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1965ref. 143145Culver City CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions 1965. Seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War an obsessed glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers Confederate POWs and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns in the US. 11.75 x 9.25. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners. Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions unknown books
1967ref. 160830Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1967. Revised Estimating script for the 1969 Western film. Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western of nearly inestimable importance and violence made at the peak of his career and which-along with "Straw Dogs" 1971-remains the lasting testament to his vision. A major contributor to the "end of the West" theme so prevalent of the genre in the 1970s and one of the earliest New Hollywood Westerns. Set in Mexico shot on location in Mexico and Spain. Beige titled Warner Brothers wrappers dated November 15 1967 noted as Rev. Estimating Script and stamped copy No. 75. Title page present dated 11/15/67 with credits for screenwriters Wallen Green and Sam Peckinpah and story credit for Roy Sickner. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Hardy US. Pitts 4934. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 28. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1983ref. 171974N.p.: N.p. 1983. Second Draft script for the 1983 film. Copy belonging to Supervising Property Master Emily Ferry with her name in manuscript ink on the title page. Internally duplicated copy made during shooting with copied hole punches. A dramatization of the early days of the US space program focusing on the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for the first American human flight into space. Based on the 1979 book by Tom Wolfe and basis for a documentary film and a television series both released in 2020. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning four. Beige three-ring card binder with manuscript title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft with credits for Wolfe and screenwriter Philip Kaufman. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Early Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus binder Very Good title page detached from the binding and lightly foxed. National Film Registry. Ebert II. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 163766Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1983. Collection of 20 vintage color slides from the 1983 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the slide sleeves noting the film title distributor names and file numbers. Based on Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the first 15 years of the US space program. Winner of four Academy Awards and nominated for four others. 2 x 2 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. United Artists unknown
1983ref. 171974N.p.: N.p. 1983. Second Draft script for the 1983 film. Copy belonging to Supervising Property Master Emily Ferry with her name in manuscript ink on the title page. Internally duplicated copy made during shooting with copied hole punches. A dramatization of the early days of the US space program focusing on the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for the first American human flight into space. Based on the 1979 book by Tom Wolfe and basis for a documentary film and a television series both released in 2020. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning four. Beige three-ring card binder with manuscript title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft with credits for Wolfe and screenwriter Philip Kaufman. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Early Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus binder Very Good title page detached from the binding and lightly foxed. National Film Registry. Ebert II. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 163766Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1983. Collection of 20 vintage color slides from the 1983 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the slide sleeves noting the film title distributor names and file numbers. Based on Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the first 15 years of the US space program. Winner of four Academy Awards and nominated for four others. 2 x 2 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. United Artists unknown books
1940ref. 155765Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Final script for the 1941 screwball comedy film with "286" in manuscript pencil to the top right of the front wrapper. Laid in is a ribbon copy typescript listing the five lead actors on RKO letterhead. A cantankerous tycoon goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York department store in order to identify labor agitators but finds himself befriending the workers and becoming sympathetic to their needs. A key film in the American screwball comedy cycle with proletarian elements deftly woven into a hilarious and whip-smart story. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Charles Coburn. Pink titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 60 dated November 26 1940 with credits for screenwriter Norman Krasna. Distribution page integral with title page with receipt removed dated 11/26/40 noted as FINAL. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a small amount of silverfish damage on the second and third leaves with foxing to the top edge and faint foxing to the fore-edge wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing and soiling bound with three gold brads. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography. Olive 53203. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1943ref. 150216Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1943. Five vintage borderless double weight reference photographs taken on location in Spain for the 1943 film most showing director Sam Wood and actors Joseph Calleia Lilo Yarson Gary Cooper Katina Paxinou and Ingrid Bergman. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel which follows the experiences of an American fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War and his relationship with a young guerrilla fighter. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actress for Katina Paxinou. Set and shot on location in Spain. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1950ref. 147934Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph of John Hodiak and Don Taylor from the 1950 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the serial "Ambush" by Luke Short which was published in "The Saturday Evening Post" December 25 1948 to February 12 1949. Ward Kinsman Robert Taylor a prospector and Indian scout is in search of a white woman Mary Carlyle a general's daughter who has been abducted by Apaches. Sam Wood's final film. Shot on location in Arizona New Mexico and the Corrigan Ranch in Simi Valley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1940ref. 155765Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Final script for the 1941 screwball comedy film with "286" in manuscript pencil to the top right of the front wrapper. Laid in is a ribbon copy typescript listing the five lead actors on RKO letterhead. A cantankerous tycoon goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York department store in order to identify labor agitators but finds himself befriending the workers and becoming sympathetic to their needs. A key film in the American screwball comedy cycle with proletarian elements deftly woven into a hilarious and whip-smart story. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Charles Coburn. Pink titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 60 dated November 26 1940 with credits for screenwriter Norman Krasna. Distribution page integral with title page with receipt removed dated 11/26/40 noted as FINAL. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a small amount of silverfish damage on the second and third leaves with foxing to the top edge and faint foxing to the fore-edge wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing and soiling bound with three gold brads. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography. Olive 53203. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1973ref. 139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown
ref. 172189N.p.: Interstar 1979. Substantial archive of material belonging to actress Samantha Eggar relating to the 1980 crime-exploitation film. Included are Eggar's annotated working script with blue and pink revisions signed in round-robin fashion on the title page by actor Christopher George director James Glickenhaus producer Mark Buntzman and others. Archive also includes six pages of contact information regarding crew members and 36 black-and-white reference photographs from the film most featuring Eggar with various cast and crew members on the set. A Vietnam veteran turns to vigilante justice after his close friend is beaten and left paralyzed by a street gang and his employer is threatened by the Mafia. Shot on location in New York City and at the Indian Dunes in Valencia California. A cult classic of the highest order bridging aspects of both 1970s and 1980s exploitation. Script: Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for screenwriter James Glickenhaus on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 8/9/79 noted as copy No. 64 with credit for Glickenhaus. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered 170. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/24/79 and 9/5/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good or better bound with two gold brads. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine some with light toning to the margins. Housed in a white cardboard Ilford photograph box. Arrow Films. Interstar unknown
ref. 172189N.p.: Interstar 1979. Substantial archive of material belonging to actress Samantha Eggar relating to the 1980 crime-exploitation film. Included are Eggar's annotated working script with blue and pink revisions signed in round-robin fashion on the title page by actor Christopher George director James Glickenhaus producer Mark Buntzman and others. Archive also includes six pages of contact information regarding crew members and 36 black-and-white reference photographs from the film most featuring Eggar with various cast and crew members on the set. A Vietnam veteran turns to vigilante justice after his close friend is beaten and left paralyzed by a street gang and his employer is threatened by the Mafia. Shot on location in New York City and at the Indian Dunes in Valencia California. A cult classic of the highest order bridging aspects of both 1970s and 1980s exploitation. Script: Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for screenwriter James Glickenhaus on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 8/9/79 noted as copy No. 64 with credit for Glickenhaus. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered 170. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/24/79 and 9/5/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good or better bound with two gold brads. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine some with light toning to the margins. Housed in a white cardboard Ilford photograph box. Arrow Films. Interstar unknown books
1973ref. 139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown books
2022ref. 164001Santa Monica: Stalwart Productions 2022. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 of the 2022 anthology television series. Copy belonging to construction coordinator Chris Scher with her name as a watermark on every page. An anthology follow-up to the successful 2010-2022 horror series "The Walking Dead." In this episode set post-apocalypse a young Alpha then known as Dee tries to protect her daughter and their community steamboat home. Originally aired on August 28 2022 on AMC. 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. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 3/28/22 noted as Blue Draft with credits for screenwriter Channing Powell and director Michael Satrazemis. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 45. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Stalwart Productions unknown
2022ref. 164001Santa Monica: Stalwart Productions 2022. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 of the 2022 anthology television series. Copy belonging to construction coordinator Chris Scher with her name as a watermark on every page. An anthology follow-up to the successful 2010-2022 horror series "The Walking Dead." In this episode set post-apocalypse a young Alpha then known as Dee tries to protect her daughter and their community steamboat home. Originally aired on August 28 2022 on AMC. 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. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 3/28/22 noted as Blue Draft with credits for screenwriter Channing Powell and director Michael Satrazemis. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 45. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Stalwart Productions unknown books
1967ref. 162219N.p.: Screen Gems 1967. Vintage reference photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. in the recording studio on the set of the 1966 animated musical film holding a poster with a drawing by John Tenniel and pointing to the character Davis voiced in the movie-the Cheshire cat. A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic 1865 novel with Alice falling through the "looking glass" of the television screen into Wonderland. Originally broadcast on ABC on March 30 1966 the special featured music by composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams best known for the Broadway production "Bye Bye Birdie" 1960. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Screen Gems unknown
1962ref. 170830N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Sammy Davis Jr. behind bars from the 1962 film. Provenance sticker and stamp on the verso. A fictionalized version of John Resko's 1959 autobiography "Reprieve" about a convict played by Ben Gazzara whose death sentence is commuted to life in prison and with the aid of a humane prison guard is rehabilitated and becomes a successful painter. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 170830N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Sammy Davis Jr. behind bars from the 1962 film. Provenance sticker and stamp on the verso. A fictionalized version of John Resko's 1959 autobiography "Reprieve" about a convict played by Ben Gazzara whose death sentence is commuted to life in prison and with the aid of a humane prison guard is rehabilitated and becomes a successful painter. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 162219N.p.: Screen Gems 1967. Vintage reference photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. in the recording studio on the set of the 1966 animated musical film holding a poster with a drawing by John Tenniel and pointing to the character Davis voiced in the movie-the Cheshire cat. A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic 1865 novel with Alice falling through the "looking glass" of the television screen into Wonderland. Originally broadcast on ABC on March 30 1966 the special featured music by composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams best known for the Broadway production "Bye Bye Birdie" 1960. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Screen Gems unknown books
1957ref. 154819Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. In 1954 during the Vietnam conflict a smuggler named "Lucky Legs" and a group of French mercenaries infiltrate and destroy an arms depot near the Chinese border. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 566. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1957ref. 151460N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actress Angie Dickinson's legs. In 1954 during the Vietnam conflict a smuggler named "Lucky Legs" and a group of French mercenaries infiltrate and destroy an arms depot near the Chinese border. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned. Olive Films 566. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 171052N.p.: N.p. 1953. Twelve vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film noir. Provenance labels on the versos and seven with blindstamps on the corners. A pickpocket mistakenly lifts a message meant for enemy agents in a Communist spy scheme. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 224. Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 171051Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Collection of 27 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film including four photographs showing proposed advertising material for the film. All but the advertising promos photos have provenance labels on the versos. With a pink mimeograph production sheet laid in showing credits and a brief synopsis. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force about a Daily Globe journalist who in an attempt to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum recently implicated in a murder case. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine with some faint toning to the margins and light curling and studio still photographs with manuscript ink and pencil layout annotations and numeric annotations on the rectos. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown
1963ref. 163824Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Vintage insert poster for the 1963 film. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force wherein Daily Globe journalist Johnny Barrett Peter Breck determined to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum to solve a case where an inmate had recently been murdered. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus with three horizontal creases from being previously folded and light edgewear. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown
