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1986ref. 150006N.p.: Whitehorse 1986. Second Draft script for the 1986 comedy short here under the working title "Is Anybody Listening" originally aired on August 2 on Cinemax. With a manuscript pencil annotation to the title page reading "Second Draft" and copied manuscript annotations throughout the script. A cynical beleaguered salesman for a sporting-goods store decides to take a road trip on his birthday to reconnect with his college gym coach. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated Monday February 10 1986 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriters James Belushi Fred Kaz and Marjorie Bransfield. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. Whitehorse unknown books
1974ref. 149588N.p.: Nordia Films 1974. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 erotic horror film. A young woman watching over her cousin's house is mistakenly kidnapped by a crazed sex cult. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. Nordia Films unknown books
1980ref. 149979N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Luc Goddard and crew on the set of the 1980 film. "Sauve qui peut / la Vie" stamp on verso with last three lines of stamp which include copyright date and photograph credit for Anne-Marie Mieville struck through with manuscript marker. A most Godardian examination of sexual relationships in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Switzerland. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 744. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 150389N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Robbe-Grillet on the set of the 1963 film. French "L'Immortelle" and "57- -3" stamp on verso. Directorial debut of novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet his first film project after writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad" 1961. Robbe-Grillet's eliptical narrative-defying tale of a withdrawn French man Jacques Doniol-Valcroze in a strange city Istanbul unable to speak the language falling in love with a mysterious woman Francoise Brion who shortly thereafter disappears. Set in and shot on location in Istanbul Turkey. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1188. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 150552N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut and Laurence Ragon from the 1978 film. Layout annotations in manuscript ink "La Chambre Verte" stamp and "June 78" stamp all on verso. Based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James with elements of James' 1903 novella "The Beast in the Jungle" and his 1896 short story "The Way it Came." One of Truffaut's least successful films but also one of his most personal and critically acclaimed a meditation on death and on an individual's inability to live in the face of it. Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne a journalist who writes obituaries in an unfashionable journal obsesses about the loss of his wife Julie and those members of his WWI squad lost in the war which lead him to build a shrine as a memorial so that they may never be forgotten. The third and final film which Truffaut would both direct and star. Shot on location in Calvados and Eure France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 150547N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Peter O'Toole Gamil Ratib and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence Peter O'Toole in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46 we then follow in flashback Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo assigned to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks. Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shot on location in England Saudi Arabia Spain and Morocco. 10.25 x 8 inches. Some edge and corner wear else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 150545N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger with director William Dieterle and crew from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic now considered a camp classic wherein Princess Salome Hayworth daughter of King Herod a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton returns home from banishment and falls in love with Roman Commander Claudius Granger but is maliciously used by her evil mother Queen Herodias Judith Anderson to insure the execution of her critic John the Baptist Alan Badel. Shot on location in Israel. 10.25 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and two small closed tears to right margin. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 150548N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photographs of director Wesley Ruggles on the set of the 1940 film by photographer Irving Lippman. Mimeo snipe and photographer "Irving Lippman" stamp on verso. Based on the 1919 play by W. Somerset Maugham which was based on the 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Tennyson. Soon after presumed window Vicky Jean Arthur marries her late husband's friend and business partner Henry Melvyn Douglas her first presumed dead husband Bill Fred MacMurray shows back up and now she's got one too many. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 149900Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Four vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film showing variously actors Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra composer Frank Loesser and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. The first photo double weight shows Marlon Brando as Skye Masterson surreally socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. The second photo shows Brando rehearsing "Luck Be a Lady" with sheet music in hand and with the song's composer Frank Loesser at the piano. The third photo shows Sinatra and Brando in a candid moment. The fourth photo single weight shows director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette relaxing contemplatively Mankiewicz sitting and smoking his pipe Leverette inside a large industrial exhaust pipe. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A serial gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. All photos: 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine overall variously with a few pinholes and very shallow creasing. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972ref. 149967N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four borderless reference photographs one oversize of Jean-Pierre Melville Catherine Deneuve Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set of and on location for the 1972 film. A police detective played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville pictures is on the trail of a gang of thieves unaware that they are led by a friend. Melville's final film. Shot on location in Paris and Bordeaux France. Oversize photo 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Other photos variously from 9 x 7 inches to 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 150605Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of 13 vintage photographs from the 1957 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso crediting photographer Bert Cann. Very loosely based on the 1950 nonfiction book "The Story of Zarak Khan" by A.J. Bevans about an outlaw fighting against British occupation in 19th century Afghanistan pursued by a British officer with whom he develops a mutual respect. Set on the border between Afghanistan and India shot on location in England Morocco India and Burma. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 150635N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vntage borderless reference photograph of Jerzy Skolimowski and Jane Asher on the set of the 1970 film. A teenage boy takes a job at a local swim club becomes obsessed with his older coworker and tries to sabotage her engagement to another man. Shot on location in Munich Germany and London. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Light creasing and edgewear else Near Fine. BFI 1063. Grant UK. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 149957Paris: Lorcaster 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jacques Becker and Marc Michel on the set of the 1960 film. "Lorcaster" and "636" stamps on verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Jose Giovanni. True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break with one of the real escapees Keraudy playing his own character in the film. Jacques Becker's final film having died two weeks after completing the film. Nominated for the Palm d'Or. 7 x 9 inches. Some light creasing else Near Fine. Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 129. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Hayden and Schneider 1001. Selby France. Spicer France. Lorcaster unknown books
1937ref. 150517N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1937 film showing Mireille Balin and Jean Gabin in a flirtatious moment. Based on the 1931 novel by screenwriter Henri La Barthe. A seminal noir antecedent oddly produced by the French who would go on to consider the Americans to be the inventors of the style. Remade in 1938 as "Algiers" starring Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer and in 1948 as "Casbah" a film musical starring Tony Martin and Marta Toren. Notorious French criminal Pepe le Moko is safe from the police in the Casbah but begins to reconsider his future in France after meeting and falling for a beautiful Parisian woman. Set and shot on location in Algiers Algeria. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 172. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1941ref. 150534Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1941. Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. Remade in 1983 directed by Alan Johnson starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film having died in an airplane accident during post-production. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura husband and wife thespians in Nazi occupied Warsaw who inadvertently become part of the Resistance and must utilize every acting trick in the book to retrieve a list of Polish Resistance fighters from a German spy. Set in Warsaw immediately before and during the 1939 German invasion. 10 x 8 inches image 4.5 x 3.75 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Criterion Collection 670. United Artists unknown books
1960ref. 150523N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Elia Kazan by photographer Sam Shaw on the set of the 1961 film. "Sam Shaw" and "Graphic Arts Photo Service" stamps on verso. Warren Beatty's film debut. Natalie Wood was nominated for Best Actress Academy Award and William Inge won for Best Screenplay his first original screenplay after a career as a playwright. Family and societal pressures on Deanie Wood and Bud's Beatty heated teen romance threaten their romance and their sanity. 10 x 8 inches. Very light edgewear else Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 150623Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1967. Collection of 35 vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1967 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with images of director Andrew Marton actors and crew on the set. A British rancher hires two American cowboys to oversee his Kenyan estate. Basis for the American television show "Cowboy in Africa" starring Chuck Connors which ran on ABC during the 1967-1968 season. Set and shot on location in Kenya. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 150521Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Burt Lancaster. Photographer "G. B. Poletto" stamp on verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Nominated for an Academy Award. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with some light creasing and edgewear. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 22. Titanus unknown books
1968ref. 150474N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim on the set of the 1968 film. Photographer Alfonso Avincola stamp on verso. Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest published in the French magazine "V" in 1962 and 1964. Likely the campiest space-opera sex comedy in film history. Though not popular upon its release it was re-released to greater acclaim in 1977 and has since influenced countless fashion designers films and musicians including Duran Duran whose name is a play on that of the main villain. Set in outer space and shot on location in Rome. 8 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 150449N.p.: N.p. 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of director Sacha Guitry on the set of the 1955 film taken by photographer Edward Quinn. "Ed. Quinn" stamps on verso of both one with additional "Cinema Napoleon" stamp. Guitry's historical epic depicting the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena with Napoleon depicted by two actors Daniel Gelin as the young and Raymond Pellegrin as the old. Featuring notable cameos by Erich von Stroheim as Ludwig van Beethoven and Orson Welles as Napoleon's British jailor Sir Hudson Lowe. Shot on location throughout France. 7 x 9.75 inches. Light edgewear and light creasing at extremities else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 150526N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Elia Kazan and Ethel Barrymore on the set of the 1949 film. Based on the 1946 novel "Quality" by Cid Ricketts Sumner. When Pinky Johnson Jeanne Crain returns home to the South to visit her grandmother she confesses that she's been passing for a white woman while up North studying to be a nurse. She also confesses she is in love with Dr. Thomas Adams William Lundigan a white man unaware she is black. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actress and two Best Supporting Actress nominations. 10 x 8 inches. Very light rippling on right edge else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 150485N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film four showing actors Dani Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Leaud and one showing director François Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title "Nuit Americain" on the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. A couple lightly edgeworn else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 150475Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of director Stuart Rosenberg and actor Paul Newman on the set of the 1967 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce who co-wrote the screenplay about a convict who wins a bet to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour and later suffers a failure of communication with the warden. Winner of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for George Kennedy and nominated for three others including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Newman. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a light horizontal crease affecting the lower portion of the image. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown books
1962ref. 150468N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film showing actress Mylene Demongeot playfully sunbathing in a bikini. With a stamp noting the film's title on the verso along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping. A light Italian comedy set and shot on location in Brazil following three loosely intersecting stories of pleasure adventure and love during Carnival. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with faint soil on the recto. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 150462N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Macel Carne and Jacques Brel on the set of the 1971 film by photographer Raymond Voinquel. Based on the 1956 French novel "Les Assasins de l'Ordre" by Jean Laborde. A judge in a small provincial town investigates the death of a man who died after an interrogation while in police custody. 9.5 x 7 inches. Small single faint crease in bottom left corner else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
