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1947ref. 151728Los Angeles: Selznick International 1947. Trailer #3 Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Niven Busch. A recently orphaned girl is sent to live with her father's cousin. When both of sons take a liking to her she must make a decision amid their growing conflict. Set in Texas shot on location in California and Arizona. Gray titled wrappers noted as Trailer #3 Dialogue Cutting Continuity on the front wrapper dated May 29 1947. 4 leaves with last page of text numbered 4. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples along the top edge. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorcese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward US. Selznick International unknown books
1947ref. 151729Los Angeles: Selznick International 1947. Censorship Cuts script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Niven Busch. A recently orphaned girl is sent to live with her father's cousin. When both of sons take a liking to her she must make a decision amid their growing conflict. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. Gray titled wrappers noted as Censorship Cuts on the front wrapper. Title page integral with first page dated July 31 1947 noted as Censorship Cuts. 4 leaves with last page of text numbered 4. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorcese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward US. Selznick International unknown books
1947ref. 143180Los Angeles: Selznick International 1947. Post-production Footage Schedule script for the 1946 film complete as issued by Selznick Studios. Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel of the same name. Lavish "epic" Western from Selznick who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" 1939 and held in high regard by some of today's finest filmmakers. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. Footage schedule script prints 308-437 dated May 10 1947. Blue titled wrappers three staples 3 leaves. Near Fine. Selznick International unknown books
1947ref. 143493Los Angeles: Selznick International 1947. Music Timing Schedule for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Niven Busch. A recently orphaned girl is sent to live with her father's cousin. When both of sons take a liking to her she must make a decision amid their growing conflict. Set in Texas shot on location in California and Arizona. Tall white self-wrappers production No. 103 dated June 10 1947 with credits for musical director Dimitri Tiomkin. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 11. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with one staple at the top left corner. Selznick International unknown books
1946ref. 151733Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1946. Promotional folder for the 1946 film on heavy buff card stock with large "Duel in the Sun" black and red logo on face of folder and "Duel in the Sun Pictures and Stories" printed on upper tab. Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel of the same name. Lavish "epic" Western from Selznick who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" 1939 and held in high regard by some of today's finest filmmakers. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorcese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward US. Vanguard Films unknown books
1931ref. 150958Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing actress Estelle Taylor. Based on Elmer Rice's 1929 play a light romance which takes place over twenty-four hours in a small community of immigrants in Hell's Kitchen. Set in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a few splashes to the image faint toning overall and pinholes to the corners. Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
1931ref. 160653London: National Film Archive 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing director King Vidor. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play a light romance which takes place over twenty-four hours in a small community of immigrants in Hell's Kitchen. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown books
1928ref. 167295Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film showing the infamous "office set" with dozens of identical desks in a largely windowless room. Provenance label mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A bleak populist film heavily influenced by German cinema and nominated for several awards at the very first Academy Awards ceremony including Best Director for King Vidor. Shot on location throughout New York and in Los Angeles. 10 x 7.25 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn with old cello tape at the corners and center bottom edge. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 44. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1940ref. 145378Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Three vintage photographs of director King Vidor two on the set and one with his wife contributing writer Elizabeth Hill after a day of shooting the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso of each. Loosely based on Kenneth Roberts' 1937 novel of the same name. The film gives a partially fictionalized account of the St. Francis Raid a violent attack on a settlement of the Abenakis tribe seen by the perpetrators as an act of vengeance for the Abenakis many attacks on British settlers. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962ref. 143471Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1962 re-release of the 1952 film. A poor southern girl marries a rich man despite her being in love with a man she want to school with. When her husband suddenly dies in a boating accident with no witness the town suspects she killed him for his money and shuns her. She attempts to get together with the man she liked during school. Set in Braddock North Carolina shot on location across California. Tall white self-wrappers missing the back self-wrapper noted as Continuity and Dialogue on the front self-wrapper dated November 28th 1952 re-run 29-3-1962 with credits for director King Vidor. Approximately 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 8. Multilith duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two flat silver brads along the top edge. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1952ref. 151711Los Angeles: The Selznick Company 1952. Music Cue Sheet and Correction Report for the 1952 film. A poor southern girl marries a rich man despite her being in love with a man she want to school with. When her husband suddenly dies in a boating accident with no witness the town suspects she killed him for his money and shuns her. She attempts to get together with the man she liked during school. Set in Braddock North Carolina shot on location across California. White titled self-wrappers noted as Correction Report and Music Cue Sheet on the front wrapper with credits for director King Vidor. 9 leaves with page unnumbered. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with one staple at the top left corner. Godard Histoires du Cinema. The Selznick Company unknown books
1952ref. 135628Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage black-and-white linen-backed keybook still photograph from the 1952 film. Ownership rubber stamp Christopher C. Geest on the verso. Two hole punches at the top margin as issued. Pictured is Jennifer Jones cold-cocking Charlton Heston at the beach. Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in "Duel in the Sun" as the titular heroine of this film. Born into a poor-white-trash Southern family Ruby intends to improve her lot by marrying into wealth. Her casual beau Boake Tackman Heston considers Ruby unfit for marriage but prosperous businessman Jim Gentry Malden is eager and willing to make her his wife. Jim Gentry dies in an accident and the consensus of opinion is that he was killed by the covetous Ruby. For some reason this ignites a passion in Boake and he renews his torrid romance with the widow Gentry. Ruby's crazed brother Jewel James Anderson puts an end to this affair with a shotgun provoking a violent response from Ruby and a "Lady or the Tiger"-esque ending. Shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10.75 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1929ref. 152722Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 film. The first African American musical and one of the first all-Black films by a major Hollywood studio with arguably more depth than its predecessor Paul Sloane's "Hearts in Dixie" the first all-Black Hollywood film released earlier the same year. Although director King Vidor expressed his intent to honestly portray rural African American life in the south the film still clearly advanced racial stereotypes of the era-but did however depict authentic African American spiritual music from the period a feat which no other film at that point had achieved. Shot on location in Tennessee and Arkansas. One 8 x 10 inches six 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus with soil to the top right portion of the recto and a short closed tear to the bottom edge else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1952ref. 135626Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the Argentinean release circa 1953 of the 1952 film. Spanish rubber stamps on the verso including the Spanish title "La furia del deseo" The Fury of Desire. Pictured is Jennifer Jones giving Charlton Heston the "what for." Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in "Duel in the Sun" as the titular heroine of this film. Born into a poor-white-trash Southern family Ruby intends to improve her lot by marrying into wealth. Her casual beau Boake Tackman Heston considers Ruby unfit for marriage but prosperous businessman Jim Gentry Malden is eager and willing to make her his wife. Jim Gentry dies in an accident and the consensus of opinion is that he was killed by the covetous Ruby. For some reason this ignites a passion in Boake and he renews his torrid romance with the widow Gentry. Ruby's crazed brother Jewel James Anderson puts an end to this affair with a shotgun provoking a violent response from Ruby and a "Lady or the Tiger"-esque ending. Shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and a bruise on the verso from the removal of a mimeo snipe. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1941ref. 151324N.p.: N.p. 1941. Vintage photograph of director King Vidor his wife and screenwriter Elizabeth Hill and actors Hedy Lamarr and Robert Young taken to publicize the 1941 film. With provenance stamps on the verso along with a stamp noting No. 81-422. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on John P. Marquand's 1941 novel. A married businessman locked in a monotonous life recalls his passionate relationship with a beautiful independent young woman twenty years prior. Lamarr's second film with Vidor following "Comrade X" in 1940. Set in Boston. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light soil to the top edge. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 141250N.p.: Ponti-De Laurentils Cinematografica 1956. Two vintage reference studio still photographs from the 1956 film one showing a set design artist at work on concept drawings. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name. An Italian-American war film directed by King Vidor and starring Audrey Hepburn Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer. Set in Russia shot on location in Rome Mantua and Piedmont Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Ponti-De Laurentils Cinematografica unknown books
ref. 148727Tokyo: Toei 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth and final film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. Recently the subject of a complete restoration helmed and issued by Arrow Films in England. Tan titled perfect-bound wrappers. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered D27. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstains to the extremities. Arrow 2164. Toei unknown
ref. 148727Tokyo: Toei 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth and final film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. Recently the subject of a complete restoration helmed and issued by Arrow Films in England. Tan titled perfect-bound wrappers. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered D27. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstains to the extremities. Arrow 2164. Toei unknown books
1968ref. 143231Tokyo: Shochiku Company 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Based on Yukio Mishima's 1961 stage adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's 1934 novel. A cunning lady thief known as the Black Lizard tries to kidnap a wealthy jeweler's daughter as part of a plot to steal her father's priceless Star of Egypt diamond. Set in Tokyo. White titled perfect-bound wrappers dated 1968.6.17. 126 pages with last page of text numbered d-34. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good lightly foxed overall. Shochiku Company unknown
1968ref. 143231Tokyo: Shochiku Company 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Based on Yukio Mishima's 1961 stage adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's 1934 novel. A cunning lady thief known as the Black Lizard tries to kidnap a wealthy jeweler's daughter as part of a plot to steal her father's priceless Star of Egypt diamond. Set in Tokyo. White titled perfect-bound wrappers dated 1968.6.17. 126 pages with last page of text numbered d-34. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good lightly foxed overall. Shochiku Company unknown books
1954ref. 172915Burbank CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 film. Based on the 1870 novel by Jules Verne. A professor and his assistant set out to find a giant sea monster that has been destroying ships in the Pacific Ocean only to discover the monster is a submarine manned by a reclusive sea Captain. Set in the Pacific Ocean shot on location in California Jamaica and the Bahamas. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with creasing along the top and right margins and at the corners. Weldon 1983. Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions unknown
1953ref. 140577N.p.: Benagoss Productions 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on Alfred Hayes' novel "The Girl on the Via Flaminia." A romantic drama set in south France during WWII. An American soldier begins a doomed romance with a French peasant woman. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light toning and a chip to the top margin. Benagoss Productions unknown books
1955ref. 140573Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. Henry Hathaway directed this film about a reckless race-car driver whose life further careens out of control following an automobile accident. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a small green sticker and a manuscript ink notation to the verso. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1979ref. 140513N.p.: Rastar Pictures 1979. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. A Western comedy about a crooked outlaw hired to rob the lovely "Charming Jones" Ann-Margret and her companion "Handsome Stranger" Schwarzenegger. The duo is accosted by the outlaw and Jones turns her romantic sights from the indifferent Handsome Stranger to the bad-boy con man. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rastar Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 140572N.p.: Bryna Productions 1959. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Two old friends are turned against one another in this 1959 Western starring Kirk Douglas Anthony Quinn and Carolyn Jones. Douglas' wife is raped and murdered by Quinn's son resulting in a showdown between the two men. Shot on location in California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a manuscript ink notation to the verso of each and pin holes to the margin. Bryna Productions unknown books
