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1976ref. 148485Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1976. Collection of eleven vintage reference photographs from the 1976 film. With mimeo snipes to the verso. Based on the 1967 novel. A key science fiction film and a huge box-office success reinvigorating the genre on the screen and paving the way for "Star Wars" the following year. Winner of the Academy Award for Special Achievement and nominated for two others including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Houston Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1972ref. 159637Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film showing actor Maximilian Schell. Based on a legend that between Popes Leo IV and Benedict III a woman disguised as a man led the Catholic Church eventually being discovered and murdered. The film follows her rise in the Catholic Church and presents her existence as historical fact. Set in medieval Europe shot on location in Romania England and Cyprus. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 148485Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1976. Collection of eleven vintage reference photographs from the 1976 film. With mimeo snipes to the verso. Based on the 1967 novel. A key science fiction film and a huge box-office success reinvigorating the genre on the screen and paving the way for "Star Wars" the following year. Winner of the Academy Award for Special Achievement and nominated for two others including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Houston Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972ref. 147866Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1972. Vintage studio still photograph of Glenda Jackson from the 1972 film. Based on the 1970 H.E. Bates novella. Set during WWII Alice Jackson runs a farm in the English countryside and helps a young deserter Barton Oliver Reed hide from the army. A remarkable performance from Reed. Set in and shot on location in Wiltshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some light soiling and edgewear at top. United Artists unknown books
1984ref. 147143N.p.: N.p. 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1985 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper. A KGB sleeper agent is tasked with stealing top secret CIA microchips but decides to defect and use the microchips to hazard a deal with the US government instead. Shot on location in Los Angeles. White titled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1/10/84 noted as Revised with credits for director Dwight H. Little and screenwriter Sandra K. Bailey. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 147143N.p.: N.p. 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1985 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper. A KGB sleeper agent is tasked with stealing top secret CIA microchips but decides to defect and use the microchips to hazard a deal with the US government instead. Shot on location in Los Angeles. White titled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1/10/84 noted as Revised with credits for director Dwight H. Little and screenwriter Sandra K. Bailey. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1984ref. 158865London: HandMade Films 1984. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1982 film. With a mimeo snipe attached to the verso. Based on the 1977 play by Peter Nichols. A Song and Dance Unit of the British Army is stationed in Malaya leading up to the Malayan Emergency. Set in Malaya shot on location in Malaysia Singapore and Surrey England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. HandMade Films unknown books
ref. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown
1967ref. 143076London: Hammer Films / Seven Arts 1967. Five photographs from the 1967 British American film including one US studio still. One photograph with the stamp on a Spanish photo agency on the verso a few with brief manuscript annotations. Released as "Slave Girls" in the UK and "Prehistoric Women" in the US. An explorer touches a mystical statute and finds himself in the distant past where a tribe of brunette women enslave blonde women whom he must help fight for freedom. Hammer reused the sets and costumes from the previous year's "One Million Years B.C." and would return to the same ouevre of scantily clad cave women with "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" 1970 and "Creatures the World Forgot" 1971. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hammer Films / Seven Arts unknown
1963ref. 160415Athens Greece: Finos Film 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Based on the Greek tragedy by Euripides about the children of a Greek king seeking revenge for their father's murder. Nominated for a Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Mycenae and Argos Greece. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Finos Film unknown books
1962ref. 147610Athens: Finos Film 1962. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 Greek film. Based on the play by Euripides and the first film in director Michael Cacoyannis' Greek tragedy trilogy followed by "The Trojan Women" 1971 and "Iphigenia" 1977. Set and shot on location in Greece. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Finos Film unknown books
ref. 165382Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 2005. Shooting script for the 2006 film. Based on the 1992 novel by P.D. James. In a dystopian world where humans have become infertile a civil servant agrees to help a mysteriously pregnant woman travel to a remote location in the Azores to have her child. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in London in 2027 shot on location in London Hampshire Hertfordshire and Hampshire England in Montevideo Uruguay and in Buenos Aires Argentina. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 23rd August 2005 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and novelist P.D. James. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with title page lightly foxed on the edges and moderate rusting around the binding. Pinewood Studios unknown books
1957ref. 158955Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. During WWII members of a troop occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse until they are discovered by German infantrymen. The first Hammer war film and the second Hammer film produced in collaboration with a major US studio. Set in Tunis shot on location in England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown books
1967ref. 143076London: Hammer Films / Seven Arts 1967. Five photographs from the 1967 British American film including one US studio still. One photograph with the stamp on a Spanish photo agency on the verso a few with brief manuscript annotations. Released as "Slave Girls" in the UK and "Prehistoric Women" in the US. An explorer touches a mystical statute and finds himself in the distant past where a tribe of brunette women enslave blonde women whom he must help fight for freedom. Hammer reused the sets and costumes from the previous year's "One Million Years B.C." and would return to the same ouevre of scantily clad cave women with "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" 1970 and "Creatures the World Forgot" 1971. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hammer Films / Seven Arts unknown books
ref. 162611New York: Dino De Laurentiis 1984. Final Draft script for the 1985 neo-noir film. With annotations throughout highlighting dialogue related to Mickey Rourke's character Stanley White. From the collection of practical effects designer and miniatures specialist Greg Jein. Jein was gifted the script by fellow Chinese-American actor Dennis Dun who played Herbert Kwong in the film. Jein designed the award-winning miniatures in the film relating to director Michael Cimino's elaborate reproduction of New York's Chinatown reproduced entirely on a soundstage and so realistic that Stanley Kubrick-born in the Bronx-had to be convinced by Cimino after seeing the premiere that it was not shot on location. Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Daley about a Vietnam veteran turned New York City police captain who dedicates himself to stopping organized crime in Chinatown. Blue generic wrappers. Title page present dated September 4 1984 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Oliver Stone and Michael Cimino. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with offsetting on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US. Carlson & Connolly Destroy All Movies. Dino De Laurentiis unknown
ref. 162611New York: Dino De Laurentiis 1984. Final Draft script for the 1985 neo-noir film. With annotations throughout highlighting dialogue related to Mickey Rourke's character Stanley White. From the collection of practical effects designer and miniatures specialist Greg Jein. Jein was gifted the script by fellow Chinese-American actor Dennis Dun who played Herbert Kwong in the film. Jein designed the award-winning miniatures in the film relating to director Michael Cimino's elaborate reproduction of New York's Chinatown reproduced entirely on a soundstage and so realistic that Stanley Kubrick-born in the Bronx-had to be convinced by Cimino after seeing the premiere that it was not shot on location. Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Daley about a Vietnam veteran turned New York City police captain who dedicates himself to stopping organized crime in Chinatown. Blue generic wrappers. Title page present dated September 4 1984 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Oliver Stone and Michael Cimino. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with offsetting on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US. Carlson & Connolly Destroy All Movies. Dino De Laurentiis unknown books
1992ref. 167496Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on the 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes star as two LAPD detectives called in to assist in an investigation of the murder of a call girl in a boardroom of a large Japanese company and act as a liason between the Japanese executives and the investigating officer played by Harvey Keitel. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. Yellow titled wrappers dated April 21 1992. Title page present dated April 21 1992 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Philip Kaufman and author Michael Crichton. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1973ref. 121469Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Final script for the 1973 film based on the 1972 novel by Michael Crichton. Noted director Mike Hodges' third film and first to be made in the US after "Get Carter" in 1971 and "Pulp" in 1972. An unusual and prescient sci-fi thriller that was poorly distributed in the US but over time counted Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick among its admirers. Segal in a serious against-type role is a scientist who agrees to an experimental treatment wherein a tiny computer is implanted in his head to help control violent tendencies. The computer malfunctions probably Windows-based and he becomes a psychotic killer. When Mike Kaplan a Warner Brothers international marketing executive attempted to override Warner Bros' decision not to release the film in Britain he sought Kubrick's help. After explaining the situation and how the film required a different marketing campaign Kubrick interrupted with "I've already seen it and it's terrific." The director Terrence Malick wrote to Hodges expressing how much he loved watching The Terminal Man saying "I have just come from seeing The Terminal Man and want you to know what a magnificent overwhelming picture it is. You achieve moods that I've never experienced in the movies before though it's only in hope of finding them that I keep going. Your images make me understand what an image is not a pretty picture but something that should pierce one through like an arrow and speak in a language all its own." Mustard yellow titled wrappers stamped FINAL on the front wrapper and dated May 9 1973. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present with a credit for screenwriter Hodges. 108 leaves mechanical duplication eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a diagonal crease on the front panel internally bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1973ref. 121469Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Final script for the 1973 film based on the 1972 novel by Michael Crichton. Noted director Mike Hodges' third film and first to be made in the US after "Get Carter" in 1971 and "Pulp" in 1972. An unusual and prescient sci-fi thriller that was poorly distributed in the US but over time counted Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick among its admirers. Segal in a serious against-type role is a scientist who agrees to an experimental treatment wherein a tiny computer is implanted in his head to help control violent tendencies. The computer malfunctions probably Windows-based and he becomes a psychotic killer. When Mike Kaplan a Warner Brothers international marketing executive attempted to override Warner Bros' decision not to release the film in Britain he sought Kubrick's help. After explaining the situation and how the film required a different marketing campaign Kubrick interrupted with "I've already seen it and it's terrific." The director Terrence Malick wrote to Hodges expressing how much he loved watching The Terminal Man saying "I have just come from seeing The Terminal Man and want you to know what a magnificent overwhelming picture it is. You achieve moods that I've never experienced in the movies before though it's only in hope of finding them that I keep going. Your images make me understand what an image is not a pretty picture but something that should pierce one through like an arrow and speak in a language all its own." Mustard yellow titled wrappers stamped FINAL on the front wrapper and dated May 9 1973. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present with a credit for screenwriter Hodges. 108 leaves mechanical duplication eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a diagonal crease on the front panel internally bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1992ref. 167496Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on the 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes star as two LAPD detectives called in to assist in an investigation of the murder of a call girl in a boardroom of a large Japanese company and act as a liason between the Japanese executives and the investigating officer played by Harvey Keitel. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. Yellow titled wrappers dated April 21 1992. Title page present dated April 21 1992 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter Philip Kaufman and author Michael Crichton. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1935ref. 158497N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film showing director Michael Curtiz on a camera crane preparing to filming a scene. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of National Film Archive. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini-the first talkie adaptation of one of his works. A young Irish doctor is exiled to Jamaica after rebelling against King James II later becoming one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean. Shot on location in Corona Laguna Beach and Palm Canyon California. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
ref. 147407N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few manuscript annotations throughout most noting deletions. Two professional gamblers plan to pull off an international long con. Set in Lucerne and Las Vegas. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Michael Curry. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 149678Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1945. Vintage reference photograph of director Michael Curtiz wielding a megaphone on location for an suburban exterior shot for the 1945 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso providing detail regarding same. Based on James M. Cain's 1941 novel which follows a newly divorced woman as she begins a career as a baker to provide for her family to the shame of her spoiled ungrateful firstborn daughter. A career-reviving role for Joan Crawford who won an Academy Award for her performance following her 1943 departure from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shot on location in Glendale Los Angeles and Malibu California. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with light dryness and cracking to the finish and light wear to the bottom corners. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 860. Selby US Canon. Grant US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's Specially bound copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown
1941ref. 147912Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1941. Collection of 28 vintage double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. With mimeo snipes to the verso identifying actors in each photograph. Likely unique. Based on Jack London's 1904 novel following three fugitives who are rescued from the ocean and subsequently imprisoned by a cruel mariner who refuses to let them off the ship. 11 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and fading overall some with faint foxing to the verso and light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown
