Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen, he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1978, 1979. A Final Draft and a Revised Draft script for the 1979 film "Going in Style," seen here as "Stepping Out." Based on the short story "Here on a Visit" by Edward Cannon. Copies belonging to producer Tony Bill with his signature in black holograph ink at the top right corner: "Tony Bill producer." Included...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird," seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces," here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a....

Beverly Hills, CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists, 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for...

N.p. Carolco Entertainment, 1978. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1978 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine condition. Complete collation details available on request.

Hollywood: Paul Kohner Inc., Circa 1963-1964. Draft agency script for the an uproduced film called "A Thousand Several Tongues," written by Jeremy Fey, whose film credits include three episodes of the 1976-1977 television series, "ABC Afterschool Specials," his job being Productions Assistant. Agency copy, with the address imprint and label present from the Paul Kohner, Inc. agency in Hollywood. Copy...

Paris: Omnifilms, Circa 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film "The Nabob Affair" here under the French title, "Au Voleur!" (translated: Thief!). Written by Sacha Guitry but subsequently reworked by Jean Bernard-Luc, and released after Guitry's death. Laid in are eight pages detailing production, including sets and shooting times, from Sacha Guitry, carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rubber-stamped "Carlton Cole,"...

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Mirisch Corporation, 1967. First Draft script for the 1968 film, here under its working title, "The Crown Caper." INSCRIBED on the title page by director and producer Norman Jewison: "To -- / With regards / Norman Jewison." Written for the screen by Alan R. Trustman and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. At...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 Euro-Western (aka "Spaghetti Western") film, a US-UK co-production shot in Spain. Notations throughout in holograph pencil. Euro-Westerns were made quickly and on tight budgets, and scripts for them are rare. Based on L'Amour's 1963 novel. Catlow (Brynner) is a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a gold heist...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, ca. 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film "Ocean's Eleven," seen here as "Oceans Eleven or And the Angels Sing." Copy belonging to actor Peter Lawford, with his name to the front wrapper and his holograph notations throughout. Lawford owned the rights to the film, and accompanying this script is a signed note written on his...

England: Cinevision Films, 1970. Original British quad poster for the 1970 British film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Distributor notation in holograph ink on the verso. Based on Joe Orton's 1965 play. Two young thieves, Hal (Roy Holder) and Dennis (Bennett), rob a bank and stash the loot in a coffin. Unfortunately, the body in the coffin often...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Detail," with no screenwriter credited, about a gold bar heist from a TWA flight in Los Angeles, and stolen money and counterfeit bills in London. Brief notation in holograph ink on the title page, noting that the script is to be returned to "Mr. Ladd at...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Revised White script for the 1939 film, seen here with the title "I Robbed a Bank," which has been stricken through on the title page. A gang attempts a bank robbery, only to find that one of the gang member's sisters works there. The gang abducts her and a truck driver while attempting their getaway, and...

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, ca. 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. Copy belonging to producer Tony Bill, with his signature in black holograph ink at the top right corner: "Tony Bill exec. producer." Also included is a typed letter of provenance signed by Bill. A star-studded film in which a third-rate vaudeville duo decides to attempt a large...

N.p. Self published, 1982. Early Draft script for the 1993 film, "The Seventh Coin," here under the working title, "King Herod's Children," dated a full decade before the film's release. Credited on the title page to Kikuo Kawasaki, for an original concept. An Arab boy (Chowdhry) meets a beautiful American tourist (Powers) in modern-day Jerusalem. By accident, the two are...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Draft script for the 1976 film "St. Ives," here under the working title, "St. Ives' Big Score." Brief notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1972 crime novel, "The Procane Chronicle," by Ross Thomas (writing as Oliver Bleeck). The first of no fewer than ten films director Thompson would make with...

England: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 American film, "The Hot Rock," here under the British release title, "How to Steal a Diamond." Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Distributor notation in holograph ink on the verso. New Hollywood director Yates' adaptation of Westlake's 1970 novel "The Hot Rock." Dortmunder (Redford) and Kelp (Segal) are...