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1946ref. 159853Culver City CA: Selznick International 1946. Two vintage borderless reference photographs and two vintage bordered reference photographs of director King Vidor on the set of the 1946 Western film. Three linen-backed with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel. Two brothers fight over their love for a young relative while their father attempts to sway railroad builders from constructing a new line on his land. A lavish "epic" Western from Selznick who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" 1939. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. Two 9.5 x 7.25 inches two 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus with light creasing and wear on the edges. Hardy p. 152. Pitts 1187. Selznick International unknown
2000ref. 171952Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 2000. Draft script for the 2000 comedy film. Two deadbeat stoners wake up from a long night of partying and embark on a journey to find their car whose cargo includes anniversary gifts for their girlfriends. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 25 2000 with credit for screenwriter Philip Stark. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1994ref. 166475N.p.: Reno & Osborn Productions 1994. Revised Final Draft for Season 2 Episode 7 for the 1994-1997 television series. Originally aired April 24 1995 on USA Network. This adult animated series based on the 1990 comic by Everett Peck follows a duck who works as a private investigator. In this episode someone arrives claiming to be the illegitimate son of Duckman's business partner conceived when he was fighting in Vietnam. White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated August 31 1994 with credits for uncredited screenwriters Jeffrey S. Astrof and Mike Sikowitz. Title page integral with front wrapper. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Reno & Osborn Productions unknown
1956ref. 132194London: Independent Film Distributors / British Lion 1956. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1956 UK film. A well-received farce about a couple of dim-witted bookmakers who decide to fix a horse race. 8 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus withand light stains and creases. Independent Film Distributors / British Lion unknown books
1956ref. 298558Remus Films 1956. Photograph. 7 original B/W publicity photograph 7.8 x 9.8 inches. Photographs of Sydney James William Hartnell Renee Houston Dick Bentley 2 poses Brian Rix and Tommy Cooper. Near fine copies. Identification of actor written in ink on rear. Pen indentation visible with raking light on photograph surface. Remus Films unknown
1948ref. 151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding American criticism leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles. Set in the slums of postwar Japan. White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown books
1948ref. 151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film noir. Text and titles in Japanese. The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding criticism of Americans leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles. Set in the slums of postwar Japan. White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown
ref. 141676Pretoria South Africa: Emil Nofal Films N.D. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A half-hour television series focusing on the unique cultures of Africa and how different groups interact with each other especially in the modern age. Written for South African television by Nofal an acclaimed South African director producer and screenwriter. Set in South Africa. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Emil Nofal. 5 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus perfect bound. Emil Nofal Films unknown books
ref. 141676Pretoria South Africa: Emil Nofal Films N.D. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A half-hour television series focusing on the unique cultures of Africa and how different groups interact with each other especially in the modern age. Written for South African television by Nofal an acclaimed South African director producer and screenwriter. Set in South Africa. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Emil Nofal. 5 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus perfect-bound. Emil Nofal Films unknown
1988ref. 152773Los Angeles: Avenue Pictures 1988. Final Shooting script for the 1989 film. Gus Van Sant's directorial debut and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s appropriately released at the end of that decade following the exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. Set in the Pacific Northwest. White generic Avenue Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 9/08/88 noted as Final Shooting Script with credits for director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dan Yost and story credits James Fogle. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 9-27-88. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Spicer US. Avenue Pictures unknown books
1989ref. 145724Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures 1989. Vintage studio still photograph of director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon on the set of the 1989 film. Noted director Gus Van Sant's first feature film and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s appropriately released at the end of that decade. The unsentimental exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Avenue Pictures unknown books
1989ref. 156671Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures 1989. Vintage studio still photograph of Matt Dillon and William Burroughs from the 1989 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Director Gus Van Sant's first feature film and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s appropriately released at the end of that decade. The unsentimental exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Avenue Pictures unknown
1989ref. 145724Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures 1989. Vintage studio still photograph of director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon on the set of the 1989 film. Noted director Gus Van Sant's first feature film and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s appropriately released at the end of that decade. The unsentimental exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Avenue Pictures unknown
1986ref. 160924N.p.: N.p. 1986. Shooting Revision script for the 1988 action film. Bound in preceding the script are three pages of interior and exterior set lists and cast lists. Jimmy Stathis stars as DEA Agent John Temple working undercover in Mexico to nail drug kingpin Victor Lazzaro played by Aldo Ray who killed his partner. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Orange titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Allan Kuskowski. Title page present dated 7/21/86 noted as SHOOTING REVISION with credits for screenwriter Allan Kuskowski. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 167932Los Angeles: Gramercy Pictures 1994. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1994 film including four compilation photographs one showing director David Johnson on the set. A comedy produced by Spike Lee through his production company 40 Acres and a Mule about a team of African Americans who seek out and deprogram other Black Americans who they feel have betrayed their race. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Gramercy Pictures unknown
1977ref. 137778Canada: Paradise Films Limited 1977. Shooting script for the 1978 Canadian film "Drop Dead Dearest" here under an alternate title "I Miss You Hugs and Kisses." Brief annotations in holograph ink on two pages. Shot in flashback scenarios a beautiful model Sommer is murdered and left for dead in her garage and the key suspect is the person who discovered her dead: her husband Charles Pilon. Shot on location in Ontario. One of the non-prosecuted films included in the "Video Nasties" list a collection of video cassette releases distributed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that were criticized for their violent content by social commentators religious organizations and the press. The list is composed of over 70 films 39 prosecuted 33 non-prosecuted but Video Nasties would inevitably become an antiquated genre. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 25 1977 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Woods and Markowitz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with a black Vello binding. Paradise Films Limited unknown books
1996ref. 163604Los Angeles: Neo Motion Pictures 1996. Draft script for the 1997 film seen here under the working titles "Road to Ruin" and "Driven." Working copy belonging to actor Sean Moran with his annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page front wrapper and nine pages of the script and two call sheets laid in. A then-new blend of martial arts and traditional fist-and-guns action that has become a cult classic. A Hong Kong man with an experimental implant which gives him super-strength and speed must flee from Chinese mercenaries who have been employed to steal the device. Shot on location in Santa Clarita Los Angeles and Lancaster California. Gray generic Neo Motion Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 1.2.96 noted as Draft with credits for screenwriter Scott Phillips and storywriter Anthony Trifiletti. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Neo Motion Pictures unknown
1971ref. 139058Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage Australian insert poster for the 1971 US film. Printed by Robert Burton Pty. in Sydney. Based on screenwriter Larner's 1964 novel. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s as well as a New Hollywood film albeit lesser-known. Hector Tepper plays college basketball superbly but his lover Olive Black has reservations about their relationship. All the while Hector's friend Gabriel Margotta contemplates and protests the Vietnam War. Nicholson's directorial debut after astonishing performances in "Easy Rider" 1969 and "Five Easy Pieces" 1970. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout the state. 12.75 x 30 inches folded twice as issued. Very Good plus with light toning brief edge creasing and a few central tears. Scarce. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 170347Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing director Jack Nicholson looking through the script with Karen Black and William Tepper. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on screenwriter Jeremy Larner's 1964 novel. Nicholson's directorial debut a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s following several college students navigating Vietnam War protests uncertain romantic relationships and their own dubious futures after graduation. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout Eugene Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 156265Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1971 film both showing William Tepper in basketball garb one in the locker room and one on the court. Based on screenwriter Jeremy Larner's 1964 novel. Jack Nicholson's directorial debut a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s following several college students navigating Vietnam War protests uncertain romantic relationships and their own dubious futures after graduation. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout Eugene Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 150760Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Complete set of eight studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Based on screenwriter Jeremy Larner's 1964 novel. Jack Nicholson's directorial debut a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s following several college students navigating Vietnam War protests uncertain romantic relationships and their own dubious futures after graduation. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout Eugene Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 139058Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage Australian insert poster for the 1971 US film. Printed by Robert Burton Pty. in Sydney. Based on screenwriter Larner's 1964 novel. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s as well as a New Hollywood film albeit lesser-known. Hector Tepper plays college basketball superbly but his lover Olive Black has reservations about their relationship. All the while Hector's friend Gabriel Margotta contemplates and protests the Vietnam War. Nicholson's directorial debut after astonishing performances in "Easy Rider" 1969 and "Five Easy Pieces" 1970. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout the state. 12.75 x 30 inches folded twice as issued. Very Good plus with light toning brief edge creasing and a few central tears. Scarce. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown
1946ref. 003013Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1946. Doyle A. Conan. DRESSED TO KILL here bearing the initial later discarded title "Prelude To Murder". Los Angeles: Universal Studios 1946. This unique film studio screenplay archive consists of THREE original screenplays. 1. A "First Revised Draft" dated January 3rd 1946 the screenwriter's original carbon copy typescript unannotated consisting of 94pp of onion-skin paper. Brad-bound in original drab brown Universal Studios covers which are a little brittle and chipped else Very Good bearing the stamped production number 7337. 2. Complete 78pp brad-bound shooting script consisting of a mix of original ribbon-copy typescript and studio-mimeographed white pages dated January 16th 1946 with production number 7337 stamped on the cover. This remarkable writer's draft contains extensive author-revised annotations emendations revisions and additions throughout. This is accomplished via a cut-and-paste the insertion of additional leaves and new dialogue and description scrawled on the versos an exceptional artifact which boldly captures the revision process of this last entry in the Sherlock Holmes' Universal Studios film series. The front cover has been neatly reinforced with tape and bears the original penciled filing notation indicating that this particular script is the copy from which the final draft was produced. 3. Dated April 25th 1946 the complete original studio-mimeographed self-wrapper final post-production dialogue continuity script bound with two brads at the top. In Very Good condition. The title DRESSED TO KILL refers to the film's wily femme fatale Hilda Courtney played by Patricia Morison an homage to Irene Adler from "A Scandal In Bohemia" complete with a familiar misdirection trick which Hilda uses to fool Watson into revealing a hidden location. The plot is an amalgam of several Holmes stories but also draws from other plots in the Universal Sherlock film canon: a convicted thief in Dartmoor Prison hides stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes -- leading to the murder or attempted murder of their owners using the central device of a secret code which of course only Holmes can brilliantly break. Starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in their final film together DRESSED TO KILL opened on June 7th 1946 to excellent reviews but also to rumors that it was to be the last of the Universal Sherlock films; by October of that year Producer Roy William Neill truly the visionary of the film series died and that signaled the end of one of the most successful franchises in Universal Studios history. Unique. Please see the other Universal Sherlock scripts we have in stock. Signed. Original Wraps. Very Good. Script. Universal Studios Paperback books
1980ref. 149364Los Angeles: Filmways 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 film showing director Brian De Palma and actress Angie Dickinson standing at the base of the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A defining De Palma film suspenseful in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock and opening with an homage to the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho." The sixth of nine highly distinctive films De Palma made between 1973 and 1984. Set in New York shot on location in New York and Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 842. Criterion Collection 770. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Filmways unknown books
ref. 153222N.p. Two vintage color reference photographs of director Brian De Palma and actress Angie Dickinson along with a camera crew on the set of the 1980 film. A defining De Palma film suspenseful in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock and opening with an homage to the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho." The sixth of nine highly distinctive films De Palma made between 1973 and 1984. Set in New York shot on location in New York and Pennsylvania. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 842. Criterion Collection 770. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. unknown
