N.p. Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 1961. Collection of nine 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 throughout regarding rape, female sensuality, and sexual brutality. The final version of the film suffered from the changes made, an attempt to make something "literary" and...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1967 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited member of production, with notations throughout in holograph ink. One of the great Westerns, and one that epitomizes the revisionist trend sparked by Elmore Leonard's early novels of the 1950s and 1960s. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1963. Draft script for the 1964 film. A remake of Kurosawa's 1950 film "Rashomon," envisioned as a Western, four witnesses of a rape and murder case has conflicting views of the crime while at trial. Who can be trusted when all four accounts pin the blame on someone different and creates different motivations for the...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Draft script for the 1987 film. Based on Topor's 1979 play of the same name, a call girl kills her client in self-defense. Her parents want to avoid a scandal by having her declared mentally incompetent., against her wishes. Robert Webber's final film before his death in 2009. It was also Leslie Nielsen's final dramatic...
![5 [Five] Branded Women [Jovanka and the Others] (Original screenplay for the 1960 film). Martin...](/pictures/thumb/130855.jpg?v=1469481312)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph notations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this...
![The Sound and the Fury [Le Bruit et la Fureur] (Lobby card for the Canadian release of the 1959...](/pictures/thumb/134796.jpg?v=1492979010)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Original lobby card for the Quebecois release of the 1959 film "The Sound and the Fury," loosely based on the 1929 novel by William Faulkner. Seen here with the title painted over in black and rewritten in French: "Le Bruit et la Fureur," as was common practice at the time. Lobby card number eight in...
![The Nun [La Religieuse] (Original French poster for the 1966 film). Jacques Rivette, Denis...](/pictures/thumb/139960.jpg?v=1492980408)
N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1966 film. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. A flurry of controversy surrounded the production and release of Rivette's film. Upon facing pressure from the French Catholic Church regarding its critical religious and sexual content, the new Minister of Information, Yvon Bourges, banned its...
![Up and Coming [Dagmar Is Where It's At] [Nu gar den pa Dagmar] (Original poster for the 1972...](/pictures/thumb/132253.jpg?v=1434404464)
Denmark: Asa Filmdistributors Ltd., 1972. Original A1 poster for the 1972 Danish film. English title label at the bottom. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 24.25 x 33.25 inches, rolled. About Near Fine.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film, including three double weight and two single weight photographs. With stamps or holograph notations to most of the photographs. Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler, "Sanctuary." The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her...
Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 3-16-55. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Front wrapper has notation of the name "Nick Bova" in blue holograph ink along top right and stamped on lower left "COMPLETE", stenographic notations on the verso. Script is book-ended by "SUMMARY" note, "...the script with its changes will not be re-run, ...," dated 3-17-55. Notations in...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1953. Vintage full-color still photographs from the 1953 UK release of the 1953 US film. Based on the 1951 novel by James Michener, about Mr. Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and soldier-of-fortune on a Pacific island that is a under the rule of Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones), a missionary. Morgan has a child out...
N.p. Red Lion, 1966. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1966 film. Based on Jean Larteguy's 1960 novel, "The Centurions." A French Army Colonel leads his platoon in the battles against Viet Minh communists and Algerian guerrilla fighters in Indonesia and Algeria. The Algerian War is particularly philosophically unsettling to his men, who begin to question the motives of France...
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1947. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1879 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Basis for three silent films (1917, 1918, and 1922), two television dramas (1959, 1992), and two 1970s film versions (both in 1973, one by Joseph Losey). A play significant in its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1938. Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters, from his books "Headed for a Hearse," "The Lady in the Morgue," "Murder in the Madhouse," "The Dead Don't Care," and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films, the...
Paris: Les Films du Losange, 1978. Vintage French mini poster for the 1978 French film. Eric Rohmer's adaptation of Chretien de Troyes' 12th century Arthurian legend is notable for its unusual set. Unlike other adaptations, the film is set in a highly stylized theatrical realm, complete with props and an interactive chorus. Production designer Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko was inspired by the...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 film. Based on Paul W. Fairman's 1953 short story "Deadly City." Nora King (Cathleen Crowley) wakes up after a suicide attempt to find the city of Chicago deserted. As she wanders around, she bumps into three more stragglers and together they learn that the city was evacuated due...
London: American International Pictures [AIP], 1980. Original British quad poster for the 1979 US film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry. Based on Jay Anson's 1977 book. George Lutz (Brolin) and his family, wife Kathy (Kidder) and two children, move into a house where a recent mass murder was committed. Strange things start to happen, including personality changes in George...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / First Artists / Coleytown / Turman-Foster, 1974. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1950 Lew Archer novel by Ross Macdonald. Private investigator Harper (Newman) returns in this sequel to the eponymous 1966 film, investigating a blackmail plot in a Louisiana bayou, where he finds himself in between an ex-lover, an...
![Jeanne au bucher [Giovanna d'Arco al rogo] (Original French Film Program). Roberto Rossellini,...](/pictures/thumb/114987.jpg?v=1434404379)
Rome: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate, 1954. Original French program for the rarely seen 1954 Italian / French coproduction "Giovanni d'Arco al rogo," here under the French titled "Jeanne au bucher." Presumably programs were made for both French and Italian audiences. In a rather bold film experiment for its time, Rossellini filmed a French stage production of the Joan of Arc story...
Italy / France: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate / Franco London Films, 1954. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1954 film, showing Ingrid Bergman tied to the titular stake, with actor Tullio Carminati beside her, and director Roberto Rossellini in the foreground. With stamps identifying the film (under the English language title "Joan at the Stake") and the New York...
N.p. N.p., circa 1960. Archive of scripts for an unproduced film version, circa 1960, of the Dostoevsky novel. Included are a plot summary, typescript draft, and draft script for an unproduced film, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel. Archive belonging to director Robert Rossen, with his holograph notations throughout. A classic of Russian literature presented here in a modern retelling...
Culver City, CA: National Screen Service Ltd. / Columbia Pictures, 1959. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1959 UK release of the 1959 US film. Based on Glendon Swarthout's 1958 novel, about the 1916 US "war" against Pancho Villa, and the group of men who unceremoniously are awarded medals. Together they must return to the battlefront, along with a prisoner...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Vintage US window card poster for the 1959 US film. Based on Glendon Swarthout's 1958 novel, about the 1916 US "war" against Pancho Villa, and the group of men who unceremoniously are awarded medals. Together they must return to the battlefront, along with a prisoner (Hayworth) who helped them before. 14 x 22 in...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1964. Vintage photograph of actors Peter Fonda, Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty from the 1964 film. With holograph notations in pencil on the verso. Based on J. R. Salamanca's 1961 novel of the same name. Vincent (Warren Beatty) a recent Korean War veteran is in training at a mental institution as an occupational therapist where...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Complete set of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1977 film. Based on Rossner's 1975 novel, in turn based on the real 1973 murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. Theresa (Keaton) is a schoolteacher for the deaf, who looks for men in bars to fulfill her violent, sexual desires. She finds Tony (Gere) and the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film. An early example of the film's script, still slated to be a Twentieth Century-Fox production, with their imprint on the front wrapper. The fourth Roth novel (after "Goodbye, Columbus" in 1972) to be adapted to the screen, and the sole directorial effort for noted screenwriter Ernest Lehman ("North...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Early Draft script for the 1972 film, "Portnoy's Complaint," based on the 1969 novel by Philip Roth, written for the screen and directed by Ernest Lehman, and starring Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, and Lee Grant. Cinematographer Philip Lathrop's working copy, with his holograph name at the top of the title page. A planning script likely...
Hollywood: Willow Tree / Paramount Pictures, 1969. Original pressbook for the 1969 film, based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. Arnold Schulman received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. Ali McGraw's film debut. 12.25 x 15 inches (31 x 38 cm). 14 pages, saddle stitched, with a fold out to the rear wrapper. Very Good. Horizontal fold as...
Hollywood: Willow Tree / Paramount Pictures, 1969. Original pressbook for the 1969 film. Based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. A budding romance between two people of Jewish heritage forces them to reconcile their very different upbringings. Arnold Schulman received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. Ali McGraw's film debut. 12.25 x 15 inches (31 x 38 cm)...
Paris: Elephant, 1982. Vintage borderless, oversized reference photograph from the 1982 film, depicting director Jacques Rouffio going over the script with actress Romy Schneider on the set. Scheider's final film before her untimely death. Based on the 1936 novel by Joseph Kessel. 12 x 7.75 inches (30 x 20 cm). Fine.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Shooting Script for the 1980 film. Vintage script, issued during production, with original Twentieth Century-Fox card wrappers and internal pages a later generation photocopy. A surreal and engaging story about a fugitive who stumbles onto a movie set at the very moment the movie being made requires a new stunt man. The fugitive takes the job...
![The Boy Friend [Boyfriend] (Original photograph from the set of the 1971 film). Ken Russell,...](/pictures/thumb/143084.jpg?v=1515181517)
London: Russflix / MGM, 1971. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1971 musical, with director Ken Russell staring intently at stars Twiggy and Christopher Gable. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson, about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a touring musical after the lead actress...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to production designer Stephen B. Grimes, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and brief notations on a few pages in holograph ink. Based on Ernest Thompson's play, about a father-daughter relationship that has its share of miscommunication. Jane Fonda stars with her...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage one-sheet poster for the 1973 film. Based on Ponicsan's 1973 novel. John (Caan) is a US Naval sailor who meets a prostitute named Maggie (Mason) and her biracial son Doug (Calloway), while the Navy searches for his lost personal files. When Maggie flees to New Orleans, John has a close friend (Wallach) trade places...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1981. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1981 UK film. Based on Ernest Thompson's play, about a father-daughter relationship that has its share of miscommunication. Jane Fonda stars with her father, Henry, and the inimitable Katherine Hepburn. Henry Fonda won his only Academy Award for this, his final performance. 8 x 10...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Draft script for the 1949 British film, "Christopher Columbus," based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini and starring Fredric March. Copy belonging to film editor Peter Hunt. Peter Hunt began his career in the UK film industry as an editor, working on several of the best-known early James Bond films ("Dr. No," "From Russia...
Hollywood: Paramount Television, 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 miniseries. Snipe folded around the image. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1975 novel. Boris Sagal directed this star-studded miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's fastidious novel. The laboriously researched story follows the happenings at a major bank, with heavy emphasis on interpersonal drama. 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm)...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1970 UK release of the 1969 US film. Mimeograph snipe and cropping notations on the verso, with cropping notations on the recto. Based on the play "Fleur de cactus" by Barillet and Gredy, starring Walter Matthau as Julian Winston, physician and lover to Toni Simmons, played by Goldie...
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Final Shooting script for the 1931 film. Holograph notations in colored pencil on the front wrapper. Based on Mildred Gilman's 1931 novel, about Jane Ray (Linda Watkins), a reporter whose great rival is news-hound Garry Webster (James Dunn) who never lets his love for her get in the way of landing a story. Jane...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Jay Grobart (Reynolds) kills a man who raped and murdered his wife, Cat Dancing. He is arrested, but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood, and a prescient one in terms of LGBT interests, which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myron Breckinridge undergoes a sex change operation and upon completion, promptly...
![The Crucible [Les sorcieres de Salem] (Original photograph from the 1957 film). Jean-Paul Sartre,...](/pictures/thumb/142608.jpg?v=1506353596)
France Germany: Pathe Consortium Cinema, 1957. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1957 film. With the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" and holograph notations regarding layout on the verso. Based on the 1953 Tony Award winning play by Arthur Miller, and the first of two film adaptations. The second came 43 years later, and was written by Miller himself. 6.5 x....
![The Things of Life [Les choses de la vie] (Original photograph from the 1970 film). Claude...](/pictures/thumb/139655.jpg?v=1492980310)
Paris: Fida Cinematografica / Lira Films, 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1970 French-Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Michel Ginfray on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel "Intersections" by Paul Guimard, who also worked on the screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and remade in...
![The Things of Life [Les Choses de la Vie] (Original photograph from the 1970 film). Claude...](/pictures/thumb/144567.jpg?v=1544116780)
Paris: Fida Cinematografica, 1970. Vintage borderless photograph of director Claude Sautet on the set of the 1970 French-Italian film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel "Intersections" by Paul Guimard, who also worked on the screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and remade in 1994 as "Intersection," directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1986 film. During an earthquake, a Cro-Magnon girl (Hannah) is separated from her family and subsequently orphaned. A family of Neanderthals find her and raise her as their own. The film is primarily told through sign language. Nominated for an Academy Award. Filmed on location in British Columbia, Canada...
Culver City, CA: Frankovich Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1968. First Estimating script for the 1971 film. Based on the 1967 novel "Doctors' Wives" by Frank G. Slaughter, a real life physician who attended Johns Hopkins medical school. One of the few feature films directed by George Schaefer, known mostly for his work directing plays and musicals for television, garnering seven...
London: Allied Artists, 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 French-American film. Based on Henri Charriere's 1969 book. Papillon (McQueen) is sentenced to life in prison in French Guyana. On the ship, he meets Louis (Hoffman), a forger, and they become friends, together attempting the ultimate escape. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Venezuela, Spain, Jamaica...
![The Stripper [Celebration] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film). Franklin J. Schaffner, Meade...](/pictures/thumb/140140.jpg?v=1497555046)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Revised Final script for the 1963 film. Laid in are 14 pages of replicas, later generation photocopies with photocopied holes. Based on the play "A Loss of Roses" by William Inge, Lila Green (Woodward) dreams of being an actress and joins a band of traveling entertainers until her boyfriend abandons her near her Kansas hometown...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Library, 1971. Vintage photograph of director Jerry Schatzberg and cinematographer Adam Holender on the set of the 1971 film. A note affixed on the top edge with scotch tape with holograph notations on the verso. An important film of the New Hollywood movement, and one of the best and least moralistic ones made on the subject...
![Merry-Go-Round [Reigen] (Collection of 12 original photographs from the 1973 film). Otto Schenk,...](/pictures/thumb/137578.jpg?v=1492979693)
Vienna: Lisa-Film, 1973. Collection of 12 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs for the 1973 German film, based on the controversial 1897 play "Reigen" ("La Ronde") by Arthur Schnitzler, Adapted three time previously; by Max Ophuls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964, both as "La Ronde," and by Richard Lerner and Paul Glickler in 1971 as "Hot Circuit," as...
Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1981. Feature Draft script (television equivalent of a Shooting script) for the 1982 television film, which originally aired November 28, 1982 on NBC. Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, following his release...
![Baciamo le mani [The Family] (Original screenplay for the 1973 film). Vittorio Schiraldi, John...](/pictures/thumb/137795.jpg?v=1492979769)
Rome: Ultra Film S. p. A., Circa 1974. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1973 Italian film," Baciamo le mani," here under the English title, "The Family." Released internationally as "I Kiss the Hand," "Family Killer," and "Kiss My Hand," and re-released in the US as "Sin City Confidential." Brief notations in holograph ink on the first page, noting the...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. One of the most haunting and truly underrated films of the 1970s, Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust" translates Nathanael West's 1939 masterpiece into a dark, funny, and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of an array of characters lost...
London: Vic Films / Governor Films, 1962. Final British Script for the 1962 film, based on the 1960 novel. Along with "Billy Liar" (1963), which he would make the following year, John Schlesinger's first feature film is perhaps the quintessential document of middle-class life in Northern England during the early 1960s. Bates plays a young and somewhat ambitious factory worker...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1969 film. A classic of the New Hollywood cinema, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. A would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist form an unlikely friendship. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema, nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best...
N.p. Bioskop Film, 1990. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1990 film. Based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, which envisions a dystopian future in which fertile women are forced to play sexual surrogate to wealthy childless families. Shot on location in North Carolina. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Weldon 1996.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Vintage black-and-white hand colored studio still photograph from the US release of the 1938 film. Based on Edgar Franklin's 1925 play "White Collars." Remake of the 1929 film "The Idle Rich." A wealthy businessman moves in with his girlfriend's family in an attempt to rescue their relationship. The second MGM film featuring Lana Turner. Shot...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the 1977 novel by Rauch (published the same year as the film). Written for the screen by Rauch and Mardik Martin, from a story by Rauch, and starring Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, and Mary Kay Place...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1972. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1972 film. Rubber-stamped on the verso of one still is the contact information for Jerry Ohlinger's Movie Material Store, located in New York, along with an ink notation ("BOXCAR BERTHA"). Scorsese's second credit as a feature director, based on the fictionalized autobiography of Bertha Thompson, set...
London: Rank Organisation / Independent Artists, 1963. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1963 UK film. Based on Patrick Hamilton's 1935 novel, "Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky," about a bored but pretty young woman who wants nothing more than to leave her dull existence in Wales and escape to the bright lights of London. 8 x 10 inches (20...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Revised Draft script for the 1963 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member "Brokaw," with that name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and marginal notations throughout in holograph ink. Shooting schedules bound in. Included is a vintage production photograph of Kirk Douglas from the film. Based on Vahe Katcha's 1957...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1962. Collection of 3 vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the 1962 UK release of the 1962 US film. Based on Alexander Klein's 1958 novel, starring William Holden as an ex-American citizen living in Sweden who gets blackmailed into spying for the Allies during WWII. He is reluctant to help until his relationship with a beautiful German...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Collection of 60 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1937 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with the film title written on the wrapper. Ritz Brothers' first starring role in a feature film. A Native American, George (Pendleton) decides to attend Lombardy College and has a tumultuous time adjusting to life. The Ritz...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1963 film of Nicole Maurey as Christine Durrant in the midst of a terrifying assault from one of the plant-like aliens known as Triffids. With holograph notations regarding identification and layout in pencil as well two press agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham...
New York: H.B.L Productions, 1972. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "Such Men Are Dangerous," written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., based on a novel by "J.O. Kerr" (joker), the pseudonym originally used by Lawrence Block for his 1969 titular novel, but the novel was released as written by Paul Kavanagh, the lead character of the script and another.....
Culver City, CA: Alcelle Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1974. Early Draft script for the 1979 film. Brief notations in holograph ink on several pages. Based on MacLean's 1971 novel. Frank (Sutherland) and Heddi (Redgrave) investigate a series of mysterious murders on a remote Arctic island, where Nazi gold might be buried. Shot on location in Alaska, England, and Canada. Tan...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1957. Two vintage black and white publicity photographs from the 1957 film. Based on the 1949 biography of Jimmy Walker, New York's mayor (1926-1932) by Gene Fowler. The mayor was forced to resign from his position due to mounting allegations of corruption within his administration. A story set and shot on location in New York. 8...
New York: National General Pictures, 1972. Collection of 8 vintage still photographs from the 1972 film. Based loosely on the writings and illustrations of James Thurber, which were in turn based on Thurber's own life. Adhesive residue to the verso of all photographs, with mimeograph snipe tipped on to the verso of two photos. Item also includes a three page...
Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954. Final Script for the short from the 1954 television film "Light's Diamond Jubilee." Included is a set of revised pages on a different color stock. "Light's Diamond Jubilee" was a David O. Selznick television production aired simultaneously on all three of the major...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963. Revised Final Draft script for an unproduced film called "Voyage Out, Voyage Home," written by Sidney Buchman, based on stories by Irwin Shaw. Buchman's film credits include "Lost Horizon" (1937), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), and "Cleopatra" (1963). A story about Christine, who returns to her father in New York after a bad romance...
Hollywood: National Screen Service Ltd. / Paramount Pictures, 1967. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1967 UK film. Based on the 1905 H. G. Wells novel, "Kipps," starring Tommy Steele as Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile. His grandfather dies and leaves him a vast wealth, prompting a sudden life change. 8 x 10...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1974. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1974 UK film. Cropping notations to the versos of 3 stills and the rectos of 2 stills, with a mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso of 1 still. Based on Clive Egleton's 1973 novel, "Seven Days to a Killing," about the kidnapping of a British...
Chatsworth, CA: Home Vision Entertainment, circa 1977. An early English language draft script for the 1995 Norwegian film. A brief letter from the director John Cromwell to the publicity agent Paul Kohner is laid into the front wrapper. Based on the 1920-1921 trilogy of novels of the same name by the Nobel Prize winning author Sigrid Undset. Set in 14th...
![Chilly Scenes of Winter [Head Over Heels] (Collection of seven original photographs from the 1979...](/pictures/thumb/138427.jpg?v=1492979962)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Based on the 1976 novel by Ann Beattie. Photographs have been hand-retouched, adhered to a backing board, and prepared for use in advertising. A stark portrait depicting the difficulty of life in the aftermath of the turbulent 1960s. The protagonist Charlie (played by...
![Nightmare Honeymoon [Deadly Honeymoon] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Elliot...](/pictures/thumb/141353.jpg?v=1492980700)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1974 film, here seen under the working title "Deadly Honeymoon." A single holograph notation to the first page. Based on the 1967 novel "Deadly Honeymoon" by Lawrence Block. Newlyweds David and Jill Webb only wish to spend their honeymoon in New Orleans, but they witness a murder on the way...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Collection of 3 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1959 UK release of the 1958 US film. Based on Jones' 1957 novel, set in postwar Indiana, where Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) returns to his home town, fresh out of the army and looking to resume his career as a writer. He meets professional gambler Bama...
![Blue Blood [Blueblood] (Original photograph from the 1973 film). Andrew Sinclair, Alexander...](/pictures/thumb/132849a.jpg?v=1452277299)
London: Mallard Productions, 1973. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1973 UK release of the 1973 English-Canadian film. Mimeograph snipe and cropping notations on the verso. Oliver Reed stars as a satanic butler who kills his lord's son during his acid trip. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Some toning and tiny corner creases, else Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Draft script an unproduced film by Curt Siodmak, based on his 1971 novel of the same name, about a scientist who discovers how to induce ESP in people. Sidomak was the screenwriter for such horror classics as "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "The Beast with Five Fingers" (1946), as well...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced 1964 British remake of Robert Siodmak's 1933 German-Austrian film (the remake directed by Siodmak as well), based on the 1913 novella "Brennendes Geheimmnis" by Stephan Zweig, and with Siodmak once again attached to direct. Copy belonging to screenwriter Arbeid, with his name in holograph ink on the title page. The story...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage photograph showing director Robert Siodmak meeting star Ava Gardner and her then-husband, band leader Artie Shaw, on the set of the 1946 film. With a fold-over mimeo snipe on the verso. A breakthrough role for Gardner, as well as the screen debut of Burt Lancaster, the film follows Hemingway's story closely for the...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures / Vanguard, Circa 1954. One sheet poster for a circa 1954 rerelease of the 1945 film. Based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch," by Ethel Lina White. One of the best "old dark house" noirs, with Hitchcockian touches both in terms of being a thriller and in terms of featuring multiple insidious characters, all placed...
![Cry of the City [The Law and Martin Rome, The Chair for Martin Rome] (Post-production script for...](/pictures/thumb/116592.jpg?v=1434404383)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Post-production Dialogue and Continuity Script for the 1948 film noir, "Cry of the City" (here under the working title, "The Law and Martin Rome"), directed by Robert Siodmak, based on the 1947 novel "The Chair for Martin Rome" by Henry Edward Helseth, written for the screen by Richard Murphy, and starring Victor Mature, Richard Conte...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1944 film noir, showing director Robert Siodmak conferring with star Stanley Ridges while some extras relax behind them. With a mimeo snipe and date stamp of "12 Apr 1945" on the verso. Based on the 1939 novel "This Way Out" by James Ronald, about an unhappily married...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures / Vanguard, 1945. Original US pressbook for the 1945 film. One of the best "old dark house" noirs, with Hitchcockian touches both in terms of being a thriller and in terms of featuring multiple insidious characters, all placed in the expert care of director Robert Siodmak (who has a scene in the film: he plays "the...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage photograph of star George Sanders demonstrating the use of a telescope to costar Ella Raines and director Robert Siodmak during a break from filming on the set of the 1946 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1942 Broadway play "Uncle Harry" by Thomas Job, about a middle aged...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1945 film. Director Robert Siodmak shown in conversation with Geraldine Fitzgerald. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Complete collation details available on request.
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Presentation 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...
London: Unviersal International Pictures, Circa 1958. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the UK (country of origin) release of the 1958 film. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel, about a company of German soldiers on the Russian front during WWII. One of the soldiers is sent home, where, finding his home bombed, he struggles for his sanity...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1958. Two vintage photographs of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1958 World War II film. In one photograph, Sirk works with actress Lilo Pulver (misspelled "Lisa" on the recto) in a camera setup with production assistants present. In the other, Sirk holds a bound script and discusses a scene with Pulver...
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Universal 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...
London: Unviersal International Pictures, Circa 1955. Vintage hand-tinted still photograph from the 1955 UK release of the 1955 US film. Based on W. R. Burnett's little-known 1954 novel, about a member of an Irish revolutionary society forced to become an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets a famous rebel named "Captain Thunderbolt," and becomes his second-in-command, "Lightfoot." A story set and...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the US release of the 1957 film. Based on the 1935 novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Vintage publicity photograph for the 1924 film showing star John Gilbert relaxing with a book at his home. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1914 Russian play by Leonid Andreyev, first published in English in 1922. The first film put into production under the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the first...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Collection of 34 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown card front wrapper present with film title printed on the wrapper. Based on the 1937 Austrian play, co-written by Hungarian playwright Landislas Fodor and Austrian writer Gina Kaus, based on her 1932 novel "Morgen um Neun." George Nordyke (Allen) is dismayed...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1967. Final Shooting script for the 1968 film. SIGNED by actor George Segal on the title page, with a brief inscription. Based on the 1964 novel by William Goldman. Christopher Gill (Steiger) is a serial killer who always seems to elude police detective Brummel (Segal). Green titled wrappers, with Paramount logo in white and die cut title...
Los Angeles: Eagle Associates / Orion Pictures, 1983. Third Draft script (and Final Shooting script) for the 1983 film, "Gorky Park," based on the 1981 novel by Martin Cruz Smith. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy from director Michael Apted and producer Howard W. Koch, Jr., bound in maroon leather, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. An archive of material from the making of the 1977 Steven Spielberg film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." From the estate of Phil Abramson, set director for the film, whose work earned an Academy Award nomination. The archive includes: A typed letter to Phil Abramson from director Steven Spielberg, SIGNED by Spielberg, on...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1977 film. Based on Spielberg's novel of the same name, about Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), who is one of several people who witness UFOs at night, and subsequently he begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters, only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1941. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1941 film. Starring actress Ruth Hussey is prominently featured. Both photos with pink mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for the other. Based on the 1933 Broadway play by Day and Mearson. Struggling composer Jerome (Douglas) meets...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1992. Original one sheet poster for the 1992 film, based on the 1937 novel, an equal to the classic 1939 film starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Burgess Meredith. Gary Sinise was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. 27.25 x 41 (69 x 104 cm). Rolled. Fine.