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1928ref. 172232Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1928. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1928 silent film an amazing shot showing crowds of onlookers gathering at the harbor to welcome a steamer ship. The effete son of a hardened steamer captain falls in love with the daughter of his father's rival. Keaton's last independent film made under his creative control before his move to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer later in the year. The film is perhaps best remembered today for Keaton's most famous stunt in which the facade of a house falls down around him while he avoids being flattened by inadvertently standing underneath an open window. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with three pinholes to the margins and a diagonal chip to the top left corner. Complete collation details available on request. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown books
1977ref. 146401N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed letter from screenwriter John Roberts to casting agent Paul Kohner submitting the script for consideration by prospective director John Huston with a manuscript pencil annotation across the top: "Irene / Please explain John's present status / Does he want to wait" Likely from Kohner to his secretary or reader. A gritty war drama detailing the 1919 Battle of Shenkursk an important battle in the Russian Civil War. Set in Russia. White generic Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Roberts. 185 leaves with last page of text numbered 183. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light soil and toning to the extremities bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1998ref. 171846Culver City CA: Appleton Productions 1998. Table Draft script for Season 1 Episode 10 of the 1999-2000 television series. Originally aired May 3 1999 on UPN. With a label affixed to the front wrapper identifying co-executive producer Stephan Sustarsic. Based on the successful 1989-2023 comic strip by Scott Adams about the titular pessimistic white-collar engineer and his daily interactions with his idiotic boss and frustrated coworkers. In this episode Dilbert has to find someone to reprogram the code in the office before Y2K. White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrappers noted as TABLE DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 109 dated July 24 1998 with credits for screenwriters Andrew Borakove Rachel Powell Scott Adams and Larry Charles. Title page integral with front wrapper. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Appleton Productions unknown books
ref. 149250Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the 1977 French film. Jean-Jacques Annaud's directorial debut. A scathing black comedy in which the residents of a French outpost in Africa learn of France's 1915 declaration of war on Germany conscript the local population and plan an attack on a nearby German garrison. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set in and shot on location in Ivory Coast. 27 x 41 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists Pictures unknown books
1929ref. 172235Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1929 silent comedy film showing Dorothy Sebastian and Buster Keaton on horseback. A dry-cleaning employee finds himself the subject of a famous stage actress' affections although she is secretly using him to make another man jealous. Keaton's second film with MGM. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1987ref. 146258N.p.: N.p. 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. INSCRIBED by screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue in black ink on the title page: "To John / "I Still Live!" / Best Always / Charles Edward Pogue." Based on the 1912 science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Confederate soldier is wounded in battle and subsequently used in a military teleportation experiment transferring him to the planet Barsoom. Finding he can jump far distances due to the change in atmospheric pressure he attracts the attention of a group of aliens who eventually accept him as their swashbuckling leader in battling rival alien gangs. Charles Edward Pogue best known for his screenwriting for the 1986 remake of "The Fly" was the first screenwriter hired by Disney to adapt Edgar Rice Burrough's classic novel. The film was delayed for decades however and Pogue's script was ultimately never used. Set on another planet in outer space. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated December 16th 1987 with credits for screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue and novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with light soil bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1933ref. 172202N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code comedy film showing Buster Keaton surrounded by wreckage. Annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso noting the film title. With the end of Prohibition in sight two men decide to open a brewery and begin selling their home brewed beer but the resultant product is so weak that they're let off even after a police raid. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1926ref. 172200Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the 1926 film showing actor Buster Keaton as Johnny Gray the train engineer. During the Civil War an engineer must work to save the two loves of his life: a woman named Annabelle Lee and a train named The General. A box office disappointment upon release but long since reconsidered and now ranked among the the finest of Keaton's films. Shot on location in California and Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a few short closed tears to the top margin. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 173. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 60. United Artists unknown books
1975ref. 149647N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Al Goldstein Jody Maxwell and Jim Buckley from the 1975 film. Legendary pornographer and pornography activist Al Goldstein's attempt at bringing his weekly tabloid "Screw" magazine to the cinema a pastiche of sexually explicit shorts. Maxwell appears in the finale a "Tonight Show" like segment the longest segment in the film starring Buckley as host and Goldstein as sidekick. Maxwell starred in the film "Portrait" the year earlier directed by Gerard Damiano famed director of "Deep Throat" 1972 and "The Devil in Miss Jones" 1973. Shot on location in New York City Mount Vernon New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with small staining on mid right and light edgewear. Manuscript ink notation of the number "60" at the bottom margin with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 152712Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Vintage borderless photograph of Jackie Gleason from the 1961 film. Based on the 1959 novel by Walter Tevis about a small-time pool hustler who challenges a champion for a shot at the big time. Jackie Gleason famously did all of his own billiards shots while pool legend Willie Mosconi served as a technical advisor and stand in for the other actors. Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actor Best Actress and twice for Best Supporting Actor. Shot on location in New York including the use of several actual pool halls. 7 x 9 inches. About Near Fine with some shallow light creasing to the corners. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1958ref. 152538N.p.: N.p. 1958. Archive of production material for an unproduced television presentation presumably a pilot seen here under its alternate title "Silent Enemy." Included are one partial draft script several letters and memos between screenwriter Arthur Hailey agent Maeve Southgate and Theatre Guild executives William Herman and Arthur Heinemann. Also in the archive are several memos from within the Theatre Guild office discussing revisions to the script and ultimately declining to move ahead with production. Dated variously between May 12 and September 5 1958 with a three-page manuscript summary of revisions made to the script ostensibly in Hailey's hand and two carbon typescript summaries of the same. As noted in several letters from Maeve Southgate Hailey's screenplay was previously used for the television episode "Death Minus One" which aired on BBC on the British television anthology series "Encounter" on January 28 1958. A young American girl visiting her cousin in London is trapped when postwar ruins collapse leading a police sergeant to rescue her. As he works to retrieve the girl The sergeant discovers an unexploded bomb with her among the rubble. Set in London. Draft script: Lacking wrappers and title page. Approximately 60 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. All other materials lightly creased to the edges else Near Fine overall. Pagination available upon request. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 152544London: Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors 1980. Vintage program for the UK release of the 1980 film. A lush production directed in a neoclassical style by David Lynch based on two nonfiction accounts by Sir Frederick Treves "The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences" and Ashley Montagu "The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity". The true story of Joseph Merrick a gentle and intelligent man reviled for his severe deformities. Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in London. 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Bi-fold. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1051. Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors unknown books
1967ref. 149023N.p.: Royal Films International 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1966 French film. A modern adaptation of the 1872 Emile Zola play "La Curee." Pampered young Renee Saccard Jane Fonda married to the older wealthy industrialist Alexandre Saccard Michel Piccoli is tricked out of her fortune when she falls for his son Maxime Peter McEnery. The second of four films Vadim and Fonda would make together. Set in Paris. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus some splitting to three of the folds. Royal Films International unknown books
1949ref. 152568Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage reference photograph of actress Denise Darcel on the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe to the verso. A dramatization of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 following the US 101st Airborne Division as they hold the town of Bastogne against overwhelming German forces. Set in Belgium shot on location in Oregon California and Washington. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn to the bottom edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1989ref. 146402Studio City CA: Starvision 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film. Internally produced agency script with photocopied holes issued prior to the film's production. Missing 14 pages likely as used or issued. Two long-lost brothers-one from Cambodia one from Los Angeles-must avenge their father's untimely death at the hands of a crime boss. Set in Cambodia and California shot on location in Las Vegas. Blue generic STARVISION Inc. wrappers. Title page present with credits for director H. Kaye Dyal. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with faint toning to the extremities bound with three gold brads. Starvision unknown books
1981ref. 149259N.p.: Cannon Films 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1981 film. Remake of the 1947 film noir. Amateur boxer Leon Johnson Leon Isaac Kennedy attempts to turn pro to help care for his sister fallen ill with sickle-cell anemia but as his stature rises so do the temptations. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus some wear and light soil at the folds. Spicer Neo-Noir. Cannon Films unknown books
1933ref. 152591N.p.: N.p. 1933. Vintage reference photograph of actress Fay Wray spotting something large and tentacled outside a boat window with a camera crew to the far left capturing the shot. Mimeo snipe to the verso. A wealthy woman funds a marine biology expedition but trouble arises when her crew declares their intentions to search for lost gold bullion in the wreckage of a German World War I U-boat instead. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 149281Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1966 film with corrected credits at the bottom margin on an affixed label. Adapted from the teleplay "Big Deal in Laredo" written by Sidney Carroll originally aired on "The DuPont Show of the Week" on NBC October 7 1962 starring Walter Matthau Teresa Wright and Zachary Scott. Meredith Henry Fonda his wife Mary Joanne Woodward and their young son are passing through Laredo Texas during an annual high-stakes poker game when Meredith decides to buy into the game. After losing all of their family savings he suffers a physical breakdown prompting the attention of a doctor and for his wife Mary Joanne Woodward to take over his hand. Because she has no more money to bet she takes a loan from the bank based on her hand. Set in Laredo TX and filmed on location in Flagstaff AZ. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Light splitting at bottom crease else Near Fine. Pitts 317. Warner Brothers unknown books
1984ref. 149316Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1984. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1984 film. Three middle-aged men Courtney Gains Gary Wood Darcy DeMoss let college student Scotty Grant Cramer stay at their beach house on the condition that he teach them how to pick up girls. Originally made for broadcast on the Playboy Channel but picked up by Columbia Pictures for theatrical distribution. Set in and shot on location in Southern California. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good with light creasing some rubbing to folds and a closed tear to the lower right margin. McFadden Teen Movie Hell pp. 110-112. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 149022Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1960. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1960 Italian-American film. Based on the 1953 novel "The Fair Bride" by Bruce Marshall. Arturo Carrera Dirk Bogarde resigns from Catholic priesthood because of the church's support for the Nationalist rebels in the Spanish Civil War. When Loyalists begin attacking churches and clerics Arturo tries to hide with the help of a prostitute Soedad Ava Gardner and war correspondent Hawthorne Joseph Cotton. Set in 1936 Spain shot on location in Viterbo Sicily and Rome Italy. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Good only with some small chips along the bottom edge a chip in the middle of the title and two closed tears. See image. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972ref. 152522Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Collection of promotional materials for the 1972 film including two vintage pressbooks and two pages of production notes. A lonely boy befriends Ben the power-hungry rat leader of a violent rat gang. Sequel to "Willard" 1971. Notable for the theme song a ballad titled "Ben" sung by Michael Jackson. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Pressbooks 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Production notes 8.5 x 13 inches. All materials folded once horizontally at the center else Near Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cinerama Releasing unknown books
1976ref. 152516London: Brent Walker Film Distributing 1976. Vintage flyer for the UK release of the 1976 Canadian exploitation thriller. Included with the flyer are two pages of promotional material for the film. A wealthy dentist and his girlfriend are terrorized by a group of psychotic thugs. When it seems the man is too afraid to do anything Diane steps in to exact revenge. Hot on the heels of Wes Craven's successful 1972 revenge thriller "Last House on the Left." Shot on location in Ontario Canada. Flyer 10 x 7.5 inches. Flyer and promotional materials Very Good plus lightly creased. Canuxploitation Complete. Brent Walker Film Distributing unknown books
1951ref. 152756N.p.: Classic Pictures 1951. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film. In a move that placed him in a category with Mickey Spillane Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as the leading man in a film based on his own novel. Wright was cast after initial choice Canada Lee who had starred in Orson Welles' stage adaptation of the story was stuck in South African customs after shooting "Cry the Beloved Country" 1951. Set in Chicago and shot on location in Chicago and Argentina. One photograph 10 x 8.25 inches one photograph 9.5 x 8 inches and one photograph 9 x 8 inches. Good one with a pinhole to the center others moderately toned soiled and edgeworn. Classic Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 152520Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1985. Vintage promotional flyer from the 1974 film. The granddaddy of all modern vigilante movies and a watershed film for rugged American icon Charles Bronson who had roles in many crime and adventure films prior to 1974 but met with destiny as an iceman. The series became a franchise with Bronson's character falling deeper into a typecast mold with each outing. But this first film is a different matter quite faithful to Brian Garfield's novel one of the great films of the New Hollywood cinema a great New York location film and a statement on the rampant and epidemic spread of urban crime in the US during the 1970s. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with a light horizontal crease affecting the center of the flyer and a faint vertical crease running the length of the left edge. Grant US. 341. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 152562Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Jim Brown Diahann Carroll Julie Harris Ernest Borgnine Warren Oates Jack Klugman and Don Sutherland. Mimeo snipe to the verso. Based on the 1966 Parker novel "The Seventh" by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. A gang of thieves begins to fall apart when half a million dollars stolen from the Los Angeles Coliseum goes missing. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
