![Crimes and Misdemeanors [Brothers] (Original screenplay for the 1989 film belonging to actor...](/pictures/thumb/148416.jpg?v=1589614221)
N.p. Untitled Productions, 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film, belonging to and heavily annotated throughout by actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "Brothers." Bound in a spring binder with "Kraft Music Hall" and Landau's name in gilt on front ("The Kraft Music Hall" was a revival of the NBC variety television show with various hosts and performers.....
![The] October Man (Collection of five original photographs from the 1947 film). Roy Ward Baker,...](/pictures/thumb/148811.jpg?v=1591595052)
West Hollywood: Eagle-Lion Films, 1947. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1948 British film. One with Dion McGregor Collection stamp on the verso. After sustaining a head injury in a bus crash, young scientist convalesces in a boardinghouse where a young woman is brutally murdered. Now a prime suspect with a poor memory due to the accident and.....
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Swedish by director and author Ingmar Bergman on the front endpaper, and rare thus. Remainder spray to bottom page edges, else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards and endpapers. Jacket is soiled at the verso, otherwise with light wear at the spine ends.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition, in the rare dust jacket. The final two pages of the book are dedicated to a glossary of Harlem slang. A Jazz Age novel, with proletarian leanings, about an ill-fated love affair between an idealistic young woman from Connecticut and a rambling snake oil salesman who travel from to New York, where they.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree, from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager (Van Heflin) is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911 when corrupt administrator Ruiz (George Dolenz) appropriates his mine. Gallager.....
![The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond [The Life and Death of Legs Diamond] (Original screenplay for...](/pictures/thumb/148398.jpg?v=1589614218)
N.p. United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations to dialogue of lead character Legs in holograph pencil.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures copyright stamp with credit for photographer Van Pelt on verso of all photographs. One of the weirdest and most wonderful of the Columbia B-noirs, and a very faithful adaptation of Fredric Brown's byzantine 1949 novel, with Anita Ekberg (pre-"La Dolce.....
N.p. Lopert Pictures, 1966. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 US release of the 1965 British film. Housed in the original brown paper envelope stamped "It Happened Here 8 Stills Set A." Rare. The first feature film to be directed by documentarian and film scholar Kevin Brownlow. Shot in the style of a docudrama, an alternative history.....
N.p. Golden State Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, belonging to actress Adele Jergens, with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper, and printed title inked over, both in holograph ink. Annotations throughout, striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny, played by Jergens, in holograph ink and pencil. Jergen's paper clips, all along.....
N.p. N.p., 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City, including their daughter, who falls in love with a banker, a decent and goodhearted.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe, stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer, and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its (accurate, then and now) depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional, shallow.....
N.p. N.p., 1963. Draft script for the 1964 British film noir. With a few holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and throughout, mostly noting deletions. The daughter of a recently deceased psychoanalyst enlists one of her father's former patients, an American newscaster, in helping her discover the cause of his mysterious death. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window.....
Los Angeles: Filmways, 1978. Original 16mm film reel for the 1978 animated short "Make Me Psychic," created by animator Sally Cruikshank and featuring music by the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Robert Armstrong, Allan Dodge, and Paul Woltz. "Make Me Psychic," a followup to her lauded short film "Quasi at the Quackadero," features Cruikshank's recurring duck characters Quasi and Anita in a......
![The Chosen [Holocaust 2000] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Alberto De Martino, Ennio...](/pictures/thumb/133020.jpg?v=1594434846)
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British film, here under the working title "Holocaust 2000." Laid in are additional 18 pages of production documents on legal size blue, pink, and goldenrod stock. About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist, a fervent believer in the benefit of nuclear power to all.....
Burbank, CA: Artanis Productions, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film, dated 2/15/65. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill, with his name in gilt on the front board, bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design. Housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. A bored husband and wife visit Mexico on their anniversary, where.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Revised Final script for the 1968 film, dated October 5, 1967. Based on the 1966 novel by Roderick Thorp about a brooding detective, embroiled in a case that uncovers deep police corruption within the department. Frank Sinatra’s fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas and a box office success. One of the first mainstream Hollywood films.....
![The Lady in Cement [Lady in Cement] (Original screenplay for the 1968 film). Gordon Douglas,...](/pictures/thumb/132144.jpg?v=1594434846)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. First Draft screenplay for the 1968 film. The sequel to director Gordon Douglas’ Tony Rome, im which Sinatra’s nonchalant private detective is out to solve the murder of a woman found off the coast of Miami, her feet encased in cement. Set in Miami, shot on location in Miami and North Bay Village, Florida. Pale.....
N.p. Four Leaf Productions, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film, from the collection of cinematographer Paul Vogel, presumably his working copy, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper, and annotations throughout in holograph ink, primarily noting locations and which shots are to be done in post-production. Bound in behind back wrapper.....
N.p. Gloria Productions, 1930. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1930 film. Stamps on the verso reading: "Gloria Swanson in 'What a Widow' Directed by Allan Dwan United Artists Picture" and "United Artists Corporation." A young woman inherits a fortune from her late, elderly husband and is pursued by several high society suitors. Gloria Swanson’s first picture originally filmed with sound.....
N.p. N.p., 1965. Early Draft script for the 1965 British comedy film. Based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. In 1818, the parents of 20 boys establish a tontine, a fund to go to the last surviving boy. It is now 1882 and only 2 elderly brothers are left, Joseph (Ralph Richardson), protected by his nephews.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1934 espionage film, noted on the title page as having the working title "Under False Colors." Though best remembered as one of the great cinematographers, Karl Freund also directed eight films after coming to the US from Germany. "Madame Spy" was the third, on the heels of his masterpiece "The.....
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1961 Hammer film, with name of editor John Pomeroy written in holograph ink and struck over with holograph pencil, with copy No. 51 noted in holograph pencil, all at the top margin of the front wrapper. Three pages of the script have annotations in holograph ink, highlighting a section of dialogue.....
N.p. N.p., 1917. Vintage double weight sepia portrait photograph of Lillian Gish, in a stunning profile, by noted photographer Albert Witzel, signed and dated “17” by Witzel in holograph white pencil, on lower left. Witzel was one of the premier photographic portraitists in the 1910s and early 1920s, often employing Rembrandt lighting and moody shadows, which influenced Hollywood’s use of glamorous.....
London: ITC, Circa 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15, 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. Copy number "29" in holograph marker on title page. This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene, best known for his screenwriting and consultant work on the television series "The Avengers" from.....
![Locker 69 [Sixty-Nine] (Original screenplay for the 1962 UK film). Norman Harrison, Richard...](/pictures/thumb/128816.jpg?v=1593216477)
London: Merton Park Studios, 1962. Final Shooting script for the 1962 UK film. The 21st film (out of 47) of the "Edgar Wallace Mysteries," a British film series that screened as 60 minute second features on British film screens between 1960 and 1965, then later on television. A shady businessman has perpetrated a fraud that has resulted in the death.....
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile," with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1933. Vintage studio still photograph of John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Walter Connolly, from the 1933 film. Based on the 1932 play by screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which itself was based on the unproduced play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland. An egomaniacal theatre impressario attempts to manipulate everyone around him to.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of James Taylor and director Monte Hellman on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. After cutting his teeth under the tutelage of guerilla filmmaker Roger Corman, Monte Hellman made two landmark (and still rarely screened) existential Westerns with Jack Nicholson as producer and star. But it was with.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn lounging on the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp, dated "Sep 9 1949" on verso. For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, likely a first draft. Based on James Crumley's 1978 gritty masterwork of crime fiction, featuring Crumley's recurring detective C.W. Sughrue scouring America's sleazy underbelly in search of a girl gone missing from Haight-Ashbury a decade earlier. After Walter Hill's critical and commercial success with "Warriors" (1979), and the critical success of.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film, with an additional seven page addendum on pink stock with alternate endings written out in a treatment form. In addition to containing an alternate ending, the date on the script coincides with the takeover of the project by RKO from original producer David O. Selznick in July.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Early Continuity script (pre-production), stamped "TEMPORARY," with a credit for Alfred Hitchcock's wife and frequent screenwriter Alma Reville. "TEMPORARY" script includes screenwriting credit for Michael Hogan, who, along with Philip MacDonald, were given adaptation credits in the final film. Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the elegant, dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1938, 1939. Two early treatments for the 1940 film, consisting of (1) a Synopsis by Franclien Macconnell, dated October 10, 1938 and (2) a Chapter Breakdown by Mary Bowie, dated May 10, 1939. Both issued for the studio’s review of the novel’s content prior to it having been green-lit for adaptation to film. Macconnel was.....
![Inferno of Torture [Tattoo Generation, Hell's Tattooers] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film)....](/pictures/thumb/141454.jpg?v=1596068045)
Tokyo: Toei, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations throughout in holograph pencil. High demand for tattooed geishas by foreigners leads to a formidable production line of ladies receiving tattoos in order to please European men. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 34. Mechanical duplication.....
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.....
Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment, 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II, a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers, perfect bound.....
![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.....
![Red Beard [Akahige] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film). Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni Masato...](/pictures/thumb/148710.jpg?v=1591673665)
Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co., 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film, preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the director's masterpieces, following a small-town doctor and his new intern, a highly educated, arrogant young.....
![Dodes'ka-Den [Dodeskaden] [Clickety-Clack] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Akira...](/pictures/thumb/148810.jpg?v=1591673671)
Tokyo: Toho, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: (a) names of the chosen cast members, (b) set rehearsals and camera rehearsals, (c) times for.....
N.p. N.p., 1959. Shooting script for the 1960 film. Title annotated on the right edge of the front wrapper in holograph pencil and copy number "36" annotated on title page above title in holograph ink. Based on the 1913 novel by D.H. Lawrence, about a young man caught between his domineering, manipulative mother, his repressed former girlfriend, and an independent.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. A coming-of-age tale set in 1959, following a group of four friends in their early twenties struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Baltimore. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. Goldenrod titled wrappers, dated January 12, 1981, noted as FINAL DRAFT.....
N.p. N.p., 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren (uncredited in the final film) added to the cast list in holograph pencil, and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences, A through H. A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love.....
Paris: Transcontinental Film Productions, 1962. Two vintage photographs of Sidney Lumet directing on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and a rubber stamp on the versos of each. Based on the 1955 play by Arthur Miller, about an unhappily married man whose obsession with his niece leads to tragedy when she falls for an immigrant who is.....
Los Angeles: Gershwin-Kastner Productions, 1965, 1967. First Draft script and a Revised Estimating script for the 1968 film. The First Draft script is early, written well over two years before the film's release. The Revised Estimating script is on all yellow stock, except for distribution page (white), and pink "This Script Is Not Final and Is Given to You for.....
London: Columbia British Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Ornamental Art Nouveau, Mucha-esque imprinted front wrapper design. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in holograph ink on the title page, as well as an encircled "71" in red holograph marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, a sound engineer, and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story "Turia," based on a South Sea.....
Tokyo: Toho Company, circa 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. With the stamp of cast/crew member Takahashi Toshihiro to the page edges, and holograph ink annotations to the rear wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese. A film that bought depictions of modern life into Japanese films of the 1960s, particularly with respect to the idea of the independent woman. A......
Unknown: Unknown, Circa 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. A pitch black comedy about a man sentenced to death who survives his hanging, leading to a two-hour debate among his executioners over how best to handle the situation. Loosely based on a 1958 crime and execution, and a rare (for its time) discussion of the discrimination faced by ethnic.....
London: Associated British Picture, 1951. Shooting script for the 1957 British film musical, UK issue. Included are 184 pages of typescript revisions, in separated gatherings. All told an impressive amount of material relating to the development of the film, from the treatment stage through to the shooting script. Based on the 1929 novel by J.B. Priestley. A high-spirited British musical, generally.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers - First National, 1942. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso, one with "National Screen Service Corp" and "227- 42" stamps on verso, and two with a "Photograph by Madison Lacy" stamp on versos. Included is a two-color press flyer for the film. Two migrant workers.....
![Les Mains d'Orlac [The Hands of Orlac] (First Edition, with publisher's wraparound band). Maurice...](/pictures/thumb/148871.jpg?v=1592436307)
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1920. First French Edition, a trade softcover original, preceding the first English language edition by nine years. Text in French. Cover illustration by Maggy Monier. Rare. A seminal horror novel, written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the early twentieth century. The basis for several films, including the classic German silent film starring.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. Title page contains "#40" written in holograph pencil on the upper right, likely a copy number, as well as several pages with annotations, again in holograph pencil, commenting, circling and striking scenes, action and dialogue. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye”.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. Vintage vernacular photo album and scrapbook by Ray Abraham, a high school art teacher in Athens, OH, who also appeared as an extra in the film. Containing 17 predominantly color photographs of actors or crew members on location or interacting with the nearby community, as well as clippings from local papers about the film, signed.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on the the 1939 novel by Nathanael West, and equal to it as a dark, funny, and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of those caught up in it. Nominated for two Academy Awards, considered by many to be.....
New York: Jerome Hellman Productions, circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to the film's still photographer Ron Munkasci, with this name in red holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy about an unlikely friendship between a would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist. Cornerstone.....
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.....
New York: Modern Age, 1942. First Edition of the author's first book, one of three hardcover titles he produced before moving to paperback originals. Review Copy, with publisher's typescript review slip laid in. The only review copy we have ever seen, and only the third jacketed copy. Modern Age was a short-lived entity, very nearly a vanity press, and copies.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage double weight photograph of Robert Taylor and Kay Kendall on the set of the 1955 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp, dated "May 4 1955" on verso. Based on the 1923 novel by Sir Walter Scott about the penniless son of a Scottish nobleman dispatched to propose to a French countess on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Three vintage photographs of Patricia Neal applying makeup on the set of the 1949 film. Adapted to the screen by Ayn Rand from her novel, one of only three screenplays she wrote during her brief tenure in Hollywood. In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work, King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques.....
![The Mysterious Mr. Reeder [The Mind of Mr. Reeder] (Original screenplay for the 1939 film, Bryan...](/pictures/thumb/129885.jpg?v=1594434845)
N.p. Grand National Pictures, 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film, "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder," here under the working title (and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release), "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace (Edgar Wallace's son), with his name and holograph annotations in pencil to the front wrapper. Based on.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1967. Collection of ten vintage photographs, including eight borderless reference photographs, one borderless promotional photograph of Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton, and one promotional studio still photographof the same, from the 1967 film. Nine of these with a mimeo snipe on verso, one with additional “David Lasceller” stamp on verso. Peter Watkin's outrageous and paranoiac dystopian.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph of the Tower reader's edition of Cornell Woolrich's crime novel, written under the pseudonym William Irish, made as publicity the 1944 film adaptation. Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir, and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel, written in 1942, about a secretary who searches for the titular.....