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1952ref. 153204N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film showing a ballet performance from the perspective of the audience with the orchestra pit and conductor visible in the foreground. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Autobiographically reflective of screen icon Charlie Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era depicting the final years of a washed-up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer representative of a new generation of performers. The first and only time that Chaplin and fellow silent film star Buster Keaton would appear onscreen together and the only Chaplin picture to win an Academy Award albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Criterion Collection 756. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 171507Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1940. Two vintage programs from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's classic satire held in New York on October 15 1940. Includes a large-format 14-page illustrated program and smaller bi-fold black-and-white program. Color program with illustrations by noted artist Al Hirschfeld. Affixed to the title page of the color program are two ticket stubs for an October 30 1940 showing of the film at the Astor Theatre. The premiere was held at both the Astor and the Capitol Theatres in New York to accommodate high patron turnout. For his follow-up to his 1936 classic "Modern Times" Chaplin chose to do what only a handful of other films dared to do in 1940-make fun of Hitler. Though several of Chaplin's previous films had made use of music and sound effects and while Chaplin had sung briefly in "Modern Times" "The Great Dictator" marked the first time he spoke dialogue onscreen. Large-format program 9 x 10 inches saddle-stapled. Smaller program 6.25 x 9.5 inches bi-fold. Both programs Very Good plus to Near Fine with some light foxing toning and soil to the extremities. Criterion Collection 565. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 142976Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. One of the more notable scripts from character actor and writer Leo Gordon whose Hollywood career began after his dishonorable discharge during WWll for robbing patrons at a bar. Throughout his 40 years as an actor art imitated life as the burly Gordon typically played an outlaw typecast predominately in Westerns. Peter Collinson fresh off "The Italian Job" was reportedly a brute force in addition to excruciating temperatures on a set that was 200 miles outside of Istanbul. The pairing of the leads was lauded as Charles Bronson was at the height of European fame alongside a well-established Tony Curtis. Set in 1922 Greco-Turkish War shot on location in Turkey. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Leo V. Gordon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 142976Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. One of the more notable scripts from character actor and writer Leo Gordon whose Hollywood career began after his dishonorable discharge during WWll for robbing patrons at a bar. Throughout his 40 years as an actor art imitated life as the burly Gordon typically played an outlaw typecast predominately in Westerns. Peter Collinson fresh off "The Italian Job" was reportedly a brute force in addition to excruciating temperatures on a set that was 200 miles outside of Istanbul. The pairing of the leads was lauded as Charles Bronson was at the height of European fame alongside a well-established Tony Curtis. Set in 1922 Greco-Turkish War shot on location in Turkey. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Leo V. Gordon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1960ref. 125432Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Based on the novel "All the Way" by noted hard-boiled author Charles Williams. Edmond O'Brien is hired to impersonate a murdered businessman and dominates nearly every scene mostly on the phone as the "third voice" in this strange film post-noir entry. The first adaptation of a of Charles Williams novel and one of only a few American film adaptations of his work. One sheet folded twice as issued with one insert 13 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears and light rubbing. Spicer p. 424. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960ref. 125432Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Based on the novel "All the Way" by noted hard-boiled author Charles Williams. Edmond O'Brien is hired to impersonate a murdered businessman and dominates nearly every scene mostly on the phone as the "third voice" in this strange film post-noir entry. The first adaptation of a of Charles Williams novel and one of only a few American film adaptations of his work. One sheet folded twice as issued with one insert 13 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears and light rubbing. Spicer p. 424. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1964ref. 158812Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. One vintage studio still photograph and one vintage reference photograph from a 1964 re-release of the 1953 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1950 short story "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" by Paul Gallico. A young girl takes up a job at a carnival in a puppet act unaware that the puppeteer is in love with her. Nominated for six Academy Awards and the Palm D'or. Set in provincial France. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with one photograph missing a chip along the left edge. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1952ref. 172537Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Three vintage hand-tinted color British front-of-house cards still from the 1952 film. A fictionalized account of the life of Hans Christian Anderson who creates some of his famous fairy tales through his interactions with the people of Copenhagen. Nominated for six Academy Awards. Set in Denmark. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and one photograph with bruising at the top left corner. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 172537Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Three vintage hand-tinted color British front-of-house cards still from the 1952 film. A fictionalized account of the life of Hans Christian Anderson who creates some of his famous fairy tales through his interactions with the people of Copenhagen. Nominated for six Academy Awards. Set in Denmark. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and one photograph with bruising at the top left corner. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1985ref. 147293N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Text in Spanish. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 noted as Treatment and Images with credits for screenwriters. Approximately 50 leaves not numbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a light partial circle stain on the front wrapper and bottom edges bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 146600N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled generic Paul Kohner casting agency wrappers. Title page present noted as Tratamiento with credits for screenwriters Charles Pavlich and Patrick Griffin. 22 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 147293N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Text in Spanish. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 noted as Treatment and Images with credits for screenwriters. Approximately 50 leaves not numbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a light partial circle stain on the front wrapper and bottom edges bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 146600N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled generic Paul Kohner casting agency wrappers. Title page present noted as Tratamiento with credits for screenwriters Charles Pavlich and Patrick Griffin. 22 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 162236N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. Not to be confused with the 1924 silent German film of the same name by Carl Boese. A tribe of Amazon women are able to pull down airplanes flying over their island using a mysterious magnetic force and put all the men on the planes to use as sex slaves. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a small diagonal crease to the top left corner else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 162236N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. Not to be confused with the 1924 silent German film of the same name by Carl Boese. A tribe of Amazon women are able to pull down airplanes flying over their island using a mysterious magnetic force and put all the men on the planes to use as sex slaves. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a small diagonal crease to the top left corner else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 146929N.p.: 5 Continents 1976. Vintage oversize borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film. Bizarre 1970s softcore sci-fi film about disembodied aliens from the dying planet Spermula who take the form of Earth women to collect semen to save their planet. featuring Udo Kier 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus pinholes at the corners else clean and bright. 5 Continents unknown books
1974ref. 140771Hollywood: Goldwyn Studios 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a steel magnate is kidnapped from her college and being held for ransom by a group called the Army of the Oppressed whose insane leader demands ten million dollars in food for the poor. His enemy Turkey the leader of the Liberators in Detroit exacts his own revenge by kidnapping Malcolm Z's mother and wife but is apprehended by the FBI. A convict is allowed to escape from jail to lead the local cops to the gang but he too is killed onsite. With all the leads and hopes dashed one investigator risks his life for one more trick in getting the girl home safely. Set in California and Detriot. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1974 with credits for screenwriter Charles Martin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Goldwyn Studios unknown books
1955ref. 144737Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge played by Morris Ankrum with Prescott's manuscript annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances. George Sanders plays a wealthy hated businessman who has conned his way to the top and as the film begins has been found murdered. We see his life in a series of flashbacks as it is told to the police by his secretary and fellow con artist Yvonne DeCarlo. One of only two films in which Saunders and his real-life brother Tom Conway also play brothers onscreen. Shot on location in New York City and California. Tan titled wrappers noted as 2ND REVISION on the front wrapper copy No. 54 dated December 29 1955 with credits for producer Charles Martin. Title page present dated December 29 1955 noted as 2ND REVISE with credits for screenwriter/producer Martin. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 190. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1978ref. 140622N.p.: Cal-Am Artists 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Script belonging to assistant director John Neukum with his name inscribed on the front wrapper. A rouge cop fed up with the ineffectual justice system decides to take the law into his own hands in this 1978 exploitation thriller. Jack Palance stars as the steely Lt. Jim Wade an L.A. cop who strikes a deal with a mobster in order to uncover the identity of the notorious serial killer "The Slasher." Director Charles Martin's final film he passed away only a few years after its completion. Yellow titled wrappers dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. Title page present dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographic duplication with revision pages throughout dated 07/11/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cal-Am Artists unknown books
1957ref. 146680N.p.: Regal Films 1957. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Cowhand Jeff Donner John Agar is accused of murder and helped to escape by dancehall girl Susan Crowley Penny Edwards only to discover she's actually a Union Army spy working on foiling a Confederate plot. Shot on location in Kanab Utah. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some with creasing 2 with closed tears on bottom. Pitts 3417. Regal Films unknown books
1955ref. 144737Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge played by Morris Ankrum with Prescott's manuscript annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances. George Sanders plays a wealthy hated businessman who has conned his way to the top and as the film begins has been found murdered. We see his life in a series of flashbacks as it is told to the police by his secretary and fellow con artist Yvonne DeCarlo. One of only two films in which Saunders and his real-life brother Tom Conway also play brothers onscreen. Shot on location in New York City and California. Tan titled wrappers noted as 2ND REVISION on the front wrapper copy No. 54 dated December 29 1955 with credits for producer Charles Martin. Title page present dated December 29 1955 noted as 2ND REVISE with credits for screenwriter/producer Martin. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 190. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1957ref. 146680N.p.: Regal Films 1957. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Cowhand Jeff Donner John Agar is accused of murder and helped to escape by dancehall girl Susan Crowley Penny Edwards only to discover she's actually a Union Army spy working on foiling a Confederate plot. Shot on location in Kanab Utah. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some with creasing 2 with closed tears on bottom. Pitts 3417. Regal Films unknown
1976ref. 146929N.p.: 5 Continents 1976. Vintage oversize borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film. Bizarre 1970s softcore sci-fi film about disembodied aliens from the dying planet Spermula who take the form of Earth women to collect semen to save their planet. featuring Udo Kier 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus pinholes at the corners else clean and bright. 5 Continents unknown
1974ref. 140771Hollywood: Goldwyn Studios 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a steel magnate is kidnapped from her college and being held for ransom by a group called the Army of the Oppressed whose insane leader demands ten million dollars in food for the poor. His enemy Turkey the leader of the Liberators in Detroit exacts his own revenge by kidnapping Malcolm Z's mother and wife but is apprehended by the FBI. A convict is allowed to escape from jail to lead the local cops to the gang but he too is killed onsite. With all the leads and hopes dashed one investigator risks his life for one more trick in getting the girl home safely. Set in California and Detriot. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1974 with credits for screenwriter Charles Martin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Goldwyn Studios unknown
1978ref. 140622N.p.: Cal-Am Artists 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Script belonging to assistant director John Neukum with his name inscribed on the front wrapper. A rouge cop fed up with the ineffectual justice system decides to take the law into his own hands in this 1978 exploitation thriller. Jack Palance stars as the steely Lt. Jim Wade an L.A. cop who strikes a deal with a mobster in order to uncover the identity of the notorious serial killer "The Slasher." Director Charles Martin's final film he passed away only a few years after its completion. Yellow titled wrappers dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. Title page present dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographic duplication with revision pages throughout dated 07/11/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cal-Am Artists unknown
