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1949ref. 156122N.p.: Pontus Film 1949. Vintage program for the 1949 German film. Text and titles in German. A poor farmer learns that he may be the father of an illegitimate son and illegally slaughters a pig in an attempt to help the young man leading to a number of comic mishaps. Set in a small wine village on the banks of the Rhine. 8 x 11.5 inches. Bi-fold. About Near Fine. Pontus Film unknown
1965ref. 141222N.p.: N.p. 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Fritz Habeck's 1951 German novel "Das Boot kommt nach Mitternact" about a Nazi officer who accepts a bribe from a persecuted couple to allow them to escape Paris by boat. Set in Paris. Tan titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Peter A. Schnitzler. Title page present dated June 1965 with credits for screenwriter Peter A. Schnitzler and author Fritz Habeck. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 141222N.p.: N.p. 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Fritz Habeck's 1951 German novel "Das Boot kommt nach Mitternact" about a Nazi officer who accepts a bribe from a persecuted couple to allow them to escape Paris by boat. Set in Paris. Tan titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Peter A. Schnitzler. Title page present dated June 1965 with credits for screenwriter Peter A. Schnitzler and author Fritz Habeck. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 141133Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1955. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1955-1961 television series. One of television's first Westerns a series following famed marshal Wyatt Earp as he attempts to maintain order and law on the American frontier. Nominated for two prime time Emmy awards. Set in Arizona and shot on location in California and Arizona. Pink titled self-wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper with credit for screenwriter Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a staple. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1972ref. 160515N.p.: N.p. 1972. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 film both showing actors Patricia Collins and Jerry Orbach. Based on Frederick Exley's classic 1968 novel about a middle-aged alcoholic writer who suffers a mental breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in New York and Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 160515N.p.: N.p. 1972. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 film both showing actors Patricia Collins and Jerry Orbach. Based on Frederick Exley's classic 1968 novel about a middle-aged alcoholic writer who suffers a mental breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in New York and Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1955ref. 141133Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1955. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1955-1961 television series. One of television's first Westerns a series following famed marshal Wyatt Earp as he attempts to maintain order and law on the American frontier. Nominated for two prime time Emmy awards. Set in Arizona and shot on location in California and Arizona. Pink titled self-wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper with credit for screenwriter Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a staple. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown
1954ref. 147138N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a copied manuscript annotation on the front wrapper and title page noting: "BASED ON the play and NOVEL / "THE HUMAN STRONGBOX" / by / Frederic MAUZENS." Based on Frederic Mauzens' 1941 play "The Human Strong Box" about a daffy young man who accidentally swallows a priceless ruby and subsequently must defend his intestines from thugs and jewel thieves. Set in Manhattan NY. Orange titled wrappers dated November 1954 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT WYLER and play and novel credits to Frederic Mauzens. Title page present dated November 1954 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT WYLER and play and novel credits to Frederic Mauzens. 28 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 147138N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a copied manuscript annotation on the front wrapper and title page noting: "BASED ON the play and NOVEL / "THE HUMAN STRONGBOX" / by / Frederic MAUZENS." Based on Frederic Mauzens' 1941 play "The Human Strong Box" about a daffy young man who accidentally swallows a priceless ruby and subsequently must defend his intestines from thugs and jewel thieves. Set in Manhattan NY. Orange titled wrappers dated November 1954 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT WYLER and play and novel credits to Frederic Mauzens. Title page present dated November 1954 with credits for screenwriter ROBERT WYLER and play and novel credits to Frederic Mauzens. 28 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 147444New York: N.p. 1990. Two scripts for an unproduced film a 1983 First Draft script and a 1990 Draft script. The First Draft script titled "Kean: A Film Biography" contains a few annotations in manuscript marker of text and dialogue corrections. The 1990 Draft script is entitled "Kean: A Play for Life." Accompanying the First Draft script is a Laid in letter as well as photographically duplicated copy signed "Fred" with New York address and telephone number and dated 6/12/83 in manuscript marker from Frederic Kimball to producer Elliott Kastner. Kimball closes the letter with "I hope you are still interested. Al is." likely referring to Al Pacino a longtime confidant and collaborator on films such as "Looking for Richard" 1996 "Author Author" 1982 "Dick Tracy" 1990 and "And Justice for All" 1979. Also laid in is an additional copy of the first page of the First Draft script. 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 biopic on the tumultuous life of the 19th century British Shakespearean actor Edumund Kean. 1983 First Draft Script: Title page integral with wrapper dated 6/10/86 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Frederic Kimball. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound Laid in letter 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good folded horizontally 1/2" from top with large 2 x 3 inch chip on top left and small closed tears on left side. 1990 Draft Script: Title page integral with wrapper dated 1990 with credits for screenwriter Frederic Kimball. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine bound with prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1990ref. 147444New York: N.p. 1990. Two scripts for an unproduced film a 1983 First Draft script and a 1990 Draft script. The First Draft script titled "Kean: A Film Biography" contains a few annotations in manuscript marker of text and dialogue corrections. The 1990 Draft script is entitled "Kean: A Play for Life." Accompanying the First Draft script is a Laid in letter as well as photographically duplicated copy signed "Fred" with New York address and telephone number and dated 6/12/83 in manuscript marker from Frederic Kimball to producer Elliott Kastner. Kimball closes the letter with "I hope you are still interested. Al is." likely referring to Al Pacino a longtime confidant and collaborator on films such as "Looking for Richard" 1996 "Author Author" 1982 "Dick Tracy" 1990 and "And Justice for All" 1979. Also laid in is an additional copy of the first page of the First Draft script. 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 biopic on the tumultuous life of the 19th century British Shakespearean actor Edumund Kean. 1983 First Draft Script: Title page integral with wrapper dated 6/10/86 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Frederic Kimball. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound Laid in letter 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good folded horizontally 1/2" from top with large 2 x 3 inch chip on top left and small closed tears on left side. 1990 Draft Script: Title page integral with wrapper dated 1990 with credits for screenwriter Frederic Kimball. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine bound with prong binding. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 164374N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1968 Hammer film here under the French release title "Dracula et les femmes." The fourth entry in Hammer Film Productions' Dracula series and the third to feature Christopher Lee as the Count. Preceded by the 1966 film "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" directed by Terence Fisher and followed by the 1970 film "Taste the Blood of Dracula" directed by Peter Sasdy. A monsignor exorcises Dracula's castle unwittingly resurrecting the Count who proceeds to prey on the monsignor's beautiful niece and friends. 23 x 31.25 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a 4.25 inch closed tear to the upper right side and starting at the center and far right creases. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1969ref. 164374N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1968 Hammer film here under the French release title "Dracula et les femmes." The fourth entry in Hammer Film Productions' Dracula series and the third to feature Christopher Lee as the Count. Preceded by the 1966 film "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" directed by Terence Fisher and followed by the 1970 film "Taste the Blood of Dracula" directed by Peter Sasdy. A monsignor exorcises Dracula's castle unwittingly resurrecting the Count who proceeds to prey on the monsignor's beautiful niece and friends. 23 x 31.25 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a 4.25 inch closed tear to the upper right side and starting at the center and far right creases. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1951ref. 145446Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage black-and-white double weight studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Struck from the original negative with offset black border. Starring actors Ericson and Mauldin are prominently featured. "Silver Screen Archives" rubber-stamp on the verso. Based on an original story by Alfred Hayes and Stewart Stern. Phillip Ericson is a soldier in Italy during WWII where he meets and marries Teresa Angeli and returns to the US to an overbearing mother Patricia Collinge. Hayes and Stern were nominated for an Academy Award for their story and the film grossed more international sales than domestic. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light curling and toning and a short corner crease. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1951ref. 158855Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Based on an original story by Alfred Hayes and Stewart Stern. A soldier in Italy during WWII meets and marries an Italian woman. They return to the US together and struggle to adjust. Set in Italy and New York City shot on location in Italy and New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950ref. 137544Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1950. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the 1950 film. Pictured are Richard Erdman Ray Teal and Marlon Brando left to right. Ken Brando is a paralyzed WWII vet trying to adjust to living without the use of his limbs. Nominated for an Academy Award and one of the earliest portrayals of post-WWII vets assimilating back into society emphasizing PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few bruises to the verso and recto. United Artists unknown books
1948ref. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1945ref. 148593Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Complete Draft script for the 1947 film. Single annotation on front wrapper crossing out "who talked" in manuscript pencil with "talks" above in manuscript ink changing the working title "My Brother Who Talked to Horses" as it is on first two pages of script to "My Brother Talks to Horses" the released title. Stamped "Complete" and "Rerun" "Nov 1 1945" on front wrapper. Single annotation of name after "Checked By:" in manuscript pencil on verso of front wrapper a printed form for tracking revisions "Date" "Chgs" "Adds" and "Name" revision form un-entered. Based on the short story "Louie the Boy Who Talked with Horses" which was Chapter Ten of the 1945 novel "Joe the Wounded Tennis Player" by Morton Thompson who wrote the screenplay. Nine year old Baltimore boy Lewie Penrose Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins believes he can converse with horses and pick the winners of races attracting the attention of gambler Rich Roeder Charles Ruggles looking to win in the upcoming Preakness Stakes. Set in Baltimore Maryland. Yellow titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 126 dated 7.26-45 with credits for screenwriter Morton Thompson and "Okayed by:" producer Mr. Samuel Marx. Title page integral with the first page of text dated 7-24-45. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6-4-45 and 7-24-45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1977ref. 163608Beverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Vintage bi-fold program for the 1977 film. Printed on the recto and the verso. Based on the 1973 novel "Pentimento" by Lillian Hellman about a young partisan in Germany determined to bring down the Nazi regime. Noiminated for eleven Academy Awards and winner of three including Best Supporting Actor to Jason Robards and Best Supporting Actress to Vanessa Redgrave. Set in Nazi Germany shot on location in England and France. Near Fine. Twilight Time 210. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960ref. 147919Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Peter Ustinov and Glynis Johns from the 1960 film. Based on the 1952 John Cleary novel and shot in Technicolor. Paddy Carmody Robert Mitchum and his wife Ida Deborah Kerr live with their son Sean Michael Anderson Jr. as impoverished nomads in the Australian outback. Ida and Sean want to settle down but Paddy never wants to stay in one place for too long. Nominated for five Academy Awards Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Set in and shot on location in Australia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
ref. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown books
1964ref. 163559Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Gregory Peck and Paolo Stoppa. Annotation in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on Emeric Pressburger's 1961 novel "Killing a Mouse on Sunday" about a famous bandit who after living in exile in France for two decades returns to Spain in order to visit his ailing mother. Shot on location in the Pyrenees. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with an annotation in manuscript ink on the bottom right corner. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 160495N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of screenwriter Carl Foreman on the set of the 1952 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 8.25 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown books
1952ref. 150381N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph of director Fred Zinnemann and assistant director Emmett Emerson on the set of the 1952 film. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 7.25 x 5 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown
