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1934ref. 137471Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1934. Vintage sepia reference photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Shown are director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich in full regalia visiting with noted Mexican toreador Pepe Ortiz and a member of the Mexican Counsul in Los Angeles. Typescript snipe on the verso indicating same along with an ink notation of the photo date 9/15/34 and a contemporary illustrated label for "Photofest." 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 109. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1953ref. 137487Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1953. Revised final script for the 1953 film "The Great Sioux Uprising" seen here as "Sioux Uprising." Though very loosely based on true events surrounding the two-year Red Cloud's War during which a Cheyenne Native American chief repeatedly attacked US forces in an effort to stem the flow of White settlers this film centers around a white man who attempts to help a Sioux tribe retrieve a large number of stolen horses white attempting to convince them to join up with the Union soldiers instead of the Confederates. Shot on location in Oregon with a cast partly comprised of local Native Americans. Tan titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated September 3 1952. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Levy and Gill. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Multilith duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated 9/22/52 and 9/15/52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 137536London: Gala Films 1966. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1965 Spanish film "Cabriola" released in the US as "Every Day Is a Holiday." Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos noting cast synopsis and production company. Pictured is Marisol in action and smiley on horseback Releasing during a time when female bullfighters were widely publicized in national periodicals this film tells the story of Chica Marisol a young Spanish girl who rises to fame as a bullfighter on horseback disguised as a boy. Set in Spain shot on there location. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Hirschhorn p. 145. Gala Films unknown books
1949ref. 137478Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1949. Final shooting script for the 1950 film. Copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed who here plays the role of the villain with his name in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A ruthless man attempts to rekindle a settled feud between two rancher families in order to take both their lands when they kill each other off. Luckily the town has a good sheriff and a standup rancher gal to help save the day. An odd short musical western with a good crop of the genre's favorite themes bar brawls ambushes sharpshooters to help round out the plot. Red titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper production No. A7 dated November 2 1949. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph O'Donnell. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fair wrapper Fair bound with three gold brads. Foxing and dampstaining to much of the wrappers and extremities. Universal Pictures unknown books
1946ref. 137483Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1946. Draft script for the 1946 film. Working copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. The final film in the Nevada McKenzie series in which US Marshal Jack "Nevada" McKenzie is asked to help investigate the death of a man who supposedly drowned in a haunted mine near a ghost town called Buckeye. Their investigation leads them deep into the secrets of the local community including corruption mental illness and murder on a grander scale than they first imagined. Gray titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Frank Young. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Young. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Mimeograph duplication. Light insect damage to the extremities of both pages and wrapper with light dampstaining as well. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 137209Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1969. Collection of 217 individually numbered contact sheets amounting to 2650 images from the 1969 film. Housed in two original three-ring binders from the film's publicity department. The occasional frame is circled or crossed through in red marker. A robust collection that documents nearly every facet of the film's production including numerous candid images of the cast and crew at work. Woody Allen's first film as a director one of the great American comedies the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. A massive archive documenting the birth of an utterly new and unique voice in cinema one that would become something even bigger in 1979. Set and shot in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. Sheets 8 x 10 inches most in three-hole mylar sleeves some with holes punched directly in left margin others laid in. Very Good overall few frames excised general modest edgewear. Binders with signs of use as expected one spine label missing other partially lacking but with titles intact. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1950ref. 137544Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1950. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the 1950 film. Pictured are Richard Erdman Ray Teal and Marlon Brando left to right. Ken Brando is a paralyzed WWII vet trying to adjust to living without the use of his limbs. Nominated for an Academy Award and one of the earliest portrayals of post-WWII vets assimilating back into society emphasizing PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few bruises to the verso and recto. United Artists unknown books
1971ref. 137443Burbank CA: Cinema Center Films 1971. Revised Final Draft script for the 1972 film. Based on a story by Steven W. Carabatsos. A key Western vigilante film John Benedict Holden leads a peaceful life on his ranch until a gang of Comanche Indians led by a white man murders his family and trashes his home. He assembles his own posse of ruthless outlaws guns-for-hire to help him enact sweet revenge on the murderers. Shot on location in Mexico. Red titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper and production No. 5008 dated January 5 1971 with a credit for screenwriter Mayes. Title page present dated January 5 1971 noted as FINAL DRAFT with a credit for screenwriter Mayes. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication with blue light blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/18/71 and 3/16/71. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Hardy p. 341. Pitts 3402. Cinema Center Films unknown books
1964ref. 137549N.p.: N.p. 1964. Draft script for an unproduced fictional film set on a kibbutz in Israel by documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline. Accompanying the script is a typed letter signed by Kline dated "May II 1964" discussing casting of the film plans for script rewrites including the removal of some "overt political statements" that aided in getting Israeli financing and his hope that the success of this film would "lead to a series of modest budget" films shot in Israel. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Kline. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper lightly soiled else Near Fine bound with tape. Letter: 8.5 x 11 inches recto only folded horizontally. Very Good with a jagged tear to one edge and some light creasing. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 137527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film adapted from the collaborative novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford in 1909 but not published until after Conrad's death in 1924. The third of three collaborations by the two novelists. Black stiff generic report wrappers with a red-and-white title label on the front wrapper crediting screenwriter Lowe and novelists Conrad and Ford. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lowe and novelists Conrad and Ford. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Photocopied. Toning to the title page else pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 137528Los Angeles: Jay Weston Productions 1970. Revised Draft script for an unproduced action film about a American soldier trying to free his son from a military prison in a fictional South American county in the throes of revolution. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Gordon. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Jay Weston Productions unknown books
1972ref. 135916Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film based on the 1963 "Parker" novel by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. One of the great neo-noir crime films of the early 1970s today a classic New Hollywood with understated performances from Duvall Black and Baker as well as a who's-who of character actors playing out a violent story that takes place mostly in a beautifully ordinary rural setting. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 117 dated December 18 1972 with credits for producer De Haven and director/screenwriter Flynn. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Silver Classic US Noir. Spicer US. Stephens US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1984ref. 137587Hollywood: The Ladd Company 1984. Original press kit for the 1984 Italian-American film. Included in the press kit are 24 black-and-white still photographs including one photograph of director Sergio Leone biographies of select cast and crew final credits production information and insight into Leone's process. Based on Harry Grey's 1952 novel "The Hoods." David Aaronson De Niro is a former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster who after thirty years of absence returns to Manhattan where he confronts the foibles of his past and the painful truth of his life to date. Actress Jennifer Connelly's film debut and director Leone's final film a film that like his similarly titled 1968 classic "One Upon a Time in the West" remains one of his few American productions. Film stills various sizes. Biographies credits and production information printed on 8 x 10 leaves corner-stapled rectos only. Stills and printed leaves Near Fine house in a Very Good plus full-color 9 x 12 studio single-pocket folder. The Ladd Company unknown books
1956ref. 135183Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1956. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1956 US film. Margaret O'Brien plays the owner of a dud racing filly. 8 x 10 inches. Horizontal crease else Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 130703Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1968. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 television movie. A marshal returns home to find his town has been nearly wiped out by Mexican bandits and with the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother seeks to hunt them down. Set in New Mexico territory shot on location in Utah. Rust colored titled wrappers noted as Third Revised Final Draft on the front wrapperdated September 24 1968 with credit for screenwriter Savage. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with blue white yellow pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-30-68 and 10-24-68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reyes 131. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown books
1944ref. 130722Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1944. Shooting Script for the 1944 film. A thriller completely dominated by the formidable Stephanie Bachelor. The statuesque sophisticated Republic leading lady is cast as Muriel the scheming widow of the fabulously wealthy Hartford Chaney 3rd. Muriel's husband has disappearance under mysterious circumstances freeing her to marry her playboy paramour Frederick St. Clair George Meeker. Hal Erickson AllMovie Goldenrod titled wrappers with the original title written in manuscript ink and changed in manuscript pencil noted as Shooting Script on the front wrapper as production No. 1258 dated April 4 1944. 77 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Republic Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 137576Paris: Cite Films 1975. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph for the 1975 film as known as "Scar Tissue." With the label of the Paul Kohner agency on the verso. Maria Schneider stars as a young woman who must protect the son of her ex-lover when they are kidnapped while she is babysitting him. The final directorial effort of René Clément's long illustrious career. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Cite Films unknown books
1965ref. 137570Bulgaria: Boyana Films 1965. Three vintage reference photographs of actor Guy Madison from the 1965 Bulgarian film with dialogue in German based on the 1892 story by Karl May "Das Vermachtnis des Inka" originally published in the German magazine "Der Gute Kamerad." Following the cancellation of "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" in 1957 Guy Madison moved to Europe where he found a second career in Italian Euro Westerns and sword and sandal pictures. Set in Peru and shot on location there as well as Spain and Bulgaria. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Boyana Films unknown books
1973ref. 137578Vienna: Lisa-Film 1973. Collection of 12 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs for the 1973 German film based on the controversial 1897 play "Reigen" "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler Adapted three time previously; by Max Ophuls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964 both as "La Ronde" and by Richard Lerner and Paul Glickler in 1971 as "Hot Circuit" as well as several time subsequently. Schnitzler's play which satirizes the sexual and class morals of its era was not produced on stage until 1920 although published versions in various languages were available as early as 1900. With its frank sexual nature and depictions of relationships that crossed class and cultural lines the play was immediately condemned as pornography and withdrawn from the German stage although it remained popular elsewhere. The play consists of a series of vignettes each featuring a pair of lovers with each character appearing in two consecutive scenes with one character in the first scene appearing in the last. The photographs in this collection are from four scenes each featuring either Sydne Rome or Maria Schneider as follows: One photograph of Hans Bremmer and Rome as "The Soldier and the Parlor Maid." Four photographs of Rome and Helmut Berger as "The Parlor Maid and the Young Gentleman." Five photographs of Peter Weck and Schneider as "The Husband and the Little Miss." Two photographs of Schneider and Michael Heltau as "The Little Miss and the Poet." 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine. Lisa-Film unknown books
1965ref. 137571Bulgaria: Boyana Films 1965. Vintage reference photograph of actor Guy Madison from the 1965 Bulgarian film with dialogue in German based on the 1892 story by Karl May "Das Vermachtnis des Inka" originally published in the German magazine "Der Gute Kamerad." Following the cancellation of "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hitchcock" in 1957 Guy Madison moved to Europe where he found a second career in Euro Westerns and sword and sandal pictures. Set in Peru and shot on location there as well as Spain and Bulgaria. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Boyana Films unknown books
1976ref. 137880N.p.: ITC Entertainment 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow with a star-studded cast including Richard Harris Martin Sheen and producer Carlo Ponti's wife Sophia Loren. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for director Cosmatos and screenwriter Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with a green Vello binding. ITC Entertainment unknown books
1966ref. 137871Paris: Parc Film 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in manuscript marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife mute from a car accident move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality fact and fiction begin to blend together as he transforms the villagers into characters in his story. In his 1969 review Roger Ebert called The Creatures "a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels but in fact it operates on only one illustrating how fantasy reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer." Three photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light scratches. Remaining photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches. A few photographs lightly worn else Near Fine overall. Parc Film unknown books
1966ref. 137413Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Revised Estimating script for the 1967 film. Winner of three Academy Awards. Based on the 1960 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe winner of four Tony awards and itself based on "The Once and Future King" T.H. White's 1958 adaptation of Arthurian legends. Set in England shot on location in Spain. Tan titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 14 dated June 1 1966. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/1/66 with credits for screenwriter-lyricist Lerner composer Frederick Loewe and novelist White. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph on white yellow pink and blue stock dated variously between 6/1/66 and 6/7/66. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1949ref. 137414Hollywood: Monogram Pictures 1949. Revised Draft script for the 1949 film. "Brand of Fear" here under the working title "Range Rogues." Copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed who played "Cal Derringer" in the film with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and annotations throughout in manuscript ink and pencil. One of Wakely's final films at Monogram Pictures where he became a popular musical Western actor under his own name beginning with "Springtime in Texas" 1945 and ending with "Lawless Code" 1949. This time Wakely and his partner Cannonball Taylor escort a school teacher Davis to Oreville where she is accosted by two outlaws. The local marshal London wrangles with one of the outlaws who informs his cohort that the marshal is actually wanted by the law himself and they attempt to blackmail him. Wakely and Cannonball show up to help the marshal who in reality is the school teacher's father and nab the outlaws. Wakely eventually had his own comic book series published by DC Comics 1949-1952 and he was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Western Music Association Hall of Fame. Shot on location at Melody Ranch and Walker Ranch in Newhall California. Blue titled wrappers with a credit for Wakely. Distribution page present with receipt removed rubber-stamped copy No. 221 with credits for Wakely and screenwriter Dickey noted as production No. 4905. Title page integral with distribution. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 20 twentieth page of a shooting schedule. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Hardy p. 390. Pitts 492. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1936ref. 130393N.p.: N.p. 1936. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A newsboy meets a professional dancer and the pair become highly respected in the couples dance circuit in New York City before the newsboy's boss desires the dancer for himself and sends the newsboy to cover the dance circuit nationwide in order to get him out of the picture. Untitled manila wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of the script dated April 22 1936 with credits for screenwriter Rivkin. 12 leaves mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stiched. N.p. unknown books
