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1963ref. 167736New York: P.I.P. Photo 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Catherine Spaak and Nino Manfredi on the set of the 1963 Italian film. Agency stamps stamp of photographer Georg Michalke and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An orphan is driven out of her small village after a love affair later beginning a new affair in Parma with a petty criminal. Shot on location in Rome Lombardia and Emilia-Romagna Italy. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. P.I.P. Photo unknown
1966ref. 163888Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / Arena Productions 1966. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 20 of the 1966-1967 television series originally aired on February 7 1967 on NBC. A follow-up to the successful "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." 1964-1968 series "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." followed the international adventures of American secret agent April Dancer. In this episode Dancer and her British partner Mark Slate investigate a blackmail arrangement linked to an aging baroness. Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" 1959 although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels short stories radio cinema and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft Bloch received the Hugo Award the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970. Goldenrod titled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer front wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as production No. 8605 and copy No. 124 on the front wrapper dated December 12 1966 with credits for screenwriters Robert Bloch and Richard DeRoy. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 63. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Arena Productions unknown
1968ref. 161785N.p.: RAF Industries 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film one with a provenance stamp on the verso. Louie and Nick are two hoodlums who assault naive and unsuspecting women when they aren't hanging out at the local go-go bar. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. RAF Industries unknown
1963ref. 172432N.p.: Colorama Features 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Mickey Spillane. A private detective investigating the murder of a US senator uncovers a World War II era spy ring. A rare instance in which the author of the source material Mickey Spillane portrays his own character Mike Hammer. Shot on location in Hertfordshire and London England and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant UK. Spicer UK. Weldon 1983. Colorama Features unknown
1940ref. 158029N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film showing actress Margaret Lockwood against a backdrop of "screaming headlines." Based on the 1937 novel by Roy Vickers about a young nurse struggling to find work after she is wrongly accused of murder and subjected to a high-profile court case. The first of several collaborations between director Carol Reed and screenwriter Sidney Gilliat followed by "The Night Train to Munich" 1940 "The Remarkable Mr. Kipps" 1941 and "The Young Mr. Pitt" 1942. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with a faint diagonal crease on the bottom right corner. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 145964N.p.: Bel-Air Productions 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings" Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings" despite it being a low-budget "second feature" film is surprisingly enjoyable mostly due to its exceptional cast. LA lawyer David Hewson Lex Barker arrives at a Utah lodge for a peaceful vacation only to find women being mutilated and murdered and everyone is suspect. Featuring a young Anne Bancroft as pretty young Beth Dixon switchboard operator and assistant to the bitter wheelchair-bound lodge owner Edmund Parry Ron Randell. Mamie Van Doren is Harriet Ames the flirtatious bombshell of course and "the Queen of the B's" the fabulous Marie Windsor is Julia Parry Edmund's dutiful companion and sister. Filmed in and around the Parry Lodge in Kanab Utah. The Parry lodge opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers was built to lodge Hollywood film crews filming early Westerns in the area and was popular among movie stars of Hollywood's golden age. Set in Kanab Utah shot on location in Kanab Utah and Fredonia Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light creasing and edgewear. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Bel-Air Productions unknown
1951ref. 172413Los Angeles CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1951. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film noir. A young woman's suicide jump attempt from a bridge is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love - but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up. Photos 8 x 10 inches on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good to Near Fine. Grant US. Lyons. Selby US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1968ref. 146530N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film here under the working title "Tenderly." With a business card clipped to the first leaf. Laid in with the script is a typed two-page overview of director Franco Brusati's prior screenwriting and directorial credits. Text in English. After 15 years apart a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart a free-spirited young woman. Set in Italy. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters FRANCO BRUSATI and ENNIO DE CONCINI and translator John Francis Lane. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus internally side stapled our first encounter with this practice and bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 161787N.p.: N.p. 1966. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Provenance stamp on the verso of each. Kitty hooks up with the murderously jealous Tigercat in tempestuous unstable lesbian affair. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 137528Los Angeles: Jay Weston Productions 1970. Revised Draft script for an unproduced action film about a American soldier trying to free his son from a military prison in a fictional South American county in the throes of revolution. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Gordon. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Jay Weston Productions unknown
1966ref. 157335N.p.: N.p. 1966. Eight vintage oversize borderless hand-tinted color reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 American sexploitation film. Stamp of French distributor Les Films Hustaix on the versos. Lonely men seek companionship from a variety of increasingly odd sources including an embittered prostitute and the jealous madam of a brothel catering to sadomasochists. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with several with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 147032N.p.: Sandrews 1969. Vintage one sheet Swedish poster for the 1969 film. At some ambiguous time in the near future international superpowers introduce "international peace games" a lethal miniature battle of drafted teens from around the world which is then broadcast as a popular reality television show. Shot on location in Sweden. 27.5 x 39 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus two small holes at middle and lower crease intersections. Sandrews unknown
1971ref. 170548Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actress Julie Christie sporting a fringed shawl and riding a bicycle on the set. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 170553Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing Julie Christie in costume. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 159155London: EMI Films 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Joseph Losey actor Dominic Guard and crew members on the set of the 1971 film. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 10 x 8 inches with a wide bottom margin. About Near Fine slightly wavy on the bottom edge. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. EMI Films unknown
1971ref. 152387London: EMI Films 1971. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of director Joseph Losey actor Michael Redgrave and a camera crew on the set of the 1971 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a provenance stamp. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 10 x 8 inches with a wide bottom margin. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. EMI Films unknown
1971ref. 149438London: EMI Films 1971. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of director Joseph Losey filming a scene on location in Norwich with actor Dominic Guard with cast and crew members looking on. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. EMI Films unknown
1972ref. 152114N.p.: N.p. 1972. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from Wim Wenders' first film. With the stamp of distributor MK2 on the verso. Based on the 1970 novel by Peter Handke. A goalkeeper is sent home from a game for foul play leaving the field and spending the night with a cinema cashier whom he proceeds to murder. Shot on location in Vienna. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus faintly toned. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 154873Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1958 film. Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky reportedly modeled the story on the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner with elements taken from the lives of Joan Crawford and Judy Garland. An in-depth character study of a girl who overcomes her traumatic and bleak childhood and attains her dream of being an adored film star only to find her personal life miserable and unfulfilled. Featuring an outstanding and primal performance by Kim Stanley in her first film role. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Ellicott City Maryland. 27 x 41 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Near Fine with some professional restoration and repair at the original folds. Columbia Pictures unknown
1972ref. 170735N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film the final outdoor scene with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Annotations in manuscript ink in French on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Marlon Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine lightly edgeworn. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader Canon Fodder 16. Sight and Sound 2022. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 154934London: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage British program for the 1972 film with black and white and color film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning three for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba and shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled in illustrated card wrappers. Very Good plus. Wrappers with light rubbing overall light horizontal creasing at spine fold and a bump to the top right corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader 16. Paramount Pictures unknown
1983ref. 156225N.p.: N.p. 1983. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1983 film. One photograph with a small label with manuscript ink annotations affixed to the verso. Sally Potter's directorial debut an avant-garde film about the experiences of two women as they seek to escape capitalism and objectification in a dystopian world. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 137769Rome: Eldorado Films 1987. Original treatment script for the 1987 film "The Gold Rimmed Glasses" here under the working title "The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles." Based on Giorgio Bassani's 1958 novel "Gli occhili d'oro." Dr. Fadigati Noiret is a homosexual doctor living in Fascist Italy where he befriends a Jewish family. Bassani also helped write the screenplay for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1953 film "I vinti" as well as Luchino Visconti's 1954 film "Senso." Self titled wrappers with a credit for writer Bassani on the front wrapper. Title page integral with front wrapper. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Xerographically reproduced. Very Good plus bound with string. Eldorado Films unknown
ref. 146830N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A jazz cornet player finally finds love but when his wife dies giving birth to their first child the musician's life is changed forever. Set in New Orleans New Jersey New York and Chicago. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Herbert Baker. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light offsetting on the front wrapper bound with a single gold brad. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 141009N.p.: N.p. 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Signature of reader Ilse Lahn of the Paul Kohner Agency on title page in manuscript ink. A desert prospector strikes it rich but is promptly robbed by two masked gunmen. The local lawman decides to investigate. Lacking wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Eight leaves with last page of text numbered seven. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a staple. N.p. unknown
