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1961ref. 140972London: Romulus 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. Based on the novel of the same name also by James Barlow Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher who can not advance in his career due to his refusal to fight in the Second World War. He is working at a school where the teens do not like to be there and he is having a fallout with his wife all while a young student begins to have a crush on him leading to him catching a false sexual molestation charge. Set in London shot on location in Ireland. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 17 1961. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 171. Mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Romulus unknown
1963ref. 146394Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few manuscript pencil annotations throughout mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate however how seriously Becket will take the vocation leading to the dissolution of their friendship in the face of Becket's rising political power. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in England and France. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 12th February 1963 noted as REVISED. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some rusting near the binding bound internally with three silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1964ref. 133050Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1964. Original Pressbook for the 1964 film. Unique for a pressbook with a folding front page and a coloring contest to have been used as a herald by distributors. Based on Jean Anouilh's 1959 play. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and nominated for 11 more including Best Picture Best Director and twice for Best Actor. It would be the first of two times O'Toole was nominated for portraying Henry II the other being in 1968 for "The Lion in Winter." 18 pages saddle-stapled 12.25 x 15 inches. Rust to the staples else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 140972London: Romulus 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. Based on the novel of the same name also by James Barlow Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher who can not advance in his career due to his refusal to fight in the Second World War. He is working at a school where the teens do not like to be there and he is having a fallout with his wife all while a young student begins to have a crush on him leading to him catching a false sexual molestation charge. Set in London shot on location in Ireland. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 17 1961. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 171. Mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Romulus unknown books
1944ref. 129803Burbank CA: Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers 1944. Draft script for the 1947 film. This is an early draft developed at Vanguard Films prior to the property being sold to Warner Brothers. An American remake of the 1935 British film of the same name. Largely set in Italy the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok Errol Flynn and unwed mother Gemma Smith Ida Lupino. Suspecting that her fiance Caryl Gig Young Sebastian's brother is the father of Gemma's child young heiress Fennella McLean Eleanor Parker retreats to the Italian Alps. Attempting to straighten out the situation Sebastian finds himself falling in love with Fennella. For his brother's sake Sebastian breaks off the relationship and marries Gemma but while awaiting the birth of her child he writes a heartfelt ballet score dedicated to Fennella. However when Gemma's baby dies the conscience-stricken Sebastian changes the dedication to his wife whom he has learned to genuinely love. Notable for a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Blue titled wrappers dated August 21 1944 with credits for playwright Margaret Kennedy. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 131 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with tearing at the left hole punches bound with three gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in protective mylar. Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers unknown
1944ref. 129803Burbank CA: Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers 1944. Draft script for the 1947 film. This is an early draft developed at Vanguard Films prior to the property being sold to Warner Brothers. An American remake of the 1935 British film of the same name. Largely set in Italy the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok Errol Flynn and unwed mother Gemma Smith Ida Lupino. Suspecting that her fiance Caryl Gig Young Sebastian's brother is the father of Gemma's child young heiress Fennella McLean Eleanor Parker retreats to the Italian Alps. Attempting to straighten out the situation Sebastian finds himself falling in love with Fennella. For his brother's sake Sebastian breaks off the relationship and marries Gemma but while awaiting the birth of her child he writes a heartfelt ballet score dedicated to Fennella. However when Gemma's baby dies the conscience-stricken Sebastian changes the dedication to his wife whom he has learned to genuinely love. Notable for a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Blue titled wrappers dated August 21 1944 with credits for playwright Margaret Kennedy. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 131 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with tearing at the left hole punches bound with three gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in protective mylar. Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers unknown books
1987ref. 150490N.p.: The Callender Company 1987. Vintage studio still photograph of Peter Greenaway and crew on the set of the 1987 film. Paper snipe on verso. American architect Stourley Kracklite Brian Dennehy arrives in Rome to supervise an exhibition for the little known French architect Etienne-Louis Boullee. Over several months working on the exhibition Kracklite's health and marriage deteriorate as he becomes convinced he is being poisoned like Caesar Augustus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Rome Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1092. The Callender Company unknown
1989ref. 149674N.p.: N.p. 1989. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1989 film one showing director Peter Greenaway and actors Alan Howard the lover and Helen Mirren the wife the other showing Greenaway with actor Richard Bohringer the cook. Each photograph with a printed mimeo label describing it and with identifying numbers 1 and 5 respectively each affixed to the verso. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's sophisticated wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit depictions and notions of sexuality. Set in the UK. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality. Set in the UK. Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown
ref. 150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality. Set in the UK. Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown books
1989ref. 149674N.p.: N.p. 1989. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1989 film one showing director Peter Greenaway and actors Alan Howard the lover and Helen Mirren the wife the other showing Greenaway with actor Richard Bohringer the cook. Each photograph with a printed mimeo label describing it and with identifying numbers 1 and 5 respectively each affixed to the verso. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's sophisticated wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit depictions and notions of sexuality. Set in the UK. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 150490N.p.: The Callender Company 1987. Vintage studio still photograph of Peter Greenaway and crew on the set of the 1987 film. Paper snipe on verso. American architect Stourley Kracklite Brian Dennehy arrives in Rome to supervise an exhibition for the little known French architect Etienne-Louis Boullee. Over several months working on the exhibition Kracklite's health and marriage deteriorate as he becomes convinced he is being poisoned like Caesar Augustus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Rome Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1092. The Callender Company unknown books
1969ref. 162292Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the US release of the 1969 British film including three borderless and one bordered. All with mimeo snipes on the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A married sales executive must conceal his past affair with a young hitchhiker after his wife agrees to take the girl on as a boarder. Set in Middlesex shot on location in Hampshire. Three 7.5 x 9.5 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1969ref. 162292Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the US release of the 1969 British film including three borderless and one bordered. All with mimeo snipes on the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A married sales executive must conceal his past affair with a young hitchhiker after his wife agrees to take the girl on as a boarder. Set in Middlesex shot on location in Hampshire. Three 7.5 x 9.5 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 141740Munich: InterTel Television 1972. Draft script for an unproduced television film. Text in German. Based on the 1972 novel by Peter Handke about a young Austrian who travels across the United States to search for his estranged wife. Set in California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Bernhard Wicki. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a gold prong binding. InterTel Television unknown
1972ref. 141740Munich: InterTel Television 1972. Draft script for an unproduced television film. Text in German. Based on the 1972 novel by Peter Handke about a young Austrian who travels across the United States to search for his estranged wife. Set in California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Bernhard Wicki. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a gold prong binding. InterTel Television unknown books
1977ref. 139995England: ITC Entertainment 1977. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1977 American-British film. Robert Gould is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission including a fake landing transmitted messages and a fatal reentry. Shot on location in Arizona Texas and California. Novelized by both Ken Follett and Ron Goulart. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner creases else Near Fine. Scarce. Lentz US. Spicer US. ITC Entertainment unknown
1983ref. 139597Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1983 film. Steven Hardin Michael Douglas is a Los Angeles Judge disillusioned with the ineffective legal system. After watching two violent criminals walk on a technicality he decides to partake in an underground ring of vigilante justice only to discover it is as flawed and dangerous as the official system. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1977ref. 139995England: ITC Entertainment 1977. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1977 American-British film. Robert Gould is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission including a fake landing transmitted messages and a fatal reentry. Shot on location in Arizona Texas and California. Novelized by both Ken Follett and Ron Goulart. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner creases else Near Fine. Scarce. Lentz US. Spicer US. ITC Entertainment unknown books
2001ref. 164026N.p.: N.p. 2001. Rainbow Revision Shooting Draft script for the 2002 film with six gatherings of revision pages. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. The six gatherings of revision pages include: Six buff revision ages dated 5/03/01. Twelve buff revision pages dated May 3 2001 with a label on the title page for uncredited crew member "Steve Martinez / Construction Department." Eleven cherry revision pages dated May 6 2001. Four tan revision pages dated May 16 2001 with a label on the title page for "Construction Department" with the name struck. Two pages of 2nd white revision pages dated May 21 2001 with a label on the title page for "Jason Vanover / Construction Department" Vanover had the uncredited position of Key Greensman on the film. And seven 2nd yellow revision pages dated June 11 2001 with a label on the title page for "Jason Vanover / Construction Department." Based on the 1999 bestselling novel by Janet Fitch. Fifteen-year old Astrid finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home after her free-spirited mother with borderline personality disorder is imprisoned after poisoning her lover. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles California. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 21 2001 noted as Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerograhic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/21/01 and 4/21/01. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revision Pages with each grouping affixed by a single staple to the top left. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
2001ref. 164026N.p.: N.p. 2001. Rainbow Revision Shooting Draft script for the 2002 film with six gatherings of revision pages. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. The six gatherings of revision pages include: Six buff revision ages dated 5/03/01. Twelve buff revision pages dated May 3 2001 with a label on the title page for uncredited crew member "Steve Martinez / Construction Department." Eleven cherry revision pages dated May 6 2001. Four tan revision pages dated May 16 2001 with a label on the title page for "Construction Department" with the name struck. Two pages of 2nd white revision pages dated May 21 2001 with a label on the title page for "Jason Vanover / Construction Department" Vanover had the uncredited position of Key Greensman on the film. And seven 2nd yellow revision pages dated June 11 2001 with a label on the title page for "Jason Vanover / Construction Department." Based on the 1999 bestselling novel by Janet Fitch. Fifteen-year old Astrid finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home after her free-spirited mother with borderline personality disorder is imprisoned after poisoning her lover. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles California. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 21 2001 noted as Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerograhic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/21/01 and 4/21/01. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revision Pages with each grouping affixed by a single staple to the top left. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1981ref. 167631Hollywood and Burbank: Paramount Pictures / Walt Disney 1981. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1981 fantasy film showing actors Peter MacNicol and Peter Eyre. A young wizarding apprentice is selected via magical amulet to be the successor to a powerful sorcerer a position which also necessitates traveling to a nearby kingdom to kill a murderous dragon. A large part of the film's budget went towards special effects for the dragon finalized by noted visual effects producer and supervisor Phil Tippett. Set in sixth-century Britain shot in North Wales and Skye Scotland. 9.75 x 8 inches. About Fine. Paramount Pictures / Walt Disney unknown books
1990ref. 141322Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown
1990ref. 141322Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown books
1984ref. 130321Atlantic Entertaining Group 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on the 1981 debut novel by Leonard Michaels. Seven singularly dysfunctional men form a discussion group and share their feelings about women love and life. Red titled wrappers recycled by studio from a previous wrapper with the film title noted in manuscript ink. Title page present dated April 1984 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Michaels and Gottfried. 116 leaves with last page numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Atlantic Entertaining Group unknown
