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1971ref. 154969N.p.: MGM / EMI 1971. Vintage program for the 1971 film. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a low-budget musical revue after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straightforward pastiche of 1920s musicals director Ken Russell's adaptation is a full-blown parody of 1930s musical films particularly Busby Berkeley with heavy metatextual elements as the more lavish numbers take place in the imagination of a Hollywood producer watching the show. 8.25 x 10.25 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus with light soiling foxing and creasing. MGM / EMI unknown books
1975ref. 155790Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1975. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 film showing actors Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one photograph. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A New Hollywood satire about a womanizing money-hungry hairdresser in Beverly Hills. Actress Lee Grant won her only Academy Award for her turn as one of Beatty's mistresses and Beatty and Towne were nominated for their screenplay. Set and shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 155789Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film showing actors Jon Voight Paul Rossilli Viva and Dustin Hoffman. French distributor stamp on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. One of the earliest films to receive an X rating and the only X-rated release to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture also winning for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Nominated for four other Academy Awards including Best Actor for both Hoffman and Voight and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Miles. Set and shot on location in Big Spring Texas New York City and Miami Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown books
1960ref. 152059Burbank CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions 1960. Vintage pressbook for the 1960 film. Based on the 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss about a Swiss family from Bern who find themselves shipwrecked on an uninhabited island after a pirate attack. Previously adapted in 1940 by RKO Pictures. Shot on location in Tobago. 23 pages saddle stitched 12 x 18 inches. Very Good plus overall with faint foxing to the fore-edge of the front wrapper. Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1950ref. 152066Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage pressbook for the 1950 film. Three escaped Confederate prisoners-of-war become involved in a plan to steal a substantial Union shipment of gold carried on a wagon train from Santa Fe to St. Louis. Shot on location in Kanab Utah. 14 pages saddle stitched 12 x 17 inches. Very Good with front wrapper split from the binding and parts of pages cut out ostensibly by an exhibitor. Pitts 2986. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958ref. 152074Burbank CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions 1958. Vintage pressbook for the 1958 film. A nature documentary about animal life in the North American Arctic. Most notable for its infamous scene featuring a pack of lemmings jumping off a cliff into the Arctic Ocean supposedly to migrate-a scene that was in reality staged by the filmmakers who threw about a dozen lemmings into the Bow River near downtown Calgary for the sequence. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Shot on location in Canada. 19 pages saddle stitched 12 x 15 inches. Near Fine. Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1949ref. 152063Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage pressbook for the 1949 film. Based on the 1947 play by Noel Langley and Robert Morley. A businessman's attempts to shelter his son from the world mask his own ambition greed and desire to protect his family name. Twelve pages saddle stitched 12.25 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958ref. 155788Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1958. Vintage photograph of a camera crew capturing a shot of actor Spencer Tracy and child actor Felipe Pazos on the set of the 1958 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp crediting Warner photographer Jack Woods. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two more including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1958ref. 154930N.p.: United Artists 1958. Vintage British Quad poster for the UK release of the 1958 film. Joel McCrea gives a commanding performance as an embittered racist Calvary commander who must lead the remains of his troop through miles of Indian territory after being decimated by Apaches. An engagingly humorless bleak and cynical "lost patrol" Western influenced by John Ford's "The Searchers" 1956. Set in 1879 New Mexico Territory shot on location in Arizona Utah and New Mexico. 39.5 x 29.75 inches Folded as issued. Near Fine with some faint creasing edgewear and two small closed tears to the lower right margin. Bright and unfaded. United Artists unknown books
1945ref. 155840Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Cinema International Corporation. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On the Town" 1949. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975ref. 155772N.p.: Unia Films 1975. Five vintage borderless color snapshots from the 1975 French hardcore film. Stamps of Unia Films on the versos. The two adult sons of a small-town shopkeeper return to their hometown where they become involved in shady criminal dealings and many sexual encounters. Originally filmed as a softcore film with "hard" scenes added at a later point to appeal to the craze for hardcore sex scenes in France after Gaullist censorship was revoked in the early 1970s. 4.75 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 1368. Unia Films unknown books
1978ref. 155852Paris: Roissy Films 1978. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film. Manuscript ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A darkly comic dystopian fantasy set in New York about a lonely French electrician who attempts to raise a baby chimpanzee. Shot on location in New York City. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Roissy Films unknown books
1982ref. 155849N.p.: Island Pictures 1982. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film. A fisherman becomes involved in a political drug- and arms-smuggling plot when he rescues two Americans who have crash-landed their plane in Jamaica. The first film from Island Records' film division an influential independent label which popularized reggae and ska music in the UK in the 1960s. Set and shot on location in Jamaica. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus one with a small manuscript ink annotation on the recto. Island Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 155857N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1958 film showing director Jacques Tati filming an outdoors scene. National Film Archive stamp on the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Tati's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Set in the Parisian suburbs. 7.75 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 155850Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film showing actors Eleanor Parker and Richard Boone. Based on the 1954 novel "The Bird's Nest" by Shirley Jackson about a young woman with dissociative identity disorder who undergoes hypnosis therapy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956ref. 155865Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film showing actor Gregory Peck surrounded by other cast members examining a model ship. Based on the 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Previously adapted for film in 1926 and in 1930 both starring John Barrymore. Set in New England shot on location in New England Ireland Wales Spain and Portugal. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1948ref. 155862Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1948. Vintage reference photograph from the 1948 musical film showing dancers Cyd Charisse and Dee Turnell en pointe. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A fictionalized musical retelling of the Broadway and Hollywood songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz "Larry" Hart. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with moderate wear and pinholes at the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975ref. 154821Spain: Impala 1975. Vintage poster for the 1975 Spanish / Argentinean film. A young woman leaves home after one year of marriage hoping her estranged husband will come after her but meets someone who complicates her marriage. 27.25 x 38.75 inches folded as issues. Very Good plus with creasing in the center. Impala unknown books
1957ref. 156259Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Vintage post-production Synopsis for the 1957 film. Based on the 1941 novel "Phantom Filly" by George Agnew Chamberlain. Troubled teen Nick Pat Boone is forced to live and work on his uncle's Kentucky farm where he falls in love in their pretty neighbor Liz Shirley Jones. Set in and shot on location in Lexington Kentucky. Self-wrappers integral with title page noted as Synopsis. Four leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing and edgewear bound with single staple in upper left corner. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 153222N.p. Two vintage color reference photographs of director Brian De Palma and actress Angie Dickinson along with a camera crew on the set of the 1980 film. A defining De Palma film suspenseful in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock and opening with an homage to the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho." The sixth of nine highly distinctive films De Palma made between 1973 and 1984. Set in New York shot on location in New York and Pennsylvania. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 842. Criterion Collection 770. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. unknown books
1971ref. 156265Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1971 film both showing William Tepper in basketball garb one in the locker room and one on the court. Based on screenwriter Jeremy Larner's 1964 novel. Jack Nicholson's directorial debut a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s following several college students navigating Vietnam War protests uncertain romantic relationships and their own dubious futures after graduation. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout Eugene Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 155986Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force who seek to avoid public exposure of the interracial affair. Director William Wyler's final film. Set in the fictional town of Somerset Tennessee and shot on location in Humboldt Tennessee. Seven pages saddle stapled. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1996ref. 155767Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1996. Revised Draft script for the 1998 film copy belonging to Master Lead Painter Charlie Palazzo with the annotations in manuscript ink of "Charli P. / Print Dept." and copy number "301" on the front wrapper. "Blue Rev.1" script on blue paper dated 12/11/96 with copy number "707" in manuscript ink on the top right corner of the title page. Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Followed by two sequels "Blade II" 2002 directed by Guillermo del Toro and "Blade: Trinity" 2004 directed by screenwriter David S. Goyer all starring Wesley Snipes. Snipes stars as the Dhampir Blade a half-man half-vampire protecting the human race from evil vampires. The beginning of Marvel Comic's success in film adaptations which still continues unabatedly two and a half decades later. Set in and shot on location in Long Beach Death Valley and Los Angeles California and London Moscow and Vancouver. White titled self wrappers noted as Production Draft on the front wrapper dated 9/19/96 with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. Title page present dated 12/11/96 noted as "Blue Rev. 1" with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. New Line Cinema unknown books
1983ref. 153889N.p.: N.p. 1983. Draft script for the 1985 film here under the working title "Emerald." Based on the 1984 novel "The Emerald Illusion" about a German secret agent who faces off with an American spy in a prison in occupied France during World War II. Screenwriter and novelist Ronald Bass would go on to win an Academy Award in 1988 for his screenplay for "Rain Man." Set in Germany shot on location in France. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 24 1983 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Ronald Bass. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining affecting the front wrapper and top right corner of the title page bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 153192N.p.: N.p. 1994. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director John Waters on the set of the 1994 film. Brief manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film title and Waters' name. A seemingly normal middle-class housewife in suburban Baltimore moonlights as a maniacal unstoppable serial killer. Waters' ninth feature film. Shot on location in Baltimore. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown books
