on the Defoe classic wherein Crusoe finds himself stranded on an island with a black islander whom he names Friday and finds himself incapable of seeing the islander beyond his narrow and racist colonialist worldview. Nominated for the Palm d'Or. 23 x 32.5 inches. Very Good with light dampstaining to the right side. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 148427Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Vintage US lobby card for the 1953 film. Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband. Set and shot on location in New York. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light soil and light toning to the edges. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976ref. 135943Los Angeles: Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on Paul Gallico's 1970 novel. Bernie Bonnelli Gould is a small-time talent agent down on his luck who discovers a boxing kangaroo named Matilda. Hoping to gain recognition and income he schedules a fight between the kangaroo and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The fight attracts the attention of the local mob boss who wants total control of the marsupial and the attention of animal activists looking to stop cruelty to animals. Set in New York shot on location in California New York and Nevada. Illustrated titled wrappers with glassine cover on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 15 1976 with credits for novelist Gallico and screenwriter Galfas. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1968ref. 161749N.p.: Joseph Brenner Associates 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Argentinian film. Released in Argentina as "La cigarra no es un bicho" The Cicada is Not a Bug. Provenance stamps and labels on the versos. Six couples arrive at a Buenos Aires hostel called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of an outbreak of bubonic plague-leading to sex in every imaginable combination. Shot on location in Buenos Aires. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Joseph Brenner Associates unknown books
1979ref. 162754Beverly Hills CA: The Edward S. Feldman Company 1979. Draft script for the 1979 television movie originally aired on December 7 1979 on ABC. Two aging retirees fall in love after meeting at a retirement home in Venice California although their friends and families object due to their differing religions. Red titled wrappers dated February 21 1979 on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriters Merrit Malloy and Lee Philips. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Merrit Malloy and Lee Philips. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between March 5 and 12 1979. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. The Edward S. Feldman Company unknown books
1971ref. 161546N.p.: MDA Film 1971. Six studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Five photographs with provenance stamps on the versos one of which is on a label obscuring an older provenance stamp. After an artist's suicide friends and lovers share their memories of him most of whom are convinced he would never have killed himself and that one of them had something to do with his demise. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. MDA Film unknown books
1972ref. 135242Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1972 French film "La course du lievre a travers les champs" release in the US as "And Hope to Die." Featured is a rare still of director Clement brandishing a rifle and a still of actor Trintignant contemplating the true value of a ten-dollar bill. Loosely based on David Goodis' 1954 seminal hardboiled novel "Black Friday" a paperback original. A French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of criminals in the midst of kidnapping the mentally-challenged daughter of a rival crimelord. The plan goes accordingly until the girl accidentally dies. Shot on location in Quebec Canada and Hauts-de-Seine France. Both stills 7 x 9.25 inches borderless as issued. Ink annotations on the versos else Near Fine overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1966ref. 155023Universal City: Universal Television 1966. Draft script for the 1967 television movie originally aired on February 25 1967 on NBC. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript pencil annotations on three leaves. A suburban couple discover they have been used as money laundering pawns for a powerful crime syndicate and decide to try to break away from the cartel. Shot on location in Sleepy Hollow and New York City New York. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated June 13 1966 with credits for director David Lowell Rich and screenwriter A.J. Russell. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Television unknown books
1990ref. 151772London: Film Manifesto Sales 1990. Vintage pressbook for the 1990 film. Based on the 1989 novel by Barry Gifford. Young lovers Sailor Nicolas Cage and Lula Laura Dern go on the run from Lula's domineering mother Diane Ladd but soon run out of money forcing Sailor to return to his past criminal dealings. David Lynch's fifth feature film a love letter to the Wizard of Oz Elvis Presley and road movies. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Shot on location in Los Angeles Colton and Pasadena California in New Orleans Louisiana and in El Paso Texas. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Film Manifesto Sales unknown books
1998ref. 171263Santa Monica: Steven Bochco Productions 1998. Vintage Draft script for Season 1 Episode 17 of the 1997-1998 television series. Originally aired March 9 1998 on CBS. This short-lived procedural followed the uniformed police officers at a Brooklyn precinct. In this episode tensions are high at the precinct following one of the officers acting as an informant for Internal Affairs. Winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for its Pilot episode. Set in Brooklyn. White titled self-wrappers lacking rear wrapper production No. C117 dated February 9 1998 with credits for screenwriters Doug Palau and Nicholas Wootton and director Marc Buckland. Title page integral with front wrapper. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Steven Bochco Productions unknown books
1980ref. 166551New York: Joseph E. Levine Productions 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1980. Not to be confused with the 1978 television movie starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. Title page present undated with credits for Shaber and story writer Paul Gallico. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. Joseph E. Levine Productions unknown books
