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1977ref. 149823Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on the 1976 coming-of-age novel. A young man from a working class Italian background struggles to balance the blue collar desires of his volatile family with his own dream of becoming a teacher. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in the Bronx New York. Goldenrod titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 14 1977. Title page present dated March 14 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Walter Newman and novelist Richard Price. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/28/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1981ref. 147193N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for the 1981 Spanish-American film here under the working title "Bloody Mary." Laid in with the script is a typed letter from casting agent Paul Kohner to producer John R. Pepper returning the script. Text in English. A disquieting satire of Catholicism in the late 20th century from noted Spanish director Bigas Luna wherein a Texan televangelist in need of a new miracle guest for his show travels to Italy to bring back a woman who suffers from stigmata-a rare medical condition which causes the hands and feet to bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. Set in Italy and Austin Texas shot on location in Barcelona Texas and Los Angeles. White non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 19 with credits for director Bigas Luna. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rust on the front wrapper and first leaf likely from a staple with a white Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1944ref. 149848Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1944. Draft script for the 1944 film. Based on the popular Arsene Lupin mystery series created by Maurice Leblanc. In this entry roguish gentleman thief Lupin robs a young heiress of her jewels while on a train to England but later reconsiders his actions and saves her life. Set in England. Tan titled wrappers dated May 24 1944 with credits for screenwriter Bertram Millhauser and character credits to Maurice Leblanc. Title page present dated April 27 1944 with credits for screenwriter Bertram Millhauser and character credits to Maurice Leblanc. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only with five blue revision pages bound in after the script dated 10/24/44. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good dry and brittle with wear to the top and bottom edges of the front wrapper bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown books
1966ref. 147190N.p.: N.p. 1966. Draft script for the fourth episode of the fourth season of "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre." With two manuscript pencil annotations to the first leaf noting names of prospective actors for the roles of Vicky and Ramon. While the Chrysler Theatre program was primarily known for actor Bob Hope's comedy routines many of the episodes presented musical and dramatic storylines. In "Crazier Than Cotton" after being forced to borrow money from his girlfriend to attend his father's funeral an unsuccessful young sculptor realizes he must drastically change his life. Set in New York City. White self-wrappers lacking front wrapper and title page. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with the first leaf detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 146831Los Angeles: Cannon Films 1987. Revised Shooting script for the 1988 film. Based on Rex Burns' 1983 novel "The Avenging Angel." A newspaper reporter investigates the ritualistic slaying of a group of Mormons in Colorado. The penultimate film leading man Charles Bronson would make with director J. Lee Thompson following "St. Ives" 1976 "The White Buffalo" 1977 "Caboblanco" 1980 "10 to Midnight" 1983 "The Evil That Men Do" 1984 "Murphy's Law" 1986 and "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" 1987 and followed by "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects" 1989 Thompson's final film. Set and shot on location in Colorado. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 16 1987 noted as REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter RICHARD SALE and novelist REX BURNS. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining to the top page edges bound internally with two gold brads. Grant US. Olive Films 1102. Cannon Films unknown books
1983ref. 146993West Germany: Allianz Filmproduktion / Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion 1983. Third Draft script for the 1989 film. Text in English. Based on Joseph Roth's 1923 novel about a mercenary World War I veteran who swears vengeance on those he deems responsible for Germany's downfall-Democrats Jews and and socialists. Set in Germany shot on location in West Germany. Clear mylar front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page present dated 01-06-83 noted as 3rd Version with credits for director Bernhard Wicki screenwriter Wolfgang Kirchner and novelist Joseph Roth. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Allianz Filmproduktion / Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion unknown books
1985ref. 146885Stockholm: Omega Film 1985. Draft script for the 2005 Swedish film. Text in English. A young man recalls the strange emotionally intense year he spent working as the sous chef in the claustrophobic galley of a ship headed for Cape Town. A very early draft of the script written twenty years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Belgium Sweden Spain and South Africa. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for director Mats Arehn and screenwriter Rolf Borjlind. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly soiled and toned along the edges side stapled with five staples. Omega Film unknown books
1969ref. 147106N.p.: N.p. 1969. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Loosely based on Eve Brown's 1967 novel. A group of wealthy socialites and celebrities staying at the Plaza Hotel are taken hostage for an enormous ransom soon realizing that their time is limited by a scant 18-hour supply of food water and light. Set in Manhattan. Black titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt intact noting copy No. 87. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT B. ALDRICH. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted near the binding bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1984ref. 146940N.p.: N.p. 1984. First Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English. Based on the 1960 German novel wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script written seven years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Germany. Navy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 27 1984 noted as first draft with credits for screenwriter David Taylor and novelist Siegfried Lenz. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with slight yapping to the fore edge of the rear wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 146973Paris: Filmsonor 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. Text in English. Loosely based on Egon Hostovsky's 1954 novel "The Midnight Patient." In order to finance his failing private clinic a psychiatrist accepts a bribe to temporarily shelter a defecting Soviet scientist hotly pursued by a number of international secret agents. Set and shot in Maisons-Laffitte Yvelines France. Teal titled wrappers. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two silver clasps. Filmsonor unknown books
1980ref. 151183Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film containing five black and white photographs and two gatherings of promotional reading material. A high school English teacher and his friend a fashion photographer fall in love with the same girl a sexually liberated young woman who has recently relocated to New York from Kentucky. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963ref. 146254N.p.: N.p. 1963. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A traveling preacher persuades an outlaw to join him in his holy mission but the outlaw finds it hard to leave behind his gunslinging ways in Trail City where sin abounds. Screenwriter Charles K. Peck was known for writing adventure and western films in the 1950s most notably "Seminole" in 1953. Set in the American West. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 9 1963 noted as Original Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Charles K. Peck Jr. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with splashes on the front wrapper and fading bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 140962Paris: G. de Boissiere 1961. Original French press kit for the 1961 French-Italian film "Le rendez-vous." Text in French. Resembling the star biography and film credit packets often seen with US press kits this material details film credits cast and crew biographies and a synopsis. The film was produced by Cinetel but here is credited to publicity manager G. de Boissiere with their cute cat logo. Unseen noir based on Patrick Quentin's 1955 novel "The Man with Two Wives" released in France as "La Verite du Mensonge." Pierre Pascal witnesses a murder while with his wife Madeleine Girardot the decease being a photographer who snapped some lurid photos of Pierre's sister-in-law Daphne Parisy. Pierre gives Daphne a false alibi and the police discover the photographer was Madeleine's lover. 22 leaves printed rectos a few corner-stapled on "DEB de Boissiere parchment mimeograph duplication. Housed in a DEB pocketed paper folder 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine overall. G. de Boissiere unknown books
1950ref. 146343London: Ealing Studios 1950. Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and consumed by guilt donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton Wirral Cheshire and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 13th January 1950. Title page present noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Ealing Studios unknown books
1970ref. 141610N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Sigrid Undset's 1920 trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter." The trilogy is the story of Kristin a Norwegian living during the Middle Ages the daughter of an affluent father who in difficult times often found solace in her Catholicism. The popularity as well as its accurate descriptions of Medieval life led to Undset being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Set in Norway. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for author Sigrid Undset and screenwriter Laurence W. Beilenson. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 146804N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film. Text in English. A medieval nobleman maddened by grief makes a pact with the devil to resurrect his dead wife who returns with a lust for the blood of children. Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Juan Buñuel and screenwriters Bernardino ZAPPONI Pierre MAINTIGNEUX and Michel NURIDSANI. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 166. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly creased wrapper Very Good plus with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 146321London: Highbury Studios 1948. Shooting script for the 1949 film. Based on the 1930 play. Inhabitants of a sleepy British village rise up in protest when a large corporation announces a plan to build a large development on their cricket field. The matter is appropriately settled through a cricket match. Set in Britain. Green titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with three undated revision pages printed on white stock laid in. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good side stapled. Highbury Studios unknown books
1961ref. 151020N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1961 film. Provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" and provenance label of "de Selva - Tapabor" on verso. Jacques Demy's tribute to Max Ophuls with title and character inspired by Josef von Sternberg's "Der Blaue Engel" 1930 starring Marlene Dietrich. Roland Cassard is a bored layabout until he has a chance encounter with Lola a girl he dated in his teens before the war. Roland finds a renewed purpose in life realizing he is still in love with Lola now a cabaret dancer and mother who hopes her son's father her true love may still return. Shot on location in Nantes France. 8.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with some edge and corner wear. Criterion Collection 714. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146327N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man with amnesia in the aftermath of a bloody car accident finds himself embroiled in a mysterious government plot. Tall burnt orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriters James Foster and John Davis. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with dampstaining to the title page and final leaves wrapper Very Good plus with some fading and rusting near the binding bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 146979Stockholm Sweden: Concorde Film 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of the script written across the folder in manuscript pencil and a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations presumably secretarial throughout correcting grammatical errors. Laid in with the script is a three-page typed summary of the story and a two-page typed letter addressed from Concorde Films managing director Lennart Berns to casting agent Paul Kohner suggesting actor Charles Bronson for the part of police detective Martin Beck. Text in English. Based on screenwriters Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's 1967 mystery novel about a Swedish police detective who realizes an anonymous serial robber might be the only witness to a string of grisly child murders in Stockholm. Eventually successfully produced in 1993 by director Daniel Alfredson and screenwriter Jonas Cornell but bearing little relation to the authors' earliest vision. Set in Stockholm. Tall housed in an untitled beige card folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter-novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and screenwriter Arne Mattsson. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. Concorde Film unknown books
1960ref. 146330London: Merton Park Studios 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 British film noir here under the working title "The Man Who Knew." Loosely based on Edgar Wallace's 1918 crime novel "The Man Who Knew." A man who has arranged his business partner's murder finds his plan has gone awry when the hitman does not properly dispose of the murder weapon which is stolen and eventually makes its way into the hands of the police. Tall white titled self wrappers housed in a tan folder dated September 1960 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Robert Stewart and novelist Edgar Wallace. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with rust to the binding and title page detached side stapled. Grant UK. Merton Park Studios unknown books
1934ref. 146328Elstree: British International Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the front wrapper and first leaf. A wimpy foppish clerk is fired from his job and as a last resort enlists in the Navy. Tall orange titled wrappers noted as copy No. 1 dated 25th January 1934. Title page present dated 25th January 1934. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with soiling and dampstaining to both and rusting near the page binding with silver prong binding. British International Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 141557Berlin: Silent Night GbR 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Silent Night." The true story of how Father Joseph Mohr an Austrian priest falls in love with a prostitute hopes to reform her does not and ends up composing the popular Christmas hymn "Silent Night" with schoolteacher Franz Gruber in 1818. Set in Austria. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for screenwriter Monica Teuber. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Silent Night GbR unknown books
1969ref. 150979N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Claude Jade from the 1969 film. "Raymond Depardon-Gamma" photographer stamp on verso. Raymond Depardon is a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist who in 1966 co-founded the prestigious photojournalism agency Gamma and became director in 1973. He also the director of several documentary shorts and feature films having directed 17 films since 1969 including the 1990 documentary short "La Captive du Desert" which was nominated for the Palm d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. The third of Truffaut's series of five films wherein Léaud portrays Truffaut's semi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 8 x 11.75 inches. Light creasing else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 186. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 146323N.p.: N.p. 1953. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Included with the script are four partially-bound identical sets of carbon typescript pages listing prospective filming locations and camerawork and two smaller unbound leaves one blank and one with manuscript ink annotations to the recto. Screenwriter Vera Caspary was best known for her 1942 novel "Laura" the basis for the classic 1944 film noir and the project that most strongly established her presence among Hollywood studios as a desirable writer for film. Years later however in the midst of the HUAC investigations Caspary became persona non grata as she had been an active member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and never fully shed her proletarian leanings. In order to avoid prosecution and the potential destruction of her career Caspary moved to Europe and spent several years searching for studio financing and writing film treatments including the never-produced "Street Song." The project tells the story of an acclaimed but vain opera singer who falls in with a group of street musicians and learns humility and ultimately love. Tall orange titled wrappers noted as Treatment on the front wrapper dated 14th April 1953 noted as Copy No. 15 with credits for screenwriter Vera Caspary. Title page present dated 14th April 1953 noted as Treatment with credits for Caspary. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with some rust to the first few leaves and light foxing wrapper Very Good plus bound with green string. N.p. unknown books
