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.....
Culver City, CA: 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.....
London: Contemporary Films, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the UK release of the 1955 Polish film, showing actors Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Ryszard Kotys, and Roman Polanski. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on screenwriter Bohdan Czeszko's 1951 novel "Pokolenie." Andrzej Wajda's first film as director, and the first entry in what would.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1962 film, showing a group of Allied troops storming Pegasus Bridge, with a camera crew in the foreground. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout, along with the stamp of Marine films. Based on screenwriter Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book. A star-studded dramatization of the events of.....
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. 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1965 Yugoslavian made-for-television film, first aired on November 15, 1965. With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting deletions and grammatical revisions. Text in English. An aging actor recalls his experiences twenty years earlier during World War II, in particular remembering an older artist nicknamed "Maestro" who encouraged him to pursue.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph of Glenda Jackson from the 1972 film. Based on the 1970 H.E. Bates novella. Set during WWII, Alice (Jackson) runs a farm in the English countryside and helps a young deserter, Barton (Oliver Reed), hide from the army. A remarkable performance from Reed. Set in and shot on location in Wiltshire.....
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. Very Good plus, with creasing to the top right corner...
![The Eternal Sea [The Admiral Hoskins Story] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). John H....](/pictures/thumb/128682.jpg?v=1418080414)
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1954. Final shooting script for the 1954 film. Holograph annotations 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.....
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.....
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.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / National Screen Service, 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 as.....
![Seagulls over Sorrento [Crest of the Wave] (Original screenplay for the 1954 film). John Bouting,...](/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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Collection of seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 Italian film. Based on the real Salon Kitty, a cabaret and brothel used by Nazi secret intelligence to collect information on high-ranking SS commandants and foreign dignitaries during World War II. Heavily edited for its US release, with many political elements purged in order to market the.....
![A Man Escaped [Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/143336.jpg?v=1566596454)
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 annotations 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.....
N.p. Lopert Pictures, 1966. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 US release of the 1965 British film. Housed in the original brown paper envelope stamped "It Happened Here 8 Stills Set A." Rare. The first feature film to be directed by documentarian and film scholar Kevin Brownlow. Shot in the style of a docudrama, an alternative history.....
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.....
![Atlantic Wall [Le Mur de l'Atlantique] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Marcel Camus,...](/pictures/thumb/141504.jpg?v=1575694825)
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.....
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.....
New York: 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.....
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.....
N.p. Vanguard Films, 1946. Dialogue Continuity Draft script for the 1946 European release of the 1944 film, dated September 20, 1946, noted as "FOREIGN VERSION." 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.....
N.p. Vanguard Films, 1949. Original Spotting List script for the 1949 re-release of the 1944 film, noted as "For Recut Version," and dated August 22, 1949. 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1944. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1944 film. Two soldiers celebrate at the Hollywood Canteen before departing for active duty in the South Pacific. Featuring brief cameos from several top-name Hollywood stars, including Joan Leslie, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, Peter Lorre, and Roy Rogers. Set and shot on location at the Hollywood Canteen, a......
![Rue de Paris [Rue des Prairies] (Collection of 322 original photographs for the 1959 film). Denys...](/pictures/thumb/144663.jpg?v=1560892603)
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.....
N.p. AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1970 film. One photo shown. Please inquire to see the other. Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) are newly weds torn from each other as Antonio is sent to the Russian front during World War II despite their efforts to avoid the war. When the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick International, 1949. 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 spite of each.....
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.....
![Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror [Sherlock Holmes vs. Lord Haw-Haw] [Sherlock Holmes #1]...](/pictures/thumb/149229.jpg?v=1596682129)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film. First, an early Draft script, under the working title "Sherlock Holmes vs. Lord Haw-Haw," by screenwriter John Bright, noted as "Contract File Copy" on front wrapper. Carbon typescript, preceded by a four page ribbon copy typescript outline, dated 3/10/42. Annotation of inquiry into necessary.....
![Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon [Sherlock Holmes Fights Back] [Sherlock Holmes #2] (Archive...](/pictures/thumb/149240.jpg?v=1596504257)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film. First is a First Draft script, under the working title "'Sherlock Holmes' (#2)," by screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling, dated March 24, 1942. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, with annotations in holograph pencil on several pages, inquiries about plotline, question marks, as.....
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.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1944 film. With a few small holograph pencil annotations throughout noting the name of an unknown crew member. A condemned murderer escapes from jail when Nazis bomb the French prison where he is being held. Encountering the body of a dead French soldier, he steals the man's identification papers and uniform.....
![Istanbul [Singapore] (Original screenplay for the 1957 film). Errol Flynn, Joseph Pevney, Seton...](/pictures/thumb/128858.jpg?v=1575694819)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Early Draft script for the 1957 film, a remake of an earlier Universal Pictures release, "Singapore" (1947). This draft dated September 1955. Light blue titled wrappers, dated September 21, 1955. Title page present, with credits for story writer Miller. 121 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Two vintage photographs from the 1955 US-UK co-production. With mimeo snipes on the verso, one crediting photographer Bert Cann. A fictionalized account of Operation Franklin, a raid by British marines on a German cargo ship during WWII. Set in German-occupied France, shot on location in England and Portugal. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.....
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. 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 he is found disfigured in the wreckage of an attack on Jews by Polish forces.....
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actress Marisa Berenson. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Joe Masteroff's 1966 musical, which was based on John Van Druten's 1951 Broadway play "I Am a Camera," which was in turn based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood from his collection "Goodbye.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1947 film, showing actors Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Gloria Holden, and Adolphe Menjou sitting around a nightclub table, with director Jack Conway and two crew members in the foreground. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on the 1946.....
![Operation: Daybreak [Seven Men at Daybreak] (Original screenplay for the 1975 film). Lewis...](/pictures/thumb/147345.jpg?v=1585124289)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on Alan Burgess' 1960 novel "Seven Men at Daybreak," which was in turn loosely based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid," the assassination of a top general in the Nazi RSHA by two Czech spies. Set in Germany and shot on location in Prague. Green titled wrappers.....
London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and.....
![Hanna's War [Hannah Senesh] (Original screenplay for the 1988 film). Menahem Golan, Stanley Mann,...](/pictures/thumb/141500.jpg?v=1613169905)
Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions, 1986. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Hannah Senesh." Based on two books: "Hanna Senesh, Her Life and Diaries" (Sphere Books, 1973) and "Un Vento Impetuoso Soffio," a memoir by Joel Palgi published only in Italian in 1950, then in English in 2003 under the title "Into the Inferno: The.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1965. First Draft script for the 14th (and final) episode of the first and only season of "Blue Light," originally aired on ABC on May 18, 1966. With holograph ink annotations to the cast list noting the names of prospective actors for each role. An American spy living in Germany during World War II receives orders.....
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.....
Hollywood: Firewater Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a number of small holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting grammatical revisions and diacritical marks. In the final days of World War II, Allied forces race to take down Hitler and the Nazi elite, while German and Italian prisoners of war plot to escape from an American camp in Texas. Set.....
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.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. Vintage blueprints for German Major Schroeder's (Michael Byrne) headquarter's for the 1978 British-American film, dated November 12 (1977). Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, 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 Barnsby (Harrison Ford) plots to strike a......
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. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the corners and holograph annotations to the verso. Complete.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Included with the script is a small note from producer Sidney Beckerman to casting agent Paul Kohner, introducing the script as one they had discussed previously. After the end of World War I, a young Prussian officer returns home to Berlin and begins working as a male prostitute in a brothel.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series, which originally aired on February 5, 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill, with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper, and his holograph ink annotations throughout, noting deletions and substantive changes. A kinescope of.....
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.....
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. Nazi-era satire about a man who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler, and plans to murder Hitler and take over his identity. Gray-brown titled wrappers.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Final script for the 1978 film. A production manager's copy, with brief annotations 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.....
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Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1950 film, here under the working title "Java." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and single annotation on page 41. Loosely based on Tay Garnett's 1940 film "Seven Sinners." A sick steam ship crewman attempts to clear his.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego, California. Red titled wrappers.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, "The Earth in Flames." It is slated to open in Washington, DC and he has his press agents working overtime to produce an enormous hoopla of secrecy and publicity stunts. They come up with the plan of.....
![The $100,000,000 Snatch [The Fortunes of War] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/136404.jpg?v=1597723973)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, titled "The $100,000,000 Snatch," with the working title, "The Fortunes of War," on the front wrapper. Johnson was a screenwriter, director, and producer, and highlights of his forty-year career include "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957).....
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. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Dialogue Draft script for the 1929 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and throughout. Based on H.C. McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond." A former army captain bored with civilian life aids a young woman whose uncle has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric institution. The third Bulldog Drummond film to be released, following the.....
![Long Live the Republic [At ije republika] (Original program for the 1965 film). Karel Kachnya,...](/pictures/thumb/138324.jpg?v=1492979932)
Prague: Filmove studio 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.....
![The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (Original herald for the 1965 film). Jan Kadar, Elmar...](/pictures/thumb/138323.jpg?v=1492979932)
Prague: Filmove studio 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.....
![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 annotations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Three vintage studio still photographs, one color and two black and white, from the 1972 film. The two black and white photographs have the title incorrectly printed as "The Salzburgh Connection." Based on the 1972 novel by Helen MacInnes. American lawyer Bill Mathison (Barry Newman) is on vacation in Austria and is asked by a......
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.....
![Living in a Big Way [To Kiss and to Keep] (Original publicity photograph of Gene Kelly from the...](/pictures/thumb/151265.jpg?v=1618254486)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1947 film, showing actor Gene Kelly performing a dance step. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A World War II pilot returns home, only to discover his wife seeking a divorce on the recommendation of her overprotective father. 8 x......
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a resume laid in for actor Sharon Hawn, including holograph ink notation correcting her phone number, possibly due to her being considered for a role in this unproduced feature. Based on the autobiography "With Two Wheels and a Camera" by still photographer Bert Kopperl, who was a war correspondent and photographer.....
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 annotations 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Anthony Quinn and Stanley Kramer on the set of the 1969 film. Mimeo snipe and photographer "L. Trumpler" stamps on verso. Based on the 1966 novel by Robert Crichton. A group of poor Italian winemaking villagers attempts to hide their substantial stashes of wine from the newly arrived German.....
![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 annotations 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 annotations 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which opened Off-Broadway at the Alley Theatre in Houston. With a few small holograph ink and pencil annotations to the title page. A concentration camp survivor living in New York lures a man she suspects to be a former Nazi to her house, where she drugs him and attempts to exact.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1958. Vintage reference photograph of David Lean on the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe and "Columbia Pictures" stamp on verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai" by Pierre Boulle. Allied POWs of a Japanese prison camp are forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of five vintage studio still color photographs from the 1957 film. Based on Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai," about Allied POWs forced to build a railway over a bridge during World War II. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director for David Lean.....
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. Near Fine. National Film.....