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1985ref. 142147N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the first page. A group of Americans intent on overthrowing Castro's communist regime are held in a Cuban jail. They begin using martial arts to free themselves and take on the government forces. Set in Cuba. Tan titled wrappers dated 1985 with credit for screenwriter Carl Johnson. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine spiral bound. Pagination available upon request. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 142147N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the first page. A group of Americans intent on overthrowing Castro's communist regime are held in a Cuban jail. They begin using martial arts to free themselves and take on the government forces. Set in Cuba. Tan titled wrappers dated 1985 with credit for screenwriter Carl Johnson. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine spiral bound. Pagination available upon request. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 137831Nassau Bahamas: McWhorter Productions 1968. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Keep" adapted by Ray Jenkins from Gwyn Thomas' 1962 play. Bound in is an excised shooting schedule leaf on one side noting $7000 owed to Jean McDonald and the other side detailing production requirements for Ernest Lehman's 1972 film "Portnoy's Complaint" the film with Richard McWhorter as the Unit Production Manager. McWhorter operated his own production company very briefly with the company's Bahamas address on the title page. Thomas' play was adapted as an episode of "Festival" Season 1 Episode 28 and aired May 6 1964 starring Glyn Owen Eynon Evans and David Garfield. The story focuses on a family and their recollection of their mother who may or may not be deceased. This script then is likely a lengthening of the original television script for film development purposes. Red titled wrappers with die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated August 19 1968 noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT with credits for playwright Thomas and screenwriter Jenkins. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Roneograph with a few revision pages throughout dated 3/9/68. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. McWhorter Productions unknown books
1968ref. 137831Nassau Bahamas: McWhorter Productions 1968. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Keep" adapted by Ray Jenkins from Gwyn Thomas' 1962 play. Bound in is an excised shooting schedule leaf on one side noting $7000 owed to Jean McDonald and the other side detailing production requirements for Ernest Lehman's 1972 film "Portnoy's Complaint" the film with Richard McWhorter as the Unit Production Manager. McWhorter operated his own production company very briefly with the company's Bahamas address on the title page. Thomas' play was adapted as an episode of "Festival" Season 1 Episode 28 and aired May 6 1964 starring Glyn Owen Eynon Evans and David Garfield. The story focuses on a family and their recollection of their mother who may or may not be deceased. This script then is likely a lengthening of the original television script for film development purposes. Red titled wrappers with die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated August 19 1968 noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT with credits for playwright Thomas and screenwriter Jenkins. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 147. Roneograph with a few revision pages throughout dated 3/9/68. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. McWhorter Productions unknown
1974ref. 146534Los Angeles: Selznick/Glickman Productions 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter on Selznick/Glickman Productions letterhead introducing the screenplay addressed to an agent at the Paul Kohner casting agency and signed by film producer Daniel Selznick. Based on the 1972 novel. An American physician is the only doctor who can perform a surgery that will save a Soviet scientist's life-but the scientist is on the verge of an atomic breakthrough that could kill millions. Set in Russia and Paris. Yellow untitled card wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Gene R. Kearney and novelist Marshall Goldberg. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. Selznick/Glickman Productions unknown books
1974ref. 146534Los Angeles: Selznick/Glickman Productions 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter on Selznick/Glickman Productions letterhead introducing the screenplay addressed to an agent at the Paul Kohner casting agency and signed by film producer Daniel Selznick. Based on the 1972 novel. An American physician is the only doctor who can perform a surgery that will save a Soviet scientist's life-but the scientist is on the verge of an atomic breakthrough that could kill millions. Set in Russia and Paris. Yellow untitled card wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Gene R. Kearney and novelist Marshall Goldberg. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. Selznick/Glickman Productions unknown
1942ref. 159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 9 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1942ref. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1942ref. 159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 9 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1942ref. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1979ref. 161962Universal City: Universal Pictures 1979. Two vintage studio still photographs of actor Steve Martin from the 1979 film. Both photographs with mimeo snipe on the verso and one provenance stamp. A lovable idiot accidentally strikes it rich after leaving his adopted family in rural Mississippi and moving to St. Louis. Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film. Shot on location in Pasadena Westlake and Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with some slight creasing at the corners. Universal Pictures unknown books
1981ref. 164104Los Angeles: T.A.T Communications Company 1981. Second Draft ribbon copy typescript master script with manuscript white-out annotations on 25 pages for the season 7 episode 18 "Not So Dearly Beloved" episode of the acclaimed television sitcom which aired on May 15 1981 on CBS. Screenwriters David Silverman and Steve Sustarsic were best known for their work as animators and screenwriters for sitcom television. Broadcast on CBS for eleven seasons from 1975 to 1985 "The Jeffersons" created by Norman Lear was a spin-off of his watershed sitcom "All in the Family" and was one of the longest running series in television history the second-longest featuring a primarily African American cast and the first television series which prominently featured a married interracial couple. Sherman Hemsley stars as the irascible George Jefferson a successful African American entrepreneur who with the Emmy Award winning Isabel Sanford as his kind and level-headed wife Louise Weezy move to an ritzy Manhattan apartment with their college age son and wise-cracking maid. George invites his rude problem employee Wendell up to his apartment to fire him but shortly after Wendell arrives he collapses and dies of a stroke on George's sofa. Front wrapper integral with title page noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. 48 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. T.A.T Communications Company unknown books
1981ref. 164104Los Angeles: T.A.T Communications Company 1981. Second Draft ribbon copy typescript master script with manuscript white-out annotations on 25 pages for the season 7 episode 18 "Not So Dearly Beloved" episode of the acclaimed television sitcom which aired on May 15 1981 on CBS. Screenwriters David Silverman and Steve Sustarsic were best known for their work as animators and screenwriters for sitcom television. Broadcast on CBS for eleven seasons from 1975 to 1985 "The Jeffersons" created by Norman Lear was a spin-off of his watershed sitcom "All in the Family" and was one of the longest running series in television history the second-longest featuring a primarily African American cast and the first television series which prominently featured a married interracial couple. Sherman Hemsley stars as the irascible George Jefferson a successful African American entrepreneur who with the Emmy Award winning Isabel Sanford as his kind and level-headed wife Louise Weezy move to an ritzy Manhattan apartment with their college age son and wise-cracking maid. George invites his rude problem employee Wendell up to his apartment to fire him but shortly after Wendell arrives he collapses and dies of a stroke on George's sofa. Front wrapper integral with title page noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. 48 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. T.A.T Communications Company unknown
1957ref. 169545N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actor James Dean laughing. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A documentary film released shortly after Dean's death using still photographs narration and interviews to tell the story of the actor's early life rise to stardom and death at a young age. 10 x 8 inches. Good with dampstains and soil to the bottom and right margins of the recto and a short closed tear repaired with paper tape at the top right corner. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 169545N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actor James Dean laughing. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A documentary film released shortly after Dean's death using still photographs narration and interviews to tell the story of the actor's early life rise to stardom and death at a young age. 10 x 8 inches. Good with dampstains and soil to the bottom and right margins of the recto and a short closed tear repaired with paper tape at the top right corner. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 147882Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1967 film. A South African DeLuxe Color remake of William A. Wellman's 1948 film "Yellow Sky" based on W.R. Burnett's unpublished novel which was loosely based on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Prospector Oupa Decker Vincent Price and his granddaughter Diana Ivarson are targeted by bandits led by 'Stretch' Hawkins Robert Gunner. Set in South Africa shot on location in Australia and South Africa. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1997ref. 171671Universal City: Universal Studios 1997. Four original studio still photographs from the 1997 film including three composite photographs and one single image. One photograph showing two images of director Michael Caton-Jones on the set. Loosely based on the 1973 film "The Day of the Jackal" based in turn on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth. Two photographs 8 x 10 inches two 5 x 6 inches. About Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1999ref. 137207Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO 1999. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the HBO television movie "The Jack Bull." Loosely based on the 1810 novella "Michael Kolhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist. A tale of revenge following a rancher who refuses to sell his ranch to a greedy land baron. The landowner slowly eats away at Cusack's livelihood charging tolls abusing his horses and later killing his wife. Set in Wyoming just prior to its statehood shot on location in Alberta. 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
1969ref. 144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. 13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. 13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown
1948ref. 149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada. 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada. 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 159147Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A supercomputer hopes to achieve world domination by hacking into a family's pet robot. The robot originally built for "Forbidden Planet" 1956 was reused by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in an attempt to defray the substantial cost of the prop. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1957ref. 159147Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A supercomputer hopes to achieve world domination by hacking into a family's pet robot. The robot originally built for "Forbidden Planet" 1956 was reused by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in an attempt to defray the substantial cost of the prop. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1964ref. 158398N.p.: Southern Cross Productions 1964. Draft script for an unproduced film. Specially bound copy likely belonging to screenwriter Ivan Reiner with annotations in manuscript pencil throughout 31 leaves. Reiner was a producer and screenwriter best known for the low budget sci-fi "Gamma One" film series with director Antonio Margheriti as well as the films "The Wild Wild Planet" 1966 "The War of the Planets" 1966 "War Between the Planets" 1966 and "Snow Devils" 1967. As the United Democracies Space Command UDSCO begins their New Years Eve celebrations unusual light patterns are observed on Delta 2 and Delta 2's captain Captain Jacques Dubois is nowhere to be found. Bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt rule and title on spine. Title page present dated 1964 with credits for screenwriter Ivan Reiner. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Spirit duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Southern Cross Productions unknown books
