London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1984. Fourth Draft agency script for the 1982 film. Inspired by James Haskins' photo history book about the famed Harlem club. Lucia Bozzola: "Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club" looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only... (read more)

New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971, with occasional copied handwritten notations. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis... (read more)

N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A corrupt politician places one of his cronies in charge of a boy's home, where he intends to misuse funds in the home's budget. Unluckily for him the crony finds that he has much in common with the unruly boys he's been put in charge of. Tan wrappers. 12 leaves..... (read more)

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Original Pressbook for the 1973 Blaxploitation film, and sequel to the 1972 "Slaughter." Starting where "Slaughter" originally left off, football player turned actor Jim Brown plays a morally untouchable Vietnam veteran out for revenge against the mob, and sanctioned by the LAPD. One of the quintessential franchises in the Blaxploitation genre, featuring the... (read more)

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1954. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1954 UK release of the 1954 US film. Written for the screen by Horace McCoy and W. R. Burnett, with the help of Charles Bennett (a Hitchcock favorite), about a mob killing and a witness, young Louise Graham, who flees to Montana too afraid to testify. Two... (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1968 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Set of 3 black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Scorsese's breakthrough film, one of the establishing pillars of New Hollywood cinema, setting the template that would guide the best of his work to follow. Set in New York City and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near... (read more)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1976 film. Both photographs picture director Scorsese: one borderless candid shot of the director in a Panama hat on the set, the other a studio still from his brief cameo in the film, where he memorably plays an irate passenger. A film that would prove to be the... (read more)