Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1958 film. The lost missile circles Earth and destroys everything in its path, using a mysterious technology gained from outer space. Incorporates Cold War propaganda, stock footage, and the mid-century focus on the importance of science relating to aviation and military weaponry. Shot on location in New...
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.
N.p. N.p., circa 1982. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. With 17 pages of information about Polish screenwriter Witold Orzechowski laid in, including a background on his film career on the other side of the Iron Curtain and about his affiliation with the Solidarity political party. Orzechowski directed the first Eastern European cinematic adaptation of Joseph Conrad with the...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Estimating script for an unproduced film. The story of a small contingent of militant mercenaries who attempt to stir up a conflict between Cuba and the United States by piloting a hostile decoy Navy ship into enemy waters off Key West, only to be thwarted by the actual Navy and a few well-meaning American citizens...
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines...
US: Gulfmine Ltd, 1986. Sixth Draft script for the 1987 film. SIGNED by screenwriter and source novel author Frederick Forsyth on the title page, with an additional typed note signed referencing the script from Forsyth on his letterhead included. With both holograph and copied annotations by him on every page, with most of the holograph annotations being changes to dialogue. Adapted...
Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1982. Shooting script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph annotations highlighting camera shots throughout. Rogue KGB agents, posing as Islamic terrorists, steal a nuclear weapon and threaten to blow up Saudi oil fields unless their demands are met. Enter The Soldier, a CIA operative whose actions have been disavowed by...
Santa Monica: Home Box Office (HBO), 1986. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1986 television movie. This television movie follows the infamous newsman Edward R. Murrow, whose frank condemnation of McCarthy helped put an end to the senator's "witch-hunts." Shot on location in New York and London. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Very...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1981 film. Using the famed "Black Dahlia" murder as a platform, this film weaves an intricate plot of corruption and deception across Los Angeles. The script was cowritten by novelist Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne. Shot on location in California. 8...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1989. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. A Russian assassin captured by the Americans escapes prison on the eve of a Russian Premier's visit to Washington DC. For help, the officer responsible for letting the assassin escape turns to the (nearly-crazy) agent who first caught him. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September...
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two pages, one a letter dated November 4, 1982 and the other a synopsis of the film. Two men survive a nuclear blast in their city, only to be pursued relentlessly by roving bands of Nazi marauders. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1955. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1955 UK release of the 1954 US film. A star-studded Cold War drama, about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin. Nunnally Johnson's directorial debut. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with moderate rubbing and light creasing overall.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin / Richard Todd, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Light foxing to the top page edges and jacket verso, and slight fading to the jacket spine, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1966. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 film. All photos rubber stamped 67/ 17 on the verso. Based on the 1961 novel "Call for the Dead" by John Le Carre. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
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Beverly Hills, CA: VEB DEFA-Studio fur Spielfilme [DDDE] / Crown International Pictures, 1960. Vintage borderless still photograph from the 1960 East German film "First Spaceship on Venus." Based on the 1951 Stanislaw Lem novel "The Astronauts." DEFA production company rubber stamp to the verso. Featuring an image of Yoko Tani patching up an injury on her shipmate Julius Ongewe. An...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Revised Final Draft script for the 1955 film. The 8th and final collaboration of James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and the second film to be released in VistaVision. "Dutch" (Stewart) is a professional baseball player and an ex-pilot who fought during WWII who is recalled to service with the US Air Force. Many speculate that the...
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the A. Denisov on the front endpaper verso to noted bibliophile and scholar, Toby Holtzman: "Tobi / The best friend / [illegible] / Andrey / 4-9-58." Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Extremities slightly toned, and a short split to the hinge at the title page...
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Atlanta: Turner Home Video, 1990. Final Draft script for the 1991 television film. Here under the working title, "The Final Warning." Copy belonging to crew member Robert Easton, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Based on the 1988 book, "Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl" by Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. Even Jon Voight and...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Illustrated front wrapper based on Saul Bass' poster design for the film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member David Hitchcock, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Holographic annotations throughout primarily indicating deleted scenes. Also included is a carbon typed letter signed by Otto Preminger...
Los Angeles: Eagle Associates / Orion Pictures, 1983. Third Draft script (and Final Shooting script) for the 1983 film, "Gorky Park," based on the 1981 novel by Martin Cruz Smith. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy from director Michael Apted and producer Howard W. Koch, Jr., bound in maroon leather, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner...
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London: Rank Organisation, 1964. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1964 UK film. Base on the Lionel Davidson novel, "Night of Wenceslas" (1960), about a man who gets caught up in Cold War espionage, in a romantic spy-spoof. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with pinholes at the corners, and a few moderate creases.
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1991. Collection of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1991 film. Robert De Niro stars as David Merrill, a left leaning director who returns from a vacation to find Hollywood in the full swing of McCarthyism. He is asked to either implicate colleagues with supposed Communist sympathies or sacrifice his own career. The film...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Fourth Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to still photographer Ron Munkasci. Burt Lancaster is a retiring CIA agent whose trainee (Alain Delon) is ordered to kill him, due to suspected treason with the Russians. The screenwriting debut of David W. Rintels. Set in Europe and the United States, shot on location...
London: Scimitar Films, 1973. Archive of three Draft scripts for an unproduced film. Laid-in are four pages stapled together, one a letter urging Charles Bronson not to make this movie, another is a letter from the screenwriter to Paul Kohner, and two pages of synopsis. With several annotations in holograph ink. Following the success of the "Death Wish" series, Bronson...
London: Mario Zampi Productions / Stratford Pictures, 1952. Shooting script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John O'Gorman, with his signature on the front wrapper and annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Known in England as "Top Secret", a British plumber travels abroad for vacation with plans he believes to be for his new sanitation invention...