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1982ref. 160712Phoenix AZ: Calderon Ballroom 1982. Vintage flyer for a performance by Bad Brains with supporting acts Driftwood Soylent Green and Junior Achievement presented by Mersey Productons at the Calderon Ballroom in Phoenix Arizona October 24 1982. A forerunner of hardcore punk and adept at reggae heavy metal funk hip hop and soul Washington DC's acclaimed Bad Brains have been called "the mother of all black hard-rock bands" by Rolling Stone magazine. Formed in 1976 as the jazz fusion band Mind Power Bad Brains have gone through numerous line-up changes over their nearly 50 years performing released nine studio albums and have influenced countless other bands and musicians. The original line-up of H.R. Dr. Know Darryl Jenifer and Earl Hudson intact until 1987 is seen in the photograph on the 1982 flyer on offer here. 8.5 x 11 inches on goldenrod paper. Near Fine. Calderon Ballroom unknown books
1956ref. 159137Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Three reference photographs from the 1956 film. Two with Universal-International stamps and printed mimeo snipes on the verso and one with a National Film Archive stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder 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. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 159321Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. Based on the 1956 novel by Ernst K. Gann. An alcoholic ex-Navy captain sails a boat in the South Seas. When the ship starts leaking during a storm everyone on board is tested. Set in the South Seas shot on location in Hawaii. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with some splashes along the left edge. Universal Pictures unknown books
1996ref. 158404N.p.: N.p. 1996. Vintage reference photograph from the 1996 film showing director Spike Lee with a camera on the set. A diverse group of 15 African American men travel by bus from Los Angeles to Washington DC to attend the Million Man March. The first film directed by Lee in which he did not appear. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 159657Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Ernst K. Gann. An alcoholic ex-Navy captain sails a boat in the South Seas. When the ship starts leaking during a storm everyone on board is tested. Shot on location in Hawaii. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 147658Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. Four with mimeo snipes to the verso. A tense two-part Cold War thriller based on the 1963 novel. The US nuclear attack submarine Tigerfish is sent to the North Pole to rescue the personnel of Drift Ice Station Zebra a British research weather station that has sent out multiple distress signals. Most of the submarine's crew is unaware however that the mission is a front for a highly classified assignment involving Soviet saboteurs and stolen satellite technology. Nominated for two Academy Awards including one for Best Cinematography. Set in the Arctic. 8 x 10 inches. One with light creases to the top left corner else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970ref. 160267Beverly Hills CA: Produzioni Associate Delphos / United Artists 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. During World War II a group of American soldiers are dropped behind German lines to blow up a dam but all but one of them are caught and killed. The sole survivor is picked up by a group of kids who want in on sabotaging the Nazis. Set in Northern Italy shot on location in Gazzola Italy. 8.25 x 6.75 inches trimmed. Very Good plus with creasing along the top and right edges and some slight wear to the finish. Produzioni Associate Delphos / United Artists unknown books
1956ref. 146203Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1956. Continuity & Dialogue script for the 1957 film. The guilt a fighter pilot feels over accidentally dropping a bomb on a German orphanage during World War II leads him to become a minister upon returning to the US. When this proves insufficient in assuaging his bad conscience he decides to volunteer his services as a missionary in Korea opening a large home for orphans in Seoul. Based on the true story of Colonel Dean E. Hess a US Air Force fighter pilot turned Ohio minister who returned to the Air Force during the Korean War. As depicted in the film the 1950 Chinese Communist takeover of Seoul led Hess to facilitate an airlift of hundreds of children from the orphanage to the sanctuary island of Cheju. The twenty-five children who appear in the film moreover are Korean children from the real Orphan's Home of Korea that Hess founded and the gold flying helmet sported by Rock Hudson is the actual helmet Hess wore. Set in South Korea shot on location in Seoul and Arizona. White titled self wrappers noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper noted as production No. 1819 dated OCTOBER 30 1956 with credits for actors Rock Hudson Anna Kashfi Dan Duryea and other members of the cast. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light tearing and creasing bound at the top edge with two gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 149933Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage linen-backed reference photograph of director Joseph Pevney and a camera crew aboard the Albatross while on location for the 1958 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A ship's captain decides to make an emergency stop in Hawaii to repair a quickly flooding hull against the wishes of a woman passenger wanted for murder in Honolulu. Set and shot on location in Hawaii. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 151796Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph of Paula Prentiss Howard Hawks and Maria Perschy on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the short story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away" by Pat Frank published in the July 1950 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Roger Willoughby Rock Hudson esteemed author and expert on fishing has never fished and when outspoken and unshakable PR agent Abigail Page Prentiss enters him into a fishing tournament mayhem and possibly romance ensues. Howard Hawks' homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s particularly his' own 1938 classic "Bringing Up Baby" starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant who he tried unsuccessfully to get to reprise their roles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 152113Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing actress Gretchen Carpenter in a mini-dress on an evidently windy day. Based on the 1968 novel by Francis Pollini. A police detective investigates a serial killer targeting teenage girls at Oceanfront High School during the height of the sexual revolution in California. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Santa Monica. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine lightly toned. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1960ref. 150186Universal City: Universal Pictures 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Rock Hudson signing autographs on the set of the 1961 Western film here under the working title "The Day of the Gun." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of still photographer Shirley Clarke not to be confused with the filmmaker of the same name. Based on the 1957 novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard. While on the run from the law a cowboy travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Set in Texas and Mexico and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the edges. Pitts 2237. Universal Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 150349N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film showing actor Rock Hudson wrapped in a lacy sheet. With the stamp of photographer Leo Fuchs on the verso along with the stamp of Vista Photos and several manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout. A well-to-do American businessman and a free-spirited Italian woman meet in London and impulsively marry but soon realize they have little in common and truly dislike each other. 11 x 14 inches with a wide right margin. Very Good with light wear to the edges and layout annotations in pencil on the right edge. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 151354N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 32 vintage photographs documenting the October 20 1970 collision of two trains along the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line in Raytown Missouri. Also included in the archive is a single broadside reward poster offering $5000 for information pertaining to the accident. According to a contemporary newspaper article which appeared in nearby Jackson County's Independence Examiner the accident was believed to have been caused by juvenile vandalism to a nearby track switch. The collision and subsequent derailment resulted in the death of one engineer whose partial body is visible in several photographs. The photographs in the archive range from close-up shots of the mangled train cars and tracks to distance views of the surrounding woods. Frequently displayed in the images is a small handwritten police chalkboard noting the date location and case numbers. A vivid and interesting look at investigative photography and railway disasters in the late twentieth century. Photographs 10 x 8 inches housed in a manila envelope with the logo of Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co. on the top left corner. Reward poster 9 x 12 inches. Poster and photographs Near Fine overall envelope Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 145758Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Douglas Sirk and Lauren Bacall on the set of the 1956 film standing in the middle of stairway that endures much use in the course of the narrative. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder 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 Robert Stack impulsively marries a secretary Bacall at his father's office unaware that his best friend Rock Hudson is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1971ref. 135437Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1971. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Roger Vadim's followup to "Barbarella" 1956 may be the only sexploitation crime film ever released by a major studio and managed to break just about every cultural taboo in the book even during the uncertain days of the early 1970s. The story and especially the filmmaking style is a strange response to the sexual revolution in 1970 in which a high school full of randy teachers and students in an unnamed Midwestern town become involved in a series of murders. Vadim's attempt to update .".And God Created Woman" from the male perspective has become a cult film that would be sued out of existence today and a fascinating look at the "revolution" from a middle America perspective. Based on Francis Pollini's 1968 novel. Ocean View High School's resident faculty hero football coach/guidance counselor "Tiger" McDrew Hudson at his greasiest is married and has a child but this doesn't keep him from seducing many of his female students and persuading the new substitute teacher Miss Smith Dickinson to deflower a troubled virgin. Girls start turning up at the school dead in various states of undress with cryptic notes pinned to intimate parts of their anatomy. The county sheriff Keenan Wynn is forced to defer to a state police investigator Savalas who starts nosing around the school. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine condition. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
