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1981ref. 156349N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1981 film showing John Carpenter directing Kurt Russell. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. In a futuristic dystopian New York the island of Manhattan has been converted into a massive maximum-security prison. Shot on location in New York City Southern California and St. Louis Missouri. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 134942Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1961. Final White script for the 1962 film "Escape from Zahrain" here under the film's working title "Zahrain" with ESCAPE FROM in manuscript ink just above it. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil on the front wrapper recto and verso though the associations are unknown. Based on Michael Barrett's 1960 novel "Appointment in Zahrain." A wanted revolutionary Brynner and his gang including a protege played by Sal Mineo travel through the desert in an attempt to elude the Arab security forces. A story set in the Middle East shot on location in the Mojave Desert in California. Self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 122 and production No. 11541 dated June 6 1961 with credits for producer-director Neame and screenwriter Estridge. Title page integral with front wrapper. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication dated variously 6/5/61 and 6/6/61. Near Fine overall bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1961ref. 152049Hollywood: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Vintage pressbook for the 1961 film. With his fourth feature a 68-minute quickie Russ Meyer continued to market the "nudie" film genre he basically invented in 1959 with his first film "The Immoral Mr. Teas." He also continues to advertise the "French" sensibility "bon vivant" of his films-once described as "a narrated Playboy magazine" with no real plot per se just lots of buxom women shedding their clothing at every opportunity. One leaf bi-fold. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
1992ref. 157075N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage two-sided Japanese flyer for the 1992 film featuring a full-color graphic on the recto and the verso in black and white with three film still photographs. Text in Japanese and French. Young Japanese couple Kishin and Rie are trying to survive living in Paris as private detectives when the wealthy and powerful gangster Okuyama hires them to trail his French girlfriend Lorraine who he suspects is cheating. Before long Kishin is sleeping with Loraine and Rie discovers a link between Okuyama and a multi-million dollar heist involving an affluent Paris S&M club. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking." Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. Set in and shot on location in Japan. White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown
1961ref. 147752Paris: LyreFilms 1961. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. When war breaks out between the British and the Vikings two brothers who have been raised separately find themselves forced to decide between loyalty to blood or loyalty to nationality. Set in the British Isles. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing. LyreFilms unknown
ref. 232448 September no year. On letterhead of 23 Bruton Street W.1. London. Maschwitz wrote the lyrics to 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' and 'These Foolish Things' and was nominated for an oscar for co-writing the screenplay of 'Goodbye Mr Chips'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. Twenty-nine lines of text. In fair condition lightly aged. Folded once. Maschwitz begins by congratulating him 'on a really enthralling book! Loved every page of it!' With reference to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree he explains that the previous day he 'had a talk with old Dennis Grayson who with Mrs Corey Wright is one of Tree's executors. He told me that they had recently opened a dusty old Pall Mall Safe Deposit box containing masses of records etc of His Majesty's Theatre - the "complete works" from 1897 to 1917 and there was so much of interest among them'. Included is an item relating to Claude Rains: 'a call boy's note book with C. Rains written inside it in a boyish hand'. Grayson 'wondered whether you would be interested in doing a book on the Theatre. Of course it wouldn't make anything as grand as Drury Lane but certainly something grander than Daly's'. He makes a few suggestions about topics MP might wish to include in the book including the play 'Balalaika' with 'the cops coming for the backer on the opening night'. If MP is interested 'Grayson who lives up North and comes to town occasionally would be delighted to lunch you and tell you what he has. Let me know and I'll fix it'. MacQueen-Pope does not appear to have taken Grayson up on his offer unless the letter dates from before the 1947 publication of 'Carriages at Eleven'. 8 September [no year]. On letterhead of 23 Bruton Street, W.1. [London] unknown
1977ref. 138423Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1977. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1977 film. Based on the Tony Award-winning 1973 play by Peter Shaffer and adapted by Shaffer for the film. Photographs have been hand-retouched affixed to a backing board and prepared for use in advertising. A haunting film in which a psychiatrist slowly loses faith in himself while doggedly attempting to aid a teen obsessed with mutilating horses. Nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of two Golden Globes for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Shot on location in Toronto. Photos 8 x 10 inches on 10 x 15 inch mat board. Very Good to Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1958ref. 151339Tokyo: Shochiku 1958. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. With the stamp of Shochiku Co. on the verso along with a mimeo snipe noting the film's Japanese title "Higanbana." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Ton Satomi's 1957 novel. A businessman hopes to arrange a marriage for his headstrong youngest daughter who has fallen in love with a musician. Director Yasujiro Ozu's first color film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1071. Criterion Eclipse 3. Shochiku unknown
1990ref. 149971Los Angeles: Orion 1990. Revised Draft script for the 11th episode of season 2 of the 1990-1991 television series originally aired on June 19 1991 on ABC. With a single annotation in manuscript ink on page 28 underlining a prop. The third-to-last episode in the brief two-season series which followed the lives of the employees of the district attorney's office in Pittsburgh. Set in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Gray titled Orion Television generic wrappers. Title page present dated Dec. 18 1990 noted as REV. with credits for screenwriter Deborah Joy LeVine. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 49. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/10/90 and 12/18/90. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Full provenance available. Orion unknown
1991ref. 149969Los Angeles: Orion 1991. Revised Draft script for the Season 2 Episode 13 of the 1990-1991 television series originally aired on July 3 1991 on ABC. Copy belonging to a crew member with their first name in manuscript ink on the title page. The last episode of the series which ended after two seasons following the lives of the employees of the district attorney's office in Pittsburgh. In this entry a popular basketball coach is prosecuted for the death of his star player. Set in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Silver Orion Television wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated Jan. 17 1991 noted as REV. with credits for screenwriter Paris Qualles. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/8/91 and 1/17/91. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Full provenance available. Orion unknown
1949ref. 129324Berlin: Central Cinema Company Film CCC 1949. Draft script English translation for the 1950 German film noir. Likely a translation produced by the German film production company responsible for the film for purposes of US distribution and promotion made well prior to the commencement of film production. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Kautner and Stemmle. 136 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Spicer p. 459. Central Cinema Company Film [CCC] unknown
1938ref. 106085Paris: Regina / Kassler 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film starring Louis Jouvet. Text in French. Three acting students are engaged in a love triangle in their drama class at the Conservtoire d'art dramatique. One student stages a crime in an attempt to frame the man she loves. Set in Paris shot on location in Paris. Red untitled composition book-style card covers. Title page missing presumably as issued. 224 leaves with last page of text numbered 221. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with moderate wear along the binding. Regina / Kassler unknown
1944ref. 165426Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage publicity photograph of Charles Korvin from the 1944 film with four provenance stamps on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the gentleman thief character Arsène Lupin who was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by French author Maurice Leblanc. Charles Korvin stars as Lupin a French jewel thief who robs and falls in love with an heiress played by Ella Raines. Korvin famously refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC and was blacklisted in 1952 after which Korvin worked primarily in broadcast television. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1944ref. 149848Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1944. Draft script for the 1944 film. Based on the popular Arsene Lupin mystery series created by Maurice Leblanc. In this entry roguish gentleman thief Lupin robs a young heiress of her jewels while on a train to England but later reconsiders his actions and saves her life. Set in England. Tan titled wrappers dated May 24 1944 with credits for screenwriter Bertram Millhauser and character credits to Maurice Leblanc. Title page present dated April 27 1944 with credits for screenwriter Bertram Millhauser and character credits to Maurice Leblanc. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only with five blue revision pages bound in after the script dated 10/24/44. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good dry and brittle with wear to the top and bottom edges of the front wrapper bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown
1957ref. 143197Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1957. Draft script for the 1958 Japanese film. Based on the 1956 novel "Kinkakuji" "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima which is loosely based on the actual event of the burning of the Reliquary or Golden Pavilion of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The book was one of three Mishima novels adapted by Paul Schrader for episodes in his film "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" 1985. Daiei released "Conflagration" "Enj " an adaptation of the same novel directed by Ichikawa Kon in 1958. The title and name of the temple in the film was changed from Kinkakuji after Buddhist opposition threatened problems with filming in Kyoto. This is a script from that film before the name change. Set and shot on location in Kyoto. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 12. Title page present. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered e-27. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout mildew water damage wrapper split at spine with mild foxing non archival tape to spine and title page overall about Good condition. Daiei Studios unknown
1978ref. 141488New York: Barovick Konecky Braun Schwartz and Kay 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil on the first page. Based on the 1978 novel by Michael Barak. In order to win World War II and understand where Nazi Germany's bombs are going to fall Winston Churchill tasks his intelligence service with stealing the German Enigma machine. Set in London. Tan wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Briley and author Michael Barak. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Barovick Konecky Braun Schwartz and Kay unknown
1973ref. 130510London: Atlantic Productions 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. Greene's novel was set in Stockholm and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. 30 x 40 inches. Fine. Phillips US. Atlantic Productions unknown
1958ref. 141434Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One of members of the group does not belong there. Orange titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Nikkatsu unknown
1981ref. 152296Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to special effects crew member John Burke with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and his manuscript pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout. Missing two pages likely as used or issued. While visiting his daughter in a small Colorado town a retired New York policeman becomes involved in solving the case of a string of cattle mutilations. Shot on location in Colorado New York and Wyoming. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 218 dated 2/27/81 with credits for director Alan Rudolph. Title page present noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 2/27/81 with credits for director Alan Rudolph. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/13/81 and 10/1/81. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1977ref. 150559N.p.: Charles Band 1977. Four vintage matte-finish studio still photographs from the 1977 film. A NASA research scientist accidentally uncovers a supernatural plot to take over Earth by aliens from the planet Utopia. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Charles Band unknown
1999ref. 158401N.p.: N.p. 1999. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1999 film including three in color and one in black-and-white. Printed label of photographer Zade Rosenthal affixed to the versos. A New York policeman turned alcoholic security guard finds himself embroiled in a religious war culminating in Satan coming to Earth to find the woman who will bear his child the antichrist. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light adhesive residue on the versos. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 148808N.p.: N.p. 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures AIP third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy beginning with "The Food of the Gods" 1976 directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner and Pamela Franklin and followed by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" 1977 directed by Don Taylor and starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York. Another classic "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon following "King Dinosaur" 1955 "The Amazing Colossal Man" 1957 "Earth vs. the Spider" 1958 "Village of the Giants" 1956 and "Food of the Gods" 1976 this time featuring giant ants mutated by radioactive waste which attack a shady land developer and her prospective clients and threaten to take over a whole island town. Set in the Florida everglades and shot on location in Fort Pierce Belle Glade and Jensen Beach Florida. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 8 1976 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jack Turley and story by Bert I. Gordon. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 160359New York: Embassy Films 1964. Vintage program for two May 20 1964 screenings of the 1954 documentary at the Crystal Ballroom at the Delmonico Hotel New York preceded by an essay presented by historian author screenwriter and president of Embassy Films Inc. Alexandre Tarsaidze included in the second half of the brochure. The screenings were presented as a benefit for the Association of Russian War Invalids of the First World War. A chronological compilation of historical newsreel footage of Nicholas II and his family taken between 1896 and 1914. 7 x 10 inches Bi-fold. Very Good plus with two faint horizontal creases and two pinholes at the top left. Embassy Films unknown
1974ref. 160637Paris: Gamma 1974. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1974 film showing Marika Green in an intimate moment. Gamma stamp and mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel. While living in Bangkok a naive French diplomat's wife experiences a whirlwind of sexual discovery. The first film in the wildly successful much-emulated series. Set and shot on location in Thailand and the Seychelles. 11.75 x 8 inches. Very Good with moderate wear on the left and right edges and a short closed tear and accompanying creasing on the top right corner. Bier 545. Gamma unknown
