New York: Independent-International Pictures, 1974. Original Pressbook for the 1974 Blaxploitation film "Mean Mother." Notable as a slightly atypical Blaxploitation film hailing from Italy, "Mean Mother" tells the story of two Vietnam War deserters who flee to Spain and Italy and get involved in the European crime world. Shot partly on location in Italy. Largely low-budget and geared towards a......

Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, Circa 1970. Vintage Vietnam War protest poster, circa 1970. Begun in a workshop taught by influential Chicano Arts Movement print maker Malaquias Montoya in 1970, the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop was one of the largest of the poster art groups that spread throughout the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s, producing 100s of.....

St. Albans: Tillman Trevone Productions, 1974. Final draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996).John Briley, Academy Award winning screenwriter for Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic "Gandhi," adapts his 1968 Vietnam War novel.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Vintage reference photograph of Francis Ford Coppola on the set of the 1979 film.Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad."Apocalypse Now" remains the ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam, taking Joseph Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. It.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Vintage reference photograph of Jacques Demy and Alexandra Hay on the set of the 1969 film. Jacques Demy's first English speaking film, recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s.George (Gary Lockwood), living in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, in a discontented relationship with his.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose, Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit.....

Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967, and like.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: (1) a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan, (2) a shot of director Arthur Penn, producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles, (3) a shot of McLanahan, Penn, and actress.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1975. Second Revised Draft script for the 1976 film "The Desperate Miles," seen here under the title "No Help Required."A disabled Vietnam war veteran takes a road trip from LA to San Diego in his wheelchair to prove himself. Green titled wrappers, noted as 2nd Rev. on the front wrapper, production No. 42128, dated.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1988. Lined revised final draft script for the 1989 film in leather presentation binding belonging to editor Louis Lombardo, with name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. Signed on upper right of wrapper by editor Tony Gibbs in holograph red ink. Copious holograph annotations on nearly every page regarding.....

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover and wrappered edition. Hardcover edition INSCRIBED by the author to director Tony Bill on the page opposite the half-title page: "Tony / With love and respect to a truly wonderful man! / Always / Ron Kovic." Wrappered edition INSCRIBED on the inside front wrapper verso: "Tony / Thank you for everything.....

N.p. N.p., 1976. Draft script for an unproduced film. A man shot down during the Vietnam War is held in a POW camp and tortured by a Frenchman who he hopes to hunt down after his release. He survives his ordeal and through some powerful Washington contacts is granted the name of his captor and heads to Paris to kill.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage poster blank (or proof) for a performance by progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, with date, time, location, and ticket information intentionally left blank, likely dating from the 1970s. From the estate of McKendree Spring violinist Michael Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss pioneered the use of violins distorted by electronic and analog synthesizers, counting synthesizer inventor Robert Moog amongst.....

New York: N.p., circa 1970s. Collection of six vintage promotional photographs of progressive folk-rock group McKendree Spring from the estate of violinist Michael Dreyfuss, likely dating from the 1970s. Dreyfuss pioneered the use of violins distorted by electronic and analog synthesizers, counting synthesizer inventor Robert Moog amongst his close friends, and McKendree Spring largely became known for the experimental sound.....

Romania: Eve Productions, Circa 1970s. Two vintage oversize borderless black-and-white lobby cards from a 1970s Romanian release of the 1965 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos MOTQRPSICHO [sic] FAVORIT, indicative of the Cinema Favorit in Romania, once the largest and most popular cinema in the country, and one that operated even under the then-Communist regime. One lobby card also bears.....

New York: Cannon Films, 1986. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Seen here under the film's working title, "Missing in Action III," with "Braddock" added above in holograph pencil on the title page. Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is told that his wife and son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, so he mounts a one-man assault to free them.....

Culver City, CA: TriStar Pictures, 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. A bloody Rutger Hauer vengeance vehicle, with Hauer here portraying a blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, who comes to America to rescue the son of a fellow soldier. Untitled blue-gray wrappers. Title page present, dated February 26, 1988, with credits for screenwriter Carner, director Noyce. 107.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Based on Elmore Leonard's 1969 novel. A Vietnam veteran with a shady past falls into a secretary's scheme to steal $50,000 from the owner of a California farm.Set and shot on location in Carmel and Monterey, California. 10 x 8 inches.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1972 film. With the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso.A documentary following an antiwar political comedy troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which put on shows called "F.T.A." (which stood for "Fuck the Army") in towns near US military bases. The film opened.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1982. First Draft script for the 1982 film, written for the screen by James Kirkwood, based on his 1975 novel. Credited solely to Kirkwood, and with a paper spine label indicating the script dates to December 1976, over five years prior to the film's production. With brief but substantive corrections in holograph pencil on four pages.....

San Francisco: Civil Action Day Committee, 1967. Vintage poster for a anti-Vietnam War protest, organized by the Civil Day Action Committee, and held at the Oakland Induction Center on December 18, 1967. These protests came two months after one of the largest anti-War actions, Stop the Draft Week, in which thousands of protesters blocked access to the Induction Center, burned.....

N.p. Raybert Productions Inc., 1967. Collection of eleven vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1968 film. All with Columbia Pictures legal disclaimer stamp on verso, one with annotations in holograph pencil on verso. Bob Rafelson, co-creator and executive producer of the 1967/1968 television series "The Monkees," took the concept in a decidedly different direction for his first film; a......

Beverly Hills, CA: The Where's Poppa Company, 1969. First Revised Draft script for the 1970 film.Based on the 1970 novel. A stark black comedy in which Gordon, stuck caring for his senile mother, becomes increasingly frustrated with his inability to have a love life due to her interference. The first of Carl Reiner's early directorial efforts intended to push the.....

Atlanta: All Girls Productions, 1990. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys." Later they continue their work but.....

London: Contemporary Films, 1967. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 French anthology film. With printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the verso. Also included with the set is a two-page mimeographically duplicated press pamphlet in English.An anti-war anthology documentary film by seven prominent French directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese army.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced filmA drama written in the wake of the Vietnam War. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Shimon Wincelberg. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 150. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.