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1982ref. 168021Universal City: Universal City Studios 1982. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1982 film showing Janice Rule. Based on the 1978 book "The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice" about a father searching for his missing son in the aftermath of the Chilean military coup of 1973. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set in Chile and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Universal City Studios unknown books
ref. 13989In 12 broché, couverture illustrée (illustration contrecollée sur le premier plat- titre en bleu) 120x185mm Faux –titre, frontispice, titre, 192 pages, 111 illustrations dans le texte et hors texte (sur papier couché). Hachette 1921. Bon exemplaire
1974ref. 162345Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1974 film showing actor Count Basie on the set with Cleavon Little and Mel Brooks respectively. Two with stamps and labels of an Amsterdam photograph agency on the versos. Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire on the racism and misogyny inherent in Hollywood's depiction of the American West among many other targets. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in the fictional frontier town of Rock Ridge shot on location in California. 9.5 x 7 inches. Two Near Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and discoloration at one corner. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown
1974ref. 162345Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1974 film showing actor Count Basie on the set with Cleavon Little and Mel Brooks respectively. Two with stamps and labels of an Amsterdam photograph agency on the versos. Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire on the racism and misogyny inherent in Hollywood's depiction of the American West among many other targets. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in the fictional frontier town of Rock Ridge shot on location in California. 9.5 x 7 inches. Two Near Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and discoloration at one corner. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown books
1950ref. 160943Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film noir. Richard Basehart has just been paroled from prison after fifteen years and is determined not to fall on the wrong side of the law again when he learns the sanitarium he works at is a front for a robbery syndicate and the nurse he longs for Marilyn Maxwell is a gold-digger. Set in Philadelphia and shot on location in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1959ref. 167567Glendale CA: Allied Artists / Liberty Pictures 1959. Vintage publicity portrait photograph from the 1959 film showing actress Darla Hood. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood in turn based on Rinehart's 1908 novel "The Circular Staircase." A mystery author rents a summer house in a town being terrorized by a mysterious crazed killer known as "The Bat." The fourth film adaptation of Rinehart's story. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists / Liberty Pictures unknown
1949ref. 159576Universal City: Universal Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film noir showing actor John Russell. A woman exacts revenge on the gangster who killed her husband landing herself in a women's prison. Afterwards she vows to change her ways but finds herself gradually drawn back into her life of crime. Set in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with one small bruise near the left edge of the recto and some emulsion defects. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1949ref. 159576Universal City: Universal Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film noir showing actor John Russell. A woman exacts revenge on the gangster who killed her husband landing herself in a women's prison. Afterwards she vows to change her ways but finds herself gradually drawn back into her life of crime. Set in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with one small bruise near the left edge of the recto and some emulsion defects. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 167567Glendale CA: Allied Artists / Liberty Pictures 1959. Vintage publicity portrait photograph from the 1959 film showing actress Darla Hood. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood in turn based on Rinehart's 1908 novel "The Circular Staircase." A mystery author rents a summer house in a town being terrorized by a mysterious crazed killer known as "The Bat." The fourth film adaptation of Rinehart's story. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists / Liberty Pictures unknown books
1950ref. 160943Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film noir. Richard Basehart has just been paroled from prison after fifteen years and is determined not to fall on the wrong side of the law again when he learns the sanitarium he works at is a front for a robbery syndicate and the nurse he longs for Marilyn Maxwell is a gold-digger. Set in Philadelphia and shot on location in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1945ref. 129936Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Carbon typescript studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10 1943. Printed as a studio script in small numbers for internal distribution. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester noted as copy No. 3 on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester. 22 leaves carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown
1945ref. 129935Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Original studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10 1943. Printed as a mimeograph studio script in small numbers for internal distribution. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester noted as Copy No. 1. Title page present with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester. 22 leaves original typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown
1953ref. 161519Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. With censorship stamp on the verso. Based on the 1929 novel "Brown on Resolution" by C.S. Forester. During World War I a British ship is sunk by the Germans leaving only two survivors. The two men do everything they can to delay the Germans from repairing their ship so the Royal Navy can locate them. Shot on location in Malta. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and a chip missing at the top left corner. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1945ref. 129936Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Carbon typescript studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10 1943. Printed as a studio script in small numbers for internal distribution. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester noted as copy No. 3 on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester. 22 leaves carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown books
1945ref. 129935Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1945. Original studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10 1943. Printed as a mimeograph studio script in small numbers for internal distribution. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester noted as Copy No. 1. Title page present with credits for screenwriter C.S. Forester. 22 leaves original typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown books
1979ref. 158859N.p.: Backstage Productions 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of Curt Jurgens from the 1979 film. Based on the 1977 novel by Peter Lear. A neo-Nazi scientist tests his technology to create a physically 'superior' human on his young daughter. He enters her in a few races at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and makes money off her likeness. Set in Moscow shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Backstage Productions unknown books
1986ref. 143499N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid" discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" 1941 "I Walked with a Zombie" 1943 and "Donovan's Brain" 1953 and many other science fiction and horror classic. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined modern scientific findings with fictional pseudo-scientific themes. Set largely at the Paris World Exhibition of 1867 centered on the life of soprano singer Hortense Schneider and famed composer Jacques Offenbach largely describing Schneider's wide-ranging effect on European history based on her affairs with various heads of state. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Curt Siodmak. Title page present with credits for novelist and screenwriter Curt Siodmak. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong bound. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 143499N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid" discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" 1941 "I Walked with a Zombie" 1943 and "Donovan's Brain" 1953 and many other science fiction and horror classic. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined modern scientific findings with fictional pseudo-scientific themes. Set largely at the Paris World Exhibition of 1867 centered on the life of soprano singer Hortense Schneider and famed composer Jacques Offenbach largely describing Schneider's wide-ranging effect on European history based on her affairs with various heads of state. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Curt Siodmak. Title page present with credits for novelist and screenwriter Curt Siodmak. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong bound. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 144867Culver City CA: The Beckworth Corporation 1953. Vintage photograph of script supervisor Frances McDowell actor Aldo Ray and director Curtis Bernhardt on the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe and studio stamps on the verso. Sadie Thompson Rita Hayworth is stranded on a military outpost in American Samoa where the Marines take an interest in her particularly the self righteous and proselytizing Mr. Davidson Jose Ferrer who tries to save Miss Thompson's soul after learning she worked as a bar girl in Hawaii. The film was shot as a 3-D production though by the time of the film's release the frenzy around 3D films had died down and after a two week run the technology was dropped and the film was screened "flat." The story had to be reworked to meet Hays Code standards in its handling of scandalous themes this reworking gave way to the films musical numbers brought in to revive the now tamed down story. The film's "Sadie Thompson's Song Blue Pacific Blues" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Shot on location in Kaua'i Hawaii. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. The Beckworth Corporation unknown books
1997ref. 151528Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1997. Vintage press kit for the 1997 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing three black and white photographs and three gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel the third in his L.A. Quartet series. Three detectives are tasked with investigating a serious of grisly murders in 1950s Los Angeles which they learn are linked to a notorious gang leader high-class escorts and widespread corruption within the police force. A formidable nod to film noir. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning two for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
1972ref. 162267N.p.: New World Pictures 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Tab Hunter stars as Eddie Collins a frustrated impotent man who finds after accidentally killing a women that he can get aroused by women when they are dead. Written and directed by Curtis Hanson who would later receive an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the 1997 neo-noir "L.A. Confidential" with Brian Helgeland. Shot on location in Venice California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. New World Pictures unknown
1997ref. 138625Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp Douglas teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh struggles writing his second novel and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university McDormand. Grady's editor Downey Jr. inquires about the novel but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students Maguire as well as having other more intimate intentions. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song "Things Have Changed" and the film was nominated for two more. Blue wrappers noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 1997 with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1997ref. 138625Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp Douglas teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh struggles writing his second novel and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university McDormand. Grady's editor Downey Jr. inquires about the novel but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students Maguire as well as having other more intimate intentions. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song "Things Have Changed" and the film was nominated for two more. Blue wrappers noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 1997 with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1997ref. 151528Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1997. Vintage press kit for the 1997 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing three black and white photographs and three gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel the third in his L.A. Quartet series. Three detectives are tasked with investigating a serious of grisly murders in 1950s Los Angeles which they learn are linked to a notorious gang leader high-class escorts and widespread corruption within the police force. A formidable nod to film noir. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning two for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1972ref. 162267N.p.: New World Pictures 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Tab Hunter stars as Eddie Collins a frustrated impotent man who finds after accidentally killing a women that he can get aroused by women when they are dead. Written and directed by Curtis Hanson who would later receive an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the 1997 neo-noir "L.A. Confidential" with Brian Helgeland. Shot on location in Venice California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. New World Pictures unknown books
