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1983ref. 147127N.p.: N.p. 1983. Draft script for the 1983 film here under the working title "Herazaal ou La Nuit des Temps" Herazaal or the Mists of Time. Text in French. A very early draft script bearing little resemblance save the names of the central characters to the final film which focuses on the incestuous power-hungry Sicilian family of Count Carlo de Villafratti. Set in Venice. White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Claude d'Anna and screenwriters M.F. Bonin and Monique Lange. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall wrapper Very Good plus with a black comb binding. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 149779Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1984. Draft script for the first episode Episode 1 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. Tall clear untitled plastic front wrapper and purple rear wrapper i.e. generic report folder. Title page present dated March 14 1984 with credits for director Bernhard Sinkel. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a white prong binding. Bavaria Atelier unknown
1987ref. 145894London: HandMade Films 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. Single manuscript notation in ink on page 62 a scene deletion. Based on the 1955 novel by Brian Moore. A pious spinster living in a boardinghouse begins an ersatz romance with a fellow resident looking to bankroll his next business venture. Novelist Moore born and raised in Belfast was highly acclaimed for his vivid descriptions of life in Ireland after the Second World War in particular for his exploration of The Troubles. Set and shot on location in Dublin. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated February 1987 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Peter Nelson and novelist Brian Moore. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white Velo binding partially loose. Indicator 123. HandMade Films unknown
1959ref. 143374Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1959. Treatment script for the 1959 Japanese film. Based on the 1956 novel by Tanizaki Jun'ichir "Kagi" or "The Key". Annotations and stamps throughout noting a date of March 28 1959 mention of a presentation and "Script Research Library Holding." Winner of the 1960 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Adapted from the 1956 novel "The Key" by Jun'ichir Tanizaki and remade Tinto Brass Koji Wakamatsu and others. A satirical late-noir treatise on the decay of human physical ability mental health and sexual desire told in a seemingly reserved family context with stunning cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa "Yojimbo" "Rashomon" "Floating Weeds" and cinematic style that masterfully blends Ozu and Hitchcock. Restored in 2024 by the Kadokawa Corporation for screening at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and subsequent international screenings through 2026. Shot on location in Japan. Titles and text in Japanese. White titled wrappers with black and gold titles and various rubber stamps on the front wrapper. Title page not present. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-28." Mechanical duplication. Near Fine with light age toning. Daiei Studios unknown
ref. 147427N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in French. An unassuming couple accidentally overhears a gang's plans to rob a bank and decide to personally interfere with the end goal of securing the money for themselves. Screenwriter Hubert Cornfield was best known as a director for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1950s and 60s. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Set in France. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Hubert Cornfield. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1959ref. 144588Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies most with 12 images per print amounting to over 1000 images captured nearly all images with series number etched in the original film negative before development and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Ulysse film title and photographer Apoteker housed in an oblong 2-ring paper binder with printed French titles on the front. Laid in is a small piece of graph paper addressed "Cher Christian" presumably filmmaker Christian-Jaque with brief slightly illegible note in French in manuscript ink. The remaining 273 photographs are single photos with similar etched series numbers mounted with cello tape on thick stock in two quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrapper printed French titles affixed to the front wrapper of one. Small "x" annotations in manuscript ink on several pages. All three keybooks capture the film and photographer Apoteker's sense of desperation in composed and candid moments. Michele Morgan and Gil Vidal dominate the imagery hamming for the camera and in action scenes with Vidal emerging from a car crash and rarely without a glass in-hand and stunning images of Morgan hula-hooping off-set and in several placid studio portraits. Catherine Morgan is an alcoholic lawyer who enlists the help of reporter Walter Vidal to spy on a nefarious wine supplier who may have contributed to the killing of a young man's father. Morgan dominated French cinema for decades and even won the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes festival 1946. Photographer Apoteker's debut film followed by successful crime noirs notably "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and later worked on "Love and Death" 1975 and the futuristic "cinema du look" film "Le prix du danger" 1983. Fourth film of noted costume designer Autré whose other credits include "Love on a Pillow" 1962 "Contempt" 1963 "Lost Command" 1966 and "The Game is Over" 1966. Notebook photos 3.75 x 5 inches most pages with four mounted photos keybook photos to 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light foxing and curling and rubbing to the studio keybook a few photos with small edge tears. Ulysse Production / Cinedis unknown
1955ref. 144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Archive of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in manuscript ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown
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
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
