Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1953. Final script for the 1953 film. Copy belonging to actor Tom Irish, with his name to the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the short story "The Gift of Cochise" by Louis L'Amour, published in Collier's magazine on July 5, 1952. Though easily one of John Wayne's best performances, "Hondo" was virtually.....
Grunwald, Germany: Bavaria Film, 1980. Vintage photograph showing director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of 1980 German television mini-series. With the stamps of German magazine "Der Spiegel" and photo agency Presse-Seeger, as well as holograph annotations, on the verso. Based on the 1929 novel by Alfred Doblin, previously filmed in 1931, directed by Phil Jutzi. Despite taking place over.....
Los Angeles: Cinema Center Films / Duo Films / Solar Productions, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1969 film. Accompanying the script is a shooting schedule, dated 8/22/68. Based on Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1962 novel, his last book. Boon (McQueen) and his buddy are reivers, or thieves, who steal the McCaslin family's new car, a Winton Flyer. They are out.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1933 film. "Return to Natl-Kline Poster Co" and "26140" stamps on the verso. Based on the highly controversial 1931 novel "Sanctuary" by William Faulkner. Remade in 1961 as "Sanctuary," directed by Tony Richardson and starring Lee Remick and Yves Montand. Wealthy, neurotic, and reckless Southern belle, Temple Drake.....
N.p. Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 1961. Collection of 28 vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. Based on William Faulkner's novels, "Sanctuary" and "Requiem for a Nun". A harsh film with frank dialogue and thematic content throughout regarding rape, female sensuality, and sexual brutality. The final version of the film suffered from censorship, as well as an attempt to.....
N.p. Televison Film Production, circa late 1940's. Draft shooting script for an unproduced British television film, circa late 1940's. Note on title page, in holograph ink, in hand of "Punch" editor E. V. Knox, "See article on this subject [arrow] Argus," "(EVK)" to right of note, with "(sent by producers)" below. Eight page "Foreword" bound in after title page, details.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1941-1942 season. Notable among the offerings featured are two full color Disney features ("Fantasia" and "Bambi"), several literary adaptations, including "Sister Carrie" and "The Little Foxes," actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, and Gary Cooper. 1941 marked the beginning of.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Vintage Style D US one sheet poster for the 1938 US film. Based on the 1936 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, and to our knowledge, F. Scott Fitzgerald's only credited adaptation of a literary work by another author. Three young German soldiers vie for the love of a dying woman in the years following.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1979. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1979 UK release of the 1979 French film. Based on Alberto Vasquez-Figueroa's novel, "Ebano," starring Michael Caine as Dr. Linderby, whose wife is kidnapped on a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. A story set in Africa, shot on location in Israel, Italy.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1959 Western film, dated May 22, 1958. Signed by lead actor Don Murray on the title page. Based on the 1956 novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the third installment in his sextet about the Old West. An unusual Western, with touches of the darkness characteristic of film.....
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film, with blue, yellow, and green revisions throughout. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions of its time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1967. Collection of 20 reference photographs from the 1967 film, 17 borderless, one being doubleweight. Two with two mimeo snipes on verso, with the additional snipe announcing the film's exclusive engagement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, opening June 14. Seven photographs with rubber stamps on verso for, variously, "You Only Live Twice," "United Artists," Spanish "Ministerio.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Complete script for the 1943 film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men," but still a wonderful, warm adaptation of what is perhaps Steinbeck's lightest and most anecdotal novel, with expert interplay among Spencer Tracy.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1946. American insert poster for the classic 1946 film noir. Based on the short story by W.F. Harvey, with a screenplay by noted science fiction writer Curt Siodmak 14 x 36 inches. Extremely colorful, easily Near Fine, with two faint horizontal folds, and a tiny stamp and brief penciled notation at the verso.
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. An unproduced English-language version of "Mina Drommars Stad" or "City of My Dreams," a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingvar Skogsberg, based upon a novel by Per Anders Fogelstrom. Young Henning and his three friends struggle to survive with their freedom intact in 19th century Stockholm. Based.....
Burbank, CA: Warner-Pathe, Circa 1969. Collection of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1969 film. Rubber-stamped on the versos, "Not for Sale / Warner-Pathe Copyright". Based on Jean Giraudoux's 1945 French play, "La Folle de Chaillot". Countess Aurelia (Hepburn) is an idealistic, slightly mad woman with a heart of gold who decides to protest.....
N.p. N.p., 1965. Early Draft script for the 1965 British comedy film. Based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. In 1818, the parents of 20 boys establish a tontine, a fund to go to the last surviving boy. It is now 1882 and only 2 elderly brothers are left, Joseph (Ralph Richardson), protected by his nephews.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1968 US release of the 1968 UK film. Based on Desmond Cory's 1965 novel, and one of the more unusual heist films of the 1960s, starring Michael Caine as a recently recovered alcoholic mixed up in a diamond heist with a woman and her recently out-of-the-closet.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Original pressbook for the 1941 film. Also included is a supplement titled "Intelligence in Motion Picture Advertising," by Kenneth Collins, in essence a second pressbook, as well as a second supplement featuring further ad campaigns and exhibitor's information. Date stamps to the pressbook and Collins supplement front wrappers, noted as "Feb 41," a month prior.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Vintage photograph from the 1959 film, showing director John Ford sharing a cigar with in-costume actor Hoot Gibson during a break in shooting an outdoor scene. With the stamp of a private collector on the verso. A Union cavalry brigade's mission behind Confederate lines is complicated when they are forced to take a woman.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order.....
Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture, 1939. Vintage oversize double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film, with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative in white along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon". "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E.S. Blake Dec 15 1939".....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1953 film. Director John Ford and star Clark Gable take a smoke break in between shots. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 play "Red Dust" by Wilson Collison, previously adapted to film under that name in 1932, starring Gable, Jean Harlow, and.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Vintage photograph of actors Robert Kent and Rochelle Hudson and director Eugene Ford on the set of the 1936 film. With holograph annotations and an studio stamp on the verso. Based on the 1922 novel of the same name by James Oliver Curwood. A Canadian Mounted Policeman (Paul Kelly) suspects his girlfriend's father of theft.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Original studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10, 1943. Printed as a mimeograph studio script in small numbers for internal distribution, the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. Red titled wrappers, with credits.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Carbon typescript studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10, 1943. Printed as a studio script in small numbers for internal distribution, the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. Red titled wrappers, with credits.....
Aldenham, UK: Jermyn Productions, 1961. Final script for the 1961 British film comedy. With revisions on pink stock bound in throughout, and holograph ink annotations (mostly scene deletions) on numerous pages. Also laid in are 16 pages of revisions on goldenrod stock, accompanied by an advisory letter on Shepperton Studios stationery, date stamped 12 January 1961. Bookkeeper George Summers (Glenn.....
Los Angeles: Orion Pictures, 1984. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1984 US film. Winner of eight Academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. Adapted from Peter Shaffer's 1979 play of the same name, the film presents a fictionalized account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, as well as that.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1987. Collection of eight color studio still photographs from the 1987 film. Based on Marilynne Robinson's 1980 novel of the same name. The film follows two young woman who move in with their unusual aunt in the western town of Fingerbone. The woman's eccentricities unsettle her neighbors and even her nieces. Shot on location in.....
US: Gulfmine Ltd, 1986. Sixth Draft script for the 1987 film. SIGNED by screenwriter and source novel author Frederick Forsyth on the title page, with an additional typed note signed referencing the script from Forsyth on his letterhead included. With both holograph and copied annotations by him on every page, with most of the holograph annotations being changes to dialogue. Adapted.....
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film, thus incomplete as issued, dated April 9, 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo’s name in holograph ink on two revision leaves, and his character’s name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with holograph ink notations including the.....
N.p. Commonwealth United Entertainment, 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 film. Not to be confused with the Massimo Dallamano film from the same year. Dallamano's psychedelic, sexploitative take on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's infamous 1870 novella "Venus in Furs," also released under the titles "Devil in the Flesh" and "Fire in the Flesh". 8 x 10.....
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of director Francois Truffaut and actors Jean-Pierre Leaud and Stacey Tendeter on the set of the 1971 film. With agency rubber stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roche. Set in 1902, in Paris. Claude (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meets Anne Brown.....
France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel by Jean Redon, about a doctor who goes to horrific.....
Paris: Champs-Elysees Productions, 1960. Vintage Belgian theatre poster for the 1960 French film. Based on the novel by Jean Rendon. Prompting controversy with its release, despite efforts during production to minimize offensive and grotesque content, Franju's classic French horror film envisions the extreme lengths a guilty surgeon will go in order to restore his daughter's horribly disfigured face. 14 x......
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Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1970. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1970 film. With Production company stamps on the versos. Based on the 1875 novel of the same name by Emile Zola. Father Mouret (Francis Huster) is a young priest working in a rural parish who falls in love with his nurse after suffering from a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1999. An early "Unofficial Polish" script for the 2004 film, "Flight of the Phoneix," directed by John Moore, based on the 1965 screenplay by Lukas Heller novel, this new version written for the screen by Scott Frank and starring Dennis Quaid and Hugh Laurie. Yellow titled wrappers, stamped "Unofficial Polish" on the front wrapper, and dated.....
London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, 1961. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1961 UK film. A comedy based on the novel "Stop at a Winner," by R.F. Delderfield, starring Sean Connery as a hustler who is ordered by a judge to enlist in the armed forces. 8 x 10 inches. Tiny corner creases, else Near Fine.
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1969. Revised First Draft script for the 1970 film "I Walk the Line," here under the working title, "An Exile". Copy belonging to costume designer Lewis Brown, with his name on the front wrapper, and annotations throughout, in holograph ink. Based on Madison Jones' 1967 novel, "An Exile". Henry Tawes (Peck) is the sheriff in.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Snipe printed to the verso. A semi-biographical film, based on Bernard Malamud's novel of the same name. The story of a Russian-Jew unjustly prisoned on accusations of blood libel. Set in Russia, shot on location in Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, and.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order.....
Beverly Hills, CA: M.C. Productions / United Artists, 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel. A film that managed the unlikely feat of being both timely and well ahead of its time, combining several ambitious themes, including thought control, political assassination, multinational conspiracy, Oedipal issues, and Cold War paranoia. Still riveting.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1962. Original US half-sheet poster for the 1962 film. Based on the 1955 novel by Thomas E. Gaddis, and a breakthrough role for Burt Lancaster. A very uncommon poster size for this film. 22 x 28 inches. Near Fine with very shallow, faint creasing along the top edge.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film. Based on the 1930 play by Rudolf Besier. A young invalid poetess begins a romantic relationship with a fellow poet and must combat her overprotective father for the right to live her own life. Nominated for Academy Awards for both Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Collection of 7 lobby cards for the 1975 historical adventure/comedy film, based on the novel by George McDonald Fraser. Lacking card #1. In the story, von Bismarck talks Flashman into impersonating a prince, with screwy results. An international co-production between the US and the UK, this the only feature film ever made based on Fraser's.....
London: Criterion, 1935. Shooting script for the 1936 film. Based on the 1913 novel. When a former boxing champion turned innkeeper is wrongly accused of stealing jewelry from wealthy guests staying at the inn, his son travels to London and impersonates an aristocratic gentleman in order to prove his father's innocence and catch the true thief. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present.....
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Collection of 6 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1956 novel by David Walker, and shot in India, about a man-eating tiger in the jungle. Two men hunt and eventually trap the cat, resulting in the near fatal mauling of the one of them. During his recovery, he falls in.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, Circa 1934. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1934 film. A remake of the 1932 German drama "Unter Falscher Flagge". An Austrian diplomat is unaware that his wife is secretly a Russian spy sent to gather information on him. White self wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper, noted as production No. 648-1.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design for the 1973 film, featuring a vintage silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin’s first arrival to Georgetown in the film mounted to the poster. A minimal design, without the credits information seen in the completed original “purple style” poster variant, and with a proposed.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. Based on the 1963 book of the same name by Robert MacLeod, Matt Fletcher (Brando) is a Mexican-American buffalo hunter who has his beloved horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit Chuy (Saxon) and his girlfriend Trini (Comer) who is later revealed to have been sold to.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1947. Vintage reference photograph of Agnes Moorehead being made to look 105 by makeup artist Bud Westmore on the set of the 1947 film noir. Mimeo snipe on verso. Loosely based on Henry James' 1888 novella "The Aspern Papers". A young publisher (Robert Cummings) attempts to obtain a famous writer's long-lost love letters, which are kept.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1947 film, showing actors Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Gloria Holden, and Adolphe Menjou sitting around a nightclub table, with director Jack Conway and two crew members in the foreground. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on the 1946.....
N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....
London: Winkast Programming, 1972. Revised Second Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, most substantive. The adventures of a nine year-old boy who travels from California to Washington DC to patent a bubble gun he has invented, with the hope of eventually impressing his emotionally distant father with his creation. Seemingly planned in conjunction with.....
France: Illria Film, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1876 oft-produced novel by Jules Verne of the same title. Michael Strogoff is the courier of the Tsar, tasked to deliver a very important message to the Tsar's brother who is in Siberia, cut off from the main army due to the Tatar Army during the.....
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage photograph of Carroll Baker, Jack Garfein, Paul Richards, and Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1957 film. With mimeo snipe, holograph annotations in pencil, and a press agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1947 novel and stage play by Calder Willingham, "End As a Man," and with much of the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Tay Garnett discussing a scene with Lana Turner and an intent James Garfield on the set of the 1946 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. Remade in 1981 in a grim, nihilistic adaptation by David Mamet (his screenwriting debut).....
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1936. Draft script for an unproduced film called "One Thing Worth While," written for screen by Oliver H.P. Garrett, whose film credits include "Ladies of the Mob" (1928), "The Texan" (1930), "City Streets" (1931), "A Farewell to Arms" (1932), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), and "Duel in the Sun" (1946). Brief notation in holograph pencil on.....
Los Angeles: Underworld Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on John Gay's 1728 play, "The Beggar's Opera," source for many similar adaptations, including "The Threepenny Opera". The odds are constantly stacked against Mickey Moore, an honest gambler who is about to be killed for owing a powerful man too much money. He falls for a female acrobat and.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 UK film. Featuring a very relaxed Michael Caine, laying across the laps of his four female costars (Vivien Merchant, Jane Asher, Julia Foster, and Shelly Winters) between takes. Tipped-on snipe humorously describing Michael Caine's interest in the opposite sex on the verso. Based on Naughton's 1966 play.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white borderless still photographs from the 1966 UK film. Press photos, with cropping annotations in the British style (millimeters) on the verso of one still, and a stamp on the verso of the other still. Based on Naughton's 1966 play, about a young man from the working classes of sexy, swinging 1960s London, Alfie.....
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on Alan Burgess' 1960 novel "Seven Men at Daybreak", which was in turn loosely based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid", the assassination of a top general in the Nazi RSHA by two Czech spies. Set in Germany and shot on location in Prague. Green titled wrappers.....
London: Cinema 5, 1977. Early Draft British script for the 1977 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking Glass" (1871). Terry Gilliam's first solo directorial effort after co-directing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with Terry Jones. A comedy in the Python style—and with much of the Python cast—owing much to.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1976. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1976 film. Based on Gilroy's 1973 novel. Amanda (Ireland) spends three hours with Graham (Bronson), an outlaw she believes to be dead. She writes a best-selling book about her brief affair and Graham becomes famous. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps to all.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1966. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US film. Based on the 1965 novel by Norman Mailer, about a talk show host who is suspected of killing his wife, and is pursued by both the police and a a gang of criminals. 8 x 10 inches. A few stills with small stains.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1966. Original US one-sheet poster for the 1966 film, "See You in Hell, Darling," here under the working title, and that of the 1965 Norman Mailer source novel, "An American Dream". Affixed to the poster is a National Movie Month advertisement, for the month of October, the UK release month. Stephen (Whitman) is a returning war.....
London: Movie Publishing / Danjaq, 1983. Original souvenir program, printed in the UK, for the 1983 British-America film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages, on-the-set images, and biographies of the.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1964. Original Pressbook for the 1964 film. Unique for a pressbook, with a folding front page and a coloring contest (to have been used as a herald by distributors). Based on Jean Anouilh’s 1959 play. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and nominated for 11 more, including Best Picture, Best Director, and twice for Best.....
London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and.....
France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio, 1965. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Four with holograph pencil annotations on the verso crediting photographer Georges Pierre, one with the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. Godard transplants fictional detective Lemmy Caution (played by Eddie Constantine, as he was in several French films based on the.....
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Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey, Anna Karina, and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence, which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in.....
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Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1963 film. With the stamp of photographer Aldo Durazzi and a press agency stamp on the verso. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously furthering his own.....
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Paris: Anouchka Films, 1966. Vintage one sheet poster from the US release of the 1966 film. With the film title rubber stamped on the verso as called for: "MASCULINE FEMININE / 66/368". "Masculine Feminine" was Jean-Luc Godard’s first examination of 60s youth and culture, whom he described as, “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” Teenager Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) works as an.....
Paris: Anouchka Films / Argos Films / Sandrews / Svensk Filmindustri, 1966. Collection of six vintage, oversize, double weight studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Originally to be based on two Guy de Maupassant short stories, "The Signal" and "Paul's Mistress," director Jean-Luc Godard discarded almost all elements of the stories and instead filmed improvisationally based on ideas written.....
Burbank, CA: Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers, 1944. Draft script for the 1947 film. This is an early draft, developed at Vanguard Films prior to the property being sold to Warner Brothers. An American remake of the 1935 British film of the same name. Largely set in Italy, the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok (Errol Flynn).....
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Los Angeles: International Cinema, 1976. Revised Treatment script for the 1980 disaster film. Partially erased holograph pencil notation ("444") on front wrapper. Based on the 1969 novel "The Day the World Ended" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts detailing the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique. The Master of Disaster, Irwin Allen's, final film which reunited Newman and.....
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Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1972. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1972 French film "La course du lievre a travers les champs," release in the US as "And Hope to Die". Featured is a rare still of director Clement brandishing a rifle, and a still of actor Trintignant contemplating the true value of a ten-dollar bill. Loosely.....
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones, who played the role of Chuck, with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. With 19 pages of deleted scenes laid in. Loosely based on the 1904 H.G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came.....
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N.p. N.p., 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants". Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures (AIP) third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy, beginning with "The Food of the Gods" (1976), directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown, detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown, and annotations throughout, in holograph pencil. File.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint holograph pencil annotations, and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout. Based on the 1946 Broadway play, and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes". In the fictional town of Bowden, Alabama, the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation.....
Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film, with a mimeo snipe on the verso, showing a film crew at work constructing a derailed train inside a studio. Adapted for the screen by Rupert Hughes, based on his 1911 stage play, previously filmed in 1915 in a version that is now lost.....
![Another Claudia [Claudia] (Original screenplay synopsis for the 1943 film). Edmund Goulding, Rose...](/pictures/thumb/129351.jpg?v=1441986877)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Story synopsis, basis for the 1943 film "Claudia," based on a story by Franken that appeared in Redbook magazine between July 1941 and October 1942. McGuire and Young are memorable in their portrayal of a young, innocent couple struggling to break from the ties of their respective families, as well as the pressure of distant.....
![The Amazing Howard Hughes [Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes] (Two original screenplays comprising...](/pictures/thumb/147460.jpg?v=1585124291)
Studio City, CA: EMI Television Programs, 1976. Two Revised draft scripts, Part I and Part II, comprising the complete script, for the 1977 television film, which was broadcast in two parts on CBS on April 13 and 14, 1977. First script, titled "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" on front wrapper, and titled "'Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes' Part I" on first.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Collection of 3 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1960 UK film. Based on the play ("Spider's Web") by Agatha Christie, about a young woman who needs to dispose of a body before the police, and her politician husband, get to the house. 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing and faint corner creases, else.....
N.p. Aries Productions, 1975. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1973 novel of the same name. A wealthy Hollywood tycoon falls on hard times and marries a diabolical sugar-mama to fund his lavish lifestyle. meanwhile, his beautiful daughter returns to the US from Europe, and begins an affair with one of her.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage photograph of director Guy Green and actors Elizabeth Hartman and Sidney Poitier on the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and holograph annotations on the verso. Based on Elizabeth Kata's 1961 novel "Be Ready With Bells and Drums" Rose-Ann D'Arcey (Shelley Winters) is blind and lives with her abusive mother and alcoholic.....
London: Atlantic Productions, 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. Greene's novel was set in Stockholm, and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant, who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi Germany during the.....
London: Independent Film Producers / Distributor's Corporation of America, 1956. Original British quad poster for the 1956 British film. The fourth of 7 screenplays written by Greene, and his third adaptation of his own work. An unusual foray for the author, a late screwball comedy in which a mild mannered assistant accountant, in the midst of his honeymoon, becomes tangled.....
France / Italy: Productions Sigma, Circa 1957. Archive of 42 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and 2 color transparencies from the 1958 French-Italian film. Seen in the images is starring actress Dany Robin, both on the set and at a birthday party, and other stars of the film in action. Notations on the verso of several photos in holograph.....
Los Angeles: Jerry Merton Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a small holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "# 40". Based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's 1923 short story about a prospector who finally strikes gold, attributing the fortune to his lucky mule Jenet. Set in the American Southwest. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1976. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1976 UK release of the 1975 US film. Mimeograph snipe and cropping annotations on the verso, and cropping annotations on the recto. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1974 novel, starring Charles Bronson as John Deaken, a prisoner on a train with medical supplies and small US Army unit.....
![Lady of the Pavements [The Love Song] (Original screenplay for the 1928 film). D. W. Griffith,...](/pictures/thumb/149230.jpg?v=1595632768)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. An early version of the script written by Gerrit J. Lloyd and Sam Taylor. Copy belonging to screenwriter Sam Taylor, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the front wrapper and two annotations to the script: one to the verso of page 68 and one to page 133.....
Culver City, CA: MGM, 1929. Post-Production Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1930 film. Small holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. Based on S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance detective series. At an archery range, a dead body is found shot through the heart, with only a chess bishop left as a clue. In later years, Basil Rathbone would.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1993. First Revised Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of "Night of the Hunter," based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb, written for the screen by Don Michael Paul. White MGM titled wrappers, with studio logo and die-cut window as issued. Title page present, with a date of April 30, 1933, and credits.....
![Der Todliche Biss [The Snake] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Thomas Gspandl, John...](/pictures/thumb/146785.jpg?v=1582840163)
N.p. N.p., Circa late 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on the 1978 novel by John Godey, wherein a deadly black mamba is accidentally released into Central Park, and hunted down by a rogue herpetologist. Set in New York City. Lacking titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter THOMAS GSPANDL and novelist JOHN GODEY. 76 leaves.....