10,190 results
1969ref. 147017London: Columbia British Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 British film. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in manuscript ink on the title page as well as an encircled "71" in red manuscript marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to find suitable romantic partners for each other. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in England Spain and Sweden. ornamental embossed titled wrapper. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter Peter Draper and novelist Janice Elliott. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads. Columbia British Productions unknown books
1968ref. 147160Unknown: Unknown 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. A pitch black comedy about a man sentenced to death who survives his hanging leading to a two-hour debate among his executioners over how best to handle the situation. Loosely based on a 1958 crime and execution and a rare for its time discussion of the discrimination faced by ethnic Koreans in Japanese society. Black titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 035. Approximately 130 leaves with last page of text numbered h-8. Mimeograph duplication rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. Criterion Collection 798. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Unknown unknown books
1977ref. 146559Munich: Terrafilm 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk with manuscript ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the script. Text in German. A young woman arrives at a dilapidated hospital searching for answers to her past. Academy Award-winning Hungarian director Karoly Makk garnered accolades for his incisive political films during Hungarian cinema's renaissance in the postwar period most notably "Love" 1971 "Cats' Play" 1972 and "Another Way" 1982. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Karoly Makk and screenwriter Gunther Heller. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and light soil bound with a gold prong. Terrafilm unknown books
1969ref. 147253N.p.: Amicus Productions 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 British film. Based on Margaret Drabble's 1965 novel "The Millstone." Produced by Amicus Productions a company typically known for its blood-drenched horror films. Venturing into another genre the studio produced this drama that follows Rosamund Stacey Sandy Dennis a bookish doctoral candidate who is perpetually dodging the sexual advances of the men in her life. This comes to an end when she meets George Matthews Ian McKellen. The film was not a box office success but ironically been called the best film produced by Amicus. Set in London shot on location in England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Amicus Productions unknown books
1956ref. 147087Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677 dated June 7 1956. Title page present dated June 7 1956 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate bound with two gold brads. Twilight Time 203. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1959ref. 147066N.p.: Hammer Film Productions 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 Hammer film. Based on the 1945 play by Barre Lyndon "The Man in Half Moon Street." 104 year old sculptor Georges Bonnet Anton Diffring maintains a youthful appearance by having a victim's parathyroid glands surgically replace his own but his partner and friend Dr. Weiss Arnold Marle had a stroke and cannot perform the surgery. He then blackmails an old flame's Hazel Court boyfriend Dr. Pierre Gerard Christopher Lee into performing the surgery. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good moderate creasing with a closed tear on the left side. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1959ref. 147069N.p.: Hammer Film Productions 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images. Although an ostensible remake of the hit 1932 Universal film Hammer Film adaptation of this title borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" 1940 and "The Mummy's Tomb" 1942 with the climax taken directly from "The Mummy's Ghost" 1944. When British archeologists led by John Banning Peter Cushing despoil the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess Princess Anaka Yvonne Furneaux they awaken her keeper and former lover high priest Kharis Christopher Lee. The only Hammer film to feature the actor combination of Lee Cushing and Michael Ripper. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine some light creasing one with two closed tears and pinholes and one photo with top right corner clipped. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1945ref. 147050Universal City: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage photograph of Onslow Stevens lighting Lon Chaney Jr.'s way up a macabre stone stairway from the 1945 film. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein" which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters all in Dracula's house including the Prince of Darkness himself John Carradine the Wolf Man Chaney Jr. and Frankenstein Glenn Strange along with the requisite mad scientist Onslow Stevens and hunchbacked assistant Jane Adams. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 146515N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript annotation in ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a typed page crediting Pierre Gaspard-Huit as director. Text in French. An FBI agent infiltrates an international drug smuggling ring that operates primarily through a system of casinos. Set in Portugal. Grey titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped France-Cinema-Productions with credits for screenwriter Jean-Michel Clermontet. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with faint foxing to the verso of the final leaf wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146518N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation to the title page stating "ROUGH TRANSLATION / VERY ROUGH" and a few small proofreader's annotations. Text in English. Incomplete apparentlhy as issued. An assassin becomes involved with a solitary young woman and gives her a handgun to protect herself while he's out of the country on an assignment-a gift which invariably only lands her in deeper trouble. Screenwriters Eugenio Martin and Jose G. Maesso were best known for their work on "The Ugly Ones" 1968 a violent heavily influential Euro Western film. Set in the US and Uruguay. Tan untitled side stapled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jose G. Maesso and Eugenio Martin. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with the final few leaves loose from the binding. Pitts 4631. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 146566N.p.: N.p. 1973. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. With a business card for talent manager and film producer Arnold Stiefel stapled on the front wrapper and a label sticker for casting agent Paul Kohner to the title page. Included with the script are two xerographically duplicated letters from Rudy Ramos the head of the Speed Classic Racing Association to screenwriter Paul Helmick expressing enthusiasm for the prospective film. After her boyfriend dies in a boat racing accident a woman begins to date two rival racers despite her belief that she is a boating jinx. Set in Long Beach CA. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriters Paul A. Helmick and Mike Crumplar. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus overallbound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 146519N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed synopsis of the prospective film with the copied signature of screenwriter Steven James Silva at the bottom. Stapled to the recto of the rear wrapper is a brown paper mailing envelope ostensibly the one used to ship the script to its recipient. Loosely based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra who was sacrificed as recompense for her father's misdeeds. In screenwriter Steven James Silva's updated version Iphegenia becomes "Iffie" a gifted writer who rises to fame to the bitterness and jealousy of her friends and family. Set in New York and Connecticut. Clear front wrapper with a red rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Steven James Silva. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-4-88. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1946ref. 146888Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Final script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100 dated MARCH 2 1946. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated March 2 1946 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter F. Hugh Herbert. 192 leaves with last page of text numbered 160. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/12/46 and 5/7/46. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped to the fore edges bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1984ref. 146517N.p.: N.p. 1984. Revised Second Draft script for the 1985 "American Playhouse" episode originally aired on PBS on January 21 1985. Based on the 1937 novel by Katherine Anne Porter. A Swedish stranger arrives at a small family run dairy farm out of the blue asking for work promising strong effort in exchange for very little pay. While the family is initially put off by the stranger's cold demeanor they gradually accept him and the farm thrives under his care until news arrives that lays their relationship with him and each other bare. Set in South Texas shot in Fredericksburg and Mason Texas. White titled self wrappers with title page integral with the front wrapper as issued noted as Revised Second Draft dated May 10 1984 with credits for director Michael Fields and novelist Katherine Anne Porter. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with soil to the first and final leaves bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 146577N.p.: N.p. 1978. 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. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1978 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Siegfried Lenz screenwriter Rainer Soehnlein and translator Scott Morrison. 206 leaves with last page of text numbered 202. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1964ref. 146593Los Angeles: APJAC Productions 1964. Treatment script for an unproduced film with blue revision pages throughout. Bound in with the script are a number of black and white photograph illustrations of World War I aviators and airplanes as well as a handmade bound-in paper pouch containing 11 color reference photographs of early airplanes clipped from an issue of Life Magazine. An historic exploration of early Air Force aviators intended for release on or around the 50 year anniversary eve of World War I. Set in Polaise France. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Charles K. Peck Jr. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout variously undated and dated 3/27/64. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. APJAC Productions unknown books
1997ref. 146408Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired August 30 1998 on Showtime. Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats" the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the country. Set in Wyoming shot on location in Vancouver BC. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 19 1997 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Tim Sandlin. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Producers Entertainment Group unknown books
1970ref. 146785N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on the 1978 novel by John Godey wherein a deadly black mamba is accidentally released into Central Park and hunted down by a rogue herpetologist. Set in New York City. Lacking titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter THOMAS GSPANDL and novelist JOHN GODEY. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Early Xerox rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a tear running horizontal to the final leaf with gold prong binding. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 146410N.p.: The Greenblatt Janollari Studio 2000. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. A few months after graduating high school the eponymous teen couple Nick and Emily discover that Emily is pregnant forcing the pair to grow up more quickly than anticipated. Screenwriter R. Lee Fleming Jr. was better known for his involvement in early 2000s young adult-oriented television shows such as "Friends" 2001-2004 and "One Tree Hill" 2004-2006 as well as the films "She's All That" 1999 and "Get Over It" 2001. Set in Burbank CA. White Greenblatt Janollari studio wrappers. Title page present dated January 28 2000 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter R. Lee Fleming Jr. 58 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. The Greenblatt Janollari Studio unknown books
1970ref. 146584N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script are seven copies of a page of reviews for screenwriter William Sach's film "There is No 13" 1974 as well as a small typed list labeled "BILL SACHS / DISTRIBUTORS HE IS CALLING IN NY." Convinced she is turning into a vampire due to her undiagnosed anemia a teenage girl runs away from home and enjoys a number of sensual hallucinatory experiences. Screenwriter William Sachs was known for his surrealist style as in "The Incredible Melting Man" 1977 and "Van Nuys Blvd." 1979. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter William Sachs. Title page present with credits for William Sachs. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly toned with a few splashes on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2002ref. 146412N.p.: N.p. 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young woman discusses her problems with her mentally ill mother her desire to save the whales and her absent fiance in therapy-but all is not as it seems. White lacking wrappers. Title page present dated 3/16/02 noted as Rough Draft with credits for screenwriter Zack Kaplan. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 17. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a spring binder clip at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 146561N.p.: N.p. 1965. Synopsis for an unproduced film based on the novel of the same name by Irving Wallace. Included with the synopsis is a two-page typed document on Brenco Pictures Corporation letterhead dated November 11 1965 discussing the popularity of Wallace's prior novels and proposing a budget for the film along with a small note addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner signed by screenwriter Stanley Meyer. Also included is the envelope which likely contained the documents. Based on the 1963 novel wherein a team of anthropologists travel to the South Pacific to study the polyamorous inhabitants of a small secret island. Set in the South Pacific. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present noted as Brief Summary. 6 leaves with last page of text numbered 5. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146415N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation to the title page presumably to a prospective actor from screenwriter Darin Mercado and lines for the character "Billy" marked with manuscript pencil. Possibly incomplete. After being dumped by a long-term girlfriend once again a serial monogamist heads to a bar determined to have a one-night-stand. White self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Darin Mercado. 24 leaves with last page of text numbered 24. Xerox rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with three staples at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146591N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Members of the French Foreign Legion experience their own conflicts of romance and resentment in the final weeks before they leave Algiers. Prolific screenwriter Ken Englund was known for "No No Nannette" 1940 "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" 1943 and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 1947 among others. Set in Algiers and France. Yellow patterned titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ken Englund. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 89. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2002ref. 146414N.p.: N.p. 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man suffers frequent blackouts often waking with strange injuries all over his body and becomes convinced he is being stalked due to his role in a nefarious unknown plot. White titled self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 2002 to Philip S. Lyren. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
