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1972ref. 140225Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Notably with a credit for screenwriter Eleanor Perry wife and frequent co-writer with her husband director Frank Perry. Jay Grobart Reynolds kills a man who raped and murdered his wife Cat Dancing. He is arrested but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then meets Catherine Miles who is escaping her abusive husband and finds an unlikely mate. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah USA. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated October 31 1972 with credits for screenwriter Eleanor Perry and novelist Marilyn Durham. 159 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 6 1972 and November 7 1972. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 162085New York: Grove Press International Film Festival / Evergreen Film 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 French-Czechoslovak 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. An experimental film addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and postwar Europe about a man who insists on providing varying contradictory accounts of his activities during the war. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly creased at corners else about Near Fine. Grove Press International Film Festival / Evergreen Film unknown books
1968ref. 162398Montreal: Prima Film 1968. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 French-Czechoslovak film including one double weight and two single weight. Vanessa Redgrave & Joshua Logan on set of Camelot 1967. Double weight photograph with layout annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the recto single weight photographs with Canadian distribution stamps on the versos. Double weight photograph shows director Alain Robbe-Grillet talking with actress Sylvie Bréal on the set. An experimental film addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and postwar Europe about a man who insists on providing varying contradictory accounts of his activities during the war. Two 9.5 x 6.75 inches one 6 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Prima Film unknown books
1959ref. 147066N.p.: Hammer Film Productions 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 Hammer film. Based on the 1945 play by Barre Lyndon "The Man in Half Moon Street." 104 year old sculptor Georges Bonnet Anton Diffring maintains a youthful appearance by having a victim's parathyroid glands surgically replace his own but his partner and friend Dr. Weiss Arnold Marle had a stroke and cannot perform the surgery. He then blackmails an old flame's Hazel Court boyfriend Dr. Pierre Gerard Christopher Lee into performing the surgery. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good moderate creasing with a closed tear on the left side. Hammer Film Productions unknown books
1968ref. 162398Montreal: Prima Film 1968. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 French-Czechoslovak film including one double weight and two single weight. Vanessa Redgrave & Joshua Logan on set of Camelot 1967. Double weight photograph with layout annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the recto single weight photographs with Canadian distribution stamps on the versos. Double weight photograph shows director Alain Robbe-Grillet talking with actress Sylvie Bréal on the set. An experimental film addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and postwar Europe about a man who insists on providing varying contradictory accounts of his activities during the war. Two 9.5 x 6.75 inches one 6 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Prima Film unknown
1968ref. 162085New York: Grove Press International Film Festival / Evergreen Film 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 French-Czechoslovak 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. An experimental film addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and postwar Europe about a man who insists on providing varying contradictory accounts of his activities during the war. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly creased at corners else about Near Fine. Grove Press International Film Festival / Evergreen Film unknown
1982ref. 171906N.p.: N.p. 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 film. Copy belonging to stunt coordinator Joe Dunne with his annotations in manuscript ink on several pages. Based on the 1977 François Truffaut film about a middle-aged man whose single-minded obsession with sex and beauty disrupts his life and eventually leads to his downfall. Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 1982 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Blake and Geoffrey Edwards. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 11/2/82. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 169091N.p.: N.p. 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 film. Blake Edwards remake of Francois Truffaut's 1977 film about sculptor David Fowler Burt Reynolds whose obsessive love of women leads to his eventual death told from the perspective of his analyst and eventual lover Marianna Julie Andrews. Shot on location in Texas New York and California. Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 1982 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Blake Edwards Geoffrey Edwards Milton Wexler. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 11/2/82 and 2/23/83. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1934ref. 157322Universal City: Universal Pictures 1934. Vintage reference photograph of director Edward Ludwig and cameraman Merritt Gerstad filming a scene with Claude Rains on the set of the 1934 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A pacifist writer discovers his publisher is in league with munitions manufacturers leading to a crisis of conscience. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1972ref. 140225Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Notably with a credit for screenwriter Eleanor Perry wife and frequent co-writer with her husband director Frank Perry. Jay Grobart Reynolds kills a man who raped and murdered his wife Cat Dancing. He is arrested but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then meets Catherine Miles who is escaping her abusive husband and finds an unlikely mate. Shot on location in Arizona and Utah USA. Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated October 31 1972 with credits for screenwriter Eleanor Perry and novelist Marilyn Durham. 159 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 6 1972 and November 7 1972. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1956ref. 145939N.p.: Sumar Productions 1956. Vintage studio photograph of Gloria Grahame on location from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and French Twentieth Century Fox Stamp on verso. Based on Ewen Montagu's 1954 book based on a true story about a British attempt to trick their German enemies using the name and credentials of a dead man as bait. The real intelligence plan was called "Operation Mincemeat" and was devised to deceive the Axis powers into thinking "Operation Husky" an invasion of Sicily would take place elsewhere. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at the margins. Sumar Productions unknown
1970ref. 137695Los Angeles: Grenadier Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Man Who Was Alive and Well" written by Shimon Wincelberg produced for circulation at Grenadier Productions in Los Angeles for purposes of script development. Wincelberg's notable film credits include "Fighter Attack" 1953 "The Legend of Custer" 1968 and "Cold Sweat" 1970 as well as several television series episodes. Set in 1960s South America where Peter an apparent fugitive meets a young Indian woman named Felisa and the two fall in love and bear a child. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for screenwriter Wincelberg. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Grenadier Productions unknown
1974ref. 146979Stockholm Sweden: Concorde Film 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of the script written across the folder in manuscript pencil and a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations presumably secretarial throughout correcting grammatical errors. Laid in with the script is a three-page typed summary of the story and a two-page typed letter addressed from Concorde Films managing director Lennart Berns to casting agent Paul Kohner suggesting actor Charles Bronson for the part of police detective Martin Beck. Text in English. Based on screenwriters Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's 1967 mystery novel about a Swedish police detective who realizes an anonymous serial robber might be the only witness to a string of grisly child murders in Stockholm. Eventually successfully produced in 1993 by director Daniel Alfredson and screenwriter Jonas Cornell but bearing little relation to the authors' earliest vision. Set in Stockholm. Tall housed in an untitled beige card folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter-novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and screenwriter Arne Mattsson. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. Concorde Film unknown books
1974ref. 146979Stockholm Sweden: Concorde Film 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of the script written across the folder in manuscript pencil and a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations presumably secretarial throughout correcting grammatical errors. Laid in with the script is a three-page typed summary of the story and a two-page typed letter addressed from Concorde Films managing director Lennart Berns to casting agent Paul Kohner suggesting actor Charles Bronson for the part of police detective Martin Beck. Text in English. Based on screenwriters Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's 1967 mystery novel about a Swedish police detective who realizes an anonymous serial robber might be the only witness to a string of grisly child murders in Stockholm. Eventually successfully produced in 1993 by director Daniel Alfredson and screenwriter Jonas Cornell but bearing little relation to the authors' earliest vision. Set in Stockholm. Tall housed in an untitled beige card folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter-novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and screenwriter Arne Mattsson. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. Concorde Film unknown
1942ref. 148224Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Vintage reference photograph of actress Vivien Oakland from the 1942 film. The communicative ghost of a long-dead bookie seeks justice for his wrongful murder. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and soil to the bottom right corner. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957ref. 138492Paris: Cocinor 1957. Vintage French Moyenne or Affiche Moyenne poster for the 1957 French-Italian film "The Man in the Raincoat" here under the French title "l'homme a l'impermeable." Printed in brilliant color by the French illustration company Bobigny with artwork by the prolific Jean Mascii. Notation in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on James Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "Tiger by the Tail." In a case of mistaken identity a lonely clarinet player named Albert Fernandel is appointed to see a call girl Magre. While he waits in her living room the girl is murdered and someone is seen leaving the scene of the crime in a raincoat. Albert is then followed by blackmail and professional killers. 23.5 x 31 folded. Very Good with tears and chips. Cocinor unknown books
1959ref. 149472Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Alan Ladd in a dynamic pose with the image manipulated for effect from the 1959 film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Hugh Wheeler under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin. A struggling artist Alan Ladd is accused of murdering his unstable alcoholic wife Carolyn Jones when she goes missing and must flee from the lynch mob forming amongst the townsfolk. Set in fictional Stoneville Connecticut shot on location in Woodstock and Thompson Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint toning at edges else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. United Artists unknown books
1970ref. 153808N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The adventures of roguish gambler and man-about-town Anthony "Mink" Romano. A later effort by comic book writer and artist Bob Kane best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Batman alongside artist Bill Finger. In his later career Kane turned to screenwriting and film work serving as a consultant on Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation "Batman" and its three sequels. Mustard titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 149472Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Alan Ladd in a dynamic pose with the image manipulated for effect from the 1959 film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Hugh Wheeler under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin. A struggling artist Alan Ladd is accused of murdering his unstable alcoholic wife Carolyn Jones when she goes missing and must flee from the lynch mob forming amongst the townsfolk. Set in fictional Stoneville Connecticut shot on location in Woodstock and Thompson Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint toning at edges else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 153808N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The adventures of roguish gambler and man-about-town Anthony "Mink" Romano. A later effort by comic book writer and artist Bob Kane best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Batman alongside artist Bill Finger. In his later career Kane turned to screenwriting and film work serving as a consultant on Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation "Batman" and its three sequels. Mustard titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 138492Paris: Cocinor 1957. Vintage French Moyenne or Affiche Moyenne poster for the 1957 French-Italian film "The Man in the Raincoat" here under the French title "l'homme a l'impermeable." Printed in brilliant color by the French illustration company Bobigny with artwork by the prolific Jean Mascii. Notation in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on James Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "Tiger by the Tail." In a case of mistaken identity a lonely clarinet player named Albert Fernandel is appointed to see a call girl Magre. While he waits in her living room the girl is murdered and someone is seen leaving the scene of the crime in a raincoat. Albert is then followed by blackmail and professional killers. 23.5 x 31 folded. Very Good with tears and chips. Cocinor unknown
1969ref. 147832N.p.: Cinemation Industries 1969. Vintage studio still photograph of Robert Walker Jr. and Phyllis Diller from the 1970 film here under the working title "The Man from O.R.G.Y. in 'The Real Gone Girls'." Based on Ted Mark's "The Man from O.R.G.Y." series 1965-1981 written under the pseudonym Theodore "Ted" Mark Gottfried. Steve Victor Walker head of the Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth O.R.G.Y. searches for three prostitutes each bearing a tattoo of a gopher on their buttocks who have inherited a uranium mine from their former madam. Set in and shot on location in New York City and Puerto Rico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Cinemation Industries unknown books
1955ref. 135492Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1955 Western. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 2525. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 150846N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film one showing actress Mai Zetterling the other showing Zetterling with actor Pat Boone. A drifter on the run from a murder charge joins a traveling circus where his attentions are torn between two beautiful women. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 132471London: National Screen Service / MGM 1962. Collection of 6 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1962 UK film. A handsome drifter on the run accused of murder gets involved with a pretty circus girl. Nancy Kwan stars as an Italian horse rider. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases at the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
