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1974ref. 157287Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actors Michael Caine and Delphine Seyrig talking with director Don Siegel on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Clive Egleton's 1973 novel "Seven Days to a Killing" about the kidnapping of a British agent's son and the agent's subsequent quest for revenge. Shot on location in England and in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 156737Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1979. Revised Shooting script for the 1979 television film here under the working title "Can You Hear the Laughter The Freddie Prinze Story." Copy belonging to sound mixer Keith A. Wester with his name in manuscript ink on the top right of the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on 20 pages. Bound in preceding the script are a six page Staff and Crew contact list a 30 page Shooting Schedule 17 pages of Call Sheets with annotations in manuscript ink and a map to the Comedy Store West. Originally aired on CBS on September 11 1979. Based on the article "Good Night Sweet Prinze" by Peter Greenberg published in the June 1977 issue of Playboy magazine. A portrayal of the sudden rise and success of the troubled Puerto Rican stand-up comedian and actor Freddie Prinze who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 29 1977. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 60. Title page present dated March 19 1979 noted as REV. SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/79 and 5/4/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown books
2006ref. 156849Columbia NC: HPE Rights 2006. Shooting script for the 2007 neo-noir film. Based on the 1975 novel by Brian Garfield the sequel to his 1972 novel "Death Wish." Kevin Bacon seeks revenge after seeing his son killed in a gang initiation. Set in Columbia South Carolina shot on location in Columbia South Carolina and Los Angeles. Front wrapper dated 8/11/06 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/13/06 and 9/14/06. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US Neo-Noir. HPE Rights unknown books
1972ref. 156668N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1972 French film. The sixth and final film in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series about a married businessman whose harmless fantasies threaten to spill over into reality when he encounters an old flame at his office. Set and shot on location in Paris. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 348. N.p. unknown books
1997ref. 157411Hollywood: Volcanic Films 1997. Revised Draft script for the 1998 film. A pitch-black comedy about two middle-class couples who lie and cheat in their struggles to find satisfaction in their empty relationships. Neil LaBute's second feature following "In the Company of Men" 1997. Gray titled wrappers with credit for director-screenwriter Neil LaBute. Title page present dated 10/20/97 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Neil LaBute. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound with two gold brads. Volcanic Films unknown books
1974ref. 141586N.p.: Mirisch Corporation 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film. Snipe affixed to the verso. An American action film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles Bronson Al Lettieri and Linda Cristal. Bronson stars as a melon farmer who battles crime and dodges a vindictive hit man. Shot on location in Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Mirisch Corporation unknown books
1971ref. 142061Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film including one behind the scenes photograph of Robertson at a frog jumping contest. Also included is a single small promotional still. Cliff Robertson wrote directed and starred in this modern western about a man recently released for a ten year stretch in prison trying to return to his old life as a rodeo cowboy after missing out on the prime of his career. Set in the American West shot in California and Oklahoma. 8 x 10 inches. Generally about Near Fine. Promotional still 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1998ref. 157392Pasadena: Madison Avenue Productions 1998. Shooting script for the 1998 television film with annotations in manuscript highlighter on pages 8-9. Laid in is a Crew Call Sheet with copied annotations ten reduced copies of ten pages of the script with copied annotations and a copy of a map for the crew to the Metropolitan Baptist Church with the copied date of 6/6/98. Bound in following the script is a nine page Crew List a June 2 1998 Memorandum and a two page shooting schedule. The television film aired on CBS on November 29 1998. Based on a true story of a Pasadena cab driver who picks up an elderly woman en route to a funeral who ends up insisting the driver take her on a cross-county trip ending in Vancouver. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 4/27/98 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young and story by Beth Polson. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 5/5/98 and 5/15/98. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Crew Call Sheet 6 x 9 inches stapled to the reduced script pages. Near Fine. Ten Reduced Script Pages 5.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine Map 14 x 8.5 inches. With a single vertical fold else Near Fine. Madison Avenue Productions unknown books
1925ref. 150993Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1925. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1925 film showing actress Constance Talmadge sitting at a piano. Based on Ludwig Fulda's 1902 play "The Twin Sister." A housewife and her visiting twin sister a famed erotic dancer switch places in order to teach the men in their lives a lesson. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. First National Pictures unknown books
1929ref. 150997Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1929. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1929 film showing actress Ruth Taylor posing in a backless gown. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Taylor was best known for her performance as Lorelei Lee in Malcom St. Clair's adaptation of Anita Loos' "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" alongside actors Alice White and Ford Sterling. Taylor also appeared in "Butter Fingers" 1925 "Flirty Four-Flushers" 1926 and "Just Married" 1928. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall with a few nicks along the bottom edge. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 150844N.p.: Herts-Lion International 1963. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. One borderless with manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. Three World War II soldiers search for a cache of lost Nazi gold. Two 10 x 8 inches one 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Herts-Lion International unknown books
1966ref. 157065Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Vintage call sheet for the ABC television series "The Felony Squad" on green paper the pilot episode Season 1 Episode 1 "The Streets are Paved with Quicksand" with "Production Requirements" on the verso dated "July 20 1966" on the recto and verso with annotations in manuscript ink on recto and verso. "The Felony Squad" aired on ABC from September 12 1966 to January 31 1969 with the season 1 episode 1 pilot aired on September 12 1966. Twenty year veteran police officer Howard Duff is partnered with rookie cop Dennis Cole in a major crimes unit in a major metropolis. Cole is accused of brutality after arresting a high-powered attorney attempting to bribe a valet following a brawl. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957ref. 150849N.p.: Continental Distributing 1957. Two vintage photographs from the US release of the 1957 UK film one studio still photograph and one reference photograph. A man recalls his past and present relationships in order to help another man understand his wife. One 10 x 8 inches one 9.75 x 7.7x inches. Near Fine. Continental Distributing unknown books
1962ref. 150413N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1962 French film showing actors Michel Legrand Corinne Marchand and Jean-Pierre Taste-from the memorable early sequence in the film where Legrand and Taste drop in to Marchand's flat. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso. Agnes Varda's second feature film following a pop singer over the course of two hours as she talks with friends and anxiously awaits the results of a biopsy. Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Set and shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1947ref. 157481N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film noir. An amateur prizefighter's desire for fortune and fame leads him to join a corrupt boxing syndicate led by an unethical promoter. Widely considered one of the finest boxing films ever made with a strong screenplay by noted screenwriter Abraham Polonsky who would later face blacklisting in Hollywood as a result of the HUAC trials. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 452. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 157067Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Vintage call sheet for the ABC television series "Peyton Place" on green paper episode #3.2 with "Production Requirements" on the verso dated "Wednesday July 20 1966" on the recto and verso with annotations in manuscript ink on recto and verso. "Peyton Place" aired on ABC from September 15 1964 to June 2 1969 and episode #3.2 Season 3 Episode 2 aired on September 14 1966. Loosely based on the 1956 novel by Grace Metalious and preceded by the 1957 film directed by Mark Robson and starring Lana Turner and Hope Lang and the 1961 film "Return to Peyton Place" directed by José Ferrer and starring Carol Lynley and Tuesday Weld. The popular series was the birth of the prime time American soap opera and aired for 514 episodes. Sandy suspects that Lee may be guilty of Ann's murder. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960ref. 150445N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1960 French film showing actress Catherine Demongeot posing near a metro stop in Paris. With a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release on the verso along with layout annotations in ink. A satire of Parisian society through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl visiting from the French countryside who sneaks away from her relatives to venture into the city alone. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 150426N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1970 French film showing actress Simone Signoret and an unknown crew member. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso regarding cropping and the stamp of Pariscope. Based on the 1968 book by Artur London which detailed London's own experiences as a defendant during the Slansky trial a 1952 show trial held by the Czechoslovak Republic against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which resulted in the deaths of 11 defendants. Set in Czechoslovakia and shot on location in France. 9 x 6 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear to the left edge. Criterion Collection 759. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 150846N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film one showing actress Mai Zetterling the other showing Zetterling with actor Pat Boone. A drifter on the run from a murder charge joins a traveling circus where his attentions are torn between two beautiful women. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1929ref. 150991Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1929. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of actors Constance Talmadge and Andre Roanne from the 1929 silent film. Based on Jean Vignaud's 1928 novel. Talmadge sister of actresses Norma and Natalie starred in her first major role in D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" 1916. Unlike her sisters Constance preferred to appear in light romantic comedies such as "A Pair of Silk Stockings" 1918 "Wedding Bells" 1921 and "The Primitive Lover" 1922. Although many of her films are now considered lost Talmadge is now best remembered for originating the tradition of preserving footprints in concrete outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre after accidentally stepping into wet concrete in front of the theatre in 1927. As with many silent film stars her career faded with the advent of sound film and by the 1930s she and her sisters had retired from the screen. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus overall. United Artists unknown books
1924ref. 150975New York: Theatre Owners Distributing 1924. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1924 French silent film seen here under its US title "Perils of Paris" showing actress Pearl White in riding garb perched on a railing. White's last film ending a two-decade career in films. During her Hollywood heyday the actress appeared as the plucky heroine in a number of popular serials most notably the Pathe production "The Perils of Pauline" in 1914. Unlike many of her contemporaries White performed most of her own stunts including flying airplanes racing cars long-distance swims and similar feats. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly toned overall. Theatre Owners Distributing unknown books
1990ref. 150841London: Hemdale 1990. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1990 film showing actors Mai Zetterling Frances McDormand and Bernard Bloch. In the wake of her activist boyfriend's assassination in the streets an American lawyer becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy precipitating his murder. Director Ken Loach's take on the Troubles comparing the fascist dictatorship of Pinochet to British rule over Northern Ireland particularly under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. Set and shot on location in Northern Ireland and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Hemdale unknown books
1959ref. 150847N.p.: United Producers 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film. After the death of his daughter in a hit-and-run a man tracks down the killer and follows him onto a plane setting off a gruesome chain of events. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Producers unknown books
1961ref. 150838London: British Lion 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 British film. A MI5 officer goes undercover in order to ensnare a gang of thieves who have just completed a jewel heist. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with a few light scratches and creases to the image. Grant UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK. British Lion unknown books
1990ref. 150842Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1990. Vintage black and white studio still photograph from the 1990 film showing actors Jasen Fisher and Mai Zetterling. Based on the 1983 novel by Roald Dahl. Anjelica Huston stars as the leader of the witches intent on turning all children in England into mice only to be foiled by a boy and his grandmother. The final Jim Henson Productions effort completed prior to Henson's death and the final film based on a Roald Dahl story produced prior to Dahl's passing the same year. Overlooked upon its release it has since gained a cult following. Set in England shot on location in England and Norway. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
