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1954ref. 158802London: Hammer Film Productions 1954. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. A failing business hires his best friend to help kill him so that his wife may collect his life insurance. When his business suddenly starts taking a turn for the better he must try to stop the hit-man before he kills him. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Two photographs Near Fine one photograph About Near Fine with the top corners trimmed irregularly. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1982ref. 141680London: Channel Four Films 1982. Draft script for the 1987 French film. A washed-up Hollywood actor a French financier a British director and a group of other misfits converge in a small hotel in Paris. Set in France. Title page present dated August 18 1982 with credits for screenwriter Jana Bokova. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 179. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper. Channel Four Films unknown books
1968ref. 141636N.p.: Aspen 1968. Final Draft script for an unproduced film. A man is unwillingly drawn into a debate around morality and death as he is questioned by the police following his best friend's suicide. Dark green wrappers with British-style die-cut window. Title page present dated July 23 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mechanical duplication with white and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between June 17 1968 and July 23 1968. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Aspen unknown books
1973ref. 141641Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1973. First Draft script for the 1975 film. A young widow begins smuggling liquor in San Diego during Prohibition and subsequently also becomes romantically involved with two men. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 24 1973 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Huyck and Katz. 165 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974ref. 141659N.p.: N.p. 1974. Bound collection of research materials for an unproduced film. A collection of quotes stories accounts of life-changing accounts reviews and a discography of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington who passed away the same year this archive was assembled. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August/September 1974 noted as Research File with credits for research Michael Barlow. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 158814Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1973 French film. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. Warner Brothers unknown books
1970ref. 158722London: Mediarts 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on seven leaves noting deletions. Based on the 1958 radio drama by Giles Cooper about a boarding school teacher who begins to suspect his predecessor of having been murdered by the students. OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows one holding. Set in Cornwall and shot on location in Llandudno Wales and in Sonning Berkshire. Missing front wrapper with pink rear wrapper. Title page present dated May 1970 noted as REVISED with credits for playwright Giles Cooper and screenwriter Simon Raven. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages laid in throughout dated August 7 1970. Pages Poor wrapper Poor with moderate dampstaining affecting the last 60 leaves and rear wrapper bound with a silver prong. Mediarts unknown books
1970ref. 141657N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An Arabic treatment of the tale of "Romeo and Juliet." Set in the Middle East. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Titus Leber. 7 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 6. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper bound with three staples. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 158832N.p.: American International Pictures 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of actor Jean-Pierre Aumont from the 1979 film. A woman in an on-again off-again relationship meets a new man who might change her perspective. Set in New York City shot on location in New York City and Long Island. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. American International Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 158808London: Romulus Films 1965. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Based in the 1962 novel by John Braine. A sequel to the 1959 film Room at the Top. After marrying the daughter of the most influential man in town a man struggles with feeling like no one in his new family has any respect for him. Set in Bradford England shot on location in Surrey Yorkshire and London. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches two photographs 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Romulus Films unknown books
1961ref. 158839N.p.: Samuel Bronston Productions 1961. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1961 film with mimeo snipe and one provenance stamp on the verso of each. A dramatization of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Shot on location in Madrid Spain. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Samuel Bronston Productions unknown books
1976ref. 141656N.p.: N.p. 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The life of Benito Juarez a fictional Mexican judge and revolutionary who follows in a long succession of religious and authoritative figures taking a stand against the imperialism of the Mexican government. Set in 19th century Mexico. Lacking wrappers. Title page present dated June 14 1976 with credits for screenwriter Richard Sale. 19 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper unbound housed in a mailing envelope as issued. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 141651Nassau Bahamas: Film Accounting Services 1982. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A proposed 1980s reboot of the 1969 film "99 Women" also written by Peter Welbeck with the same plot but now in 3D. A woman arrives at a penal colony on an island where she is controlled by a cruel lesbian who oversees all the prison's functions. Black blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated February 6 1983 with credits for screenwriter Peter Welbeck. 13 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 11. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Film Accounting Services unknown books
1969ref. 158833N.p.: Commonwealth United Entertainment 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1945 French play by Jean Giraudoux. A countess decides to rally her friends in her community to stop a group of powerful men from drilling for oil in Paris. Set in Paris shot on location throughout France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Commonwealth United Entertainment unknown books
1982ref. 141638N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1979 Broadway show by Louis La Russo II a sports drama about a street fighter. The play ran for 154 performances at the Helen Hayes Theater. Title page of the script duplicates the playbill for the stage production. Set in New Jersey. Blue titled wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with a velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 158727London: Woodfall Films 1966. Shooting Script for the 1967 British short film. Two annotations in manuscript ink: one on the title page noting copy No. 11 and one on page eight noting a deletion. Clad in an ornate and eye-catching costume an opera singer must make his way through a succession of busy city streets in order to arrive on time for his performance. Originally commissioned by producer Oscar Lewenstein as one third of a planned anthology film titled "Red White and Zero." OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows no holdings. Tall red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 17.3.66 noted as Shooting Script with credit for director and screenwriter Peter Brook. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Woodfall Films unknown books
1964ref. 158807Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. The third of three feature films based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel following the 1934 film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis and the 1946 film starring Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker. A waitress and a medical student engage in a tumultuous years long romance. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975ref. 158810Los Angeles: Motown Productions 1975. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1975 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe attached to the verso one photograph with a folded mimeo snipe attached to the verso. A young woman from Chicago dreams of making it big in the fashion industry when she gets discovered and reinvented into fashion model Mahogany. Even with her new found success in Rome she still feels lost without her love she left back home in Chicago. Set in Chicago and Rome shot on location in Chicago and Rome. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Motown Productions unknown books
1977ref. 158871N.p.: Jouer Unlimited 1977. Two studio still photographs from the 1977 film. A parody of 1920s silent film and actors particularly actor Rudolph Valentino. A studio that rivals Valentino's decides to hire an actor to compete with him choosing a baker from Milwaukee. Set in Hollywood shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Jouer Unlimited unknown books
1965ref. 158863N.p.: Filmove studio Barrandov 1965. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Ida Kami ska from the 1965 film. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population. One of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Filmove studio Barrandov unknown books
1950ref. 158844Universal City CA: Universal International Pictures 1950. Collection including one vintage studio still photograph and two vintage reference photographs of Marguerite Chapman from the 1950 film. Jesee James arrives in Lawrence Kansas where he is about to be lynched for being part of Quantrill's Raiders though he is not. A Union officer intervenes on his behalf and he is saved only to join up with Quantrill's Raiders. He begins to question where his loyalty lies upon seeing the atrocities purported by the Raiders. Set in Kansas shot on location in California and Utah. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1934ref. 158854Beverly Hills CA: 20th Century Pictures / United Artists 1934. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film here advertised under working title "The Firebrand." Based on the 1945 play by Edwin Justus Mayer. A duke and duchess both have their eyes on other people but do not want the other to know. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with one small tear to the top left corner and a small chip missing from the top right corner. 20th Century Pictures / United Artists unknown books
1973ref. 158868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Darryl Ponicsan. Two foul-mouthed sailors are assigned a shore patrol to escort a young seaman to a Navy prison in Maine to begin a heavy-handed eight year sentence. The pair decides to take their captive out for a few adventures before his prison term including getting drunk skating in Rockefeller Center going to a brothel and more. Screenwriter Robert Towne faced difficulty adapting Ponicsan's novel for the screen largely due to Columbia Studios' concern over the novel's profanity. The film eventually gained the dubious distinction of the most uses 65 of the word "fck" in a motion picture at the time of its release. Set and shot on location in New Jersey Massachusetts New Hampshire Maine New York and Virginia in the US and Ontario in Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 158859N.p.: Backstage Productions 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of Curt Jurgens from the 1979 film. Based on the 1977 novel by Peter Lear. A neo-Nazi scientist tests his technology to create a physically 'superior' human on his young daughter. He enters her in a few races at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and makes money off her likeness. Set in Moscow shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Backstage Productions unknown books
1979ref. 158872N.p.: El Imán Cine y Televisión S.A. 1979. Vintage reference photograph from the 1979 film. With a production release stamp in Spanish and a stamp crediting photographer Federico Grau on the verso. A Spanish film. An English scholar investigating the death of an ancient scholar in the Adalusian mountains learns of the legend of a dragon woman associated with the mountains. Set in Andalucia shot on location in Andalucia Madrid and Toledo Castilla-La Mancha Spain. 7 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. El Imán Cine y Televisión S.A. unknown books
