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1972ref. 171794N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1972 French film showing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Daniel Ivernel ogling a nude Laura Antonelli. Based on Hubert Monteilhet's 1969 novel "Murder at Leisure" about a womanizing doctor who begins drugging his wife in order to continue his affair with her younger sister. 11 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 132883London: Rank Organisation 1970. Vintage full-color still photographs from the 1970 UK film. A doctor is in love with a woman but doesn't have time to propose to her before she leaves on a cruise to the Mediterranean. The doctor decides to join the cruise but getting the opportunity to romance the woman of his dreams proves difficult. 8 x 10 inches with no borders as issued. Tiny creases else Near Fine. Rank Organisation unknown books
1959ref. 151138London: J. Arthur Rank 1959. Final Draft script for the 1960 film. Based on Richard Gordon's 1957 novel. The fourth film in Rank's popular "Doctor" series and the first not to feature actor Dirk Bogarde as Dr. Simon Sparrow although Bogarde would return for the next film in the series "Doctor in Distress" in 1963. The series follows the frequently romantic comic antics of a group of young doctors. Set and shot on location in London. Green titled wrappers noted as Semi-final Script on the front wrapper dated 14-12-59. Title page present dated December 1959 with credits for screenwriter Nicholas Phipps and novelist Richard Gordon. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown books
1966ref. 132884London / Italy: Rank Organisation / Graphocolor S. P. A. 1966. Vintage full-color front-of-house card from the 1966 UK film. Leslie Phillips stars as a doctor looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses much to the annoyance of the main administrator James Robertson Justice. Based on Richard Gordon's 1960 novel. 8 x 10 inches with no borders as issued. Very Good plus with light creasing overall. Rank Organisation / Graphocolor S. P. A. unknown books
1959ref. 151138London: J. Arthur Rank 1959. Final Draft script for the 1960 film. Based on Richard Gordon's 1957 novel. The fourth film in Rank's popular "Doctor" series and the first not to feature actor Dirk Bogarde as Dr. Simon Sparrow although Bogarde would return for the next film in the series "Doctor in Distress" in 1963. The series follows the frequently romantic comic antics of a group of young doctors. Set and shot on location in London. Green titled wrappers noted as Semi-final Script on the front wrapper dated 14-12-59. Title page present dated December 1959 with credits for screenwriter Nicholas Phipps and novelist Richard Gordon. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
1978ref. 141490New York: Martin Poll Productions 1978. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation in holograph pencil. Based on the 1976 novel by Robert J. Myers entitled "Slave of Frankenstein." Dr. Frankenstein's monster lives in the swampy lowlands of Virginia trying to build an army of zombies using the bodies of local slaves he kidnapped. Set in Virginia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated June 15 1978 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Ted Haworth and author Robert J. Myers. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Martin Poll Productions unknown books
1983ref. 140562N.p.: Black Rhino Productions 1983. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1983 film. A goofy comedy about a professor of comparative literature who inadvertently becomes a pimp and chief nemesis of "Mom" a gruff Chicago mob boss. The professor played by Dan Aykroyd must juggle teaching grading and protecting his "girls." Shot on location in California and Illinois. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a holograph ink notation to the verso of one image. Black Rhino Productions unknown books
1989ref. 142398Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Billy O'Sullivan who portrayed Teddy with his autograph on the title page. Two parents discover horrible stories of abuse coming from the daycare their children attends especially since the people running the center are moral pillars of the community. This film was released at the height of the child abuse daycare moral scare starting with a highly-publicized legal case in California. Nominated for two Primetime Emmys. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 10 1989 with credits for screenwriter Stan Kensela. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication first generation. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown books
1989ref. 142398Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Billy O'Sullivan who portrayed Teddy with his autograph on the title page. Two parents discover horrible stories of abuse coming from the daycare their children attends especially since the people running the center are moral pillars of the community. This film was released at the height of the child abuse daycare moral scare starting with a highly-publicized legal case in California. Nominated for two Primetime Emmys. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 10 1989 with credits for screenwriter Stan Kensela. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication first generation. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Reyes 46 47. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1961ref. 144353Rome: Lux Film 1961. Original Italian program for the 1961 film here under the original Italian title "Divorzio all'italiana." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white still photos from the film full-color front wrapper fold-out art and the program details a synopsis and cast and crew credits. Notations throughout in holograph ink mostly amending certain words of the synopsis. Ferdinando Mastroianni is bored with life and his wife Rocca. He falls in love with his cousin Sandrelli and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover instead of killing her. Seems simple enough. The first of Mastoianni's four "Italian Style" films and winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing a BAFTA three Golden Globes and nominated for a host of others. 9.5 x 13.25 inches 9 leaves saddle-stapled. Very Good overall lacking staples with creases brief tears and foxing. Criterion Collection 286. Lux Film unknown books
1962ref. 132135Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1962. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian film. Marcello Mastroianni is a bored man bored with life and his wife. He falls in love with a younger woman and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover. That way he wont need to kill her. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creases and toning overall. Several pinholes to a few; one with a small chip and corresponding closed tears. Complete collation details available on request. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 142921Italy: Lux Film 1961. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1961 Italian film. Two stills with brief annotations on the versos in holograph ink and pencil. Ferdinando Mastroianni is bored with life and his wife Rocca. He falls in love with his cousin Sandrelli and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover instead of killing her. Seems simple enough. The first of Mastoianni's four "Italian Style" films and winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing a BAFTA three Golden Globes and nominated for a host of others. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling a few with slight discoloration. Criterion Collection 286. Lux Film unknown books
1961ref. 144353Rome: Lux Film 1961. Original Italian program for the 1961 film here under the original Italian title "Divorzio all'italiana." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white still photos from the film full-color front wrapper fold-out art and the program details a synopsis and cast and crew credits. Notations throughout in manuscript ink mostly amending certain words of the synopsis. Ferdinando Mastroianni is bored with life and his wife Rocca. He falls in love with his cousin Sandrelli and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover instead of killing her. Seems simple enough. The first of Mastoianni's four "Italian Style" films and winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing a BAFTA three Golden Globes and nominated for a host of others. 9.5 x 13.25 inches 9 leaves saddle-stapled. Very Good overall lacking staples with creases brief tears and foxing. Criterion Collection 286. Lux Film unknown
1961ref. 142921Italy: Lux Film 1961. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1961 Italian film. Two stills with brief annotations on the versos in manuscript ink and pencil. Ferdinando Mastroianni is bored with life and his wife Rocca. He falls in love with his cousin Sandrelli and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover instead of killing her. Seems simple enough. The first of Mastoianni's four "Italian Style" films and winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing a BAFTA three Golden Globes and nominated for a host of others. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling a few with slight discoloration. Criterion Collection 286. Lux Film unknown
1967ref. 132635Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage full-color still photographs from the 1967 US film. Oscar-nominated comedy about the ups and downs of marriage then divorce then reuniting. It may be the only time Dick Van Dyke will ever shop in the Red Light District. 8 x 10 inches. Two pinholes and faint creases else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1935ref. 160585N.p.: N.p. 1935. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1935 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos in French. A farm girl gets tangled up with a depraved Parisian after starting a new job as a performer at a seedy music hall but finds redemption in her relationship with a wholesome milkman. One of two films written by notorious French author Colette the other being Marc Allégret's "Lake of Ladies" in 1934. Shot on location in Paris and in Hyères. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners one with faint foxing on the bottom edge of the verso. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 135172N.p.: N.p. 1965. Draft script for an unproduced film accompanied by a typed letter signed from Weis to producer Milton Ebbins another typed letter signed from Ebbins subsequently returning the script and a third page of casting notes with holograph annotations in pencil and black ink. The casting notes propose a number of actors and screenwriters for the film all among Hollywood's best including Dalton Trumbo Budd Schulberg Paddy Chayevsky sic Abby Man Albert Maltz Rod Steiger Albert Finney Rod Steiger Alec Guinness Steve McQueen Marlon Brando William Holden Paul Newman Peter O'Toole Sterling Hayden and a number of others. An undercover Israeli secret agent investigating war criminals turns out to be an ex-Nazi whose past has finally caught up with him. Untitled black wrappers with the Chrislaw agency sticker to the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 23 1965 with credits for screenwriter Vadnay and producer-director Weis. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with a silver bar. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 135174N.p.: N.p. 1965. Draft script for an unproduced film. An undercover Israeli secret agent investigating war criminals turns out to be an ex-Nazi whose past has finally caught up with him. Untitled black wrappers. Title page present dated March 23 1965 with credits for screenwriter Vadnay and producer-director Weis. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with a silver bar. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 156076Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1982. Five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1981 French film. Based on the 1979 novel by Daniel Odier writing under the pseudonym Delacora. A stylish and influential French thriller wherein a young postman and opera enthusiast inadvertently becomes entangled with the mob and the police after a woman slips a cassette that fingers a corrupt police chief into his bag. Set and shot on location in Paris France. 8 x 10 inches. One with a small chip and tape shadow at the bottom right corner else Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 149769N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1970 French film showing actress Marie-Christine Barrault taking a bubble bath. A drowsy absent-minded man who works at an advertising agency fills his days with fantasy to escape the problems in his life. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Near Fine with brief separation to a few corners. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 161690N.p.: Distribpix 1974. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Three photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. An encounter group meets to relate their sexual experiences and hangups. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Distribpix unknown
2017ref. 170439N.p.: N.p. 2017. A small archive of approximately 70 leaves largely regarding casting and readings for Francis Ford Coppola's ongoing experimental film project "Distant Vision" belonging to Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos with the majority of the material written in Roos' hand 2013-2017. Found here under various working titles including "Coppola Project" "Dark Electric Vision" "Distant Vision" "D.V." "FFC" and "F. Coppola Project." Included in the archive are: Copious handwritten notes on casting considerations and recommendations from Roos including actor availability skill sets and reactions to meetings and readings. A four-page "'Men' For Discussion" and "'Women' For Discussion" on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 5 2013 listing actors and their ages. A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 5 2013 listing "Godfather I II and III Actors for Discussion." A two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 7 2013 of "'Faith' For Discussion" listing actors for the role with pencil annotations in Roos' hand. Five listings on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors for readings which took place from March 16 2013 to August 1 2014 which included Kate Beckinsale Vincent D'Onofrio Elle Fanning Andy Garcia Philip Seymour Hoffman Oscar Isaac Uma Thurman and Marisa Tomei among others. A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 19 2013 listing actors for a proposed reading the following day with the actor's headshot their character's name and their contact information or agency with ink annotations in Roos' hand. Including actors Linda Cardellini Frank Grillo Dakota Johnson Max Minghella and Imogen Poots among others. A four page handwritten draft of a letter to Coppola in Roos' hand regarding an upcoming January 15 2014 table reading with thirteen questions for Coppola largely regarding casting and actor availability. Four pages from a Draft script with the ink annotation of "Fred's Notes on June 25 2014 Draft" with notes regarding the script in Roos' hand on two pages. A four-page "Cast of Characters" listing all the characters with brief descriptions for the following timelines in the script: "1922" "1928-30" "1939" "1947" "1952" "Flashback - 1890's" "1959" "1962" and "1969." A four-page list of "Cast of Characters" with ages depicted and detailed descriptions along with "Minor Characters" with brief descriptions. A three-page list of all the characters and the script pages on which the characters appear. And a two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors up for discussion dated August 22 2017. All material housed in a generic orange folder with post-its with marker annotations of "Distant Vision" affixed to the front panel and tab with cello tape. Conceived by Coppola as an experimental film project in the early 2000's "Distant Vision" depicts three generations of an Italian American family during the advent and omnipresence of television intended to be filmed as "live cinema" Coppola's experimental and potentially ground-breaking concept for a live production-film hybrid. Two different versions of a "proof of concept" production were broadcast to limited audiences in June 2015 from Oklahoma City Community College and in July 2016 from the UCLA School of Theater. Coppola had planned to film more sequences financed from his 2024 film "Megalopolis" but had been thus far put on hold following the film's disappointing box office returns. All material approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall housed in a Near Fine 8.5 x 11.5 generic orange folder. N.p. unknown
2002ref. 146414N.p.: N.p. 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man suffers frequent blackouts often waking with strange injuries all over his body and becomes convinced he is being stalked due to his role in a nefarious unknown plot. White titled self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 2002 to Philip S. Lyren. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2002ref. 146414N.p.: N.p. 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young man suffers frequent blackouts often waking with strange injuries all over his body and becomes convinced he is being stalked due to his role in a nefarious unknown plot. White titled self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 2002 to Philip S. Lyren. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 73. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 009746Hollywood California: Movie Tech Studios. Offered is the probable first draft of the film screenplay entitled "Dismemberd" Dismembered by screenwriter Jack Neal. An undated draft script the scenes are not numbered circa 1980s the film was finally produced and released in 2003. Directed by Ewing Miles Brown the film starred Lee Horsley Leslie Easterbrook Gordon Jump Bernie Kopell and Judson Mills. Since the film was produced nearly 20 years after the original draft being offered in this listing it is probable that the script underwent several revisions during the ensuing years. The screenplay contains 117 mimeographed loose leaf pages including title page and photo of a glove-covered hand ready to grab a frightened woman looking in a mirror measuring 8-1/2" by 11" bound in heavy green front and rear covers with metal strip. Pasted to the upper area of the front cover is a label from Movie Tech Studios showing its name and address on 832 Seward Street in Hollywood California and typed titled author Jack Neal Reg. S.W.G.W. Property Movie Tech Studios. Light creases to outer cover overhang edges; "DISMBERD" written in black felt pen to outer left spine edges. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1985. Movie Tech Studios paperback
