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1939ref. 149865Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1939. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1940 film. A young journalist finds himself unjustly accused of murder. White titled self-wrappers production No. 1033 dated December 19 1939 with credits for director Harold D. Shuster. Approximately 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with tearing to the last three leaves along the top edge wrapper Very Good plus with some tearing to the back self-wrapper along the top edge bound with two gold brads along the top edge. Universal Pictures unknown
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown
ref. 160904N.p.: N.p. 1977. Early First Draft script for the seminal 1980 film here under the working title "California Girls." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Jim Brown no relation to the actor we suspect with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. A bleak seminal coming-of-age drama about four teenage girls grappling with their families drugs and relationships in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Adrian Lyne's directorial debut. Shot on location in San Fernando Hollywood and Los Angeles California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Nov. 28 1977 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Gerald Ayres. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographiic duplication with the exception of the title page which is a carbon typescript copy rectos onl. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. N.p. unknown
ref. 9439Two undated; the rest between 1951 and 1959. On various letterheads of 39 and 47 Whitehall Court London. Five of the items are 8vo with the other on a 12mo slip. All texts clear and complete. Fair on slightly-aged and worn paper. A total of five typed 8vo pages and two autograph 8vo and two autograph 12mo pages. Four of the lettters have 'The Fol-de-Rols' printed on the letterhead. Dealing with practical everyday theatre matters with Newman writing for example on 19 November 1955: 'I have bought a few costume from the "Punch" Revue which died an early death at the Duke of York's theatre last Saturday. I made room for them in one of the cupboards in the corridor by moving a set of old Fol dresses into the large crate alongside which was only half filled with dogs and hard props.' Two undated; the rest between 1951 and 1959. On various letterheads of 39 and 47 Whitehall Court, London. hardcover
1950ref. 144119Hollywood: Paul Kohner 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Wild Bill Hickok must play a high stakes poker game in order to win back his beloved mare. The script is a partial treatment draft with a moderate amount of script still in full paragraphs. Set in Deadwood Dodge City and the Chisholm Trail in 1867. Lacking wrappers presumably as issued. Title page present with credits for screenwriter AEneas MacKenzie. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine bound with three gold brads. Paul Kohner unknown
ref. 130699N.p.: N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Four interrelated vignettes about life in the American West featuring Will Bill Hickok praised Indian killer coming a wild town without law enforcement and him acting as sheriff until he humiliated by a woman followed by a story in which he is found in a different town drinking himself to death. A different woman helps him get back on his feet which ultimately leads to him enforcing justice again only to be gunned down. The final two stories involve vengeance on the part of Hickok's friends seeking retribution for their gunned-down friend. Mint green titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter MacKenzie. 59 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1935ref. 156642N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film showing director Mitchell Leisen and a camera crew capturing a party scene. Based on Norman Krasna's 1934 play "Small Miracle" about the relationship between a policeman and the dangerous fugitive he has been tasked with guarding for the evening. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 138127New York: Filmways Pictures 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Included is a second script a revised draft in wrappers containing the latest revisions and two shooting schedules one detailing shooting dates beginning Week Three and one detailing dates beginning about Week Nine. Notations throughout both scripts in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on screenwriter Tesich's own coming-of-age in Indiana in the 1960s. Danilo Wason Georgia Thelen David Huddleston and Tom Metzler are four friends growing up in a 1960s industrial town. Told through a series of vignettes in the eyes of Danilo the film chronicles each friend as they come to accept that their lives may have become something they never thought possible. Shot on location in Indiana Illinois and Pennsylvania. One of director Penn's final and lesser known films after "The Missouri Breaks" 1976 and before "Target" 1985. First script without wrappers or title page a rainbow copy with several sets of revision pages pink yellow goldenrod blue gray green dated variously between 7/7/80 and 8/29/80. Second script in blue Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with no title page a revised draft dated 8/29/80 throughout. Shooting schedules corner-stapled. All items Very Good plus overall. Filmways Pictures unknown
1973ref. 162471N.p.: General Films 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1972 British film here under an alternate release title of "Three Dimensions of Greta." Provenance stamp on the verso. A sexploitation film by noted horror director Pete Walker. Tristan Rogers plays a German journalist who travels to London to write an article on au-pairs. She is asked by a couple to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta Leena Skoog. Shot on location in Berlin and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some faint creasing a wax pencil annotation to the lower left corner of the recto and a 3/4-inch closed tear at the left margin. General Films unknown
1977ref. 167517Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Two call sheets and a magazine clipping showing a review of the film laid in with the script. A newly divorced librarian is unwittingly drawn into a crime investigation after accepting a pack of cigarettes with an incriminating roll of film hidden inside. Basis for the short-lived 1981 television series starring Barry Bostwick and Deborah Raffin. Set and shot on location in San Francisco. Beige titled Paramount wrappers dated September 23 1977 and noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper with a stamp for Miller-Milkis Productions at the top right corner. Title page present dated September 23 1977 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for director and screenwriter Colin Higgins. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between October 17 and 19 1977. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960ref. 140960Paris: G. de Boissiere 1960. Original French press kit for the 1960 French-Italian film "Fortunat." Text in French. Resembling the star biography and film credit packets often seen with US press kits this material details film credits cast and crew biographies and a synopsis. The film was distributed by Cinedis but here is credited to publicity manager G. de Boissiere with their cute cat logo as a complimentary kit. Based on Michel Breitman's 1955 novel "Fortunat ou le pere adopte." During the occupation of France a drunkard poacher named Fortunat Bourvil is tasked with helping Juliette Morgan and her two children escape the Nazis. Fortunat and Juliette engage in a brief love affair until she rejoins her husband the man in charge of a resistance effort and reason for Juliette's evading the Reich. 9 leaves 1 "with compliments" slip 8 printed rectos a few corner-stapled on "DEB de Boissiere parchment mimeograph duplication. Housed in a DEB pocketed paper folder 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine overall. G. de Boissiere unknown
1958ref. 154930N.p.: United Artists 1958. Vintage British Quad poster for the UK release of the 1958 film. Joel McCrea gives a commanding performance as an embittered racist Calvary commander who must lead the remains of his troop through miles of Indian territory after being decimated by Apaches. An engagingly humorless bleak and cynical "lost patrol" Western influenced by John Ford's "The Searchers" 1956. Set in 1879 New Mexico Territory shot on location in Arizona Utah and New Mexico. 39.5 x 29.75 inches Folded as issued. Near Fine with some faint creasing edgewear and two small closed tears to the lower right margin. Bright and unfaded. United Artists unknown
1980ref. 143481Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Noirish in theme and based on true-life accounts. Murphy played by Paul Newman and Corelli Ken Wahl are police officers in the decaying South Bronx region of New York. Together they try to bring peace and justice to their corrupt precinct. Ethnic minorities play a major role in the film particularly African Americans and Puerto Ricans though community groups from the Bronx found their depiction lacking overall. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 22 1980 with a credit for screenwriter Gould. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mechanical duplication with pink blue yellow purple brown orange and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/80 and 4/18/80. Pages and wrapper Near Fine prong bound. Hardy BFI Crime Companion. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1934ref. 164247N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage reference photograph from the 1934 film showing actors Clark Gable and Joan Crawford canoodling while Robert Montgomery looks on. French mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1933 Broadway play by Edward Barry Roberts and Frank Morgan Cavett about a years-long love triangle between three friends. Crawford's first of nine collaborations with screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 1028996Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Aceptable. . Reedición Facsimilar de la de Valencia. Edit. Valenciana. 1947. 24x17 cm. 4 págs. de la historieta 6 págs. de humor gráfico relatos y pasatiempos. Cubiertas en color interior en b/n. 2 grapas por núm. Dibujantes: Manuel Gago / José Liceras. Perfecto estado. # comics. unknown
1926ref. 148247Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1926. Vintage reference photograph of actress Arlette Marchal from the 1926 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Zane Grey not published until a year after the film's release. A fugitive is left in the desert to die by his outlaw partner but is rescued by a young rancher unaware that romantic entanglements with a neighboring rancher's daughter will complicate their friendship. Now considered to be a lost film. Shot on location in Hurricane Bluffs Utah. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and edgewear and a small chip to the right edge. Paramount Pictures unknown
1983ref. 166412Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1983. Draft script for the 1983 pornographic film. With annotations in manuscript pencil on the first leaf presumably made by screenwriter-director Phil Prince indicating the name of the actor to be associated with each character. A cult leader called "The Confessor" hears confessions from rape victims "cleanses" the female ones with sex and then arranges for all victims and sometimes himself to then recursively rape their own male or female rapists. IMDB. Title page integral with cast of characters no wrapper as issued undated. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound. Avon Productions unknown
1980ref. 141417N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. The true story of Moe Berg a baseball player who was commonly known as the smartest man in the game having graduated from Princeton and Columbia. Berg who spoke several languages and read ten newspapers a day was contracted by the United States government to use his fame to travel to Italy during World War II and work as a spy. A weird convergence of two later films "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" 2002 and "Flags of Our Fathers" 2006 both also based on true stories. Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Murray Sinclair. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 155306Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1943 film showing director Sam Wood speaking with actors Ingrid Bergman Lilo Yarsen Katina Paxinou and Gray Cooper on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of PIX Agency and the Westport Public Library. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between émigré photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel which follows the experiences of an American fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War and his relationship with a young guerrilla fighter. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actress for Katina Paxinou. Set and shot on location in Spain. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Photograph laminated presumably as issued else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1943ref. 150216Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1943. Five vintage borderless double weight reference photographs taken on location in Spain for the 1943 film most showing director Sam Wood and actors Joseph Calleia Lilo Yarson Gary Cooper Katina Paxinou and Ingrid Bergman. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel which follows the experiences of an American fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War and his relationship with a young guerrilla fighter. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actress for Katina Paxinou. Set and shot on location in Spain. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1980ref. 166547Beverly Hills CA: A Neila Production 1980. A Second Draft script here under the working title "Why Are They Stealing My Girlfriend" and a Shooting Draft script here under the working title "Love on the Run" for the 1980 television film which aired on ABC on September 26 1980. Second Draft script with discreet manuscript marker and ink annotations on seventeen pages primarily making grammatical corrections. Shooting Draft script with manuscript ink annotations on two pages circling the dialog for the character "Uglier." A young couple Deborah Raffin and Jeff Conaway find themselves in possession of top secret Russian documents including a plan for taking over the Middle East and become targets of the KBG CIA FBI and an entrepreneur who wants to use the Middle East plan to create a new video game called "Doom's Day." Featuring a vast cast of popular 1970s and 1980s television actors including Tom Bosley William Christopher Norman Fell Henry Gibson Adam West Pat Morita Don Rickles and others. Second Draft script: Orange titled wrappers noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stanley Ralph Ross. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Shooting Draft script: Red titled Charles Fries Productions wrappers. Title page present dated April 24 1980 noted as SHOOTING DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stanley Ralph Ross. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/30/80 and 5/9/80. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. A Neila Production unknown
1968ref. 152359Los Angeles: Cinerama International Releasing Organization 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Daniel Mann laughing with actors Abbey Lincoln and Joseph Attles on the set of the 1968 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. In order to prevent their maid from leaving their employment to attend secretarial school the youngest son of a wealthy white Long Island family searches for a handsome executive to wine and dine her. Set in Long Island and New York. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned and soiled to the right edge with brief wear to the corners. Cinerama International Releasing Organization unknown
1967ref. 161734N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A group of buxom secret agents pose as escorts to bring down powerful men. Screenplay by B-Movie cult maestro Ed Wood Jr. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 143499N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid" discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" 1941 "I Walked with a Zombie" 1943 and "Donovan's Brain" 1953 and many other science fiction and horror classic. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined modern scientific findings with fictional pseudo-scientific themes. Set largely at the Paris World Exhibition of 1867 centered on the life of soprano singer Hortense Schneider and famed composer Jacques Offenbach largely describing Schneider's wide-ranging effect on European history based on her affairs with various heads of state. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Curt Siodmak. Title page present with credits for novelist and screenwriter Curt Siodmak. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong bound. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 148300N.p.: Produzioni Europee Associate PEA 1967. Collection of eleven vintage black-and-white lobby cards from the French release of the 1967 film. The second in Leone's iconic trilogy "For a Few Dollars More" is another tale of gunslingers revenge double-crossing and robbery. Starring Clint Eastwood as Manco the "man with no name" and Gian Maria Volonte as the ruthless psychopath El Indio. Set in Texas shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Very Good with pinholes to corners. Alex Cox10000 Ways to Die. Grant Any Gun Can Play p. XXX. Pitts 572. Produzioni Europee Associate [PEA] unknown
