Burbank, CA: Amblin Entertainment, 1983. Eighth Draft script for the 1984 film, yellow stock, including 19 additional goldenrod revision pages. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in holograph ink on front wrapper and the first page of the revision. Hole shadows but with script and revision leaves watermarked GREM00104 throughout, a standard practice for Amblin Entertainment.....
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.....
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.....
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 a remake of the hit 1932 Universal film, Hammer Film's "The Mummy" borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), with the climax taken.....
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.....
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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.....
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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, 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.....
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N.p. Stupendous Talking Pictures International, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film, "The Touch of Satan," here under the working title, "Pitchfork." Copy belonging to the film's script supervisor (Pamela Walshe), heavily annotated throughout in holograph ink. Directed by Don Henderson, his final film credit after two sexploitation films: "Weekend with the Babysitter" (1970), and the underrated cult classic.....
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Marina Del Rey, CA: Kings Road Productions, Circa 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. With a small newspaper clipping promoting the film laid in. Based on the 1976 novel by Ray Russell. A small New England town is stalked by a demonic figure who attacks and sexually assaults women. While filming, director John Hough and actor John Cassavetes decided to.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film. Universal Pictures' followup to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," ups it's 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) with Chaney Jr. reprising.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage studio still 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.....
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Italy: Dania Film, Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1979 Italian film, "L'isola degli uomini pesce" (Island of the Fishmen), here under the working title, "Volcano Island." Rereleased in America in 1980 as "Something Waits in the Dark," and again in 1981 as "Screamers," by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, and in 2009 under its directly translated title "Island of.....
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.....
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to cult horror icon Ingrid Pitt, who played the titular character, with her extensive holograph ink annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos), including her blocking notes and detailed character analyses in both Polish and English. Loosely based on the apocryphal legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely notated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Laid in is a vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment in the "Gill-man" series, after "Creature from the Black Lagoon".....
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.....
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.....
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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.....
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Paris and Rome: Les films Ariane and Filmsonor, 1961. Original French production script and press material for the 1962 film, here under the original French title, "Les Titans." The film was distributed by Cinedis, and this script was likely used by Cinedis during production, with press materials printed on the company's stationery. Housed in manilla folder, noted as "LES TITANS".....
Burbank, CA: Hollywood Pictures, 1993. First Draft script for the 1997 film, preceding the film's release by four years. Based on characters from John Landis' 1981 film, "An American Werewolf in London." Andy (Scott) is touring Paris, where he meets Serafine (Delpy), the daughter of a man who can change from human to werewolf. Andy saves Serafine from suicide, unaware.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films, circa 1960s. Early Draft script for the 1966 Hammer film, here under the working title "Land of Prehistoric Women." Remake of the 1940 film of the same name directed by Hal Roach. While this script is undoubtedly an early draft, written by David Moessinger (who would go uncredited in the final film), using.....