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1969ref. 150206London: Camera Press 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 television serial showing actors John Westbrook Roger Mutton and John Rapley. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A one-season television series which dramatized the lives of John Churchill the first Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah. The show originally aired in the UK on BBC on September 27 1969 and was aired two years later in the US on PBS' long-running Masterpiece Classic series. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Camera Press unknown books
1962ref. 140839Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as him as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The boy is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to make the occasion of the first atomic bomb leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to diffuse the situation. Set in New York City. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1962ref. 140748Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps toward him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as the shooter as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The shooter is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to commemorate the occasion of the first atomic bomb test leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to defuse the situation. Set in New York City. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1979ref. 129794Los Angeles: Goldwyn Studios 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of the novel by Ludwig Bemelmans by screenwriter David Odell. The script is undated but the style of the wrapper and the mention of the short-lived Goldwyn Studios would put the development effort at right around 1979. Odell is best known for having written the screenplay for "The Dark Crystal" Jim Henson 1982. Black titled wrappers with silver titles on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Odell and novelist Bemelmans. 148 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Goldwyn Studios unknown books
1978ref. 140768Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With three pages of synopsis laid-in. Peter Conrad is a successful American defense attorney and he is on a tour of Europe revisiting places he had seen during World War II places where his friends died. He ends up in Sicily where he hopes to reconnect with a young woman he met during the war. He finds her but she has been promised to another and amidst a backdrop of Mafia activity he vows to win her over and prove his true Sicilian heritage. Set in Sicily. Black titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter David Chantler. Title page present with credits for screenwriter David T. Chantler. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1983ref. WRCLIT68003Burbank: Warner Bros. 1983. 1125 leaves. Quarto. Photoduplicated typescript printed on rectos only of yellow stock. Bradbound. Very good or better. A "revised third draft" of this adaptation to the screen of Davis's 1979 novel. The 1985 release directed by Harold Becker starred Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino. Warner Bros. unknown books
1993ref. 119360Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1993. First Revised Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of "Night of the Hunter" based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb written for the screen by Don Michael Paul. White MGM titled wrappers with studio logo and die-cut window as issued. Title page present with a date of April 30 1933 and credits for novelist Grubb and screenwriter Paul. 111 leaves xerographically duplicated rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961ref. 132086London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1961. Collection of 7 vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1961 US film. Based on the novel by Mildred Savage about a young man growing up on a tobacco farm. Several popular stars of the era were originally attached to this production including director Joshua Logan Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda. Marks the second film credit for Diane McBain. 8 x 10 inches. Pinholes at the corners else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
1970ref. 128362N.p.: Trans American Films 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 British film. Despite the subject matter a tame release from director Ford who would move into more explicit pornographic films in the late 1970s. Posters for the film are not often seen at auction. 27 x 41 inches folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus with a couple of pinholes and tiny closed tears and a few faint tape ghosts to the verso. Trans American Films unknown books
1970ref. 128309N.p.: Trans American Films 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 British film. One of director Ford's tame films as he would eventually do more pornographic films in the late 1970s. Sex drugs and rock n' roll abound and the decade is well represented. Esme Johns' only film title as "Sally" the groupie and she is poignantly captured her in a green skirt atop her suitcases. 27 x 41 inches folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus with a few pinholes closed tears and light creases. Trans American Films unknown books
1987ref. 129995Troy MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment 1987. Final Draft script for the 1988 television episode "Model Dearest" seen here under an early working title "Model Cop" for the action comedy television series "Sledge Hammer!" Script supervisor's copy but it should be noted that the script supervisor's typically profuse annotations are not holograph annotations but copied from a master. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 9 1987 First Revision November 13 1987 noted as FINAL DRAFT / First Revision with credits for screenwriters Ketchum and DiMarco. 40 leaves photocopy with white revision pages throughout dated 11/13/87. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Anchor Bay Entertainment unknown books
1972ref. 137869N.p.: Self published 1972. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "Get the Police" written by David Scott Milton based on a story by Dick Richards who was set to direct the film. Brief annotations in holograph ink on the title page noting Chartoff-Winkler the production company set to produce the film. A story about two professional football players who are threatened by a crime syndicate. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 5/72 noted as First Draft with credits for story writer Richards and screenwriter Milton. Last leaf of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Self published unknown books
1975ref. 139092Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1975. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1975 film. Based on the 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. One of two 1970s neo noir Raymond Chandler adaptations starring Robert Mitchum as hard-boiled private detective Phillip Marlowe hired by a crazed ex-con who wishes to locate an old girlfriend named Velma. During his hunt Marlowe is railroaded into a psychotic brothel where he experiences a surreal drug-induced nightmare and is pushed deeper into a complex web of lies and deceit. Set in Los Angeles shot there on location. 8 x 10 inches mounted on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good plus. Grant p. 228. Silver p. 383. Spicer p. 428. Complete collation details available on request. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1980ref. WRCLIT38015Np: Marble Arch Productions / Norman Rosemont Productions 1980. 2121 leaves plus lettered revises. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only with revises on pink paper. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Title lettered on spine very good. A final draft of the script for this television adaptation with revises dated as late as mid-July. The production was directed by Jim Goddard and starred Peter Cushing and Nigel Hawthorne. Marble Arch Productions / Norman Rosemont Productions unknown books
1945ref. WRCLIT67656Culver City: Vanguard Pictures 1945. 119 leaves plus lettered insert. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers. Brads a bit rusty small chip from lower edge of wrapper else very good or better. A preliminary and quite incomplete draft of this screenplay which according to some sources finally saw development as the 1945 RKO/Selznick production SPIRAL STAIRCASE directed by Robert Siodmak starring Dorothy McGuire George Brent Ethel Barrymore nominated for an Oscar Rhonda Fleming Elsa Lanchester et al. It was an adaptation of the novel by Ethel White. Vanguard Pictures unknown books
1977ref. 139788Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1977. Collection of 8 studio still photographs from the 1977 film. A young orphan raised by his dysfunctional hillbilly family befriends a goofy dragon in this live-action animated musical. It was the first animated Disney film in which none of the legendary "nine old men" were involved in the animation process. Ken Anderson created the beloved dragon loosely modeling him after historical Asian imagery. Upon release the film was criticized for its composite animation and underdeveloped plot. However it was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Original song score. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Poor with a synopsis typed on the verso of three a stamp to the verso of three and light warping overall. Soiling red holograph annotations and dampstaining throughout. Complete collation details available on request. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1980ref. 147439Los Angeles: D.H. Wolfe and Associates 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Lulu is an intrepid astute young cellist studying at Julliard. While at home in Connecticut playing in the shelter of the family's beach gazebo a naked and dirty young man Lulu names Peter comes sprinting out past an outcrop of rocks. Startled Peter retreats up the beach as a curious but unfazed Lulu looks on. Lulu determines to find Peter but when she does he's entirely uncommunicative and skittish. Upon seeing him walking along the road as her parents are driving her to the train station to go back to New York she tells her parents that he's a fellow student corrals him into the car and takes the dazed Peter with her back to New York determined to find out who he is and what happened. Set in New York and Connecticut. Blue untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Donald H. Wolfe. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with comb binding. D.H. Wolfe and Associates unknown books
1946ref. 126189Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1946 film. Phyllis Allenby Lockhart has an ancient curse on her family cast by a pack of wolves. After a series of local murders she is convinced she and her werewolf curse are to blame for she finds her belongings muddied torn and streaked with blood almost every morning. A greedy aunt eventually confesses to framing Phyllis in attempt to retain the Allenby's family fortune and suddenly dies by falling down a flight of stairs and onto a knife. With all the right elements of atmosphere eerie stringed instrumentation as the score and impeccable effects the film was not well received. Stands unique in the werewolf pantheon with a woman as the accursed and no werewolf actually seen. White titled wrappers dated MARCH 25 1946 production No. 1484 with credits for director Yarbrough actors Don Porter and Lloyd Corrigan and actresses June Lockhart Sara Haden and Jan Wiley. 83 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus or better with a few tiny chips short creases and small closed tears at the extremities and some offsetting to the wrappers bound with two gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in mylar. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1994ref. 140200Hong Kong: N.p. 1994. Vintage Hong Kong poster for the 1994 film. A Honk Kong crime film written and directed by Eddie Ling-Ching Fong and starring Jacky Cheung as Private Eye. 27 x 38 inches. Light wear to the edges else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 140859Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Pages from the shooting final script for the 1958 film. Two sets of additional revised pages noted on the front as ADDITIONAL PAGES with instructions: "TO ALL SECRETARIES: Please place these additional pages at the back of your script of the above date." A military school cadet falls for a French starlet days before she is featured as the queen in a Marti Gras parade. Her movie studio decides to capitalize on the occasion. Nominated for an Academy Award for best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Shot on location in California Louisiana and Virginia. Pink titled self wrappers noted as shooting final script on the front wrapper dated June 11 1958. 15 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 122. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two paper clips. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965ref. 132638Hollywood: National Screen Service / Paramount Pictures 1965. Collection of 6 vintage full-color weight still photographs from the 1965 UK release of the 1964 US film. Another steamy drama based on a Harold Robbins novel 1962 about the murder of one man's ex-wife's new lover at the hand of his teenage daughter with obvious parallels between this film and the actual murder of Johnny Stompanato Lana Turner's ex-lover and victim of stabbing by her daughter Cheryl Crane. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. National Screen Service / Paramount Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 144993Universal City: Universal Pictures 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1965 neo-noir one of director Edward Dmytryk and actors Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau and the other of Dmytryk Peck and Robert H. Harris. Mimeo snipe on verso of both photographs. Based on the 1952 novel "Fallen Angel" by Howard Fast. David Stillwell Gregory Peck is an accountant who comes to realize he has no memory as he is pursued by a number of unknown people trying to kill him bringing him to question his own identity. Shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine one with faint creasing. Complete collation details available on request. Grant Worldwide. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 148136N.p.: N.p. 1963. Twenty-page Shooting schedule for the 1963 film dated February 12 1963 with strikes through in holograph pencil on all but two pages and several annotations in holograph ink regarding locations and shots. Aging gunman Rory Calhoun attempts to keep his control over a small town populated by outlaws. Shot on location in Bronson Canyon Los Angeles California. 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 144010Beverly Hills CA: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paper clipped to the front wrapper is a typed note initialed by Edwin Blum in blue holograph ink. Two women repeatedly arrange to be the beneficiaries on the life insurance policies of numerous dead men. In the course of their activities a romance is struck up with an insurance executive. Beige titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Edwin Blum. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Edwin Blum. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1976ref. 144164Tel Aviv: DAFNA International Films 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. On her drive to work Edna is rear ended by Dave an American musicologist. Dave promises to pay for the damage and uses this commitment as an excuse to get close to and seduce Edna who is raising her young son on her own. Set in Tel Aviv. Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for screenwriter Eli Tabor novelist Ram Oren and producer Shimon Arama. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Offset printing. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two staples. DAFNA International Films unknown books
