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1988ref. 142395Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1988. Third Draft script for the 1988 television film originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Brandon Marsh who portrayed Tommy with annotations in holograph ink related to his role. Country musician John Denver stars as John Clayton a disillusioned CIA agent who retires to become a bush pilot in the Alaskan wilderness with his best friend. When his friend is murdered and branded a bootlegger Clayton works to solve the crime and clear his name. Set in Alaska shot on location in British Columbia CA. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated Februay 5 1988 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Michael Eric Stein. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication first generation. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown books
1984ref. 166545Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1984. Second Draft script for the 1984 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 23. Six revision pages and 30-page location breakdown sheet laid in with the script. Through multiple twists of fate two strangers in New York become friends soon realizing they are developing romantic feelings for each other-although both are married with families. Loosely based on David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter." Set and shot on location throughout New York City. Dark red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for screenwriter Michael Cristofer on the front wrapper. Title page present dated January 10 1984 noted as Second Draft with credit for Cristofer. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only with salmon revision pages laid in at the rear of the script dated 4/7/84. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1979ref. 160041N.p.: N.p. 1979. Third Draft script for the 1981 film with rainbow revisions. Laid in with the script are two additional yellow revision pages dated 3/28/80. Based on the 1977 novel by John Gregory Dunne who with his wife Joan Didion wrote the screenplay for the film. Loosely based on the notorious 1947 Black Dahlia murder about a homicide detective investigating the brutal murder of a young woman in Los Angeles. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 29 1979 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated between 1/9/80 and 3/24/80. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom beige clamshell box. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 139747N.p.: Continental Distributing 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 French film. An unlucky man's life is made worse by the sudden acquisition of an expensive vehicle. Shot on location in Paris and Haut-de-Seine France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light red fingerprints to the verso. Complete collation details available on request. Continental Distributing unknown books
1984ref. 147136Beverly Hills CA: Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm 1984. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and a few copied manuscript annotations to page 59 and 60 noting grammatical revisions. A young pizza delivery worker falls for his new roommate a single mother who wants to be an actress but can only find work as a telegram-singing stripper. Meanwhile their next door neighbor an Austrian bodybuilder idolizes Arnold Schwarzenegger and dreams of true love. Set and shot on location in Echo Park Los Angeles and Vienna Austria. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1 1984 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael Ventura. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm unknown
1984ref. 147136Beverly Hills CA: Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm 1984. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. With a single holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper and a few copied holograph annotations to page 59 and 60 noting grammatical revisions. A young pizza delivery worker falls for his new roommate a single mother who wants to be an actress but can only find work as a telegram-singing stripper. Meanwhile their next door neighbor an Austrian bodybuilder idolizes Arnold Schwarzenegger and dreams of true love. Set and shot on location in Echo Park Los Angeles and Vienna Austria. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1 1984 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael Ventura. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm unknown books
1964ref. 166111Shepperton UK: Lippert Films 1964. Draft script for the 1964 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name and the date "8th May 1964" written on the front wrapper. 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. Leslie Nielsen stars as a former OSS officer living in London who travels to Paris disguised as a photographer's assistant in order to deliver a secret tape reel after a former colleague with a decoy of the tape is killed. Shot on location in London. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 84 leaves with last page of text numbered 88. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Lippert Films unknown
1969ref. 148816Los Angeles: Herald Productions 1969. Collection of 20 vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film. Director Robert Downey Sr. one of the most irreverent and anarchic underground filmmakers of the 1960s simultaneously satirizes race politics and consumerism at the end of a decade of rapidly evolving American culture. The film follows Putney Swope the only African American man on the executive board of an advertising firm who is accidentally given control of the company after the sudden death of the previous chairman. Renaming the business Truth and Soul Inc. Swope replaces all but one of the white employees with black radicals and insists they no longer accept business from companies that produce alcohol war toys or tobacco. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Strong Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Herald Productions unknown
1965ref. 132145Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Estimating script for an unproduced film. The story of a small contingent of militant mercenaries who attempt to stir up a conflict between Cuba and the United States by piloting a hostile decoy Navy ship into enemy waters off Key West only to be thwarted by the actual Navy and a few well-meaning American citizens taken hostage. No doubt mirroring some of the public's concerns at the time given the tenuous peace established by the Cuban Missile Crisis the film remained unproduced perhaps considered too sensationalist or close to home. Screenwriter Dozier would go on to write largely for television including episodes of "Batman" and "Harry O." Tan titled wrappers noted as ESTIMATING on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 23 dated April 2 1965. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 4/1/65 with credits for screenwriter Dozier. 136 leaves mimeograph on yellow stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1965ref. 132145Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Estimating script for an unproduced film. The story of a small contingent of militant mercenaries who attempt to stir up a conflict between Cuba and the United States by piloting a hostile decoy Navy ship into enemy waters off Key West only to be thwarted by the actual Navy and a few well-meaning American citizens taken hostage. No doubt mirroring some of the public's concerns at the time given the tenuous peace established by the Cuban Missile Crisis the film remained unproduced perhaps considered too sensationalist or close to home. Screenwriter Dozier would go on to write largely for television including episodes of "Batman" and "Harry O." Tan titled wrappers noted as ESTIMATING on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 23 dated April 2 1965. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 4/1/65 with credits for screenwriter Dozier. 136 leaves mimeograph on yellow stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973ref. 161971Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1973. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Each photograph with printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and one provenance stamp on the verso. A gritty crime thriller about a racist Irish cop who is forced to turn in his badge after killing a Puerto Rican suspect while in pursuit of the man that killed his former partner. The second film based on the experiences of real-life New York policeman Eddie Egan following William Friedkin's 1971 film "The French Connection" two years prior. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown
1964ref. 145375Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1964. Revised Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1964-1966 television show "The Outer Limits" originally aired April 27 1964 on ABC. Robert Duvall plays a disaffected CIA agent sent to infiltrate an alien flying saucer that has crash landed. He finds that the genetic material used to alter his appearance has overridden his human nature and he ultimately chooses to return to the home planet of the benevolent aliens and leave humanity and its violence behind. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 52 and production No. SF# 30 dated March 3 1964 with credits for screenwriter Robert Towne. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Towne. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1966ref. 148977Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1966 film. Based on the 1964 hit Broadway play by Muriel Resnik. Ellen Gordon Jane Fonda is New York executive John Cleves' Jason Robards mistress who falls for Cleves' young out-of-town associate Cass Henderson Dean Jones when Cleves' secretary unknowingly sends him to the apartment where they have their trysts. The secretary then compounds the error by telling Cleves' wife Dorothy Rosemary Murphy about the apartment. Shot on location in New York City. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued one small closed tear else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1967ref. 147239Los Angeles: Gershwin-Kastner Productions 1967. First Draft script and a Revised Estimating script for the 1968 film. The First Draft script is early written well over two years before the film's release. The Revised Estimating script is on all yellow stock except for distribution page white and pink "This Script Is Not Final and Is Given to You for Advance Information Only" page. Written a year prior the film's release the Revised Estimating script is only 79 pages ending with "PART II TO FOLLOW." From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. A workaholic manufacturer meets a carefree young woman who takes lovers for a period of one month in order to help them get over their problems though complications ensue when he agrees to be her "November." Remade in 2001 directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. Set in and shot on location in Manhattan and Brooklyn New York. First draft script: Blue titled wrappers dated July 9 1965. Title page present dated 7/9/65 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Herman Raucher. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Rev. Estimating script: Beige titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 65 dated February 1. 1967. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 2/1/67. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Gershwin-Kastner Productions unknown
1969ref. 147017London: Columbia British Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 British film. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in manuscript ink on the title page as well as an encircled "71" in red manuscript marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to find suitable romantic partners for each other. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in England Spain and Sweden. ornamental embossed titled wrapper. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter Peter Draper and novelist Janice Elliott. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads. Columbia British Productions unknown
1963ref. 146288N.p.: The Landau Company 1963. Draft script for the 1968 film. As early as 1950 there was talk of adapting Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the screen. In 1963 producer David Susskind took over Jose Quintero's attempt at adapting the novel which began two years earlier with a script from British screenwriter Gavin Lambert. Susskind passed on Lambert's script opting for a script from Thomas C. Ryan. Susskind planned to shoot the film in New York City with director Sidney Lumet but the project ended up being held up indefinitely. Four years later Marc Merson's Brownstone Productions had taken over the film rights with Thomas C. Ryan's original 1963 script and with Ryan co-producing. During filming Ryan and director Robert Ellis Miller would make extensive re-writes as they went. One of the great film adaptations of any American novel starring Sondra Locke in her debut film opposite Alan Arkin. Although much of the political aspect of McCullers' novel was removed from the film the themes present in the author's work are readily apparent: race loneliness impoverishment and anger. Arkin and Locke were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars. Set in in a small Southern town shot on location in Selma Alabama. Red titled vinyl Hart Stenographic Bureau wrappers. Title page present dated 8/26/63 with credits for novelist Carson McCullers and screenwriter Thomas C. Ryan. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeographed rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/26/63. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two metal screw brads. The Landau Company unknown books
1967ref. 147239Los Angeles: Gershwin-Kastner Productions 1967. First Draft script and a Revised Estimating script for the 1968 film. The First Draft script is early written well over two years before the film's release. The Revised Estimating script is on all yellow stock except for distribution page white and pink "This Script Is Not Final and Is Given to You for Advance Information Only" page. Written a year prior the film's release the Revised Estimating script is only 79 pages ending with "PART II TO FOLLOW." From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. A workaholic manufacturer meets a carefree young woman who takes lovers for a period of one month in order to help them get over their problems though complications ensue when he agrees to be her "November." Remade in 2001 directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. Set in and shot on location in Manhattan and Brooklyn New York. First draft script: Blue titled wrappers dated July 9 1965. Title page present dated 7/9/65 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Herman Raucher. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Rev. Estimating script: Beige titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 65 dated February 1. 1967. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 2/1/67. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Gershwin-Kastner Productions unknown books
1968ref. 139776Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white on the set photograph from the US release of the 1968 film. On the set of "Sweet November" pictured are actors Anthony Newley and Sandy Dennis as well as cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp. The film follows the story of a troubled young woman who seeks out emotionally crippled men and invites them to live with her for a month in an attempt to "cure" them. However she and Mr. November become quite attached and when he tries to continue the relationship past its prescribed termination he uncovers Sara's Sandy Dennis tragic secret. Set in New York City shot on location in New York City. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine with two yellow tape stains to the verso. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1968ref. 139469Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white on the set photograph from the US release of the 1968 film. On the set of "Sweet November" pictured from left to right: cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp and actors Anthony Newley and Sandy Dennis. The film follows the story of a troubled young woman who seeks out emotionally crippled men and invites them to live with her for a month in an attempt to "cure" them. However she and Mr. November become quite attached and when he tries to continue the relationship past its prescribed termination he uncovers Sara's Sandy Dennis tragic secret. Set in New York City shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a blue holograph notation to the verso. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1968ref. 139778Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Collection of three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1968 film. The film follows the story of a troubled young woman who seeks out emotionally crippled men and invites them to live with her for a month in an attempt to "cure" them. However she and Mr. November become quite attached and when he tries to continue the relationship past its prescribed termination he uncovers Sara's Sandy Dennis tragic secret. Set in New York City shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with film details affixed to the verso of image 508-27. Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1969ref. 147017London: Columbia British Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Ornamental Art Nouveau Mucha-esque imprinted front wrapper design. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in holograph ink on the title page as well as an encircled "71" in red holograph marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to find suitable romantic partners for each other. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in England Spain and Sweden. Tall ornamental titled wrapper. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter Peter Draper and novelist Janice Elliott. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads. Columbia British Productions unknown books
1949ref. 160942Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. Based on the 1944 short story by Damon Runyon. Gangster Martin Martin is hoping to give up his career in crime for a career in politics when the district attorney attempts to arrest him for a murder five years earlier. On the lamb Martin holes up in an abandoned house and is befriended by a little girl Elsie and her dog Skipper who Martin names Johnny One-Eye. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing at the extremities. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1929ref. 170375N.p.: N.p. 1929. Vintage reference photograph from the 1929 film showing director Robert Florey with Estelle Taylor Lilian Walker and others on the set. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. French-American actor and director Robert Florey was a director of B-films working with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Warner Brothers Paramount and Columbia over a Hollywood career spanning three decades. He is best remembered today for directing the first Marx Brothers film "The Cocoanuts" 1929 and the 1932 horror film "Murders in the Rue Morgue." His 1937 film "Daughter of Shanghai" was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus or better. N.p. unknown
1946ref. 153990Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1946. Vintage reference photograph of director Robert Florey arranging a shot with actor Peter Lorre on the set of the 1946 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a Warner Brothers stamp the stamp of photographer Mac Julian and a provenance stamp. Based on the 1919 short story by W.F. Harvey. A wealthy disabled pianist with an interest in the occult is found murdered in his Italian villa leading local villagers to suspect evil forces involved in his death. Peter Lorre's final film for Warner Brothers ending a five-year involvement. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK. Warner Brothers unknown
1980ref. 149461N.p.: Aberdeen 1980. Three vintage black-and-white reference photographs from the 1980 film. Based on Rosalyn Drexler's 1972 novel "To Smithereens." A scrappy sports arena waitress is scouted by a wrestling promoter who believes she has what it takes to become a champion. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with faint wear at the corners. Aberdeen unknown
