Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1963, 1986. Archive of three title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1963 film. Also included are two fascinating autograph letters, both elaborately designed and executed in a calligraphic style, from Adler to author, illustrator, and editor Fridolf Johnson relating to Adler's work with Hitchcock. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created...
![Ultraviolet - Episode 2: In Nomine Patris [Crossing the Line] (Original screenplay for the 1998...](/pictures/thumb/135816.jpg?v=1492979179)
London: World Productions, 1997. Shooting script for the 1998 British television miniseries "Ultraviolet," seen here as "Crossing the Line," episode 2: "In Nomine Patris." Accompanied by 114 pages of call sheets, scene breakdowns, shooting schedules, and detailed notes on hair and makeup for each character. A six episode miniseries in which Jack Davenport plays a Detective Sergeant whose best friend...
![What Ever [Whatever] Happened to Baby Jane? (Original double weight photograph from the set of...](/pictures/thumb/145435.jpg?v=1564603628)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage double weight keybook photograph of Bette Davis and director Robert Aldrich on the set of the 1962 film. Tab margin and two hole punches at the left (as called for), mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Henry Farrell. Two aging sisters live in their old...
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First UK Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from a performance of the play. A novelization of the 1924 stage play by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merrivale, about an aging engine driver who believes his engine has become alive and evil. A film version was released in 1929, directed by Geza von Bolvary, and starring Carlyle Blackwell...
Los Angeles: Commonwealth United Entertainment, 1969. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1969 film. Based on the novel by Peter Miles. The feature film that brought Robert Altman to the attention of the film world, giving him the break he needed to make "MASH" in the year that followed. A gothic, psychological thriller that explores a spinster's depth of...
London: EMI Film Distributors Ltd., Circa 1977. Collection of 16 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1977 UK release of the 1977 US film. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Made to capitalize on the success of the first "Jaws" film, about a fisherman eager to pay off the mortgage on his boat who decides...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original Treatment script for the 1977 horror film, here under the alternate title of "Orc." A blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of "Jaws" two years earlier, the film follows a fishing vessel being stalked by a killer whale bent on avenging the death of its pregnant mate at the hands of the crew...
Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Draft script for the 1975 episode "The Deadly Volley" from the television series "The Wide World of Mystery," first aired on January 27, 1975. An unliked professional tennis team owner is nearly murdered and the team members are all suspects. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/10/74, noted as SECOND DRAFT...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1955 film "Revenge of the Creature." Featuring a comical image of the film being shot in the water at Marineland, Florida while a dolphin show takes place in the background. Half of the gathered crowd watches the dolphin show, while the other half has turned to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Original scenario artwork for the 1978 horror film. Depicting the interior of Peggy Ann Snow's Catskills home. Based on the 1976 novel by William Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A young Anthony Hopkins plays a mentally disturbed magician who rises to fame when he begins utilizing a ventriloquist dummy. He rekindles...
London: Warner-Pathe, 1966. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 UK release of the 1966 US film. Mimeograph snipes and distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Patrick O'Neal stars as a vengeful killer who escapes death-by-execution, ravaging the city of Baltimore on the hunt for those responsible for his incarceration. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1946 film. Phyllis Allenby (Lockhart) has an ancient curse on her family, cast by a pack of wolves. After a series of local murders, she is convinced she and her werewolf curse are to blame, for she finds her belongings muddied, torn, and streaked with blood almost...
London: Amicus Productions, 1973. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 UK film, based on the novel "Fengriffen" by David Case. The ghost and severed hand of a 18th century servant terrorizes the descendant of the nobleman who maimed him, along with the descendant's new wife. A darker and more serious film than the typical Amicus horror...
N.p. American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 British-American film. Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871 novella, "Carmilla." An erotic, vampire horror entry in which a beautiful, seductive vampire befriends a young woman and begins to feast off her blood. The lesbian relationship between the vampire and her young victim concerned the censor, who...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of director Roy Ward Baker and cinematographer Moray Grant on the set of the 1970 Hammer horror film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1872 story, "Carmilla," by Sheridan Le Fanu, about a female vampire named Marcilla Karnstein (Ingrid Pitt) who comes back from death, renamed...
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1969. Original draft script for the 1970 film. Actress and star Ingrid Pitt's working script with signature in holograph ink on top right corner of title page with annotations through, including character motivations such as, "cynical attitude to guests - thinking of next feed!!." Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella "Carmilla," this is the first of...
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Los Angeles: Sol Lesser Productions / Principal Distributing Corporation, 1934. Original pressbook for the 1934 film. This feature was not only composed by editing together the first 4 chapters of the same-titled 12-chapter serial (the last 8 chapters were released as "Chandu on Magic Island" in 1935), but in this case the episodes were specifically written so that, spliced together...
Culver City, CA: Associated Producers Inc., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly," and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre (Brett Halsey) takes up his father's work of matter transmission, and with his uncle Francois (Vincent Price) they accidentally produce a monstrous creature, a man with the head...
London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief notations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film, featuring four different stories, including vampires, witchcraft, wax ladies, and eerie stranglers. In one story, a writer is haunted by the psychopathic central character of his...
N.p. N.p., 1983. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Written by film producer Richard Bluel (best know for his work on the 1966 television series "The Green Hornet") and screenwriter Pat Fielder (best known for the 1962 film "Geronimo"). "The Summoning" follows a man who seeks psychiatric help for his nightmares, believing that he is seeing visions of his...
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A monster comedy in which a life insurance salesman stumbles upon a welcoming subdivision of undead monsters. Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bob Kaufman. 16 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) is tormented with nightmares four years after her exorcism. The demon still hides within her, and Vatican priest Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton) is assigned to investigate the death of her exorcist to learn more about the demon. Shot on location in Arizona, New York...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 horror film, based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. A well-crafted (and in some ways, superior) variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s, released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret" in 1942, in the heat of the studio's incredible run...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 US film. A troubled tattoo artist (Dern) becomes obsessed with a model (Adams) he meets when he's hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of women for a photo shoot. His obsession grows increasingly dangerous, and he is determined to leave his mark on the model forever...
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Los Angeles: Essex Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. Shot on location in Idyllwild, California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present...
Los Angeles: Jack Stewart and Associates, Circa 1950. Original radio script for "The Dead Are Never Lonely," episode 474 of season 10 (Sept. 25, 1950) of the popular radio program, "Inner Sanctum Mystery." The series aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952, and was created by producer Himan Brown. A total of 527 episodes were broadcast, most of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. Collection of 4 vintage single weight reference photographs from the set of the 1935 film. One photo is a warm, candid shot of actors Jean Hersholt and Elizabeth Allan on the set, with a mimeograph snipe on the verso noting the film under its working title, "Vampires of Prague." The other three photos are...
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N.p. N.p., 1932. Treatment script for tan unproduced film called 'The Revolt of the Dead," with an alternate title, "The Revolt of the Savage," written for screen by Gouverneur Morris and Gerrit Lloyd, from a story suggested by Tod Browning. Holograph notations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. Story set in Africa, where an.....
N.p. Millimeter Films, 1988. Vintage First Re-Write script for the 1989 film. A rare example of a sequel that rivals its predecessor. Following up on the cult horror classic "The Stepfather," Terry O'Quinn reprises his pitch-perfect role as a psychotic killer escaped from an insane asylum who, obsessed with "family values," marries into broken homes and murders his new family...
Los Angeles: Conquest Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1987 film, preceding its release by 2 years. Production designer's working copy, with production design material highlighted on nearly every page in yellow (and occasionally underlined in ink) throughout. Bound in at the rear are a crew list (humorously titled "Crue List") 2-page cast list, a "suppliers" list, a weather information...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First American Edition, and first edition under this title. Preceded by the UK edition, titled "Uneasy Freehold" published by Peter Davies in 1941. Basis for the 1944 film classic, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, recently named by Martin Scorsese as his favorite horror film of all time. Near Fine in a Very...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1977 film. Based on the 1973 novel by Dean R. Koontz. British director Donald Cammell's most conventional film, which is not to say it is not incredibly strange and distrurbing. A super-computer named Proteus IV traps Julie Christie in her own home, with the intention of impregnating her...
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Encino, CA: Laurelwood Productions, 1983. Revised Shooting Script for the 1984 film, released to theaters as "Night Shadows," but retitled on video as "Mutant," retaining that title for all subsequent releases. Copy belonging to special effects personnel Paul Stewart, with his name on the title page, and notations throughout, in holograph ink. Stewart is notable for having also worked on...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1983 film. Based on Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name. Director John Carpenter was originally not interested in directing this film, which he felt lacked significant horror for the genre. As in the novel, the film follows a daemonic car whose...
Los Angeles: 187 Corp / Artisan Entertainment, 1993. Shooting script for the 1993 television film. An anthology film directed by two masters of horror, Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter, and sporting a cameo by a third, Wes Craven. Three separate vignettes, each with increasing tension, and featuring many celebrity cameos. John Carpenter was commissioned by The Showtime Network to compete...
![Someone's Watching Me [High-Rise] (Original screenplay for the 1978 television movie). John...](/pictures/thumb/130336.jpg?v=1492802383)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1978. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television movie "Someone's Watching Me!," here under the early working title, "High-Rise." Airing on NBC in the same year as Carpenter's runaway hit "Halloween," made-for-television thriller "Someone's Watching Me!" still has the typical Carpenter characteristics, in which a woman being stalked in her ultra-modern high rise apartment must confront her...
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1980. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1980 film, with director John Carpenter and leading ladies Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curits, and Janet Leigh posing for the camera during a shoot. With a holograph notation in French on the verso. Carpenter's followup to his breakthrough hit "Halloween," about paranormal events that begin happening when a mysterious...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1998. Draft script for Season one, episode 11 of the 1998-1999 television series, which originally aired January 29, 1999 on FOX. Copy belonging to actor Brian O'Sullivan who played Brian Reed in the episode, with his name and character on a label tipped onto the front wrapper. A deceased cop is sent back to earth...
![Mockery [Terror] [The Harelip] (Original screenplay for the 1927 film). Lon Chaney, Benjamin...](/pictures/thumb/140438.jpg?v=1492980535)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery," seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess (Bedford) safely home. He does so, despite becoming caught up in the Bolshevik revolution...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Vintage photograph of Lon Chaney Jr. (as the mummy) and Turhan Bey from the 1942 film. The first of 3 sequels to Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940), "The Mummy's Tomb" was followed by "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944) and "The Mummy's Curse" (1944). This was Lon Chaney Jr.'s first appearance as the mummy, a role he...
london: Vestron Pictures Ltd., Circa 1988. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1988 UK release of the 1988 US film. Steve Buscemi has Jennifer Jason Leigh in a stranglehold! Carol (Leigh) inherits her weird uncle's night club, where she starts to remember the disturbing relationship she had with him that she had repressed. Creepy, and visually stimulating, with taps dripping blood...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1974 film, re-released in 1977. An easily scared baby kills, and often. In the vein of "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). 24 pages, saddle stitched, 9.5 x 14 inches. A couple of tiny closed tears, and a hint of rubbing, else Near Fine.
N.p. Arkoff International, 1982. Collection of 2 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the American release of the 1982 film. A charming, low budget monster film, complete with a stop-motion animated dragon. Written, directed, and produced by Larry Cohen, whose film "It's Alive!" achieved cult status. Photographs featuring actress Candy Clark and Michael Moriarty, who played Joan and Jimmy Quinn...
London: Hammer Films, 1971. Draft script for the 1972 British horror film. A brooding, dissonant film entry in the great Hammer canon of the 1970s, about a naive young woman who travels from Liverpool to London thinking she is going to meet the man of her dreams, only to wind up with a psychotic killer. Green wrappers, with a die-cut...
![Deadly Friend [Friend] (Original screenplay for the 1986 film). Wes Craven, Diana Henstell, Bruce...](/pictures/thumb/129193.jpg?v=1533577557)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1985. First Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on the 1985 novel "Friend" by Diana Henstell. Teenage science genius Paul (Laborteaux) builds a robot called BB and garners friendships with the local paperboy (Sharrett), and the girl next door (Swanson), whom he subsequently falls in love with. His robot is destroyed by a cranky old...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook. This early Crichton film plays on a powerful combination of a fear of hospitals and of certain real elements of the medical industry, depicting a decidedly feminist protagonist who discovers a black market organ harvesting plot and...
Los Angeles: Dino De Laurentiis Company / Paramount Pictures, 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis. Arguably one of the best Stephen King adaptations (and perhaps one of the least gory David Cronenberg films) in which Christopher Walken plays Johnny Smith, a schoolteacher who gains the power to...
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white photographs from the 1977 horror film. David Cronenberg's fourth film, continuing his meditation of horrific transformations of the human body. Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her armpits. The orifice hides a....
Toronto: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1977. Two vintage borderless black-and-white photographs from the Canadian release of the 1977 horror film. David Cronenberg's fourth film, continuing his meditation of horrific transformations of the human body. Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her armpits...
Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1981. Vintage photograph showing director David Cronenberg and crew shooting a scene from actress Jennifer O'Neil's point-of-view on the set of the 1981 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A shadowy security company seeks to use "scanners," people with various psychic abilities, as weapons, but are opposed by an underground movement vying for world...
Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1975. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With holograph notations on the versos. A high-rise apartment building is infected by a parasite that turns its victims into sex-crazed maniacs that can infect with the slightest touch. Shot on location in Montreal, Canada. 7 x 5 inches (18 x 13 cm). Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation Complete. Weldon 1983.
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1974. Post-production Export script for the 1974 television movie. Represents the full European version screened in the UK upon release. An edited version later screened in the US on television only. Written by noted novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Pink and blue clip-bound titled wrappers, noting 10 reels and footage of 8,957 feet. Mechanically reproduced. Near Fine. 145 leaves.
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1976 release of the 1976 American-Italian film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos of 2 stills, and cropping notations on the versos of 2 stills. Based on Robert Marasco's 1973 novel, about a haunted house and the summer caretakers moving in with their young son...
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Los Angeles: Medallion Pictures, circa 1965. Draft script for the 1965 film "House of the Black Death," seen here under the title "The Widderburn Horror." Based on the novel "The Widderburn Horror" by Lora Crozetti. A bizarre Poverty Row second feature (the only script we've ever seen from Medallion Pictures) starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine as two warlock...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1989. ?
Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1981. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1981 film. Television newswoman Karen White goes on a retreat after a traumatic incident with a serial killer. But is she really safe? And what should she fear more: regaining her memory or the creepy residents of The Colony? Followed by many unsatisfying and unconnected...
Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1981. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1981 film. Television newswoman Karen White goes on a retreat after a traumatic incident with a serial killer. But is she really safe? And what should she fear more: regaining her memory or the creepy residents of The Colony? Followed by many unsatisfying and unconnected...
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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Collection of eight vintage color still photographs from the 1984 film. The film’s mix of horror and comedy, which surprised audiences looking for family oriented holiday fare from producer Steven Spielberg, led, along with Spielberg’s "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," directly to the creation of the MPAA’s PG-13 rating. 8 x 10 inches.....
Los Angeles: Comworld Pictures, 1980. Draft script for the 1983 film. Seen here under the title "Bump in the Night." A low-budget slasher in which a group of friends go camping in the woods only to find that someone has begun picking them off (spoiler alert: it's one of the camper's mothers). Originally shot in 1981, the film would be...
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Los Angeles: CBS, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph notations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is wrongfully accused...
![Holocaust 2000 [The Chosen] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Alberto De Martino, Ennio...](/pictures/thumb/133020.jpg?v=1418081486)
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British film. Laid in are additional 18 pages on legal size blue, pink, and goldenrod stock, including call sheets, unit arrivals and agenda, movement order, schedule, revised schedule, Italian personnel accommodation list, and a cast list, About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 US film. De Palma does "Rear Window" (sort of) in the breakthrough film that would signal his move toward both Hollywood and the psycho-sexual thrillers that would come to be his signature as much as his virtuosic visual style. A story set and shot on...
Burbank, CA: Bryan Foy Productions / Warner Brothers, 1953. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight matte finish photograph by Jack Woods from the US release of the 1953 film. A classic image from the film, with Vincent Price's vengeful, murderous shadow overtaking a terrified Phyllis Kirk. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Pinholes at the corners, else Very Good plus. Complete collation details available on request.
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1960. Collection of six vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipes affixed on the versos. Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. Dr. Paul Talbot (Terry) journeys to Africa with his aging wife, June (Gray), hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman. With...
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1989. Collection of 8 vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1991 film. This set dated 1989, two years before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. Of note is a "tasty" image of Hopkins' bloody mouth, and a shot of director Demme surveying his work, with many images not seen in the film. Based...
N.p. Gloria Films, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1972 film, showing Richard Burton and Raquel Welch in an eerie moment before a kiss. With holograph notations in black marker and pencil, and three press agency stamps on the verso. Another addition to the many renditions of the Bluebeard tale in which the wealthy Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton) repeatedly...
Los Angeles: Tony DiDio Corp. / Cal-Am Artists, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Released theatrically in 1978, released on VHS in the early 1980s, subsequently labeled a "video nasty," and banned in the UK from 1982 to 2000. Quintessential exploitation film about a ski-masked maniac (Mitchell) who wreaks terror on the tenants of an apartment complex, dispatching...
Paris: Film-Production Carl Dreyer, 1932. Vintage double weight matte finish French still photograph from the 1932 film. Shown is Rena Mandel as Gisele. "Vampyr" was a German-French co-production, and Dreyer, who maintained strict creative control over his films, has production companies in both Berlin and Paris. This photo was issued from the Paris office, with a label crediting Film-Production Carl...
Milan: Poligono Societa Editrice, 1948. Later printing. Book three in the second series of "Biblioteca Cinematografica" publications, each focusing on a different film. The complete screenplay for Dreyer's 1932 film, his first sound feature, profusely illustrated with stills from the film throughout. Text in Italian. Very Good in illustrated wrappers. Wrapper chipped overall, with bruise to the front wrapper, and...
West Hollywood: Emery Pictures, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film, with the word "canyon" spelled in Spanish instead of English on the title page. A teenager is killed in a car accident, only to come back as a vampire in order to protect his girlfriend from a serial killer. Untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1984, with credits for...
London: Hammer Films, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris" by Guy Endore. Set in Eighteenth Century Spain. A child is adopted by a wealthy man and his maid who learn years later that he is in fact a werewolf whose only chance of breaking...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Studio file copy, with "Central Files" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment, featuring spiritualists, a haunted house, and a murder by suffocation, in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly, the film's failure superseded its...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Post-production Continuity & Dialogue script for the 1945 film. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment, featuring spiritualists, a haunted house, and a murder by suffocation, in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly, the film's failure superseded its potential, even with all the right elements of a chilling...
London: Hammer Films, 1964. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Snipe affixed to the verso. Hammer Films produced this solid little thriller about a young woman haunted by her past. After witnessing her psychotic mother stab her father to death as a young girl, Janet is sent to a boarding school. Years later, she begins to experience...
Culver City, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985. Collection of 8 vintage color double weight still photographs from the 1985 film, a US-UK co-production. Inspired by the Burke and Hare case of 1828, a story of two graverobbers who dig up corpses, and eventually begin to commit murder in order to provide an ongoing supply of bodies for a doctor who teaches...
France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel by Jean Redon, about a doctor who goes to horrific...
Paris: Champs-Elysees Productions, 1960. Vintage Belgian theatre poster for the 1960 French film. Based on the novel by Jean Rendon. Prompting controversy with its release, despite efforts during production to minimize offensive and grotesque content, Franju's classic French horror film envisions the extreme lengths a guilty surgeon will go in order to restore his daughter's horribly disfigured face. 14 x....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 film. Both are reference photographs featuring director Frankenheimer on the set: one from a scene at the beach with his shooting crew, the other in a social setting with the film's star Rock Hudson. Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life...
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Windsor Project." Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. Set in Maine, shot on location in Crofton, British Columbia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/25/77, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Seltzer...
New York: Edward R. Pressman Film, 1995. Revised Draft script for the 1996 film. Copy belonging to makeup and special effects artist Michael Smithson, with his name on the front wrapper, and holograph notations in red marker throughout. Based on the 1896 novel. A shipwrecked man washes up on the island of mad scientist Doctor Moreau, who is obsessed with creating...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design concept for the 1973 film, featuring the an original mounted silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin's first arrival to Georgetown in the film. A minimal design, without the credits information seen in the completed original "purple style" poster design, and with a proposed (but...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above--and seemingly beyond--a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status...
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Rome: Dania Film, 1980. Collection of 10 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film. Most with brief holograph notations on the verso. A reporter and a psychic try to close the gates of Hell after a priest's suicide on holy ground causes the dead to rise, from the "godfather of gore" Fulci. 9.5 x 7 inches (24 x 18 cm). Fine. Arrow 1459. Blue Underground. Weldon 1996.
London: FAB Press, 1999. First Edition. One of 693 copies (this being No. 428) SIGNED by Stephen Thrower. A typically exhaustive and definitive production by Thrower, covering every imaginable aspect of the great Italian director's canon. Along with Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci is considered one of the fathers of the giallo style of filmmaking, beginning with Westerns...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions Ltd., 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK, the film was a US co-production, and this is a US draft of the script, noting...
![The Madness of Dr. Tube [La Folie du Docteur Tube] (Two original photographs from the 1915 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144596.jpg?v=1544116790)
France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck circa 1936. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself, a dog, and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special...
![Mind Ripper [Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost] (Original screenplay for the 1995 film, round...](/pictures/thumb/143834.jpg?v=1529008216)
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...
London: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], Circa 1978. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1978 release of the 1976 US television film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos, with distributor rubber-stamps and cropping notations. Mardi Gras is interrupted by African killer bees! Ben Johnson is cast as the local sheriff, and would reprise his tenure with the bees...
![Silent Night, Bloody Night [Zora] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Theodore Gershuny, Ira...](/pictures/thumb/143600.jpg?v=1541362765)
New York: Cannon, 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, here under the working title "Zora." Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov, Candy Darling, and Ondine, experimental film icon Jack Smith, and artist Susan Rothenberg, as well as...
London: Marron Films Ltd., Circa 1974. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1974 UK release of the 1973 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos, and 1 still with cropping notations. A horror-comedy, about a reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the US President. He is sent to Hungary, where he...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1941 film, "Horror Island," along with a script for a "Double Bill Trailer" in which this film was featured with another George Waggner film of the same year, "Man Made [Man-Made] Monster." The latter film was based on a story called "The Electric Man," written by H....
New York: Rinehart, 1949. Advance Copy, preceding the First Edition. An uncommon state of the second of Gresham's two novels, written 3 years after "Nightmare Alley," an examination of the lives of the inhabitants of the ninth floor of a city hospital, where the most seriously diseased patients are gathered. Very Good in publisher's illustrated wrappers (the same design as...
New York: Rinehart, 1949. First Edition. The second of Gresham's two novels, written 3 years after "Nightmare Alley," an examination of the lives of the inhabitants of the ninth floor of a city hospital, where the most seriously diseased patients are gathered. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is very slightly faded at the spine, with a....
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...
Burbank, CA: British Lion / Warner Brothers, 1973. Original pressbook for the 1975 US release of the 1973 UK film. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 36 cm). Eight pages, saddle stitched. Lightly soiled and Near Fine. Weldon 1983.
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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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. French Mini poster for the 1979 German film. The 1979 film marked the third collaboration between Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski, who starred as Count Dracula. Their relationship is described in greater depth in Herzog's 1999 documentary, "My Best Fiend," which allows a glimpse into their tortured yet fruitful creative partnership. Herzog's 1979...
Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz, along with some extras, on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu," and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm). Fine.
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1971. Vintage photograph of Gordon Hessler shooting on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe with identifying holographic notations in pencil. Based loosely on the Edgar Allen Poe's 1841 story of the same name. Madeline is an actress in a theater troupe in Paris at the turn of the century that is performing...