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2015ref. x-1479803510New York Univ Pr 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 370 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. New York Univ Pr paperback
1994ref. G0723419213I3N00Mosby Incorporated 1994. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Mosby, Incorporated hardcover
1957ref. 145088Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage photograph of actors Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier getting their clothes fitted while in Nairobi for the production of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso. Based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert C. Ruark. Set amidst Kenya's Mau Mau uprising. Two childhood friends Peter Rock Hudson the son of a British colonist and Kimani Sidney Poitier a native to Kenyan grow up to be on opposing sides of the conflict each wishing for a more peaceful world while surrounded by extreme violence. Shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1961ref. 144217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard about a cowboy who on the run from the law travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 142863Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess was a technical advisor for the film and the gold flying helmet Rock Hudson wears was his personal possession. A poster for "Battle Hymn" appears outside the movie theater in the 1959 pilot episode of The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody" Set in 1950s Westhampton Ohio and Seoul shot on location in Seoul South Korea and Nogales AZ. Navy full calf binding without paper wrappers as issued. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Charles Grayson. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 123-A. Multilith duplication with pink blue white revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/29/56 and 4/23/56. Pages Near Fine presentation binding Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1958ref. 143074Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage double weight photograph on the set of the 1958 film showing Cyd Charisse getting her hair styled after a swim while Rock Hudson films with moment in the background. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. With a screenplay by Ernest K. Gann based on his 1958 novel about the captain and passengers of a rundown boat caught in a storm and struggling to survive. Filmed on location in Hawaii. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 140927Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoirs du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1957ref. 138455Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Revised First Draft script for the 1958 film. Brief notation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper verso. Based on the novel and written for the screen by Ernest K. Gann about a disgraced former Navy captain Hudson piloting a disparate group of passengers through a storm on a rundown schooner. Green titled wrappers dated June 13 1957 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY. Title page present undated noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay with a credit for screenwriter-novelist Gann. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7/11/57. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1974ref. 137057N.p.: Sandy Howard Production 1974. Two Draft scripts for the 1976 film. One script a Final Draft belonging to an auditioning actor Jenny Sullivan with her name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper; the other script is bound in red faux leather with gilt tiles a color photograph of a human fetus bound in and both scripts bear letters from a professor at the University of California describing the possible methods and techniques detailed in the screenplay and their applicability to contemporary 1974 ethical and legal conditions. Brief annotations on laid-in slips in manuscript ink throughout the first script. Laid in is a signed letter from director Nelson to Jenny informing her that she is a finalist for the role of Victoria ultimatly the role went to Barbara Carrera. An exploitation film owing much to "Bride of Frankenstein" as well as the technological advances with DNA in the 1970s. Dr. Paul Holliston Hudson is a scientist who discovers a method to accelerate the birth cycle to just a few days. The maturation process has detrimental side effects and the mature adult a woman shows homicidal tendencies. Set in Los Angeles. First script: Light blue titled wrappers undated. Title page present undated noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Thomas and Doohan. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Second script: Red faux leather titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Thomas and Doohan. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mechanical duplication with a color photograph Near Fine overall bound internally with three gold brads. Muir 1970s. Sandy Howard Production unknown
1953ref. 132573Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1953. Eight vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1953 American-English film. Based on Victor Hugo's 1866 novel "Les travailleurs de la mer" about a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey who helps a beautiful woman to the French coast. The fisherman falls in love with the woman who is actually an English spy pretending to be an ally of Napoleon. 8 x 10 inches. A few brief corner creases and faint soil to the versos else Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
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1957ref. 136403Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. In Selznick Studio wrappers with the insignia on the front wrapper. An original production script with a perforated distribution leaf preceding the title page. The second film version of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick. Frederick Henry Hudson is an American serving in the Italian Army during WWI where he meets Catherine Barkley Jones a Red cross nurse. They have a torrid affair which results in pregnancy. The two gradually lose contact with one another. But Henry makes it to Switzerland where Barkley is hospitalized. The baby is stillborn and Barkley dies shortly afterward. Set in Europe shot on location in Italy. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Hecht original director Vidor and producer Selznick. Title page present dated 1957 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 173. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Davenport p. 122. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1961ref. 132742London: Unviersal International Pictures 1961. Five vintage full-color still photographs from the 1961 UK release of the 1961 US film. Based on Howard Rigsby's novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" about a cowboy who on the lam from the law travels to visit an old flame in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. A story set and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown
1970ref. 134169Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Set in Italy in 1944 where the entire population of a village has been massacred by the SS except for a group of young boys. Rock Hudson the only US paratrooper left alive after a failed mission to blow up a nearby dam decides to lead the boys on the mission instead. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. 143 leaves mimeograph duplication. Scrip bent at the foredge else pages about Fine in Very Good plus wrappers bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown
1959ref. 132441London: Rank Film Distributors 1959. Seven British front-of-house cards from the 1959 UK release of the 1958 US film. Based on the novel and written for the screen by Ernest K. Gann about a disgraced former Navy captain piloting a disparate group of passengers through a storm on a rundown schooner. 8 x 10 inches. A few light creases and some light stains on the versos else Near Fine. Rank Film Distributors unknown
1966ref. 131621Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1966. Three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 film. All are reference photographs featuring director John Frankenheimer on the set: the first from a scene at the beach with his shooting crew including James Wong Howe behind the camera the second in a social setting with the film's star Rock Hudson and the third showing Frankehimer working directly with Howe. Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
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