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1980ref. 133617New York: New World Pictures 1980. Draft Agency script for the 1980 film. Adapted for the screen by noted screenwriter Frederic Raphael based on his 1973 novel. A woman begins an affair with her late husband's mistress after his death using each other to cope with the grief of his loss. Black titled wrappers with the William Morris Agency logo on the front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Frederic Raphael. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Raphael. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1980ref. 133617New York: New World Pictures 1980. Draft Agency script for the 1980 film. Adapted for the screen by noted screenwriter Frederic Raphael based on his 1973 novel. A woman begins an affair with her late husband's mistress after his death using each other to cope with the grief of his loss. Black titled wrappers with the William Morris Agency logo on the front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Frederic Raphael. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Raphael. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
1974ref. 161967Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film. With International Exchange Press slip affixed to the verso. Queen Christina of Rome abdicates the throne converts to Catholicism and goes to Rome where she falls in love. Set in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1966ref. 132442Culver City CA: National Screen Service / Columbia Pictures 1966. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 Spanish-Italian film. A fast-paced action spy thriller about a kidnapped American nuclear scientist and a secret agent who teams up with a nightclub owner to investigate. Klaus Kinski shows up as one of the villains. 8 x 10 inches. Brief corner creases and a few light horizontal creases else Near Fine. National Screen Service / Columbia Pictures unknown books
1950ref. 131681De Grunwald Productions 1950. Draft British script for the 1951 UK film. With brief working manuscript annotations reference markings in blue manuscript ink throughout. Based on the play by James Bridie. A turbulent study of generations of family life focusing on clashes and romances of parents and children. Set in Scotland. Tall red wrappers with "Flesh and Blood / 1950" written in blue manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for playwright Bridie and screenwriter de Grunwald. 124 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good side stapled. De Grunwald Productions unknown
1950ref. 131681De Grunwald Productions 1950. Draft British script for the 1951 UK film. With brief working manuscript annotations reference markings in blue manuscript ink throughout. Based on the play by James Bridie. A turbulent study of generations of family life focusing on clashes and romances of parents and children. Set in Scotland. Tall red wrappers with "Flesh and Blood / 1950" written in blue manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for playwright Bridie and screenwriter de Grunwald. 124 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good side stapled. De Grunwald Productions unknown books
1949ref. 160938Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film noir. A part-time mail carrier decides to steal what he believes to be $200 from a lawyer's office on his mail route but ends up taking thousands pulling him into a shadowy world of crime and deceit. Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell's second pairing following the noted 1948 noir "They Live By Night" directed by Nicholas Ray. Shot on location in New York City. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1968ref. 159313N.p.: Columbia British Productions 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 novel by Derek Marlowe. A British spy is ordered to track down a KGB agent though he himself is that KGB agent. He must disparage his partner's suspicions and ensure the secrecy of his identity. Set in London and West Berlin shot on location in Berlin Germany and London Surrey and Buckinghamshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Grant UK. Columbia British Productions unknown books
1950ref. 150904Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film showing actors Barbara Stanwyck Gilbert Roland and Blanche Yurka. With a date stamp reading 12 AUG 25 50 on the bottom left corner of the verso along with a Paramount blindstamp. Based on the 1948 novel by Niven Busch. A tense vengeful Western which owes as much to archetypes of Greek tragedy and Shakespearean drama as it does to the conventions of the genre following a rancher's strong-willed daughter who seeks revenge on her father for the wrongful hanging of her best friend. One of the few films in the noir canon that is also a Western. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear to the top edge repaired with white paper tape on the verso. Criterion Collection 435. Pitts 1478. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1955ref. 135492Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1955 Western. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 2525. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1949ref. 160938Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film noir. A part-time mail carrier decides to steal what he believes to be $200 from a lawyer's office on his mail route but ends up taking thousands pulling him into a shadowy world of crime and deceit. Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell's second pairing following the noted 1948 noir "They Live By Night" directed by Nicholas Ray. Shot on location in New York City. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1954ref. 147777Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film. Teenager Barbara Vinings Glynis Johns is in love with her Latin language teacher Stephen Barlow Leo Genn when Barlow's wife Gene Tierney finds out she confronts Barbara who runs off and disappears for three days during which time speculation and innuendo pervade the village. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Spicer UK. United Artists unknown books
1963ref. 167576N.p.: Topaz Film 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1960 Italian film. A stripper is disfigured in a car accident and becomes obsessed with restoring her beauty. She tracks down a scientist who can provide a cure but the concoction requires the use of glandular fluid removed from adult women causing their deaths. 10 x 7.75 inches trimmed along the top margin. Near Fine. Topaz Film unknown books
1966ref. 161479New York: Cambist Films 1966. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 late noir sexploitation film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A sex maniac is killing prostitutes in Manhattan and it's up to a rogue cop to catch him before he kills again. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Cambist Films unknown
1966ref. 161479New York: Cambist Films 1966. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 late noir sexploitation film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A sex maniac is killing prostitutes in Manhattan and it's up to a rogue cop to catch him before he kills again. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Cambist Films unknown books
1953ref. 156114N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 German film seen here under two titles "Dark Clouds over Dachstein" and "The Mistress of the Salzerhof". Titles and text in German. Based on the 1952 play by Elmira Koref about a widowed woman fighting the German government for control of the salt mines at the base of the mountain where she lives. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus bright and complete. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 161894N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1972 German film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Nadine longs to loose her virginity but has no luck in Germany so she visits her mother in Tunisia and shares her mother's lover. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 161894N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1972 German film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Nadine longs to loose her virginity but has no luck in Germany so she visits her mother in Tunisia and shares her mother's lover. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 144084Rome: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Collection of 64 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1960 Italian film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos five with Contino's rubberstamp and two are dupes made by the original developer. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. 7 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall with curling and a few scattered creases. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1960ref. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1960ref. 144084Rome: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Collection of 64 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1960 Italian film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos five with Contino's rubberstamp and two are dupes made by the original developer. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. 7 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall with curling and a few scattered creases. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown books
1960ref. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown books
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown
1974ref. 168008Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film showing Candice Bergen. A smalltime diamond merchant is blackmailed into carrying out a major heist aided by his heiress girlfriend. Set and shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown books
