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1970ref. 139424Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Original one sheet US poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Distributor rubber stamp on the verso. Director Funt notable for his "Candid" series of adult films explores further the human psyche when confronted with nudity in unusual candid situations. Richard "Shaft" Roundtree plays one-half of an interracial couple in his film debut. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus fold stress small central chips and a few short tears. United Artists unknown books
1957ref. 146655Los Angeles: The Associates and Aldrich Company 1957. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Texas lawman Chris Hamish William Conrad who feels himself as a failure is sent into Mexico to retrieve the confident and charismatic Bob Kallen Anthony Quinn to stand trial for murder. Finding and arresting Kallen proves easy enough but the journey back proves perilous as they traverse a seemingly endless desert and are stalked by marauding Apaches forcing lawman and outlaw to rely upon each other for survival. Set in Texas and Mexico shot on location in California and Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus seven with small closed tear on right side one with significant open tear on right. Pitts 3421. The Associates and Aldrich Company 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
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
1985ref. 147632Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1985. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1985 film. A delightfully crafted depression-era fantasy in which an unhappy wife indulges her knack for escapism through persistently visiting the cinema. Eventually a handsome character in one of the films she frequents breaks the fourth wall and what ensues is an unusual and fantastical romantic comedy. Shirking his usual self-deprecating style Woody Allen describes the 1985 film as one of only a few in which the results closely match his original intentions. Set in New Jersey shot on location. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown books
1995ref. 164081N.p.: My Heart Inc 1995. Draft script for the 1996 film copy with the manuscript marker annotation of copy number 73 on the title page. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Loosely inspired by the career of Carole King. Illeana Douglas stars as Edna Buxton an aspiring singer/songwriter from Philadelphia who hopes to make it in the music industry in the early 1960s. After changing her name to Denis Waverly and moving to New York she finds success as a songwriter in the Brill Building music scene. Featuring music written in the styles of the era by Burt Bacharach Elvis Costello Joni Mitchell Gerry Goffin and Jill Sobule. 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. Set in and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 15 1995 with credits for screenwriter Allison Anders. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. My Heart, Inc unknown
1995ref. 164081N.p.: My Heart Inc 1995. Draft script for the 1996 film copy with the manuscript marker annotation of copy number 73 on the title page. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Loosely inspired by the career of Carole King. Illeana Douglas stars as Edna Buxton an aspiring singer/songwriter from Philadelphia who hopes to make it in the music industry in the early 1960s. After changing her name to Denis Waverly and moving to New York she finds success as a songwriter in the Brill Building music scene. Featuring music written in the styles of the era by Burt Bacharach Elvis Costello Joni Mitchell Gerry Goffin and Jill Sobule. 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. Set in and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 15 1995 with credits for screenwriter Allison Anders. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. My Heart, Inc unknown books
1964ref. 142333Buckinghamshire: British Lion Film Corporation 1964. Draft script for the 1964 film. Based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Douglas Hayes. A middle-aged stage actor moves from a conservative life in the provinces to the very center of Swinging London and tries to revitalize his career by performing in commercials. Set in London shot on location there. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Peter Yeldham and author Douglas Hayes. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. British Lion Film Corporation unknown
1964ref. 142333Buckinghamshire: British Lion Film Corporation 1964. Draft script for the 1964 film. Based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Douglas Hayes. A middle-aged stage actor moves from a conservative life in the provinces to the very center of Swinging London and tries to revitalize his career by performing in commercials. Set in London shot on location there. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Peter Yeldham and author Douglas Hayes. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. British Lion Film Corporation unknown books
1963ref. 161833N.p.: United Producers 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1959 British/German film. Also known by the alternative titles "The Treasure of San Teresa" "Long Distance" and "Rhapsody in Blue." An former US spy returns to Europe after World War II in search of a cache of jewels hidden in Czechoslovakian convent. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a chip in the margin at the bottom left corner. United Producers unknown books
1970ref. 149260N.p.: Cinerama Releasing Corporation 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1971 film. A May-December romance wherein Jean Simmons stars as a suburban British housewife who meets the young and brash Leonard Whiting on a commuter train and together enjoy an all-too-brief day-long affair in London. Set in and shot on location in London. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very small chip to right border else Near Fine. Cinerama Releasing Corporation unknown books
1989ref. 159717San Francisco: Roxie Cinema 1989. Vintage poster for the theatrical premiere of the 1989 film at the Roxie Cinema Friday February 23 through Thursday March 1 1989. Manhattan newlyweds portrayed by Christopher Rich and Amanda Plummer set out of New York for Hoboken commencing a series of mishaps and misadventures. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with tape shadows along the vertical margins. Roxie Cinema unknown books
1997ref. 161775N.p.: N.p. 1997. Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 12 of the long-running 1997-2007 television series seen here under the working title "Funeral for a Friend." Originally aired on October 17 1997 on Showtime. Loosely based on the 1994 science fiction film about the discovery of an ancient alien device that holds unusual powers of space travel and communication. In this episode the Stargate team race to save Dr. Jackson after he is captured by the last survivor of an aquatic species. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 21 1997 noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 3965 with credit for screenwriter Katharyn Powers. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1997ref. 161775N.p.: N.p. 1997. Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 12 of the long-running 1997-2007 television series seen here under the working title "Funeral for a Friend." Originally aired on October 17 1997 on Showtime. Loosely based on the 1994 science fiction film about the discovery of an ancient alien device that holds unusual powers of space travel and communication. In this episode the Stargate team race to save Dr. Jackson after he is captured by the last survivor of an aquatic species. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 21 1997 noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 3965 with credit for screenwriter Katharyn Powers. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 142890N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative manuscript black ink presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards corresponding with the script that follows all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of Bierce's short story the first one titled "The Bridge" was made by Charles Vidor in 1929 virtually unknown preceding both the well known 1959 version filmed for the fifth season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" and the French version made in 1962 by Robert Enrico. According to the 1956-57 Film Review of Student Productions presented by Department of Cinema and Delta Kappa Alpha at the University of Southern California USC the film was part of the Productions of the Graduate Workshop in the fall of 1956. Laid in is an invitation to premiere screening held at CineManor where USC's California National Honorary Cinema Fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha hosted screenings and social events. Douglas W. Gallez served as President of the Alpha USC Chapter at the time. Not in IMDB. Presumably shot in Southern California. Set in Civil War era Alabama. Pale untitled wrapper with credits for screenwriter. Title page present with credits for story writer Ambrose Bierce and screenwriter Douglas W. Gallez. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 22. Mimeograph both storyboards and script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 142890N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative manuscript black ink presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards corresponding with the script that follows all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of Bierce's short story the first one titled "The Bridge" was made by Charles Vidor in 1929 virtually unknown preceding both the well known 1959 version filmed for the fifth season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" and the French version made in 1962 by Robert Enrico. According to the 1956-57 Film Review of Student Productions presented by Department of Cinema and Delta Kappa Alpha at the University of Southern California USC the film was part of the Productions of the Graduate Workshop in the fall of 1956. Laid in is an invitation to premiere screening held at CineManor where USC's California National Honorary Cinema Fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha hosted screenings and social events. Douglas W. Gallez served as President of the Alpha USC Chapter at the time. Not in IMDB. Presumably shot in Southern California. Set in Civil War era Alabama. Pale untitled wrapper with credits for screenwriter. Title page present with credits for story writer Ambrose Bierce and screenwriter Douglas W. Gallez. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 22. Mimeograph both storyboards and script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown books
1961ref. 132659London: Gala Film Distributors 1961. Seven vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release as "Femme Fatale" of the 1957 Spanish-Italian film "La puerta abierta." Distributor UK rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on a Hungarian play about the murder of an actress and the young female eyewitness who can keep a secret. Marta Toren's final film credit the actress once touted as "the next Ingrid Bergman." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with toning a few short creases and 1 still with pinholes. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1967ref. 157986N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. One with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A bold film adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by Amiri Baraka writing here as he often did in the 1960s as Leroi Jones. An erratic white woman meets an African American man on a subway car. When he begins to respond to her erotic advances she begins to taunt him viciously goading him until he explodes into violence. Anthony Anthony Harvey's important and still impactful first directorial effort followed by many successful films including "The Lion in Winter" 1968 "They Might Be Giants" 1971 and "The Glass Menagerie" 1973. Set in New York with subway exteriors shot in Manhattan and interiors shot in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 147087Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677 dated June 7 1956. Title page present dated June 7 1956 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate bound with two gold brads. Twilight Time 203. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1956ref. 132186London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Seven vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. Based on Marcelle Maurette's stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. 8 x 10 inches. Tiny faint creases overalland light soil to one still else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1961ref. 138761Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage borderless black-and-white still photograph from the French release of the 1961 film. Featuring Ingrid Bergman holding up Anthony Perkins as he seems to be falling backwards outside of a large doorway. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller with their sticker to the verso. Also on the verso is the rubber stamp of Maurice Bessy from whose archives the photo originally came alongside another small rubber stamp and light manuscript annotations in ink. Based on the 1959 novel "Aimez-vous Brahms" by Francoise Sagan. Ingrid Bergman is the mistress of a philandering business executive who refuses to change his ways until Bergman begins seeing the son of one of his wealthy clients played by Anthony Perkins. Fresh from his role as Norman Bates in Hitchcock's "Psycho" Perkins shines as a charming aimless bachelor in what would be one of the few non-typecast characters of his career. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes where Anthony Perkins also won Best Actor. 6.75 x 9 inches. United Artists unknown
1954ref. 148790Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Vintage three-sheet poster for the 1953 film. Based on the 1949 novel "The Girl on the Via Flaminia" by Alfred Hayes. Visiting Villefrance in the early 1950s Robert Teller Kirk Douglas reminisces on his time in the US Army in Paris nearing the end of WWII and his romance with the beautiful French peasant girl Lise Dany Robin. Set in and shot on location in Paris and the French Riviera France. 40.75 x 78 inches. Two panels folded as issued. Very Good with large closed tear to mid-right splitting to some folds several small closed tears at the extremities and light soiling. Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. United Artists unknown books
1956ref. 147087Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677 dated June 7 1956. Title page present dated June 7 1956 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate bound with two gold brads. Twilight Time 203. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
