London: Morningside Worldwide Pictures, Circa 1975. Early Revised Draft script for the 1963 British-American film, dated two years prior to its release. First generation reproduction, likely made for educational purposes circa early-mid 1970s, evidenced by the use of a photocopy process (not employed in the UK until the early 1970s). The script's vintage is also evidenced by the postal code.....
New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor, Circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8, 1961, opened the following day, an for over 200 performances, and closed on June 2, 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award, as were producers.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi, here as "Kiski," in kimono, and director Ciampi, on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs, presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos, crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre, also.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1958-1962. Archive of press material and film reviews for the Parisian distributor and press and film agency, Cinedis, representing a four-year span from the company notable for its associations with French New Wave filmmaking. French language throughout. Included in the archive are two 2-ring binders, noted on the spine of one as "Bulletin Informations Cinedis," and one with.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Original single-pocket blue folder from French film studio, Cinedis, for the years 1960 to 1961. Distributed to press agencies, film distributors and theaters, this folder is empty but would have contained press release information, like film credits and star biographies, for films credited on the front, here being "Adua et ses compagnes" (Hungry for Love, 1960), "L'amant.....
![Service de Press "Bonne Annee" [Happy New Year] (Original promotional brochure, circa 1950s)....](/pictures/thumb/143968.jpg?v=1531515299)
Paris: Cinedis, 1950s. Original "Happy New Year" brochure from French film production and distribution company, Cinedis, circa 1955-1960. Illustrated inside with "Service de Press / Bonne Annee / Cinedis," surrounded by red, green and yellow confetti illustration by noted film poster artist, Ferracci. The outside reproduces signatures of French actors and actresses, not all are legible, including Mylene Demongeot, Noel-Noel.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Archive of press material compiled by Cinedis, a French press and film agency, concerning the formation and founding members of the Ministere de la Culture (Ministry of Culture) of France. The Ministry of Culture was created by Charles de Gaulle in 1959 and the first Minister was writer Andre Malraux, whose responsibilities included the democratizing of access.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Rene Clair in holograph ink on the front endpaper. Photoplay edition, with stills from the film, and released in a dust jacket featuring a still of Bourvil on the front. Top edges uncut. Basis for the 1961 eponymous film, directed by Clair, starring Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret, and Claude Rich.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1962. Typed letter signed from director Rene Clair to Mr. Gay-Lussac at Cinedis, the prominent French film distribution company, signed by Clair in holograph ink. In it, he requests some photograph negatives for "Port de Lilas" (1957, released in the US as "The Gates of Paris"), on behalf of a press agent who inquired of them, and Clair.....
1968. Autograph note signed from noted director Rene Clair to producer Daniel Selznick, executed on hotel airmail stationery. In French. Included are two photostat copies of related letters from Selznick to Clair (also in French), as well as a ditto-style mimeograph copy of a wire from Clair to Selznick noting where Clair is staying during May 1968. The letters involve.....
France: Limot, Circa 1961. Original black-and-white single weight photograph from the the 1961 French film. Actor Noiret is seen anxiously conversing on a telephone. Rubber-stamped on the verso, crediting photographer Limot, and with numerical annotations 641 in holograph pencil. A businessman (Noiret) wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse, claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos, 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot, 18 with his name.....
France: Limot, Circa 1961. Collection of 86 original black-and-white single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots, pinup images of actress Castel, Bourvil mending fences, and several snapshots of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes, gunfights in the town square, and charming taproom images candidly showcase one.....
France: N.p., Circa 1961. Collection of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director Rene Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans, giving a speech, signing autographs, conducting a recorded interview, and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel, Alfred Adam, and Annie Fratellini. The festivities seem.....
Nice: Gaumont-Palace, 1961. Vintage French program, and two invitations, for the 1961 film, here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1, 1961, generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP, for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, a Southwest France commune with the.....
France, Italy: Cineriz, 1961-1962. Archive of press material related to the 1961 French-Italian film. Includes film production-related material, like shooting schedules and synopses, a cinema magazine reviewing the film, and several leaves of correspondence addressed from various members of film production to Maryse Martin (Martres), a prolific French actress who was also involved in press relations in France. Brief annotations.....
Paris: Office Catholique Francais du Cinema, 1961. Original French invitation from the 1961 awards ceremony for the Grand Prix de L'O.C.F.C. (Office Catholique Francais du Cinema), honoring director Rene Clair "pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre" (For all of his work). The invitation credits officials at the office, orators, date and location of the event, with a laid-in RSVP postcard addressed.....
Denver, CO: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Original one sheet poster for the 1964 film. Only one style of the poster is known to have been issued for its initial release. A seminal film from many points of view. The second feature to be directed by Shirley Clarke. Clarke's goal was to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1969 film, showing Romy Schneider departing Tom Courtenay's sweet ride. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Martin Waddell. Gerry Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a petty thief who wakes up after a long night out drinking to find himself accused.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US release of the 1966 French film. The French resistance factions attempt to regain control of Paris near the end of WWII. A Nazi general in charge of Paris has orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot maintain control. What the film lacked in cohesive.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 French film. The third film collaboration between director Rene Clement and actor Alain Delon, the latter stared in Clement's 1960 acclaimed film "Purple Noon." Delon plays a cardsharp in hiding from an American gangster whose wife he recently seduced. He is hired by a wealthy widow as.....
Italy: Cinematografica RI.RE, 1961. Collection of 14 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Action sequences, picketers, Delon and his compatriots, and a charming candid of Barbara Lass, are present. Numerical annotations, and a few with actor names, on the versos in holograph pencil, and rubber-stamps on the verso crediting photography agency "PIERLUIGI" and the.....
Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly" (1954, Carmine Gallone), "Les Diaboliques" (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot), US film.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make.....
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Paris: Athos Films / Istituto Luce, 1967. Original French grande poster for the 1967 Italian film. Based on Florence Montgomery's 1869 novel. John (Quayle) is the UK Consul in Florence, Italy, where he becomes a widower with two sons. Andrew (Colagrande) is the oldest, constantly assuming responsibility for his younger brother Miles' (Giannozzi) shenanigans, until one act that proves too.....
London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Zodiac Productions, 1961. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1961 UK film. Sean Connery stars as Paddy Damion, the best friend of a gangster who is killed in opposition to the extortionist mob that runs a decrepit area of London. Paddy swears revenge on those responsible for his friend's death, and after.....
![How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life [Band of Gold] (Original screenplay for the 1968 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143257.jpg?v=1525704116)
N.p. Nob Hill Productions Inc., 1966. Final Draft script for the 1968 film, here under the working title, "Band of Gold." Dean Martin plays a wealthy playboy wrongly believing good girl Stella Stevens is his best friend's mistress in this 60's sex comedy. Screenwriting duo Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro had worked previously together on films such as 1965's "A.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Three vintage borderless studio still photographs from the set of the 1968 film. Warner Brothers optioned the musical shortly after its premiere in 1947, but Harburg and Saidy were unwilling to tone down the racial satire to fit studio demands, holding out until the option was about to expire and Warner agreed.....
Rome: Titanus, 1962. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1962 film. The film follows the son of Sparticus, a young soldier in the Roman army. While on an expedition, Randus and a young slave girl are lost at sea and the couple must find their way back to civilization. Shot on location in Egypt. 8 x......
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 Italian film. Features Burt Reynolds on horseback and as a captive. Reynolds' fourth film credit, as a survivor of a massacre out for vengeance, released the same year as director Corbucci's infamous brutal western, "Django." 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Complete collation details available.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1967. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1967 exploitation film White margin, with a single credit and copyright date for American International Pictures at the bottom margin. In the photograph, Peter Fonda and Salli Sachse exchange admiring glances during a rare scene where people aren't tripping. One of the iconoclastic Corman's most idiosyncratic directorial.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Les Films 13, Circa 1969. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 UK release of the 1969 French film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Produced late in the French New Wave cycle, implementing flashbacks and imagined scenarios, about a troubled young man who meets a pretty shop girl, and the.....
Paris: Les Films 13, 1969. Collection of 38 original keybook contact print photographs from the 1969 French film. Color and black-and-white contact prints of small and medium format transparencies, several printed in Agfa photo paper, most with 36 images per print, amounting to over 1300 images of starring actors Girardot and Kalfon, child actors, and a few of the film.....
Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career, including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary, "The Man Who.....
N.p. N.p., 1963. Draft script for the 1964 British film noir. With a few holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and throughout, mostly noting deletions. The daughter of a recently deceased psychoanalyst enlists one of her father's former patients, an American newscaster, in helping her discover the cause of his mysterious death. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and director George Cukor between takes on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations in ink and holograph annotations regarding layout in pencil, white-out, and a rubber stamp of actor Joe Van Cottom on the verso. A remake of the 1940 comedy "My Favorite Wife" starring Irene Dunne.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Final Draft script for the 1961 Western film. Copy belonging to unknown crew member dealing with costumes and wardrobe, with 20 leaves detailing costume changes for each character preceding the script, and holograph ink annotations throughout. A Texas Ranger returning a runaway gambler to Louisiana in order for the man to face prosecution finds their.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Brandywine Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Glenda Jackson, Vladek Sheybel and Oliver Reed from the 1969 film. With a typed description on the verso. Based on D.H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel about two sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends, bringing conflict between the two pairs as their relationships head in different directions. An examination.....
France: N.p., Circa 1960. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Christine Dandrieux. Dandrieux herself is very nearly apocryphal, with almost no biographic information readily obtainable, but her classic blonde coiffure and light eyes are unquestionable qualities often seen in French cinema of the era. This photograph presumably floated between talent agencies before her first and only film credit, "Et la femme.....
N.p. Stratton Productions Inc., 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. The film follows Yukio and Toru, two young men living in a small Japanese fishing village. Included in the stills is a photographic proof trial poster. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
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Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television episode. Actor Van Heflin's copy. "The Dick Powell Show" was an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, ending when the show's host, Dick Powell, died of lung cancer. It featured a number of notable screenwriters and directors, including Aaron Spelling, William Friedkin.....
Canada: National Film Board of Canada, 1965. Original souvenir program, printed in Canada, for the 1965 Canadian 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 is French language, square in shape (versus the normal rectangular).....
Beverly Hills, CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists, 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Two children manipulate their estranged mother into returning home with from Italy. The final film to be directed by Delmer Daves. Shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a stamp to the verso. Complete collation details available on request...
London: Charwill Productions, 1967. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the 1959 novel by Mark Rascovich, co-written by Jack Davies and director Ken Annakin, who had received an Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" the previous year. A man and his bear attempt to flee Soviet Russia after the bear is.....
London: Anglo-Embassy Productions, 1968. Draft British script for the 1969 UK film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines such as "Life," "Look," and "Harper's Bazaar," and as a set photographer for every major studio, documenting some.....
![Up to his Ears [Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine] (Original photograph from the 1965 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144489.jpg?v=1540328951)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film, provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who after a series.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Fildebroc / Compagnia Cinematografica Montoro / United Artists, 1966. Vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1966 French-Italian film. Seen is actor Alan Bates serenading the cast and crew on a busted piano. At the end of WWI, the German army booby-traps a small French town, prompting mayhem and panic, and the local lunatics escape from.....
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Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title, several with annotations in holograph.....
![Swords of Blood [Cartouche] (Collection of 67 original still photographs, and French press...](/pictures/thumb/143832.jpg?v=1567478180)
Paris: Filmsonor, 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Cartouche." Action sequences, men in military regalia, and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale, with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope, noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap.....
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and a sticker noting the photograph is from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller on the verso. Loosely based on the 1822 novel by Thomas De Quincey, the film transposes the setting.....
![Two Women [La Ciociara] (Original double weight photograph from the 1960 film). Vittorio De Sica,...](/pictures/thumb/141245.jpg?v=1497555094)
N.p. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1960. Vintage double weight reference studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Sophia Loren won an Academy Award fro her role as Cesira. Vittorio De Sica's harsh war-era film follows the plight of an Italian mother an daughter as they traverse the Italian countryside in search of safety. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belonodo, and.....
New South Wales: Embassy Pictures, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio De Sica on the set of the 1964 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1964 play by Eduardo De Filippo titled "Filumena Marturano". Set during and immediately after World War II in Naples, Italy. Filumena (Sophia Loren) is a prostitute.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference photographs from the 1967 film. Each photo has a ditto-style mimeo snipe printed on the verso. An anthology of seven mini-stories, ranging from comedy to drama, all directed by De Sica, all starring actress Shirley MacLaine in various guises, and all dealing with adultery and its ramifications.
Rome: Cineriz, 1962. Original program for the Italian-French film, undated but issued upon the 1962 premiere. Unfolds to three panels of film synopsis and credits, and full-color film stills of Loren, Ekberg, Schneider and others. A four episode anthology exploring morality and love. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana in a secret marriage (Solinas, Gilioli), a billboard of a blonde woman.....
Rome: N.p., 1962. Archive of four vintage borderless photographs of Anita Ekberg from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations in pencil and the photographer Paul Ronald's stamp on the versos. A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love. Anita Ekberg is featured here in Federico Fellini's "Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio", a fantastical story about a doctor who.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Revised Final Draft script for the 1960 film "Man on a String," seen here under the early working title "Ten Years a Counterspy." Espionage thriller in which Ernest Borgnine stars as Boris Mitrov, a US secret agent sent to Berlin to act as a double agent for the USSR. Tan titled wrappers, noted as.....
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Paris: France Cinema, 1961. Collection of 9 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Les Mongols." Rubber-stamps on the versos, crediting photographer Dorka and street address. Palance and Ekberg are present in a few photos, including two candid images of Ekberg. Housed in brown envelope and fold, both with French film.....
United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP], 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Copy from the StudioCanal archives, with a letter of provenance laid in. Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway about a professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague, suspected.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1960. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe affixed on the verso. Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. A doctor journeys to Africa with his wife, hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with short creases.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Three original color transparencies from the 1961 film. Starring actors, including Marais and Vlady, are seen in lavish period costumes designed for the film by Marie-Claude Fouquet and Jacqueline Guyot. Housed in a light blue mailing envelope, with annotations on the recto in holograph ink, noting contact information for Fouquet and Guyot. Based de La Fayette's 1678.....
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Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs, and various ephemera, from the 1961 film, here under the original French title. The photographs, numbered on the versos in holograph pencil, detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat," costumes displayed at tge.....
Paris: Les Films de Mai, 1964. Vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the 1964 French film. Featuring an image of two men boxing in front of a couple onlookers. A woman (Madeline Robinson) begins a relationship with a West Indian boxer (Rene Lefevre) twenty years her junior, who wins the admiration of her young son, until neighborhood drama.....
N.p. Compagnia Cinematografica Mondiale, 1962. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1962 film. The son of a notorious pirate abandons his lawless ways to gain the affection of a beautiful woman. Shot on location in Alicante and Valencia, Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with a holograph graphite notation to the verso. Complete collation details.....
Switzerland: CVB Publishers, N.d. Undated reproduction, based on the design of the original French grande poster, for the 1967 film. A charming French musical directed by Jacques Demy and staring Catherine Deneuve, directly following his 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," also starring Deneuve. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Musical score. Shot on location in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France.....
Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jacques Demy and Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1964 French musical. With extensive holograph annotations in blue marker and the production company's rubber stamp on the verso. Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve), works at her widowed mother's umbrella boutique and Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), a young mechanic, fall in love in the beautiful.....
Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless press photograph of actor Catherine Deneuve and composer Michel Legrand at the awards ceremony for the Louis Delluc Prize, given to the best French film of the year, which "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" received in 1964. With the stamps of ADP press agency and a French-language mimeo snipe on the verso. In addition to.....
Paris: Les Editions du Presse du Miroir, 1962, 1964. Four issues of "le miroir de l'information" (roughly, "Mirror of Information"), a Parisian periodical published for press relations, including coverage on the press itself, radio, film, television, and other various media. Little is documented on "le miroir," with only a few held in institutions and libraries. The magazine seemingly focused on.....
N.p. Filmco Production, 1963. Final Revised Draft script for the 1965 film. Brief annotations throughout in holograph pencil. House in a custom cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of film noir. A crime mystery with noir elements, this film follows a hitchhiker in the desert who is picked up by a beautiful woman. The woman is married, but.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. First Draft script for the 1963 film. A nuanced "invasion from Mars" film that borrows cleverly from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (aliens use human beings as physical hosts) and Val Lewton (threat of a creature, but creature is only implied, not shown). An unusually heavy emphasis on dread, atmosphere, and characterization makes this.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1969. Two vintage photographs of crew members on the set of the 1969 film. Holograph annotations on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see the other. An action-packed feud between two bikers over a new motorcycle. Shot on location in Tucson, Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine...
N.p. Continental Distributing, 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 French film. An unlucky man's life is made worse by the sudden acquisition of an expensive vehicle. Shot on location in Paris and Haut-de-Seine, France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with light red fingerprints to the verso. Complete collation details available on request...
Burbank, CA: United Productions of America, 1962. Revised Draft script for the 1962 animated television film, which originally aired on December 18 on NBC. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, both editorial and substantive in nature. A musical, animated version of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 Christmas story, featuring the diminutive, nearsighted Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. Set in New York and London. Black.....
New York: Challenger Productions, 1965. Ribbon copy typescript of a Preliminary Treatment script for an unproduced film. The manuscript does not name the author, however, we can reasonably presume this is Robert Newman's known treatment for Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales," under the title "The Gothic Tales," which we have offered once in the past, with that copy having a......
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1966. Collection of 108 vintage contact sheets from the 1966 film with approximately 1100 images. Stills as well as on the set shots. The only film in which Walt Disney received a story credit, as "Retlaw Yensid." Disney's take on Daniel Dafoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" features Dick Van Dyke as Naval Lieutenant Robin "Rob" Crusoe.....
Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1964. Collection of 8 vintage color studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The film follows a wealthy tycoon with a disagreeable temperament set to the backdrop of 1930's Hollywood. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1965. Vintage photograph of director Edward Dmytryk and actors Gregory Peck and Robert H. Harris on the set of the 1965 neo-noir. With a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel, "Fallen Angel" by Howard Fast. David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) is an accountant who comes to realize he has no memory as he.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Collection of four vintage contact sheets for the 1962 film, featuring 64 images of actor Jane Fonda and 9 images of actor Capucine. With holograph ink and red pencil annotations to the rectos. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown.....
N.p. Famous Artists Productions, 1962. Vintage photograph of Jane Fonda from the 1962 film. German Columbia Film stamp and faint Swedish Columbia Film stamp on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown into chaos when one of the women's former lover comes looking for.....
Burbank, CA: Artanis Productions, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill, bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design, Bill's name on the front board, California Bookbinding (Hollywood) label on the front pastedown, housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. Dan (Sinatra) and his wife Valerie (Kerr) go.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1966 film. Based on the 1961 novel "The Cypher" by Alex Gordon, about a professor of ancient languages who becomes involved in international intrigue involving a beautiful spy, an oil magnate, and a secret message coded in hieroglyphics. Set in and shot on location in England and Wales. 82 x......
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1966. First Estimating script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1965 play by Murray Schisgal. Three friends play a game of musical chairs with their relationships in this quirky comedy based on the hit play by Murray Schisgal. Harry Berlin (Jack Lemmon) is a deeply depressed man who is convinced his life is going.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1964 Broadway play by Murray Schisgal, and with a score by jazz saxophone legend Gerry Mulligan. Three friends play a game of musical chairs with their relationships in this quirky comedy based on the hit play by Murray Schisgal. Harry Berlin (Jack Lemmon) is.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage black-and-white press photograph from the 1965 French-American film. Editorial annotations and Wide World Photo rubber stamp on the verso, with a Spanish rubber stamp, "paso por fotograbado." Shown are Ursula Andress and Katrin Schaake on-the-set, conferring between scenes while standing on a bed. Woody Allen's film debut, as actor and screenwriter. Michael (O'Toole).....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress and Peter O'Toole on the set of the 1965 film. With holograph annotations and photo-agency stamp on the verso. Woody Allen's film debut, as actor and screenwriter. Michael (O'Toole) is a womanizer soon to be married to Carole (Schneider), but Liz (Paula Prentiss) and Rita (Andress) get in.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Revised Final script for the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. Sinatra's fourth collaboration with Douglas and a box office success, with Sinatra playing a brooding detective, embroiled in a case that uncovers deep police corruption within the department. One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. James Coburn returns as Derek Flint in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to "Our Man Flint" (1966). Flint's boss assigns him to stop a group of women on the Virgin Islands who hope to take over the world. The enemy women are kidnapping astronauts and replacing them.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. First Draft screenplay for the 1968 film. The sequel to Douglas' "Tony Rome," in which we catch up with nonchalant private detective Sinatra, this time with Welch as costar and romantic interest. A solid whodunit, in which Sinatra must solve the mystery of a beautiful woman found murdered off the Miami coast, her feet encased.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Shooting Script for the 1967 Western film. Based on the 1961 novel by Richard Jessup, who also wrote the screenplay. A US army fort is under siege by Arapaho warriors. Chuka (Rod Taylor), a wandering gunman shows up to aid the those inside, each facing their troubled pasts in this moment of desperation. Green wrappers.....
N.p. Four Leaf Productions, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film, belonging to cinematographer Paul Vogel, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Script preceded by a thirteen page shooting schedule, dated 12-7-66, with holograph annotations in ink and pencil, including the name of lead actor Aldo Ray added to the character.....
Copenhagen: Palladium Films, 1965. Original English language program for the 1964 Danish film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. The great Danish director's final film, an adaptation of the 1906 play by Hjalmar Soderberg. 4.75 x 6 inches. Near Fine in in saddle stitched self wrappers. BFI 667. Criterion Collection 127. Rosenbaum 1000.
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1964. Revised Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1964-1966 television show "The Outer Limits," originally aired April 27, 1964 on ABC. Robert Duvall plays a disaffected CIA agent sent to infiltrate an alien flying saucer that has crash landed. He finds that the genetic material used to alter his appearance has.....
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France: N.p., Circa 1967. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1967 Italian-French-German film. From the archives of Maurice Bessy (1910-1993), a French film historian, novelist, and screenwriter ("Deadlier Than the Male," 1956, and a handful of films 1939-1950). Bessy's rubber stamp and name label on the verso of one still, with brief annotations in holograph ink on.....
Paris: Filmsonor, 1962. Original black-and-white borderless still photograph from the 1962 French-Italian film. Costarring actors Alain Delon, Georges Wilson, and Madeleine Robinson share a drink in the segment, "Tes pere et mere honoreras" (Honor they Father and Mother). Rubber-stamped "Photo LIMOT," and numerical notation in holograph pencil, on the verso. An epic comedy on the Book of Exodu's most epic.....
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Paris: Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex, 1962. Original French program for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Le diable et les 10 commandements." Illustrated wrappers featuring esoteric cartoons by Vaissier, with original glassine. Contents of the program include film credits, synopsis, actor biographies, and advertisement campaigns; often these programs are illustrated throughout with still photographs from.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage photograph of Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations regarding layout and typed credits on the verso. Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women, whom he convinces to start drinking, leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The second of the "Pink Panther" films, based on the 1962 book by Harry Kurnitz, which in turn was adapted from Marcel Achard's play, "L'Idiote." Probably one of five funniest films of the 1960s, and the defining installment in the well-loved.....
Calgary, AB: Transcontinental, 1969. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1969 film. A biography of Marquis De Sade, the famous author of "120 Days of Sodom" and great lover of women. In this film, he is in his old age, hiding in his family's castle and avoiding the police. The story of his life is told through flashbacks, dreams, and.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1963. Revised Final Draft script for the 1963 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped and noted in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Best on the best-selling 1958 novel by Burdick and Lederer, about Americans in Vietnam and the struggle for the US in combating the country's Communist politics. Brando plays a scholar named Harrison.....