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ref. 145780Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Illustrated front wrapper based on Saul Bass' poster design for the film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member David Hitchcock with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Manuscript annotations throughout primarily indicating deleted scenes. Also included is a carbon typed letter signed by Otto Preminger dated 19th October 1979 to dubbing editor Peter Pennell terminating his employment at the conclusion of production. The final film directed by director Otto Preminger based on the 1978 novel by Graham Greene with screenplay written by Tom Stoppard about a low-level bureaucrat in the British Secret Service M16 who finds himself unknowingly used by the Soviets as he struggles with his love for his family and the ambiguity of his ethical responsibilities. Set and shot on location in UK and Kenya. White illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriter Tom Stoppard and novelist Graham Greene rubber stamped copy No. 146. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong binding. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1970ref. 144863Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Chrislaw Productions 1970. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. and director Jerry Lewis on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Chris Pepper Peter Lawford and Charlie Salt Sammy Davis Jr. are about to lose their London nightclub. In desperation they turn to Pepper's aristocrat twin brother for help who shortly after they contact is murdered. Pepper assumes his dead brothers identity and together with Salt they try to solve the crime. Shot on location in Herefordshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists / Chrislaw Productions unknown
1954ref. 145765Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1954. Shooting script for the 1955 film noir here under the working title "Code 3" with the working title crossed through on the front wrapper and "Dial Red O" written above it twice once in manuscript pencil and once in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with annotations throughout in red pencil primarily noting locations or props. The first in a series of five noir entries made between 1955-1957 featuring Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department. In the first two films in the series including this one the character's name is Andy Flynn and for the remaining three films his name was changed to Andy Doyle as it turned out there was an actual officer named Andy Flynn working in L.A. law enforcement at the time. One of the best examples of the well crafted low-budget crime films produced by Allied Artists the B-movie studio that emerged from the Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures in 1952. Printed beige titled wrapper with credits for director and screenwriter Dan Ullman and a Sunset Script Service stamp on the verso of the rear wrapper. Distribution page present with receipt removed dated October 29 1954. 104 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication with Blue revision pages throughout dated 11-2-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good Plus bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Martin 103. Selby US. Spicer US. Allied Artists unknown
1976ref. 146019N.p.: Filmes Cinematografica 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in 1882. Jancso's film presents Rudolf Lajos Balazsovits as a pan-sexual bored by his wife cavorting with beautiful aristocratic lovers of both sexes on his sprawling rural estate. Ordered by his father Emperor Franz Josef to leave the estate Rudolf refuses and organizes a celebration which becomes a tragic orgy. Nominated for the 1976 Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Croatia. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine some light creasing. Filmes Cinematografica unknown
1969ref. 146891Unknown: I.P.C. Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "The Catcher in the Raw." At a California hot springs resort a shady therapist helps eight carefully selected applicants find themselves and "experience their bodies" a process which mostly involves consuming large amounts of LSD meditative screaming and slow-motion basketball games. Louis Garfinkle's sole directorial credit and an excellent example of the intersection of early 1970s wellness culture and sexploitation. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for director Louis Garfinkle. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. I.P.C. Pictures unknown
1956ref. 146325Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in manuscript ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in manuscript pencil on upper right of wrapper. The final of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers starring Bill Elliott as a L.A.sheriff's department detective following "Dial Red O" 1955 "Sudden Danger" 1955 "Calling Homicide" 1956 and "Chain of Evidence" 1957. Two detectives investigate the strangulation death of well-liked card player. A gambling addicted neighbor is suspected but something doesn't quite add up. "Wild" Bill Elliott's final film retiring from acting in 1957. Green titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page present with receipt removed dated March 14 1956 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Spicer US. Lyons p. 91. Grant US. Selby US. Allied Artists Productions unknown
1976ref. 146803N.p.: The Corman Company 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. A Vietnam vet is hired to deal with a group of rowdy oil workers causing trouble in a small town and decides to occupy the town with his mercenary buddies in order to provide a solution. A low budget action film shot in just 30 days after producer Gene Corman came up with the title and nothing else. White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Corman Company unknown
1972ref. 146899N.p.: Europrodis 1972. Six vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1972 film with one of Jose Benazeraf being double weight with matte finish. "Hubert Toyot" stamp on the verso. Catherine Franck and Patricial Hermenier play sexually liberated air hostesses who seduce American journalist played by Rod Cameron and move on to their next conquest but he refuses to accept it and pursues them. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine some curling one with small crease in upper right corner. Europrodis unknown
1976ref. 146900N.p.: Films du Berry 1976. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs and one contact sheet from the 1976 film. Two larger gloss finish photographs and two smaller matte finish photographs and contact sheet containing eleven images. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Two photographs 7 x 9.5 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches Contact Sheet 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Hinds 222. Films du Berry unknown
1923ref. 144857Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage photograph of Cecil B. Demille Jeanie Macpherson and Jack Holt on the set of the 1923 film. With manuscript annotations and rubber stamp of noted collector Gene Ringgold on the verso. Filmed in two parts first is the story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt to the Promised Land receiving the tablets and worshiping the golden calf. The second part of the film is set in modern times and follows two brothers and their mother's contrasting relationships to the Ten Commandments. Shot on location in various locations around California. 5.5 x 8 inches irregularly trimmed. Near Fine. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 145544N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film "Twist." Copy belonging to director Ken Hughes with his annotations throughout. A police investigator shoots a longtime nemesis while chasing him after a heist and must cope with the loss of his greatest equal. Set in England. Tall black wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Tudor Gates. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 145588Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film. Based on the 1964 novel by Ian Fleming about a down-on-his-luck inventor who transforms an old race car into a magical machine and sets off with his children on an adventure. 10 x 8. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1965ref. 144993Universal City: Universal Pictures 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1965 neo-noir one of director Edward Dmytryk and actors Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau and the other of Dmytryk Peck and Robert H. Harris. Mimeo snipe on verso of both photographs. Based on the 1952 novel "Fallen Angel" by Howard Fast. David Stillwell Gregory Peck is an accountant who comes to realize he has no memory as he is pursued by a number of unknown people trying to kill him bringing him to question his own identity. Shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine one with faint creasing. Grant Worldwide. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1974ref. 140856N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a typed letter to Ms. Lahn from screenwriter John Rose laid-in. A biopic on the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and the turbulent relationships he has with everyone around him. Among his doomed romances are his mistress and in the last year of both their lives his eventual wife Rose as well as a host of other women including Camille a sculptor to whom he is a mentor. Among his friends are Edmond a long admirer of the artist who only wants what is best for him. His work is both praised and rejected by the French torturing him to the point of starvation and leading to his demise. Set in Paris. White titled self wrappers with credits for screenwriter John Rose. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 140855N.p.: N.p. 1980. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Detective Doom is investigating a gang war when he discovers a large cache of grenades belonging to one of the gangsters. Tan untitled wrappers. Eight leaves with last page of text numbered seven. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a manila envelope. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 140854Moscow: Gorky Film Studio 1969. Treatment script for the 1972 film. A collaboration between Moscow's Gorky Studio and Stockholm's Omega Film. An English translation produced for consideration by English-speaking parties involved in production. After the October Revolution of 1917 a Russian engineer is assigned to purchase locomotives from Sweden. He is to purchase them with gold claimed by opponents of the revolution. Set in the Soviet Union. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as Literary Scenario on the front wrapper dated April 1969 with credits for screenwriters Semitiov Braginsky Yegorov and Soloviev and translator Alan Blair. 92 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 91. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a comb binding. Gorky Film Studio unknown
1979ref. 145328Los Angeles: Maverick International 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and title page and manuscript annotations on nearly every page. Also included is an extensive archive of material relating to the production including contracts budgets cast and crew lists call sheets script supervisor reports publicity and press information and several pages of handwritten notes by Weathersby. A record producer sets out to promote his newest discovery unaware that this will put him in conflict with the mob who control a rival act. Featuring real life late 1970s R&B group The Love Machine appearing as a thinly fictionalized version of themselves as the main music act. Green untitled wrappers with paper title label. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Bernard H. Rollins and story by Rollins and John Daniels. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/30/79 and 6/14/79. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with dampstaining to both bound internally with silver prong binding. Maverick International unknown
1978ref. 145671Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris with his name in manuscript ink on the title page manuscript annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian Barris and Casey Kasem. A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a young disco star. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Gold titled wrappers. Title page present dated 6/4/78 with credits for writer George Barris and screenwriter John Arnoldy. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine clip binding. George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production unknown
1960ref. 145447US: Le-Sac Productions 1960. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. One still with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Starring actor Ericson is prominently featured in the collection engaged in action romance and brandishing a Tommy gun. One photo from the set shown. Please inquire to see others. Based on real-life bank-robber Floyd 1904-1934 and recalling the hard-boiled gangster noirs of the 1930s. Bent on revenge Floyd Ericson goes on a crime spree with an unfortunate end. The first of eight biopics other adaptations include Bob Peterson in "The FBI Story" 1959 Robert Conrad in "Young Dillinger" 1965 and Martin Sheen in the TV movie "The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd" 1974. 8 x 10 inches short white borders. Very Good overall with light curling and toning several moderately toned and with pinholes small bruises and creases. Le-Sac Productions unknown
ref. 145506Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story reviews quotes and critical essays. Text in Hungarian. Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr describes his intentions for his first film. It would be 30 years before the rest of the world caught on to his genius and he would retire just 10 years after that. He passed away in 2026 at the age of 70. Off-white titled card wrappers saddle stapled. Title page present followed by a cast and credits list dated 1977. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph front wrapper printed with offset duplication. Rectos only. Pages and wrapper about Near Fine with light toning at the edges of the wrappers. Balsz Bela Studio unknown
1961ref. 144267Paris: Cocinor 1961. Vintage snapshot size photograph of Alain Resnais on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil and a press agency stamp on the verso of each. An enigmatic dreamlike film about a man and a woman who meet at a party where he insists they have met before and she that they haven't. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in Germany and France. 3.5 x 5 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. Cocinor unknown
1950ref. 144119Hollywood: Paul Kohner 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Wild Bill Hickok must play a high stakes poker game in order to win back his beloved mare. The script is a partial treatment draft with a moderate amount of script still in full paragraphs. Set in Deadwood Dodge City and the Chisholm Trail in 1867. Lacking wrappers presumably as issued. Title page present with credits for screenwriter AEneas MacKenzie. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine bound with three gold brads. Paul Kohner unknown
1971ref. 145842Gadd Productions 1971. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1971 film. Al Pacino's first starring feature role. Schatzberg's bleak and stark portrayal of heroin addiction on the streets of New York City is told through the love story between Bobby Pacino an addict and drug dealer and Helen Winn who is drawn into heroin use through her relationship with Bobby. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and Kitty Winn received the award for Best Actress there as well. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good Plus small bruise on lower right faint line rub on top right and very light wear to edges. Twilight Time 221. Grant US. Gadd Productions unknown
1936ref. 145854Paris: Films Albatros 1936. Vintage oversize double weight French studio still photograph from the 1936 film. Notations listing other French films in manuscript ink on verso and with a negative-printed credit for photographer Roger Forster at the bottom left corner of the recto. Winner of 1936's Louis Delluc Prize the first year the prize was awarded Renoir's film is based on a Maxim Gorky play depicting life in a flophouse centering on a bankrupted Baron Louis Jouvet a thief Jean Gabin his two lovers and the landlord. Akira Kurosawa also adapted Gorky's play in 1957 as . Renoir's adaptation not nearly as bleak as Gorky's play maintains a warm humanity but in the case of Kurosawa the setting is changed to Edo period Japan and the story remains faithfully grim. Set in Russia shot on location in France. 9 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus light edgewear creases and pinholes at corners. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Criterion Collection 239. Films Albatros unknown
1968ref. 145848Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1964 novel by Ian Fleming about a down-on-his-luck inventor who transforms an old race car into a magical machine and sets off with his children on an adventure. Set in and shot on location in England and France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus some edgewear very small hole and dimples on lower right and very light creasing. United Artists unknown
