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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 books
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 books
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
1956ref. 146325Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in manuscript ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in manuscript pencil on upper right of wrapper. The final of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers starring Bill Elliott as a L.A.sheriff's department detective following "Dial Red O" 1955 "Sudden Danger" 1955 "Calling Homicide" 1956 and "Chain of Evidence" 1957. Two detectives investigate the strangulation death of well-liked card player. A gambling addicted neighbor is suspected but something doesn't quite add up. "Wild" Bill Elliott's final film retiring from acting in 1957. Green titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page present with receipt removed dated March 14 1956 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Spicer US. Lyons p. 91. Grant US. Selby US. Allied Artists Productions unknown books
1956ref. 146325Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in manuscript ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in manuscript pencil on upper right of wrapper. The final of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers starring Bill Elliott as a L.A.sheriff's department detective following "Dial Red O" 1955 "Sudden Danger" 1955 "Calling Homicide" 1956 and "Chain of Evidence" 1957. Two detectives investigate the strangulation death of well-liked card player. A gambling addicted neighbor is suspected but something doesn't quite add up. "Wild" Bill Elliott's final film retiring from acting in 1957. Green titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page present with receipt removed dated March 14 1956 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Spicer US. Lyons p. 91. Grant US. Selby US. Allied Artists Productions unknown
1922ref. 158645N.p.: N.p. 1922. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1922 film showing director and actor Erich von Stroheim. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The legendary von Stroheim's third film as a director at time the most expensive film ever made and the first to cost over one million dollars although the original budget was $250000. The overruns led to the first of many clashes between von Stroheim and Irving Thalberg then just 21 years old and still in his first year as the head of Universal. Thalberg eventually shut down production and took over editing the film himself cutting nearly three hours from the footage in the first of several instances in the next few years that would assert the primacy of the studio over that of the director. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 167654Paris: Sygma 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film one showing Robert Altman on the set the other showing Altman talking with actor Sam Shepard. Based on Shepard's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about two ex-lovers with an exceedingly troubled past who inadvertently find themselves at the same run-down motel in the Mojave Desert. Shot on location in El Dorado New Mexico. 9.5 x 7 inches. Both with two neat pinholes at one corner each else about Fine. Sygma unknown books
1985ref. 167654Paris: Sygma 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film one showing Robert Altman on the set the other showing Altman talking with actor Sam Shepard. Based on Shepard's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about two ex-lovers with an exceedingly troubled past who inadvertently find themselves at the same run-down motel in the Mojave Desert. Shot on location in El Dorado New Mexico. 9.5 x 7 inches. Both with two neat pinholes at one corner each else about Fine. Sygma unknown
1968ref. 132500London: Rank Film Distributors 1968. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1967 UK film. A comedy set in the desert about a man who joins the Foreign Legion to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. Little does he realize his girlfriend has followed close behind. The second of over a dozen "Carry on." releases from the Rank Organisation. 8 x 10 inches with no borders as issued. Very Good plus with seller rubber-stamps on the verso and light rubbing and creases at the extremities. Rank Film Distributors unknown books
1952ref. 148166N.p.: Valoria Films 1952. Seven vintage French lobby cards from the 1952 film one with "Agence Mediterraneenne" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Jeux Interdits" by Francois Boyer. Paulette Brigitte Fossey a young Parisian girl orphaned by a Nazi air raid befriends an older peasant boy Michel Georges Poujouly whose family takes her in. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in France. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall pinholes at corners with some small chipping to corners one with bruise and cello tape on top center. Vogel "Film as a Subversive Art." Ebert III. Criterion Collection 318. Valoria Films unknown books
1952ref. 148166N.p.: Valoria Films 1952. Seven vintage French lobby cards from the 1952 film one with "Agence Mediterraneenne" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Jeux Interdits" by Francois Boyer. Paulette Brigitte Fossey a young Parisian girl orphaned by a Nazi air raid befriends an older peasant boy Michel Georges Poujouly whose family takes her in. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in France. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall pinholes at corners with some small chipping to corners one with bruise and cello tape on top center. Vogel "Film as a Subversive Art." Ebert III. Criterion Collection 318. Valoria Films unknown
1974ref. 140876N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Synopsis laid in. The School of Acrobatics and Acrobatic Training is ab American private school demanding precise execution and extreme attention to detail. The story follows "aeronautical acrobatics" a branch of acrobatics that represent the outer fringe of the school's studies. Set in Arizona. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credit for screenwriter William Goodhart. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 140876N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Synopsis laid in. The School of Acrobatics and Acrobatic Training is ab American private school demanding precise execution and extreme attention to detail. The story follows "aeronautical acrobatics" a branch of acrobatics that represent the outer fringe of the school's studies. Set in Arizona. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credit for screenwriter William Goodhart. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 158144N.p.: N.p. 1974. Six vintage borderless reference photographs and two contact sheets from the 1974 French sexploitation film. Contact sheets with twelve images each. While housesitting for her cousin a young girl is kidnapped by a vengeful sadomasochistic sex cult. An early adult film by noted French director Jean Rollin. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Contact sheets 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Three photographs 7 x 5 inches three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Good with some moderate fading and edgewear. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 149588N.p.: Nordia Films 1974. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 erotic horror film. A young woman watching over her cousin's house is mistakenly kidnapped by a crazed sex cult. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. Nordia Films unknown books
1974ref. 149588N.p.: Nordia Films 1974. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 erotic horror film. A young woman watching over her cousin's house is mistakenly kidnapped by a crazed sex cult. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. Nordia Films unknown
1970ref. 147351N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Nicholas Blake's 1968 novel "The Private Wound" about the struggles of a young Irish writer to resist seduction by the wife of the hot-tempered local squire. Set in West Ireland. Black titled faux-leather wrappers. Title page present dated June 1970 with credits for screenwriter Clifford Hanley and novelist Nicholas Blake. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 147351N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Nicholas Blake's 1968 novel "The Private Wound" about the struggles of a young Irish writer to resist seduction by the wife of the hot-tempered local squire. Set in West Ireland. Black titled faux-leather wrappers. Title page present dated June 1970 with credits for screenwriter Clifford Hanley and novelist Nicholas Blake. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 147461Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1986. Revised Third Draft script for the 1987 film. INSCRIBED by actor Kristy Swanson on the title page to an unknown crew member. Based on the 1979 Gothic novel by Virginia C. Andrews about the incestuous plight of four unlucky siblings whose mother abandons them in the attic of her family's decaying ancestral home after their father's death in an automobile accident. While Andrews' novel was wildly popular among teenage girl readers of the 1970s and 80s test audiences were revolted by some of the film's more taboo scenes leading producers to heavily re-cut the film and even create a new ending-a decision which Bloom purportedly despised and refused to direct. Partially set in Pennsylvania shot on location in California and Massachusetts. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated April 30 1986 noted as REVISED THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter JEFFREY BLOOM and novelist V.C. ANDREWS. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
1986ref. 147461Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1986. Revised Third Draft script for the 1987 film. INSCRIBED by actor Kristy Swanson on the title page to an unknown crew member. Based on the 1979 Gothic novel by Virginia C. Andrews about the incestuous plight of four unlucky siblings whose mother abandons them in the attic of her family's decaying ancestral home after their father's death in an automobile accident. While Andrews' novel was wildly popular among teenage girl readers of the 1970s and 80s test audiences were revolted by some of the film's more taboo scenes leading producers to heavily re-cut the film and even create a new ending-a decision which Bloom purportedly despised and refused to direct. Partially set in Pennsylvania shot on location in California and Massachusetts. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated April 30 1986 noted as REVISED THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter JEFFREY BLOOM and novelist V.C. ANDREWS. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1961ref. 139506Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 musical film based on both the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and the 1957 novel by C.Y. Lee. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner. Hirschhorn p. 373. Universal Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 1599671959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Annotations in manuscript pencil on several leaves noting revisions and amendments. A remake of the 1934 silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds" also directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The leader of a traveling theatre troupe goes to visit his former mistress and their son who is unaware that the man is his father. Meanwhile the man's current lover jealous of his attentions to his former mistress schemes to shame him by convincing a young actress in the troupe to seduce his son. One of the final films the prolific Japanese director made before his death in 1963. Set on the Japanese coast. White titled wrappers. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeograph duplication rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding. Criterion Collection 232. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 41. unknown books
1997ref. 146408Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired August 30 1998 on Showtime. Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats" the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the country. Set in Wyoming shot on location in Vancouver BC. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 19 1997 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Tim Sandlin. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Producers Entertainment Group unknown books
1997ref. 146408Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired August 30 1998 on Showtime. Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats" the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the country. Set in Wyoming shot on location in Vancouver BC. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 19 1997 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Tim Sandlin. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The Producers Entertainment Group unknown
