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1968ref. 147068N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the first leaf reading "Di Lorenzo." Laid in with the script is a typed summary of the screenplay with a typed note attached likely from a casting agency reader explaining his choice to pass on the screenplay to a younger reader. An early version of the script wherein a group of GIs take over an Italian-controlled North African desert town by posing as Italian soldiers. Set in North Africa. Lacking front wrapper with blue rear wrapper intact. Title page present. 345 leaves with last page of text numbered 343. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall with a small tear to the upper left of the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1936ref. 148629Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1936. Release Dialogue script for the 1936 film with annotation in manuscript red pencil striking "Release" and replacing it with "Censorship" with one other annotation striking Paramount Pictures directives at bottom of front wrapper in manuscript pencil. Two "Master File" stamps surrounding production number stamp "1177" on upper right and Paramount "File Copy" stamp on front wrapper. Script divided into eight reels. Nature reporter Orville Shanks' Charles Ruggles editor Lyle Talbot orders him to spice up his column "Our Wild Friends" by making it a gossip column Orville's wife Melba Alice Brady does so using animals as cover for actual townsfolk and the column becomes a hit. Self wrappers noted as RELEASE DIALOGUE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 23 and production No. 1177 with credits for screenwriter Dore Schary and story by John F. Larkin. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 8-13. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1994ref. 171825Los Angeles CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1994. One Table Draft script one Revised Table Draft script and one Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 1994 television series. Originally aired September 11 1994 on Fox. Table Draft and Revised Table Draft script with manuscript ink annotations throughout. An early effort by noted actor Paul Rudd. A short-lived series featuring the lives of a group of friends in their twenties. In this episode one friend's ex-boyfriend shows up causing tension with her new boyfriend. Set in Chicago. Table Draft: Blue titled wrappers noted as Table Draft on the front wrapper production No. 2W01 dated August 8 1994. Title page present dated August 8 1994 noted as TABLE DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Tom Straw and director Stan Lathan. 51 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revised Table Draft: Yellow titled self wrappers lacking rear wrappers noted as 2ND REVISED TABLE DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 2W01 dated August 10 1994 with credits for screenwriter Tom Straw and director Stan Lathan. Title page integral with front wrapper. 46 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Xerographic rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Final Draft: Blue titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper production No. 2W01 dated August 11 1994. Title page present dated August 11 1994 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Tom Straw and director Stan Lathan. 46 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
ref. 146953N.p.: N.p. Unknown. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Barry Hannah's 1980 novel. In Tuscaloosa twice-married Vietnam War veteran and medical doctor Ray ekes a living out of teaching night classes at a local university writing bad poetry and publishing academic research papers on stimulants-primarily from first-hand knowledge. Set in Maryland and Tuscaloosa Alabama. Brown generic ICM agency wrappers. Title page present noted as First draft with credits for screenwriter Marjorie David and novelist Barry Hannah. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1995ref. 171699Los Angeles CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1995. One Table Draft script and one Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 12 of the 1995 television series. Originally aired December 17 1995 on The WB. With some sparse manuscript ink annotations throughout the Final Draft script. The short-lived sitcom followed beleaguered single mother Ellen Carlson as she tried to balance raising her nine-year-old daughter with running a production company in Manhattan's Upper West Side. In this episode Ellen's therapist brother comes to visit and inadvertently causes a rift in his parent's relationship by overanalyzing their dynamic. Set in Manhattan. Table Draft: Orange titled wrappers noted as Table Draft on the front wrapper dated October 30 1995. Title page present dated October 30 1995 noted as TABLE DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Nelson Costello and director Linda Day. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Final Draft: White titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 3L12 dated November 14 1995 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Costello and director Linda Day. Title page integral with front wrapper. 44 leaves with last page of text numbered 39. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-14-95 and 11-15-95. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
1966ref. 149248Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1966 British film. Based on the 1947 short story by Cornell Woolrich. Previously filmed in 1949 as "The Window" directed by Ted Tetzlaff and starring Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy and remade in 1984 as "Cloak and Dagger" directed by Richard Franklin and starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. Twelve year old Jonathan has a penchant for making up stories and when he witnesses a murder which the killer is aware of his family doesn't believe him. Set in and shot on location in Montenegro and Yugoslavia. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with splitting and closed tears at the folds. Universal Pictures unknown books
1995ref. 171698Los Angeles CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1995. One Table Draft script and one Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 11 of the 1995 television series. Originally aired November 26 1995 on The WB. With label affixed to the front wrapper of the Table Draft script with the name of show creator Steve Stephen Sustarsic. The short-lived sitcom followed beleaguered single mother Ellen Carlson as she tries to balance raising her nine-year-old daughter with running a production company in Manhattan's Upper West Side. In this episode Ellen's family continues to get in the way of date night with her boyfriend. Set in Manhattan. Table Draft: Blue titled wrappers noted as Table Draft on the front wrapper dated October 24 1995. Title page present dated October 24 1995 noted as TABLE DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Rachel Lipman and director David Grossman. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Final Draft: White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT production No. 3L11 dated November 6 1995 with credits for screenwriter Rachel Lipman and director David Grossman. Title page integral with front wrapper. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
1966ref. 149291Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1966 film. James Coburn plays a cool disaffected criminal who recruits a group of con men to pull off a heist at a bank located in the Los Angeles International Airport. A wry take on the usual heist film. Winner of a Golden Globe Award. Set in various locations around the United States largely Boston and Los Angeles and shot on location in Boston and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Good to Very Good shadows of paper tape on verso visible along border small rough tear to top center and pinholes. Lee The Heist Film. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1995ref. 171701Los Angeles CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1995. One Table Draft script and one Final Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1995 television series. With label affixed to the front wrapper of the Final Draft script with the name of show creator Steve Stephen Sustarsic The short-lived sitcom followed beleaguered single mother Ellen Carlson as she tried to balance raising her nine-year-old daughter with running a production company in Manhattan's Upper West Side. In this episode Ellen's ex-husband wants to open up a chicken restaurant with Ellen's sister. Set in Manhattan. Table Draft: Lavender titled wrappers noted as Table Draft on the front wrapper dated November 29 1995. Title page present dated November 29 1995 noted as TABLE DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Rob Hanning and director Terri McCoy. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Final Draft: White titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 3L14 dated December 11 1995 with credits for screenwriter Rob Hanning and director Terri McCoy. Title page integral with front wrapper. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 37. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
1970ref. 147195N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With two brief manuscript ink annotations to the title page and front wrapper noting the number 778. Based on the life of noted Viennese composer Oscar Straus. Set in Austria and New York. Yellow untitled generic Paul Kohner wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Kent A. Barret. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil to the wrapper and first and last leaves bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1986ref. 149172N.p.: Cannon Films 1986. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1986 film. Director Albert Punn's violent high-school neo-noir steeped in 1980s aesthetic and soundtrack wherein a group of elitist students calling themselves The Sentinels target ethnic and political undesirables. Shot on location in Glendale Calabasas Marina del Rey Redondo Beach and Los Angeles California. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Modest splitting at top crease else Near Fine. Olive Films 924. Destroy All Movies The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. Spicer Neo-Noir. Cannon Films unknown books
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 books
1974ref. 141125N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. In the American West an evangelical preacher establishes a movement of free love and kindness to other people but many people find his ideas radical believing that he has started a cult. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credit for screenwriter J.H.Clay. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Pagination available upon request. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 151199Iver Heath UK: Pinewood Studios 2000. Sixth Draft script for the 2002 film. A recently widowed woman is bullied by her son and his wife to enter a nursing home where she soon begins to crave independence and a new start to her life. Shot on location in Berkshire England. Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 15th September 2000 noted as 6th Draft with credits for screenwriter Malcolm Stone and novelist Vernon Coleman. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall with rust to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. Pinewood Studios unknown books
1960ref. 147354N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced television film. Bandit Samuel Thaddeus Tartar arrives in town injured from a gunfight forcing his mother to admit that she has lied about his profession for years to preserve both of their reputations. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" 1960 and for his prolific work in Western films such as "Outlaw Gold" 1950 "Whistling Hills" 1951 and "Black Eagle of Santa Fe" 1965. Set in the American West. TItled self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper with credit for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with one gold brad. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 149252N.p.: Skyhawk Properties 1977. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1974 film released in the UK as "Percy's Progress" and in the US as "It's Not the Size that Counts." Sequel to the 1971 British comedy "Percy" directed by Ralph Thomas starring Hywel Bennett Denholm Elliott Elke Sommer and Britt Ekland. Percy Edward Anthony is renowned as the man who had the world's first penis transplant. When a chemical is accidentally released into the world's water supply rendering all men impotent Percy on a boat at sea and drinking only champagne is the last man on earth who can achieve an erection. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus some splitting at the folds small rough tear to bottom right border and annotation of title in manuscript ink on lower right of margin. Skyhawk Properties unknown books
1972ref. 140895N.p.: N.p. 1972. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Two idiotic football players are unwittingly involved in the murder of the kingpin of an illegal car running operation. Set in New York City. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5/1972 noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter David Scott Milton and story credit for Dick Richards. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
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 books
ref. 147358N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the true story of Simon Gunanoot and his brother-in-law Peter Himadam two Canadian men accused of murder in the early 1900s both ultimately found not guilty. Set in the Canadian wilderness. Black faux-leather agency wrappers with titles in gilt. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Daryl Henry. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 140884Century City CA: M.B.M. Enterprises 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film. The government orders a group of scientists to dose the swine flu vaccine with a brainwashing chemical. The resultant vaccine is tested on a soldier who is promptly sent off to murder the last scientist with knowledge of the brainwashing chemical. Set in Bethesda and Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter Nicholas Niciphor. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. M.B.M. Enterprises unknown books
1978ref. 149253New South Wales: Avco Embassy Pictures 1978. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1978 film. Based on the 1975 memoir by Charles Colson. Charles Colson played by Disney stalwart Dean Jones Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon and one of the Watergate Seven known as Nixon's "hatchet man" has a mid-life religious conversion when serving seven months in federal prison for obstruction of justice in the Watergate Scandal and establishes Prison Fellowship a world wide ministry. Shot on location in Washington DC and Chino California. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Avco Embassy Pictures unknown books
ref. 146406N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a business card for "Ray Rocky Notaro's Left Hook Gym and Boxing School" stapled to the title page. Included with the script are two black and white photographs of Notaro in the ring in full boxing gear wearing a "Rocky III" shirt. Based on the life story of screenwriter Ray Notaro middleweight boxing champion owner of Left Hook Gym and Boxing School and personal trainer to Sylvester Stallone during the production of "Rocky III" 1982. The screenplay follows Ray as a young child engaging in petty theft and enduring physical abuse from his alcoholic father to his time as a soldier in the Korean War to his eventual success as a boxer. Set in New York and Canada. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ray Notaro. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 147288Unknown: Dunas - Murphy Productions 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced television film. The adventures and exploits of a young Irish resistance fighter. Set in Belfast and Dublin. Red titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Tony Terpiloff. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Very Good with creasing and a few small tears to the first leaf wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Dunas - Murphy Productions unknown books
1972ref. 149278Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 film. Based on the 1930 autobiography "My Early Life" by Winston Churchill. Richard Attenborough's star-studded historical drama depicting the childhood and early life of Winston Churchill Simon Ward from his schooldays service as a cavalry officer in India and Sudan his years as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War to his first election to Parliament. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Wales England and Morocco. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with some rubbing at folds and faint creasing. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 152439N.p.: N.p. 1961. Cut Version Draft script for Season 1 Episode 12 "Trick or Treason" of the NBC anthology series "The DuPont Show of the Week" which aired on December 17 1961 and is today presumably lost. Copy belonging to uncredited associate producer Milt Myers with script housed in spring binder with Myers name in gilt on lower right. Annotations in manuscript pencil throughout with first name of Monique van Vooren who played Krys written boldly and underlined on top of title page. Script is preceded by a six page "teaser" for the episode. Missing five pages likely as used or issued. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. American OSS captain DiLuca Martin Gabel who has fallen in love with the Dutch spy Krys is fed erroneous invasion plans through Holland which Krys reveals to the Nazis confusing them as the Allies prepare for the Battle of Normandy. "The Dupont Show of the Week" was a comedy drama and musical television anthology series which aired on NBC for three seasons from September 17 1961 to August 30 1964 and was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/25/61 noted as CUT VERSION with credits for screenwriter Leon Tokatyan. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-23. Mimeograph duplication with the exception of four leaves IV6 - IV-8 and IV-19 which are carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Spring binder Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
