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1957ref. 130511London: The Rank Organization 1957. Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noir A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain but represented as Mexico "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's short story bringing more specifics to the author's intentionally empirical outline. Steiger plays a crooked businessman on the run who steals a man's passport in order to hide out in Mexico only to discover that the passport belongs to a wanted political assassin. 30 x 40 inches. Near Fine. Phillips US. Spicer US. The Rank Organization unknown
1954ref. 148790Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Vintage three-sheet poster for the 1953 film. Based on the 1949 novel "The Girl on the Via Flaminia" by Alfred Hayes. Visiting Villefrance in the early 1950s Robert Teller Kirk Douglas reminisces on his time in the US Army in Paris nearing the end of WWII and his romance with the beautiful French peasant girl Lise Dany Robin. Set in and shot on location in Paris and the French Riviera France. 40.75 x 78 inches. Two panels folded as issued. Very Good with large closed tear to mid-right splitting to some folds several small closed tears at the extremities and light soiling. Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 140640London: John C. Mather / Ben Arbeid 1970. Draft script for an unproduced British film called "Act of Treason" written by Guy Elmes based on Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Emmanuel Robles' 1948 play "Montserrat." Screenwriter Elmes also wrote for films like "Bad Blonde" 1953 "Across the Bridge" 1957 "Pontius Pilate" 1962 "the Invincible Six" 1970 and "White Fang" 1973. Robles' play opened in Paris in 1948 a story about the civil war in Venezuela during the early 1800s where a Spanish officer commits treason and joins the Venezuelan revolutionaries. Guy Elmes is a screenwriter primarily known for his work in writing the original story and screenplay for "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" 1979. Gray blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Guy Elmes playwright Lillian Hellman and producer Ben Arbeid. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. John C. Mather / Ben Arbeid unknown
1985ref. 143995Toronto: Telepix Canada 1985. Final Draft for the 1986 television film. Based on the book of the same name recounting the corruption of the 1969 United Mine Workers' presidential election and the murder of Joseph "Jock" Yablonski that followed. Set in Pittsburgh PA and environs shot on location in Pitsburgh and Nemacolin Pennsylvania and Ontario Canada. Self-wrappers with title page integral on the front wrapper dated August 8 1985 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Scott Spencer. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/19/85 and 8/22/85. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. Telepix Canada unknown
1980ref. 161298N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage color borderless reference photograph from the 1980 Italian film. Provenance stamp and manuscript label crediting photographer Gianfranco Salis. A low-budget film actor suffers a nervous breakdown and runs away with an actress who believes herself to be Shakespeare's Ophelia. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 152715London: English Film Company Limited 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film here under the working title "The Will" with single annotation in manuscript ink of copy number "24" on first page. One of the better known British sexploitation films of the 1970s having been the subject of a 1975 episode of BBC program "Man Alive" season 9 episode 24 "Xploitation" as well as having been one of three British sex films viewed by moral reformer Lord Longford. A pair of greedy brothers are summoned to their father's estate after his death but are instructed not to enter the house until the reading of the will and are forced to stay instead with servants Adam and Nicole in a cottage on the grounds. Green titled wrappers dated January 1975. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. English Film Company Limited unknown
1960ref. 144084Rome: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Collection of 64 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1960 Italian film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos five with Contino's rubberstamp and two are dupes made by the original developer. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. 7 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall with curling and a few scattered creases. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1960ref. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1971ref. 161449N.p.: Modern Art Productions 1971. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Each with a provenance stamp on the versos. Richard is a for-hire stud in divorce suits who earns ten percent of the money the husband saves by proving wives' infidelities. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Modern Art Productions unknown
1966ref. 162111London: Miracle Films 1966. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the UK release of the 1966 Italian film showing actors Catherine Spaak and Nino Manfredi. 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 wife invents a lover in order to intrigue her husband who she suspects is beginning to grow bored with their relationship. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with wear at the corners and a faint tide mark on the bottom edge of the verso. Miracle Films unknown
1954ref. 140533N.p.: Federal Telefilms 1954. Draft script for Season One Episode 14 of the 1954-1956 television show originally aired on September 23 1954. Copy belonging to episode director Derwin Abrahams with his name as Derwin Abbe on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil and manuscript pencil annotations on nearly every page. Based on the character created by Michael Arlen which first appeared in 1940 short story published in "Town & Country" magazine. The character would go on to appear in 15 films throughout the 1940s as well as a radio serial before finally being adapted as this early syndicated television show which ran for 39 episodes between 1954 and 1956. Beige titled wrappers noted as production No. 216 dated May 18 1954. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with some light dampstaining to both bound with three gold brads. Federal Telefilms unknown
1962ref. 151621Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Collection of 20 vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Based on Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning political shocker of 1959 but detached from the novel's Cold War agenda about how American government functions in a free society. Set and shot on location in Washington DC. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine some with light wear to the corners. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Columbia Pictures unknown
1985ref. 141111N.p.: N.p. 1985. Revised Draft script for the 1985 play. Copy belonging to Peter Mark Richman who played the character of Lewis in this production with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and annotations throughout in manuscript ink. The story of a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who can not seem to finish any screenplays and thus is haunted by his unfinished characters including Adolf Eichmann a gorilla and a blue-collar worker named "The Raincoat." Steve Shagan was a critically acclaimed novelist playwright and screenwriter who came to prominence working on the television series "Tarzan." Throughout his long career he was nominated for both Academy Awards and Emmy Awards. Set in Los Angeles. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Draft with credits for playwright Steve Shagan. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 150623Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1967. Collection of 35 vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1967 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with images of director Andrew Marton actors and crew on the set. A British rancher hires two American cowboys to oversee his Kenyan estate. Basis for the American television show "Cowboy in Africa" starring Chuck Connors which ran on ABC during the 1967-1968 season. Set and shot on location in Kenya. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1999ref. 150042N.p.: N.p. 1999. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film here under the working title "Seeing in the Dark." With a handwritten post-it note affixed to the verso of the front wrapper noting the name and phone number of director Robert Manganelli. A deaf clairvoyant who receives visions of an unknown serial killer's movements teams up with a former crime photographer to find the murderer. The third of four film appearances of singer and occasional actor John Mellencamp. Shot in Rochester New York. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 6-9-99 noted as Rev. with credits for director and screenwriter Robert Manganelli. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 166459Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film by noted television and film director Joss Whedon. Annotations in manuscript ink throughout indicating locations of scenes. A government scientist dies only to wake up in an entirely different body: that of a serial killer named Snowman. Although the script never progressed to production Whedon used several of the themes of "Afterlife" in his 2009 television series "Dollhouse." Self wrappers. Title page present with credit for Whedon dated September 16 1994. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 141409N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A barfly witnesses a bank robbery and getaway making him the inadvertent target of the gang members responsible for the crime. Red titled wrappers with a die cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as original treatment with credit for screenwriter Michael Sloan. 49 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 48. Roneograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 129692New York: Delia Productions 1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Alfred. 102 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Delia Productions unknown
1977ref. 141292N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in French. Laid in are a three-page synopsis of the film and a letter from the screenwriter. In the winter of 1934 a French woman living by the seaside with two mysterious older men gets wrapped up in the politics of the times ultimately forcing all three to reveal their true identities. Set in France. Tan titled wrappers. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 80. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 159116N.p.: N.p. 1984. Second Draft script for an unproduced film using the hook from singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp's 1983 song "Pink Houses" as its moniker. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 20. An unproduced drama about unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania by acclaimed screenwriter and director Frank Pierson. Pierson was the writer of "Dog Day Afternoon" 1975 winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and co-writer of "Cool Hand Luke" 1967 "Cat Ballou" 1965 and "A Star is Born" 1976 among many others. Pierson served as the President of the Writers Guild of America West for two terms in the 1980s and 1990s and was also associated with the American Film Institute the Academy of American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Sundance Film Festival. Considered by many to be one of the best unproduced still-unfilmed screenplays written in the wake of an April 1984 "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" magazine article about the spate of films about American milltowns. Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 7 1984 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Frank Pierson. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine with light offsetting on the last page of the script. Bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1951ref. 146074Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1951. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1951 film. A group of new recruits arrive at an Air Force training camp and experience the usual growing pains: hazing romance and rivalry. An early appearance by Golden Age heartthrob Rock Hudson as an aggressive upperclassman. Shot on location in Arizona Florida and Texas. White titled self wrappers noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper noted as production No. 1653 dated JANUARY 31 1951 with credits for actors Stephen McNally Gail Russell Alex Nicol and other cast members. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered REEL TEN PAGE 13. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some fading to the top left and right edges bound with two gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown
1950ref. 146066Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1950. Treatment script for the 1951 film. Copy belonging to Universal-International film executive Leo Spitz with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A group of new recruits arrive at an Air Force training camp and experience the usual growing pains: hazing romance and rivalry. An early appearance by Golden Age heartthrob Rock Hudson as an aggressive upperclassman. Shot on location in Arizona Florida and Texas. Blue titled wrappers noted as TREATMENT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7718 dated March 21 1950. Title page present noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter Robert W. Soderberg. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/16/50 and 3/18/50. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound at the top left corner with one gold brad. Universal International Pictures unknown
1995ref. 166472Santa Monica: Beacon Communications 1995. Draft script for the 1997 film. Communists hijack Air Force One with the First Lady and her daughter onboard forcing the president to decide whether he will break his vow never to capitulate to terrorist demands or sacrifice the lives of his family. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Washington DC throughout California and in Cleveland and Mansfield Ohio in the US and in Moscow Russia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated August 22 1995 with credit for screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Beacon Communications unknown
1954ref. 146381N.p.: N.p. 1954. Draft script for a US Air Force training video. Script belonging to an uncredited cast member apparently cast in the role of the narrator with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two pieces of paper with drawings of flight patterns ostensibly to be used during production and a paper fragment noting addresses names and other details. A three-part training video for Air Force pilot instructors. Set on the Orlando Air Force Base in Orlando Florida. Blue titled wrappers noted as PROJECT NO. 19130 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 6 MAY 1954 noted as PROJECT NO. 19130 with credits for writer Nat S. Linden and a number of tech advisors. 79 leaves with last page of text numbered 70. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light dampstaining and edgewear. N.p. unknown
