N.p. N.p. Two screenplays for an unproduced film. With notations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. After three strange coincidental deaths in Rome witnessed by Ted Fraser, an American on vacation and special CIA operative, he begins to ask questions and ends up finding out more about the connections Vatican City has with former and resurgent Nazi groups. Set in.....
Culver City, CA: Selznick Studio, 1950. Draft English language script for the 1951 French-Italian film, "Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois," here under the English title, "Miracles Only Happen Once." Based on an original scenario by Jacques Sigurd, adapted to English by Hugh Brooke. Claudia (Valli) and Jerome (Marais) meet in Paris shortly before WWII, fall in love and expect...
London: Warner-Pathe, 1966. Collection of 10 vintage still photographs from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 US film. Six stills are full-color, and four stills are black-and-white, with a studio stamp on the verso of one of the black-and-white stills. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, but denounced by President Eisenhower...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain, where much of the film was shot on location, with...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Original UK script for the 1965 film. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation, the bloodiest battle that the US fought in WWII and one of the key turning points in the war. Filmed almost entirely...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1977. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1977 film. Press photographs, with cropping notations on the versos (4 stills) and rectos (2 stills) in holograph ink and pencil (in millimeters, the British style). Based on Ryan's 1974 book, about Operation Market Garden, a failed attempt by the allies in the...
North Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1955. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1955 film. An American naval officer loses his foot in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and decides to continue serving, despite his injury. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Very Good plus, with creasing to the top...
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Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1954. Final shooting script for the 1954 film. Holograph notations on the front wrapper reading "Revisions / Blue 9-28-54" and "part of 'Admiral John Hoskins.'" One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, "The Eternal Sea" is the biography of American admiral John M. Hoskins. Sterling Hayden delivers a superbly understated performance as Hoskins, who continued...
N.p. N.p., circa 1947-1963. Album containing 95 vintage black and white photographs and one color promotional print of open-wheel automobiles, focusing on well-known drivers, and with an emphasis on Indianapolis Motor Speedway winners. An uncommonly large, collection of promotional photographs of various well-known race car drivers from the late 1940s through the 1960s, collected by enthusiast John E. Cory, with.....
los Altos, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Starring actress Baxter is featured in two stills. Two stills with "Silver Screen Archives" (New York) rubber-stamps on the verso. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Based on a story by Cheavens, source author of "Penny Serenade" (1941). Tessa (Baxter) leads...
London: London Management, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old sentry at an abandoned fort in South Africa finds a man dying of thirst in the desert and brings him back to the fort to nurse him back to health. From there, he learns the man is a crook and Herbie reveals his plan to rob a gold...
Los Angeles: California Pictures, 1979. Collection of 51 vintage borderless, color photographs from the 1979 film. Also included are eight large format negatives for photographs in the collection. Two US Navy divers, taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines, are forced to search for millions of dollars worth of silver that the retreating American forces dumped into Manila Bay...
N.p. Jaffe-Lansing, 1984. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1984 US film. In one of his earliest rolls, actor Sean Penn costars with Nicolas Cage in this World War II era drama. Two teenage boys are shipping out to train as Marines in six weeks, and the film follows their last days of civilian life. The boys weather romantic...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe to the verso. Featuring Robert Taylor and Audrey Totter canoodling somewhat begrudgingly. Robert Taylor shines in this challenging role an ex-pilot accused of murdering his wife after discovering she is having an affair with her boss (Herbert Marshall). Unfortunately he suffers from...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Revised Final script for the 1973 film. Laid in are two full-color studio stills from the film. Director Paul Bogart's sequel to Robert Mulligan's 1971 film, "Summer of '42." Hermie (Grimes), Oscy (Houser), and Benjie (Conant) graduate from high school in the waning months of World War II, and go separate ways. Benjie joins the...
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2017. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes items relating broadly to the 20th Century, including literature by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand, and James Joyce, as well as letters, illustrations, and World War II memorabilia.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1939 film. A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid. Tall white side stitched titled wrappers, dated August 31, 1939, noting 10 reels and footage of 8170. Mimeograph. Fine.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / National Screen Service Corp. 1957. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1957 UK film. Based on Boulle's 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai," about Allied POWs forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Collection of three vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1953 film. The film follows a Canadian sailor captive on a damaged German raider ship. He attempts to sabotage the repair process until a British naval task-force can destroy it. Shot on location in Malta and England. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Draft British script for the 1954 UK film, released in the US as "Crest of the Wave." Copy belonging to sound recordist Peter Handford, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. At a top secret naval base is located on an island near the coast of Scotland, a small group of...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1965 UK release of the 1965 US film. On the versos are studio rubber stamps (UK), and one still has a mimeo tag affixed to the verso, with the reissue title "Sabateur: Code Name Morituri." Based on the 1963 novel by Werner Joerg Luedecke, and one of the most...
![A Man Escaped [Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/143336.jpg?v=1522340718)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1956. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film, showing director Robert Bresson demonstrating a small action to the film's lead actor Francois Leterrier. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1956 memoir "A Man Condemned to Death has Escaped" by Andre Devigny, about a French Resistance member's escape from the Nazi controlled...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Two vintage still photographs from the 1943 US film. One still is a black-and-white reference still, and the other is a full-color studio still. Based on a story by W.R. Burnett. Lieutenant Ward Stewart (Power) is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. Before sailing, he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and seduces her...
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Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, "Suicide Batallion," here under its working title, "Hell Raiders." The screenwriter-director team of Rusoff and Kahn worked together on several AIP films, including "Girls in Prison" (1956), "The She-Creature" (1956), "Shake, Rattle & Rock" (1956), "Runaway Daughters" (1956), "Dragstrip Girl" (1957), and "Motorcycle Gang" (1957). Rusoff...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Text in French. A French-Italian collaboration film dealing with World War II in a humorous light. The last film made by French actor Bourvil. A British airman falls into the bedroom of a young woman and is coerced into joining the French resistance. Set in...
![Candide [Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siecle] (Original French poster for the 1960 film)....](/pictures/thumb/139082.jpg?v=1492980185)
Paris: Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema, 1960. Original French petite (small) poster for the 1960 film. Set during WWII, Candide (Cassell) is an orphaned Westphalian who falls in love with the baron's daughter, Cunegonde (Lavi), and is thrown out of the house when the baron discovers them kissing. Candide is drafted and captured by the Nazis, but escapes and joins the...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Collection of 5 vintage single weight studio still photographs from the 1957 UK film, released in the US in 1958. "Leo Genn" in holograph pencil on the verso of one still. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Troops of Company C occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse until they are discovered...
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Collection of three vintage black and white still photographs featuring members of The Coquettes, a swing-era band that had the distinction of being entirely female. Musicians shown include band leader Frances Carroll, the four-part saxophone section, and Coquettes "featured artist" Rosalie Martin (billed as America's No. 1 Tenor Saxophonist, Doubling Clarinet and Guitar). Carroll was considered.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Collection of five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Director Liliana Cavani's controversial film, starring Charlotte Rampling as a Holocaust survivor who resumes a sadomasochistic relationship with the Nazi officer who tortured her, became a signature work for Rampling, including the striking scene in which she dances in a Nazi uniform for...
London: British Lion Films, 1959. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1959 UK film. Based on the novel by Michael Gilbert, about a group of British soldiers whose attempt to escape from an Italian prison camp during WWII is foiled by a mysterious traitor. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with ink notations on...
New York: BasicBooks [Basic Books], 1995. First Edition. Chang's account of Tsien Hseu-shen, the Chinese-born scientist who helped pioneer the American space age, and father of the Chinese missile program. Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
N.p. N.p., 1943. Typescript treatment script for an unproduced film called "The Sailor and the Girl," written by Martha Chapin, whose notable film credits include "Gambling with Souls" (1936), "Slaves in Bondage" (1937), and "Lightning Strikes West" (1940). Typeovers on a few pages. Set in New York during World War II, with a touch of hard-boiled attitude, the story follows...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. With a single notation to the title page in holograph ink, indicating this copy is from Barry Levinson. Based on the 1955 novel "Le Blockhaus" by Jean-Paul Clebert, the story follows a mixed-group of forced laborers held by German forces taking shelter in a German bunker on...
New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock, with about half...
New York: LIFE Magazine, 1958. Two vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photographs featuring actor Ed Wynn and other actors and working crew members on the set of the 1959 film, both shot by photographer Ralph Crane on assignment for LIFE Magazine. Both photos with stamps on the verso crediting both Crane and LIFE Magazine, and date stamped May 14, 1958...
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1949. Dialogue & Cutting Continuity Draft script for the 1944 film. Based on the 1943 novel "Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife" by Margaret Buell Wilder. A unique and important screenplay for a classic American war film, one that addressed the plight of the families left behind in the United States...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1980. Draft script for the season one, episode four of the 1983 television mini-series, originally broadcast February 9, 1983 on ABC. As per request of the President, Pug Henry visits London to see the efficiency of the RAF and he is very impressed. He meets Pamela Tudsbury and her fiance, who is later shot...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1980. Draft script for the season one, episode six of the 1983 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 11, 1983 on ABC. The President of the United States asks Pug Henry to lead 70 merchant ships to England in order to deliver much needed supplies, at the promise by the president of command of...
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Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited...
Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick Studios / United Artists, 1961. Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the well-loved 1944 film, mimeograph for the Selznick Studio files in 1949. A woman in prison convicted of accidental manslaughter and a man in a VA hospital with PTSD are both given brief leave for the holidays, and meet each other while on a train. In...
Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick Studios / United Artists, 1961. Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the well-loved 1944 film, mimeograph for the Selznick Studio files in 1949. A woman in prison convicted of accidental manslaughter and a man in a VA hospital with PTSD are both given brief leave for the holidays, and meet each other while on a train. In...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1954 film. Mimeograph snipes unattached (but present) from the versos of two of the stills. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, about a WWII ship captain who is removed from his command, something the US Navy has never experienced, and the consequences...
Los Angeles and London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Collection of four and two double weight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 US film. Two stills are from the UK release, with seller stamps on the versos. Based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, set during World War II, this largely antiwar film follows two American soldiers...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Adapted from the 1945 Broadway play, and the first major film role for model-turned-actress Suzy Parker. Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four-day leave in San Francisco. They land a posh suite at The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel where Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant), a master of procurement...
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Charity Blackstock, a pseudonym of Ursula Torday, who is here mis-attributed as "Charity Blackstone." In a post-World War II French village a young Jewish survivor of a concentration camp and a girl away at finishing school experience a budding romance, only to be stymied by a......
N.p. N.p., circa 1940. Vintage sepia tone photograph of clarinet player and swing band leader Ann Dupont. United States involvement in World War II created the perfect storm for a staggering increase in the number of "all-girl" big bands in the early 1940s. As male musicians were frequently getting drafted, and those left behind on the home front sought musical.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actor Aldo Ray, bound into a brown leather binding with raised bands and gilt decoration, the name "ALDO RAY" in gilt on the front board, and film title in gilt on the spine. With an additional gilt stamp on the lower front pastedown...
London: Alpha / Roxy / CIP, 1980. Original British quad poster for the 1981 film. Brightly colored Third Reich artwork by Chantrell. A less-known installment in the New German Cinema director's oeuvre. Based on Lale Andersen's 1972 autobiographical novel, "Der Himmel Hat Viele Farben." German singer Willie (Schygulla) falls in love with Jewish composer Robert (Giannini), who actively resists the...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Final Script for the 1956 film. Actor Robert Wagner's working copy, with his name in black holograph ink at the top of the distribution page. Nominated for an Academy Award. Wagner stars in this Richard Fleischer-directed film, a typically efficient and entertaining entry, a World War II film about the son of a wealthy Southerner...
N.p. N.p., circa 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from literary agent Bertha Case to producer Lester Cowan. A wounded Polish soldier is treated by a Jewish doctor in World War I, and impregnates the doctor's daughter before he is sent back home. The same Jewish doctor treats him again years later when.....
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France: Forrester-Parant, Circa 1937. Vintage double weight press photograph from the 1938 film, showing director Gance on location in Verdun with French politician and veteran Emile Yves Picot, both surrounded by former WWI soldiers - members of the Gueules Cassees (broken faces) organization of facially disfigured veterans - who would appear as ghosts of dead soldiers in the film's climatic...
London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and notations 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...
Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions, 1987. Final Draft script for the 1988 film, "Hanna's War," here seen on the title page under its original title "A Great Wind Cometh," which is crossed through and replaced with "Hanna's War" written above in black holograph ink. Includes a vintage still photograph from the film. Based on two books: "Hanna Senesh, Her Life and...
Culver City, CA: Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit, Circa 1944. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 military training film. Although not indicated on the script, copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who appears in an uncredited role in the film. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper, and production No. 88, with credit...
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...
Calabasas Park, CA: Self published, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced stage play called, "The Call," written by Bill Hare, about a German general plotting against Adolf Hitler at the Battle of Stalingrad. Printed blue titled wrappers, with swastika symbol and title on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 11/30/82, with a credit for playwright Hare. 102 leaves, with...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1971. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film. An American B-movie set during WWII and originally intended for television. Starring the acclaimed Welsh actor Richard Burton. Shot on location in Arizona and California. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Very Good plus, with light creasing to the corners and holograph notations...
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...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1965. First Draft script for the 1967 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major Nazi fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya. Lime green titled wrappers, noted as First Draft Screenplay and production No...
Los Angeles: Cinevision Ltee, 1974. Final script for the 1975 film, "The Man in the Glass Booth," directed by Arthur Hiller, based on the play by Robert Shaw, written for the screen by Edward Anhalt, and starring Maximilian Schell. A complex thriller built around a Jewish businessman who survived the concentration camps in World War II. Well-known for being bizarrely...
London: London Weekend Television, 1981. Draft camera script for the 1982 episode "Hands Across the Sea," from the British miniseries "We'll Meet Again." Copy belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with a sheet of her notes about each character's makeup laid in. The series follows the goings-on of a British air base when a group of American airmen take over...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Draft script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. A man who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler plans to murder him and take over his identity. Gray-brown titled wrappers, noted as copy No...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1943 film. A man who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler plans to murder him and take over his identity. White brad-bound titled wrappers, dated August 16, 1943. Mimeograph. Near Fine.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Final script for the 1978 film. A production manager's copy, with brief notations in red holograph ink regarding the initial entrance of the principal characters. The typed name of an uncredited crew member, Gerald R. Fischer, is affixed to the front wrapper with Scotch tape, and the name "Jerry Fis(c)her" is written at the...
N.p. Mafilm, 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers, dated 1977. Title page not present, presumably as issued. 122 leaves...
N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1984. Original US one sheet poster for the 1984 film, "A Soldier's Story." Based on the 1981 play "A Soldier's Play" by Charles Fuller, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. An unpopular black sergeant is killed and a captain is sent in to investigate before the soldiers are sent to the European theater...
N.p. N.p., N.d. Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson. Johnson was a screenwriter, director, and producer, and highlights of his 40 year career include "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957), and "The Dirty Dozen" (1967). From the estate of Nunnally Johnson. A small group of Army rangers are facing court martial...
Culver City, CA: Brooksfilms, 1987. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1987 film. Two antiquarian booksellers strike up a long distance friendship during the late years of WWII. Starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, and Judi Dench. Shot on location in England and New York City. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
![Long Live the Republic [At ije republika] (Original program for the 1965 film). Karel Kachnya,...](/pictures/thumb/138324.jpg?v=1492979932)
Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 Czechoslovak new wave film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with both still images from the film and impressionistic illustrations. The end of WWII from the perspective on a boy in a rural farming village, equally worried about retreating German soldiers...
![The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (Original herald for the 1965 film). Jan Kadar, Elmar...](/pictures/thumb/138323.jpg?v=1492979932)
Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street," with four image from the film, and text in both Czech and English. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman, and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the...
![The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)....](/pictures/thumb/142595.jpg?v=1560892554)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1957. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph from the 1957 film. From the archives of French weekly "Tele Magazine," with two stamps on the verso, one referencing its inclusion in issue 52, page 5, along with holograph notations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay...
New York: George/Granat, 1965. Draft script for the 1965 play. Laid in is a note about props and time, written in holograph ink and pencil. With holograph pencil notations, additions and changes throughout concerning a character's actions. A Jewish man who made munitions in World War II in Germany finally meets his two children, one who was brought up by...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. First Draft script for the 1968 film. Wartime secret agents Col. Charles Waslow-Carton (Tony Franciosa) and Lt. Col. Philip Braden (Guy Stockwell) infiltrate enemy lines, posing as POWs. Their mission is to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France. Their contact is Denise Marchois (Anjanette Comer), whom...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. First Draft Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1945 film. Adapted from the 1944 novel by John Hersey, based on the experiences of military governor Frank Toscani following the Allied invasion of Sicily. Copy belonging to producer Louis D. Lighton, with his holograph name to the front wrapper and his notations to the script. The story...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1944. Eleventh Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to assistant director Early Bellamy, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and some notations in holograph pencil throughout. Laid in are four revised pages. Many pages with a vertical center fold, made by the actress as scenes were completed. Set on the...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Based on the actual events and judgments in Nuremburg, Germany following World War II, an American tribunal tries and convicts four judges who acted by means of the law to promote the legal status of eugenics, violence and war crimes against civilians, and ethnic cleansing in the...
![Vor Liebe wird gewarnt [Onny a le Beguin] (Original French pressbook for the 1937 film). Karl...](/pictures/thumb/142466.jpg?v=1508794890)
Berlin: Universum Film [UFA], 1937. Vintage French pressbook for the 1937 German film "Vor Liebe wird gewarnt," seen here as "Onny a le Beguin." Anny Ondra plays a woman, the youngest in a family of three sisters, who can't seem to find romance, and whose boss attempts to set her up. An unusual look at women's roles under the Nazi...
![Submarine Raider [Missing Submarine] (Original screenplay for the 1942 film). Lew Landers, Aubrey...](/pictures/thumb/140246.jpg?v=1544116741)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Final Draft script for the 1942 film, here under the working title "Missing Submarine." Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman, who played Sue Curry in the film, with a few annotations in holograph pencil at the inclusion of her character's lines. Laid in is a singing telegram birthday greeting for Chapman, from Evelyn Keys, in...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1940. Draft script for the 1940 film. In 1939, a Finnish reserve unit defends a town on the border, located in a valley, from Russian invaders who are excavating an explosives-laden tunnel under their mountaintop encampment. Brown titled wrappers, rubber-stamped as File Copy on the front wrapper, production No. 6819, dated Feburary 29, 1940, with...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1940. Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1941 film. A pair of lucky newsreel reporters are told that footage they've made of a new dam is going to be used by two foreign saboteurs in order to destroy the dam, at which point the reporters would be held responsible. The duo must then outsmart the...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film musical. Based on the 1940 French comedy "L'homme qui cherche la verite," written by Poerre Wolff. With three pages of shooting schedule laid in and holograph pencil notations to the verso of the rear wrapper. America's wealthiest bachelor (Eddie Bracken) joins the Navy to escape his gold-digging suitors, only to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Vintage photograph of director Fritz Lang and stars Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon on the set of the 1941 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and two punch holes in the left margin. Based on the 1939 novel "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household. The first of Fritz Lang's ant-Nazi films after he fled...
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1945. Incomplete First Draft Shooting script for an unproduced film called "Daybreak," written for screen by Jay Dratler, whose film credits include "Laura" (1944), "The Dark Corner" (1946), "Call Northside 777" (1948), "Pitfall" (1948), and "Impact" (1949). Fritz Lang's only effort with Selznick, also known as "Dawning." Intended for Ingrid Bergman, the project was called off...
![Without Pity [Senza pieta] (Two original photographs from the 1948 film). Alberto Lattuada,...](/pictures/thumb/139884.jpg?v=1504626680)
Rome [Roma]: Lux Film, 1948. Two vintage French borderless still photographs from the 1948 Italian film. Both images depict African American actor John Kitzmiller. Foto Franci rubber stamp to the verso, alongside various holograph notations in pencil and red felt ink. At the close of World War II an African American sergeant struggles with the temptation to sell ex-military supplies...
London: Rank Film Distributors / Hammer Film Productions, 1964. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1964 English-American film. Set during WWII in Malaya, where US soldiers have been captured by the Japanese, and a woman secret agent gets shot down near the prison camp. The prisoners try to keep the woman from the Japanese, but they are...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1957 film. A fascinating collection of candid shots from various scenes in the film, including several perspectives on the construction of the bridge at the story's center. Set in Burma, shot on location in Sri Lanka. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the 1957 film. Set in Japan, shot on location in Sri Lanka. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
N.p. The Rank Organization, 1956. Vintage UK one sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune, a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya, where she was previously a POW, with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during the war. Set in Malaya, shot on location in Malaya and England. 27 x....
N.p. The Rank Organization, 1956. Vintage UK three sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune, a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya, where she was previously a POW, with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during World War II. Set in Malaysia, shot on location in Malaysia, Australia, and England...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Archive of 70 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. With original manila fronting card, with the following in manual type on the recto: "SET STILLS / BLUE, WHITE AND PERFECT / (KEY SET)." The fourth Michael Shayne film in Twentieth Century-Fox's long running series, this one starring Lloyd Nolan as detective Shayne, and...
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Madrid: Jose Frade Producciones Cinematograficas S.A., 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Here under the temporary title, "Neither Losers Nor Winners." With notations throughout in holograph ink. The film was released in Italian, though with American actors Peppard and Hamilton dubbed in Italian. The text of this draft is in English, created for consideration by the US cast and...
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Hollywood: Petramonte Productions, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph notations throughout. Based on the 1951 novel "Fortress in the Rice" by Benjamin Appel. The only film ever released by Petramonte Productions (and eventually distributed by Allied Artists). During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Petersham Pictures / United Artists, 1966. Draft British script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1963 novel by Patrick Ryan. Copy likely belonging to John Lennon, with lines for his character Gripweed circled or stricken exclusively in holograph ink throughout. Also included is a separate call sheet for Monday, October 24, 1966, mentioning Lennon and his...
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Draft script for an unproduced film, a military drama set among the Germans in World War II. Cream titled wrappers, dated January 24, 1944. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Harmon and Melvin. 42 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two silver brads.
Camino Capistrano, CA: Charger Books / Gallant / Charger Publications, 1987. First Hardcover Edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Paperback Library in 1970. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "7-5-89 / To Llewellyn W. Lord / Some cast of characters, different story--if this gives you a few chuckles, I'll know I've done some things right. /...
N.p. Benagoss Productions, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on Alfred Hayes' novel, "The Girl on the Via Flaminia." A romantic drama set in south France during WWII. An American soldier begins a doomed romance with a French peasant woman. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine with light...
Rome: Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, 1968. Draft script for the 1970 Italian-Yugoslavian film, "Rosolino Paterno, soldato...," here under the working title, "5 S.O.B.'s." Agency photocopy, not vintage, for research purposes only. A pair of American commandos parachute inside Sicily for a secret mission. They are asked to check on Germany's status before the attack. Along the way, they meet a....
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also based on a MacLean novel. Set during WWII, US Colonel...