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ref. 148354Rome: Solaris Cinematografica 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script are six pages of Invernizzi's handwritten notes. Text in Italian. Missing page 98 likely as used or issued. Based on the 1995 novel by Maria Orsini Natale. A noblewoman's adopted daughter falls in love with her foster brother causing great rifts between mother and daughter and exposing older family secrets. Set and shot on location in Naples Italy. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5 OTTOBRE 2000 with credits for director and screenwriter Lina Wertmuller screenwriter Elvio Porta and novelist Mario Orsini Natale. 196 leaves with last page of text numbered 186. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver brads. Solaris Cinematografica unknown books
ref. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown books
ref. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
1963ref. 149232Paris: Lux Film 1963. Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film. Text in French. During World War I a man supplements his income by luring middle-class Parisian women to a countryside villa where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. The first and only screenwriting credit of author and playwright Francoise Sagan. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Single sheet. Near Fine with a small dampstain to the top edge. Lux Film unknown books
1977ref. 146559Munich: Terrafilm 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk with manuscript ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the script. Text in German. A young woman arrives at a dilapidated hospital searching for answers to her past. Academy Award-winning Hungarian director Karoly Makk garnered accolades for his incisive political films during Hungarian cinema's renaissance in the postwar period most notably "Love" 1971 "Cats' Play" 1972 and "Another Way" 1982. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Karoly Makk and screenwriter Gunther Heller. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and light soil bound with a gold prong. Terrafilm unknown books
1960ref. 146515N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript annotation in ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a typed page crediting Pierre Gaspard-Huit as director. Text in French. An FBI agent infiltrates an international drug smuggling ring that operates primarily through a system of casinos. Set in Portugal. Grey titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped France-Cinema-Productions with credits for screenwriter Jean-Michel Clermontet. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with faint foxing to the verso of the final leaf wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146518N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation to the title page stating "ROUGH TRANSLATION / VERY ROUGH" and a few small proofreader's annotations. Text in English. Incomplete apparentlhy as issued. An assassin becomes involved with a solitary young woman and gives her a handgun to protect herself while he's out of the country on an assignment-a gift which invariably only lands her in deeper trouble. Screenwriters Eugenio Martin and Jose G. Maesso were best known for their work on "The Ugly Ones" 1968 a violent heavily influential Euro Western film. Set in the US and Uruguay. Tan untitled side stapled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jose G. Maesso and Eugenio Martin. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with the final few leaves loose from the binding. Pitts 4631. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 146577N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English. Based on the 1960 German novel wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script written seven years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Germany. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1978 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Siegfried Lenz screenwriter Rainer Soehnlein and translator Scott Morrison. 206 leaves with last page of text numbered 202. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 146785N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on the 1978 novel by John Godey wherein a deadly black mamba is accidentally released into Central Park and hunted down by a rogue herpetologist. Set in New York City. Lacking titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter THOMAS GSPANDL and novelist JOHN GODEY. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Early Xerox rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a tear running horizontal to the final leaf with gold prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 146583Rome: Pegaso 1969. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in English. A bleak retelling of the siege of Masada by Roman troops in 74 AD leading one thousand Jews to commit suicide in order to avoid death at the hands of the Roman soldiers. An early career script by noted Italian screenwriter Nicola Badalucco who was best known for "The Damned" 1969 which won an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Set in the Masada fortress in Israel. Pink titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Film treatment with credits for screenwriter Nicola BADALUCCO. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Pegaso unknown books
1965ref. 146545N.p.: N.p. 1965. Draft script for the 1965 Yugoslavian made-for-television film first aired on November 15 1965. With a few manuscript ink annotations throughout mostly noting deletions and grammatical revisions. Text in English. An aging actor recalls his experiences twenty years earlier during World War II in particular remembering an older artist nicknamed "Maestro" who encouraged him to pursue his dream of acting. Set and shot on location in Warsaw. White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Jerzy Antczak and story credits to Zdzislaw Skowronski. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rusting on the front wrapper likely from a paper clip bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 146530N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film here under the working title "Tenderly." With a business card clipped to the first leaf. Laid in with the script is a typed two-page overview of director Franco Brusati's prior screenwriting and directorial credits. Text in English. After 15 years apart a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart a free-spirited young woman. Set in Italy. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters FRANCO BRUSATI and ENNIO DE CONCINI and translator John Francis Lane. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus internally side stapled our first encounter with this practice and bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 146544Munich: Roxy-Film and Co KG 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Text in German. Director Harald Philip who presumably worked on the film in addition to its credited director Alfred Vohrer is credited on the title page. A reticent widower is forced to take on the uncomfortable task of educating his 16 year old daughter about sex leading her to request that he find her a boyfriend. Set in West Germany. White untitled self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ernst Flugel. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with gold prong binding. Roxy-Film and Co, KG unknown books
1985ref. 146542Starnberg: Macropus Film 1985. Draft script for the 1989 film. Text in English. Violent conflict between Muslims and Buddhists in Sri Lanka forces a young boy to hide in a traveling circus run by his mother a mysteriously youthful concentration camp survivor. Set in Sri Lanka. Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for screenwriters Imre Gyongyossy Katalin Petenyi Rodrigez Orell and director Barna Kabay. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Macropus Film unknown books
1974ref. 145245Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film likely for a specific theatre as it advertises "Starts May 1" about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. A Blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. Shot on location in New Mexico. 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with vertical and horizontal folds and light edgewear. Manuscript annotations on the verso. Parish and Hill Black Action Films 213. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 210. Columbia Pictures unknown books
ref. 143477Tokyo: Shinchosha Company 1988. Preparation Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1967 short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. Text in Japanese. A draft script of the film in which the ending had not yet been finalized. "Grave of the Fireflies" follows the final days of two Japanese children during World War II and though it contains few combat scenes remains one of the most riveting war films ever made. Short story author Akiyuki Nosaka heartily approved of the animated film of his work noting that he believed it was impossible to create the bleak backdrop or find child actors able to create a film of the subject in any other way. The second film animated by Studio Ghibli best known for its animated films directed by Hayao Miyazaki and the only Ghibli film under Tokuma Shoten ownership that had no involvement from them. Black perfect-bound wrappers with silver titles. Title page present. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mechanical duplication with three green title pages pages at the front of the script. Pages Fine wrapper Fine. Shinchosha Company unknown books
1986ref. 144120Budapest: MAFILM Objektiv Filmstudio 1986. Draft script for the 1987 film with the directors filmography and brief biography set in on the front wrapper. Text in English. A busy middle-class family at the end of Hungary's Kadar era use their kitchen chalk board as their primary mode of communication. The young son stays home from school and watches the family through periscopes. Shot on location in Budapest Hungary. Clear mylar front wrapper and black plastic rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1/20/86 with credits for screenwriter Miklos Vamos director Janos Rozsa dramaturge Istvan Kardos and translator Jack Jorgens. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine Comb binding. MAFILM Objektiv Filmstudio unknown books
1960ref. 144162N.p.: N.p. 1960. Typescript for an unproduced film. Synopses in English are laid into the front wrapper for "That Boy Named Jesus" "Young Jesus" and "Don Quixote Goes West." Text in English. An imagining of the infancy youth and adolescence of Jesus Christ. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ismael Rodriguez. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Pages Fine wrapper Fine clip binding. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 143058Tokyo: Film Art Association 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations from production on two leaves. Text in Japanese. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. White titled wrappers. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout wrapper split at spine with mild foxing otherwise Good condition. BFI 534. Criterion Collection 233. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan Classic Noir. Film Art Association unknown books
1964ref. 143965France: Filmel 1964. Revised Draft script for the 1964 French film here under the original French title. Printed and bound by the Studio de la Copie in Paris operated by Mme. L. Lucienne Sotier with credits on the first page. Text in French. Based on Daniel-Rops' 1934 eponymous novel. Laure Audret is a young woman nearly raped by a member of her family Terzieff but she meets Jean Auclair who takes her in to help his dying wife and his children. Daniel-Rops was a member of the French Academy wrote dozens of works from 1926 to 1965 and was an active Christian and scholar. Director Bromberger was active in French film noir during the late 1940s including his sole debut "Paris Vice Squad" 1951 nominated at Cannes and he made a few sexploitation films notably "Secrets of a French Nurse" 1958 and this film was his second-to-last as director before "A Night in Tiberias"1965. Partially set in a castle in foggy France. Blue untitled wrappers with vellum spine. Title page present undated with credits for novelist/screenwriter Daniel-Rops screenwriter Grendel and director/screenwriter Bromberger. #PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 270. Mimeograph duplication with pink and yellow revision pages throughout all pages undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled some loss to the spine. Filmel unknown books
1959ref. 143239Tokyo: Toho Company 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film crediting Masahiro Makino as the director who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi originally released in 1937 as two parts "Saga of the Vagabonds Part One Tiger Wolf" and "Saga of the Vagabonds Part Two Forward at Dawn." Toshiro Mifune plays a feudal bandit accused of stealing money he was entrusted and assembles a revenge party to storm the family castle and attack his brother who betrayed him. Kurosawa would serve as 3rd assistant director to Eisuke Takizawa for both films and go on to write the latter screenplay previously penned by Sadao Yamanaka. Set in Japan's Edo period. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered f-16. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on paper edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Toho Company unknown books
ref. 143238Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a xerographically duplicated character list laid in with single manuscript ink notation. Text in Japanese. The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one of the screen's great heroes the character of Zatoichi a blind masseur and swordmaster was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa first appearing on film in 1962. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. "Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival" is the 21st film of the series where Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. Set in the Japanese Edo period. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered c-50. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on papers edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Criterion Collection 679. Daiei Studios unknown books
1967ref. 142997Belgrade: Avala Film 1967. Original program for the international release of the 1967 Yugoslav black wave film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film and reproductions of line illustrations. Wrappers text in French with French German Russian Spanish and English text inside. Taking on the trappings of American crime and film noir about a woman who is murdered by her lover after her infidelity is discovered the plot unfolds in non-chronological order with imaginative digressions and interruptions where both a sexologist and criminologist directly address the camera creating a critique of communist society and censorship. 10 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus in stiff wrappers. Criterion Eclipse 18. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Avala Film unknown books
1950ref. 142375N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript with type in black and red. A family visits France and deals with all sorts of upper class conveniences and distractions including eating dinner and being invited for tea. Text in English and French. Set in France. Unbound leaves. Title page integral with first page of text. 33 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 31. Ribbon copy typescript. Very Good with some faint evidence of dampstaining at the bottom edge of pages. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 141642Vienna: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on Herman Hesse's last full-length novel "Das Glasperlenspiel" or "The Glass Bead Game" published in 1943. Years into the future a class of intellectuals is concerned only with running boys' boarding schools and playing the Glass Bead Game which involves a sophisticated synthesis of arts science and culture in order to excel. Hesse's novel was published in Switzerland because German government officials considered it a critique of the Nazi regime. Title page present noted as Treatment with credits for author Herman Hesse and screenwriter Dr. Titus Leber. 26 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 25. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine housed in a Near Fine orange prong binder with clear front wrapper. Text in German. N.p. unknown books
