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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1994 film, showing actress Valeria Golino. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A private investigator suffers amnesia after a head injury, making it difficult for him to testify in an important murder case. 8 x 10 inches. Fine.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1936 film. A career criminal purposefully gets himself arrested and jailed to keep himself from committing more crimes. He struggles to try and get parole. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, slightly wavy from water damage along the sides.

Two vintage reference studio still photographs from the 1956 film, one showing a set design artist at work on concept drawings. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name. An Italian-American war film directed by King Vidor and starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer. Set in Russia, shot on location in Rome, Mantua, and Piedmont, Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Draft script for the 1940 film, with the name of uncredited screenwriter Leonard Lee in manuscript pencil over date on lower left. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps and manuscript annotation in pencil on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Paramount's 1940 Technicolor south seas adventure. Dea (Dorothy Lamour) is marooned on an isolated island since childhood with only the company of Koko the chimp, when Skipper Joe (Lynne Overman) and Johnny Potter (Robert Preston) are marooned on the island by a mutinous crew. The three must battle angry natives and survive tidal waves, a forest fire, and the titular typhoon to survive. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set on a South Sea island, and shot on location in Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and Baldwin Dry Lake, California. Self wrappers, with front wrapper dated July 8, 1939, rubber-stamped production No. 1908. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered E-31. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who play Ken McLaughlin, with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion, angering the mare's owner, Beaver Greenway, a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile, Ken McLaughlin (Arthur) returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award. Set in Wyoming, shot on location in Wyoming, Utah, and Ohio, USA. Blue titled wrappers, noted as Final on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 84 and production No. 133, dated April 7, 1947. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated April 7, 1947, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 129 leaves, with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining at the edges of a few leaves, wrapper Very Good with some dampstaining on the front and rear wrappers. Bound internally with three gold brads.

Three vintage photographs of director King Vidor, two on the set and one with his wife, contributing writer Elizabeth Hill, after a day of shooting the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe, manuscript annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso of each. Loosely based on Kenneth Roberts' 1937 novel of the same name. The film gives a partially fictionalized account of the St. Francis Raid, a violent attack on a settlement of the Abenakis tribe, seen by the perpetrators as an act of vengeance for the Abenakis many attacks on British settlers. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage photograph of director King Vidor, his wife and screenwriter Elizabeth Hill, and actors Hedy Lamarr and Robert Young, taken to publicize the 1941 film. With provenance stamps on the verso, along with a stamp noting No. 81-422. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on John P. Marquand's 1941 novel. A married businessman locked in a monotonous life recalls his passionate relationship with a beautiful, independent young woman twenty years prior. Lamarr's second film with Vidor, following "Comrade X" in 1940. Set in Boston. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light soil to the top edge.

Vintage borderless matte reference photograph from the 1977 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso, along with a provenance stamp. An exploitative horror film, late on the coattails of cautionary drug movies of the 1960s, about a string of violent murders in Los Angeles linked to a dangerous LSD strain called "Blue Sunshine." Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Thrower, Nightmare USA.

Two truly striking vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film, each demonstrating the film's true aspect ratio. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout and the printed label of the film's still photographer Phillip V. Caruso to the verso. Shown in the two photographs are Scorsese working with actors and crew on the expansive casino floor set. Also shown are Robert De Niro, Don Rickles, Billy Crystal, and others. Based on screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi's 1995 nonfiction book "Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas." Martin Scorsese's fifteenth film, one of his finest, a fast-paced, bloody tale following a low-level mobster and gambling expert who climbs to power at the Mafia-run Tangiers Casino in the 1970s. Set and shot on location in Las Vegas, with casino scenes shot at the Riviera. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir.