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1960ref. 166216London: Weyland Film Productions 1960. Draft script for the 1961 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations throughout and rough pencil sketches on the versos of four pages. Seven pages with paste-ups of goldenrod revision pages with many pages cut horizontally separating scenes and many pages creased vertically as is common with working scripts. Provenance available upon request. Laid in are 43 carbon typescript leaves detailing construction costs dating from August 1960 through January 1961 a carbon typescript copy set list a carbon typescript copy construction staff requirements page a penciled layout of an October 31 to December 2 Shop Building and Shooting Stage schedule and staff requirements and a pencil layout of an Art Department construction form. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1954 novel by Michael Croft. Max Bygraves stars as an idealistic teacher fresh from training college who begins work at a tough East London secondary school of badly-behaved impoverished students and fellow teachers who believe corporal punishment is the most effective way of controlling the students. Shot on location in Clarendon Crescent and Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School in London. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British fasion. Title page present dated 24th October 1960 with credits for screenwriter John Cresswell and author Michael Croft. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 3.11.60 and undated and undated goldenrod revision paste-ups on seven pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Weyland Film Productions unknown
1959ref. 166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown
1956ref. 166264London: London Independent Producers 1956. Third Draft script for the 1957 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the titled label on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout including rough pencil prop and set sketches on the versos of eight pages. Here under the working title "A Novel Affair" which was used as the title for the US release of the film. Laid in are over 30 production documents including: 17 pages of handwritten Prop Lists eleven dated from May to July 1956. Two pages of rough pencil sketches including several story boards with two film clippings attached by paperclip each containing 3 full frames. Three letters to Provis two autograph letters signed dating from May and June 1956 and one typed letter signed from February 1956. As well as Shooting Schedules Set Lists Locations lists and additional Prop Lists. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Novelist Judith Wynter Margaret Leighton gets inspiration for her new novel when her wheelchair-bound husband Ralph Richardson hires a new Italian chauffeur CarloCarlo Giustini. When Carlo reads her lurid tale of adultery and murder the husband mistakenly concludes that she is actually madly in love with Carlo. Green generic file wrappers with a title label noted as 3rd Draft Screenplay on the title label dated 23-4-1956. Title page present noted as Third Draft of Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Muriel and Sydney Box. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. London Independent Producers unknown
1999ref. 167772N.p.: N.p. 1999. Two draft scripts for an unproduced film. One script preceded by a two-page treatment. Included with the scripts are a typed note dated 13 May 1999 from a Lisa Jones to screenwriter Mark Jacobson providing advice on the script along with a return note from Jacobson to Jones acknowledging her letter. Additionally included is a printed six-page script breakdown presumably created by Jacobson. In the late 1950s a college student dies in a car accident. After his death his soul is mistakenly placed in the body of a two-year-old although he retains his adult brain and he is sent to live with a beautiful young woman. Stamped script: Beige wrappers with the stamp of screenwriter Mark Jacobson on the front wrapper along with a phone number in manuscript pencil. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Non-stamped script: Green untitled front wrapper blue rear wrapper. Title page integral with the first page of text. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 166618N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 film here under the working title "Invitation to Death." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout amending dialog and underlining his character "Steve." Bound in following the script are two pages of extensive handwritten notes in pencil elaborating on the actions and motivations of the character "Steve" in specific scenes likely written by screenwriter and director Howard Avedis. Laid in is a 24 page schedule with manuscript pencil annotations underlining the character "Steve" throughout with the manuscript marker annotation of Dimitri's name along the top edge of the first leaf. Connie Stevens stars as a sexy and horny federal narcotics agent who goes undercover to investigate heroin smuggler Cesare Danova. Director and screenwriter Howard Avedis' exploitation take on William Fiedkin's 1971 classic "The French Connection" with a female cop in the lead including an outrageous chase scene involving Ms. Stevens in a dunebuggy. A cult classic. Set in and shot on location in Seattle King County and Kirkland Washington and Portland Oregon. Burgundy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 6 1975 noted as Second Draft Revised with credits for screenwriter Hikmet Avedis. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 168123N.p.: Golden Films 1974. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film seen here under the working title "Evil in the Deep." A crew of maritime adventurers search for a long-lost sunken Spanish Galleon carrying a massive amount of treasure. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Golden Films unknown
1978ref. 167893Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. An aging newspaper reporter falls in love with his neighbor a beautiful but sickly ballerina. Anne Ditchburn who had no prior acting experience was chosen from a pool of 400 applicants for the part. A dancer and choreographer she choreographed some of her own routines in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus one Very Good. United Artists unknown
1945ref. 161348N.p.: N.p. 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film seen here under the working title "This Love of Ours." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script leaves. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on Roger Butterfield's 1944 book detailing the heroic actions of US Marine Al Schmid during World War II and his rehabilitation after being blinded in battle. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Philadelphia and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present undated with credits for Wald director Delmer Daves screenwriter Albert Maltz and biographer Roger Butterfield. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 159. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/8/44 and 2/21/45. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with moderate wear on the leather and front board lightly soiled. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 167890Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1983. Eight vintage publicity photographs from the 1983 film including two compilation photographs. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos of seven photographs. Based on Erich Segal's 1980 novel about a family man confronted with an illegitimate child from a long-since-past affair. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1988ref. 167910Los Angeles: Cannon Group 1988. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1988 film including one photograph of director Andrei Konchalovsky on the set. A urbanite reporter takes her daughter who is secretly addicted to cocaine with her on a work trip to visit a distant branch of her family in the Louisiana bayou. Winner of the Best Actress Award at Cannes for Barbara Hershey. Shot on location in Lafayette and Catahoula Parish Louisiana and in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Cannon Group unknown
1982ref. 156076Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1982. Five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1981 French film. Based on the 1979 novel by Daniel Odier writing under the pseudonym Delacora. A stylish and influential French thriller wherein a young postman and opera enthusiast inadvertently becomes entangled with the mob and the police after a woman slips a cassette that fingers a corrupt police chief into his bag. Set and shot on location in Paris France. 8 x 10 inches. One with a small chip and tape shadow at the bottom right corner else Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1965ref. 166115London: Gibraltar Productions 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers obis sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight" following the success of "The Exorcist" with new color sequences with an American cast which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback. Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 28.5.1965 noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a black plastic comb-binding. Gibraltar Productions unknown
1972ref. 168139Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Two vintage studio still photographs taken on the set of the 1974 film one showing director Richard Rush and actor James Caan the other showing Caan with motorcycle stunt instructor Mike Bast. A blueprint for the buddy cop movie about two inept police officers portrayed with wonderful chemistry by Alan Arkin and James Caan who wreak utter mayhem and destruction while trying to bring down a local mob boss. Director Richard Rush's ludicrous politically incorrect black comedy satirizing the popular revenge and police action films of the period. Set and shot on location in San Francisco California. 7.5 x 10 inches. Warner Brothers unknown
1983ref. 167921N.p.: Titan Productions 1983. Ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1983 film. The eighth film in the Pink Panther series and the second film in the series after actor Peter Sellers' death. David Niven's final film appearance. Shot on location in New York Nice Valencia and Ibiza. 8 x 10 inches. One photo with an annotation in manuscript ink on the bottom recto margin else about Fine. Titan Productions unknown
1954ref. 168145Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1954. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1955 Western film. Two with provenance stamps on the versos. A Texan cowboy hand-delivers high-priced Brahman bulls to Brazil encountering outlaws and beautiful women in the process. Shot on location in São Paolo. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 82. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1988ref. 167913Los Angeles: Orion Pictures 1988. Nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1988 horror film including seven compilation photographs. Based on the 1983 novel by Michael Stewart about a service monkey's increasingly murderous obsession with her owner a quadriplegic man. Director George Romero's second feature film produced with major studio backing after "Creepshow" 1982. Shot on location in Pittsburgh. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Near Fine to Fine. Orion Pictures unknown
1994ref. 167932Los Angeles: Gramercy Pictures 1994. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1994 film including four compilation photographs one showing director David Johnson on the set. A comedy produced by Spike Lee through his production company 40 Acres and a Mule about a team of African Americans who seek out and deprogram other Black Americans who they feel have betrayed their race. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Gramercy Pictures unknown
1960ref. 168180Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1960. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. A man travels to a remote military academy to inquire about his son reported to have died in an unspecified accident only to learn that the boy's death was caused by a violent hazing ritual. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1963ref. 168179Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Henry Morton Robinson detailing the life of a young American priest who must face numerous moral dilemmas the rise of Nazis and growing bigotry while he rises into power within the church. The story is based in part on the career of Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman archbishop of New York 1939-1967. Shot on location in Boston. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1967ref. 168188Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1967. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. Frank Sinatra's last film with Warner Brothers. Based on the 1966 novel by Francis Clifford about an industrialist who is pulled into a Cold War espionage scheme. Shot on location in London and Copenhagen. 10 x 8 inches. Two Near Fine one Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown
1974ref. 168194N.p.: Astral Films 1974. Five vintage studio still color photographs from the 1974 film. Based on Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel about a young working-class Jewish man who embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes in an attempt to buy the land around a lake. Set and shot on location in Montreal. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Fine. Astral Films unknown
1959ref. 161414N.p.: N.p. 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1959 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. 23 reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on screenwriter Fred Gipson's 1947 novel "Circle Round the Wagon" about two young brothers go on a hunting trip with an older friend. Fabian's film debut. Gipson's second published novel preceding his better-known 1956 novel "Old Yeller." Shot on location in San Bernardino. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present dated July 9 1959 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter-novelist Fred Gipson and screenwriter Winston Miller. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/13/59 and 7/22/59. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus front board slightly warped. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 167937Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1986. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1986 film including one showing director Walter Hill on the set. Not to be confused with the 2002 film starring Britney Spears. A young student at the Juilliard School befriends with an aging bluesman in hopes that the musician will teach him about his friendship with blues legend Robert Johnson years before. Set in Chicago and Mississippi shot on location in Murphy Greenville Natchez Port Gibson and Vicksburg Mississippi and in Burbank California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Fine one with an annotation in manuscript ink on the bottom margin. Columbia Pictures unknown
1966ref. 168193Beverly Hills CA: Batjac Productions 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film showing actors Kirk Douglas and Topol. Based on the real experiences of David "Mickey" Marcus a US military officer recruited to command units of the Israel Defense Forces forces during the 1948 Arab-Israel War. Shot on location in Israel and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Batjac Productions unknown
1942ref. 167995Universal City: Universal Pictures 1942. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on the verso and three with annotations in manuscript ink on the same. The fourth film in Universal Pictures' Frankenstein series preceded by "Frankenstein" 1931 "Bride of Frankenstein" 1935 and "Son of Frankenstein" 1939 and the first to star Lon Chaney as the monster. Set in the fictional village of Frankenstein. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine one photograph with tape near the margins of the recto one with pinholes at the corners and one with paper residue at the bottom left corner. Weaver and Brunas Universal Horror. Universal Pictures unknown
