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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 books
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
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 books
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 books
1965ref. 148068Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Vintage studio still photograph of Shirley Jones Honor Blackman and Lionel Jeffries from the 1965 film. Arthur Tate 's James Booth career takes an astounding leap from lowly constable to the ruler of a Banana Republic in South America thanks to his mother Amy Dalby and three women: dressmaker Violet Lawson Stella Stevens Lily the Baroness von Kukenberg Honor Blackman and movie producer Marigold Marado Shirley Jones. Featuring Lionel Jeffries in four separate roles. Set in and shot on location in England and Portugal. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965ref. 132061Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Eight vintage full-color still British front-of-house cards from the 1965 film. Something of an antecedent to Hal Ashby's "Being There" 1981 in which a bumbling idiot inherits a fortune and becomes a high-ranking government official 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases to most else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 148088Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage studio still photograph of Anne Jackson from the 1968 film. Victoria Layton Jackson poses as a call girl for "The Movie Star" Walter Matthew to prove to her husband Patrick O'Neal the movie star's agent that she still has sex appeal and to rekindle their marriage. Set in and shot on location in New Canaan Connecticut and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with irregular margins. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
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 books
1955ref. 132494London: Eros Films 1955. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1955 UK film. A scarce English crime drama about an American who loses his money and finds himself stranded. He meets a smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear but before they come to an agreement she is pushed off a cliff. 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing and toning overall else Near Fine. Eros Films unknown books
1967ref. 162203N.p.: Victoria Films 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A "nudie" short starring Dick Van Patten as Oliver Nibble who goes to the movies with his wife where the film changes from black and white to color as Oliver begins to fantasize about being a photographer surrounded by beautiful models in various states of undress. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a vertical crease to the left side. Victoria Films unknown books
1984ref. 158867N.p.: Avala Film 1984. Vintage studio still photograph of actors Bud Cort and Carol Kane from the 1984 film. A comedic and fictional biography of Sigmund Freud's life as he begins his work as a psychologist including his development of some of his most famous theories. Shot on location in Belgrade Serbia. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Avala Film unknown books
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
1950ref. 147783Los Angeles: United Artists 1950. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1950 film. A young woman visiting her aunt in California finds herself attracted to her aunt's neighbor a wealthy man unexplainably plagued by bad luck. Set and shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and faint toning. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward. United Artists unknown books
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 books
1966ref. 150913N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of director Christian-Jaque and Michele Mercier on the set of the 1966 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil "APIS" stamp and photographer "Jean Guyaux" stamp on verso. Based on the 1961 French novel by Jean Laborde. The married renowned lawyer Pierre Montant becomes infatuated and has an affair with the young student Nathalie a dancer in a discotheque working her way through medical school. When she breaks up with him unable to bear the clandestine affair he threatens her at gunpoint. 11 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus with mild creasing and edgewear. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 150913N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of director Christian-Jaque and Michele Mercier on the set of the 1966 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil "APIS" stamp and photographer "Jean Guyaux" stamp on verso. Based on the 1961 French novel by Jean Laborde. The married renowned lawyer Pierre Montant becomes infatuated and has an affair with the young student Nathalie a dancer in a discotheque working her way through medical school. When she breaks up with him unable to bear the clandestine affair he threatens her at gunpoint. 11 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus with mild creasing and edgewear. N.p. unknown
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
1948ref. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown
1941ref. 147912Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1941. Collection of 28 vintage double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. With mimeo snipes to the verso identifying actors in each photograph. Likely unique. Based on Jack London's 1904 novel following three fugitives who are rescued from the ocean and subsequently imprisoned by a cruel mariner who refuses to let them off the ship. 11 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and fading overall some with faint foxing to the verso and light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown books
1941ref. 147912Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1941. Collection of 28 vintage double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. With mimeo snipes to the verso identifying actors in each photograph. Likely unique. Based on Jack London's 1904 novel following three fugitives who are rescued from the ocean and subsequently imprisoned by a cruel mariner who refuses to let them off the ship. 11 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and fading overall some with faint foxing to the verso and light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown
1978ref. 161968Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. A man his two daughters and a journalist plan to travel the world on a sailboat but get shipwrecked off the coast of Alaska. Set in Alaska shot on location in Canada Alaska and Gold Beach Oregon. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1953ref. 167611Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1953. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 documentary film. Based on noted marine biologist Rachel L. Carson's 1951 book. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Shot on location in Queensland Australia in Marineland and Tarpon Springs Florida and on the Pribilof Islands in Alaska. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners one with a moderate crease at the bottom right corner. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
