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1971ref. 166092N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 French film. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Jean Rollin's third vampire film following "Le viol du vampire" 1968 and "La vampire nue" 1970. 7 x 9.5 inches with a wide right margin. Near Fine. Hinds 76. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 166094N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actress Katharine Hepburn and producer Sam Spiegel laughing together on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. In New Orleans in 1937 a traumatized young woman struggles with memories of her cousin who died under strange circumstances during a European vacation the previous year. Nominated for two Academy Awards including one for Best Actress for both Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Set in New Orleans and throughout Spain shot on location in Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 166095Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing actress Katharine Hepburn holding a large glass goblet. Date stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on Arthur Laurents' 1952 play "The Time of the Cuckoo" about a lonely middle-aged secretary who takes a solo vacation to Venice where she falls in love with an antiques dealer. Set and shot on location in Venice. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1968ref. 166106N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1968 French film showing actor Jean-Pierre Léaud reading a red book with the Chinese "five-star red flag" reflected in his glasses. "Cahiers du cinema" stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1871 novel "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Jean-Luc Godard's wry improvisational take on politics of the late 1960s following five disaffected students studying the teachings of Mao Zedong and debating the use of terrorism to achieve revolution. Set and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with moderate wear to the finish. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 166078New York: Cinerama 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1975 film showing director Andrzej Zulawski and actress Romy Schneider on the set. Printed mimeo snipe in German on the verso. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who has resorted to appearing in porn films to make a living. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 6.5 x 7 inches trimmed irregularly. Light wear at the top left corner else Near Fine. Cinerama unknown books
1966ref. 166074N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 British film showing Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates. Based on the 1965 novel by Margaret Forster a portrait of 1960s Swinging London about a young woman who is torn between romances with her father's employer and the boyfriend of her pregnant flatmate. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 166071N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 Italian film showing a 17-year-old Alida Valli. File stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Valli appeared in bit parts in Italian comedies between 1934 and 1940 finally making her dramatic debut in 1941 in Mario Soldati's "Piccolo mondo antico." She received a special Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance and would go on to star in a number of American French and Italian films through the ensuing decades. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 166109N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the classic 1954 film showing Jacques Tati on the tennis court. Dutch blindstamp on the top right corner and Dutch provenance label on the verso. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1995ref. 166110N.p.: N.p. 1995. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1995 Serbian film showing director Emir Kusturica adjusting an inverted statue of Jesus. A history of Yugoslavia spanning World War II the Cold War and the Yugoslav Wars told through the friendship between two black marketeers selling weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Belgrade Serbia in Plovdiv and Sofia Bulgaria in Prague and in Berlin. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 166412Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1983. Draft script for the 1983 pornographic film. With annotations in manuscript pencil on the first leaf presumably made by screenwriter-director Phil Prince indicating the name of the actor to be associated with each character. A cult leader called "The Confessor" hears confessions from rape victims "cleanses" the female ones with sex and then arranges for all victims and sometimes himself to then recursively rape their own male or female rapists. IMDB. Title page integral with cast of characters no wrapper as issued undated. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. Avon Productions unknown books
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown books
1982ref. 166419Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 horror-pornographic film with manuscript annotations by screenwriter-director Phil Prince throughout. Six of the eight leaves on "Avon Theatre" stationery a sub-name of "Avon Productions" the studio associated with most of Phil Prince's work as a director and screenwriter. A group of young women gather for a slumber party where each tells a story about their wildest sexual experience. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown books
1970ref. 166463Los Angeles: Rogallian Productions 1970. Fourth Draft script for the 1970 film seen here under the working title "C.C. Ryder and Company." Bound in with the script is a two-page call sheet. A biker falls in with the "Heads Company" a notorious biker gang and must save a young woman and defeat the gang's leader in a motorcycle race. Set and shot on location in Arizona. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 3 1970 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Roger Smith. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good with foxing and chipping and closed tears at the extremities bound with two gold brads. Rogallian Productions unknown books
1985ref. 166435Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the third episode of the 1985 NBC series which aired on April 12 1985. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the uncredited role of the chauffeur with manuscript ink annotations relating to his character's dialog on two pages. "Half-Nelson" was an NBC detective comedy-drama series which aired for one season from March 24 to May 10 1985. Joe Pesci stars as Rocky Nelson a former New York cop trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood who works for a private security agency catering to Hollywood's elite until he gets his big break. In this episode Rocky attempts to break an auto theft ring after Kurt Bubba Smith and Beau Dick Butkus end up in jail. Shot on location in Los Angeles Beverly Hills and Southern California. Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 18 1985. Title page present dated March 18 1985 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Simon Muntner and Story by Janice Hendler. 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 59. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with green yellow and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated March 18 1985 and March 19 1985. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
1980ref. 166469N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1983 film seen here under the working title "Tijuana!". In the summer of 1965 four teenage boys drive from Los Angeles to Tijuana in hopes of losing their virginities and getting into trouble. They find their plans waylaid however by an unexpected companion: a heartbroken woman determined to get a quickie divorce in Mexico. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Calexico California. Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 1980 noted as copy No. 14 in manuscript ink with credits for screenwriter B.W.L. Norton and story writer Bryan Gindoff. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly faded on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
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
1969ref. 163669N.p.: Maya Film Productions Ltd 1969. Treatment script for the 1970 British film. Here under working title "Bronco Bullfrog King of the Nippers". A classic of underground British cinema that follows a group of disillusioned teens as they carry out petty robberies in East London. While a fictional narrative very much a fascinating record of the then-emerging suedehead culture largely improvised by a non-professional cast of teenagers from East London. Recently restored by the British Film Institute. Set in East London shot on location in London. Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style printed at Scripts Limited in London. Title page present noted as Outline with credits for actors Del Walker Roy Hayward and Sam Shepherd. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper About Near Fine with one damp stain to the top right corner of the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. BFI Flipside 15. Maya Film Productions Ltd 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
