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1956ref. 172053N.p.: N.p. 1956. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1956 film showing Paul Newman receiving a champion's welcome in Brooklyn accompanied by Pier Angeli. One with a mimeo snipe and provenance label affixed to the verso. Based on middleweight boxing champion Rocky Graziano's 1955 autobiography from his early years suffering abuse at the hands of his father his dishonorable discharge from the US Army and eventual rise to boxing stardom. One of Newman's first starring roles. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Black-and-White Cinematography and Art Direction. Set in Brooklyn and shot on location in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn and at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2002ref. 172068Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 2002. Five vintage color slides from the 2002 film. Each with a credit for photographer Merrick Morton on the sleeves. A mother and daughter lock themselves in their New York brownstone's safe room to hide from three burglars who seek a large sum in bearer bonds stowed in the house by its previous owner. Director David Fincher's fifth feature film following "Fight Club" 1999. Slides 1.5 x 1 inches in cardboard sleeves measuring 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 172056Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Vintage satin-finish double weight reference photograph from a 1972 re-release of the 1971 film though we believe this photo is unique to the re-release showing Miriam Karlin mid-scream. Based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel. A futuristic voyeuristic catapult into the world of teenage delinquent Alex DeLarge who is forced to undergo an experimental treatment developed by the government to cure him of his affinity for violence. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine slightly wavy to the left edge. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Warner Brothers unknown books
1974ref. 172057N.p.: Saliva Films / Dreamland Productions 1974. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1974 film showing the film's poster. John Waters' fourth feature after his wildly successful 1972 film "Pink Flamingos" about a rebellious high-school student who embarks on a murder spree after her parents deny her request for cha-cha heels at Christmastime. Dedicated to Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson who inspired the theme of the film: "crime is beauty." Shot on location in Baltimore Maryland. 10 x 8 inches with wide top and bottom margins. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 929. Saliva Films / Dreamland Productions unknown books
1974ref. 172064N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1974 sexploitation horror film showing director Jess Franco during filming on location in Paris with Lina Romay and an unidentified woman to the left. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Franco began shooting his films in Paris in the early 1970s due to the country's increasingly liberal laws around sexual content. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Lightly faded else Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 152780N.p.: N.p. 1958. Four vintage oversize matte-finish reference photographs from the 1958 film one showing actor Patrick McGoohan in full safari garb crouching with a cheetah two showing actors Belinda Lee and Michael Craig and one showing Lee between takes on the set petting a lion. The British fiancee of a senior warden at a south African game preserve finds her affections unexpectedly drawn by her beau's younger brother. Shot on location in Kenya. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus one with a short closed tear to the bottom edge and all with light creasing and toning to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 161427Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Final script for the 1979 film seen here under the working title "Stepping Out." Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. Blue and green revision pages throughout. A comedy about three retired men living on social security who decide to pull off a bank heist to finance their last days and more importantly to bring some excitement to their humdrum lives. The first major feature from director and screenwriter Martin Brest who would go on to make the blockbuster success "Beverly Hills Cop" and who was only 28 at the time this film was shot. Shot on location in New York and Las Vegas. Red titled Warner Brothers wrappers dated October 16 1978 noted as FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 16 1978 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Martin Brest and story credit for Edward Cannon. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/22/79 and 5/14/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1967ref. 152790N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage oversize matte-finish reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actors Glenn Ford and Angie Dickinson. Based on the 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress" by John Sherry. A former gunslinger turned sheriff of a sleepy western town must fight a spitfire youngster who wants to prove his merit as the fastest draw in the territory. Shot on location in Arizona. 15 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with moderate soil and wear to the edges. Pitts 2185. N.p. unknown books
1939ref. 152799N.p.: N.p. 1939. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1939 film showing actors David Niven and Olivia de Havilland. A man-about-town and master burglar falls in love with an old school friend with gambling debts leading him to plan and execute his most daring robbery. 10.25 x 13.75 inches. Very Good with a short closed tear to the top edge and a small chip to the bottom left corner see image. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 152788N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage test photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Carroll Baker in costume as Jean Harlow. The rise to fame and troubled life of starlet Jean Harlow before her death from kidney failure at 26. Not to be confused with the 1965 film of the same name directed by Alex Segal and starring Carol Lynley. Set in Hollywood. 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus faintly creased at the top edge. Olive Films 247. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 171780N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film showing Marlon Brando seated shirtless on the set examining a screenplay. Cinémonde stamps and layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. The announcement of Brando's casting as Mark Antony was met with criticism by the public who at that time most strongly associated the actor with his role as the boorish Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire" 1951. Nevertheless Brando's performance as Antony was widely praised and even led costar John Gielgud to offer to direct Brando in a London production of "Hamlet" an offer that Brando ultimately turned down. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 171794N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1972 French film showing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Daniel Ivernel ogling a nude Laura Antonelli. Based on Hubert Monteilhet's 1969 novel "Murder at Leisure" about a womanizing doctor who begins drugging his wife in order to continue his affair with her younger sister. 11 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 171784N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1958 French film noir showing a gloved Julien Tavernier carefully staging his lover's husband's death as a suicide. The film's new cinematic realism was both indebted and pivotal to the French New Wave and skyrocketed the career of Moreau whose disaffected makeup-less performance was the scandal of Paris for months following the film's release. 12 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 335. Grant France. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 171801N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage transparencies from the 1967 film. Adapted for the screen by Neil Simon from his 1963 play about newlyweds: he of course a cautious reserved lawyer and her obviously a carefree spontaneous young woman trying to make it work in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village. Mildred Natwick received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film. 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1947ref. 171760Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film showing Charlie Chaplin standing on the sidewalk outside a cafe in Paris. Annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso noting the film title. A black comedy featuring a rare villainous turn by Chaplin as the titular Henri Verdoux a bigamist serial killer loosely based on real-life French killer Henri Désiré Landru. Chaplin was at the time facing accusations of being a Communist and the film was met with boycotts and picketing by the public and hostility by the press. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned else about Fine. United Artists unknown books
1970ref. 171759N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 Danish film showing Lisbet Lundquist Wayne Rodda and Paul Valjean. Based on the 1956 novel by Henry Miller about two womanizing men-one American one European-who share an apartment in Paris. Filmed in Paris at the same time as another Henry Miller adaptation "Tropic of Cancer" directed by Joseph Strick and starring Rip Torn and Ellen Burstyn. Set and shot on location in Paris and Luxembourg. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Blue Underground. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 171748Paris: Valoria Films 1970. Vintage borderless composite reference photograph from the 1970 film the top image showing François Truffaut examining his ankle and shoe the bottom image showing Jean-Pierre Leaud doing the same. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with provenance stamps and layout annotations in manuscript pencil. The penultimate film in François Truffaut's five-film series about the character Antoine Doinel. In this entry Doinel and his wife are expecting their first child when he begins an affair with a woman he meets in a business meeting at his new job. Shot on location in Paris. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 187. Valoria Films unknown books
1970ref. 171754N.p.: N.p. 1970. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film including one satin-finish and two glossy. Satin-finish photograph with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso. Based on the 1968 novel by Joel Lieber. A would-be playwright is beset by financial troubles while moving with his wife to the Upper West Side ultimately retreating into fantasy. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 171749N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film one showing Gary Lockwood and Anouk Aimee the other showing Aimee alone. One with a provenance stamp and faded annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Jacques Demy's first English language film recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s. A young discontented man in a dead-end relationship learns his draft notice has arrived and he is due to report for Army duty the following week. While out trying to raise money to keep his car from being repossessed he sees and becomes obsessed with the beautiful Lola an older French model who works in a "model shop" posing for photographers. Set and shot on location in Laurel Canyon Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time 327. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 171761N.p.: N.p. 1975. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1975 film. One with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An experimental portrait of American citizens of various stripes-indigenous people immigrants hippies activists and more-as they reflect on changing life in the 1970s. Directors John Douglas and Robert Kramer were previously associated with Newsreel a revolutionary filmmaking collective founded in New York in 1967. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light soil and toning to the margins. N.p. unknown books
1944ref. 171768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the classic 1944 film noir showing Tom Powers on the train tracks. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Billy Wilder making the right decision at the right time as usual decided it was time to bring in lauded hard-boiled crime fiction author Raymond Chandler to work on a great crime drama using James Cain's seminal hard-boiled novella. Wilder and Chandler worked on the script for several weeks together and at one point Cain was even brought in to resolve some questions. The result was a film that set the standard for all that would follow in what came to be known as the noir style using a cut-up time structure Barbara Stanwyck in a blonde wig Fred MacMurray as a soulless sucker and Edward G. Robinson as the straight man who brings pathos to the proceedings. Nominated for seven Academy Awards a rare feat for a genre picture including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenwriter Best Cinematography and Best Actress. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1987ref. 171776N.p.: Handmade Films 1987. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1988 film including Jodie Foster as a young adult a young John Turturro and a photo showing director Tony Bill talking with Tim Robbins on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. One of the most important independent films of the 1980s and the movie that launched Jodie Foster into her adult film career as well as one that featured striking early performances by John Turturro and Tim Robbins. A violent ex-con returns to his old neighborhood in the Bronx where he begins harassing a young woman whom he previously attempted to sexually assault. An early script by Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley best known for "Moonstruck" 1987 and "Doubt" 2008. Set in 1960s New York and shot in New York on location. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine lightly toned to the edges. Handmade Films unknown books
1949ref. 148820Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actors Jeanne Crain Nina Mae McKinney and Frederick O'Neal. Based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel "Quality." A light-skinned young African-American woman Jeanne Crain lives in the north where she can easily pass for white but is forced to return to her home town in the Souh to visit her elderly grandmother. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1977ref. 148819Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1977. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1975 film showing actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Eric Monte and Glynn Turman. With a provenance stamp on the verso. A seminal coming-of-age drama following two best friends growing up on Chicago's North Side in 1964. Set and shot on location throughout Chicago including the Cabrini-Green housing projects and the Lincoln Park Zoo. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Olive Films 974. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1973ref. 141877Vienna: Lisa Film 1973. Draft script for the 1973 West German film. Text in German. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's controversial 1897 play "Reigen." A satire of the sexual and class mores of the late 1800s not produced on stage until 1920 although published versions in various languages were available as early as 1900. With its frank sexual content and depictions of relationships across class and cultural lines the play was immediately condemned as pornography and withdrawn from the German stage although it remained unsurprisingly popular. Schnitzler's play was adapted for film several times previously most notably by Max Ophuls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964 both using the French title "La Ronde." Set in Vienna. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for playwright Arthur Schnitzler and director Otto Schenk. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a gold prong binding. Lisa Film unknown books
