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.....
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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.....
France: 79th Division, 1919. An archive of material from James M. Cain's estate, originally from his office, relating to the newspaper edited (and largely written) by James M. Cain, The Lorraine Cross, during his service with the 79th Division of the US Army of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. Included are: James M. Cain's own copy of the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1968. First Draft script for the 1971 television movie, "The Reluctant Heroes," here under the working title, "The Egghead on Hill 56." This script is set during the Vietnam War, with scenes set in South Vietnam and characters speaking in Vietnamese, and it is presumed the setting was changed when screenwriter Ernie Frankel.....
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.....
London: Rank Film Distributors, Circa 1959. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1959 UK release of the 1958 US film. Tony Curtis stars as a sex-starved soldier who wins a date with pinup model Linda Cristal. Janet Legih (Curtis' real life wife) plays an Army shrink tasked with keeping things chaste. 8 x 10 inches. One still.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Edward Everett Hale's unedited 1863 short story "The Man Without a Country," here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 7, 1944. Hale's short story was first published in the December 1863 issue of The Atlantic. The story has been adapted four times for film. First in 1917, directed by.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Collection of 37 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown front wrapper present, with film title printed on the wrapper. Nominated for an Academy Award. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Congress reestablishes a military academy at West Point, lead by a strict commander (Cregar) who pushes the young.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 574 and copy No. 7, studio "Received" (dated Dec 9, 1941), and "Permanent Legal Records" all rubber stamped on the front wrapper, with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. One annotation in holograph pencil of three names on the verso of.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Copy belonging to unknown crew member, with extensive holograph revisions in pencil and ink throughout, and a laid-in interoffice note addressed to Twentieth Century-Fox co-founder and studio executive Darryl Zanuck. A CIA officer stationed in West Berlin during the Cold War must rescue the wealthy son of an industrialist.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First Edition. Basis for the Academy Award-winning 1953 film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly edgeworn, with an evenly faded spine panel and light creasing to the flap folds. A presentable copy.
Culver City, CA: MGM, 1955. Composite script for the 1956 film. With occasional copied handwritten annotations throughout, but made from a master, with machine hole punches and no hole shadows, and rainbow revisions throughout. A Korean War veteran returns home, only to be swiftly court-martialed for collaboration with the Chinese while in captivity as a prisoner of war. One of Paul.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1948 film. Based on a story by Sidney Kingsley, about a doctor who enlists with the Army during World War II. The third collaboration of Clark Gable and Lana Turner. 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Contemporary seller stamp on the verso, else Near Fine.
Camino Capistrano, CA: Charger Books / Gallant / Charger Publications, 1987. First Hardcover Edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Paperback Library in 1970. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "7-5-89 / To Llewellyn W. Lord / Some cast of characters, different story—if this gives you a few chuckles, I'll know I've done some things right. /.....
Culver City, CA: Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit, 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 military training film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph name on the front wrapper and holograph annotations throughout. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper, and production No. 112, rubber-stamped copy No. 20, dated October 11, 1943.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1963. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. An early draft of a planned remake of the 1935 film—which was in turn based on the 1925 lost silent film—with the setting moved from World War I to the Korean War. Gerald and Alan are rivals in love for Kitty, their mutual childhood friend, although.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage script for the 1967 one-act play, which debuted off-Broadway at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut on July 16. A middle-aged divorcee who has accidentally been called to service by the draft butts heads with the no-nonsense career officer. One of prolific, acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's earliest productions, and the one that brought him.....
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1951. Draft script for the 1952 film. A Red Scare narrative wherein two all-American parents unsuccessfully attempt to lure their brainy son John away from the call of Communism. Actor Robert Walker unexpectedly died before production for the film ended, leading director Leo McCarey to heavily revise the script and edit in footage from Walker's scenes.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1953. Vintage single weight linen-backed keybook still photograph from the 1953 film. Seen are Leif Erickson and Marie Wilson hanging out at a window. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on a story by Frederick Kohner and Fred Brady, about a group of women in the Army testing new military equipment. This was.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1963 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough, humorous, and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Final Draft script for the 1963 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough, humorous, and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson, a psychoanalytic.....
Los Angeles: Marvin Moss, Circa 1974. Uncorrected proof of Owen's 1975 novel, "The Indian-Lover," here under the working title, "Simon Girty, Indian-Lover." This proof is an early draft of the novel, produced for purposes of film development. Agency photocopy, with the Marvin Moss agency label on the title page and accompanying cardboard box lid, and photocopied corrections throughout. A fictional.....
N.p. N.p., ca. 1956. Draft script for an unproduced film "Just Before Laughter," based on the 1955 novel "A Change of Climate" by Stanley Kauffman. Copy belonging to screenwriter Partos, with a Jaffe Agency label on the title page. The story of a professor who leaves his teaching position to become a salesman at a company he later finds had.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by noted screenwriter Thomas Rickman, whose produced work includes "Kansas City Bomber" (1972), "The Laughing Policeman" (1973), and "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980). Not to be confused with the 1989 film starring Patrick Swayze. On a train bound for Kentucky, an unnamed soldier murders a honor guard sent to escort the.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964. Revised Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Based on David Westheimer's 1964 novel, about an American POW (Sinatra) who leads a group of British prisoners to escape from the Germans in World War II. Nominated for an Academy Award. Red titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper, production No. 15, dated.....
Atlanta: All Girls Productions, 1990. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys." Later they continue their work but.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (played by Gregory Peck), Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of Philippines, and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film, depicting two men and a woman, each well dressed and on horseback, meeting in front of a large mansion. Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point.....
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film "Mug Town," seen here under the working title "Skidrow." A crew of teenage tramps finds themselves about to be framed for a freight heist, and must clear their names of the charges. Once they are able to do so, they enlist in the US Army in order to.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Revised Final Draft script for the 1959 film, "A Private's Affair," here under the working title, "The Love Maniac." Brief annotations in holograph pencil on a couple of pages. One of the last films of director Raoul Walsh. Based on a story by Ray Livingston Murphy. Luigi (a young Sal Mineo), Jerry (Coe), and Mike.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1945. Vintage pressbook for the 1945 film. Ernie Pyle (Meredith) is a journalist who enlists in the US Army during WWII. During his tour of duty in Africa and Italy, he documents the effects of war on the human condition, illuminating catastrophe, the consequences of combat, and new partnerships in times of crisis, all from.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film, showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular, orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA.