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ref. 156574Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Shooting script for the 1976 film. Copy belonging to title designer Dan Perri with his signature in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American West. Set in the American West shot on location in Alberta Canada. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated 7/17/75 noted as SHOOTING with credits for screenwriters Alan Rudolph and Robert Altman. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box. United Artists unknown books
1968ref. 145862Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Single manuscript notation on the title page. The story of two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Nevada and California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 5 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1968 and October 17 1968. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. M.J. Frankovich Productions unknown books
1984ref. 153795N.p.: Hemdale / Double Eagle 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of actor Aaron Norris on the front wrapper an unusual indication of a perhaps intended role. A group of scientists accidentally create a deadly chemical compound which is promptly stolen by a rival scientist who threatens to kill thousands of people with the compound unless he is given one billion dollars. Two spies from the mysterious Sub Rosa agency are sent to retrieve the chemical. Titled self wrappers in a generic binder. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter R. Delano Brown. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Hemdale / Double Eagle unknown books
1984ref. 146251Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1984. Original Shooting script for the 1984 film. Title typo on the front wrapper stamped in red. A seductive thriller about a bored housewife who is seduced by a burglar who begins to recreate erotic fantasies from her secret diary. Director-screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart had to his credit "The Blue Lagoon" 1980 and "An Officer and a Gentleman" 1982 along with the cult classic "Flashdance" 1983. Set and shot on location throughout California. Black titled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated January 16 1984 SHOOTING SCRIPT a small letter B written in manuscript pencil at the top right corner and with a credit for director-screenwriter Steward as well as producers Bruckheimer and Simpson. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered "107A." Xerographically duplicated rectos only with blue and pink revision pages dated variously between 1/24/84 and 2/1/84 and one page with 2/2/84 and "Office" in manuscript ink. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 147189Universal City: Universal Studios 1970. Draft script for "Too Many Victims" the ninth episode of the fourth season of the crime drama television series "Ironside" originally aired on November 12 1970 on NBC. A long-running series featuring the eponymous Robert T. Ironside a wheelchair user and investigative consultant for the San Francisco police department. In "Too Many Victims" the daughter of a cop crashes her car while driving high leading her father to use less-than-legal methods to run in a local drug dealer whom he suspects may be supplying teenagers with weed. Set and shot on location in San Francisco. White titled self-wrappers dated March 3 1970 with credits for screenwriter Irv Pearlberg. Title page integral with front wrapper as issued. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Universal Studios unknown books
1972ref. 140774Madrid Spain: The Monovox Company 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. A mysterious man posing as an artist is luring young women to his apartment in 1936 Madrid where he asks them to pose and then kills them and takes their photo. Forty years later a young woman is living in the apartment these unspeakable acts occurred in and she decides to find out who lived there before her. When she ends up dead her friends become concerned with who killed her and who is stalking them. Set in Madrid. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Melson and author Ryan Anderson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound in a spring binder. The Monovox Company unknown books
1943ref. 156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972ref. 152995Hollywood: Marimark 1972. Revised Final Shooting Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "Supergirl." Copy belonging to story writer John Burrows with his name in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. An attractive free-spirited flight attendant with boyfriends in New York Miami and Los Angeles unwittingly becomes involved in an in-flight robbery. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/72 noted as Revised Final Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Gary Crutcher. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 10/20/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Marimark unknown books
1986ref. 154238Paris: Interpress 1986. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marushka Detmers and director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1983 film. Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Interpress unknown books
1959ref. 150690Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 British film. Based on John Buchan's 1915 novel. A diplomat returns to his home in London where he becomes involved in a corrupt international organization of secret agents intending to sell government secrets relating to weapons resources. Set and shot on location in England and Scotland. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1951ref. 154308Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film showing actors Tom Neal and Jean Porter. A new draftee is assigned to a remote desert post where he forges military orders that bring a platoon of women soldiers to the encampment. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall with pinholes to the corners. Lippert Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 154401New York: Independent International Pictures Corporation 1975. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1970 German exploitation film. Detective Perrak's investigation into the murder of a transgender woman leads into an underworld of sexual corruption and blackmail. Shot on location in Bendestorf and Hamburg Germany. 11 x 17 inches Bi-fold. Horizontally Folded as issued. Near Fine. Independent International Pictures Corporation unknown books
1944ref. 154237N.p.: N.p. 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1944 film showing actress Tallulah Bankhead sitting and reading a newspaper that makes reference to World War II. A group of survivors are stranded on a lifeboat following a Nazi attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot a course to land or rescue. The first film in Alfred Hitchcock's "limited setting" series followed by "Rope" 1948 "Dial M for Murder" 1954 and "Rear Window" 1954. Shot on location in Florida and California. 5 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 30. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 154316Burbank CA: Columbia Films / Harry Romm 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film showing actors Joey Dee and Jeri Lynn Frazer. A newly engaged couple book tickets on a cruise to Paris for an elopement but encounter trouble when they cross paths with Coco an amorous French dancer. Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the edges. Columbia Films / Harry Romm unknown books
1960ref. 154314Burbank CA: Columbia Pictures 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1960 film. An historical sword-and-sandal drama about the ancient Greek poet Sappho who leads a life without men inside an all-women temple on the island of Lesbos. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the left edge. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 150728N.p.: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1979. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso and a stamp noting production No. 79-22 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Sylvia Plath's influential semi-autobiographical 1963 novel about a young woman who suffers a series of mental breakdowns at her family's home in New England in the 1950s. Set in New York and New England shot on location in New Jersey and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1937ref. 154246New York: Filmarte 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing L-R Jean Gabin Gaston Modot Pierre Fresnay Julien Carette Jean Daste and Marcel Dalio. Provenance stamp and library stamps to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown books
1966ref. 150731Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1966. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Based on Jack Finney's 1959 novel. A group of adventurers pull up a World War II submarine and plan to use it to rob the RMS Queen Mary a large cruise liner. Set in the Bahamas. 10 x 8 inches. One with light wear and pinholes to the corners else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 154313Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film showing actor James Garner jumping down from a wall. Based on the 1964 novel "Buddwing" by Evan Hunter about a man who suddenly wakes up in Central Park with no memory of his own identity or life. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall with pinholes to the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975ref. 150692N.p.: N.p. 1975. Four vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1975 French film noting the film's US title "Erotic Wives." One with a manuscript ink annotation to the bottom left corner. Strange and erotic figures populate the village of Corecheux including a witch a gay notary and many many lonely women. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 154321Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1962 film showing actors Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss in an an amorous moment. A military comedy about a luckless army intelligence lieutenant who finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II where all the action is between the sheets. Set in Japan. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956ref. 150691Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 film showing actors Carroll Baker and Karl Malden. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations. Set in the fictional Tiger Tail County Mississippi shot on location in Benoit Mississippi and Stockton California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light creasing to the top right corner and a small chip to the left edge. Warner Brothers unknown books
1952ref. 154310Los Angeles: Monogram 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 Western film showing actress Peggie Castle. The leader of a wagon train crossing the western plains discovers that a passenger has been selling weapons to marauding Native American troops. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pitts 4766. Monogram unknown books
1964ref. 154245N.p.: N.p. 1964. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1964 independent film. Philip Kaufman's directorial debut a humorous then-present-day retelling of the biblical story of Elijah starring many local actors from the improvisational Chicago comedy troupe The Second City as well as author Nelson Algren appearing as himself. Shot on location in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 150721N.p.: UMC 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 Italian film. With a stamp noting production No. 71-621 on the verso. A US expatriate witnesses the murder of an art gallery owner in Rome and decides to find the culprit himself. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with pinholes and wear to the corners. UMC unknown books
