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1933ref. 167824New York: Columbia Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 pre-Code film. A lawyer embarks on a promising career while her husband's football career begins to fade causing discord and resentment between the two. When he is wrongly accused of murdering another woman she comes to his defense. 12 x 17.75 inches. 12 pages side-stapled. Very Good plus moderately rubbed. Columbia Pictures unknown
1934ref. 167816Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Vintage pressbook for the 1934 pre-Code film. Based on the 1932 novel by Stuart Palmer. Intrepid teacher Hildegarde Withers and police inspector Oscar Piper join forces again to solve the murder of a music teacher at Withers' school. The second of three films to pair Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as Withers and Piper respectively following "The Penguin Pool Murder" 1932 and preceding "Murder on a Honeymoon" 1935. 12 x 18 inches. 12 leaves side-stapled. About Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1954ref. 167826New York: Excelsior Pictures 1954. Vintage souvenir program for the 1954 nudist film. A widowed woman leaves the home of her tyrannical father-in-law accompanied by her young daughter and moves into a nudist camp in Florida. "Nudist" movies were typically shot at nudist campgrounds in order to skirt laws prohibiting on-screen nudity. "Garden of Eden" was nevertheless the subject of a court case in the late 1950s regarding obscenity. The court ruled that on-screen nudity was not obscene opening the door to more open depictions of nudity in film. Shot on location at the Lake Como Family Nudist Resort in Lutz Florida. 9 x 12 inches. About Fine. Excelsior Pictures unknown
1933ref. 167804Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 film. Based on the 1926 novel by Lester Cohen who also wrote the screenplay. A widowed businessman hopes to bequeath his department store to his children after his death-only to realize that they are disinterested incompetent or simply unable to manage the business. Set in Chicago. 12 x 18 inches. Ten pages side-stapled. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1952ref. 148166N.p.: Valoria Films 1952. Seven vintage French lobby cards from the 1952 film one with "Agence Mediterraneenne" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Jeux Interdits" by Francois Boyer. Paulette Brigitte Fossey a young Parisian girl orphaned by a Nazi air raid befriends an older peasant boy Michel Georges Poujouly whose family takes her in. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in France. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall pinholes at corners with some small chipping to corners one with bruise and cello tape on top center. Vogel "Film as a Subversive Art." Ebert III. Criterion Collection 318. Valoria Films unknown
1972ref. 148271N.p.: Greenwich Film Productions 1972. Five vintage French lobby cards from the 1972 film. Six bourgeois friends try to sit down to a meal together and are repeatedly interrupted by surreal dream-like happenings in Buñuel's satiric masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film also nominated for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 4 11.5 x 8.25 inches 1 11 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus two with pinholes at top corners one with crease on far lower left. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 102. Schrader 33. Greenwich Film Productions unknown
1962ref. 148348N.p.: N.p. 1962. Four vintage French lobby cards from the 1962 film. "Consortium Pathe" stamp on versos. Two Corsican criminal families are at war with each other in Paris. Set in Paris. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Pinholes at corners and light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 165396N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to costume designer Jane Hamilton with her annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the first 13 leaves all relating to costuming. Included with the script are multiple gatherings of manuscript and xerographically duplicated leaves relating to costuming including measurements of actors and extras in the film details for specific scenes and lists of props and period costumes needed. In the 1920s a young woman embarks on a worldwide journey of sexual exploration determining to lose her virginity and ultimately find her ideal lover. Shot on location in Andalucía Spain and in Hampshire England. Housed in a three-ring green binder. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 163824Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Vintage insert poster for the 1963 film. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force wherein Daily Globe journalist Johnny Barrett Peter Breck determined to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum to solve a case where an inmate had recently been murdered. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus with three horizontal creases from being previously folded and light edgewear. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown
1951ref. 163823N.p.: Lippert Pictures 1951. Vintage insert poster for the 1951 film. Director Samuel Fuller's underrated and influential Korean War film wherein a group of ragtag soldiers battle against overwhelming Communist forces in an abandoned Buddhist Temple. Fuller's first of several war films with probably his most gripping and realistic depictions of life and death on the battlefield. The film was shot in ten days on a budget of $100 000 and dealt with themes of American racism bigotry and war crimes which caused Fuller as well as actor Gene Evans to be a target of an FBI investigation. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 5. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby Master. Spicer US. Lippert Pictures unknown
1971ref. 128176Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Vintage insert poster for the 1971 film. The first film in Pasolini's Trilogy of life followed by "Canterbury Tales" 1972 and "Arabian Nights" 1974 a light and sumptuous adaptation of Boccaccio's work "The Decameron" replete with nudity sex and both slapstick and scatological humor. Featuring a score by Ennio Morricone. 36 x 14 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1115. Criterion Collection 631. United Artists unknown
1934ref. 167828New York: Columbia Pictures 1934. Collection of three vintage pressbooks for three pre-Code films written by noted hard-boiled novelist Horace McCoy: "Hold the Press" 1933 "Fury of the Jungle" 1933 and "Speed Wings" 1934. McCoy moved to Hollywood in 1931 hoping to pursue a career as an actor. After a failed screen test at MGM McCoy discovered a talent for writing treatments and film scenarios and would go on to pen numerous films for Columbia Paramount and other studios through the next three decades. 12 x 18 inches. Generally Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1972ref. 148289Universal City: Universal Pictures 1972. Vintage French color lobby card from the 1972 film. Based on the 1966 novel "Goodbye Piccadilly Farewell Leicester Square" by Arthur La Bern. London is terrorized by a serial rapist who then strangles his victims with a necktie. Police suspect Richard Blaney Jon Finch whose wife was brutally killed. Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film. Set in and shot on location in London. 11.25 x 9 inches. Pinholes at corners else Near Fine. Grant UK. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Universal Pictures unknown
1960ref. 167563New Orleans: Mardi Gras Films 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. The mistress of a Louisiana plantation raises her brother from the dead in a voodoo rite planning to use him to maintain control over the property. A Z-budget regional horror film shot on location in New Orleans and produced by Mardi Gras Films an independent studio that only financed one other movie-"Face of Fire" in 1959. Considered lost for many years the film was rediscovered and released on Blu-ray by Severin in 2023. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Mardi Gras Films unknown
1968ref. 164342N.p.: Marlukin Productions 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1968 film. An overlooked and important film one of the first to deal with contemporary Black revolutionaries who rose in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Today considered a work that seeded the explosion of Blaxploitation films in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The story's events surround the death of Martin Luther King framed as a remake of "The Informer" John Ford 1935 in turn based on the 1925 proletarian novel by Liam O'Flaherty. Shot on location in Cleveland the first US film for noted director Jules Dassin who had left the US at the height of the McCarthy hearings in nearly two decades. 26.75 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. with starting at the center folds. Grant US. Olive Films 425. Marlukin Productions unknown
1961ref. 167579Universal City: Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 British film showing Oliver Reed in costume as Leon Corledo the werewolf. Based on Guy Endore's 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris." Reed's first starring role in a feature film and the first werewolf film to be shot in color. Released as a double feature with another Hammer film "Shadow of the Cat" 1961. Set in Spain and shot on location in Buckinghamshire and Surrey England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the margins. Johnson and Del Vecchio. Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films unknown
1978ref. 126967N.p.: Brut Productions 1978. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1978 film. James Toback's directorial debut wherein Harvey Keitel stars as a sexually dysfunctional young pianist torn between his work as a ruthless debt collector for his loan shark father and wanting to be a classical pianist like his mentally ill mother. Remade in 2005 as the French film "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Romain Duris and Niels Arestrup. Set in and shot on location in New York. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with light edgewear and starting at the center folds. Grant US. Spicer US. Brut Productions unknown
1957ref. 167577Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing scientists in hazmat suits preparing to confront the insect. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A volcanic eruption in the South Seas frees a long-dormant 200-foot-tall mantis which proceeds to make its way to the US. Filmmakers constructed a 200-foot-tall mantis for the film from papier-mâché with a hydraulic system in addition to two smaller models for different flying or walking effects. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown
1969ref. 164374N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1968 Hammer film here under the French release title "Dracula et les femmes." The fourth entry in Hammer Film Productions' Dracula series and the third to feature Christopher Lee as the Count. Preceded by the 1966 film "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" directed by Terence Fisher and followed by the 1970 film "Taste the Blood of Dracula" directed by Peter Sasdy. A monsignor exorcises Dracula's castle unwittingly resurrecting the Count who proceeds to prey on the monsignor's beautiful niece and friends. 23 x 31.25 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a 4.25 inch closed tear to the upper right side and starting at the center and far right creases. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1971ref. 148175Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1971. Collection of ten vintage French color lobby cards from the 1971 film. Hal Ashby's classic love story between the young suicidal Harold But Cort and the exuberant 80-year-old Maude Ruth Gordon. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1997. Set in and shot on location in California. 9 x 11.25 inches. Near Fine. Eureka! 83. Criterion Collection 608. Paramount Pictures unknown
1935ref. 167569Universal City: Universal Pictures 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing a haunted Henry Hull in a laboratory set. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A British doctor is bitten by a strange animal while traveling in Tibet and begins transforming into a bloodthirsty werewolf upon his return to London terrorizing the city's inhabitants at night while desperately searching for a cure in the daytime. Considered by many to be the first feature-length werewolf movie preceding the better-known "The Wolf Man" by six years. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear along the right edge. Universal Pictures unknown
1967ref. 164352N.p.: Trans American Films 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1967 "Mondo" documentary. A "Mondo" style documentary about teenage rebellion in the US UK France Italy Sweden and Japan with commentaries on a range of subjects including music fashion drugs bikers surfing prostitution and homosexuality. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with small closed tears at the top and bottom of the center vertical crease and starting to the center crease. Trans American Films unknown
1970ref. 140924Levallois France: Crosnier 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A young nurse working as the caretaker of an elderly rich man is invited to attend the funeral of the man's prized horse. It is soon revealed that the horse may not be dead after all. Green untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Marc Grunebaum. 127 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Crosnier unknown
1970ref. 141552N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A small time thief is found assassinated in a busy restaurant perplexing the local police who can uncover neither motive nor method. Set in New York City. Orange wrappers with die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Gerald Wilson. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1988ref. 142134N.p.: N.p. 1988. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on page 94. Photograph of child actor Nate Goldberg laid in. Based on Thornton Wilder's 1973 novel "Theophilus North" about a mysterious stranger who arrives in a small wealthy town where rumors begin to circulate that he has the power to cure sickness and ailments. Originally planned as a project to be directed by Danny Huston. Set and shot on location in Rhode Island. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter James Costigan and author Thornton Wilder. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
