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1968ref. 160762Universal City: Universal Studios 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Jules Brenner with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A successful race car driver dreams of winning the Indy 500 and stops at nothing to achieve his goal sacrificing his relationships with his wife and stepson in the progress. Shot on location in Elkhart Lake Wisconsin and Indianapolis Indiana. Yellow titled Universal Studios wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper noted as production No. 02017 dated April 16 1968. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final Screenplay with credit for screenwriter Howard Rodman. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/26/68 and 5/14/68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus moderately soiled with a dampstain on the fore-edges bound with three gold brads. Universal Studios unknown books
1979ref. 151527Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Black-and-white illustrated pocketed folder containing 21 black and white photographs and 16 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on Richard Condon's 1974 novel. A pitch-black satire following the half-brother of fictional US President Kegan closely modeled on John F. Kennedy as he begins to uncover the circumstances which led to Kegan's assassination 19 years prior. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 156277Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Collection of 15 vintage double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1963 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. The second entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus some with pinholes and small closed tears. Criterion Collection 210. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1963ref. 130176Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1963ref. 130145Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. 27.5 x 39.25 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
1962ref. 171100Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Swedish film. Copy belonging to actor Bertha Sånnell with her name in manuscript ink on a label affixed to the front wrapper her annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on two script pages and on a sheet of lined paper bound in at the rear of the script. The second entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched an important phase in the director's career. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Bergman. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good perfect-bound with the spine of the wrapper and the first two leaves detached from the text block. Criterion Collection 210. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
1970ref. 144149N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Marisa immigrates to Los Angeles from Guatemala to go to a university for the deaf. She struggles to find work without a green card and as she is forced into increasingly precarious situations she must defend herself from violent and predatory men. Set in Guatemala and Los Angeles California. Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Larry Davis. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 141382N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text and titles in German. White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Janusz Henryk Kryst. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a Very Good black Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1986ref. 168210Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1986. Vintage compilation publicity photograph from the 1986 film showing Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore. Estevez' directorial debut about a young graduate who decides to embark on a cross-country bank robbing spree accompanied by his girlfriend in order to erase loan and mortgage records for the farmers and working class citizens of the country. Shot on location throughout Southern California and in Albuquerque New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987ref. 162290London: Atlantic Releasing 1987. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1987 British film. 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 feisty young girl grows up in a small English coastal town in the years after WWII eventually becoming pregnant by an acquaintance of her widowed father. Shot on location in West Sussex. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine one with an annotation in manuscript ink amending a caption on the recto. Atlantic Releasing unknown books
1997ref. 154468N.p.: Live Entertainment 1997. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 film showing actor Andrew Divoff. A demonic djinn is accidentally set free when a group of twentieth century construction workers accidentally uncover the ancient opal where its spirit is stored. The first film in the Wishmaster series followed by three sequels. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Live Entertainment unknown books
1994ref. 149993N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film. Seeking money for drugs an African American man breaks into an ER surgeon's apartment leading her to kill him in self-defense. The man's grieving brother seeks revenge for what he sees as his brother's unwarranted racially motivated death beginning a bitter cycle of violence and retribution. Set in Chicago. Gray HBO Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated January 11 1994 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Rodney Sullivan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 162601N.p.: Tonylyn Productions 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Two with provenance stamps on the versos and one with a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1966 Norwegian novel "Uten en tråd" by Jens Bjørneboe. A high school girl unable to achieve orgasm visits a doctor who advises her to keep a diary of her sexual encounters. She follows his suggestion and soon finds herself caught up in an increasingly wild series of intimate experiences. IMDB Shot on location in Copenhagen Denmark Hamburg Germany and Paris France. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a wax pencil cropping annotation in the lower margins else Near Fine. Tonylyn Productions unknown books
1946ref. 146146Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage studio photograph of Mervyn LeRoy and Louella Parsons rehearsing on the set of the 1946 film. Based on the obscure 1946 pulp novel by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston about a best selling novelist who meets Marine who she thinks is perfect for the lead in an upcoming film adaptation although he doesn't her book. An abundance of Hollywood cameos with columnist Louella Parsons playing herself. 8.25 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some light creasing. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 157894Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1957 film. Based on the 1953 play by Agatha Christie about the trial of a man accused of murder. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor for Charles Laughton and Best Supporting Actress for Elsa Lanchester. Set in London. 28 x 22 inches. Folded twice as issued Near Fine. Penzler 101. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950ref. 142371N.p.: N.p. 1950. Archive of screenplays for an unproduced films all by the same screenwriter from the screenwriter's estate. Collection of unproduced screenplays by screenwriter G.E. Moore including "The Wittering Alp" "Portrait of Catherine" "The Trojan Story" "The Nine Days' Wonder" and "The Choice Spirit." Title page present with credits for screenwriter Moore. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Mixed ribbon copy typescript carbon typescript and mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus housed in a black spring binder. Binder is Good only significantly dampstained but has done its job and the internal leaves are unaffected. N.p. unknown books
1919ref. 152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready." A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway. Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 136048Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir showing the crew retrieving the waterlogged car used in the climactic scene. An heiress inherits her father's steel mill and then must extricate herself from a marriage to the mill's general manager who means to kill her in order to own the mill. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling near one extremity. Grant US. Selby US. Silver & Ward US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 135367Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 film. Press stamps on the versos. A seven-part anthology ranging from comedy to drama starring actress Shirley MacLaine in various guises and all dealing with adultery and its ramifications. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1954ref. 130751Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1954. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with blue revision pages throughout and with Heflin's substantial annotations in manuscript pencil on five pages see images. Clifton Webb plays Earnest Gifford the CEO of a car company tasked with replacing one of his managers after the incumbent dies. In a bit of a twist the CEO decides to observe the wives of his top three candidates hoping to tease out useful information and character traits via their choice of spouses. Title page present dated April 20 1954 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Lindsay Crouse and Binyon. 128 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4-22-54 and 5-11-54. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970ref. 162502New Orleans LA: Howco Productions 1970. Draft script for the 1970 sexploitation film seen here under the working title "His Wife's Habit." Laid in with the script is a five-page shooting schedule. A promiscuous married woman finds herself unable to resist sleeping with every man she meets leading to a savage attack by a motel parking attendant and his crony. Shot on location in New Orleans. Black generic card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Joy N. Houck Jr. Albert J. Salzer and Robert A. Weaver. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good moderately faded on the edges bound internally with three silver brads. Howco Productions unknown books
1970ref. 147659New Orleans LA: Howco Productions 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film showing actress Georgine Darcy taking a literal tumble in the hay with a suitor. A promiscuous married woman finds herself unable to resist sleeping with every man she meets leading to a savage attack by a motel parking attendant and his crony. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small tear to the top edge not impacting the image. Howco Productions unknown books
1973ref. 161100N.p.: N.p. 1973. Two vintage borderless oversize color reference photographs from the 1973 film one showing two prisoners fighting the other showing two prisoners locked in a passionate embrace. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A woman goes to prison in order to save her father who has been wrongly accused by a powerful drug cartel of stealing twenty kilos of heroin. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly curled. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 149514Beverly Hills CA: Brandywine Productions 1969. Nine vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso of 7 of the photos. Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel following two sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends bringing conflict between the two couples as their romances take them in different directions. An apt examination of changes in sexual mores both at the time of the novel's publication and the film's 1969 release. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Glenda Jackson. Set and shot on location in Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire Derbyshire and London and Kanton Wallis Switzerland. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation available on request. Brandywine Productions unknown books
1969ref. 158482N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 British film including one double weight showing Alan Bates and Jennie Linden and one single-weight showing Linden and Glenda Jackson. Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel following two freethinking sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends bringing conflict between the two couples as their romances take them in different directions. An apt examination of changes in sexual mores both at the time of the novel's publication and the film's 1969 release. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Glenda Jackson. Set and shot on location in Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire Derbyshire and London and Kanton Wallis Switzerland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1254. Criterion Collection 916. N.p. unknown books
