![High and Low [Tengoku to Jigoku] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film). Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo...](/pictures/thumb/148706.jpg?v=1591673662)
1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text and titles in Japanese. A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott, who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge (played by Morris Ankrum), with Prescott's holograph annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Noirish in theme, and based on true-life accounts. Murphy (played by Paul Newman) and Corelli (Ken Wahl) are police officers in the decaying South Bronx region of New York. Together they try to bring peace and justice to their corrupt precinct. Ethnic minorities play a major role in.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1988. Vintage, borderless, candid photograph of director Dennis Hopper and actor Robert Duvall on the set of the 1988 film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso dated 1988. The film which brought Hopper back onto the map as a director for the first time since "Easy Rider" (1969), about a seasoned cop and his.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film. With a faint circular stamp from a Spanish distributor at the top right corner of the recto, and a different stamp with the film's Spanish title ("Los Despiadados") on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the twelfth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on February 6, 1996 on ABC. With a printed label affixed to the front wrapper reading "EDITORS / 2." A detective's family is struck by tragedy when her father is found dead, with all evidence pointing.....
Burbank, CA: NBC Television Network, 1951-1959. Collection of 35 vintage contact sheets from the 1951 to 1959 NBC television series. Stills as well as on the set shots of Jack Webb and Ben Alexander as well as a host of supporting actors. The well loved early police drama created by and starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday. Origin for the.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1969. Three scripts from the seminal police procedural television program, from its colorful, pop culture-infused revival made between 1967-1970, starring Jack Webb and Henry Morgan, along with a relentless cast of hippies, druggies, bad parents, priests, and a host of substantially less hip, efficient, and often troubled men and women of the Los Angeles.....
![Footsteps in the Night [Night Target] (Original screenplay for the 1957 film). Jean Yarbrough,...](/pictures/thumb/146325.jpg?v=1578177550)
Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir, here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holograph ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph pencil on upper right of wrapper. The final of five Los.....
Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the sixth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on November 28, 1995 on ABC. A wealthy Indian woman is discovered dead, with many potential culprits. Meanwhile, two detectives investigate a case involving a man left to die of an overdose. The popular television series ran.....
New York: Stein and Day, 1973. First Edition. True story of crime-fighting cop "super heroes" Dave Greenberg and Bob Hantz. Basis for the 1974 film directed by Gordon Parks. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine lean, faint stains to page edges. Jacket extremities lightly worn, with light foxing and faint stains on the verso.
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. A policeman is linked to a string of homicides in New York, causing consternation among the other squad members and pressure on the department from local politicians. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen, best known for his blaxploitation films "Bone" (1972), "Black Caesar" (1973), and.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937. First Edition. Basis for the 1953 film noir directed by Arnold Laven and starring Edward G. Robinson and Paulette Goddard. Very Good plus, with a slight lean, in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner name to the front endpaper. Jacket is lightly chipped and worn, with light soil to the real panel, and ink bleed.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Maurice Pialat on the set of the 1985 film. Brutish and jaded police detective Louis Mangin (Gerard Depardieu, in one of his strongest performances) investigates a Tunisian drug gang and begins to fall for the girlfriend (Sophie Marceau) of one of the criminals. Set in and shot on location in Paris.....
Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the third episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on November 7, 1995 on ABC. With holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout, most noting deletions. A detective attempts to locate a suspect in a string of rapes across Manhattan, while another officer's family's domestic abuse issues.....
Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the ninth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on January 9, 1996 on ABC. With a printed label affixed to the front wrapper reading "EDITORS / (2)," and holograph ink annotations throughout, most noting deletions. A Chinese-American teenage girl is found dead with strange.....
Los Angeles: The Mirisch Corporation, 1966. Revised First Draft script for the 1967 film. Laid in is a Call Sheet from the production, dated Tuesday, November 29, 1966. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small, bigoted Mississippi town. Winner of five Academy Awards including.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Collection of seven vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Joseph Wambaugh. A law student begins working at the LAPD, only to have police work become ever more important in his life. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. First Draft script for Episode 3 from Season 1 of the 1981 television series. The debut season of the show received eight Emmy Awards and a total of 98 Emmy nominations during its seven season run. A police drama with the appearance of a documentary feel. In the last episode, a presidential visit is scheduled.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1981. Vintage studio still photograph of Sidney Lumet and Treat Williams on the set of the 1981 film. French mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Robert Daley's 1978 nonfiction book of the same name. New York detective Daniel Ciello (Treat Williams) joins the Department of Justice to help put an end to police corruption.....
N.p. Paramount Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System," about a plainclothes police officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department, only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Set.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1981. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1981 film. Based on the 1978 book by Robert Daley. Both photos featuring actor Treat Williams. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition, with rubber stamp at the verso.
![The Iron Commissioner [Il commissario di ferro, A Questionable Cop] (Original treatment script...](/pictures/thumb/146546.jpg?v=1583899540)
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for the 1978 Italian poliziotteschi film, here under the working title "A Questionable Cop." Text in English. A tight crime thriller which takes place over 24 hours, about a young man seeking revenge on the police lieutenant who captured his father, leading to the father's death in prison. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Collection of four vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. A gritty crime drama in which a mass murderer kills a police detective and his partner is left to attempt to find the killer. Set in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches.....
Berkshire, England: Anderson Burr Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for "Star Laws," a never-aired 55-minute pilot episode for "Space Police." Copy belonging to unknown crew member, with a few holograph pencil and ink annotations to the front wrapper and leaves. Screenwriter Gerry Anderson's early attempt at an intergalactic police procedural, one that would would eventually become the British sci-fi series "Space.....
N.p. Self published, 1972. Draft Agency script for an unproduced film. About a police officer in San Francisco, his missing daughter, and his troubled past. Green wrappers. Title page present, dated 1972, noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY and REGISTERED WRITER'S GUILD WEST, with a credit for screenwriter Hattan and agent Bert Steinberger. Last leaf of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication.....