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Vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house card from the 1952 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Frank Yerby. A French sea Captain tries to capture a ship belonging to the pirate he believed killed his mother, meeting a mysterious woman along the way. Shot on location in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film. An iconic literary film adaptation, set in small-town Alabama, that explores the complexity of race and childhood in the deep South. Based on the novel by Harper Lee, winner of three Academy Awards. Shot on location in Alabama and California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a red cropping notation at the bottom margin of the recto, and extensive blue and black manuscript ink annotations to the verso. Penzler 101.…

Original US Pressbook for the 1966 Italian film. Franco Nero plays a small supporting role in this drug-related crime film, released just prior to his breakout role as "Django" the same year. 4 pages, folded, 12.25 X 15 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal fold at the middle, and faint toning, else about Near Fine.…

Three vintage reference photographs from the 1938 film. After his army buddy is murdered by spies, a machine gun inventor vows to seek revenge. Set and shot on location at the Presidio in Monterey, CA. 10 x 8 inches. Two photographs Very Good plus, with light toning, and one Very Good, with light edgewear and soil.…

Two vintage photographs from the 1943 film, one publicity photograph of Frances Langford, Walter Catlett, and Leon Errol, and one reference photograph of Langford and Catlett. Robert Paige stars as a struggling songwriter who poses as a Texas cattle baron in love with a Broadway star, played by Frances Langford, as a ruse to boost sales for a faltering Broadway show. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1940 film. A young journalist finds himself unjustly accused of murder. White titled self-wrappers, production No. 1033, dated December 19, 1939, with credits for director Harold D. Shuster. Approximately 130 leaves, with last page of text numbered 19. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, with tearing to the last three leaves along the top edge, wrapper Very Good plus, with some tearing to the back self-wrapper along the top edge, bound with two gold brads along the top edge. …

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1944 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. In the early years of the Gold Rush, a senator's daughter takes a wagon train west in order to follow her boyfriend, a lieutenant in the US cavalry. One of the most expensive productions in Universal's history, and the only Technicolor film in which Deanna Durbin appeared. 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. Shot on location in Utah and California. 10 x 8 inches. Faint scratches on the recto, else Near Fine.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film. A painter paints a woman wearing only expensive furs and a mask that covers her face. Two brothers both believe it to be their wife in the photo since they recognize the furs. The painter lies about who the subject is and gives a fake name, not realizing it is the name of a high society woman in Vienna. Set in Vienna, Austria. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film of Anthony Quinn with Jack Elam and Joe Dominguez. Large red stamp reading "RETURN TO K.C. WHSE." on the verso. Jose Esquerda (Quinn), a Mexican bandit in Brownsville, Texas conducts raids against new settlers in the region, threatening to kill them and burn down their homes, which includes the ranch house King Cameron (Howard Keel) built for his wife (Ava Gardner). Esquerda's stepbrother Rio (Robert Taylor) at first joins him in the chaos, but soon forms a partnership with Cameron and the two stepbrothers end up in a showdown gunfight for control. Set in Texas, shot on location in Utah, USA. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, very light creasing in two corners. Pitts 3440.…

Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1937 film. With printed descriptions on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see others. Checkers (Jane Withers) and Edgar Connell (Stuart Erwin), a veterinarian, mend a horse's leg before a big race that could help save a man's farm. Filmed on location in Pomona, CA. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. …

Set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1976 western film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend, in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show, but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American west. Shot on location in Alberta, Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 554.…

Three vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1963 film. Based on Philip MacDonald's 1959 novel. A star-studded film about a former intelligence officer who receives a list of eleven names, all people who have died under mysterious circumstances. Set in London, shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 Western film, showing actor Robert Mitchum. Loosely based on the 1948 Italian film "Bicycle Thieves." A woman hires a widowed ex-con and his son to help her navigate a river journey to search for her gambler husband. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 3535.

Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Several months before the outbreak of World War II, a group of German teenage boys band together over their shared love of forbidden swing music from the US. As the Nazi party tightens its grip over the country, the boys must decide where their loyalties lie. Set in Germany, shot on location in Prague, Czech Republic. Missing wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Jonathan Marc Feldman. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. …

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film. During the Great Depression, a bank owner's bank is robbed and his protégé, an ex-con, is the only suspect. His protégé can't reveal his alibi because one of his witnesses is having an affair he does not want revealed. Partially shot on location at Citizen's National Bank in Los Angeles, California. 8 x 10 inches. Poor, with significant creasing on across the top middle of the photographs.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1954 film, showing actors Mary Murphy, Bruno VeSota, Will Wright, and others looking on as Robert Keith and Robert Osterloh restrain a wounded Marlon Brando. Based on Frank Rooney's 1951 short story "The Cyclists' Raid." Two rival motorcycle gangs raise hell in a small town, disrupting local racing events, stealing, and seducing the town girls. Widely considered the original outlaw motorcycle gang film, firmly installing the rebel biker figure as an American cultural icon and launching Marlon Brando's career from initial stardom into infamy. Set in Carbonville and Wrightsville, California, and shot on location in Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, and Hollister, California. 9 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US.…

Revised final script for the 1953 film "The Great Sioux Uprising," seen here as "Sioux Uprising." Though very loosely based on true events surrounding the two-year Red Cloud's War, during which a Cheyenne Native American chief repeatedly attacked US forces in an effort to stem the flow of White settlers, this film centers around a white man who attempts to help a Sioux tribe retrieve a large number of stolen horses, white attempting to convince them to join up with the Union soldiers instead of the Confederates. Shot on location in Oregon, with a cast partly comprised of local Native Americans. Tan titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, dated September 3, 1952. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Levy and Gill. 138 leaves, with last page of text numbered 125. Multilith duplication, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated 9/22/52 and 9/15/52. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.…

Estimating Script for the 1963 film. Two sharpshooters duel over a large amount of cash carried by a railway official, and eventually settle their differences by opening a casino. An iconic Rat Pack film. Shot on location in Mojave and Cantil, California. Tan studio wrappers, noted as Estimating Script on the front wrapper, dated March 18, 1963. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated 3-18-63, with credits for screenwriters Teddi Sherman and Robert Aldrich. 121 leaves, with last page of text numbered 119. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two gold brads. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell case. Pitts 1422.…

Second Draft script for the 1968 film, seen here under the working title "Hell's Angels Ride Again." Loosely based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic "Seven Samurai," about the leader of a motorcycle gang's romance with an American Indian waitress. Hot on the heels of the biker films of the same era, but in particular the 1967 exploitation film "Hells Angels on Wheels," also directed by Richard Rush. Shot on location in Nipton, California. Red titled wrappers, undated, with credit for screenwriter Michael Fisher. Title page integral with front wrapper, as issued. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. …

Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film, "Energy and How to Get It," circa 1980-1981. Includes tipped in ephemera, drawings, business cards, and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer, Robert Frank, June Leaf, and "Lightning" Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included are 4 reference photos, all likely unique, from the shooting of the film: two showing both Wurlitzer and Frank, one showing Wurlitzer, and one of the "Enola Gay" aircraft in the film. Mead Memo notebook, spiral bound. Green wrappers. 4.25 x 6 inches, Very Good overall, tipped in photos Near Fine. Reference photos 8 x 10 inches, Near Fine.…

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. Based on the 1945 novel, "None So Blind," by Mitchell Wilson. A Coast Guard officer develops feelings for a married woman despite the presence of her blind husband. Shot on location in Malibu, CA. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with a crease down the left side of the photos. One photo with a small tear at the right edge. One photograph with a loss at the top right corner. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film. With a provenance stamp on the verso and blind stamp at the bottom right corner relating to its censure in Denmark. Based on the 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes. A man takes a new job as a headmaster at Rugby School, where the students are notoriously difficult. Set in England. 8 x 10 inches. Good, with pin holes at the corners and one photograph with a small chip missing from the bottom left corner.…

Shooting script for the 1989 television movie, which aired on NBC on February 20 1989. Laid in are four "Television Call Sheets," three with attached maps and directions to the location shooting. When a suburban couple's young child is kidnapped, the father's hidden past in the Mafia is revealed. Featuring a supporting performance from Charlton Heston as a Mafia Don. Front wrapper integral with title page, dated November 22, 1988, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriter PHilip F. Messina. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with blue, pink, and yellow revision pages throughout, dated 11/28/88 and 12/13/88. Pages Very Good plus, with some dampstaining to the first several leaves, bound with two gold brads. …

Draft script for the first episode of the 1989-90 NBC television series, which aired on September 21, 1989. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri, who played Heavy #1, with his stamp on the top of the title page, and manuscript ink annotations on the cast page listing the actors next to their characters and noting director David Hemmings. Laid in is a Call Sheet, dated 5/15/89. Not to be confused with the 2001 film, directed by Brian Robbins starring Keanu Reeves, the 1994 Fox television series about a fictional American League baseball team, or the 2019 Australian children's television series. Created by Robert Plam, the series, about a veteran plainclothes detective, Charles Battles (John Ashton), who is about to be reassigned to a desk job or forced into retirement, and is forced to partner with a young unconventional detective, Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski (Richard Tyson), with whom he is constantly at odds, aired for one season of 18 episodes, before ending on June 29, 1980. In the premiere episode, Battles finds out he's about to be reassigned to desk job and is partnered with the young hotshot "Kaz", before being quickly assigned to protect a key witness, the wife of a mobster and an old girlfriend of Battles, who is about to testify against her husband. Set in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page, dated April 24, 1989, with credits for screenwriter Frank Lupo. 109 leaves, with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with pink revision pages throughout, dated 4/26/89. Pages Very Good plus, with light foxing to the outer leaves and fore-edge, bound with two gold brads.…

Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Five photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A pair of filmmakers, in hopes of raising money to shoot a documentary on Lenny Bruce, decide to meet that goal by shooting pornographic films with runaway flower kids in Greenwich Village over a weekend. Aspects of cinema verite mixed with sexploitation, with an early appearance by actress Joy Bang and a cameo by Robert Altman (in the same year he directed MASH). Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with some faint creasing, edgewear, and one with a wax pencil annotation on the recto.…

Vintage pressbook for the 1933 pre-Code film. A lawyer embarks on a promising career, while her husband's football career begins to fade, causing discord and resentment between the two. When he is wrongly accused of murdering another woman, she comes to his defense. 12 x 17.75 inches. 12 pages, side-stapled. Very Good plus, moderately rubbed. …

Collection of 6 original black-and-white single weight press photographs from a dog show at Harcourt portrait studios in France, presumed upon the 1959 French release of the 1957 US film, "Old Yeller," the French title being "Le Fidele Vagabond." Housed in the original brown paper envelope with with annotations on the front in manuscript pencil and ink, noting photographer M. Dole. Three photographs with Gravaert watermark, and five with brief manuscript pencil, on the versos. Among the photographs are two fascinating images behind the scenes of an animal pageant: in one, a mildly bemused audience spotted with various styles of contemporary women's hat fashion, in the other a representative from the youth organization holding a sign reading "Nous cherchons un Maître" (We are looking for a Master). A few pageant officials also seen, a presenter in horn-rimmed glasses, and two dog handlers, one resembling noted Hollywood trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who trained the original Old Yeller with his brother, Frank. Hanging portraits are also seen, all having Harcourt Studios imprint. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine, slight curling.…

Collection of 16 vintage oversize French color photographs from the 1966 film. Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke, about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan to rescue his wife from a Mexican revolutionary, only to discover the job in not exactly what it seems. A sometimes overlooked and underrated entry into the Western canon, despite being nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in Mexico and Texas, shot on location in Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1966 Western film, showing French composer Maurice Jarre conducting an orchestra for the recording of the film's soundtrack. Dutch stamps on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript ink. Based on Frank O'Rourke's 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa," about four men hired by a wealthy Texan to rescue his wife from a Mexican revolutionary, only to discover the job is not exactly what it seems. A sometimes overlooked and underrated entry into the Western canon, despite being nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Shot on location in Mexico, and throughout Arizona, Nevada, and California. 10 x 8 inches. Nick at top edge, else Near Fine. Pitts 3180.…

Vintage studio still photograph of producer Cecil B. DeMille and director Frank Tashlin talking with actress Jane Russell on the set of the 1951 film, while crew members set up the shot. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A comedy Western about a young tenderfoot who returns to his small hometown in order to claim his father's gold, which has gone missing. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light discoloration on the right edge. Pitts 4005.…