Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1970. Original one-sheet US poster for the 1970 UK-US film. Style B variant. Based on Doyle's eponymous sleuth. Holmes (Stephens) eagerly takes the case to search for Gabrielle's (Page) missing husband. The clues somehow lead to Loch Ness and the mysterious lake monster (a 30-foot model director Wilder had constructed). Shot on location in Scotland.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Arthur Lubin and camerman on a crane above the opera house audience from the 1943 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Loosely based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The second Universal film based on the story, following Rupert Julian's 1925 silent film. Nominated for four Academy Awards and winning.....
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N.p. N.p., 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures (AIP) third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy, beginning with "The Food of the Gods" (1976), directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring.....
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Los Angeles: American-International Pictures, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Season 4, Episode 13, Sept 14, 1991), where Gordon was resurrected as a master of bad taste. Small-town teenagers and their high.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, Circa 1948. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film, showing actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello facing off against Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, and Glenn Strange (as the Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein's monster, respectively). Freight handlers come across the remains of Frankenstein's monster, and soon find themselves caught in a battle between Dracula, who.....
London: Hammer Films, 1964. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release affixed to the verso, noting the film's German title, "Die brennenden Augen von Schloss Bartimore." A small village in the early twentieth century is terrorized by Megaera the Gorgon, a......
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1960. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe affixed on the verso. Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. A doctor journeys to Africa with his wife, hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with short creases.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film. Universal Pictures' follow up to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," ups the ante on its predecessor with the addition of Dracula (John Carradine), a mad scientist (Boris Karloff) and a hunchback (J. Carroll Naish). Glenn Strange takes up the role of the creature (the fourth actor to play the part).....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage photograph of Onslow Stevens lighting Lon Chaney, Jr.'s way up a macabre stone stairway from the 1945 film. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon, a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein," which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters, all in Dracula's house, including the Prince of Darkness himself (John Carradine), the.....
N.p. King Brothers [Bros.] Productions, 1961. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1961 US Poverty Row film, an attempt by the notorious King Brothers to capitalize on the fame Toho Studios "Godzilla" films in Japan. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Sailors on a salvage ship capture a giant lizard and sell it to a London circus, leading the.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1941. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1941 film, showing Lon Chaney Jr. in costume as the eponymous Wolf Man, getting groomed by makeup artist Jack P. Pierce. A man visiting his ancestral home in Wales is bitten by a strange, wolf-like creature, leading to his occasional, moonlit transformation into a bloodthirsty werewolf. Universal Pictures' second.....
N.p. American International Pictures [AIP], 1957. Original lobby card for the 1957 film. The fifth film produced by AIP, a company originally functioning as a distributor. Another teen-monster flick from the 1950s, reminiscent of "I Was a Teenage Werewolf "(1957), only the antagonist is a woman and the creature she becomes is a vampire. 11 x 14 inches, studio production.....
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1954. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1954 film, showing Godzilla in the process of destroying Tokyo Bridge. The first entry in the long-running, wildly popular Godzilla franchise. Generally believed to be the first kaiju film, a Japanese sub-genre featuring giant monsters attacking cities and engaging in violent confrontation with the military and other monsters. The film.....
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Hollywood: William Castle Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film, "Bug," here under its working title, "The Hephaestus Plague." "Bug" in holograph pencil just below the title on the title page. Based on Thomas Page's 1973 novel. James Parmiter (Dillman) is a mad scientist who discovers the presence of a bizarre strain of mutant.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph of producer Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante on the set of the 1984 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. The story of a family besieged by small, troublemaking creatures that wreak havoc on their town over the Christmas holiday. Criticism of the film's blend of horror and comedy caused.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Collection of 3 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1978 American-Dutch exploitation film. Corman-produced B movie, about a peaceful resort is terrorized by monster piranhas let loose in the local rivers. Clearly a capitalization on the success of an earlier sea monster movie, "Jaws" (1975), and inspiration for similar films to follow, including.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment, 1994. Revised Shooting script for the 1995 film "Mind Ripper," seen here under the title "Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost." Round robin copy, SIGNED on the front wrapper by director Joe Gayton, producers Jonathan Craven and Peter Shepherd, cast members Lance Henriksen, Adam Solomon, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dan Blom.....
Universal City, CA: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Circa 1976. Vintage borderless black-and-white double single reference still photograph from the 1976 film. Fifth in the "Kong" series of films, and the second to be titled simply "King Kong." Fred Wilson (Grodin), an oil magnate from Petrox Oil, is looking for new petroleum deposits on a recently discovered Pacific island. Jack Prescott.....
US: Gazotskie Productions, 1973. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Director John Landis' first film, a spoof of 1950s monster movies, about a prehistoric apeman who terrorizes a small town. Set and shot on location in Southern California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely annotated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Included is a studio still photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment in the "Gill-man" series, after "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) and.....
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1955. First Draft script for the 1956 film. With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly correcting grammatical and spelling errors, and a holograph ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "File Copy." The third and final installment in the Creature from the Black Lagoon series, and longtime Universal Pictures assistant director Arthur Sherwood's directorial debut. Having.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Collection of one vintage reference photograph and one contact sheet containing twelve test shots from the 1976 film, all images publicity shots of actress Caroline Munro for the film. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1914 fantasy novel, the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1958 film. Based on a 1957 short story by George Langelaan, about a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque, human-fly hybrid after his experiments with a matter-transportation machine go very wrong. A breakthrough hit for actor Vincent Price as well as director Kurt Neumann, although Neumann would pass away a......
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage reference photograph of actor Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man for the film "House of Dracula" (Erle C. Kenton, 1945), getting his makeup applied by legendary Universal Pictures makeup artist Jack Pierce, circa 1940s. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Chaney appeared as The Wolf Man in five Universal monster.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Vintage publicity photograph of Lon Chaney, Jr. and Louise Allbritton from the 1943 film. Mimeo snipe and "Photofest" label, obscuring a "Carlos Clarens Collection" stamp, on the verso. The third Dracula film from the Universal Classic Monster series, preceded by "Dracula" (1931), directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Lugosi, and "Dracula's Daughter" (1936), directed by.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Roman Polanski and Mia Farrow in front of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Ave, New York City, during the filming of the 1968 film. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film, one of the best genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Two vintage candid photographs from the 1968 film. With holograph annotations on the verso of each. A seminal horror film, one of the finest genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema, bringing together Hollywood newcomer Roman Polanski, old-time producer William Castle, young star Mia Farrow, and John Cassavetes. Set and.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Roman Polanski on the set of the 1968 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Of note, the Paramount Pictures mimeo snipe announces that playing with "Rosemary's Baby" is the Neil Simon "laugh hit, 'The Odd Couple.'" Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film, one of the best.....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1943. Vintage reference publicity photograph of Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi in battle as the wolf man and Frankenstein, respectively, and Ilona Massey as the frightened, helpless damsel, from the 1943 film. The first ensemble film from the Universal Studios to combine characters from different horror series. A sequel to both the 1941 classic "The Wolf Man,".....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film, of Spielberg and crew in wetsuits, filming waist deep in the Atlantic Ocean. "Movie Star News" stamp on verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster, forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed, and, along with "Star Wars" two years.....
N.p. Hammer Film Productions, 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs (two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs) from the 1959 film. Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images. Although an ostensible remake of the hit 1932 Universal film, Hammer Film adaptation of this title borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), with.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of eight studio still photographs from the 1958 film, struck and copyrighted 1979 from the original negatives. Three photographs shown, please inquire to see others. Hammer Film's second Frankenstein feature, "The Revenge of Frankenstein" was the sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein," the 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelly's 1818 novel "Frankenstein." Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) escapes.....
Austin, Texas: Vortex, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing director Tobe Hooper coaching actress Marilyn Burns in between shots, with cinematographer Daniel Pearl adjusting the camera in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Loosely based on the crimes of serial murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. Shot on a shoestring budget.....