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1985ref. 144247Universal City: Universal Pictures 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of director Terry Gilliam on the set of the 1985 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Universal Pictures unknown
1985ref. 140818Universal City CA: Embassy Pictures / Universal Pictures 1985. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1985 film showing director Gilliam and crew during a quiet moment between takes. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Embassy Pictures / Universal Pictures unknown
2004ref. 167768London: Recorded Picture Company 2004. Revised Shooting script for the 2005 fantasy film. Copy belonging to still photographer François Duhamel with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. Based on the 2000 novel by Mitch Cullin the third and final novel in his Texas Trilogy following "Whompyjawed" 1999 and "Branches" 2000. A young girl retreats into a vivid fantasy world during a summer spent at an isolated Texan farmhouse with her brother and their eccentric neighbors. Set in Texas shot on location in western Canada. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 15 2004 noted as Shooting Script with credits for Cullin and screenwriters Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between September 22 and 28 2004. Pages about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Recorded Picture Company unknown
1953ref. 142336London: Jack Parsons 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. Title page present dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Jack Parsons unknown books
1953ref. 142336London: Jack Parsons 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. Title page present dated May 1953 with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Jack Parsons unknown
1980ref. 137980Hollywood: Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions 1980. Original "pre-production package and script" for an unproduced film called "Yaqui Fox and Mose" including a separate synopsis. Included in the "pre-production package" is character information: Fox half Choctaw Indian half Irish a loner in total control of his destiny; Yaqui an Indian at the end of his rope looking for redemption; and Mose half Black half Indian on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Also included: letters from various productions companies regarding possible crew members like director Ted Post cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Will Sampson as "Yaqui" Philip Michael Thomas as "Mose" producers Richard Kaye Jay Lovins and Carol Hughes music by Carlos Santana technical personnel stunt coordinator Bill Hart letter signed by Hart wrangle Dick Lundin letter signed by Lundin special effect director Johnny James letter signed by James. Letters are dated 1979 or 1980. Various photocopied advertisements images of scenery and animals to be used production data a shooting schedule budget detail promotional ideas and weather information where the film was to be shot is also present. Overall pre-production for the film went as far as it possibly could but for unknown reasons the film was never produced or released. Brown titled wrappers. Synopsis page with a credit for screenwriter Terri Crane. Xerographic duplication with a few full-color pages detailing scenes from the opening titles. Last leaf of text numbered 80. Very Good plus bound with a brown Vello binding. Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions unknown books
1980ref. 137980Hollywood: Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions 1980. Original "pre-production package and script" for an unproduced film called "Yaqui Fox and Mose" including a separate synopsis. Included in the "pre-production package" is character information: Fox half Choctaw Indian half Irish a loner in total control of his destiny; Yaqui an Indian at the end of his rope looking for redemption; and Mose half Black half Indian on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Also included: letters from various productions companies regarding possible crew members like director Ted Post cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Will Sampson as "Yaqui" Philip Michael Thomas as "Mose" producers Richard Kaye Jay Lovins and Carol Hughes music by Carlos Santana technical personnel stunt coordinator Bill Hart letter signed by Hart wrangle Dick Lundin letter signed by Lundin special effect director Johnny James letter signed by James. Letters are dated 1979 or 1980. Various photocopied advertisements images of scenery and animals to be used production data a shooting schedule budget detail promotional ideas and weather information where the film was to be shot is also present. Overall pre-production for the film went as far as it possibly could but for unknown reasons the film was never produced or released. Brown titled wrappers. Synopsis page with a credit for screenwriter Terri Crane. Xerographic duplication with a few full-color pages detailing scenes from the opening titles. Last leaf of text numbered 80. Very Good plus bound with a brown Vello binding. Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions unknown
1973ref. 161326Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film showing actor Martin Sheen. Provenance labels on the verso. Director Terrence Malick's transcendent and ferocious debut loosely based on the 1958 murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in early outstanding performances. Kit a handsome but disaffected young garbage collector and Korean War veteran succeeds in charming Holly a shy teenage girl despite the objections of her brutish father. The two run away together after Kit murders her father initiating a killing streak that follows in their wake. Set in South Dakota shot on location in Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly scratched and worn. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 651. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert IV. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Grant US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973ref. 161326Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film showing actor Martin Sheen. Provenance labels on the verso. Director Terrence Malick's transcendent and ferocious debut loosely based on the 1958 murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in early outstanding performances. Kit a handsome but disaffected young garbage collector and Korean War veteran succeeds in charming Holly a shy teenage girl despite the objections of her brutish father. The two run away together after Kit murders her father initiating a killing streak that follows in their wake. Set in South Dakota shot on location in Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly scratched and worn. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 651. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert IV. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Grant US. Warner Brothers unknown
1983ref. 141482N.p.: N.p. 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man accidentally kills his stepfather on the day of his baptism. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 14 1983 with credit for screenwriter Terrell Tannen. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 141482N.p.: N.p. 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man accidentally kills his stepfather on the day of his baptism. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 14 1983 with credit for screenwriter Terrell Tannen. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 172361N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photographs from the 1947 film noir. The sole survivor of his family's massacre a man is taken in by an older woman whose family wants to kill him. Set in and shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 44. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 132749Culver City CA: National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures 1959. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1959 UK release of the 1957 US film. An American boy becomes lost after the plane he is on is forced to make an emergency landing off the Japanese coast. The boy befriends a fisherman's son and the two travel through the countryside while avoiding the police who they mistakenly believe are out to arrest rather than rescue the American. A story set and shot on location in Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at 2 corners and faint creases. National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 172361N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photographs from the 1947 film noir. The sole survivor of his family's massacre a man is taken in by an older woman whose family wants to kill him. Set in and shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 44. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 152185N.p.: N.p. 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film including two programs an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling" and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966. Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 163707N.p.: Topaz Film Corporation 1961. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1960 British film originally released in the UK as "Too Hot to Handle." Uncommon in this format. Jayne Mansfield stars as showgirl Midnight Franklin headliner at the Pink Flamingo club in Soho run by her tough guy boyfriend Johnny Solos. When Johnny starts getting threats and demands for protection money from a rival club owner he fights back. Featuring famously risqué musical numbers featuring Mansfield in see-through clothing some frames from which were published in Playboy magazine and were visually altered for the US release to meet censor requirements. 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with some rubbing to the lower left and upper right causing modest color loss. Bright and unfaded. Grant UK. Topaz Film Corporation unknown books
1957ref. 150605Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of 13 vintage photographs from the 1957 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso crediting photographer Bert Cann. Very loosely based on the 1950 nonfiction book "The Story of Zarak Khan" by A.J. Bevans about an outlaw fighting against British occupation in 19th century Afghanistan pursued by a British officer with whom he develops a mutual respect. Set on the border between Afghanistan and India shot on location in England Morocco India and Burma. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 152185N.p.: N.p. 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film including two programs an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling" and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966. Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 163707N.p.: Topaz Film Corporation 1961. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1960 British film originally released in the UK as "Too Hot to Handle." Uncommon in this format. Jayne Mansfield stars as showgirl Midnight Franklin headliner at the Pink Flamingo club in Soho run by her tough guy boyfriend Johnny Solos. When Johnny starts getting threats and demands for protection money from a rival club owner he fights back. Featuring famously risqué musical numbers featuring Mansfield in see-through clothing some frames from which were published in Playboy magazine and were visually altered for the US release to meet censor requirements. 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with some rubbing to the lower left and upper right causing modest color loss. Bright and unfaded. Grant UK. Topaz Film Corporation unknown
1957ref. 150605Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of 13 vintage photographs from the 1957 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso crediting photographer Bert Cann. Very loosely based on the 1950 nonfiction book "The Story of Zarak Khan" by A.J. Bevans about an outlaw fighting against British occupation in 19th century Afghanistan pursued by a British officer with whom he develops a mutual respect. Set on the border between Afghanistan and India shot on location in England Morocco India and Burma. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1959ref. 147069N.p.: Hammer Film Productions 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images. Although an ostensible remake of the hit 1932 Universal film Hammer Film adaptation of this title borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" 1940 and "The Mummy's Tomb" 1942 with the climax taken directly from "The Mummy's Ghost" 1944. When British archeologists led by John Banning Peter Cushing despoil the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess Princess Anaka Yvonne Furneaux they awaken her keeper and former lover high priest Kharis Christopher Lee. The only Hammer film to feature the actor combination of Lee Cushing and Michael Ripper. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine some light creasing one with two closed tears and pinholes and one photo with top right corner clipped. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1961ref. 167579Universal City: Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 British film showing Oliver Reed in costume as Leon Corledo the werewolf. Based on Guy Endore's 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris." Reed's first starring role in a feature film and the first werewolf film to be shot in color. Released as a double feature with another Hammer film "Shadow of the Cat" 1961. Set in Spain and shot on location in Buckinghamshire and Surrey England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the margins. Johnson and Del Vecchio. Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films unknown books
1958ref. 149893N.p.: N.p. 1958. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film "Dracula" released as "Horror of Dracula" in the US. One photo with manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. Hammer Films' first adaptation of the Dracula story generally thought to be the finest of the studio's many horror films to feature the Count and simply one of the finest gothic horror films ever made. Christopher Lee introduced a more romantic debonair take on the character an approach that is still a mainstay of contemporary interpretations. Set in Klausenburg shot on location in Berkshire England. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus one with light soil to the bottom left corner. Johnson and DelVecchio Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 167558Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 British horror film. Hammer's third Dracula film and the second to feature Christopher Lee as the titular vampire in an entirely dialogue-free role. Set in 1895 at the fictional Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian Mountains shot on location in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Johnson and Del Vecchio. Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films unknown books
1959ref. 147066N.p.: Hammer Film Productions 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 Hammer film. Based on the 1945 play by Barre Lyndon "The Man in Half Moon Street." 104 year old sculptor Georges Bonnet Anton Diffring maintains a youthful appearance by having a victim's parathyroid glands surgically replace his own but his partner and friend Dr. Weiss Arnold Marle had a stroke and cannot perform the surgery. He then blackmails an old flame's Hazel Court boyfriend Dr. Pierre Gerard Christopher Lee into performing the surgery. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good moderate creasing with a closed tear on the left side. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
