Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. With a single notation to the title page in holograph ink, indicating this copy is from Barry Levinson. Based on the 1955 novel "Le Blockhaus" by Jean-Paul Clebert, the story follows a mixed-group of forced laborers held by German forces taking shelter in a German bunker on.....
New York: Lyceum Theatre, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 Broadway play. The play ran at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City from December 29, 1977 until June 4, 1978, for a total of 180 performances. A man who works in the financial sector of New York meets a cancer-stricken Armenian in a rooftop garden of a hospital. The.....
![Hanna's War [Hannah Senesh] (Original screenplay for the 1988 film). Menahem Golan, Stanley Mann,...](/pictures/thumb/141500.jpg?v=1613169905)
Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions, 1986. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Hannah Senesh." Based on two books: "Hanna Senesh, Her Life and Diaries" (Sphere Books, 1973) and "Un Vento Impetuoso Soffio," a memoir by Joel Palgi published only in Italian in 1950, then in English in 2003 under the title "Into the Inferno: The.....
N.p. N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series, which originally aired on February 5, 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill, with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper, and his holograph ink annotations throughout, noting deletions and substantive changes. A kinescope of.....
Los Angeles: Cinevision Ltee, 1974. Final script for the 1975 film, "The Man in the Glass Booth," directed by Arthur Hiller, based on the play by Robert Shaw, written for the screen by Edward Anhalt, and starring Maximilian Schell. A complex thriller built around a Jewish businessman who survived the concentration camps in World War II. Well-known for being bizarrely.....
London / Berlin: CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst], Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Representative." Written for screen by Joseph Gross and British novelist Andrew Sinclair. British script with die-cut window. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's 1963 play, "Der Stellvertreter," set during WWII. Set in Europe, a story about an SS officer named Gerstein, who attempts to inform the Pope.....
![The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (Original herald for the 1965 film). Jan Kadar, Elmar...](/pictures/thumb/138323.jpg?v=1492979932)
Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street," with four image from the film, and text in both Czech and English. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman, and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed.....
![Leon Morin, pretre [priest] (Original French promotional book 1961 film). Jean-Pierre Melville,...](/pictures/thumb/134750.jpg?v=1492979003)
Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, 1961. Original French promotional book for the 1961 French film. Based on the 1952 novel by Beatrix Beck. With a small red rubber stamp from a French movie house at the top center of the front wrapper. A departure for both Melville and Belmondo, both turning from the crime films for which they were best known.....
![5 [Five] Branded Women [Jovanka and the Others] (Original screenplay for the 1960 film). Martin...](/pictures/thumb/130855.jpg?v=1469481312)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this.....
N.p. George Stevens Productions, 1959. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1959 film revealing the house interior set design. Based on Anne Frank's diary and Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's 1955 stage play that was adapted from it. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and for 8 Academy Awards, winner of 3, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelly Winters. 8.....
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First Edition. Wiesel's classic account of idolatry and the destruction of religious faith during the Holocaust. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus, price clipped dust jacket. Neat contemporary owner name and date (1965) on the front flyleaf. Jacket has no loss, just a touch of toning at the spine panel and some.....