Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / National Screen Service Corp. 1957. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1957 UK film. Based on Boulle's 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai," about Allied POWs forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed...
Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received a Best Actor nomination for his performance. Also included are...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Original one sheet poster for the 1945 film noir. An overlooked gem from Dick Powell's second life as a noir icon, an anti-fascist espionage tale with a labyrinthine, Chandler-worthy plot, and an unforgettable standoff at the end. The undisguised, left-leaning overtones throughout contributed significantly to the blacklisting of both producer Adrian Scott and director Dmytryk...
1968. Autograph note signed from noted screenwriter Carl Foreman to producer Daniel Selznick, executed on Foreman's production company stationery (Open Road Films, Limited in London). In the letter, Foreman agrees to meet with Selznick to discuss a project Selznick is working on for Universal. Included are two photostat copies of related letters from Selznick to Foreman, going into some detail...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown, detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown, and notations throughout, in holograph pencil. File...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1981 film. Using the famed "Black Dahlia" murder as a platform, this film weaves an intricate plot of corruption and deception across Los Angeles. The script was cowritten by novelist Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne. Shot on location in California. 8...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. In Selznick Studio wrappers, with the insignia on the front wrapper. An original production script, with a perforated distribution leaf preceding the title page. The second film version of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel, and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick. Frederick Henry (Hudson) is an American...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28, 1948." Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in the 1950s were asked to denounce Paul Robeson (1888–1976) in...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First Edition. Signed by author Gordon Kahn and by each of the ten men indicted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, known collectively to history as the "Hollywood Ten": Herbert Biberman, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytryk, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr. and Alvah Bessie. One...
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Original script for two plays by Academy Award winning screenwriter Howard Koch. Copy belonging to an unknown actor who played the character of Norm in "Dead Letters," with his lines highlighted and holograph notations regarding dialogue and action throughout. In a preliminary note, Koch describes "Dead Letters" and "The Campers" as "two plays, each approximately an.....
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London: Fanfare Films, 1960. Vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1960 film. Though the film was released in the UK as "The Criminal," it is here under its working title "The Concrete Jungle," with a corresponding negative code. Set in England, and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near...
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N.p. N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of director Joseph Losey and Alain Delon on the set of the 1976 film. With a few contemporary ink notations on the verso. Shot in Paris and Strasbourg, France. 9.5 x 7.25 inches (24 x 18.5 cm). Near Fine. Grant, p. 434.
London: Maurice Cowan / Rank Productions, 1958. Original program for the 1958 UK film. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and color stills from the film, as well as reproductions of watercolor illustrations showing scenes from the film. 8.25 x 11.75 inches (21 x 30 cm). 10 pages. Very Good plus in saddle stitched wrappers. Lightly soiled overall, with...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Collection of one color and two black and white vintage double weight studio still photographs from 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow and Elizabeth Taylor. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). About Fine condition. Complete collation details available on request.
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Vintage borderless still photograph from the set of the 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow on a horse during filming, with Jo Losey and Liz Taylor in the background. A dark, psychologically twisted film in which Liz Taylor plays a boozy prostitute who stubles upon a family drama between young, wealthy Mia Farrow (coming off...
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N.p. N.p., 1976. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Joseph Losey and Alain Delon on the set of the 1976 film. Shot by French photographer Michel Ginfray for Gamma, with a stamp for both parties on the verso, along with a printed mimeo snipe in French and brief notations in holograph ink. Shot in Paris and Strasbourg, France. 8 x 11.5...
London: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica, 1972. Vintage color still photograph from the UK release of the 1972, co-produced by Italy, France, and the UK. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm), printed on thin paper in the British style for this period. Near Fine.
London: Modesty Blaise, Ltd., 1966. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the UK release of the 1966 film. The image shown is Monica Vitti in the titular role, in one of her many mod disguises. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Weldon 1983.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1966 film. A split still showing Vitti in two different guises, as a brunette spy and as a seductive blonde who is actually a brunette spy. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Weldon 1983.
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced adaptation of B. Traven's 1929 novel by Hollywood Ten writer Albert Maltz. With photographically reproduced notations and typeovers throughout. Agency script, in wrappers from the Paul Kohner agency, although this script appears to bear no relationship to the 1971 adaptation of "The Bridge in the Jungle" written and directed by...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. Although not indicated on the script, actor Van Heflin's working copy. A mother confronts her college aged son about his girlfriend, who is a communist spy, and turns him into the FBI, but he's killed by enemy agents before he can confess. One of the...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1936. Vintage hand-tinted color promotional photographs of Karen Morley in 1936, just before her first feature with Paramount Pictures, "The Last Train from Madrid" (1937). Morley's notable film credits include "Mata Hari" (1931), "Scarface" (1932), "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932), "Flesh" (1932), and "Black Fury" (1935). After filming "Framed" (1947), Morley's career came to an abrupt...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1970. Original British quad poster for the 1970 US film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry. Based on the real Molly Maguires, a secret society active in Ireland in the late 1800s. James (Harris) is an Irish immigrant hired to infiltrate Irish immigrant miners, led by Jack (Connery). Jack and his gang intend to revolt against their...
New York: Centaur Enterprises, Inc., 1963. Final Draft script for the 1964 film, an early draft produced over a year before the film's release. A few leaves with notations in holograph pencil. Based on J.R. Salamanca's 1961 novel. An ex-soldierwith PTSD is living in a mental institution, where he meets a similarly troubled woman. Set in Rockville, Maryland, shot there...
London: Allied Artists, 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 French-American film. Based on Henri Charriere's 1969 book. Papillon (McQueen) is sentenced to life in prison in French Guyana. On the ship, he meets Louis (Hoffman), a forger, and they become friends, together attempting the ultimate escape. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Venezuela, Spain, Jamaica...
Los Angeles: Springfield Productions, circa 1957. Original story treatment script for an unproduced 1957 film by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, based on an idea by producer Alec March, with screenwriter Ben Perry fronting the script for the blacklisted Trumbo. Written in the prose style of most treatments. Trumbo bought out the rights of March and Perry, and sold the film...
New York: New Directions Books, 1950. First Edition of Tennessee William's 1950 play, profusely annotated for a 1959 West End production. Copy belonging to actor-director-producer Sam Wanamaker, with his holograph notations throughout. Red boards, worn overall, with Wanamaker's name inscribed in holograph black ink to the front board. Includes a loose sheet with the actors' addresses laid in. Wanamaker had...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1955. Revised Shooting script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1945 novel by Jessamyn West, written for the screen by Jessamyn West, Robert Wyler, and Michael Wilson (though only West and Wyler are credited here) and starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, and Anthony Perkins. Interestingly, Michael Wilson, who was ultimately granted sole screenwriting credit on...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Two vintage black and white borderless still photographs from the set of the 1968 film, based on the Tennessee Williams play, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," and written by the playwright for the screen. Photographer's stamp and holograph pencil notations to the verso. One photograph shows Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor on...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1991. Collection of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1991 film. Robert De Niro stars as David Merrill, a left leaning director who returns from a vacation to find Hollywood in the full swing of McCarthyism. He is asked to either implicate colleagues with supposed Communist sympathies or sacrifice his own career. The film...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1953. American one sheet film poster for the classic 1953 romantic comedy, "Roman Holiday," directed by William Wyler, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo (writing under the front Ian McLellan Hunter), and starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert. Near Fine condition, 27 x 41 inches (105 x 89 cm), linen-backed and rolled.