N.p. N.p., 1994. Collection of 17 reference photographs from the set of the 1995 film featuring Abel Ferrara, Lili Taylor, cinematographer Ken Kelsch, screenwriter Nicholas St. John, and other cast members, photographed in a single evening near Manhattan's Puck Building and Keith Haring's Pop Shop by filmmaker Shade Rupe. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives, these being the only.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage borderless, double weight, oversize press photograph of writer Alice B. Toklas used to promote the 1968 film starring Peter Sellers. With credit stamps for Warner Brothers, as well as Pictorial Press and Gamma press agencies on the verso. Sellers plays a thirtysomething attorney who, dissatisfied with his life and impending marriage.....

Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of the 1979 film. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin addiction, and his mother begins an incestuous relationship with him to help him kick the habit. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine...

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing actress Valerie Perrine in costume, or arguably lack thereof, as Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce. With holograph annotations in ink and pencil on the verso regarding layout.Based on Julian Barry's 1971 play, which followed the career, decline, and death by morphine overdose of controversial comedian.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 199. Early Draft script for the 1993 film. Laid in with the script is a five page production document pertaining to casting, with holograph ink annotations to the verso of the final page, noting a to-do list and brief timetable.Based on Edwin Torres' 1975 novel "Carlito's Way" and its 1979 sequel "After Hours," following a Puerto.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1969. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Eight convicted felons band together to stop a moonshine gang. A film that came exploitatively on the heels of "The Dirty Dozen" (1967). Shot on location in San Bernardino, California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage photograph from the 1966 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Rooks' first film, a semi-autobiographical account of a man who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. With cameos by a virtual who's-who of counterculture figures of the time, including Allen Ginsberg (as "Messiah"), William S. Burroughs (as "Opium Jones"), Ravi Shankar.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1960. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Loosely based on John O'Hara's 1935 novel. A promiscuous New York model falls in love with a married man following an illicit one-night stand. The most successful MGM release of 1960, well-received by most audiences, save actress Elizabeth Taylor herself, who called.....

Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1970. Collection of 20 vintage black and white reference photographs from the 1970 film. A cautionary tale following a suburban couple who discover their teenage daughter is addicted to LSD and cocaine.Set in New York.8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. After his sister is lured into snorting a fatal dose of heroin by a dastardly biker gang, a teenage boy and his group of friends vow to take their revenge and stop the bikers, forming their own "moped mob." Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter.....

N.p. Premiere Releasing, 1975. Collection of six vintage studio issued still photographs from the 1975 film. A cop pursues a serial killer responsible for a string of murders of cocktail waitresses at a popular club. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

London: Eon Productions, 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 56. Roger Moore's first turn as 007, and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming, which sees Bond go up against a Caribbean dictator moonlighting as a Harlem drug lord.....

Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1958. Two original vintage linen backed keybook photographs, one of director Harry Keller, producer Gordon Kay, and cinematographer William Daniels, the other of Harry Keller and actress Julie London on the set of the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see the other.Jim Burton (Richard Egan).....

Saint Ouen: PPCM Photo Press Agency, Circa 1998. Photograph of Hunter S. Thompson and shotgun, outside his Woody Creek, Aspen, Colorado home, 1990, by photographer Paul Harris, struck by PPCM Photo Press Agency, circa 1998. Issued to promote the Terry Gilliam's 1998 film adaptation of Thompson's 1971 novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"PPCM incorrectly dates the image as being.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Original film press kit for the 1980 film. Included in the press kit are nine film still photographs and six cast biographies. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Collection of five vintage reference photographs, all quite striking, of Patty Duke in various states of celebrity, intoxication, or depravity in the 1967 film. Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 best selling novel. Shown in one of the photographs is author Susann, who appears in a cameo as a reporter who interviews Duke. A big budget.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre in New York. Laid in with the script are several handwritten pages regarding promotional materials for the play. Also became the basis for the 2002 film directed by and starring Steve Guttenberg.After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar.....

1967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs, three typescript essays, and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second, by photographer Jerry Bauer, circa 1967, with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers, with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being.....

Las Vegas: Sanford International Entertainment, Inc., 1985-1989. Archive of Draft script and production materials for the 1989 film. The script, here under the working title "Fists of Steel Part 1," contains two annotations of page numbers in holograph ink. Included in the archive are two investment proposals, a seven page Cast Sheet, a two page Staff and Crew List, a......

Gadd Productions, 1971. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1971 film.Al Pacino's first starring feature role. Schatzberg's bleak and stark portrayal of heroin addiction on the streets of New York City is told through the love story between Bobby (Pacino), an addict and drug dealer and Helen (Winn), who is drawn into heroin use through her relationship with Bobby. Nominated for.....

Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group, 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film, which originally aired August 30, 1998 on Showtime.Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats," the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal, alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the.....

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, featuring cool high-contrast design. Sequel to William Friedkin's 1971 classic, "The French Connection." This time, Hackman and Rey both reprising their roles, the action goes down in Marseilles. More drugs, more shootouts, and Doyle is forced into heroin addiction. 30.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1984. Vintage studio portrait photograph of director John Huston from the 1984 film. Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A brilliant performance by Albert Finney as Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in a small Mexican town on the Day of the Dead.Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Finney, as.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1980. Collection of ten vintage black and white borderless studio still photographs from the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel. Director Ken Russell's first American film, itself an "altered state" during production. Russell was constantly inebriated on the set, and had the actors mumble their lines in protest against Chayefsky's script. Chayefsky was.....

Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production, 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, holograph annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian, Barris, and Casey Kasem.A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a......

Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises / S.A.C.L., 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film from Argentina for distribution in the US. It was a success on the exploitation.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted at the Circle Repertory Company in New York on November 4. Basis for the 1979 film directed by Milton Katselas. A small town's slow way of life is disrupted by the arrival of a unstable, drug-trafficking Vietnam veteran whose car has broken down en route to Mexico. Set in.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Collection of four promotional newspaper ad mats for the 1979 film, made for use by distributors, exhibitors, and the press. Based on the 1968 Broadway musical, following a naive Vietnam draftee who befriends and eventually joins a group of drug-fueled, antiwar hippies on his way to the army induction center. 12.5 x 19 inches.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1956. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film, two dated 1955 and seven dated 1956. Four photos shown, please inquire to see others.Based on the 1949 National Book Award-winning novel by Nelson Algren.A strung-out jazz drummer in Chicago trying to make it, caught between the wife who tries to manipulate him into.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage matte reference photograph of Otto Preminger on the set of the 1955 film. Based on the 1949 National Book Award-winning novel by Nelson Algren.A strung-out jazz drummer in Chicago trying to make it, caught between the wife who tries to manipulate him into staying with her and the hostess at a local club.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the 1971 novel by Michael Crichton and his brother Douglas (under the pseudonym "Michael Douglas"), about a Harvard law student (Lyons) who is sent from Boston to San Francisco to smuggle a shipment of marijuana. He convinces the drug dealer (Lithgow) to have a......

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single holograph annotation in ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a typed page crediting Pierre Gaspard-Huit as director. Text in French.An FBI agent infiltrates an international drug smuggling ring that operates primarily through a system of casinos.Set in Portugal. Grey titled wrappers. Title.....

N.p. N.p., 1975. Archive of production materials for the 1975 television movie, including eight actor contracts (including contracts for director Barry Shear and actors Richard Gere, Marilyn Chris, Joe Spinell, and Cliff Gorman), 35 xerographically duplicated day performer contracts, and a substantial number of equity contracts and release forms. The film originally aired on April 12, 1975, on NBC. A......

Culver City, CA: RKO, Circa 1939. Original menu from the "Famous RKO Grill" in San Francisco, California, circa 1939. The massive and varied menu includes food for all three meals of the day, including Italian dishes, Mexican dishes, and Kosher sandwiches and boasts "we never close," in what is clearly a precursor to the anything-you-could want all-night diner. The menu.....

San Francisco: Family Dog Productions, 1968. Vintage Family Dog poster, FD-115-1, designed by Robert Fried to promote a series of concerts by Steppenwolf, Charlie Musselwhite, The 4th Way, and The Indian Head Band at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco over the weekend of April 19-21, 1968.First printing, prior to the concerts, of the classic psychedelic poster often referred to.....

London: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Roger Corman filming on location for the 1967 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.A television commercial director falls into a tailspin of LSD and free love after being left by his wife. One of Corman's most idiosyncratic directorial efforts, frequently referred to as his.....

London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." Brilliant but gritty biographical look at Sid Vicious (Oldman), bassist for the British punk band Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy (Webb). Their relationship is sprinkled with guilt, sympathy, and copious drug use, implying Nancy.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1963 film. Partial label on the verso.Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen, which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke, following "The Connection" (1961). Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite, and.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Vintage reference photograph of director Sidney J. Furie and actor Billy Dee Williams with a camera crew between takes on the set of the 1973. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.A federal agent becomes hell-bent on tracking down a heroin ring in order to exact revenge for his daughter's death from an.....

N.p. Rockers Film, 1978. Collection of ten vintage color French lobby cards the 1978 Jamaican film. Each photograph with a colorful promotional title label affixed to the bottom right corner of the recto, showing the film's title superimposed over a Rastafarian flag.Young drummer Horsemouth (played by reggae musician Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace) wants to start a record business, but finds his.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage pressbook for the 1967 film. Based on the 1966 play by Frederick Knott. A recently blind woman is tormented by three violent criminals who believe a doll stuffed with smuggled heroin is hidden in her apartment. The final film appearance of actress Audrey Hepburn before her semi-retirement in 1967. Set and.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and a sticker noting the photograph is from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller on the verso. Loosely based on the 1822 novel by Thomas De Quincey, the film transposes the setting.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Archive of material from the 1973 television movie, originally planned to be the pilot episode of a television series, which originally aired on March 14, 1973, on NBC. Included in the archive are nine copies of a treatment script for a prospective episode, titled "A Fungi Affair," an early treatment script for an untitled separate episode.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.

N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Original promotional flyer, featuring eleven songs from "The Drunkard Singing School," to promote the circa 1940s revival of the temperance stage melodrama "The Drunkard." The play was first performed in 1844, among the first of the American temperance plays, and was wildly popular. In the 20th century the play was more frequently performed satirically, with directors.....