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1986ref. 135813London: Independent Television 1986. 3rd Draft script for the television movie. Based on the 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh which in turn was based on Waugh's own experiences working at the Daily Mail. Working copy with manuscript annotations in blue red and black ink and pink highlighter throughout as well as handmade tape tabs marking the scenes. Laid in are a number of original and photocopied newspaper articles dealing with the production six pages of background information on their Moroccan shooting location and four pages of call sheets from Morocco. A tale of sensationalist foreign correspondents covering a war in Ishmaelia desperately looking for news of a story to send home and the unlikely man who finds the real scoop. Shot on location in Morocco and the United Kingdom. White self titled wrappers noted as 3rd Draft on the front wrapper production No. 10556 dated June 1986 with credits for screenwriter Boyd novelist Waugh director Millar and eight other crew members including producer Sue Birtwistle. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Independent Television unknown
1999ref. 135833London: Target Television 1999. Three Draft scripts for episodes two and three of the 1999 three-part television miniseries. This listing includes two separate drafts for episode 3. Also includes 13 pages of photocopied storyboards and six pages of call sheets and shooting location information. Copies belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly with her manuscript name and annotations to the later script for episode 3 the call sheet and the storyboards and filming information. The story of a family's struggle with a severely ADHD son and his improvement through the use of prescription drugs behavioral changes and a special school. Nominated for a British Academy Television Award and a Royal Television Society Award. Set in the United Kingdom shot on location in Hertfordshire England. Episode 2 of 3: Tall white self wrappers as issued dated 28th June 1999 with credits for screenwriter Marchant. Title page present integral with the front wrapper. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a single silver brad. Episode 3 of 3 28th June 1999: Tall white self wrappers as issued dated 28th June 1999 with credits for screenwriter Marchant. Title page present integral with the front wrapper. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a single silver brad. Episode 3 of 3 22nd July 1999: Tall white self wrappers as issued dated 22nd July 1999 with credits for screenwriter Marchant. Title page present integral with the front wrapper. 58 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Mechanical duplication with pink and green revision pages throughout dated 31st July 1999 and 9th August 1999 respectively. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with a single silver brad. Target Television unknown
1948ref. 135635Culver City CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film "Joan of Arc" here under its working title "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946 ran for 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre and closed in 1947. Ingrid Bergman who stars as Joan in the film also starred in the play and won the 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film won three Academy Awards. Director Victor Fleming's final film featuring Bergman as Joan of Arc the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English. Bergman portrays the martyr as a strong and spiritual figure who proves her devotion to the Dauphin Jose Ferrer later to become the King of France. She wins an alliance with the Governor of Vaucouleurs and the courtiers at Chinon leads her army in the Battle of Orleans is betrayed by the Burgundians. Joan was captured tortured and ultimately executed by the English and was later made a Catholic saint. Set in the village of Domremy shot on location in California. Tan titled wrappers. Distribution page present undated with receipt removed noted as copy No. 400. Title page integral with distribution page. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1962ref. 135647Paris: C.A.P.A.C. / Cocinor 1962. Collection of 6 vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the French release of the 1962 film. Each photo with the stamp of French distributor Cocinor on the verso. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners of each photograph. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. / Cocinor unknown
1962ref. 135645Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1962. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph from the French release of the 1962 film. With stamp on the verso noting reference number 582. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown
1966ref. 135639Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1966. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With reference information in manual type on the verso of each photograph. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown
1968ref. 135902Paris: Le Spectacle du Monde 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the film in Rome. Pictured are director Christian Marquand whose faux-grim countenance is in nice contrast to the attractive innocence of the film's lead actress Ewa Aulin. With the stamp of French magazine Le Spectacle du Monde twice on the verso. 8 x 10.5 inches. Fine. Le Spectacle du Monde unknown
1975ref. 135906Berlin: Der Spiegel 1975. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of Fassbinder on the set of his 1975 film "Faustrecht der Freiheit." Shot by Manjit Jari for the German publication Der Spiegel with stamps for both Jari and the publication on the verso along with an archive date of March 19 1975. Franz "Fox" Biberkopf Fassbinder loses his job at a carnival after his boyfriend Klaus Karl Scheydt is arrested for tax fraud. After hustling for the money to buy a lottery ticket he wins 500000 marks and attracts the attention of Eugen Peter Chatel a sophisticated but amoral young man in need of money. He begins a relationship with the uneducated Fox and slowly swindles him out of his winnings driving him to eventual poverty and suicide. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Der Spiegel unknown
1999ref. 135842London: British Broadcasting Corporation BBC 1999. Draft scripts for two Season 2 episodes of the 2000 television show "Badger:" "The Price of a Daughter." and "Only Ewe" later released under the title "Blood Ties." Jerome Flynn plays a wildlife liaison officer in a small rural town who fights various animal crime and encounters the usual interpersonal drama. Set in Northumberland England. "Only Ewe:" Tall white self wrappers as issued noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 04/10/1999 with credits for screenwriter Colin MacDonald. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 68. Mechanical duplication with white revision pages dated 05-Oct-99 and 06-Oct-99. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine prong binding. "The Price of a Daughter:" Tall white self wrappers as issued noted as DRAFT 1 on the front wrapper dated 07/11/99 with credits for screenwriter Kieran Prendiville. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine prong binding. British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] unknown
1998ref. 135856Cardiff Wales: Hartswood Films 1998. An archive of 11 scripts for the complete 7 episode British television miniseries "Wonderful You." Copies belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly with her manuscript name and annotations throughout in highlighter and ink. Included in the listing are Archive also includes 20 pages of call sheets and shooting schedules with Kelly's manuscript annotations. Almost certainly begun as an attempt to at least in part mimic the early success of the long-running sitcom "Friends" "Wonderful You" follows a group of thirty-something aged friends in London as they navigate their convoluted interpersonal relationships. Unlike "Friends" however in which all the main characters start out as single and slowly acquire partners "Wonderful You" contains a number of different states of romantic relationships right from the beginning including a few single people a successful couple in a long term relationship a gay couple and an unhappily married couple with a young son. Though "Friends" may be considered one of the more successful sitcoms of the late 1990s and certainly one of the longest-running "Wonderful You" instead makes a much more succinct and arguably much less saccharine statement about the nature of relationships themselves. Shot on location in London. Scripts all housed in tall white self wrappers as issued some unbound sheets and some prong bound. One script then further housed in a red spring binder. All have credits for screenwriters Niel and Lumsden. Title page integral with the front wrappers. Mechanical duplication some with pink blue or yellow revision pages. Very Good plus condition or better. Hartswood Films unknown
1997ref. 135849London: Bentley Productions 1997. 5th Draft script for the 1997 television episode of the show "The Broker's Man." Though broadcast in two parts this script contains both the first and second parts. Kevin Whately plays Jimmy Griffin an ex-cop now working as an investigator for an insurance company still finds ways to use his detective skills at his new job and somehow between his wife and employees fawning over him manages to create a lot of drama beyond that which he finds through his work. In this episode an ex-soldier kills his father and attempts to claim the father's insurance at which point Jimmy and his whole family gets involved. Tall white self wrappers as issued noted as 5th Draft on the front wrapper dated 30 January 1997 with credits for screenwriters Ashton and O'Mara. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a single silver brad. Bentley Productions unknown
1958ref. 135931Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film "Suicide Batallion" here under its working title "Hell Raiders." The screenwriter-director team of Rusoff and Kahn worked together on several AIP films including "Girls in Prison" 1956 "The She-Creature" 1956 "Shake Rattle & Rock" 1956 "Runaway Daughters" 1956 "Dragstrip Girl" 1957 and "Motorcycle Gang" 1957. Rusoff also scripted a few Roger Corman films including "Apache Woman " 1955 "Day the World Ended" 1955 "The Oklahoma Woman" 1956 and "It Conquered the World" 1956. A group of men are recruited for a dangerous mission to destroy an American base in order to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. Set in the Philippines shot on location in Dallas Texas. AIP moved from big screen productions to television at the turn on the 1960s remaking several film scripts as television movies including this one which was eventually released as Larry Buchanan's 1968 film "Hell Raiders" the original title. Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 36. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page with credits for screenwriter/producer Rusoff and slated director Edward L. Kahn. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound three two gold brads. Davenport US. Ray US. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1976ref. 135943Los Angeles: Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on Paul Gallico's 1970 novel. Bernie Bonnelli Gould is a small-time talent agent down on his luck who discovers a boxing kangaroo named Matilda. Hoping to gain recognition and income he schedules a fight between the kangaroo and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The fight attracts the attention of the local mob boss who wants total control of the marsupial and the attention of animal activists looking to stop cruelty to animals. Set in New York shot on location in California New York and Nevada. Illustrated titled wrappers with glassine cover on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 15 1976 with credits for novelist Gallico and screenwriter Galfas. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1935ref. 129885N.p.: Grand National Pictures 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder" here under the working title and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace Edgar Wallace's son with his name and manuscript annotations in pencil on the front wrapper. Based on the 1925 collection of short stories "The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder" by Edgar Wallace. The second Mr. Reeder film this time seeing the absentminded detective investigate a gang of counterfeiters. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1935 with credit for writer Wallace. 78 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a teal cord. Okuda 71. Grand National Pictures unknown
1952ref. 135865Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso of the last page of text and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod Windsor runs a town where law states that men are illegal. The tough McLeod is soon caught in the lusty lasso of Woody Callaway Rober a handsome and persistent cowboy. The Poverty Row studio Lippert Pictures lasted nearly two decades 1948-1969 and would resurface as the production company for "Don't Do It" 1994. Notable films produced or distributed by Lippert include "Jungle Goddess" 1948 "I Shot Jesse James" 1949 forgotten films noir like "Radar Secret Service" and "Motor Patrol" both 1950 Samuel Fuller's "The Steel Helmet" 1951 Sam Newfield's "Lost Continent" 1951 and Terence Fisher's classic Hammer noir "Man Bait" 1952. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text undated with a credit for screenwriter Hampton. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Hardy The Western p. 218. Okuda 486. Lippert Pictures unknown
1950ref. 136078Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1950. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph from the 1950 film noir. Shown are Ellen Keyes pursued onto a window ledge by a policeman. Advertising Council approval stamp and Columbia Studios stamp on the verso. 8 x 11 inches. Near Fine with two keybook hole punches to the left margin as called for. Grant p. 349. Spicer p. 412. Columbia Pictures unknown
1929ref. 136071Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1929. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1929 film. Shown is George Bancroft being pulled away from a prison cell where Richard Arlen is being held. Nominated for an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus condition with a handful of pinhole tears and a short closed tear at the extremities. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969ref. 136136Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 Disney film. Based on a story by Marty Roth executive story editor for the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" 1979-1985. Coast Guard Ensign Garland Morse falls in love with sailing instructor Kate Powers but his bumbling leaves her disenchanted until they team up to recover stolen jewels before a team of thieves led by Simmons Silvers can find them. Set in California shot there on location. Gray titled wrappers noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper production No. 0107 dated July 23 1969 with credits for story writer Roth and screenwriter Julian. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 166. Mechanical duplication with green blue white and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/18/69 and 9/28/69. Near Fine overall bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1935ref. 136148Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1935. Two vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the set of the 1935 film. Based on the 1921 play "Frisco Kate" by West. Here seen under the title "Klondike Lou." Shown in one photo are Mae West and director Raoul Walsh looking over a script. In the other they are joined by 1935 heavyweight boxing champion who was visiting the set. With mimeograph snipes variously affixed and printed to the verso of each photo. One photo has Spanish translation tipped on and "Sintonia" Spanish agency stamp to the verso as well. A woman accidentally kills her landlord in self defense while he attempts to murder her then escapes on a steamer to Nome Alaska. She takes on the identity of a nun who dies en route giving the censors quite a lot to work with. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1975ref. 136240Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1975. Second Revised Draft script for the 1976 film "The Desperate Miles" seen here under the title "No Help Required." A disabled Vietnam war veteran takes a road trip from LA to San Diego in his wheelchair to prove himself. Green titled wrappers noted as 2nd Rev. on the front wrapper production No. 42128 dated 1/22/75 with credits for screenwriters Arthur Ross and Joel Rogosin. Title page present integral with the front wrapper. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 82 and with 9 additional revision pages at the rear. Mimeograph duplication with blue green yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/8/75 and 1/22/75. Pages Near Fine wrappers Very Good bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown
1972ref. 135242Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1972 French film "La course du lievre a travers les champs" release in the US as "And Hope to Die." Featured is a rare still of director Clement brandishing a rifle and a still of actor Trintignant contemplating the true value of a ten-dollar bill. Loosely based on David Goodis' 1954 seminal hardboiled novel "Black Friday" a paperback original. A French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of criminals in the midst of kidnapping the mentally-challenged daughter of a rival crimelord. The plan goes accordingly until the girl accidentally dies. Shot on location in Quebec Canada and Hauts-de-Seine France. Both stills 7 x 9.25 inches borderless as issued. Ink annotations on the versos else Near Fine overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1966ref. 135228Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1966. Nine vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1966. Each still shows a particular location in Mexico City and in Acapulco Mexico various scenes used for shooting the film. Tarzan Mike Henry travels from Africa to Mexico at the request of an old friend to help rescue a kidnapped boy named Ramel Padilla Jr. Augustus Vinero Opatoshu the kidnapper forces Ramel to lead him to the city supposedly made of gold. Tarzan sets out with Ramel's pet leopard a lion and a chimpanzee and soon locates the boy. Ramel shows him the way to the lost city where Tarzan confronts Vinero and his henchmen. 8 x 10 inches. Tiny edge tears and creases else Near Fine overall. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1945ref. 135327New York: Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures 1945. Original program for the 1945 film. Features ad layouts side-by-side comparison of Lawrence Tierney and the real John Dillinger and various headline suggestions. Dillinger Tierney robs a store meets fellow gangster Specs Lowe in jail and continues his heists once freed from prison this time with a moll named Helen Jeffreys who eventually rats him out to the Fuzz. Nominated for an Academy Award. Director Nosseck made good use of stock footage from previous gangster films. Illustrated wrappers saddle-stapled. 16 leaves. Very Good with light foxing faint bruising and a vertical fold at the center. Grant US. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Okuda 440. Selby US. Spicer US. Stephens pp. 85-86. Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures unknown
1964ref. 135038Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Collection of 4 black and white stills photographs from the 1964 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1967ref. 135367Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 film. Press stamps on the versos. A seven-part anthology ranging from comedy to drama starring actress Shirley MacLaine in various guises and all dealing with adultery and its ramifications. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
