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1983ref. 166582Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel by Stephen Becker about a former Marine turned alcoholic drifter forced to fend his way out of Peking after nearly killing an American brigadier in a bar fight. Generic white Embassy Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 4th April 1983 with credits for Becker and screenwriter Barry Spikings. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1929ref. 165828Universal City: Universal Pictures 1929. Vintage borderless portrait photograph of "Sunny" Jim McKeen by photographer Ray Jones from the 1929 comedy short. Jones' signature etched in the negative on the lower right with children's illustrations also etched into the negative about the child. With a mimeo snipe on the verso here under the working title "The Newlyweds and Their Child." From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the George McManus comic strip "The Newlyweds" created in 1904. One of a series of 39 comic shorts which featured "Sunny" Jim McKeen as Baby Snookums. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1990ref. 166471N.p.: Clyde is Hungry Productions 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 film. Noted as Shooting Script and copy No. 20 in manuscript ink on the title page. Incomplete script ending on page 117. Sean Penn's directorial debut based on the 1982 Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman" about two brothers on opposite sides of the law. The final film performance of Sandy Dennis who died six months after the film's release. Set in 1960s Nebraska shot on location in Plattsmouth and Omaha Nebraska. Self wrappers. Title page present dated June 25 1990 noted as shooting script with credit for Penn. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads with first and last leaves partially detached from the binding. Clyde is Hungry Productions unknown books
1995ref. 166472Santa Monica: Beacon Communications 1995. Draft script for the 1997 film. Communists hijack Air Force One with the First Lady and her daughter onboard forcing the president to decide whether he will break his vow never to capitulate to terrorist demands or sacrifice the lives of his family. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Washington DC throughout California and in Cleveland and Mansfield Ohio in the US and in Moscow Russia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated August 22 1995 with credit for screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Beacon Communications unknown books
1986ref. 166583Los Angeles: Kings Road Productions 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Hendrik "Henry" Wynands with his name in manuscript ink on a business card stapled to the front wrapper. With copied annotations on virtually every page amending pagination noting scene breaks and marking characters sets and props. A high school nerd asks the most popular girl in school to prom but the big night is beset by problems. Featuring appearances by members of Parliament-Funkadelic as the fictional band The Rat's Nest. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Beige generic Kings Road Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated 4/86 with credits for screenwriters Gregory Scherick and Thom Eberhardt. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Kings Road Productions unknown books
1954ref. 152836Los Angeles: ZIV Television Programs 1954. Final Master script for the 1954 television episode. Copy belonging to script supervisor Helen McCaffrey with her manuscript pencil annotations on virtually every page and many versos and her name in manuscript ink annotation on the top right corner of the front wrapper. A dramatization of the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg based on a short story by Stephen Crane. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL MASTER SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 12 1954 with credits for screenwriter Ellis Marcus and story credits to Stephen Crane. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 48 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4-14-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown books
ref. 163658Buckinghamshire: Sparkline Limited 1988. Second Draft UK script for the 1990 British film. Adapted for the screen by Clive Barker from his 1988 novella "Cabal." A mental patient who is wanted for serial murders is initiated among a group of monsters only he can see. Shot on location in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire England Alberta and Columbia Canada and Los Angeles USA. Tall black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated December 1988 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for director screenwriter and novelist Clive Barker. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Weldon 1996. Sparkline Limited unknown books
1996ref. 163673N.p.: Redeemable Features 1996. Final Shooting script for the 1997 film. With a note in manuscript ink affixed to the title page with tape with contact information for unknown crew members. Also with substantive manuscript ink annotations throughout. A gay man and a stereotypical heterosexual Italian American man move in together after a misunderstanding in a vacancy ad. Set in New York City shot on location in Manhattan and The Bronx. Clear mylar front wrapper red rear wrapper supplied but as used during film development. Title page present dated 3/96 noted as Final Shooting Script with credits for director and screenwriter Anthony Vitale. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Redeemable Features unknown books
1979ref. 163662Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Fourth Draft script for the 1981 film seen here under the working title "Janitor." SIGNED by screenwriter Steve Tesich on the title page. Laid in with the script is a studio still photograph of Tesich and director Peter Yates on the set. A janitor becomes the lead suspect in a murder investigation in the building where he works leading a beautiful local television reporter to cover the story. The second film collaboration between Yates and Tesich following "Breaking Away" two years prior. Set and shot on location in New York. Blue untitled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers. Title page present dated October 31 1979 noted as Fourth Draft with credit for Tesich. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/10/79 and 3/13/80. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1989ref. 163641N.p.: N.p. 1989. Final Draft script for the 1990 film. Copy belonging to camera operator Tom Priestley Jr. with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. Crew list and schedule bound in at the rear of the script. A novice district attorney uncovers a decorated police officer's ties to the world of organized crime after the officer kills a smalltime Puerto Rican criminal in purported self defense. Set and shot on location in New York. Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 31 1989 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Sidney Lumet and novelist Edwin Torres. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/29/89. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 162353Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Carroll Baker talking with director Jack Garfein on the set of the 1961 film with a rubber stamp crediting photographer Fredric Franklin on the verso. Based on Alex Karmel's 1958 novel "Mary Ann." A traumatized college student is held captive by a mechanic after he witnesses her attempting to commit suicide on the Manhattan Bridge. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. United Artists unknown books
1961ref. 163534Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. Based on the 1958 novel by Max Catto. A precursor to the popular disaster films of the 1970s about a volcanic eruption on a small island in French Polynesia Set on the fictional island of Talua shot on location in Maui Hawaii and in Fallbrook California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with old cello tape at the corners. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 163738N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 Italian film showing actress Sophia Loren raising her skirt to examine her tights. French provenance stamp on the verso. A young woman decides to take a photographer to court after he takes her photograph without telling her and it turns up on the cover of a magazine. Shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 163715N.p.: N.p. 1987. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 Polish film one showing actors Bogus awa Pawelec and Tadeusz omnicki the other showing actors Monika Gozdzik and Bogus aw Linda. Dutch distributor labels and annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. A predecessor to "Sliding Doors" 1998 and "Run Lola Run" 1998 about a young man presented with three choices which lead his life in three separate political directions. Although completed in 1981 the film's release was suppressed in Poland for several years and finally released in 1987 albeit in a censored format. Shot on location in ódzkie and Warsaw Poland. 9.5 x 7 inches. One Near Fine one Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 772. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 163710N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1967 French film showing director Eric Rohmer and cinematographer Néstor Almendros Cuyás. Dutch distributor stamp on the verso and blindstamp on the top right corner of the recto. A love triangle develops between two best friends and the beautiful sexually open young woman who interrupts their vacation on the Riviera. The third film in Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series made quickly and with very little budget due to delays in starting production of what was to be the next film in the series "My Night at Maud's" 1969. A rare image. Shot on location in Cote d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with multiple pinholes at the corners and top and bottom center edges repaired with paper tape on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 163719Burbank CA: Touchstone Pictures 1987. Vintage reference photograph from the 1987 film showing director Barry Levinson talking with actor Robin Williams on the set. A wildly successful war comedy loosely based on the experiences of real-life serviceman Adrian Cronauer about an irreverent Armed Forces Radio Service disc jockey in Saigon. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Williams. Shot on location in Bangkok and Phuket Thailand. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Touchstone Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 163717N.p.: N.p. 1972. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 film candid images of actors Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd. Loosely based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" and on Bruce Jay Friedman's 1966 short story "A Change of Plan." A self-absorbed sporting goods salesman tires of his new bride on their honeymoon in Miami Beach instead deciding to throw himself at a perilously beautiful college student on vacation with her parents. Groundbreaking director Elaine May's second feature film following "A New Leaf" in 1971 and a classic of twentieth century comedy. Set in New York City and Florida shot on location in Minneapolis and Miami. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 163716London: Commonwealth United Entertainment 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 Italian film one showing Maria Rohm having her ankle caressed by Dennis Price the other showing Rohm standing alone. Not to be confused with the Massimo Dallamano film from the same year. A jazz trumpeter discovers a beautiful corpse washed up on a beach. Hours later a woman who looks exactly like the corpse arrives at the door of his apartment. The original Italian release was heavily edited by distributors at American International and due to censors in Italy seizing the original prints the American cut is most often seen today. Set in Istanbul. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Commonwealth United Entertainment unknown books
1980ref. 163733Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1980. Five vintage studio still photographs from the obscure 1980 Japanese pink film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. The last of ten films directed by Kuga for Nikkatsu between 1973-1980. He was far more prolific as a cinematographer working on 86 films nearly all Japanese roman porno between 1969-1982. 10 x 8 inches. Single pinhole at each corner else about Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
1970ref. 163714N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1970 film showing writer Henry Miller sitting on a balustrade with director Joseph Strick. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Henry Miller's 1934 novel a book initially banned in the US. A broke writer travels from New York to Paris living on the generosity of his expatriate American friends and spending any money he can get on alcohol and women. Rated X in the US upon release a rating that was changed to NC-17 in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 163531Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Edwin O'Connor about an aging veteran politician who grows increasingly determined to win a fourth mayoral election and stay in power despite the reservations of his supporters. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly age toned else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 163563N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen and the film debut of Robert Duvall as the iconic Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning three including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb Alabama shot on location in Monroeville Alabama and Pasadena California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Penzler 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 162221N.p.: N.p. 1979. Six vintage oversize borderless color reference photographs from the 1979 film all showing actress Marina Pierro. An anthology film divided into three segments set in three different time periods Rome in 1520 France at the turn of the century and modern Paris and following three women who are driven to commit crimes of passion. Approximately 11.75 x 7.25 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1952ref. 163556N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1952 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1936 short story by Ernest Hemingway. As he lies dying from an infection while on safari a writer recalls his past relationships and travels. 7.5 x 10 inches trimmed as shown see image. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 163550Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing actor Gregory Peck. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. A crew of three astronauts are stranded in space with only 42 hours of oxygen remaining. On Earth NASA officials propose a rescue mission using an experimental untested spacecraft. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one. Shot on location at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown books
