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1979ref. 140079N.p.: N.p. 1979. Revised Final Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two additional half sheets of paper. Copy belonging to casting director Marvin Paige with his name on label tape affixed to the front wrapper. Based on Raymond Radiguet's novel "Le Diable au corps" this unpublished novel features a young married woman with a husband away fighting a war and her affair with a sixteen year old boy. Published in France it was incredibly scandalous especially as it was published after France had exited World War I and the novel was proven later to be partly autobiographical. Two movies one in 1947 and another in 1986 were produced based on this book and despite being written this screenplay was never adapted for full production. Thomas Thompson was a screenwriter best known for his extensive work writing and producing episodes of the television series "Bonanza" which ran from 1959 until 1969. Set in France. Brown untitled vinyl three-ring binder with logo of the Von-Young Agency printed on the front board. Title page present dated May 2 1979 noted as Revised Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Robert E. Thompson and novelist Raymond Radiguet. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
ref. 140050N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A cab driver in Mexico is devoutly dedicated to his daughter which causes a great change in his life. Joe Raciti was an actor best known for his work in "The Firebrand" 1962 in which he portrayed Jack Garcia. Set in Mexico City. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph A. Raciti-Carlyle. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 140590Atlanta GA: New World Pictures 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Gunnery Sergeant Burns Dryer is sent to the Middle East where he acts as a guard at the local US Embassy. However due to the pacific nature of the ambassador the marine corps detachment is severely limited in their ability to protect the base thus allowing terrorists to take over and take everyone hostage except Burns. Now Burns must act as an army of one to defeat the terrorists and save the Americans. Set in the Middle East. White titled self wrappers noted as Revised Draft on the front wrapper dated February 24 1986 with credits for screenwriter John Gatliff. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Photographically reprodcued with revision pages dated between February 18 1986 and February 24 1986. Pages Very Good plus wrapper missing bound with two gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1984ref. 140554Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. With a few annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Rob Salinger Moore works as a television reporter and his wife Micki Reinking is a lawyer who is having difficulty getting pregnant to the chagrin of Rob. While working Rob meets a cellist Maude Irving who he begins dating without mentioning his wife. She soon becomes pregnant as well as his current wife and he ends up marrying Maude as well. To hide his bigamy he uses work as an excuse to spend days with one woman and nights with another. The women eventually find out about each other as they go into labor at the same time and are at the same hospital on the same floor. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper is present dated March 7 1984 with a credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Later generation photocopy with revision pages throughout dated variously between March 6 1984 and March 22 1984. Pages Very Good plus wrapper missing bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
ref. 140830N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation in manuscript ink. Pete is a freeloader who makes a little money at the swap meet but has a keen propensity for getting laid off and living off his current wife. When wife number two tells him he has to keep his job for six months so that she won't run out on him with their child he gets fired in a matter of weeks for insulting a receptionist and being a bad bowler. Rather than go home he hitches to Las Vegas and is picked up by a smut dealer who robs him before he gets to his destination. After getting fired from a restaurant he ends up at Caesar's Palace looking for his ex-wife who is getting too old to be a showgirl and wants nothing to do with Pete. Set in California and Nevada. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper with credits for screenwriter Brian Mori. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a comb binding. N.p. unknown
1989ref. 141597Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Copy belonging to Brad Ricker an unknown crew member with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink. EVE VIII is a military cyborg designed to look like her creator. When it is damaged during a bank robbery it begins accessing dark and tragic personal memories of its creator and sets about on an unstoppable mission to kill. Colonel Jim McQuade Hines is tasked with stopping the machine of death. Shot on location in San Francisco Los Angeles and New York City. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/2/89 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Duncan Gibbins and Yale Udoff. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Orion unknown
1951ref. 143633Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film showing director John Huston on location. Based on the classic 1895 novel by Stephen Crane. At the completion of shooting Huston considered the film one of his best but MGM cut over an hour from it before the release. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the corners and light toning to the margins. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1958ref. 143634Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address as well as film information on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 111. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Gaumont unknown
1977ref. 143667N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first screenwriting credit. Black titled leatherette wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lincoln Kilpatrick and J.S. Cardone and story writers Lincoln Kilpatrick and Bill Nolan. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1998ref. 143688Los Angeles: Freyda Rothstein Productions 1998. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired July 19 1998 on Lifetime Television. Elaine Marshall Jean Smart catches her husband John Terry with his male lover in a hotel room. Their idyllic family life is turned upside down as they are forced to confront his long kept secret. Shot on location in Portland Oregon. Green titled self-wrappers dated 3/21/98 with credits for screen writers Aaron Mendelsohn Ken Carter and Annette Haywood-Carter. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/16/98 and 3/21/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Freyda Rothstein Productions unknown
2000ref. 143686West Hollywood: N.p. 2000. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Dedication on the front wrapper to "Eric Olsen and all the firefighter's who died in 9/11" White titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page integral to front wrapper with credits for screen writer James Kevin Fenwick. 60 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 143719Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions 1974. Final Draft script for the 1974 television film originally aired November 20 1974 on ABC. Three armed men take over a private train car determined to rob and murder all of the passengers. Yellow titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated Aug 13 1974. Title page present dated Aug 13 1974 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Eugene Price. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. mechanical duplication with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/19/74 and 9/11/74. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Reyes 127 Deal 121 122. Quinn Martin Productions unknown
1994ref. 143834Beverly Hills CA: Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment 1994. Revised Shooting script for the 1995 film "Mind Ripper" seen here under the title "Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost." Round robin copy SIGNED on the front wrapper by director Joe Gayton producers Jonathan Craven and Peter Shepherd cast members Lance Henriksen Adam Solomon Natasha Gregson Wagner Giovanni Ribisi and Dan Blom editor Harry Hitner production designer Jeremy Levine stunt coordinator Anthony Cecere makeup artists James Barr and Paul Jones and more. A science lab in a remote desert location attempts to create a superhuman by reanimating a corpse but the end result is an uncontrollably violent monster zombie. Although marketed as a sequel to "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The Hills Have Eyes II" the only true link between the three films is Wes Craven's name. Shot on location in Bulgaria and Canada. Tall white titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper presumably as issued noted as REVISED SHOOTING DRAFT BLUE on the front wrapper dated July 20 1994 with credits for screenwriters Phil Mittleman and Jonathan Craven. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Xerographically reproduced. About Fine condition loose leaves. Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment unknown
1962ref. 143587N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing Frankenheimer with camera trained on Warren Beatty. Printed mimeo snipe on the verso that refers to Beatty as the film's "exciting young star" and notes James Leo Herlihy as author of the source novel and playwright William Inge in the unusual role of screenwriter. John Frankenheimer's third film. Set in Key West Florida and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 143859N.p.: N.p. 1960. Collection of 30 vintage press photographs and contact sheets from promotional events for the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Terrain vague." All photographs housed in a large brown folder with the French title in manuscript ink on the flap. Based on Hal Ellson's groundbreaking 1950 cult novel "Tomboy." Dan Gaubert is a tough gang leader who dresses and fights like a man. She and two others including Babar Bras are ostracized due to their behavior and she falls in love with Lucky Cafarelli while Babar commits suicide. A late entry for film noir regular and poetic realist Carné whose notable credits include "Port of Shadows" 1938 "The Devil's Envoys" 1942 and "Children of Paradise" 1945. Set in Paris. Photos range in size from 4.75 x 6.75 inches to 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus overall foxing to versos light curling and rubbing. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 143838Paris: Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton 1966. Draft script carbon typescript and scenario offset printing for the 1966 French film here under the working title "Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu." Released in the US as "The Postman Goes to War" 1968. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil on one page. Also included is the original manila folder used to house the material with the working title in manuscript red ink on the flap. Based on Gautier's titular novel 1966. Jean-Claude Thibon Aznavour is a postman in Paris who accepts a position in the army during the Indochina War. He is wounded in combat and sent to the hospital where he falls in love with Vang Maria Minh a young Vietnamese nurse. Shot on location in Cambodia. Title page present integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Bernard-Aubert novelist Gautier and dialogue writer Accursi. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 212. Carbon typescript. Very Good plus bound with two silver binder clips. Scenario: title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for Bernard-Aubert and Gautier 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11 offset printing perfect-bound Near Fine. Complete collation upon request. Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton unknown
1964ref. 143861Montreal: Cooperation Productions 1964. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Film titles small numerical annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and photographer rubber-stamps on the versos with credits for STUDIO DE PHOTOGRAPHIE and Claude Charron. Two mimeo snipes are present but detached. Lucien Hamelin is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics inciting protests and fighting to change the moral face of his college. He changes the life of an incompetent teacher is expelled from school and accidentally causes the death of a gay man. Religious themes human sexuality and an early entry in Canadian feature film industry just as the country's federal government took measures to expand cinema audiences. Director Patry's first feature film his earlier ventures part of the cinema vérité movement include "Eye Witness No. 99" 1958 "The Little Sisters" 1959 "Le chanoine Lionel Groulx historien" 1960 "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine" 1962 and "Françoise" 1964. Photographer Charron also worked on Patry's "Rope Around the Neck" 1965 and Lord's "Délivrez-nous du mal" 1966. Set in Montreal. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Cooperation Productions unknown
1960ref. 143876Rome: Cineriz 1960. Collection of 18 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Strasberg is seen in all photographs before and after a buzz cut always in pinstripes with a candid image of director Pontecorvo discussing aspects of Strasberg's trimmed hair. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos of all but one and five with Contino's rubber-stamp on the versos. Strasberg portrays a Jewish women sent to a concentration camp during WWII leading an escape plan even as the turmoil of war threatens to defeat her will. Pontecorvo's engaging war film with feminist undercurrents albeit overshadowed by what would become his most accomplished film "The Battle of Algiers" 1966. Nominated for an Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine slight curling. Cineriz unknown
1961ref. 143870Italy: Cinematografica RI.RE 1961. Collection of 14 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Action sequences picketers Delon and his compatriots and a charming candid of Barbara Lass are present. Numerical annotations and a few with actor names on the versos in manuscript pencil along with the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon. The film's premiere was at Cannes and earned director Clément a Palme d'Or nomination. In 1921 Ulysses Delon enrolls in the Italian Fascist party and his initiation is to gain the trust of local printer Fossati Cervi. Fossati's family and beautiful daughter Lass are anarchists contesting Ulysses' beliefs and he ultimately decides to forge his own political path. Set in Rome shot there on location. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine slight curling. Cinematografica RI.RE unknown
1962ref. 143832Paris: Filmsonor 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Cartouche." Action sequences men in military regalia and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. Also included are a few leaves of French press material on stationery from the film's distributor Cinedis. A riveting Peplum sword-and-sandal swashbuckler set in 1700s France where a gang member named Cartouche Belmondo forms his own band of knaves deciding his former gang to be too unethical. He steals from the rich to give to the poor enlists in the army to escape capture and meets Venus Cardinale a gypsy prisoner who joins his new gang. Venus' love proves fatal and Cartouche rolls her into a lake in a stolen carriage vowing revenge knowing it will likely lead him to the gallows. Belmondo and Cardinale's interaction is palpable but they would star in only two other films together Mauro Balognini's "La viaccia" 1961 and José Giovanni's "Scoumoune" 1972. Photos 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling a few short creases and a few slightly discolored. Press material corner-stapled and paper-clipped Very Good plus overall. Complete collation upon request. Filmsonor unknown
1964ref. 143860Montreal: Cooperation Productions 1964. Original French scenario script for the 1964 film here under the original French-Canadian title "Trouble-fete." Bound at the front of the script is a Canadian program from the premiere of the film in Montreal Friday March 20 1964. The program features film reviews by Jean Le Moyne and Jacques Godbout and extensive film credits. Lucien Hamelin is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics inciting protests and fighting to change the moral face of his college. He changes the life of an incompetent teacher is expelled from school and accidentally causes the death of a gay man. Religious themes human sexuality and an early entry in Canadian feature film industry just as the country's federal government took measures to expand cinema audiences. Director Patry's first feature film his earlier ventures part of the cinema verite movement include "Eye Witness No. 99" 1958 "The Little Sisters" 1959 "Le chanoine Lionel Groulx historien" 1960 "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine" 1962 and "Francoise" 1964. Set in Montreal. Green and white untitled wrappers. Title page present undated noted as "Scenario" with credits for screenwriters Lord and Patry. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus side-stapled. Bound-in program 9 leaves Near Fine. Cooperation Productions unknown
1956ref. 143289Paris: Cite Films 1956. Collection of 24 vintage reference photographs from the 1956 French film here under the French title "Le couturier de ces dames." 13 photographs with numeric annotations on the versos in pencil and one with "Le couturier de ces dames" in mimeograph duplication to same. A tailor needs to create a lasting fashion line to save his business. He does but he also cavorts a little with the models only for his wife to discover his infidelity. A send-up of the new haute couture popular at the time with notable designers Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Cardin who worked on the film and Japanese native Hanae Mori representing the "new look." Shot on location in Val-de-Marne France. One photo 3.25 x 4.25 inches the balance 5 x 7 inches. Generally Near Fine. Cite Films unknown
1962ref. 143309Paris: Filmsonor 1962. Original black-and-white borderless still photograph from the 1962 French-Italian film. Costarring actors Alain Delon Georges Wilson and Madeleine Robinson share a drink in the segment "Tes pere et mere honoreras" Honor they Father and Mother. Rubber-stamped "Photo LIMOT" and numerical notation in manuscript pencil on the verso. An epic comedy on the Book of Exodu's most epic tale with elements based on David Alexander's novel "Murder Points a Finger" 1953. Over a series of 8 episodes various commandments are portrayed by prominent European actors including Mel Ferrer Louis de Funés Danielle Darrieux Charles Azvanour Fernandel and Dany Saval. Photographer Limot's debut film was "They Were Five" 1936 another Duvivier film followed by work with notable directors like Sascha Guitry Christian-Jaque Henri Verneuil and Marcel Carné. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Filmsonor unknown
1958ref. 143312Paris: Filmsonor 1958. Four vintage black-and-white candid photographs of Nadine Tallier from the 1958 French film. Tallier played the role of "Sylvain" in the film pictured here enjoying a cigarette. Notations in manuscript ink and rubber stamp for photographer Kirchmeyer on the versos. Based on Maurice Druon's 1948 novel the film stars Jean Gabin as the head of a wealthy French family ruling his fortune and estate with an iron fist and leaving little room for his heirs to prove worthy of the wealth. Tallier was an actress from 1949 to 1964 notable films include "The Girl in the Bikini" 1952 "Royal Affairs in Versailles" 1954 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 1956 "Folies-Bergere" 1956 and "Cigarettes Whiskey and Wild Women" 1959. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine with slight curling. Filmsonor unknown
1956ref. 143253Paris: Les Films Ariane 1956. Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1956 French film here under the original French title "Si tous les gars du monde." Featured are images of the caste and crew on the fishing boat seen in the film including director Christian-Jaque and cast family members. All crediting photographer "le grand" on the recto housed in an original French Kodak paper envelope with annotations on the front of the envelope in manuscript ink. A poignant postwar imagining of collaborating countries beliefs and religions about twelve fishermen out on the North Sea. Most of them eat spoiled ham and food poisoning incapacitates all but one a Muslim who abstains from eating pork. The crew manages to send an S.O.S. using a radio before all of them succumb. Photographs 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine overall slight curling. Envelope Near Fine. Les Films Ariane unknown
