N.p. N.p., Circa 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 film, showing actress Debbie Harry playfully "drumming" empty beer bottles, while Meat Loaf looks on to her left. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A rowdy beer distributor from Texas gets roped into becoming a roadie for a touring rock band. Featuring numerous cameos by real-life bands.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1966. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the US release of the 1966 film. An underrated, key film for director Penn, something of an intellectual thriller, made between two better known films, "Mickey One" (1965) and "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). Also, very much an acting tour de force, with early performances by Robert Duvall, Jane Fonda.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 film, showing actor Faye Dunaway brandishing a pistol while director Arthur Penn describes the scene and co-star Warren Beatty looks on. With the stamp of photographer Lee Johnson on the verso. The beginning of the New Hollywood Cinema. Screenwriters Robert Benton.....
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin) is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead (Fields) about investing in.....
Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. First Edition. Jacket is first issue with the two misspellings as called for on the front flap ("head about" and "garnished wtih"), book is second issue (the first issue being virtually unobtainable), with "skyscrapers" on page 105:12. INSCRIBED by the author in a neat, early hand on the front endpaper: "For Larry Wilkinson / with.....
Hollywood: BBS Productions / Saticoy Productions, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Based on Larry McMurtry's 1966 semi-autobiographical novel, following the everyday lives of three directionless teenagers in a small, lonely Texan town. Peter Bogdanovich's directorial breakthrough, one of the defining films about Texas and the American Southwest, shot in grainy black-and-white on location in Archer City, Texas. Winner.....
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Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1987. Final Revised Draft script for the 1987 television film. Here under the working title, "LBJ." The years 1934 through 1963 of future president Lyndon Baines Johnson's tumultuous career are chronicled, following his political beginnings, style, and progression to presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Set in Washington and Texas. Tan titled.....
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1945. First Draft script for the 1946 film, "Rainbow Over Texas." Roy Rogers agrees to be a part of a recreation of the Pony Express race, but they must thwart ne'er-do-well's who plot to keep Roy from winning. Released the same year as Rogers' wife Arlene's death during childbirth. Set in Roy Rogers' fictional home town.....
Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1987. First Edition. Laid in is a type letter signed by the quarterly's senior editor, Dave Oliphant, on stationery from the university, addressed to Ruth Ford. Oliphant responds to Ford's approval of a recent article he wrote on the archive of actor Zachary Scott, Ford's first husband. Oliphant has also included a Xerox copy of.....
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N.p. Cannon Films, 1986. Vintage studio still photograph of director Tobe Hooper with Dennis Hopper and Caroline Williams on the set of the 1986 film. Nearly a decade after the first installment (now a slasher classic), Tobe Hooper revisits his chainsaw-toting prodigy, "Leatherface," but to the dismay of most critics. This feature, with the great Dennis Hopper as a creepy.....
Austin, Texas: Vortex, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing director Tobe Hooper coaching actress Marilyn Burns in between shots, with cinematographer Daniel Pearl adjusting the camera in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Loosely based on the crimes of serial murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. Shot on a shoestring budget.....
Los Angeles: Cannon Films, 1986. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1986 film. Featured are Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, and Tobe Hooper on the set. Nearly a decade after the first installment (now a slasher classic), Tobe Hooper revisits his chainsaw-toting prodigy, "Leatherface," but to the dismay of most critics. This feature, with the great Dennis Hopper as a creepy.....