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.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original lobby card for the 1933 pre-Code film, based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel, "Sanctuary." An interesting image from the film’s final dramatic courtroom scene. The film has a relatively upbeat ending, in which Temple tells the truth and is disgraced. This in marked contrast to the ending of Faulkner’s novel, in which Temple perjures herself.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1934 film. The second Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller, with Jane famously portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. One of the best Tarzan films, and a landmark film in the history of film censorship. A big budget followup to MGM's first Tarzan film, "Tarzan and His Mate" featured a lengthy balletic...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1944. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1983 US re-release of the 1958 film. Features a sultry Kim Novak close-up. Hitchcock's masterpiece, which recently ended "Citizen Kane's" 50 year run at top of "Sight and Sounds'" decennial critics' poll as the best film of all time. Nominated for two Academy Awards. 8 x 10 inches...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Vintage audio recording on three quarter inch tape, three minutes and 30 seconds long, of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Radio Free London circa 1971. The couple spend the time advocating for free speech and on behalf of the founders of "Oz" magazine, then on trial for obscenity and "conspiracy to corrupt public morals." "Oz" was...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Presentation copy belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles to the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop man William Carr, as the script itself has Carr's ownership...
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N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1966 film. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. A flurry of controversy surrounded the production and release of Rivette's film. Upon facing pressure from the French Catholic Church regarding its critical religious and sexual content, the new Minister of Information, Yvon Bourges, banned its...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film, including three double weight and two single weight photographs. With stamps or holograph notations to most of the photographs. Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler, "Sanctuary." The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her...
New York: Laurel Entertainment, 1978. Two vintage photographs from the 1978 film. With stamps of production company Laurel Entertainment on the verso of each. A young man believes himself to be a vampire and struggles to control his bloodlust after moving in with his uncle and cousin in a small town. The first collaboration between Romero and legendary special effects...
New York: Library Publishers, 1955. First American Edition, originally published in the UK by Derek Verschoyle the previous year. Photo illustrated throughout, with different images than the UK edition. An early examination of the negative influence of pop culture on the American public, with sections on film, pin ups, pulp novels, television, and, most importantly, comic books, which Wagner referred...