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1960ref. 143203Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1960. Post-production script for the 1961 film. Based on the novel by Kazu Otsuka. A literal and metaphorical title to Shohei Imamura's fifth feature depicting postwar Japan's distrust of the west's cultural imperialism and his fascination with the pimps and prostitutes who benefit from the American presence at the naval base Yokosuka. Imamura drew from his own experience as a black market hustler and spent time with gangsters researching the film. Highly controversial upon release Nikkatsu suspended Imamaura from making films for two years with the release of "Pigs and Battleships." Imamura began his film career as an assistant to Yaujiro Ozu a director he veered severely from in style and tone. Imamura quickly realized his interest in focusing on the lower strata of Japanese society seeing himself as more of a cultural anthropologist. Imamura moved on to Japan's oldes major movie studio Nikkatsu and worked as an assistant to Yuzo Kawashima who gave Imamura his first opportunity directing B films targeted toward the postwar youth. Imamura established his own production company in 1965 to free himself of studio interference and is considered a leading figure in Japanese New Wave cinema. Set in Yokosuka. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 11885. Title page present . 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 9-5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good mild foxing and mold spores along spine both wrappers and paper edge. Criterion Collection 472. Eureka Masters of Cinema 21. Nikkatsu unknown
1967ref. 129268Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Final Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 novel by Roderick Thorp about a brooding detective who becomes embroiled in a case that uncovers a deep vein of police corruption within the department. Frank Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas a box office success. One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to include explicit depictions of the lives of gay men including the violence suffered by the gay community due to the indifference of the police. In 1979 Thorp wrote a sequel to "The Detective" entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" adapted in 1988 as "Die Hard." Although Sinatra had contractual rights to star in the sequel he wisely turned it down due to his age and action movie history-and Bruce Willis' career-were made. Set in New York and shot on location in New York and in California. Light blue titled wrappers noted as Final and production No. 116 on the front wrapper dated August 17 1967. Title page present dated August 17 1967 noted as Final with credits for screenwriter Abby Mann and writer Roderick Thorp. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1925ref. 3105California: Universal Pictures 1925. First edition. original wrappers. Good. AN EARLY WORKING DRAFT OF THE 1925 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA PRESERVING THE DARKER SCENARIO UNIVERSAL WROTE BEFORE ITS FRONT OFFICE ORDERED THE TERROR TONED DOWN AND INCLUDING AN ORIGIN STORY FOR THE PHANTOM THAT NEVER REACHED THE SCREEN. Lon Chaney's unmasking in The Phantom of the Opera remains one of the most famous moments in film history. The picture that audiences finally saw in 1925 though came out of a long and difficult production shaped by poorly received previews reshoots and repeated re-editing. Its story begins with Universal staff writer Elliott J. Clawson's adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel. The present typescript records his scenario at an early stage before the studio's successive revisions reshaped it. THE PHANTOM'S LOST ORIGIN STORY: The most striking feature of the draft is a lengthy origin episode absent from every filmed version of the story. In it a Sultan condemns the Phantom to die on an anthill and the Persian who becomes his lifelong associate rescues him. Leroux's novel only alludes to its Phantom's past in Persia where a police official spared him from the Shah's death sentence. Clawson turned that background into a full dramatic sequence. The episode though was abandoned before filming began. Philip J. Riley mentions it in his narrative account of the production The Making of the Phantom of the Opera 1999 but the present manuscript preserves it as Clawson actually wrote it. Riley records that by the fifth revised shooting script most of the genuinely frightening scenes like the anthill death scene had been removed because the front office feared the original material would drive audiences out of the theater. RELATIONSHIP TO THE KNOWN RECORD: Riley's study draws on two principal script documents: an early Clawson draft which he quotes in places and the fifth revised shooting script which he reproduces in full. The present manuscript shares the general scope and character of the early draft yet it differs in both scene numbering and the wording of specific directions. At the bedchamber scene Riley's source is numbered 286; here the same scene is numbered 289. The three-scene offset indicates that this manuscript contains material Riley's source lacks at that point suggesting either an earlier compositional layer or a fuller parallel version. Riley does not say where his early draft is held so the relationship between the two documents remains open. Our comparison is limited to the passages Riley chose to quote and a full collation may well reveal further differences. THE ANNOTATIONS: Pencil annotations appear intermittently throughout. They are pointed and analytical raising questions of continuity pacing and plot logic. One asks how Christine could communicate with Raoul while held captive and another asks why certain developments do not occur earlier in a sequence. They suggest close review by a reader with editorial authority over the script. Note: Although the draft breaks off during the climactic rescue attempt by Raoul and Ledoux and does not include the full text as we've come to know the story the draft appears complete as it originally existed. There is no sign of removed pages - in fact the last page with type seems to be on a different stock and serves also as the rear wrapper - which is consistent with an unfinished working draft rather than later loss. RARITY: Universal silent-era screenplays rarely survive. Scripts were typed in small numbers on unstable pulp paper and much of the studio's early paper record was later discarded. This draft documents The Phantom of the Opera before commercial pressure and successive rewrites displaced Clawson's original conception. It preserves a version of the film that Universal chose not to make. Typescript working draft. Universal City California: Universal Pictures ca. 1925. More than 200 pages typed on 8.5 x 13 inch legal-size pulp stock; original blue wrapper; pale toned rear wrapper. Pencil annotations throughout. Front wrapper present but detached; leaves brittle with edge chipping creases foxing marginal staining and small losses as is typical of Universal scripts of the period. Housed in custom archival presentation box. Universal Pictures unknown
1969ref. 162200N.p.: Joseph Green Pictures 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 German/Spanish film also released in the US under the title "Two Undercover Angels." Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Janine Reynaud and Rosanna Yanni two sleuths who go by the collective name "Red Lips" are investigating the disappearance of several models and dancers with pop artist Klaus Thriller and his hirsute henchman Morpho being the prime suspects. Shot on location in Spain and Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing at the extremitites. Joseph Green Pictures unknown
1975ref. 170771France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film including a program ten lobby cards and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards 10: 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs 2: 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued. Arcadie Productions unknown
1969ref. 171030Paris: Jet Film / Two World Enterprises / Les Films du Losange 1969. Vintage press kit for the 1969 film including five studio still photographs and a bound gathering of publicity material. Text in English. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. Photographs Near Fine promotional material Very Good plus perfect-bound in wrappers with front wrapper partially detached from the binding. BFI 1040. Jet Film / Two World Enterprises / Les Films du Losange unknown
1969ref. 131243N.p.: Cinema V. 1969. Original silkscreen poster designed by legendary title and poster artist Saul Bass for the US release of the 1968 French film "Alexandre le bienheaureux." Printed at the Art Krebs Screen Studios in Los Angeles and used for the film's premiere at the legendary Cinema II Theater in New York City. Bass' initial design proposals were in general too radical for film studios to consider for advertisement and were invariably altered to suit commercial needs. He produced silkscreens of his original designs himself in non-numbered editions of 50 to 200. These posters were then given to fellow artists friends museums and design magazines and never offered directly for sale by Bass. 25 x 33 inches. About Fine with a light crease to the upper left corner. Cinema V. unknown
1969ref. 170400Paris: Greenwich Film Production 1969. Draft script for the 1969 French film. Copy belonging to production secretary Odette Darrigol with her name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Text in French. Included with the script are four pages of spirit duplication revision pages and eight gatherings of production documents including a shooting schedule and several crew contact lists. A surrealist comedy about a pair of vagrants who take a pilgrimage route from Paris to Santiago de Compostela. The first entry in Luis Buñuel's trilogy about what he called "the search for truth" followed by "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" 1972 and "The Phantom of Liberty" 1974. Shot on location in France. Tall red titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for Buñuel and screenwriter Jean Claude Carrière and producer Serge Silberman. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus perfect bound. Greenwich Film Production unknown
1970ref. 171983Montreal: Cinépix 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 Canadian film. Text in French. A mixed-race car salesman flees to an indigenous reserve after being wrongly accused of killing his half-sister but finds himself just as much an outsider there as in white society. Shot on location in Montreal. 8.5 x 11 inches saddle-stapled. 14 pages. Near Fine. Cinépix unknown
1973ref. 171998Burbank CA: Warner-Columbia Film 1973. Vintage pressbook for the initial German release of the 1973 Dutch film including a black-and-white booklet with advertising insert leaves and three vintage borderless reference photographs one showing Paul Verhoeven wearing a rain poncho during filming on location the other two showing Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven. Text in German. Based on Jan Wolkers' 1969 novel. A gifted but poor sculptor marries a beautiful wealthy young woman but their relationship is tumultuous and soon sours. Director Paul Verhoeven's second feature film the screen debuts of both Hauer and van de Ven and the most successful release in the history of Dutch cinema. Set and shot on location in Noord-Holland and Rotterdam Netherlands. Folder: 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Photographs: 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Warner-Columbia Film unknown
1966ref. 148977Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1966 film. Based on the 1964 hit Broadway play by Muriel Resnik. Ellen Gordon Jane Fonda is New York executive John Cleves' Jason Robards mistress who falls for Cleves' young out-of-town associate Cass Henderson Dean Jones when Cleves' secretary unknowingly sends him to the apartment where they have their trysts. The secretary then compounds the error by telling Cleves' wife Dorothy Rosemary Murphy about the apartment. Shot on location in New York City. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued one small closed tear else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1967ref. 148982N.p.: Childhood Productions Inc 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1955 German film. Based on the Italian fairy tale particularly the 1812 version found in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Grimms' Fairy Tales." A fanciful live-action rendition of the tale of the anthropomorphic cat Margitta Sonke who uses fools King Wonnebald F.W. Schroder-Schrom and his daughter Rosine Christa Oenicke into believing the miller's son Hans Harry Wustenhagen is Count Carabas and tricks the evil wizard Saufdichvoll Helmut Ziegner into giving his noble home a knight's castle to Hans. Shot on location at Burg Castle in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good pinholes to corners small splitting at crease several small closed tears and cello tape at extremities. Childhood Productions, Inc unknown
1970ref. 149020N.p.: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Nature-boy shepherd Serafino Adriano Celentano inherits his aunt Gesuina's Nerina Montagnani fortune and proceeds to frivolously spend it on family and friends. After destroying a new convertible his uncle Agenore Saro Urzi files to have him declared mentally incompetent. Shot on location in Marche Lazio and Abruzzo Italy. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with small split in crease pinholes to top corners and manuscript annotation on verso visible on recto. Columbia Pictures unknown
1975ref. 149266N.p.: Essex Enterprises Ltd 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. Joe Don Baker is Mitchell a hard-nosed cop intent on taking down a drug dealing syndicate regardless of the orders of his superiors. "Mitchell" gained a newfound popularity after being featured in a 1993 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Shot on location in Calabasas Long Beach Marina del Rey and Los Angeles California. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus light splitting at the folds and a bruise at the lower left margin. Essex Enterprises Ltd unknown
1987ref. 147105Arzo Switzerland: Al Castello 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in German. A romance develops between a German actor and a Japanese student. Director Beat Kuert was best known for "Eine Frau fur Alfie" 1989 and for a documentary series focusing on contemporary architects including Herzog and de Meuron Jean Nouvel and Luigi Snozzi. Set and shot on location in Zurich and Cantone Ticino Switzerland and Kyoto and Osaka Japan. Clear mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter ADOLF MUSCHG. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Al Castello unknown
1960ref. 147196N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in Spanish. An imagining of the infancy youth and adolescence of Jesus Christ. Set in Jerusalem. Beige titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Ismael Rodriguez. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 149810Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1984. Draft script for the fourth episode of the four-episode television miniseries "Vater und Sohne: Eine deutsche Tragodie" Father and Son: A German Tragedy which first aired November 12 1986 on Radiotelevisione Italiana here under the working title "Joint Venture." Text in English. The story of two wealthy German families-one family Jewish bankers the other founders of a chemical corporation-before during and after World War II. Although initially filmed in English the miniseries was first broadcast in its full eight hours on Italian and German television in 1986 and 1987 before being drastically edited to four hours for its 1988 debut on American television. Set and shot on location in Germany. Clear untitled plastic front wrapper and green rear wrapper i.e. generic report folder. Title page present dated March 14 1984 with credits for director Bernhard Sinkel. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a white prong binding. Bavaria Atelier unknown
1969ref. 149286Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1969. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1969 film. Based on the 1966 play by Charles Dyer. Richard Burton and Rex Harrison are Harry Leeds and Charles Dyer an aging argumentative gay couple whose relationship becomes strained after living together for 20 years. Set in London's East End shot on location in London and Paris. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus some creasing and pinholes to top corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1977ref. 148962N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1976 Swedish film. Based on the 1971 Swedish novel "The Abominable Man" by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. The seventh in a series of ten crime novels featuring police detective Martin Beck. A gritty bloody 1970s police procedural wherein Detective Inspector Martin Beck Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt investigates the brutal murder of Police Lieutenant Nyman while convalescing in a hospital soon discovering that Nyman was corrupt and abusive and had made enemies leading up to his death. Set in and shot on location in Stockholm. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with small splitting in top horizontal crease two small holes and a closed tear to upper right margin. Grant Sweden. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 149245Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1971. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1971 film. Hal Ashby's classic love story between the young suicide-obsessed Harold But Cort and the exuberant 80-year-old Maude Ruth Gordon. Set and shot on location in California. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with bruise to lower left light soiling at the folds and annotation of title in manuscript marker on lower right margin. National Film Registry. Eureka! 83. Criterion Collection 608. Paramount Pictures unknown
ref. 149250Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the 1977 French film. Jean-Jacques Annaud's directorial debut. A scathing black comedy in which the residents of a French outpost in Africa learn of France's 1915 declaration of war on Germany conscript the local population and plan an attack on a nearby German garrison. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set in and shot on location in Ivory Coast. 27 x 41 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists Pictures unknown
1967ref. 149023N.p.: Royal Films International 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1966 French film. A modern adaptation of the 1872 Emile Zola play "La Curee." Pampered young Renee Saccard Jane Fonda married to the older wealthy industrialist Alexandre Saccard Michel Piccoli is tricked out of her fortune when she falls for his son Maxime Peter McEnery. The second of four films Vadim and Fonda would make together. Set in Paris. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus some splitting to three of the folds. Royal Films International unknown
1966ref. 149281Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1966 film with corrected credits at the bottom margin on an affixed label. Adapted from the teleplay "Big Deal in Laredo" written by Sidney Carroll originally aired on "The DuPont Show of the Week" on NBC October 7 1962 starring Walter Matthau Teresa Wright and Zachary Scott. Meredith Henry Fonda his wife Mary Joanne Woodward and their young son are passing through Laredo Texas during an annual high-stakes poker game when Meredith decides to buy into the game. After losing all of their family savings he suffers a physical breakdown prompting the attention of a doctor and for his wife Mary Joanne Woodward to take over his hand. Because she has no more money to bet she takes a loan from the bank based on her hand. Set in Laredo TX and filmed on location in Flagstaff AZ. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Light splitting at bottom crease else Near Fine. Pitts 317. Warner Brothers unknown
1959ref. 152701Paris: Athos Films 1959. Vintage press sheet i.e. a one-leaf version of a pressbook for the 1959 French film. Text in French. François Truffaut's auspicious debut a semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy's estrangement from his family and school leading him into a life of petty crime and culminating in trouble with the law. Winner of Best Director at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. Single sheet 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films unknown
1959ref. 152702Paris: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage pressbook for the 1959 French film noir. Text in French. Two French journalists in Manhattan investigate the sudden disappearance of the French delegation to the United Nations. Bi-fold 9 x 12 inches. Lightly rubbed else Near Fine. Grant France. Selby France. Columbia Pictures unknown
