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.....

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...

Phoenix, AZ: Border House, 1972. Second Edition, with the pictorial marijuana leaf design box top. Complete, with playing pieces, fake money, cards, and scoring pad in the original, unopened plastic bag. Rare, with no copies in OCLC. A Monopoly-esque game where players compete to smuggle kilos of marijuana across the Mexican border to sell in American cities like New York.....

Burbank, CA: Lorimar Productions, 1975. Second Draft scripts for Part One and Part Two of the two-part 1976 television film which aired on CBS on April 1, 1976 and April 2, 1976, respectively.Based on the 1974 True Crime book by Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.Remade in 2004, directed by John Gray and starring Jeremy Davies and Clea DuVall.The first and.....

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......

London: Golan-Globus, 1982. Original British quad poster for the 1982 US film. Printed in England by Broomhead, featuring artwork far more risque than its US variant. Remaking his own film, "Lemon Popsicle" (1978), director Davidson brings his Israeli tale to the streets of Los Angeles. Gary (Monoson) and his friends (Antin, Rubbo) are high school students who stumble through life.....

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., 1966. Notebook belonging to an unknown pharmacist detailing the pharmacy's on hand stock of amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and other drugs which contained one or more of those in combination, and noted "effective Feb. 1 - 1966." Also noted is that the inventory was compiled in accordance with recently passed Drug Abuse Control Amendment Act of 1965, which, in.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph annotations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film. Director Stephen Frear's debut feature film, and the first film.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single holograph annotation in ink to 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.....

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.....

New York: Hotel Astor, 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City, dated Wednesday October 7, 1936.The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location, and a widely-known bar for pickups, the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1974 television movie. The wife of a bootlegger in the backwoods dies while giving birth to her seventh child and her husband falls off the roof in a drunken stupor, thus leaving the seven children orphaned. Following the guidance of the oldest sibling, children seek replacement parents by.....

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.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. Uncredited makeup artist Rick Schwartz's copy, with his ownership name on the title page in holograph link, and with penciled check marks throughout relating to close-ups in the film. Secretarial notation of supervising producer Irwin Allen's name on the title page.A stunt-heavy 1970s powerhouse, designed to capitalize on.....

Los Angeles: Cinema Shares International, 1978. Vintage borderless matte reference photograph from the 1977 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso, along with a provenance stamp.An exploitative horror film, late on the coattails of cautionary drug movies of the 1960s, about a string of violent murders in Los Angeles linked to a dangerous LSD strain called "Blue Sunshine."Set.....

Los Angeles: DDF Films, 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 television series, which debuted in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993, and in the US on PBS in January, 1994. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, with her holograph ink and pencil annotations to several pages. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis.Based on Armistead Maupin's.....

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.....

France: Eve Productions, 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer, while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity, a rarity even in sexploitation films at the.....

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1976. First Draft script for the 1977 film, here under the working title "Bandit."One of the most successful films of 1976, and a capper for Burt Reynold's impressive 1970s run as a roving badass. Bo "Bandit" Darville is a race car driver and part-time bootlegger hired to transport 400 cases of illegally obtained Coors beer from.....

N.p. Entertainment Artists Inc., 1983. Draft script for the 1983 film "The Vals," here under the WGA registered title, "Valley Girls." Sam, Trish, Beth, and Annie are Valley Girls bored with their daily routine, so they befriend some boys at a local orphanage run by Mr. Stanton (John Carradine). Annie (Calabrese) is a snow-loving sexpot, whose father (Connors) loves snow.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: NBC, 2002. Production Draft script for Season 1, Episode 6 of the 2003 television miniseries "Kingpin," which first aired on February 18, 2003 on NBC. Influenced by "The Sopranos" and "The Godfather," the six-episode series follows a Mexican drug cartel leader as he attempts to balance work and family life.Set in Mexico. Blue titled self wrappers, noted as.....

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.....

Hollywood: Warner Brothers, Circa 1940s. Original menu from the Sunset Bowling Center in Hollywood, California, circa 1940s. Built in 1919 to house the executive offices and principal studios for Warner Brothers, filming was moved to Burbank beginning in 1930, and by 1938 the property was converted to a massive 52-lane bowling alley, the Sunset Bowling Center. The bowling alley was.....

Budapest: Csoma Bela - MOKEP, 1981. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1981 Hungarian film, here under its Hungarian title "Szabadgyalog." Bela Tarr's second feature film, following his award winning 1979 debut "Family Nest." A talented but destructive, alcoholic, and apathetic violinist Andras (Andras Szabo, who also composed music for the film), destroys his marriage, is kicked out of music.....

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.....

Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures, 1989. Vintage studio still photograph of director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon on the set of the 1989 film. Noted director Gus Van Sant's first feature film, and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s, appropriately released at the.....

New York: Telecom Entertainment, 1982. Shooting script for the 1983 television film, which originally aired on March 7 on NBC. Copy belonging to editor Nancy Kanter, with her first name in holograph ink annotation to the title page.A dramatization of the life of musician Hank Williams Jr., based on Williams' own experiences in country music while attempting to escape his.....

Switzerland: Intermovie, Circa 1970. First Draft script for the 1970 film "Cold Sweat," here under the working title, "The Visitors of the Night." Brief annotations in holograph ink on a few pages. Based on Richard Matheson's 1959 novel, "Ride the Nightmare." Joe (Bronson) is a US Army sergeant imprisoned in Germany during the Korean War. During his prison stay, he.....