6,012 results
1961ref. 130381Culver City CA: Selznick International / RKO Radio Pictures 1961. Combined 16mm Continuity script for the 1961 re-release of the 1946 film. Based on the 1933 novel by Ethel Lina White. A mute woman lives in a small town in Vermont where a serial killer is targeting vulnerable women. Set in Vermont shot on location in Detroit MI. Green titled wrappers with back wrapper missing noted as Combined 16mm Continuity on the front wrapper dated May 9th 1961. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 7. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples along the top edge. Selznick International / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1939ref. 129771N.p.: N.p. 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film. A kind but reclusive woman inherits the fortune of her father a man of dubious morals who was well known at Tammany Hall and with the assistance of the Devil believes she can help put things to rights in part by funding a performance of "Faust." Written by Sidney Howard who received widespread fame for his work on "Gone with the Wind." Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 15 1939 with credits for screenwriter Howard. 141 leaves mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 129717N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The story of a young girl whose emotionally disturbed mother commits suicide while the family is traveling to Mexico City by train and whose previously estranged oil baron father must then assume her care. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Victor Wolfson. 29 leaves mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 129692New York: Delia Productions 1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Alfred. 102 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Delia Productions unknown books
1940ref. 129720N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two brothers with a patchy relationship both end up becoming competent jockeys and one who had previously slighted the other throws the important race so the other can win. Self wrappers with integral title page present showing credits for screenwriter Pinkham. 9 leaves original typescript. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 130392Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Combined 16mm Continuity script for the 1961 re-release of the 1939 film. An American remake of the 1936 Swedish film directed by Gustaf Molander. A famed violinist meets his daughter's piano teacher asks her to tour with him and falls in love with her despite his children and wife at home. Shot in Monterey and Santa Monica California. Tall pink titled wrappers noted as Combined 16mm Continuity on the front wrapper dated May 9th 1961. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 4. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples along the top edge. United Artists unknown books
1963ref. 132580London: National Screen Service / MGM 1963. Collection of 6 vintage full-color and 3 black-and-white still photographs from the 1963 UK film. A star-studded drama that takes place in a New York airport at the V. I. P. lounge. Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection and this is Taylor's and Burton's second collaborative film credit. Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for her supporting role. 8 x 10 inches some slightly smaller. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1958ref. 132741London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Eight vintage full-color still photographs from the UK country of origin release of the 1958 film. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel about a company of German soldiers on the Russian front during WWII. One of the soldiers is sent home where finding his home bombed he struggles for his sanity and survival with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. Set on the Russian front and in Germany during World War II shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases else Near Fine. Masters of Cinema 65. Davenport p. 358. Hyams p. 129. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 132880Hollywood: National Screen Service / Paramount Pictures 1967. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1967 UK film. Based on the 1905 H. G. Wells novel "Kipps" starring Tommy Steele as Arthur Kipps an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile. His grandfather dies and leaves him a vast wealth prompting a sudden life change. 8 x 10 inches. Ink notation on the verso and faint creases else Near Fine. Hirschhorn p. 389. National Screen Service / Paramount Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 132779London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Eight vintage hand-tinted still photographs from the 1956 UK release of the 1956 US film. Based in Georges Simenon's 1949 novel "Le fond de la bouteille" "The Bottom of the Bottle" published in the US in the 1954 collection "Tidal Wave". The film centers around a wealthy rancher Cotten in the border town of Nogales Arizona and his brother Johnson a drunk who escapes from prison and hides in his garage. Johnson wants his brother the rancher to help him across the Santa Cruz River into the Mexico where his wife Shirley Patterson as Shawn Smith lives in squalor. A story set and shot on location in the Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing overall else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965ref. 133553London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1965 UK release of the 1965 US film. On the versos are studio rubber stamps UK and one still has a mimeo tag affixed to the verso with the reissue title "Sabateur: Code Name Morituri." Based on the 1963 novel by Werner Joerg Luedecke and one of the most underrated war films of the 1960s about Robert Crain Brando a German living in India during World War II who is blackmailed by Colonel Statter Howard to impersonate an SS officer onboard a cargo ship with Captain Mueller Brynner in charge leaving Japan for Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases and a brief evidence of cello tape removal to one still else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1988ref. 129772N.p.: N.p. 1988. Two Draft scripts from 1987 and 1988 for an unproduced film. Both drafts SIGNED by screenwriter David Henderson in manuscript ink on the title page in 1992 and each has a lengthy inscription about the development of the script noting "Michael L. Parker" and his investment in the film the script's general plot and characters a proposed directorial role for Robert N. Zagone "San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog" 1970 television movie and revisions Henderson made in order to "make the film roughly a page a minute." A cursory look at the script leads us to believe the story is set in a desolate perhaps post-apocalyptic Southwest landscape and the overall theme seems to have crime/thriller elements i.e. murder guns swords. 1987 draft: Blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1987 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 138 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. 1988 draft: Light blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 111 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 133572Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1979. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1979 film showing actors Michael Murphy and Anne Byrne. Isaac Woody Allen is divorced from Jill Meryl Streep who is living with another woman and is writing a book. Isaac is also dating Tracy Mariel Hemingway a 17-year-old when he meets Mary Diane Keaton the mistress of his best friend Yale Michael Murphy with whom he falls in love. Woody Allen's first foray into black-and-white was an instant classic and took the talent for drama and auteur status hinted at in "Annie Hall" 1977 to completion. Set in New York and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches. And a few tiny creases and a closed tear else Near Fine. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown books
1966ref. 133563Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Seven vintage full-color still photographs from the 1966 re-release of the 1961 film. Based on MacLean's 1957 novel about a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers whose task is to destroy two powerful German guns that control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Winner of an Academy Award Best Effects 1962. Shot on location in Greece California and Senegal. 8 x 10 inches. Faint corner creases else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 133577London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Zodiac Productions 1961. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1961 UK film. Sean Connery stars as Paddy Damion the best friend of a gangster who is killed in opposition to the extortionist mob that runs a decrepit area of London. Paddy swears revenge on those responsible for his friend's death and after a bit of bloodshed agrees to provide information to the police in exchange for a light sentence. An early starring role for Sean Connery who would solidify his status in Hollywood as James Bond in "Dr. No" 1962 and a gratifying crime drama in the noir style with a nightclub setting a femme fatale Yvonne Romaine and downbeat ending. Set in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with slight toning pinholes to one still and a closed tear to one still. Grant US. Keaney US. Selby US. Spicer US. Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Zodiac Productions unknown books
1972ref. 133568London: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica 1972. Vintage color British front-of-house card featuring Richard Burton from the UK release of the 1972 UK film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica unknown books
1977ref. 133599Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage photograph from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker under the pseudonym Robert Traver which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. Set in Michigan and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1980ref. 133617New York: New World Pictures 1980. Draft Agency script for the 1980 film. Adapted for the screen by noted screenwriter Frederic Raphael based on his 1973 novel. A woman begins an affair with her late husband's mistress after his death using each other to cope with the grief of his loss. Black titled wrappers with the William Morris Agency logo on the front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Frederic Raphael. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Raphael. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 129783Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script with "Budgeting" in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Notations in manuscript blue and black ink throughout. A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the mid-late 1960s in which MacLaine and Bancroft portray former dance colleagues whose lives have gone separate ways one becomes a professional dancer the other a settled domestic woman and whose unexpected reunion yields dramatic consequences. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. Mustard titled wrappers noted as "Budgeting" on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 3/2/76 with a credit for screenwriter Laurents. 116 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957ref. 133039N.p.: N.p. 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." Based on the 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones. The second time the novel was filmed following the 1932 version directed by Frank Borzage and preceding a three part British television miniseries in 1966. 11 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine with a small corner crease at the bottom right. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. N.p. unknown books
2001ref. 133189Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and three Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Nominated for four others including Best Picture. Set in Warsaw shot on location in Brandenberg and Berlin and Warsaw. 9.5 x 12 inches. Fine. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. Jean-Louis Seigner unknown books
1969ref. 133199N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan Arkin Art Garfunkel and Martin Sheen on the set of Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso in manuscript pencil: "Candid during rehearsal / The boys break up in briefing room scene / Art Garfunkel Alan Arkin Martin Sheen." Also with Willoughby's ASMP rubber stamp for both his New York and Ireland addresses. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 13.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 133084Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1949 film noir. A wonderful photograph of the entire crew shooting a scene where Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight are parting at an airport. Sirk is standing on a crane support at the left and cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr. is seated just below. A key American noir from an original screenplay by Samuel Fuller. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles and notably in the Bradbury Building on Broadway now an architectural landmark originally built in 1893 by Los Angeles mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by George Wyman. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 7 x 9 inches borderless with a studio stamp and a mimeograph snipe on the verso. Near Fine. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1928ref. 132454London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. 1928. Vintage UK program for the 1928 German film released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis" and penultimate silent film an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career including a spectacular train crash at the film's climax. 9.5 x 12 inches 12 pages side stapled in card wrappers. Wrappers Very Good plus overall interior bright and Near Fine. Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. unknown books
1959ref. 132401London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors 1959. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1959 Italian -French film. A Peplum sword-and-sandal film co-written for the screen by Sergio Leone and others about Marcus Valerius a Roman military commander who is defeated and taken as a slave. He seduces the Queen of Palmira the ruler of his enemies and fights to save her life in battle against his own soldiers. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few corner creases. Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors unknown books
