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1954ref. 158802London: Hammer Film Productions 1954. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. A failing business hires his best friend to help kill him so that his wife may collect his life insurance. When his business suddenly starts taking a turn for the better he must try to stop the hit-man before he kills him. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Two photographs Near Fine one photograph About Near Fine with the top corners trimmed irregularly. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1954ref. 160344London: Kinematograph Weekly 1954. Vintage advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1954 film noir. Dated May 13 1954 on the recto. Also on recto are photographs from the premiere of "Hell and High Water" 1954 at Odeon Cinema. Kinematograph Weekly was a British trade paper written for the British film industry that ran from 1889 until 1971. A failing business hires his best friend to help kill him so that his wife may collect his life insurance. When his business suddenly starts taking a turn for the better he must try to stop the hit-man before he kills him. Set in London. 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing along the left and right edges and one small tear at the top edge. Also with one very small chip missing at the bottom right corner. Grant UK. Lyons US. Selby UK. Selby US. Spicer UK. Weldon 1996. Kinematograph Weekly unknown books
1963ref. 158981Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film. With mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A Russian nuclear scientist is hired by the British government but is soon arrested for passing information along to another spy posing as an employee. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists Pictures unknown books
1964ref. 147667Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1964. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film here seen under the title for its release in the US "Escape by Night." Not to be confused with Fritz Lang's 1952 film "Clash by Night." A bus transporting a convicted gang leader to prison is overtaken by the gang who seek to free their leader. The gang locks the remainder of the passengers who are mostly innocent civilians in a gas-soaked barn and threaten to set the barn on fire in order to hold off the police. 8 x 10 inches. Some photographs faintly toned at the border else Near Fine. Allied Artists unknown books
1978ref. 147229N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is an interdepartmental memo from an agent at the Paul Kohner/Michael Levin agency to Paul Kohner and a copied page noting additional contacts in New York. Years after his twin sister's untimely death a troubled young man recalls their childhood together-a mostly unhappy one due to their neglectful parents' selfishness. Set in New York City. Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters M. T. Wojciechowska and Oriana Rodman. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriters M. T. Wojciechowska and Oriana Rodman. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus watermarked throughout wrapper Very Good with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 147229N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is an interdepartmental memo from an agent at the Paul Kohner/Michael Levin agency to Paul Kohner and a copied page noting additional contacts in New York. Years after his twin sister's untimely death a troubled young man recalls their childhood together-a mostly unhappy one due to their neglectful parents' selfishness. Set in New York City. Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters M. T. Wojciechowska and Oriana Rodman. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriters M. T. Wojciechowska and Oriana Rodman. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus watermarked throughout wrapper Very Good with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1976ref. 141005Los Angeles: Braun Entertainment Group 1976. Sixth Draft script for the 1976 film. Laid in is a letter to John Huston from Leland Nolan. Based on Howard Fast's 1944 novel based in turn on the true story of an ex-slave and Union solider who returns home where he is elected to the state legislature and eventually to the US Senate despite opposition from white landowners law enforcement and the KKK. Set in South Carolina. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 24 1976 noted as Sixth Draft with credits for screenwriter and author Howard Fast. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong binding. Braun Entertainment Group unknown
1977ref. 170348Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film showing Muhammad Ali at the breakfast table while Annazette Chase looks on with a pot of coffee. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A biopic about Muhammad Ali from the 1960 Summer Olympics to his "Rumble in the Jungle" 1974 fight documented in his 1975 autobiography and starring The Greatest as himself. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1977ref. 170348Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film showing Muhammad Ali at the breakfast table while Annazette Chase looks on with a pot of coffee. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A biopic about Muhammad Ali from the 1960 Summer Olympics to his "Rumble in the Jungle" 1974 fight documented in his 1975 autobiography and starring The Greatest as himself. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 141005Los Angeles: Braun Entertainment Group 1976. Sixth Draft script for the 1976 film. Laid in is a letter to John Huston from Leland Nolan. Based on Howard Fast's 1944 novel based in turn on the true story of an ex-slave and Union solider who returns home where he is elected to the state legislature and eventually to the US Senate despite opposition from white landowners law enforcement and the KKK. Set in South Carolina. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 24 1976 noted as Sixth Draft with credits for screenwriter and author Howard Fast. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong binding. Braun Entertainment Group unknown books
ref. 1029031Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Aceptable. . Madrid. Cómic ¿ Mam. Años 1980. Reedición Facsimilar de la de Barcelona. Edit. Grafidea. 1953. 17x24 cm. apaisado. 10 págs. 2 de cubiertas a color interior en b/n. 2 grapas por núm. Dibujante: Matías Alonso. Perfecto estado. # cómics unknown
1956ref. 166264London: London Independent Producers 1956. Third Draft script for the 1957 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the titled label on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout including rough pencil prop and set sketches on the versos of eight pages. Here under the working title "A Novel Affair" which was used as the title for the US release of the film. Laid in are over 30 production documents including: 17 pages of handwritten Prop Lists eleven dated from May to July 1956. Two pages of rough pencil sketches including several story boards with two film clippings attached by paperclip each containing 3 full frames. Three letters to Provis two autograph letters signed dating from May and June 1956 and one typed letter signed from February 1956. As well as Shooting Schedules Set Lists Locations lists and additional Prop Lists. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Novelist Judith Wynter Margaret Leighton gets inspiration for her new novel when her wheelchair-bound husband Ralph Richardson hires a new Italian chauffeur CarloCarlo Giustini. When Carlo reads her lurid tale of adultery and murder the husband mistakenly concludes that she is actually madly in love with Carlo. Green generic file wrappers with a title label noted as 3rd Draft Screenplay on the title label dated 23-4-1956. Title page present noted as Third Draft of Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Muriel and Sydney Box. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. London Independent Producers unknown
1954ref. 166036London: Welbeck Films 1954. Revised Draft script for the 1954 film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the front wrapper and a manuscript ink annotation of the date "9/6/54" on the bottom of the title page here under the working title "To Dorothy - A Son" released in the UK as "To Dorothy a Son" and in the US as "Cash on Delivery." With a manuscript pencil annotation on one page 12A underlining a needed prop and one page 38 with a clipping of a revision page affixed over the previous dialogue. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1950 play "To Dorothy a Son" by Roger MacDougall. Shelley Winters stars as Myrtle an American woman who stands to inherit $2 million dollars from her uncle as long as she doesn't have any male heirs. The only thing standing in her way is John Gregson as her ex-husband and his very pregnant new wife played by Peggy Cummins. Tall untitled green wrappers. Title page present with an annotated date of "9/6/54" noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Peter Rogers and playwright Roger MacDougall. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Welbeck Films unknown
1959ref. 166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown
1954ref. 166036London: Welbeck Films 1954. Revised Draft script for the 1954 film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the front wrapper and a manuscript ink annotation of the date "9/6/54" on the bottom of the title page here under the working title "To Dorothy - A Son" released in the UK as "To Dorothy a Son" and in the US as "Cash on Delivery." With a manuscript pencil annotation on one page 12A underlining a needed prop and one page 38 with a clipping of a revision page affixed over the previous dialogue. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1950 play "To Dorothy a Son" by Roger MacDougall. Shelley Winters stars as Myrtle an American woman who stands to inherit $2 million dollars from her uncle as long as she doesn't have any male heirs. The only thing standing in her way is John Gregson as her ex-husband and his very pregnant new wife played by Peggy Cummins. Tall untitled green wrappers. Title page present with an annotated date of "9/6/54" noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Peter Rogers and playwright Roger MacDougall. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Welbeck Films unknown books
1959ref. 166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown books
1956ref. 166264London: London Independent Producers 1956. Third Draft script for the 1957 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the titled label on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout including rough pencil prop and set sketches on the versos of eight pages. Here under the working title "A Novel Affair" which was used as the title for the US release of the film. Laid in are over 30 production documents including: 17 pages of handwritten Prop Lists eleven dated from May to July 1956. Two pages of rough pencil sketches including several story boards with two film clippings attached by paperclip each containing 3 full frames. Three letters to Provis two autograph letters signed dating from May and June 1956 and one typed letter signed from February 1956. As well as Shooting Schedules Set Lists Locations lists and additional Prop Lists. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Novelist Judith Wynter Margaret Leighton gets inspiration for her new novel when her wheelchair-bound husband Ralph Richardson hires a new Italian chauffeur CarloCarlo Giustini. When Carlo reads her lurid tale of adultery and murder the husband mistakenly concludes that she is actually madly in love with Carlo. Green generic file wrappers with a title label noted as 3rd Draft Screenplay on the title label dated 23-4-1956. Title page present noted as Third Draft of Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Muriel and Sydney Box. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. London Independent Producers unknown books
1957ref. 150849N.p.: Continental Distributing 1957. Two vintage photographs from the US release of the 1957 UK film one studio still photograph and one reference photograph. A man recalls his past and present relationships in order to help another man understand his wife. One 10 x 8 inches one 9.75 x 7.7x inches. Near Fine. Continental Distributing unknown books
1977ref. 137778Canada: Paradise Films Limited 1977. Shooting script for the 1978 Canadian film seen here under its alternate title "I Miss You Hugs and Kisses" the title used for its recent restoration by Severin Films. Brief annotations in manuscript ink on two pages. Shot in flashback scenarios a beautiful model Sommer is murdered and left for dead in her garage and the key suspect is the person who discovered her dead: her husband Charles Pilon. Shot on location in Ontario. One of the non-prosecuted films included in the "Video Nasties" list a collection of video cassette releases distributed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that were criticized for their violent content by social commentators religious organizations and the press. The list named over 70 films 39 prosecuted 33 non-prosecuted. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 25 1977 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Woods and Markowitz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with a black Vello binding. Paradise Films Limited unknown
1977ref. 137778Canada: Paradise Films Limited 1977. Shooting script for the 1978 Canadian film seen here under its alternate title "I Miss You Hugs and Kisses" the title used for its recent restoration by Severin Films. Brief annotations in manuscript ink on two pages. Shot in flashback scenarios a beautiful model Sommer is murdered and left for dead in her garage and the key suspect is the person who discovered her dead: her husband Charles Pilon. Shot on location in Ontario. One of the non-prosecuted films included in the "Video Nasties" list a collection of video cassette releases distributed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that were criticized for their violent content by social commentators religious organizations and the press. The list named over 70 films 39 prosecuted 33 non-prosecuted. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 25 1977 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Woods and Markowitz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with a black Vello binding. Paradise Films Limited unknown books
1980ref. 141417N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. The true story of Moe Berg a baseball player who was commonly known as the smartest man in the game having graduated from Princeton and Columbia. Berg who spoke several languages and read ten newspapers a day was contracted by the United States government to use his fame to travel to Italy during World War II and work as a spy. A weird convergence of two later films "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" 2002 and "Flags of Our Fathers" 2006 both also based on true stories. Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Murray Sinclair. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 141417N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. The true story of Moe Berg a baseball player who was commonly known as the smartest man in the game having graduated from Princeton and Columbia. Berg who spoke several languages and read ten newspapers a day was contracted by the United States government to use his fame to travel to Italy during World War II and work as a spy. A weird convergence of two later films "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" 2002 and "Flags of Our Fathers" 2006 both also based on true stories. Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Murray Sinclair. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 148988Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Melvyn Douglas and Myrna Loy. With a manuscript ink annotation to the verso noting the date 10-11-40. A magazine editor who pretends to be married to avoid unwanted advances from co-workers finds herself caught in her own lie when she falls for a potential suitor. Set in New York and Ohio. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. Very Good plus overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1966ref. 158678Hollywood: Leslie Goodwins Productions 1966. Draft script for an unproduced television film by Myrtle M. Thomas under the pseudonym Myrtle M. Andrus. Laid in are a number of correspondences and documents regarding Leslie Goodwins Productions acquisition of the story. The included documents are: Two copies of correspondence to Thomas from Goodwins' production company dated Feb. 17 1966 one ribbon copy typescript on Goodwin's letterhead signed by staff manager Harry Martins and one carbon typescript copy of same with a "Let us hear from you as soon as possible! / Leslie Goodwins" stamp on the top right corner. The contract acquiring the story on Goodwins' letterhead dated Feb. 17 1966 signed by Martin and Thomas. A receipt of payment from Thomas to the agency on Goodwins' letterhead dated March 14 1966 to cover costs of collaboration expenses and registration fees. A confirmation of receipt of contract ribbon copy typescript letter to Thomas on Goodwins' letterhead signed by Martins dated March 30 1966. A copyright registration certificate for the story dated May 16 1966. And two clippings of carbon typescript copy assessments of Thomas' writing and a note in autograph pencil regarding copyright filing and story credits. English film director and screenwriter Leslie Goodwins directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967 and in 1950 began working in television and was involved in multiple hit television shows during the 1950s and 1960s. He began Leslie Goodwins Productions largely for television projects in 1963. A nurse's first two nights on duty at a psychiatric hospital introduces her to a variety of disturbed and disturbing patients. Gold titled wrappers. Title page presentwith credits for screenwriter Myrtle M. Andrus. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Documents and Correspondences: 7.75 x 3.5 to 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Leslie Goodwins Productions unknown books
1970ref. 137126New York: Grove Press 1970. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Japanese film. Though not noted in any way this copy belonged to screenwriter director and film ephemera collector Leonard Schrader. Based on the true story of a criminal family that used their young son to scam drivers for money by faking his having been hit in car accidents. Set and shot in various locations around Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Grove Press unknown
