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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the classic 1942 film noir. An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. Set in Turkey. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped and production No. 1223, dated July 30, 1941... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![The Eternal Sea [The Admiral Hoskins Story] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). John H. Auer, Allen Rivkin William Wister Haines, Alexis Smith Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/128682.jpg?v=1418080414)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1944. Shooting script for the 1944 film. At the end of World War I, Germans blame their defeat on Britain's decoding efforts and declare that the next time they get in a war with Britain, they will have someone on the inside of British intelligence to give them the edge. Someone does find their way into... (read more)
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... (read more)
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. (read more)
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. (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Seagulls over Sorrento [Crest of the Wave] (Original screenplay for the 1954 film). John Bouting, Roy Boulting, Hugh Hastings, Frank Harvey, Bernard Lee Gene Kelly, producer director, screenwriter director, producer, playwright, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/133024.jpg?v=1418081488)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![A Man Escaped [Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut] (Original photograph from the set of the 1957 film). Robert Bresson, Andre Devigny, Francois Leterrier, screenwriter director, memoir, starring.](/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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Suicide Battalion [Hell Raiders] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film). Edward L. Cahn, Lou Rusoff, John Ashley Mike Connors, Russ Bender, Jewell Lain, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/135931.jpg?v=1492979213)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1968. 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... (read more)
![Atlantic Wall [Le Mur de l'Atlantique] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Marcel Camus, Colonel Remy Marcel Julian, Peter McEnery Bourvil, Jean Poiret, Sophie Desmarets, screenwriter director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140697.jpg?v=1501083860)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Text in French. One of Marcel Camus' best loved films, a French-Italian collaboration 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... (read more)