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1974ref. 149645Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actress Valerie Perrine in costume or arguably lack thereof as Lenny Bruce's wife stripper Honey Bruce. With manuscript annotations in ink and pencil on the verso regarding layout. Based on Julian Barry's 1971 play which followed the career decline and death by morphine overdose of controversial comedian Lenny Bruce. A tour de force shot in black and white with documentary-like direction interspersed with interviews. Bob Fosse's third film as director and first non-musical. Nominated for six Academy Awards and the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Miami Beach Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time. United Artists unknown
1985ref. 149641Paris: Gamma 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Robert Altman and actor Carol Burnett on the set of the 1985 television film originally aired on HBO on April 1. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamps of Gamma Film. Two women meet at a laundromat and reveal secrets about their lives. The third and final film collaboration between Altman and Burnett following "A Wedding" 1978 and "HealtH" 1980. Shot on location in Paris. 10.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Gamma unknown
1970ref. 149626N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1970 Italian film showing actress Juliette Mayniel. With a mimeo snipe and a provenance stamp on the verso. Director Edoardo Mulargia is best known as director of "Shango" 1970 and "Tropic of Cancer" 1972. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese. Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown
1971ref. 149665N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1971 French film. The final film to feature Jacques Tati as the iconic lovable Monsieur Hulot following "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" 1953 "Mon Oncle" 1958 and "Playtime" 1967. This feature finds Hulot as a naive but intrepid Parisian automobile designer whose plan to show off his newly created camper car at an auto show in Amsterdam is waylaid by a plethora of roadway obstacles including Dutch customs a car accident and a slow-moving mechanic. Set and shot on location in Paris and the Netherlands. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 149603Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film showing actors Gary Lockwood and Jacqueline Bisset in a candid pose. A journalist returns to her hometown to write an article about women's liberation and is surprised to discover her mother and sister are already self-declared feminists. Shot on location in Denver Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1968ref. 149585Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel. A brooding New York detective investigates the murder of a gay man-a crime that none of his fellow officers will take seriously due to the victim's sexuality. Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas a box office success and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to explicitly depict and discuss the lives of gay men. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creases to the edges and a light splash to the right edge. Grant US. Twilight Time. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1963ref. 146931Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs of Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke rehearsing on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe "ORIGINAL A RENDRE PARIMAGE" "COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD." and a struck through with manuscript pencil "Holmes-Lebel" stamps on the verso. One contains an "impress" sticker on verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Unsuccessful songwriter Albert Peterson Van Dyke is convinced he can make his fortune and marry girlfriend Rosie Leigh if he can get recently drafted Rock and Roll star Conrad Birdie Jessie Pearson on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss high school girl Kim MacAfee Ann Margret goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 1 - 9 x 12 inches 1 - 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus edgewear and creasing to far corners. Godard Histoires du cinema. Columbia Pictures unknown
1963ref. 149582London: Gala Film Distributors 1963. Eight vintage series contact print photographs from the 1963 film. Three images per print amounting to 24 complete images. Two estranged sisters Ester and Anna and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to an unnamed Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka. The third in a series of thematically related films by Bergman following "Through a Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Winter Light" 1963. Set and shot on location in Dalarnas Ian Sweden. 3.75 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 211. Ebert III. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1967ref. 149639Paris: Nouvelles editions de films 1967. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the set of the 1967 film. The first photograph shows Louis Malle and Jean-Paul Belmondo who is in costume conferring on the set. With the stamp of photographer Vincent Rossel and the name of the film as well as manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. The second photograph shows director Louis Malle standing with his back to the camera and other crew members at work on a rooftop in preparation for a scene. A few penciled annotations on the verso. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Nouvelles editions de films unknown
1966ref. 149672Paris: Madeleine Films 1966. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1966 film showing director Agnes Varda in conversation with actors Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli. With the stamp of Madeleine Films on the verso. A writer and his pregnant wife move to a remote island off the coast of France following a car accident that has rendered the wife mute. The writer begins to plan his next novel using the local islanders as inspiration but the locals are distrustful of the reclusive couple and tensions heighten as the line between reality and fiction begins to melt together. Agnes Varda an important and influential French director writer and artist garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Set and shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Madeleine Films unknown
1953ref. 149681Burbank CA: Walt Disney 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film showing sound effects specialists Jim McDonald "Rusty" Jones and Earl Hatch in the studio using a variety of instruments several appearing makeshift to create musical accompaniment for the film. A documentary following the everyday behaviors of the desert-dwelling animals of the southwestern US. The first feature-length film in Walt Disney Productions' "True-Life Adventures" film series which focused on animal behavior and zoology. Shot on location in Tucson Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Walt Disney unknown
1989ref. 149674N.p.: N.p. 1989. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1989 film one showing director Peter Greenaway and actors Alan Howard the lover and Helen Mirren the wife the other showing Greenaway with actor Richard Bohringer the cook. Each photograph with a printed mimeo label describing it and with identifying numbers 1 and 5 respectively each affixed to the verso. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's sophisticated wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit depictions and notions of sexuality. Set in the UK. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 146600N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled generic Paul Kohner casting agency wrappers. Title page present noted as Tratamiento with credits for screenwriters Charles Pavlich and Patrick Griffin. 22 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 146574N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Included with the bound script are five xerographically duplicated copies of the script individually partially bound with one staple to the top left corners and two unbound copies of the title page. A series centering the adventures and exploits of the members of a women's rodeo association. Yellow untitled generic Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency card wrappers. Title page present noted as Format for an action series for Television with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 17. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall with a small dampstain on the front wrapper's bottom edge bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 146419N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced television film. With the name "ILSE LAHN" a reader for the Paul Kohner Agency in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper. Bandit Samuel Thaddeus Tartar arrives in town injured from a gunfight forcing his mother to admit that she has lied about his profession for years to preserve both of their reputations. 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 the American West. Mustard yellow generic Paul Kohner Talent Agency card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Rear wrapper stamped No. 555 on the lower edge of the recto. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 147112Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Second Revised Final draft script for the 1944 film. A few annotations of names or checks in manuscript pencil on the top outer corner of verso. A dramatization of the trials that took place in Japan during World War II eight American aircrew members are taken prisoner by the Japanese Army. The soldiers are forced to endure systematic torture and abuse and finally accused convicted and executed as war criminals. This film brought opposition from the Department of Defense fearing strong reactions from the Japanese. Set in Japan shot on location in Washington DC. Beige titled wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 229 and production No. 936 dated OCT. 14 1943. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 14 1943 noted as 2nd Revised Final. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/20/43 and 12/6/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 146562N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the title of the film. A ex-convict looking to pay his debts teams up with a hardened trucker determined to keep his small trucking operation in spite of violent intimidation tactics by a rival company. The two men make their way along a Tennessee trucking route headed for Atlanta culminating in a shootout at the Blue Ridge Mountain pass. Screenwriters Michael Scheff and David Spector were best known for the disaster thriller "Airport '77" 1977. Set in Gatlinburg Lexington the Blue Ridge Mountains and the apparently fictional town of Raeburn Tennessee. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Michael Scheff and David Spector. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 147119Burbank CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers some actors that would soon eclipse her can be found in the supporting cast including Timothy Hutton Rosanna Arquette and Michael Biehn. A glamorous aging rock star takes a vacation to Zuma Beach where she unwittingly seduces the teenage beachgoers and gradually becomes involved in their lives. Set and shot on location in California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 31 1978 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter William Schwartz. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lightly soiled on the first leaf wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Edgar J. Scherick and Associates unknown
1976ref. 147023N.p.: Constantin-Film 1976. Vintage French-Canadian poster for the 1974 German film "Magdalena vom Teufel besessen" released in the US as "Beyond the Darkness" "Magdalena Possessed by the Devil" and "The Devil's Female." With the latter title tipped on to the poster demonstrating the ad hoc distribution process for grindhouse and exploitation films which often saw titles change at a moment's notice to better catch the public's attention and sometimes trick them into seeing a film they've already seen. German sexploitation knock-off of William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist" about a student at a girl's boarding school who is possessed by a demon. 22 x 34 inches folded as issued. Very Good with some light edgewear several small closed tears to right edge pinholes to corners and light rubbing to center text but still bright and unfaded. Constantin-Film unknown
1981ref. 146360Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film with annotations in manuscript ink striking dialogue on three pages. A cocaine fueled spoof of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" that could have only been made in the early 1980s. With tag lines like "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his amazing scientific discovery and shove it up his nose. So he did." and "The comedy that examines modern living through chemistry" one has a good idea what to expect. The film allows Mark Blankfield of the sketch comedy television show "Fridays" free range for a completely over-the-top performance as the shy timid Dr. Jekyll and the mustachioed gold-toothed hairy chested party-animal Mr. Hyde and aptly closes with a shot of Robert Louis Stevenson spinning in his grave. Tan titled Paramount wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated March 31 1981. Title page present dated March 31 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Jerry Belson Michael Leeson Monica Johnson and Harvey Miller with a "DUPLICATED BY PARAMOUNT PRINT SHOP" stamp on lower right corner. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. Olive Films #1263. Paramount Pictures unknown
1987ref. 145997Paris: Films A2 1987. Three vintage oversize studio photographs from French release of the 1987 French/Swiss/Canadian co-production. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank his only feature length fiction film and acclaimed wirter Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the screenplay "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer and featuring a cast full of notable musicians such as Tom Waits Leon Redbone Dr. John Joe Strummer Arto Lindsay David Johansen and others. Set in and shot on location in New York and Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine some light creasing and pinholes in corners in two of the three photographs. Rosenbaum 1000. Films A2 unknown
1959ref. 146009Burbank CA: Otto Preminger Films 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker under the pseudonym Robert Traver which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. Set in and shot on location in Michigan. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Otto Preminger Films unknown
1969ref. 147017London: Columbia British Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 British film. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in manuscript ink on the title page as well as an encircled "71" in red manuscript marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to find suitable romantic partners for each other. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in England Spain and Sweden. ornamental embossed titled wrapper. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter Peter Draper and novelist Janice Elliott. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads. Columbia British Productions unknown
1968ref. 147160Unknown: Unknown 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. A pitch black comedy about a man sentenced to death who survives his hanging leading to a two-hour debate among his executioners over how best to handle the situation. Loosely based on a 1958 crime and execution and a rare for its time discussion of the discrimination faced by ethnic Koreans in Japanese society. Black titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 035. Approximately 130 leaves with last page of text numbered h-8. Mimeograph duplication rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. Criterion Collection 798. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Unknown unknown
