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1950ref. 168509N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage eleven-page ribbon copy typescript short story circa 1940s-1950s subsequently serving as the basis for the 1972 adult film. Rare. An iteration of an explicit short story penned by an anonymous author sometime before or during World War II circulated underground in retyped typescript or carbon typescript copies during the 1940s and after. "Behind the Green Door" is notable as one of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. Eleven leaves last page of text not numbered. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Good or better bound with two staples on the top edges. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 152306N.p.: Indigo 1984. Revised Second Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to virtually every page noting scenes requiring stunts and special effects. Incomplete as issued. A young African American man tries to make it big in Hollywood and finally secures a job as a studio runner leading to a number of comic misunderstandings. African-American screenwriter Ralph Farquhar began his career in 1981 with a script for "Happy Days" and went on to write 43 episodes for the the very white "Married with Children" but also for many African-American television series and TV movies including "Fame" "Krush Groove" "Livin' Large" "New Attitude" "The Sinbad Show" "South Central" "Moesha" "The Parkers" and "The Proud Family." Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 5 1984 noted as REVISED 2ND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Ralph R. Farquhar. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly soiled and edgeworn bound with two gold brads. Indigo unknown
1987ref. 162929N.p.: N.p. 1987. Draft script for an unproduced television episode from the 1987-1988 television series. This one season television series follows a controversial sportswriter constantly on the brink of being fired from the newspaper he works for. In this episode the titular character must get a physical done and is scared when they find something out of the ordinary. Set in the American Southwest. White untitled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper with adhesive label for the Rosen/Turtle Group Inc. talent agency at bottom right corner of front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Steve Cuden. Title page integral with front wrapper. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 147202N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Missing page 45 likely as used or issued. Based on noted African American author John Oliver Killens' 1962 novel "And Then We Heard the Thunder" about the experiences of a group of African American draftees in a segregated unit during World War II in the South Pacific. Set in the South Pacific and South Brisbane. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1986 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT CASWELL and author JOHN OLIVER KILLENS. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a light tide mark to the top edge of the wrapper and leaves bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
2000ref. 163920N.p.: N.p. 2000. One Revised Draft script and two script revision memorandums for the 2001 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the 1998 play by Donald Margulies. A friend group of two married couples is shaken up after one of the couples decides to separate. Shot on location in New York City and Los Angeles and Malibu California. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Revised Draft: White titled self wrapper noted as Toronto Revision on the front wrapper dated 9/4/00 with credits for screenwriter and playwright Donald Margulies. Title page integral with front wrapper. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Memorandum 1: Lacking wrappers. With internal production document notifying cast and crew of revision pages dated November 1 2000. Title page present dated 11/1/00 with credits for screenwriter and playwright Donald Margulies. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only comprised solely of blue revision pages dated 10/31/00. Near Fine bound with a staple at the top left corner. Memorandum 2: lacking wrappers. With internal production document notifying the cast and crew of revision pages dated 11/9/00. Title page present dated 11/09/00 with credits for screenwriter and playwright Donald Margulies. 27 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only comprised solely of pink revision pages dated 11/09/00. Generally Near Fine production document Very Good plus bound with a staple at the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 168907Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1976. Second Revised Draft script for the 1976 television film which aired on NBC on May 20 1976 here under the working title "The Hancocks." Copy belonging to unknown crew member "John Linder" with the ink annotation of their name at the top of the front wrapper along with manuscript marker annotations on 22 pages. 21 pages with the Hancock family tree flow chart printed on the versos. Anne Archer stars as a frustrated suburban housewife who decides to divorce her husband causing her daughter Joanna Pettet to feel bitterly resentful toward her and her mother Kim Hunter to question her own beliefs about marriage. Green titled Warner Bros. Television wrappers. Title page present dated December 11 1975 noted as Second Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Barbara Turner. 198 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/22/75 and 2/9/76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers Television unknown
1922ref. 158284Beverly Hills CA: Warner Brothers 1922. Set of three vintage hand-tinted lobby cards for the 1922 film. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel. A young husband and wife spend money with aplomb anticipating a large payout once the man's grandfather dies. When the patriarch passes away and they discover they have been left nothing in his will. Considered today to be a lost film. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus some with pinholes to the corners lightly and evenly toned. Warner Brothers unknown
1968ref. 126256N.p.: N.p. 1968. Original poster for the 1968 Cuban film. Humberto Solás' operatic sprawling epic dramatizing Cuba's history through the eyes of three women named Lucía living through three momentous periods of the country's history; 1895 1932 and postrevolutionary 1960s. Winner of the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival 1969. 20 x 30 inches. Very Good plus with faint rubbing and light creasing. Bright and unfaded. Criterion Collection 1045. N.p. unknown
ref. 125645N.p.: Matrixbest Production Circa 190. Vintage pre-release promotional poster for the 1980 film featuring Sid Vicious from the film performing "My Way" noted on the bottom banner as "From the forthcoming film." Julien Temple's now-classic mockumentary about an unscrupulous manipulative music manager who takes advantage of a British punk rock band loosely based on the formation rise and fall of the Sex Pistols told from manager Malcolm McLaren's perspective. Set and shot on location in London. 17 x 25 inches. Light wear at the extremities overall Near Fine. Matrixbest Production unknown
1923ref. 126252N.p.: Universal Jewel 1923. Vintage hand-tinted half sheet poster for the 1923 film. Also released under the titles "His Good Name" and "Your Good Name." Based on the 1922 short story "His Good Name" by William Slavens McNutt. Years after returning home from prison and finding his mother dead and father evicted Bat Shugrue then known as "Gas-Pipe Kid" becomes a baseball star and refuses to throw a game for blackmailers threatening to reveal his past. 28 x 22 inches on card stock. Very Good plus with moderate edgewear including small closed tears creasing and chipping at the extremities. Must be shipped flat Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Universal Jewel unknown
1979ref. 127312Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1979. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1979 film. Alan Arkin stars as Sheldon an unassuming dentist from New Jersey who on the eve of his daughter's wedding meets the groom's father Vince played by Peter Falk a strange mysterious and volatile man who in the next 24 hours draws him into madcap misadventures from New York to Central America. Remade in 2003 directed by Andrew Flemming and starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks. Shot on location in Mexico New Jersey New York and California. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 823. Warner Brothers unknown
1981ref. 127394N.p.: Filmways 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1981 film. Based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow Up" with an audio recording replacing a photograph early 1980s Philadelphia replacing Swinging London and a tight political thriller plot replacing the looser and less immediate one in the original. Shot on location in Philadelphia. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light splashing to the top third. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 562. Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir. Filmways unknown
1981ref. 127476N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1981 film. Director screenwriter and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning three for Best Director Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing to the top right corner. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 127320Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1976. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1976 film One of the best thrillers of the 1970s built on a great story great characters and exceptional performances by Hoffman and Olivier. Hoffman plays a marathon runner in New York City who is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international diamond ring conspiracy run by former Nazi dentist Olivier. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Olivier. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1977ref. 127381Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1977. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1977 film. Based on the 1972 novel by Dan Jenkins about a love triangle between two football players and the team owner's daughter. Shot on location in Dallas and Mansfield Texas in Green Bay Wisconsin and in Miami Florida. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and a small closed tear to the bottom edge. United Artists unknown
1972ref. 127087N.p.: Fanfare Films 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 film. A Black cop tolerates his fellow white officers' disrespect and racism as well as disdain from his community for joining the force but is finally pushed over the edge after being passed over for a promotion. He goes on a violent personal crusade punctuated by psychedelic fever dreams including himself as a famous astronaut. Shot on location in Washington DC and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes to the corners dampstaining to the left side folds with two small accompanying chips and a closed tear to the center left margin. Fanfare Films unknown
1975ref. 127471Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A delightfully scathing script from Robert Towne and star Warren Beatty set during the days surrounding the 1968 presidential election featuring Beatty as a narcissistic womanizing hairdresser who attempts to raise money to open a salon only to be consistently sidetracked by his various romantic entanglements. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Lee Grant and nominated for three more including Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Jack Warden. Set in and shot on location in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches previously Folded as issued. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 947. Columbia Pictures unknown
1981ref. 127382Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the French-Canadian film. An aging smalltime mobster and his aspiring croupier neighbor become entangled with the big leagues of the mob when the neighbor's estranged husband shows up with a large cache of stolen cocaine. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Atlantic City New Jersey. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1973ref. 127868N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage Cuban poster for the Cuban release of the 1968 film designed by Eduardo Muñoz Bachs. Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase about a newlywed socialite who relentlessly pursues a physician for an affair. Shot on location during the Summer of Love in San Francisco with appearances by Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead that are not so much cameos as they are part of movie's atmosphere. Entered into competition at Cannes in 1968 before that year's festival was canceled. Eduardo Muñoz Bachs was a revered Cuban artist best known for his over 2000 movie poster designs. His work also encompassed comics children's book illustration and animation. Bachs is also noted for having designed the first poster for the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematograficos ICAIC founded shortly after the Cuban Revolution to produce and promote Cuban films. 20 x 30 inches. Very Good plus with faint rubbing and a spot of scratching to the upper mid center. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 120919Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1957 British film. Based on screenwriter Terence Rattigan's 1953 play "The Sleeping Prince" about the visiting prince of a small fictional Balkan nation who falls in love with an American showgirl while in London. A notoriously difficult production which forms the basis for two behind-the-scenes memoirs by Marilyn Monroe's personal assistant Colin Clark "The Prince the Showgirl and Me" 1996 and "My Week with Marilyn" 2000 the later sharing the title of the 2011 film based on the memoirs directed by Simon Curtis and starring Michelle Williams as Monroe. Set and shot in London. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with restoration at the folds. Archivally backed on linen and rolled. Warner Brothers unknown
1922ref. 126253Culver City CA: Selznick Pictures 1922. Vintage hand-tinted half sheet poster for the lost 1922 silent film. Conway Tearle starrs as Russell Carrington a man who accepts a murder charge to protect Rita the woman he loves played by Florence Billings and flees to a fishing village where he falls in love with the town belle Dorothy played by Winifred Westover. Shot on location in Fort Lee New Jersey. 26.25 x 20 inches margins slightly trimmed down from 28 x 22 inches see image. Very Good with moderate edgewear including loss to the top and bottom right corners several closed tears to the margins and one 2.25 inch closed tear to the top center. Selznick Pictures unknown
1967ref. 168996Paris: Magnum 1967. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jane Fonda from the 1968 film with a "David Hurn-magnum" photographer's stamp on the 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 in Rome. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Magnum unknown
1979ref. 168998Paris: Sygma 1979. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Richard Gere and Paul Schrader from the set of the 1980 film with Sygma stamps and printed French and English mimeo snipes on the verso. A slick Los Angeles prostitute enjoys a lavish lifestyle funded by a stable of rich older female clients. When one of his clients is found murdered his world begins to crumble. Paul Schrader's third film as director and screenwriter and one of four films Schrader refers to as his "double bookends" "Taxi Driver" 1976 bookended by "Light Sleeper" 1992 and "American Gigolo" bookended by "The Walker" 2007. Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. 8 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Sygma unknown
1969ref. 168995Paris: Apis-Paris 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Romy Schneider on the set of the 1969 film. Photograph with French "APIS" stamps on the verso. A searing erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur where a couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Written by the noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Apis-Paris unknown
ref. 169006N.p.: N.p. 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 neo-noir film here under the working title "Riders on the Storm" written by screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff." Laid in are two gatherings of revision pages 31 pink pages dated 7/2/90 and 25 green revision pages dated July 10 1990 both also noted as written by screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff." Script and revision pages noted on the title pages as "Eyes Only - Not For Duplication." The breakthrough film for Kathryn Bigelow and today a cult classic certified neo-noir and keystone surfing film. Bigelow went on to become the first female director win an Academy Award with "The Hurt Locker" in 2008. Set primarily in Southern California shot on location throughout California in Malibu Redondo Beach Dockweiler Beach Ecola State Park Los Angeles Manhattan Beach Pacific Palisades Santa Monica Culver City and Venice Pier as well as Hawaii Oahu Lake Powell Utah and Wheeler Oregon. Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerograhic duplication on blue leaves rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the title page partially detached bound with two gold brads. Pink Revision Pages: Front wrapper integral with title page dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 and 7/2/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. Xerographic duplication on pink leaves rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single gold brad. Green Revision Pages: Front wraper integral with memo dated July 10 1990. Title page present dated 6/6/90 with 7/1/90 7/2/90 and 7/10/90 revisions noted as ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow "from the screenplay by W. Peter Iliff" with story credits for Rick King and W. Peter Iliff. Xerographic duplication on green leaves rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a rust stain from a previous paper clip to the top left unbound. Carlson Destroy All Movies. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
