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1979ref. 147090N.p.: N.p. 1979. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Based on an unpublished nonfiction book by Joseph W. Still which proposed to "strip away the veneer of 'magic' and antiquated thought concerning many aspects of Life Love the Universe and Nature." The intended television series would address such topics as aging the birth of the universe and the soul. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 7/10/79 with credits for screenwriter STEVEN P. DUCHSCHERER and author JOSEPH W. STILL. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141376N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1976 film written and directed by Brian De Palma. Robin Hardy is a screenwriter and film director best known for having directed "The Wicker Man" 1973. Based on the 1972 novel "Singing Millionaire" by Michael Pereira. While traveling in Istanbul a German and her friend encounter a mysterious man who deals in drugs blackmail and ultimately murder. Set in the Middle East. Green wrappers with a die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Robin Hardy and John Davis and author Michael Pereira. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 161106N.p.: N.p. 1974. Two vintage oversize borderless color reference photographs from the 1974 Swedish film. With censorship stamps on the versos and one with layout annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso and a gold distribution label on the recto. A sixteen-year-old girl is seduced by several adult lesbians during a visit to her aunt's house precipitating a sexual awakening. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 141716Los Angeles: Sasha and the Greystones 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The son of a Bulgarian oligarch has just completed his postgraduate degree at Oxford and been promoted in the Navy when he announces to his father that he wishes to marry his English sweetheart. His father tries desperately to change his son's mind and not to throw away his career for romance. Pink untitled wrappers dated June 30 1983. Title page present dated May 25 1983 noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter George Ganchev. 17 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 16. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Sasha and the Greystones unknown
1983ref. 141717Los Angeles: Sasha and the Greystones 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two men stumble into an unlikely friendship in Moscow but their cultural differences and the strained diplomatic relations between their two countries threatens to separate them. Set in Moscow. Pink untitled wrappers dated May 13 1983. Title page present dated February 21 1983 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter George Ganchev. 13 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only with revision pages throughout dated variously between February 21 1983 and February 24 1983. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Sasha and the Greystones unknown
1982ref. 141714N.p.: N.p. 1982. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A group of senior citizens decide to found a holistic intentional community in a three-story house in the American midwest. A local reporter shows up to write a tell-all piece on their living arrangements and when the story hits the paper seniors from across the nation head to the community in order to escape retirement homes. Title page present dated June 14 1982 with credit for screenwriter Michael Seligman. Eight leaves with last page of text numbered eight. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a staple. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 141726Los Angeles: Sasha and the Greystones 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An unlikely quartet of international spies begins operating in Europe under the control of no particular government in order to thwart a terrorist plan. Blue untitled wrappers dated May 13 1983. Title page present dated March 1983 noted as Revised with credit for screenwriter George Ganchev. Eleven leaves with last page of text numbered ten. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Sasha and the Greystones unknown
1990ref. 146873N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation on the title page. A carefree teenage musician finally wins over the beautiful girl of his dreams but his obsessive controlling behavior soon sours their relationship. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Stuart Paul. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950ref. 147327N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. A Christmas melodrama depicting the life of Austrian composer Franz Gruber and the creation of his most famous work "Silent Night" in 1796. Screenwriter Charles Bennett was best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock in the 1930s writing "The 39 Steps" 1935 "Secret Agent" 1936 "Sabotage" 1936 and "Young and Innocent" 1937. Set in Salzburg. Housed in a black three-ring binder. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Charles Bennett and Otto Klement. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 141070N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American working for the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco has to get a supply caravan across the desert. A woman begs to come along in order to find news of her husband a captain known by the American to be dead already. She stows away on the caravan and when they are ambushed by snipers the American is forced to rely on the woman for help. Set in Morocco. Light blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 154454Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1960. Vintage program for the French release of the 1960 Swedish film. Text and titles in French. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominated for the Palme d'Or with director Ingmar Bergman receiving a Special Mention at Cannes. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 18 pages. Near Fine in lightly rubbed saddle stapled wrappers. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1975ref. 146498N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel also written by Jack Lewis about two broke Americans in Hong Kong who are hired to import weapons for a Nationalist Chinese guerrilla band. 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 Hong Kong China. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1939ref. 151805Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1939. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1939 film. A prison warden must decide between keeping a huge lot of stolen goods and saving a man from the electric chair. Tall yellow titled wrappers. Title page present noted as production No. 1032 with credits for director Arthur Lubin and actors Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads at the top edge. Universal Pictures unknown
ref. 161096Los Angeles: Tse Tse Fly Productions 2001. Two Final Draft scripts for the 2002 film. Scripts belonging to costume designer Judith Brewer Curtis with her annotations in manuscript ink throughout and housed in her production binder with wardrobe test photographs and ephemera relating to costuming for the film. Binder includes an eight page shooting schedule an eight page continuity breakdown four pages of Curtis' xerographically duplicated costume design sketches and 29 Polaroid wardrobe test shots. An amnesiac wakes up in an asylum for the criminally insane discovering that he has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend-a crime he does not recall. As his fellow inmates begin showing up dead he begins to wonder if the murder is somehow linked to the asylum's sinister director. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Final Draft no revisions: Title page present undated noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Jeremy Kasten and Rogan Russell Marshall. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine. Final Draft with revisions: Title page present undated noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Jeremy Kasten and Rogan Russell Marshall. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine. Black three-ring binder Very Good plus with light soil on the extremities. Tse Tse Fly Productions unknown
1992ref. 150001N.p.: N.p. 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Several months before the outbreak of World War II a group of German teenage boys band together over their shared love of forbidden swing music from the US. As the Nazi party tightens its grip over the country the boys must decide where their loyalties lie. Set in Germany shot on location in Prague Czech Republic. Missing wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Jonathan Marc Feldman. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1939ref. 154915London: Studio One Cinema 1939. Vintage program for a UK showing of the 1938 French film advertising its premiere in July 1939 at the Studio One Cinema in London. A young station master's wife dreams of a wilder life in Budapest and believes she's gained an opportunity to experience the pleasures of the big city when she is called into the capital to attend her aunt's funeral and receive a share of the inheritance. Set and shot on location in Budapest. 3 x 5 inches. Bi-fold. Near Fine. Studio One Cinema unknown
1980ref. 141718London: Thorntip United 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on page three. Explores Bouboulina a legendary figure in Greek seafaring who gave birth to nine children and led Greece as an admiral in the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Set in Greece. White titled self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated 1980 with credit for screenwriter Nik Janis. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a staple. Thorntip United unknown
1978ref. 141772Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1978. Press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated folder with six black-and-white borderless reference photographs and 15 gatherings of promotional reading material housed all together in a white envelope. Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring a retired and reclusive actress back into the spotlight. Told in flashback beginning with her suicide-by-train. The fifth and final pairing of director Billy Wilder and actor William Holden who began their association in 1950 with the classic "Sunset Blvd." "Fedora" has been seen as a companion piece to that film. Set in Hollywood shot on location in France Germany and Greece. Folder and contents Near Fine. Envelope Very Good plus lightly toned on the edges. Bavaria Atelier unknown
1970ref. 141068N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Three pages with annotations in manuscript ink. Returning home from a trip to the fort a man finds his friend and wife dead and his money and livestock stolen. He searches for the men responsible in order to seek vengeance. Set in Arizona. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Joy Dexter. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with staples. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141044N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A sociology professor is preparing for his sabbatical when his overworked wife decides they should also take a sabbatical from their marriage so that the professor can learn to take care of himself. Set in New England. Yellow titled wrapper. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Leo Townsend. 53 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a spiral binding. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 152994Los Angeles: Sigma Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript ink annotations to the title page and throughout pages 136-179 regarding props for scenes at the beach. Missing five pages likely as used or issued. Based on the 1968 novel by Marjorie Kellogg about a young woman who suffers severe facial scarring after being attacked with battery acid but finds comfort in friendship with two other social outcasts. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California. White wrappers with a vertical tear to the partial front wrapper obscuring the title. Title page present dated May 1 1969 with credits for director Otto Preminger and screenwriter-novelist Marjorie Kellogg. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 184. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/27 and 8/11. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good bound internally with a silver prong. Sigma Productions unknown
1980ref. 141505New York: Orner Productions 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. A man loses his job and begins to doubt his ability to provide for his family. His wife encourages him to keep up appearances while pursuing his dreams. Title page integral with front wrapper dated March 11 1980 with credit for screenwriter Helene Flaster. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. Orner Productions unknown
1970ref. 140865N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American working for the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco has to get a supply caravan across the desert. A woman begs to come along in order to find news of her husband a captain known by the American to be dead already. She stows away on the caravan and when they are ambushed and pinned down by snipers the American is forced to rely on the woman for help. Set in Morocco. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141344Los Angeles: John F. Dugan 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An artist seeks employment at the local dog pound at the insistence of his wife. He makes an inquiry with a local government official and suddenly becomes embroiled in a scandalous affair involving a loose bull and several cows. Set in Paris. White titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Edmund Morris. Title page present with credit for Morris. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. John F. Dugan unknown
1970ref. 141294N.p.: N.p. 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A group of celebrities and wealthy elites all meet at a remote mansion in order to learn how to avoid being kidnapped for ransom. Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Luther Davis. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
