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1984ref. 147308Paris: Sofracima 1984. Early draft script for the 1984 Mexican crime film here under the working title "Rainy Days Rainy Nights." Text in English. After her car breaks down in the middle of the night in rural France a young woman is lured to the home of a local pharmacist who promises to allow her to use his telephone to call a towing company. A violent struggle soon ensues forcing the woman to kill him in self-defense after he attempts to sexually assault and strangle her. A very early draft predating substantial revisions by director Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Set in France. White non-standard Sofracima studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Emmerich Oross. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. Sofracima unknown
1968ref. 162495N.p.: Cannon Releasing Corporation 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1968 Swedish sexploitation film also released in the US under the title "Yes!" With a provenance stamp on the verso. Lisa a successful Stockholm fashion designer meets the beautiful 17-year-old Ingrid during a country vacation and takes her back to Stockholm to be a model and shortly thereafter begins a sapphic May-December relationship. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with light creasing to the right corners and a bruise to the lower right. Cannon Releasing Corporation unknown books
1968ref. 162495N.p.: Cannon Releasing Corporation 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1968 Swedish sexploitation film also released in the US under the title "Yes!" With a provenance stamp on the verso. Lisa a successful Stockholm fashion designer meets the beautiful 17-year-old Ingrid during a country vacation and takes her back to Stockholm to be a model and shortly thereafter begins a sapphic May-December relationship. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with light creasing to the right corners and a bruise to the lower right. Cannon Releasing Corporation unknown
1969ref. 164085N.p.: RAF Industries 1969. Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record of radio spot announcements for the 1969 film. Red label variant. Rare. An awkward young man makes a deal with the devil offering his soul for youth beauty and power-but all at a cost. 7 inches. Fine with nominal surface wear housed in a Fine brown paper sleeve. RAF Industries unknown books
1969ref. 164085N.p.: RAF Industries 1969. Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record of radio spot announcements for the 1969 film. Red label variant. Rare. An awkward young man makes a deal with the devil offering his soul for youth beauty and power-but all at a cost. 7 inches. Fine with nominal surface wear housed in a Fine brown paper sleeve. RAF Industries unknown
1995ref. 164015N.p.: N.p. 1995. Archive of three original scripts and a collection of green revision scripts for the 1996 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Archive includes: A Fourth Draft script on pink and yellow leaves copy belonging to Construction Foreman Ramsey Smith with the manuscript ink annotations of "Ramsey S." and copy number "98" on the title page. A Third Draft script on blue leaves copy belonging to Scher with the manuscript ink annotations of "Chris Scher" and copy number "88" on the title page. A Second Draft script on white leaves with a manuscript marker annotation of "1/" on the title page. And a collection of 53 green revision pages for the Fourth Draft script copy belonging to Scher with the manuscript ink annotations of "Chris" and copy number "94" on the title page. Based on the 1984 play by Michael Brady. On the second anniversary of his wife Gillian's Michelle Pfeiffer death and birthday David Peter Gallagher who spends his evenings walking the beach talking with his wife's ghost has his in-laws come to stay for the weekend with him his daughter and her friend hoping to snap him back into the present. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Nantucket Massachusetts shot on location in Massachusetts North Carolina and California. Fourth Draft Script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated September 28 1995 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only on pink and yellow revision pages dated September 27 1995 and September 28 1995. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Third Draft Script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated September 11 1995 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Draft Script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated July 25 1995 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper CONDITIONWRAPPER bound with two gold brads. Green Revision Pages: Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 4 1995 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1995ref. 164015N.p.: N.p. 1995. Archive of three original scripts and a collection of green revision scripts for the 1996 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Archive includes: A Fourth Draft script on pink and yellow leaves copy belonging to Construction Foreman Ramsey Smith with the manuscript ink annotations of "Ramsey S." and copy number "98" on the title page. A Third Draft script on blue leaves copy belonging to Scher with the manuscript ink annotations of "Chris Scher" and copy number "88" on the title page. A Second Draft script on white leaves with a manuscript marker annotation of "1/" on the title page. And a collection of 53 green revision pages for the Fourth Draft script copy belonging to Scher with the manuscript ink annotations of "Chris" and copy number "94" on the title page. Based on the 1984 play by Michael Brady. On the second anniversary of his wife Gillian's Michelle Pfeiffer death and birthday David Peter Gallagher who spends his evenings walking the beach talking with his wife's ghost has his in-laws come to stay for the weekend with him his daughter and her friend hoping to snap him back into the present. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Nantucket Massachusetts shot on location in Massachusetts North Carolina and California. Fourth Draft Script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated September 28 1995 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only on pink and yellow revision pages dated September 27 1995 and September 28 1995. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Third Draft Script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated September 11 1995 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Draft Script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated July 25 1995 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper CONDITIONWRAPPER bound with two gold brads. Green Revision Pages: Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 4 1995 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter David E. Kelley and playwright Michael Brady. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 166036London: Welbeck Films 1954. Revised Draft script for the 1954 film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the front wrapper and a manuscript ink annotation of the date "9/6/54" on the bottom of the title page here under the working title "To Dorothy - A Son" released in the UK as "To Dorothy a Son" and in the US as "Cash on Delivery." With a manuscript pencil annotation on one page 12A underlining a needed prop and one page 38 with a clipping of a revision page affixed over the previous dialogue. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1950 play "To Dorothy a Son" by Roger MacDougall. Shelley Winters stars as Myrtle an American woman who stands to inherit $2 million dollars from her uncle as long as she doesn't have any male heirs. The only thing standing in her way is John Gregson as her ex-husband and his very pregnant new wife played by Peggy Cummins. Tall untitled green wrappers. Title page present with an annotated date of "9/6/54" noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Peter Rogers and playwright Roger MacDougall. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Welbeck Films unknown books
1954ref. 166036London: Welbeck Films 1954. Revised Draft script for the 1954 film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the top of the front wrapper and a manuscript ink annotation of the date "9/6/54" on the bottom of the title page here under the working title "To Dorothy - A Son" released in the UK as "To Dorothy a Son" and in the US as "Cash on Delivery." With a manuscript pencil annotation on one page 12A underlining a needed prop and one page 38 with a clipping of a revision page affixed over the previous dialogue. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1950 play "To Dorothy a Son" by Roger MacDougall. Shelley Winters stars as Myrtle an American woman who stands to inherit $2 million dollars from her uncle as long as she doesn't have any male heirs. The only thing standing in her way is John Gregson as her ex-husband and his very pregnant new wife played by Peggy Cummins. Tall untitled green wrappers. Title page present with an annotated date of "9/6/54" noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Peter Rogers and playwright Roger MacDougall. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a prong binding. Welbeck Films unknown
1984ref. 149806Los Angeles: The Producers Group 1984. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the inside rear wrapper noting a name and phone number. Loosely based on the 1982 "Life" magazine article "To Die in Lima: a Cocaine Tragedy the Tale of an American Who Got Mixed Up in the Drug Trade" by Bertram Gabriel. An American farmer visiting Lima after a life-threatening heart attack is conned into working as a drug mule leading to his arrest and torturous detainment by the Peruvian government. Set in the Sierra Mountains California and Lima Peru. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 26 1984 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Bill Kerby. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only with five blue revision pages at the end of the script two dated 2/21/84. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. The Producers Group unknown books
1984ref. 149806Los Angeles: The Producers Group 1984. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the inside rear wrapper noting a name and phone number. Loosely based on the 1982 "Life" magazine article "To Die in Lima: a Cocaine Tragedy the Tale of an American Who Got Mixed Up in the Drug Trade" by Bertram Gabriel. An American farmer visiting Lima after a life-threatening heart attack is conned into working as a drug mule leading to his arrest and torturous detainment by the Peruvian government. Set in the Sierra Mountains California and Lima Peru. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 26 1984 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Bill Kerby. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only with five blue revision pages at the end of the script two dated 2/21/84. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. The Producers Group unknown
1967ref. 146864N.p.: N.p. 1967. Treatment script for the 1967 film seen here under its French title "Peau d'Espion." With a few small annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Incomplete as issued. Text in English. Based on screenwriter Jacques Robert's 1967 novel "Peau d'Espion" wherein an playboy writer becomes involved in a communist plot. Housed in a titled manila folder. Title page present with credits for director Edouard Molinaro and screenwriter Jacques Robert. 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11. Typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly creased bound with a staple and a paperclip at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 146864N.p.: N.p. 1967. Treatment script for the 1967 film seen here under its French title "Peau d'Espion." With a few small annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Incomplete as issued. Text in English. Based on screenwriter Jacques Robert's 1967 novel "Peau d'Espion" wherein an playboy writer becomes involved in a communist plot. Housed in a titled manila folder. Title page present with credits for director Edouard Molinaro and screenwriter Jacques Robert. 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11. Typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly creased bound with a staple and a paperclip at the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1941ref. 150534Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1941. Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. Remade in 1983 directed by Alan Johnson starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film having died in an airplane accident during post-production. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura husband and wife thespians in Nazi occupied Warsaw who inadvertently become part of the Resistance and must utilize every acting trick in the book to retrieve a list of Polish Resistance fighters from a German spy. Set in Warsaw immediately before and during the 1939 German invasion. 10 x 8 inches image 4.5 x 3.75 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Criterion Collection 670. United Artists unknown books
1941ref. 150534Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1941. Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. Remade in 1983 directed by Alan Johnson starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film having died in an airplane accident during post-production. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura husband and wife thespians in Nazi occupied Warsaw who inadvertently become part of the Resistance and must utilize every acting trick in the book to retrieve a list of Polish Resistance fighters from a German spy. Set in Warsaw immediately before and during the 1939 German invasion. 10 x 8 inches image 4.5 x 3.75 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Criterion Collection 670. United Artists unknown
1972ref. 162494N.p.: Magarac 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 release of the 1970 film here under it's original title. Provenance stamp on the verso. Originally released as "To Be Free" the film was re-shot re-edited and re-released in 1972 as "Imago." Barbara Douglas stars as a virgin who is incapable of having sex with her boyfriend and begins seeing a psychiatrist to help. After becoming involved with the doctor's lesbian receptionist and trying marijuana she begins to experience wild nightmares and struggles to cope. Shot on location in Pittsburgh. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Magarac unknown books
1972ref. 162494N.p.: Magarac 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 release of the 1970 film here under it's original title. Provenance stamp on the verso. Originally released as "To Be Free" the film was re-shot re-edited and re-released in 1972 as "Imago." Barbara Douglas stars as a virgin who is incapable of having sex with her boyfriend and begins seeing a psychiatrist to help. After becoming involved with the doctor's lesbian receptionist and trying marijuana she begins to experience wild nightmares and struggles to cope. Shot on location in Pittsburgh. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Magarac unknown
1967ref. 162633N.p.: International Film Artists 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. Originally released in France in 1963 as "La prostitution" directed by Maurice Boutel the film was released in the US in 1967 as "To Be a Woman" with portions removed and sex scenes shot in the US added by exploitation director Harvey Cort. A young girl from the provinces moves to Paris and finds herself trapped in the world of prostitution. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. International Film Artists unknown books
1970ref. 159131N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 experimental film showing actress Verity Bargate. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. Director Stephen Dwoskin was an experimental filmmaker who produced work based on themes of perception disability and sexuality. He was a cofounder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1966 and the film collective Spectre in 1980. "Times For" was the first of Dwoskin's longer films and notably included a performance by performance artist and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann with a soundtrack by experimental musician Gavin Bryars. 10 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 159131N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 experimental film showing actress Verity Bargate. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. Director Stephen Dwoskin was an experimental filmmaker who produced work based on themes of perception disability and sexuality. He was a cofounder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1966 and the film collective Spectre in 1980. "Times For" was the first of Dwoskin's longer films and notably included a performance by performance artist and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann with a soundtrack by experimental musician Gavin Bryars. 10 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1942ref. 131997Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window" here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne created by Brett Halliday. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with two pinholes to the center of the card a tiny closed tear to the top edge and a small chip to the lower left corner. Grant p. 651. Spicer p 420. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1942ref. 131997Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window" here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne created by Brett Halliday. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with two pinholes to the center of the card a tiny closed tear to the top edge and a small chip to the lower left corner. Grant p. 651. Spicer p 420. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1957ref. 171057N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage photographs one of director Karl Malden and uncredited camera operator Albert Myers and a vernacular photograph of Malden Myers and cinematographer Sam Leavitt from the set of the 1957 film. Photographs belonging to uncredited camera operator Myers one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. British born Albert Myers usually credited as Al Myers was a camera operator and camera crew member in Hollywood for over 50 years beginning in the late 1920s. He is credited in 30 films from 1927 to 1978 and assuredly worked on many more films uncredited during that time. His credits include "The Virginian" 1946 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 and "The Defiant Ones" 1958. Based on the 1956 Broadway play by Ralph Berkey and screenwriter Henry Denker. Richard Widmark stars an Army Colonel investigating the case of a Major played by Richard Basehart who is accused of and admits to collaborating with the enemy as a POW during the Korean War but the Colonel doubts the Major's guilt. Malden's only directing credit. Shot on location in Agoura California and Governors Island New York. 8 x 10 inches and 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 171057N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage photographs one of director Karl Malden and uncredited camera operator Albert Myers and a vernacular photograph of Malden Myers and cinematographer Sam Leavitt from the set of the 1957 film. Photographs belonging to uncredited camera operator Myers one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. British born Albert Myers usually credited as Al Myers was a camera operator and camera crew member in Hollywood for over 50 years beginning in the late 1920s. He is credited in 30 films from 1927 to 1978 and assuredly worked on many more films uncredited during that time. His credits include "The Virginian" 1946 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 and "The Defiant Ones" 1958. Based on the 1956 Broadway play by Ralph Berkey and screenwriter Henry Denker. Richard Widmark stars an Army Colonel investigating the case of a Major played by Richard Basehart who is accused of and admits to collaborating with the enemy as a POW during the Korean War but the Colonel doubts the Major's guilt. Malden's only directing credit. Shot on location in Agoura California and Governors Island New York. 8 x 10 inches and 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 141899Los Angeles: Sandy Howard Productions / New World Pictures 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Manuscript ink notation 108 on title page. Bar-Yotam is an Israeli actor and screenwriter who is best known for his roles in "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" 2008 and "Moon Over Parador" 1988 along with several television appearances dating from 1981-2016 on programs such as "Seinfeld" " Murder She Wrote" "Shameless" and "MacGyver." An angry renegade Irish police officer who plays by his own rules to come out on top in the end. Set in Southern California. White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Reuven Bar-Yotam. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Sandy Howard Productions / New World Pictures unknown books
