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1973ref. 160085Beverly Hills CA: Crown International Pictures / Saber Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film seen here under the working title "Policewoman." Annotations in manuscript ink on every page checking scene numbers. Included with the script is a pressbook and 15 vintage reference photographs from the film. An exploitation film about a policewoman who infiltrates an all-women criminal gang. Shot on location in Los Angeles and the Channel Islands California. Screenplay: Brown wrappers with titles and illustration in gilt. Title page present dated August 1973 with credits for director-screenwriter Lee Frost and screenwriter Wes Bishop. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Pressbook: 11 x 17 inches. Eight pages side-stapled. Near Fine. Photographs 15: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Crown International Pictures / Saber Productions unknown
1985ref. 153792Pacific Palisades CA: Paulist Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1989 film. A dramatization of the life of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero one of the few public figures in the Catholic church to speak out and organize peaceful protests against the government's violent military regime during the Salvadorian Civil War. Shot on location in Morelos Mexico. Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 7 1985 with credits for screenwriter John Sachet Young. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paulist Productions unknown
1927ref. 160884N.p.: N.p. 1927. Vintage photograph album containing 65 photographs compiled by cellist Carl Steppi between 1926 and 1927 documenting a tour with an orchestra in support of the 1925 film. A unique collection of vernacular photographs many with manuscript captions in English and German. Steppi is identified in contemporary newspaper articles as having been a cellist for the St. Louis Symphony in the early 1920s. The tour was apparently by rail as the archive includes several photographs of the assembled musicians outside train cars and one photograph of the musicians in a passenger car. The dates of the tour are noted on the album's first blank leaf captioned with "On the Road with the Picture 'Ben Hur' Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation / September 1926." The album's last leaf bears a photograph of presumably Steppi's wife and child captioned "Und endlich Kam die ersehnte Heimhehr! And finally the longed-for Homecoming! / Brooklyn N.Y. / Back in: April 24 1927." The many locations captioned in the photographs are: Illinois Dixon Rochelle and Rock Island Iowa Anamosa Cedar Rapids Clinton Davenport Des Moines Grinnell and Muskatine Kansas Wichita Missouri Kansas City and Hannibal Ohio Zanesville Texas Austin Dallas and Gainesville and West Virginia Charleston and Huntington with Gainesville incorrectly noted as being in Oklahoma. Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will the prince endures prison and once released vows revenge on his childhood friend. The most expensive silent film made with a budget of $3.9 million. Shot on location in Italy and California. Album: 10 x 6.75 inches 30 pages. Very Good with paper tape repairs to the front and rear partially detached wrappers and with light chipping overall to the album leaves with eight leaves detached. Photographs: approximately 3 x 2 to 6 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires de cinema. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 160762Universal City: Universal Studios 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Jules Brenner with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A successful race car driver dreams of winning the Indy 500 and stops at nothing to achieve his goal sacrificing his relationships with his wife and stepson in the progress. Shot on location in Elkhart Lake Wisconsin and Indianapolis Indiana. Yellow titled Universal Studios wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper noted as production No. 02017 dated April 16 1968. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final Screenplay with credit for screenwriter Howard Rodman. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/26/68 and 5/14/68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus moderately soiled with a dampstain on the fore-edges bound with three gold brads. Universal Studios unknown
1999ref. 152551Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1999. Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 6 of the 1999 television series here under the working title "Into the Black." Copy belonging to actor Benjamin Lum with a call sheet dated March 2 1999 laid in along with two signed photographs of actors James Wlcek and Marco Sanchez. Additionally INSCRIBED by Wlcek to Lum on the title page: "To Ben / Excellent Work!! / Jimmy Wlcek" and also SIGNED by Sanchez just above Wlcek's inscription. The series followed Carlos Sandoval a former police detective as he teamed up with his childhood friend Trent Malloy a martial arts expert to form a private investigation business. In this episode Trent and Carlos go undercover at a Chinese restaurant whose owner is being harassed by a gang. Originally aired on April 17 1999 on CBS. Shot on location in Texas. Green self wrappers. Title page present dated February 10 1999 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Bob Gookin. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/17/99 and 2/19/99. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1970ref. 152490N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced Blaxploitation film. A group of Black militants kidnaps an old white plantation family and hides them deep in the Louisiana swamp with the intention of eventually selling them as slaves. Set in southern Louisiana. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with a small printed label with the name and address of a John B. Bennett affixed to the bottom right corner and screenwriting credits to The Barnett Brothers and The Medina sic. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good lightly soiled with dampstaining on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 153808N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The adventures of roguish gambler and man-about-town Anthony "Mink" Romano. A later effort by comic book writer and artist Bob Kane best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Batman alongside artist Bill Finger. In his later career Kane turned to screenwriting and film work serving as a consultant on Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation "Batman" and its three sequels. Mustard titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 160915Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actor Ryan O'Neal. Printed mimeo snipe and Paramount stamp on the verso. Based on the 1970 novel by screenwriter Erich Segal. An enormously successful romantic drama about the tumultuous relationship between a working-class musician and a wealthy law student. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning one. Shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1950ref. 160943Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film noir. Richard Basehart has just been paroled from prison after fifteen years and is determined not to fall on the wrong side of the law again when he learns the sanitarium he works at is a front for a robbery syndicate and the nurse he longs for Marilyn Maxwell is a gold-digger. Set in Philadelphia and shot on location in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1950ref. 160944Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. Police officer Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Raymond Burr the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie she is kidnapped by Fred MacMurray who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. Shot on location in Southern California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1949ref. 160938Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film noir. A part-time mail carrier decides to steal what he believes to be $200 from a lawyer's office on his mail route but ends up taking thousands pulling him into a shadowy world of crime and deceit. Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell's second pairing following the noted 1948 noir "They Live By Night" directed by Nicholas Ray. Shot on location in New York City. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1953ref. 160824Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1953. Vintage insert poster for the 1953 film. Loosely based on chapters 9 through 11 of Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical "Roughing It." Mark Stevens is lawman and killer Jack Slade who's committed himself to ridding society of outlaws after seeing his father gunned down at age thirteen. Followed by the 1955 sequel "The Return of Jack Slade" directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring John Ericson and Mari Blanchard. 14 x 35.75 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with a faint crease to the top right corner some light rubbing and tiny chipping to the lower left margin. Allied Artists unknown
1949ref. 160941Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. Troubled young adolescent Johnny Holiday is sent to a reform school in Indiana where he must choose between his criminally minded friends and the caring tutelage of Sgt. Walker played by William Bendix. Set in and shot on location in Indiana. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. United Artists unknown
1968ref. 160239Beverly Hills CA: Continental 1968. Original pressbook for the 1968 film. A searing emotional depiction of a disintegrating marriage in American middle-class suburbia. John Cassavetes' seminal fourth film as director took three years to complete was shot and edited in his own house starred his friends who often doubled as camera operators and ushered in an entirely new American independent cinema made outside the studio system. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 11 x 17 inches folded twice and measuring 33 x 17 inches unfolded. Very Good plus. BFI 1126. Criterion Collection 252. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Continental unknown
1950ref. 160936Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film. Based on the 1923 short story "My Old Man" by Ernest Hemingway. John Garfield stars as a crooked washed-up expatriate jockey on the run from a racketeer for not throwing a race while trying to redeem himself for the sake of his son. Remade in 1979 as the CBS television film "My Old Man" directed by John Erman and starring Kristy McNichol and Warren Oates. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1949ref. 160942Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. Based on the 1944 short story by Damon Runyon. Gangster Martin Martin is hoping to give up his career in crime for a career in politics when the district attorney attempts to arrest him for a murder five years earlier. On the lamb Martin holes up in an abandoned house and is befriended by a little girl Elsie and her dog Skipper who Martin names Johnny One-Eye. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing at the extremities. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1955ref. 160822N.p.: American Releasing Corporation 1955. Vintage insert poster for the 1955 film. Roger Corman's directorial debut and his third production. During the Civil War five condemned men are offered pardons by the Confederacy if they join the Confederate army and track down a traitorous Confederate spy who is in possession of a stagecoach full of Confederate gold. Shot on location in Death Valley and Los Angeles California. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities and a 3/4-inch closed tear to the lower vertical fold. American Releasing Corporation unknown
1950ref. 160937Los Angeles: RKO 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. Claudette Colbert stars as a woman who is accused of bigamy by an intruder during her wedding ceremony to David McLean. The two then must travel to a small seaside village to investigate the claim where villagers claim to have remembered her previous nuptials. Shot on location in Santa Monica California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. RKO unknown
1970ref. 141278N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a page from the "Independent Trade Reviews." While on their honeymoon a sailor and his Japanese wife get into an altercation with a drunk. Police intervene resulting in the wife being shot and the man sent to prison. Set in San Francisco. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter William Kozlenko. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 151966Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. First Estimating Draft script for an unproduced film. In ancient Babylon Sargon the king's physician is sent by King Nebuchadnezzar to stir up a revolt in nearby Judah in order to undercut the prophet Jeremiah. Screenwriter Oscar Millard was best known for "Come to the Stable" 1949 "The Frogmen" 1951 and "Angel Face" 1953. Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8309 dated Dec. 16 1955. Title page present dated December 15 1955 noted as FIRST ESTIMATING DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Oscar Millard. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1983ref. 141284N.p.: N.p. 1983. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are three pages of cast lists. After a young girl witnesses the death of her father at the hands of assassins she is taken in by her uncle who aids her in tracking down the assassins. He also gives her a magic ring that allows her to wield the power of the Fist of Lightning. Set in Vietnam. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1983 noted as Second Draft with credit for screenwriter Jon Wokuluk. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 151964N.p.: N.p. 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a brief typed letterdated May 14 1968 addressed to agent Irene Heymann introducing the script. A cold-hearted mob boss is jailed on a vagrancy charge and seeks vengeance upon his release. Screenwriter Sy Bartlett worked as a screenwriter and producer for four decades most notably co-writing "Sergeant Murphy" 1938 and "13 Rue Madeleine" 1946 and producing "Cape Fear" 1962. Blue titled wrappers noted as First Draft and Production No. 8864 dated February 17 1967 with credits for screenwriter Sy Bartlett. Title page present dated February 17 1967 with credits for screenwriter Sy Bartlett. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light creasing and wear to page 142 wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and edgeworn bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 141286Los Angeles: Filmways 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1971 novel by Jack Curtis about a Kansas farm boy with a big heart who grows up and becomes a crime boss. Set in Kansas. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 27 1973 with credits for screenwriter Dennis Shryack and author Jack Curtis. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Filmways unknown
1961ref. 160411N.p.: Europ-Films 1961. Vintage French poster for the 1961 Hungarian film seen here under the French title "Les cignognes s'envolent a l'aube." Based on a true love affair between a Hungarian doctor and a Russian girl during World War II. A man recalls through flashback the parting words of a woman "I'll Come Back." Director Mihaly Szemes' best-known film winner of a Silver Prize at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival 1961. Shot on location in Hungary. 22.5 x 30 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Europ-Films unknown
1957ref. 161062Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Five vintage photographs taken on the set of the 1958 film including four studio still photographs showing director Douglas Sirk talking with actors Lisa Pulver and John Gavin and one borderless photograph showing novelist screenwriter and actor Erich Maria Remarque. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Remarque's 1954 novel about a German soldier who returns home to find his home bombed and his parents gone. Shot on location in Berlin. Studio still photographs 8 x 10 inches borderless photograph 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus several with light toning and wear on the edges. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown
