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1982ref. 137776Los Angeles: Paul Kohner Inc 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Le Testament D'Archibald" written by Philippe M. Blot. Set in the Caribbean Sea and in France during the 1950s the story involves sunken treasure a Samurai and two pregnant women with their husbands. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 noted as Original story and screenplay with a credit for writer Blot. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paul Kohner Inc unknown
1948ref. 137965Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1948. Vintage reference photograph of a boardwalk poster advertising the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
1973ref. 138032New York: Self published 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Ray's Wife" written by Leon Prochnik who edited the cult 1959 short film "Pull My Daisy" a film narrated by Jack Kerouac and starring a plethora of literary icons like Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Prochnik based this screenplay on a story by director-cinematographer Christian Blackwood whose film credits include "Jim Dine: London" 1970 "David Hockney's Diaries" 1970 "Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel" 1978 and "Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser" 1988. Set in Las Vegas where a married man name Ray gallivants around town with hot young ladies. Ray's wife is a strong-willed woman who gets pregnant and takes control of her future long after Ray dies. Orange Studio Duplicating wrappers. Title page present dated 1973 with credits for screenwriter Prochnik and story writer Blackwood. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Self published unknown
1947ref. 138070Beverly Hills CA: Victor Glaser 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development with brief annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser with his name and address on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and the person to whom the internal annotations presumably belong. Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbe. Dedee Signoretworks in a bar and lives Marco Dalio the bouncer and her pimp. When she meets Francesco Pagliero she sees a way to a better life but must avoid the menacing embrace of Marco. Set in Antwerp. Censored upon release in both Finland and France. Blue wrappers with a credit for Ashelbe on the front wrapper. 145 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Victor Glaser unknown
1980ref. 137980Hollywood: Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions 1980. Original "pre-production package and script" for an unproduced film called "Yaqui Fox and Mose" including a separate synopsis. Included in the "pre-production package" is character information: Fox half Choctaw Indian half Irish a loner in total control of his destiny; Yaqui an Indian at the end of his rope looking for redemption; and Mose half Black half Indian on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Also included: letters from various productions companies regarding possible crew members like director Ted Post cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Will Sampson as "Yaqui" Philip Michael Thomas as "Mose" producers Richard Kaye Jay Lovins and Carol Hughes music by Carlos Santana technical personnel stunt coordinator Bill Hart letter signed by Hart wrangle Dick Lundin letter signed by Lundin special effect director Johnny James letter signed by James. Letters are dated 1979 or 1980. Various photocopied advertisements images of scenery and animals to be used production data a shooting schedule budget detail promotional ideas and weather information where the film was to be shot is also present. Overall pre-production for the film went as far as it possibly could but for unknown reasons the film was never produced or released. Brown titled wrappers. Synopsis page with a credit for screenwriter Terri Crane. Xerographic duplication with a few full-color pages detailing scenes from the opening titles. Last leaf of text numbered 80. Very Good plus bound with a brown Vello binding. Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions unknown
1970ref. 138036Los Angeles: ABC Pictures 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A story about an old man named Doc his days as a horse thief and the young boy and his mother who give Doc a new outlook. Blue untitled studio wrappers with back wrapper missing. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Carroll Ballard. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. ABC Pictures unknown
1949ref. 137966Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage photograph showing an illustrated advertisement for the 1949 film noir based on the short story of the same name by Frederick Nebel. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1972ref. 137982N.p.: Self published 1972. Draft Agency script for an unproduced film. About a police officer in San Francisco his missing daughter and his troubled past. Green wrappers. Title page present dated 1972 noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY and REGISTERED WRITER'S GUILD WEST with a credit for screenwriter Hattan and agent Bert Steinberger. Last leaf of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Self published unknown
1970ref. 138039Beverly Hills CA: Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotation on front wrapper indicating the title. A story set in Morocco during WWII about a Russian who smuggles guns and plans to sell them to a licensed arms dealer. Tan untitled studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter William Norton. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three silver brads. Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions unknown
1982ref. 138021N.p.: Self published 1982. Early Draft script for the 1993 film "The Seventh Coin" here under the working title "King Herod's Children" dated a full decade before the film's release. Credited on the title page to Kikuo Kawasaki for an original concept. An Arab boy Chowdhry meets a beautiful American tourist Powers in modern-day Jerusalem. By accident the two are entrusted to guard a valuable coin dating back to King Herod but they must defend themselves and the coin from a no-good villain O'Toole. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriters Delman and Soref and concept person Kawasaki. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Self published unknown
1981ref. 138137Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Final Draft script for "Daniel's First Love" an episode Season 1 Episode 9 of the 1981-1982 television comedy Western series "Best of the West." The sitcom aired on ABC September 1981 to August 1982 as an Old West spoof featuring Sam Best Higgins a Civil War veteran who becomes a bumbling gunfighter named the Calico Kid. He has a wife named Elvira Watkins and a son named Daniel Peluce. The series was canceled after one season due to Joel Higgins leaving to star in "Silver Spoons" on NBC. Notable guests included Andy Griffith Al Lewis Christopher Lloyd Slim Pickens and the great Betty White. "Daniel's First Love" features Daniel meeting his first love a romance starting with a few kisses and ending with a shotgun wedding. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 60171-003 dated January 9 1981. Title page present dated January 9 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter-creator-developer Pomerantz. #PAGES leaves with last leaf of text being a xerographically duplicated Script Requisition dated 1/8/81. Mechanical duplication on yellow stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1980ref. 138127New York: Filmways Pictures 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Included is a second script a revised draft in wrappers containing the latest revisions and two shooting schedules one detailing shooting dates beginning Week Three and one detailing dates beginning about Week Nine. Notations throughout both scripts in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on screenwriter Tesich's own coming-of-age in Indiana in the 1960s. Danilo Wason Georgia Thelen David Huddleston and Tom Metzler are four friends growing up in a 1960s industrial town. Told through a series of vignettes in the eyes of Danilo the film chronicles each friend as they come to accept that their lives may have become something they never thought possible. Shot on location in Indiana Illinois and Pennsylvania. One of director Penn's final and lesser known films after "The Missouri Breaks" 1976 and before "Target" 1985. First script without wrappers or title page a rainbow copy with several sets of revision pages pink yellow goldenrod blue gray green dated variously between 7/7/80 and 8/29/80. Second script in blue Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with no title page a revised draft dated 8/29/80 throughout. Shooting schedules corner-stapled. All items Very Good plus overall. Filmways Pictures unknown
1978ref. 138126Beverly Hills CA: Mel Simon Productions 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Father Brian Dyke is a priest in a depressing mining town until one day a new Sister Rita Quinlan joins his parish and changes his perception of life. She is trusting and kind and listens to Father Brian but their relationship takes a turn for the worse landing Father Brian in the role of suspect. Blue production company Mel Simon Productions wrappers. Title page present dated May 10 1978 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stitt and director Kramer. Last leaf of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Mel Simon Productions unknown
1950ref. 136048Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir showing the crew retrieving the waterlogged car used in the climactic scene. An heiress inherits her father's steel mill and then must extricate herself from a marriage to the mill's general manager who means to kill her in order to own the mill. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling near one extremity. Grant US. Selby US. Silver & Ward US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1946ref. 136046Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of actress Myrna Loy from the set of the 1946 film. Based on the 1936 memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim "A Genius in the Family." Loy is shown here in period dress in the doorway of her personal trailer. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1970ref. 136064New York: National General Pictures 1970. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1970 film. Shown are director Gene Kelly with James Stewart and Henry Fonda. A revisionist Western in which James Stewart an aging cowboy inherits his brother's house of prostitution. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown
1943ref. 136398Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 film "Bermuda Mystery" here under the working title "Murder in Bermuda." A comedic mystery based on a story by John Larkin. Constance Martin Rutherford is convinced that her uncle's death in Bermuda was a murder. The authorities in Bermuda declare he died of natural causes so Connie travels to New York to inform her uncles WWI buddies who have all cashed in their collective "death pool." In New York Connie hires Steve Carramond Foster to help her investigate the death despite the fact he's set to get married the next day. Set briefly in Bermuda mostly in New York. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 8 and production No. 997 dated Dec. 16 1943. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated December 16 1943 noted as Final Script with a credit for screenwriter Darling. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/17/43. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1957ref. 136403Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. In Selznick Studio wrappers with the insignia on the front wrapper. An original production script with a perforated distribution leaf preceding the title page. The second film version of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick. Frederick Henry Hudson is an American serving in the Italian Army during WWI where he meets Catherine Barkley Jones a Red cross nurse. They have a torrid affair which results in pregnancy. The two gradually lose contact with one another. But Henry makes it to Switzerland where Barkley is hospitalized. The baby is stillborn and Barkley dies shortly afterward. Set in Europe shot on location in Italy. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Hecht original director Vidor and producer Selznick. Title page present dated 1957 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 173. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Davenport p. 122. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1964ref. 136244New York: International Plays 1964. Draft script for an unproduced play. A marriage psychoanalyst and confirmed bachelor suddenly marries a parapsychological expert and yogi and various high jinx ensue. Set in a large American city. Pale blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Joudry. Title page present dated Sept. 8 1964 noted as copy No. 18 with credits for screenwriter Joudry. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-21. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine perfect-bound. International Plays unknown
1979ref. 135438Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Nine vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1979 film. A 1979 romantic comedy about a an older man and his young earth-mama musical girlfriend. The role of Marta Heflin was originally written for Sandy Dennis but due to a costar's cat allergies coupled with Dennis' pension for bring cats to script readings the role was recast with Sheila Shea. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1956ref. 132186London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Seven vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. Based on Marcelle Maurette's stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. 8 x 10 inches. Tiny faint creases overalland light soil to one still else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1957ref. 132619London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Seven vintage British front-of-house card from the 1957 UK release of the 1956 US film. Based on Francis Gwaltney's 1955 novel "The Day the Century Ended" about an ex-plantation owner who is drafted and learns to accept the working class soldiers that he used to despise. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases overall else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1942ref. 129351Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Story synopsis basis for the 1943 film "Claudia" based on a story by Franken that appeared in Redbook magazine between July 1941 and October 1942. McGuire and Young are memorable in their portrayal of a young innocent couple struggling to break from the ties of their respective families as well as the pressure of distant relocation. Followed by a sequel "Claudia and David" in 1946 and basis for a radio play. Sky blue titled wrappers with credit for writer Franken. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 18 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1989ref. 135643Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Two original screenplays for the 1990 film one being a First Draft 1988 and the other a Second Revised Draft 1989. Brief annotations in manuscript ink on the title page of the second script. Director De Palma's unfortunate box-office flop based on Tom Wolfe's first novel. Sherman McCoy Hanks the "master of the universe" is a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin Griffith. One day the two find themselves in the South Bronx where Maria sees a black youth approaching so frightened she guns the engine and runs him over killing him. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police. Alcoholic journalist Peter Fallow Willis anxious for a story hears about the incident through a local black community activist. Once the story is out the end is inevitable for Sherman. Set in New York shot on location there and in California. De Palma would return to independent filmmaking with his next effort the creepy horror film "Raising Cain" 1992 starring John Lithgow. First Draft script: White wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1988 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Cristofer and novelist Wolfe.163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Revised Draft script; Yellow wrappers. Title page present dated October 12 1989 December 15 1989 in manuscript ink just above the printed date noted as SECOND REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Cristofer and novelist Wolfe. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Xerographic duplication with pink blue green and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/17/89 and 10/27/89. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1995ref. 135826London: Independent Television 1995. Draft scripts for four episodes of the 1996 television show "Delta Wave:" "A Twist of Lemming: Part 1" "A Twist of Lemming: Part 2" "A Glitch in Time: Part 1" and "A Glitch in Time: Part 2." A television show about two children with psycho-kinetic powers and their scientist caretaker. The show ran for only ten episodes containing five storylines featuring the title characters separated into two episodes each. This listing is for two complete storylines: "A Twist of Lemming" and "A Glitch in Time." Set in Cambridge England. "A Twist of Lemming: Part One:" Tall white self wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Pressman. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated 14/08/95 with credits for screenwriter Pressman. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 65. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine prong binding. "A Twist of Lemming: Part Two:" Tall white self wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Pressman. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated 14/08/95 with credits for screenwriter Pressman. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 70. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine prong binding. "A Glitch in Time: Part One:" Tall white self wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Pressman. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated 14/08/95 with credits for screenwriter Pressman. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound prong binding. "A Glitch in Time: Part Two:" Tall white self wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Pressman. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated 14/08/95 with credits for screenwriter Pressman. 73 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine prong binding. Independent Television unknown
