The Hill (Original British front-of-house card from the 1965 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Ray Rigby (play, screenwriter); Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch (starring)
London: National Screen Service, 1965. Vintage black-and-white British front-of-house card from the 1965 UK film. Based on the play by Ray Rigby, about a British disciplinary camp on the Libyan desert. Winner at the 1965 Cannes festival for Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creases.
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Raiders of the Seven Seas (Two original British front-of-house cards from the 1953 film)
by Sidney Salkow (director, screenwriter); John O'Dea (screenwriter); John Payne, Donna Reed, Gerald Mohr, Lon Chaney (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1953. Two vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1953 US film. A true pirate adventure, a low-budget and campy B-film. With such a high-quality list of B-grade stars, it's difficult to deny the enthusiasm. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Daniel (Original photograph of cast and crew members on the set of the 1983 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); E.L. Doctorow (novel, screenwriter); Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Asher (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1982. Vintage oversize photograph of cast and crew members posing together on the set of the 1983 film. Based on E.L. Doctorow's 1971 novel "The Book of Daniel," about the lives, trial, and execution of convicted Soviet spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, told through the memories of their son. 14 x 11 inches.... Read More
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Find Me Guilty (Original screenplay for the 2006 film)
by Sidney Lumet (direcctor, screenwriter); Vin Diesel, Alex Rocco, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Linus Roache (starring); T.J. Mancini, Robert J. McCrea (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 2004. Shooting script for the 2006 film, seen here under the working title "Jackie Dee." Production document laid in the script, dated October 29, 2004, with an annotation in manuscript pencil noting the name of actor Tony Ray Rossi. Based on the real life trial of mobster Jack DiNorscio, the longest Mafia trial in American... Read More
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Three Hats for Lisa (Original British front-of-house card from the 1966 film)
by Sidney Hayers (director); Leslie Bricusse and Jack Hanbury (screenwriters); Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Sidney James (starring)
London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Warner-Pathe, 1966. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1966 UK film. Three young Englishmen take a day off to meet a foreign movie star at an airport, and she subsequently persuades them to steal hats from their wearers. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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A Warm December (Original photograph from the 1973 film)
by Sidney Poitier (director, starring); Lawrence Roman (screenwriter); Ester Anderson, Yvette Curtis, George Baker (starring)
Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios, 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 film, showing director Sidney Poitier and a camera crew filming a scene with Yvette Curtis on location in Trafalgar Square. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A recently widowed African American doctor and his daughter spend a month-long vacation in London, where he falls in... Read More
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Lady Sings the Blues (Three original photographs from the 1972 film)
by Sidney J. Furie (director); Billie Holiday (book, subject); Suzanne de Passe, Chris Clark, Terence McCloy (screenwriters); Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1972. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 film, all three showing actress Diana Ross. Based on Holiday's 1956 autobiography, which recounts her troubled rise to fame, failed romantic relationships, and drug addiction. Ross' film debut. Set in New York and Baltimore. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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The Snake Woman [The Lady is a Snake] (Original screenplay for the 1961 film)
by Sidney J. Furie (director); Orville H. Hampton (screenwriter); John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Geoffrey Denton (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in manuscript 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... Read More
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Stage Struck (Original photograph from the 1958 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Zoe Akins (play); Augustus Goetz and Ruth Goetz (screenwriters); Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall (starring)
Culver City, CA: National Screen Service / RKO Radio Pictures, 1958. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1958 film. Based on a play by Zoe Akins, about a girl who comes to New York to become an actress. Henry Fonda stars as a seasoned producer and Christopher Plummer a blossoming playwright, both of whom are madly in... Read More
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The Big Night (Eight original photographs from the 1960 film)
by Sidney Salkow (director); Ric Hardman (screenwriter); Randy Sparks, Venetia Stevenson, Dick Foran, Jesse White (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Seven with dealer stamps on the verso. Not to be confused with the 1950 film of the same name. A group of teenagers find a briefcase of money, leading to discord and consternation about what to do with the cash. 10 x 8... Read More
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Shadows Over Chinatown (Original photograph from the 1946 film)
by Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland (starring); Terry O. Morse (director); Earl Derr Biggers (novel); Raymond L. Schrock (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures, 1946. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1946 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The second-to-last film to feature Sidney Toler as Chinese detective Charlie Chan, and the 38th of 47 "Charlie Chan" films in total. Set in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, lightly... Read More
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Brother John (Original photograph for the 1971 film)
by Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Beverly Todd, Bradford Dillman (starring); James Goldstone (director); Ernest Kinoy (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director James Goldstone with a camera on the set of the 1971 film. A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor, however, knows the man holds a... Read More
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That's My Story! (Original publicity photograph from the 1937 film)
by Sidney Salkow (director); Barry Trivers (screenwriter); Claudia Morgan, William Lundigan, Herbert Mundin (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1937. Vintage publicity photograph of Herbert Mundin and Claudia Morgan from the 1937 film. 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... Read More
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Brother John [Kane] (Original screenplay for the 1971 film)
by Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Beverly Todd, Bradford Dillman (starring); James Goldstone (director); Ernest Kinoy (screenwriter)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "Kane." Copy belonging to actor Bradford Dillman, with his stamp to the title page, and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two manuscript pages with Dillman's notes on blocking for various scenes, and two gatherings of cast... Read More
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The Golden West As Seen By the Ridgway Club (First Edition)
by Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop writing as Margaret Sidney
Boston: D. Lothrop, 1886. First Edition. First Edition. A travel diary of a group of young people's train adventures through the American southwest, with particular detail on New Mexico and California. Very Good, with no dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription on the front endpaper. Hinges slightly loose, with a touch of fray on the spine ends and corners.... Read More
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The Beginner [Into the Spirit of Times, Past and Present] (Original screenplay for the 1985 German film)
by Sigi Rothemund (director); Mike Kruger, Thomas Gottschalk (screenwriters, starring); Anja Kruse, Gerd Baltus (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1985. Draft script for the 1985 German film, here under the English title "Into the Spirit of Times, Past and Present." With annotations in manuscript pencil on the first three pages regarding casting, noted as copy No. 112 in manuscript ink on the title page. Text and titles in English. The fourth and final entry in... Read More
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Half Moon Street (Original screenplay for the 1986 film)
by Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh (starring); Bob Swaim (director, screenwriter); Paul Theroux (novel); Edward Behr (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1984. Second Draft agency script for the 1986 film. From the collection of novelist William Hjortsberg, who worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood between 1977-1985. Hjortsberg is best known for the film adaptation of "Angel Heart" (1987), based on his 1978 novel. Based on the 1984 novel "Doctor Slaughter" by Paul Theroux. An American... Read More
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Alien (Four original photographs from the 1979 film)
by Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton (starring); Ridley Scott (director); Dan O'Bannon, Walter Hill, David Giler (screenwriters); H.R. Giger (effects)
N.p.: N.p., 1979. Four vintage color reference photographs from the 1979 film, all four showing actress Sigourney Weaver along with others in the cast. One of the greatest science fiction/horror films ever made, a franchise so rich in themes and expandability that it has generated three sequels and two prequels. Returning home from a mission, the... Read More
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The Unlikely Spy (Signed First Edition)
by Daniel Silva
New York: Villard Books / Random House, 1996. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author and dated 1/25/1997 on the half-title page. The author's first book, a World War II mystery. About Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Yohko Hashimoto: One Moment Now (First Edition, inscribed)
by [Yohko Hashimoto] Arturo Silva
Paris: Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by the artist: "To Mr. Chris / Ms. Geri Dark / with big kiss / Yohko Hashimoto," accompanied by the artist's seal. Text in English, Japanese, and French. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Art Jonction International, Fair of Contemporary Art, Palais... Read More
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Loot (Original screenplay for the 1970 film)
by Silvio Narizzano (director); Joe Orton (play); Ray Galton, Alan Simpson (screenwriters); Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea, Roy Holder (starring)
London: Performing Arts Ltd, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Director Silvio Narizzano's broad, frenetic, and cheeky adaptation of Joe Orton's viscously farcical 1965 play, wherein two gay lovers, Hal and Dennis, successfully rob a bank and stash the loot in Hal's mother's coffin in the funeral parlor next door. A decidedly queer spin on... Read More
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As of Tomorrow [Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich] (Original photograph from the 1976 film)
by Silvia Dionisio, Curd Jürgens, Carroll Baker, Arthur Kennedy (starring); Franz Antel (director); Willy Pribil, Sauro Scavolini (screenwriters)
Frankfurt: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 German film, showing actress Silvia Dionisio. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, with text in German. 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,... Read More
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Blue (Original screenplay for the 1968 film)
by Silvio Narizzano (director); Ronald M. Cohen, Meade Roberts (screenwriters); Terence Stamp, Sally Kirkland (starring)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1967. Revised Preliminary script for the 1968 film. A Mexican bandit follows his father on a raid into the United States and falls for a beautiful woman, leaving his life of crime to be with her. Set in Mexico and the American West, shot on location in Utah. Green titled wrappers with... Read More
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Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete [The Minotaur] (Six original photographs from the 1960 film)
by Silvio Amadio (director); Gian Paolo Callegari, Sandro Continenza (screenwriters); Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 Italian film. Based on the Greek legend of Theseus, a hero from Athens who is said to have slain the Minotaur, a deadly, godlike beast living inside a labyrinth on the island of Crete. A rare film appearance of American Olympic gold medalist... Read More
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Fanatic [Die! Die! My Darling!] (Original photograph of Tallulah Bankhead on the set of the 1965 film)
by Silvio Narizzano (director); Elizabeth Linington writing as Anne Blaisdell (novel); Richard Matheson (screenwriter); Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan (starring)
London: Hammer Films, 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Tallulah Bankhead during filming on location for the 1965 Hammer film, while to the right a camera crew captures the shot. Provenance stamp to the verso. Based on the 1961 novel "Nightmare" by Elizabeth Linington writing as Anne Blaisdell, about a woman who is stalked and terrorized... Read More
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