Los Angeles: Orion Pictures, 1984. Vintage French petite 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...
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 Ltd., 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 (20 x 25 cm). 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 (20.5 x....
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: 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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design concept 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......
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...
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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...
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...
New York: HBO Pictures, 1998. Original Press Kit for the 1998 television film. Based on Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, abut a retired Army Lieutenant John Paul Vann and his involvement in the Vietnam War. Eric Bogosian, Bill Whelan, and Vivian Wu also starred in the film, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. A realistic portrayal of what...
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...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1998. Collection of three vintage photographs from the set of the 1998 film. Based on the 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson. The eccentric journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his crazed lawyer Dr. Gonzo (Benicio del Toro) set out to cover a motorcycle race and quickly fall into a drug fueled series of psychedelic antics...
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 (28 x 35.5 cm). Light corner bumps to all, else Near Fine. Pitts 1442.
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 (20 x 25 cm). A few...
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 Ltd. / 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...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Archive including a Final Draft script for the 1964 film. Copy belonging to actor Michael Miller, with his name on three laid-in call sheets dated 7/27/63. Also included is a 13-page contract dated 5/1/63, between Paramount and actor Miller for his services rendered, with annotations in holograph ink and type corrections throughout. Finally, a full-color 24-page...
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 French Grande poster for the 1964 French film. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka." Based on Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold." Shot on location in Paris. 46 x 63 inches (117 x 160 cm), folded. A small...
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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...
![Masculin/Feminin [Masculin feminin, Masculine Feminine] (Original poster for the 1966 film)....](/pictures/thumb/134665.jpg?v=1492978993)
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...
Paris: Anouchka Films, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Ana Karina from set the 1966 film. With a sticker from the "Rue Des Archives" and holograph annotations on the verso. Inspired by the Howard Hawks' 1946 film noir, The Big Sleep, and based on Richard Stark's novel, The Jugger, though Godard never purchased the adaptation rights for the...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1944. Collection of seven original concept art sketches for advertisements for the 1944 film. Executed in graphite pencil and white paint on onion skin stock. Based on the 1937 Hungarian play "Delila" by Ferenc Molnar, about a diner owner wins the lottery, only to be seduced by a waitress after the money, leading his...
Hollywood: Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Final Shooting Script for the classic 1941 Disney film, "The Reluctant Dragon," based on the short story by Kenneth Grahame that originally appeared in the 1930 collection "Dream Days," directed by Alfred L. Werker, and starring Robert Benchley, Walt Disney, and a host of Disney's greatest animators. Copy belonging to Disney...
Paris: Pathe Consortium Cinema, 1959. Original French grande poster for the 1959 French film. Based on Andre Gillois' 1958 novel. Pascal (Ventura) is a newsboy on the streets of Paris who one day saves a man from drowning, a man who claims to be a victim of crime. Pascal has reasons not to believe the man, including being framed by...
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 (20 x 25 cm). Light rubbing and faint corner creases, else Near Fine.
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...
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...
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...
London: British Lion Film Corporation / Conquest, 1959. Collection of 70 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1959 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos of 2 stills, with distributor rubber-stamps. Photographer Lucas' rubber-stamp on the verso of 2 stills. Laurence Harvey stars as Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent who discovers teenager Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard) singing in...
London: Independent Film Distributors [IFD] / Vandyke Productions, 1955. Collection of 44 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1955 UK film. Based on a story by Leonard Mosley, about a civil servant who is sentenced to death for murder, but reveals that he has long been a foreign spy. He meets with Inspector Brown (Terence Morgan) and offers to reveal...
London: Waterlow and Sons Ltd. / Hammer Film Productions, 1955. Vintage hand-tinted still photograph from the 1955 UK film. One of several British films given American distribution by 20th Century-Fox. Forrest Tucker stars as an American soldier hired by a German millionaire (Marius Goring) to smuggle a Polish scientist out of East Germany and into England. Shot on location in...
London: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Rank Organisation, 1963. Collection of 91 vintage black-and-white (and 1 double weight) still photographs from the 1963 UK film. Daily Express rubber stamp on the verso of the double weight still. Includes several candid shots on the set. Richard Johnson stars as a doctor who arrives in the city of Bath, where a....
Beverly Hills, CA: National Screen Service Corp. / MGM, 1960. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the US release of the 1960 UK film noir. Based on John Brophy's 1959 novel, about London at the turn of the century, where three men are on a mission from the IRA to rob the vaults of the Bank of England...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, and Randy Quaid. SIGNED by David Carradine on the title...
N.p. N.p., 1966. First Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Franz Habeck, the French resistance works to send a Nazi prisoner of war back home but is engaged with the question of why. The consequences of not sending him back leaves 50 innocent French citizens slaughtered daily at the hands of the German Army as...
Paris: Criterion Film. Draft script for an unproduced film. A beautiful Soviet skier and pilot is taken hostage by a gangster, who also steals the mysterious Weapon D, capable of beginning a nuclear war, which is all a part of his plan to destroy the world and repopulate it with the smartest, most beautiful people. She is saved and subsequently...
Los Angeles: Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written for the screen by William Hairston, based on his 1967 novel about a young Puerto Rican boy growing up in the harsh realities of New York. Cream wrappers, with paper title label on the front wrapper. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Hairston...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Vintage photograph of cinematographer Joseph Walker, director Al Hall and actors Janet Blair and Rosalind Russell on the set of the 1942 film. With a mimeo snipe, photographer's rubber stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. Sisters Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and Eileen (Janet Blair) move to New York City from Ohio to pursue writing...
Iver Heath, UK: Pinewood Studios, 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. The third in the series of James Bond movies starring Connery. 007 investigates gold magnate Auric Goldfinger (Frobe), only to uncover his plans to rob Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. Includes Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Harold Sakata as Oddjob with his...
Switzerland: Jovera Pictures, 1966. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1966 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. British secret agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to Berlin to facilitate the defection of Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka), a Soviet Intelligence officer. Once Palmer arrives in Berlin...
Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 33 original borderless single weight still photographs from the 1959 French release (as "Resurrection") of the 1958 West German-Italian-French film. Action sequences, images of smoking women in brothels, and head-shots of starring actors throughout. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil, and some in ink, on the versos. Based on Tolstoy's last novel, "Resurrection" (1899), a statement...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is...
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1946. Final Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1892 novel, adapted for the screen by Allan Scott for Selznick International. David O. Selznick held the movie rights to Hardy's story for many years (with Jennifer Jones in mind for Tess). Selznick's two greatest dreams had been to film "Gone With the Wind"...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Original British quad poster for the 1967 British film. Based on Hardy's 1874 novel. Bathsheba (Christie) is a young heiress who is relentlessly pursued by Sergeant Troy (Stamp), William (finch) and Gabriel (Bates). Nominated for an Academy Award. 29.5 x 39.75 inches (75 x 100.75 cm), folded four times as issued. Very Good, with...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Draft script for the 1990 film, here under its working title "58 Minutes." Based on Walter Wager's 1987 novel, "58 minutes." John McClane (Willis) attempts to save Dulles Airport from South American drug lords who have seized electronic communications between the airplanes and the airport. Shot on location in Michigan, California, and Colorado. Preceded...
Beverly Hills, CA: James B. Harris Productions, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film, here under the working title "Never Call It Loving." Copy belonging to the props master, with holograph ink annotations throughout. Based on John Collier's 1938 short story. A woman drugged and kept asleep for years as a carnival attraction is bought and awakened by a....
Beverly Hills, CA: James B. Harris Productions, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 cult film, here under the working title "Never Call It Loving." Based on John Collier's 1938 short story. A woman drugged and kept asleep for years as a carnival attraction is bought and awakened by a jazz musician. The musician begins to realize, however, that reality...
Burbank, CA: Warner-Pathe / Warner Brothers, Circa 1954. Collection of 8 vintage front-of-house cards and 2 black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1954 UK release of the 1954 US film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos of 2 stills (black-and-white). A Yankee sea captain (Lancaster) finds himself stranded after a mutiny on an island, where the financial potential of cocoanut...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film. Snipe folded around the image. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin-boy in competition with the infamous pirate Long John Silver for a trove of treasure. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine with holograph pencil annotations...
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London: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1956. Collection of 8 vintage hand-tinted still photographs from the 1956 UK release of the 1956 US film. Based in Georges Simenon's 1949 novel, "Le fond de la bouteille" ("The Bottom of the Bottle," published in the US in the 1954 collection, "Tidal Wave"). The film centers around a wealthy rancher (Cotten) in the border town...
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London: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1955. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1955 UK release of the 1955 US film. Based on the Hans Ruesch novel, "The Racer" (1953), about an Italian bus driver (Douglas) who dreams of winning the Grand Prix. Dedicated to the philosophy of "winning is the only thing," he alienates his fellow racers and everyone else. 8...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1950 UK release of the 1950 American-English film. Based on Thomas B. Costain's 1945 novel, about a Saxon youth who runs away from England during the Crusades. Somehow he and a friend make it to China, where they get involved with the court of Kubla Kahn. 8...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1950 American-English film. Based on Thomas B. Costain's 1945 novel, about a Saxon youth who runs away from England during the Cruscades. Somehow he and a friend make it to China, where they get involved with the court of Kubla Kahn. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to James "Jim" Gregory, who played Sam Foley in the film, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and character name on the title page. Bound in is a casting note addressed to Gregory from Robert J. LaSanka (Bob La Sanka), a....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1933 film. Based on William Faulkner's 1932 short story, "Turnabout." The film follows two officers during World War I who compete for the affections of the lovely Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford). It stands as the only film costarring Hollywood icons Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper. The...
Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1936. Vintage photograph of director Howard Hawks and actors Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe and the photographer Robert W. Coburn's stamp on the verso. Based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold), a lumberjack foreman is set...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss, producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick, on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." In a custom museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. 11 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine, with a small corner...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film. From the library of producer Mark Hellinger, who wrote the film's screenplay, bound in red three-quarter leather with gilt titles and designs, marbled endpapers, raised bands, trimmed edges, and Hellinger's name in gilt on the front board. Also included is a typescript on onionskin stock, with the title...
Los 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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1950. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1950 film. Continental Litho Corp, in Cleveland, Ohio. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. Based on Hemingway's 1937 novel, "To Have and to Have Not." Harry (Garfield) is a moral charter boat captain who becomes financially strapped and resorts to illegalities to keep his boat. 28 x 40.75 inches...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. Original pressbook for the 1964 film, the second time Hemingway's short story was adapted for the screen, following the classic 1946 version starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. Notable as Ronald Reagan's last film role and, perhaps in preparation for his move into politics, the first time he played a villain. 12 x 18...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 screwball comedy, with a cameraman performing a focus pull on Gail Patrick while Cary Grant looks on. With the stamp of photographer Fred Hendrickson on the verso. Loosely based on 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Nominated for three Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches (25 x....
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1944. Vintage reference photograph of the original poster for the 1944 film musical, based on the 1937 Broadway musical "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray, previously adapted in 1938 as a Marx Brothers vehicle. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus. Holograph ink notation to the recto, image not affected...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1944. Vintage reference photograph for the 1944 film musical, based on the 1937 Broadway musical "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray, previously adapted in 1938 as a Marx Brothers vehicle. Date stamped "June 1944," with stamp crediting photographer Hendrickson, copyright stamps for RKO Pictures and Culver Services, and a sticker for the later on...
New York: New Yorker Films, 1979. Original US promotional window poster for the 1979 German film, issued in small numbers by New Yorker Films, who distributed Herzog's film in the US. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 11 x 17 inches, folded as issued. Near Fine.
Vienna: N.p., Circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on Herman Hesse's last full-length novel "Das Glasperienspiel" or "The Glass Bead Game", published in 1943. Years into the future, a class of intellectuals is concerned only with running boys' boarding schools and playing the Glass Bead Game, which involves a sophisticated synthesis of arts, science...
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New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a....