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Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1963 UK film. Directed by and starring Cornel Wilde, about King Arthur and his attempt to unify Britain. One of the last of the medieval period pieces during the 1950s and early 1960s, with well-acted and convincing action sequences. 8 x 10 inches. Several light creases overall, else Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1936 film. Stamp of the New York Public Library Theatre Collection, a stamp noting a date of DEC 15 1938, and manuscript ink annotations regarding layout to the verso. Two theatre investors lose the funds for their latest production in the stock market, leading a former chorus girl to suggest they insure an elderly, sickly stage producer for one million dollars in order to recoup their losses when he dies. Set in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the right edge. …

Vintage double weight photograph of actors Vanessa Brown, Wallace Beery, and director Richard Thorpe on the set of 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and rubber stamps on the verso. Set in the early 1800s, a band of outlaws take-in a distressed doctor who is on the run after digging up corpses for his medical research. Shot on location in Maryland. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1953 film, showing actress Arlene Dahl. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Georges Surdez' 1927 novel "The Demon Caravan." A French Foreign Legion soldier discovers a lost city in the desert mountains of North Africa. A breakthrough role at Universal for actor Alan Ladd. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film noir. A police lieutenant is ordered by his boss to stop trying to catch a sadistic gangster, but finds himself increasingly obsessed with catching the man-and increasingly bewitched by the man's girlfriend. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with pin holes at the corners and one small chip missing from the top left corner. Grant US. Olive Films. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

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 of a large number of people. His business partner has evidence of the fraud and threatens the fraudster with exposure in the event of any further dishonest dealing. But when the fraudster suddenly receives death threats he decides to fake his own murder. . Light blue tall titled wrappers, noted as Final Shooting Script on the front wrapper, dated January 1962, with credits for screenwriter Harris and writer Wallace. 55 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two silver British-style brads.…

Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Copy belonging to actor Joseph Bologna, with his manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout, and various production materials, including cast and crew contact sheets, bound in before the script. A huge alligator begins to prey on the inhabitants of a small town with a vast, labyrinthine sewer and drainage system. Sequel to the 1980 film "Alligator," directed by Lewis Teague. Shot on location in Echo Park and Los Angeles. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 18, 1990, with credits for screenwriter Curt Allen and story credits to Brandon Chase. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/18/90 and 4/23/90. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.…

Treatment script for the 1939 film, here under the working title "The Investors." With manuscript ink annotations on the title page and throughout, noting substantive and editorial revisions. Based on the 1925 short story "The Investors" by Edgar Wallace. Elderly Mr. Reeder (Will Fyffe) investigates the mysterious disappearances of 27 people involved in shady financial dealings. The second Wallace adaptation directed by Jack Raymond and featuring Will Fyffe and Kay Walsh, preceded by "The Mind of Mr. Reeder" in 1939. Self wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Richard Starr and story credits to Edgar Wallace. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good, lightly edgeworn, with soil to the first ten leaves, bound with three gold brads.…

Revised Estimating script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "Harold Lloyd #1." Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman who played Cecilia Grange, with her name in manuscript pencil on the title page. With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Steve (O'Brien), a quiet executive at a shipping firm, meets a woman (Ball) at the opera, leading him to see his current life and girlfriend (Chapman) as boring. Despite this woman having a significant other (Murphy) who is being discharged from the Navy soon and is planning to propose, Steve quickly falls for her and sets about romancing her. Yellow titled wrappers. Blue revision leaves bound in at the beginning of the document, never inserted into the principal script. Distribution page laid in, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated September 25, 1940, noted as Revised Estimating Script. 178 leaves, with last page of text numbered 147. Mimeograph duplication. Principal script pages all dated between 9/25/40 and 9/27/40. Blue revision pages dated between 10/2/40 and 10/30/40. Pages Very Good, wrapper Very Good, encapsulated in mylar, bound with two gold brads.…

Three vintage reference photographs of actress Janis Carter from the 1947 film noir. All three photographs with one provenance stamp on the verso and one photograph with some adhesive residue on the verso. One photograph with manucript ink annotation on the bottom border of the recto identifying the actress. A man drives into a small town in a truck with no brakes. He hits another car and is arrested after sitting down at the local diner and befriending a waitress. The waitress bails him out of jail but she has ulterior motives. Partially shot on location at Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino National Forest in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with one photograph with some slight creasing along the bottom edge, one photograph with slight creasing along the top edge, and one photograph with some creasing along the top and bottom edge and offsetting on the bottom right corner of the recto. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1936 film, showing dozens of women piano players in two vertical rows. Dutch distributor label, annotations in manuscript ink, and provenance stamps on the versos. Two theatre investors lose the funds for their latest production in the stock market, leading a former chorus girl to suggest they insure an elderly, sickly stage producer for one million dollars in order to recoup their losses when he dies. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing at the corners.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1932 pre-Code film, showing Erich von Stroheim in costume as the tyrannical director Arthur von Furst. RKO Radio Pictures and Cinevogue stamps on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to cropping. Based on the 1932 novel by Dick Grace, about three World War I aviators who find jobs as Hollywood stunt flyers during the lean times after the war. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn and curled. …

Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film. In a move that placed him in a category with Mickey Spillane, Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as the leading man in a film based on his own novel. Wright was cast after initial choice Canada Lee, who had starred in Orson Welles' stage adaptation of the story, was stuck in South African customs after shooting "Cry the Beloved Country" (1951). Set in Chicago, and shot on location in Chicago and Argentina. One photograph 10 x 8.25 inches, one photograph 9.5 x 8 inches, and one photograph 9 x 8 inches. Good, one with a pinhole to the center, others moderately toned, soiled, and edgeworn. …