London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed.....

Los Angeles: Blake Edwards Entertainment, Circa 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film, here under the working title "The Music Box." The second page of the script is a statement from Blake Edwards expressing his intent of utilizing "broad improvisation," and leaving the concise script with relatively minimal dialogue. Noted in the AFI Catalog.Inspired by the classic, and Academy Award.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "Corncob Kelly's Benefit." Production No. 301 and copy No. 105 rubber stamped on front wrapper, with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation, in holograph pencil, of two names on verso of page 119. Eight blue revision pages follow.....

Los Angeles: Underworld Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on John Gay's 1728 play, "The Beggar's Opera," source for many similar adaptations, including "The Threepenny Opera."The odds are constantly stacked against Mickey Moore, an honest gambler who is about to be killed for owing a powerful man too much money. He falls for a female acrobat and.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Final Draft script archive for the 1940 film, here under the working title "Touchdown." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the title page. Accompanying the script are a promotional book and several production documents, including a legal contract for the film, signed by Humberstone and a......

New York: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a tiny nick at.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1955. Collection of six vintage photographs, including 5 studio still photographs and 1 reference photograph, for the 1955 film noir.A docudrama based on the real Alabama town of Phenix City, which gained notoriety for its prostitution and gambling rackets, and the 1954 murder of crime-busting attorney general candidate Albert Patterson. Patterson's murder led Alabama state government.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1962. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe once affixed to the verso (detached but present). Featured is Nita Talbot, who played "Saturday Knight" in the film. Based on Alexander Rose's 1960 novel, "Four Horse Players Are Missing." Steve (Martin) is a horse-race better whose habits get the better of him, so his.....

Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures, Circa 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with brief annotations in holograph pencil on the verso of the last page of text, and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod (Windsor) runs a town where law.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1968 play also by screenwriter Frank D. Gilroy. An aging, lovelorn Las Vegas chorus girl begins an affair with a musician with a compulsive gambling habit.Set in Las Vegas, and shot on location in Paris and Las.....

Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film, with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes, dated February 28, 1936, also with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper.A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent.....