Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-Production Superimposed Spotted List and Combined Dialogue script for the 1948 film. Single holograph notation in pen to the front wrapper.Based on the 1947 novel. In 1890s London, the widow of a missionary falls for an amoral grifter who lodges at her boarding house. He soon drags her into his nefarious schemes, eventually manipulating her into.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators," written by novelist Norman Bogner, and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" (1967, screenwriter, his only film), "Emerald Soup" (1963 television series, story editor).....

N.p. Agence D E B, 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film, one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso, one with annotations on verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay, as opposed to one adapted from existing material, perhaps the finest of his many films, and according to one of.....

Hollywood: Turman-Foster, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. An cynical, silver-tongued black man from the rural south makes a living through scamming and stealing, which he considers informal reparation for the injustices he has faced. Fed up with the quality of life in the US, he decides to leave for Sweden, where he spends his days with other.....

Tokyo: Toei, Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi, which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth, and final, film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy, following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. Set.....

France: Ulysse Productions, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and holograph annotations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world, with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused.....

N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others.Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....

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.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney, Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle, and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodd's (who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film). Each photo.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1964. Vintage photograph of director Ralph Levy and actors David Niven, Shirley Jones, and Marlon Brando on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Marlon Brando stars as a love-them-and-leave-them womanizer who meets a man equal in skill for deceiving women, but with an added knack for conning them out of money.....

N.p. N.p., 1996. Master Revised Script for the 1997 film. "#128" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper.The art of the con propels a few of screenwriter and director David Mamet's classic neo-noir films, notably "House of Games" (1987), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), and "Heist" (2001). "The Spanish Prisoner " is Mamet's most labyrinthine confidence game of corporate.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final script for the 1940 film. Based on the 1939 French film "J'etais une Adventuriere," written by Jacques Companeez, Herbert Juttke, Hans Jacoby, and Michel Duran. The story of a second-rate ballerina played by real-life ballerina Zorina, who teams up with con men Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, the three of whom hatch a......

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced play by noted playwright Howard Richardson. Notated as copy No. 15 and with the name of Seymour Kravitz, both in holograph ink on the title page.Seymour "Sy" Kravitz worked in theatre briefly in New York during the 1960s before becoming a producer and assignment editor at NBC.A fast-paced mystery involving two.....

N.p. International Creative Management [ICM], 1980. Early Revised Draft script for the 1987 film, here under the working title "Streets of New York." Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) fabricates a story about a New York pimp after he is unsuccessful getting information on the streets. But the police, the district attorney, and a real pimp and police suspect, Fast.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction, including scenes in a bedroom, on a football field, in a cemetery, and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Near.....