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1971ref. 154802Santa Monica: Barry Oringer Productions 1971. Archive of material from the 1972 British television movie including two First Draft scripts and a Revised Draft script dated variously between April 12 and May 28 1971. Screenplays belonging to screenwriter Barry Oringer with his annotations throughout. A campy and humorous espionage film about the titular Madame Sin a sinister woman who kidnaps a former CIA agent and forces him to hijack a submarine in order to attain a secret nuclear weapon. One of many films cashing in on the popularity of the James Bond films originally intended as a television pilot but aired instead as a feature film on ABC on January 15 1972 followed by the UK in April of the same year. Shot on location in London and in Argyll and Bute in Scotland. First Draft script April 12 1971: Blue untitled Barry Oringer Productions wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated April 12 1971 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. First Draft script April 25 1971: Blue untitled Barry Oringer Productions wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated April 25 1971 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication with three pages ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Revised Draft Script May 28 1971: Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 28 1971 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Oringer. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication with two pages ribbon copy typescript on green paper rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver screw brads. Barry Oringer Productions unknown
2009ref. 154815N.p.: N.p. 2009. Draft script for the 2011 film. Enoch a young man who attends funerals in an attempt to cope with the death of his parents is befriended by the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot when he meets the lovely Annabel at a funeral a young woman with terminal cancer and only three months to live. Shot on location in Portland Oregon. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated October 15 2009 with credits for screenwriter Jason Lew. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated November 2 2009. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 154541N.p.: Debrod Productions Inc 1969. Third Draft script for the 1969 film dated January 13 1969 noted as copy No. 24 in manuscript ink at the top right of the title page. Three sets of revision pages blue green and pink laid in. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar sleep together and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas an examination of the uncertainties of young adulthood during an age of turbulence set within the hookup culture of late 1960s New York City. Shot on location in New York City. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated Jan. 13 1969 noted as Final Version / Third Draft with credits for screenwriter John Mortimer and author Mervin Jones. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue green and pink revision pages laid in dated variously between 1/27/69 and 3/4/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold screw brads. Debrod Productions, Inc unknown
1992ref. 154689Pittsburgh and Rome: ADC Films 1992. Second Draft script for the 1993 film INSCRIBED by screenwriter and author T.E.D. Klein on the title page. Theodore 'Eibon' Donald Klein T.E.D. Klein is an American horror writer and editor who despite his sparse output is highly regarded for his meticulous prose and provocative essays. He was the acclaimed editor of The Twilight Zone Magazine from 1981 to 1985 and author of the bestselling novel "The Ceremonies" 1984 and the award winning four novella collection "Dark Gods" 1985. "Trauma" is his only screenplay. Dario Argento's underrated first feature-length American production a giallo horror film wherein Asia Argento stars as Aura an anorexic young woman who with the help of her new young lover David searches for "The Headhunter" killer responsible for the beheading of both of her parents. Asia Argento's character was partly inspired by her half-sister Anna who suffered from anorexia and died in a scooter accident shortly before the film's release and is seen during the closing credits sequence. Featuring memorable performances from Piper Laurie Frederic Forrest and Brad Dourif. Set in Minneapolis shot on location in Minneapolis Hopkins and St. Paul Minnesota. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated April 1992 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter T.E.D. Klein and story credits for Franco Ferrini Giovanni Romoli and Dario Argento. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with light toning and adhesive shadow to the title page bound with three gold brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Howarth So Deadly So Perverse Vol. 2. ADC Films unknown
1965ref. 151960N.p.: Italcine 1965. Collection of 29 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 Italian film including one photograph of actors Gabriele Ferzetti and Annette Stroyberg with producer Gabriele Silvestri on the set of the film. With the stamp of Italcine TV on the versos and one with the stamp of Publifoto in Rome. Noted genre filmmaker Nando Cicero's directorial debut. A bank cashier and her motorcyclist companions plan a heist unaware that the cash has already been exchanged for counterfeit bills by another employee. 28 photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches 1 photograph 7 x 5 inches. With light creasing to a few corners else Near Fine. Italcine unknown
1963ref. 150213Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of director Luchino Visconti with actors Burt Lancaster and Serge Regiani on the set of the 1963 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and the stamp of photographer G. B. Poletto on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and tiny bruise on right side. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. Titanus unknown
1932ref. 149934N.p.: N.p. 1932. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film showing the fish stand in the Marseille harbor. With a manuscript pencil annotation on the verso noting the number 8. A young fishmonger's daughter discovers she's pregnant with little chance of marriage to the father who has departed overseas for a sailor's life. The second film in director Marc Allegret's delicate lyrical Marseillaise trilogy preceded by "Marius" 1931 and followed by "Cesar" 1936. Set and shot on location in Marseille. 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy at the bottom edge with some soil on the bottom half of the recto only. Criterion Collection 883. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 153124London: Genesis 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film seen here under the working title "Buff." A recently blinded woman visits her aunt and uncle's country mansion to recuperate and is stalked by a mysterious killer. Shot on location in Berkshire England. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Brian Clemens noted as copy No. 8 in manuscript ink annotation to the top right corner. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Genesis unknown
1989ref. 153132N.p.: N.p. 1989. Fifth Draft script for the 1990 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the title page noting No. 59. Two dopey small-time crooks disguise themselves as nuns and hide out in a convent in an attempt to avoid their murderous former boss. Shot on location in London. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 22 February 1989 noted as Fifth Draft with credits for director and screenwriter Jonathan Lynn. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/3/89 and 3/3/89. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 153631N.p.: N.p. 1983. Final Draft script belonging to actor Ron Travis with his ownership name in manuscript ink on the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Bound in after the script are a substantial number of call sheets cast and crew lists and production memos many with Travis' manuscript ink and pencil annotations. Based on the 1981 novel by Ernest K. Gann and written for the screen by Marc Norman who along with Tom Stoppard won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love." A curmudgeonly pilot who finds himself stranded in the wilderness with his sole passenger a wealthy sixteen-year-old girl after crash-landing on a remote mountain ridge populated by ravenous wolves. Shot on location in Yugoslavia Croatia and Slovenia. Generic report wrappers mylar front wrapper and blue plastic rear wrapper as housed by Travis on the set. Title page present dated 22 October 1983 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Marc Norman and novelist Ernest K. Gann. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good pages lightly soiled and edgeworn throughout bound internally with a single gold prong. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 154871Arlington: PBS 1982. Vintage souvenir reference photograph book produced by PBS in conjunction with the 1982 television episode an adaptation of John Cheever's 1958 short story "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill." SIGNED by director Paul Bogart and producers Ann Blumenthal and Jac Venza on the title page. The episode aired on January 12 1982 and was the premiere of the anthology television series "American Playhouse" a series broadcast from 1982 to 1996 over 13 seasons. In this episode a suburban family in a small bourgeois town causes a comic uproar when they announce their five-year-old son has been kidnapped producing a fake ransom note to substantiate their claims. Set in the fictitious town of Shady Hill. Brief rubbing on the front board else Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued. PBS unknown
1973ref. 154511Beverly Hills CA: Sean Inn Inc 1973. Shooting script for the 1973 film. The mafia attempts to muscle in on an African American numbers-running ring. Shot on location in Cleveland. Black wrappers with red titles. Title page present dated Revised May 12 1973 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Don Williams. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/24/73 and 6/6/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Sean Inn, Inc unknown
1991ref. 153730N.p.: N.p. 1991. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a xerographically duplicated design for the film title and a typed list of editorial notes on the script dated 7/24/91 with a manuscript ink annotation to the top right corner noting "Viacom's list." Loosely based on the nonfiction writings of Tom Clancy about the members of a special deep cover military unit as they attempt to manage a volatile hostage situation. Set in Tampa Florida and Washington DC. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 7/17/91 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael Ahnemann. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 147064N.p.: N.p. 1977. First Edition. First Edition publicity manual reminiscent in content to a press kit but with much more detail. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis to advertise legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and his psychological drama "The Serpent's Egg" 1976. Profusely photo-illustrated with over 60 black and white images including film stills and on the set photography of Bergman and other actors at work. Black comb bound wrappers with titles in green. Very Good plus with light rubbing and soil on the front and rear wrapper. Approximately 120 pages. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 153708Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced television film. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page with Cohen's manuscript ink annotations throughout noting both substantive and editorial revisions. Title page on National Broadcasting Company letterhead. An unhappily married man is forced to defend his wife and home during a violent robbery. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in Cedar Basin Arizona. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 22 leaves not numbered. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a paper clip. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1960ref. 153701Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1960. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page. A crime series loosely based on "Tarzan" about a semi-feral highly agile man who captures criminals in the Amazon Rainforest. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in Brazil. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1958ref. 143132Paris: Cinedis 1958. Collection of 419 vintage black-and-white photographs with original publicity ephemera from the set of the 1958 film "Night Heat" here under the original French title "Cette nuit la." Featured are over 300 smaller photographs elegantly presented in two "Lavis aquarelle" spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrappers and affixed paper title labels with 3 or 4 photographs to a page. One notebook bears a label on the front wrapper verso noting film lab Tele-Photo production company Sopro Film Cinedis film title and photographer P. Apoteker. Several larger photographs credit photographer Francois Pages with his rubber stamp on the versos featuring images of actress Demongeot as she models in fur coat for onlookers including costar Maurice Ronet and director Cazeneuve. Several photos feature cast and crew at a release party. Brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos two with rubber-stamped series number. Several photographs with annotations on the verso in manuscript ink and pencil several with layout annotations on the recto a few with rubber-stamped series number. Loose photographs ephemera and original envelopes are housed in the original French Kodak paper box with annotations on the box top in manuscript ink and film title affixed to the side. Noir thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photographs in large quarto notebooks 3.75 x 5 inches loose photographs range from 3.25 x 4 inches to 8 x 11.75 inches. Photographs Near Fine overall light curling a handful with short creases ephemera and notebooks Very Good plus box Very Good. Cinedis unknown
1970ref. 152098Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Original photographic mock-up from the 1970 film showing actor Richard Chamberlain in character with the background retouched in gray paint matted and mounted on illustration board. With annotations to the mat and board in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on the 1937 collection of personal correspondence between Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadezha von Meck edited by her granddaughter Barbara von Meck and Catherine Drinker Bowen. Director Ken Russell's dramatic and visually stunning depiction of composer Tchaikovsky's turbulent life. Presented largely in flashbacks nightmares and fantasy sequences the film illustrates the true stories of his nymphomaniac wife his homosexual feelings for Count Anton Chiluvsky and his unusual relationship with his widowed patron to whom he never spoke. Shot on location in Somerset England. Photograph 8 x 10 inches board 10 x 15 inches. Generally Very Good plus lightly age-toned with faint soil to the bottom right corner. United Artists unknown
1955ref. 153207US: American Releasing Corporation 1955. Vintage contact sheet showing twelve images of actors Lloyd Bridges and Joan Taylor with unidentified crew members on the set of the 1955 Western. With manuscript ink notations on the verso identifying the film. Roger Corman's second film as a director about a lawman sent to a small town to investigate reports of Apache attacks but finds things might not be exactly as they seem. Contact sheet 8 x 10 inches images 2.5 x 2.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. American Releasing Corporation unknown
1947ref. 139681Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. 34 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1947 film. Printed snipes on the versos. From the collection of actor Van Heflin who played Timothy Haslam in the film in his personal tabbed file folder. Based on Goudge's 1944 novel "Green Dolphin Country." Love interest upon love interest gathers in the English Channel and New Zealand in the 19th century with Donna Reed Lana Turner Edmund Gwenn and Richard Hart "having a go of it." Van Heflin plays a carpenter who kills a man for love's sake and flees. Winner of an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches some slightly varied in size. Near Fine overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1958ref. 153191Universal City: Universal 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 horror film. When an ancient box is unburied and opened the head of a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier comes to life and begins telepathically controlling people in an attempt to reunite with his body and regain his full power. 10 x 8 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the corners else Near Fine. Universal unknown
1953ref. 153203Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1953. Five vintage reference photographs of flying saucer or other special effects from the classic 1953 science fiction film. Based on the 1898 novel by H.G. Wells. The first feature film adaptation. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for two more. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037. Paramount Pictures unknown
1985ref. 141530Berlin: Filmedis 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Text in English for a German film. Here under the working title and translation of the original French novel "Do You Want to Die With Me." Based on Francis Ryck's novel "Voulez-vous Mourir Avec Moi." A man and a woman enter into a very intense relationship accentuated by the fact that this man has murdered four previous girlfriends and this one might be his next victim. Set in Finistere France shot on location there. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Filmedis unknown
1976ref. 146910N.p.: Italgema Roma 1976. Vintage borderless color photograph of Nathalie Baye and Ottavia Piccolo from the 1976 film. Simon Leotard Michel Piccoli is trying to retain his business after his partner Julien commits suicide over uncontrollable debt. Simon's disreputable rival Lepidon Julien Guiomar is offering to save him by buying the company but Simon may have figured a way out with the help of the beautiful and mysterious prostitute Mado Piccolo. 7 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. Italgema Roma unknown
1974ref. 139926Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced television movie. Based on John Steinbeck's 1939 novel of the same title and adapted from the screenplay by Nunnally Johnson for the 1940 film. During the Great Depression and dustbowl era a family of tenant farmers living and suffering in Oklahoma and forced to move west abandoning their home. They end up in California with many other "Okies" like them searching for a new future. Peter Knopf is a Emmy-nominated writer best known for his work on "Posse" 1975 "Peter and Paul" 1981 and "Not My Kid" 1985. Set in Oklahoma and California. Green titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated April 12 1974. Title page present dated April 12 1974 noted as First Draft with credits for novelist Steinbeck screenwriter Knopf screenwriter Johnson and producer Stanley Hough. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
