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1987ref. 144132Sydney: Melaleuka 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film with occasional manuscript annotations. Adapted from Morris West's novel of the same name. Just after World War II ends a British major in Austria seeks revenge on the man who killed his sergeant. Shot on location in Salzburg Austria and at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire England. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Morris L. West. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Melaleuka unknown
1950ref. 160937Los Angeles: RKO 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. Claudette Colbert stars as a woman who is accused of bigamy by an intruder during her wedding ceremony to David McLean. The two then must travel to a small seaside village to investigate the claim where villagers claim to have remembered her previous nuptials. Shot on location in Santa Monica California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Grant US. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. RKO unknown
ref. 158051Hollywood: Frsco Productions 1976. Archive of three draft scripts for an unproduced film including One First Draft script one Second Draft Shooting script and one Third Draft Shooting script. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page of the First Draft and cast pages of the Second Draft Shooting script. A musical spoof of John Huston's classic 1941 film noir "The Maltese Falcon." Screenwriter Frank Saletri a criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles worked as a part-time screenwriter and producer primarily of exploitation especially Blaxploitation films. Saletri's screenwriting work was largely unproduced with the exception of the 1973 film "Blackenstein" and the possible exception of "Black the Ripper" a questionably apocryphal film whose existence has been debated for decades among grindhouse fans. First Draft: Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First Draft in manuscript pencil annotation with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Draft Shooting script: Green untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Third Draft Shooting script: Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Frsco Productions unknown
1969ref. 162207Hollywood: Global Pictures 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film with one of the photographs a compilation photograph of two studio still photographs. Photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Very loosely based on the Shakespeare play. A group of thesbians begin a production of Romeo and Juliet but everyone is in the production is incredibly randy and the play quickly descends into debauchery. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Global Pictures unknown
1965ref. 132145Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Estimating script for an unproduced film. The story of a small contingent of militant mercenaries who attempt to stir up a conflict between Cuba and the United States by piloting a hostile decoy Navy ship into enemy waters off Key West only to be thwarted by the actual Navy and a few well-meaning American citizens taken hostage. No doubt mirroring some of the public's concerns at the time given the tenuous peace established by the Cuban Missile Crisis the film remained unproduced perhaps considered too sensationalist or close to home. Screenwriter Dozier would go on to write largely for television including episodes of "Batman" and "Harry O." Tan titled wrappers noted as ESTIMATING on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 23 dated April 2 1965. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 4/1/65 with credits for screenwriter Dozier. 136 leaves mimeograph on yellow stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1977ref. 147064N.p.: N.p. 1977. First Edition. First Edition publicity manual reminiscent in content to a press kit but with much more detail. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis to advertise legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and his psychological drama "The Serpent's Egg" 1976. Profusely photo-illustrated with over 60 black and white images including film stills and on the set photography of Bergman and other actors at work. Black comb bound wrappers with titles in green. Very Good plus with light rubbing and soil on the front and rear wrapper. Approximately 120 pages. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 146913N.p.: Estree Distributors 1963. Vintage borderless photograph of Sarah Miles and Joseph Losey on the set of the 1963 film. Crop annotations in manuscript marker on recto crop annotations in manuscript pencil and "Theo Cowan LTD" and "Paris-Presse" stamps and 1 1/4" mimeo snipe on the verso. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a servant-becomes-master tale but goes beyond what could have been a mediocre finish and journeys into the psyche and personal problems of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set in and shot on location in London. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus some faint creasing. Estree Distributors unknown
1963ref. 149757N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 British film showing director Joseph Losey watching a scene between actors James Fox and Wendy Craig. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a familiar servant-becomes-master tale but surpasses mediocrity through a journey into the psyche of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 151273N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film noir. A wonderful fourth wall version of the film's most classic shot only this one including cinematographer Douglas Slocombe director Joseph Losey actor James Fox not in the original scene and a crew member adjusting the chandelier all in the reverse mirror image. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The first of director Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a familiar servant-becomes-master tale but surpasses mediocrity through a journey into the psyche of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set and shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 162479N.p.: Gulf-United Productions 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the alternate release title "3 on a Waterbed." Provenance stamp on the verso. A famous actor hires a sex worker and locks her in a hotel room for three days as part of an "experiment." Shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with wax pencil layout annotations in the margins of the recto and light creasing to the extremities. Gulf-United Productions unknown
1993ref. 147073Los Angeles: Orbit Entertainment 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film here under the working title "Cross Bait." After being accidentally given an invaluable coin from the age of King Herod while traveling through Jerusalem an Arabic boy and an American teenager travel across Israel to protect the treasure from a British man obsessed with procuring the coin by any means. Set and shot in Jerusalem. Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Dror Soref and Howard Delman. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good lightly dampstained and soiled bound with three gold brads. Orbit Entertainment unknown
1982ref. 138021N.p.: Self published 1982. Early Draft script for the 1993 film "The Seventh Coin" here under the working title "King Herod's Children" dated a full decade before the film's release. Credited on the title page to Kikuo Kawasaki for an original concept. An Arab boy Chowdhry meets a beautiful American tourist Powers in modern-day Jerusalem. By accident the two are entrusted to guard a valuable coin dating back to King Herod but they must defend themselves and the coin from a no-good villain O'Toole. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriters Delman and Soref and concept person Kawasaki. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Self published unknown
1976ref. 164365N.p.: Danton Films 1976. Vintage one sheet poster for a double-bill of the 1968 and circa 1976 films circa 1976. An amusing pairing of two obscure exploitation films released as a double-bill by Danton Films one of the more memorable sexploitation and Gridnouse production companies of the 1970s circa 1976. "The Sex Shuffle" from 1968 is an exploitation film shot in Texas of hippie orgies drug use and body painting. The second film "Teenage She-Wolves" circa 1976 is largely undocumented except for a few newspaper ads from 1976-1979 and a favorable review in the April 26 1979 "Toronto Star" which describes the film as a Faustian fable set in Mexico in which a Vietnam veteran trades his soul to save the life of the woman he loves. 28 x 39.5 inches. Very Good with two R-rating labels over the recto a 1.5 inch chip to the lower left side a small open tear to the top left corner and repairs to pinholes and starting at the creases on the verso with linen tape and cello tape. Danton Films unknown
1965ref. 149469New York: Wiliam Mishkin Motion Pictures 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With a provenance stamp on the verso. Three theatre bigwigs discuss their most recent project prominently featuring aspiring actress Liz Adams who has slept her way to the top of the Broadway money chain. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn to the bottom right corner. Wiliam Mishkin Motion Pictures unknown
1965ref. 149476Chicago: Esquire 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With the stamp of R.I.C. Productions in Brussels on the verso. A so-called modeling agency in New York City secretly operates as an undercover prostitution ring. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and edgeworn. Esquire unknown
1967ref. 151964N.p.: N.p. 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a brief typed letterdated May 14 1968 addressed to agent Irene Heymann introducing the script. A cold-hearted mob boss is jailed on a vagrancy charge and seeks vengeance upon his release. Screenwriter Sy Bartlett worked as a screenwriter and producer for four decades most notably co-writing "Sergeant Murphy" 1938 and "13 Rue Madeleine" 1946 and producing "Cape Fear" 1962. Blue titled wrappers noted as First Draft and Production No. 8864 dated February 17 1967 with credits for screenwriter Sy Bartlett. Title page present dated February 17 1967 with credits for screenwriter Sy Bartlett. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light creasing and wear to page 142 wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and edgeworn bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 163896Hollywood: Mépris Films / Pretty Pictures 2001. Revised Draft script for the 2003 film. Working copy belonging to director and producer Neil LaBute annotated throughout bound in a three-ring binder with numerous production documents including handwritten shot sequences color photos contact sheets shooting and post-production schedules and location and vendor lists. Laid in with the binder are three borderless wardrobe test photographs of actor Paul Rudd in costume an additional white set of revision pages a manuscript shot breakdown in LaBute's hand and three xerographically duplicated images of Rudd with a prosthetic neck. Laid into the front of the binder is a full-page newspaper advertisement for LaBute's play. Based on the 2001 play written by LaBute. A pitch-black comedy about a frumpy literature major whose personality and appearance begins to change as he is wooed by a beautiful graduate art student. Title page present dated December 12 2001 with credit for LaBute. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between January 21 and February 8 2002. Pages Near Fine binder Near Fine. Mépris Films / Pretty Pictures unknown
1961ref. 128815London: Merton Park Studios 1961. Final Shooting Script for the 1962 UK film. The 18th film out of 47 of the "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" a British film series that showed as 1-hour second features on British film screens between 1960 and 1965 then later on television. White titled wrappers noted as Final Shooting script on the front wrapper dated October 1961 with credits for screenwriter Mackie and writer Wallace. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 64 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Merton Park Studios unknown
1980ref. 154877London: ITC Entertainment 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 television film seen here under its British title "The Shillingbury Blowers." Illustrated folder containing one gathering of promotional reading material. A small English village is thrown into turmoil when a pop star moves into town and takes over conductorship of the local brass band. The film originally aired on January 6 1980 on PBS. Shot on location in Hertfordshire England. Press kit Very Good plus with light edgewear to the folder and its contents. ITC Entertainment unknown
1970ref. 142128New York: Moerae Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American sailor is sent to Scotland to inspect and perhaps purchase a new fleet of ships for a Greek crew based in America. Set in Scotland. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Moerae Productions unknown
1970ref. 141473New York: Moerae Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American sailor is sent to Scotland to inspect and perhaps purchase a new fleet of ships for a Greek crew based in America. Set in Scotland. Teal titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Moerae Productions unknown
1971ref. 166092N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 French film. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Jean Rollin's third vampire film following "Le viol du vampire" 1968 and "La vampire nue" 1970. 7 x 9.5 inches with a wide right margin. Near Fine. Hinds 76. N.p. unknown
1988ref. 161011Los Angeles: A.I.P. Productions 1988. Draft script for the 1990 film copy belonging to actor Aldo Ray with the manuscript ink annotation of his signature on the title page and copied annotations on one page. A group of outcast US Army soldiers who care more about partying than soldiering are chosen to represent their base for annual war games and pit off against a group of sultry female soldiers and the Red Vipers a vicious group of elite solders with the brass all betting against them including General Makepeace played by Aldo Ray. Shot on location in Corona California. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Jeff Mandel Michael Bogert and Peter Yuval. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the first and last leaves bound with three gold brads. A.I.P. Productions unknown
1940ref. 148233Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film one with "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1937 play "Parfumerie." Klara Novak Margaret Sullavan is the new employee at the Matuschek and Company store and Alfred Kralik James Stewart their best salesman can't stand each other unaware they're falling in love through the post as anonymous pen pals. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1999. Set in Budapest. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at corners one with two small pieces of paper tape at top pinholes on verso. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1965ref. 151593N.p.: Prominent Films 1965. Vintage press kit for the US release of the classic 1965 Czechoslovakian film for use by distributors and the press containing 24 black and white photographs three pressbooks and a poster for the film all housed in a white paper envelope with the film's logo on the recto. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population. One of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. Poster photographs and pressbooks Near Fine. Criterion Collection 130. Prominent Films unknown
