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.....

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.

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.....

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. 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.....

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.....

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......

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. 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. 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early Draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited as screenwriter on the title page. Sole credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Polanski was originally slated to direct the film as well, but was replaced by Brian G. Hutton after he fled the country in the face.....

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.....

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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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, 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.....