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1962ref. 143832Paris: Filmsonor 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Cartouche." Action sequences men in military regalia and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Also included are a few leaves of French press material on stationery from the film's distributor Cinedis. A riveting Peplum sword-and-sandal swashbuckler set in 1700s France where a gang member named Cartouche Belmondo forms his own band of knaves deciding his former gang to be too unethical. He steals from the rich to give to the poor enlists in the army to escape capture and meets Venus Cardinale a gypsy prisoner who joins his new gang. Venus' love proves fatal and Cartouche rolls her into a lake in a stolen carriage vowing revenge knowing it will likely lead him to the gallows. Belmondo and Cardinale's interaction is palpable but they would star in only two other films together Mauro Balognini's "La viaccia" 1961 and José Giovanni's "Scoumoune" 1972. Photos 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling a few short creases and a few slightly discolored. Press material corner-stapled and paper-clipped Very Good plus overall. Complete collation upon request. Filmsonor unknown
1939ref. 146098N.p.: N.p. 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film by Rafael Sabatini. A fine leatherbound copy with gilt lettering and decorated endpapers. One of prolific screenwriter Rafael Sabatini's final projects. A romanticized swashbuckling account of the adventures and loves of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus here re-imagined as the Spanish "Cristobal Colon" from Castile. Delays in the production of the film led Sabatini to turn his early screenplay into a novel first published by Hutchinson in 1941. Although interest was again raised in a Columbus film in the late 1940s-leading to the British "Christopher Columbus" 1949 starring Fredric March-Sabatini's script was ultimately rewritten for the film. Set in Spain. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Rafael Sabatini. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 259 leaves with last page of text numbered 256. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with wear at the extremities. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 146709N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced English-language film circa 1960s and 1980s about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date of his canonization. Although the scripts appear to have been written at different times and there are significant differences between them there are also enough textual similarities to confidently suggest they were both written by Raymond Ferrante despite the early script containing no credits. The titular character was born to a Spanish father and a woman of African and Native American Heritage He is the patron saint of mixed-race peoples and those seeking racial harmony as well as barbers innkeepers and public health workers. He was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962 roughly corresponding with the first script on offer. First script: Yellow titled wrappers. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with a dampstain to the rear wrapper and about half the pages bound with two gold brads. Second script: Red titled wrappers noted as SECOND ROUGH DRAFT on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Raymond Ferrante. Title page present noted as SECOND ROUGH DRAFT with credits for Ferrante. 175 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 174. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 139540Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage oversize double weight color still photograph from the 1967 film based on the 1964 play by Murray Schisgal. Although not indicated shot and struck by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with an agency stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13 x 19.25 inches mounted on board. About Near Fine with some soiling near the top edge and light edgewear overall. Columbia Pictures unknown
1983ref. 162428N.p.: N.p. 1983. Third Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "The Texas Picture." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 39. During the Great Depression a recently widowed mother fights to defend her family farm from repossession. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two including Best Actress for Sally Field and Best Screenplay. Set in Waxahachie Texas and shot on location in Waxahachie and Five Points Texas. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated August 12 1983 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter Robert Benton. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 150217N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson on the set of the 1974 film one of the film's jousting sequences. Jacques Henri Lartigue credit printed on verso. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 11.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and wear to extremities. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 149449Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation 1961. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente Harvey Evans Susan Oakes Bert Michaels Tommy Abbott and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno. Set in New York's West Side shot on location in New York and California. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing to the corners. United Artists / Mirisch Corporation unknown
1972ref. 154016N.p.: N.p. 1972. Collection of 32 vintage keybook snapshot photographs from the 1972 film. Possibly unique. A lesser known film in director Roman Polanski's oeuvre a comedic and highly sexualized homage to Alice in Wonderland starring Sydne Rome as an American hitchhiker who stumbles upon an increasingly bizarre and decadent party at an Italian villa. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams." 5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1942ref. 159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 9 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1950ref. 135620Paris: B.M.P. Films 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film "The Treasure of Cantenac" here under its title of origin "Le Tresor de Cantenac" on the title page with the film's working title "Un miracle" also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp and faint pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce this being a completely original example with text in French throughout. Set in a rundown French village the film is a series of vignettes illustrating the human condition. The Baron de Cantenac on the verge of suicide after losing his fortune goes on one last walk through his dying town. On the way he meets the town's oldest citizen who reveals a royal treasure that he has been jealously guarding for years. Director-screenwriter-actor Guitry was a prominent French filmmaker during the post-WWI years of French cinema following in the footsteps of his father silent film actor Lucien Guitry. His notable film credits include English titles "The Lover of Camille" 1924 "The Story of a Cheat" 1936 "Nine Bachelors" 1939 "Royal Affairs in Versailles" 1954 a film notable for its appearance of a young Brigitte Bardot and "Napoleon" 1955. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for Guitry and B.M.P. Films in Paris the US branch is in California. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good perfect-bound and side-stiched. B.M.P. Films unknown
1964ref. 170562N.p.: N.p. 1964. Collection of 23 vintage reference photographs from the 1964 film. All but one with mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre outrageous and perverse pulp masterwork. A former call girl tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children only to fall in love with a seemingly saintly businessman who has a dark secret of his own. Set in the fictional town of Grantville USA. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine to Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and short closed tear. Criterion Collection 18. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 141425N.p.: Genjiro Amato 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband and her husband's murderer. Purple titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Genjiro Amato unknown
1971ref. 146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. Shot on location in New York. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 152555Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Kane." Copy belonging to actor Bradford Dillman with his stamp to the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two manuscript pages with Dillman's notes on blocking for various scenes and two gatherings of cast and crew contact information. A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor however knows the man holds a larger more meaningful purpose in the world. Set in Alabama shot on location in Marysville California. Blue titled wrappers dated January 30 1970 noted as production No. 8981. Title page present dated January 30 1970 with credits for director James Goldstone and screenwriter Ernest Kinoy. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between February 11 1970 and March 4 1970. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1987ref. 161007New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the half-title page by screenwriter Michael Herr to noted bookseller Ken Hubner: "18 February / For Ken Hubner / Best / Michael Herr." A hint of toning overall else about Fine in illustrated wrappers. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1998ref. 161311N.p.: N.p. 1998. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1999 film here under the working title "Carrie II" copy belonging to an unknown crew or cast member with six small post-it tabs affixed to the top of six pages in which characters are killed or injured annotated with brief descriptions e.g. "Lisa / Windshield" "Chuck Berry Boy" and "Jesse / Snake" and manuscript ink and marker annotations on four pages. Salmon revision pages dated 06/14/98 bound in following the script. Based on the characters from Stephen King's 1974 novel "Carrie" and sequel to the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. Carrie White's long-lost half-sister Rachel Lang an outcast high school student who also has telekinetic powers is troubled following the suicide of her best friend and is befriended by Jesse Ryan a popular football player who with his friends is planning on humiliating Rachel at the biggest party of the year. Shot on location in North and South Carolina. Untitled yellow wrappers. Title page present with last revision pages dated 5/21/98 with credits for screenwriter Rafael Moreu. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 114A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white blue pink yellow green goldenrod and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/25/98 and 06/14/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Vinegar Syndrome 505. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 166020Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Vintage keybook set design photograph from the 1943 film showing the exterior of a nightclub advertising a one-night-only performance by Duke Ellington and his band. Property Department stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1940 Broadway musical. A compulsive gambler killed in a nightclub shooting is visited by God and the Devil who agree to give him six months to atone for his earthly misdeeds and decide the fate of his eternal soul. A star-studded affair featuring jazz great Louis Armstrong as one of Satan's minions and a showcase musical number by Ellington and his orchestra. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1996ref. 172069Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1996. 18 vintage color slides from the 1996 film. A disparate group of survivors congregate in the Nevada desert after a large-scale attack by aliens deciding to plan a counterattack in New York City on behalf of the human race. Screenwriters Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich previously worked together on the 1994 film "Stargate" with much of the plot of "Independence Day" conceived by the pair during promotional tours for that movie. Nominated for two Academy Awards and followed by a 2016 sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence." Shot on location in New York City in Flagstaff Arizona on the Plains of San Agustin New Mexico in Los Angeles and Fontana California in Wendover and the Bonneville Salt Flats Utah and in Cliffside Park New Jersey. Slides 1.5 x 1 inches in cardboard sleeves measuring 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1919ref. 152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready." A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway. Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 135017Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image showing Max von Sydow looming above-and seemingly beyond-a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by Burstyn and Sydow that only increases with repeated viewings. Another distinction of "The Exorcist" was that it walked away with 2 Oscars including Best Screenplay for Blatty along with 8 nominations including Best Picture a feat nearly unheard for a horror film. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1966ref. 137871Paris: Parc Film 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in manuscript marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife mute from a car accident move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality fact and fiction begin to blend together as he transforms the villagers into characters in his story. In his 1969 review Roger Ebert called The Creatures "a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels but in fact it operates on only one illustrating how fantasy reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer." Three photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light scratches. Remaining photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches. A few photographs lightly worn else Near Fine overall. Parc Film unknown books
1992ref. 148720Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers perfect-bound dated 1992.11.5. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 197. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. Dentsu Music and Entertainment unknown books
1970ref. 149801Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Archive of five vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1970 film four of which are borderless. One photograph SIGNED and dated 1969 by photographer Alan Pappe on the verso all photographs with his stamp. All five photographs feature legendary Italian director Federico Fellini in his cameo role as himself with one showing the director on the set with a clapboard and crew members in front of him while a second features a manuscript pencil annotation describing Fellini and actor Donald Sutherland discussing a scene with an out-of-frame director Paul Mazursky. Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. A young filmmaker struggles to come up with ideas for new film after his previous commercial and critical success while ruminating on his past present and possible futures. One photograph 11 x 11 inches four photographs roughly 14 x 11 or 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 162442N.p.: Sherpix 1968. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's satirical take on Hollywood Westerns features five gay cowboys a rowdy ranch lady and her stoned nurse handsome drifter Julian and a drag queen sheriff. Set and shot on location in Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the edges else about Near Fine. Sherpix unknown books
1970ref. 137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown books
