![Billy the Kid Versus Dracula [Billy] (Original screenplay for the 1966 film, annotated working copy)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/581/860/1521860581.0.m.jpg)
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula [Billy] (Original screenplay for the 1966 film, annotated working copy)
by William Beaudine (director); Carl K. Hittleman (screenwriter); John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Plowman (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film, here under the working title "Billy." Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, amending the title to "Original Dracula Meets Billy the Kid." Copy likely belonging to screenwriter Carl K. Hittleman, with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on virtually every page, amending dialogue and scene numbers, with two... Read More
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Borderline (Original mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir)
by William A. Seiter (director); Devery Freeman (screenwriter); Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. Police officer Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Raymond Burr, the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie, she is kidnapped by Fred MacMurray, who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. Shot on... Read More
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![Far From Vietnam [Loin du Vietnam] (Original photograph from the 1967 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/708/659/1596659708.0.m.jpg)
Far From Vietnam [Loin du Vietnam] (Original photograph from the 1967 film)
by William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnes Varda, Alan Resnais, Chris Marker, Joris Ivens (directors); Jean-Luc Godard (director, screenwriter); Jacques Sternberg, Chris Marker (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 French anthology film, showing actress Karen Blanguernon. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An antiwar anthology documentary film by seven prominent directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. Shot in New York City. 10 x 8 inches.... Read More
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Borderline (Original photograph from the set of the 1950 film noir)
by William A. Seiter (director); Devery Freeman (screenwriter); Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, Jose Torvay, Morris Ankrum (starring)
Paris: Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions, 1950. Vintage photograph of actress Claire Trevor and various members of the crew on the set of the 1950 film noir. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. US Police officer Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor) goes undercover to get close to Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) the leader of a... Read More
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![Far From Vietnam [Loin du Vietnam] (Eight original photographs from the 1967 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/769/1368769152.0.m.jpg)
Far From Vietnam [Loin du Vietnam] (Eight original photographs from the 1967 film)
by William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnes Varda, Alan Resnais, Joris Ivens (directors); Jean-Luc Godard (director, screenwriter); Jacques Sternberg, Chris Marker (screenwriters); Anne Bellec, Bernard Fresson, Maurice Garrel (starring)
London: Contemporary Films, 1967. Eight vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 French anthology film. With printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the verso. Also included with the set is a two-page mimeographally duplicated press pamphlet in English. An anti-war anthology documentary film by seven prominent French directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese... Read More
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (Original photograph from the 1977 film)
by William Devane, Clifton James, Jackie Earle Haley (starring); Michael Pressman (director); Paul Brickman, Bill Lancaster (screenwriters)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1977 film. Paper snipe affixed to the verso and folded around the front of the image. Chris Barnes reprises his role as the foul-mouthed Tanner Boyle in this 1977 sequel to the sports-drama "The Bad News Bears." Shot on location in California and Texas. ... Read More
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Lee and the Boys in the Back Room (Original poster for the 1987 play, signed by William S. Burroughs)
by William S. Burroughs (novel, correspondence); Paul Stephen Lim (playwright)
Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Community Theater, 1987. Vintage window card poster for the premiere of the 1987 play, which ran from May 8-12, 1987, at the Lawrence Community Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas—where Burroughs resided the last 16 years of his life. SIGNED and dated "William S Burroughs / 12/18/87." With the encouragement of Burroughs and Burroughs' personal assistant... Read More
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White Tie and Tails (Original publicity photograph from the 1946 film)
by William Bendix, Dan Duryea, Ella Raines (starring); Charles Barton (director); Rufus King (novel); Bertram Millhauser, Charles Beakon (screenwriters)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage publicity photograph of actor William Bendix from the 1946 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Rufus King's novel "Double Murder," originally serialized in "Red Book" in 1929. A butler posing as a wealthy man falls in love with a beautiful woman, promising to help her bail out... Read More
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Excess Baggage (Original screenplay for the 1928 early sound film)
by William Haines, Delmer Daves, Ricardo Cortez, Greta Granstedt (starring); James Cruze (director); Frances Marion, Ralph Spence (screenwriters); John McGowan (play)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 film. An early sound film, today considered lost, released with no dialogue, but with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, using sound-on-disc and sound-on-film processes. Based on John McGowan's 1927 play, about a cocky small-time acrobat who marries a talented dancer, then struggles with resentment as... Read More
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Bummer! (Original photograph from the 1973 film)
by William Allen Castleman (director); Alvin L. Fast (screenwriter); Kipp Whitman, Dennis Burkely, Connie Strickland, Carol Speed (starring)
N.p.: Entertainment Ventures, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film. The bass player for an amateur rock band, The Group, goes on a killing spree while travelling with his band on the road. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Thrower, Nightmare USA.... Read More
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Devil's Island (Original screenplay for the 1939 film, copy belonging to director William Clemens)
by William Clemens (director); Kenneth Gamet, Don Ryan (screenwriters); Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrigan, James Stephenson (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film, copy belonging to director William Clemens, with his name faintly visible on the well-worn front wrapper, and with annotations in manuscript pencil on every page except two, as well as many of the versos. Although the front wrapper and registration page identify the script as "Part I,"... Read More
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Born to the Saddle (Original one sheet poster for the 1953 film)
by William Beaudine (director); Adele Buffington (screenwriter); Leif Erickson, Donald Woods, Rand Brooks, Chuck Courtney (starring)
California: Elliott-Shelton Films, 1953. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1953 film. A young boy (Courtney) is befriended by a horse trainer (Woods), who has the boy train a new horse for an upcoming, albeit fixed, race. Written for screen by Adele Buffington, a major proponent of using original screenplays during the silent film... Read More
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All the Young Wives (Original photograph from the 1973 film)
by William Diehl (director); Raymond Marlowe Jr. (screenwriter); Gerald Richards, Edmund Genest, Linda Cook (starring)
N.p.: United Film Organization, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A wealthy rancher and land baron has his way with the local wives, but when his own wife starts a fling with his horse trainer, who has nothing to lose, trouble is imminent. Shot on location in... Read More
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Johnny Cool (Original photograph of Elizabeth Montgomery from the 1963 film)
by William Asher (director); John McPartland (novel); Joseph Landon (screenwriter); Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film noir, showing a semi-nude Elizabeth Montgomery. Based on the 1959 novel "The Kingdom of Johnny Cool" by John McPartland, about an exiled American in Rome who recruits a hit man to return to the US and take revenge on the people who forced... Read More
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The Exorcist (Original photograph from the 1973 film)
by William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter); Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Linda Blair in front of the National Theatre in Westwood, California, where crowds have lined up to see "The Exorcist." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1971 novel by screenwriter William Peter Blatty. The first and finest film in the series, following... Read More
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The Revengers (Two original photographs from the 1972 film)
by William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Susan Hayward, Scott Holden (starring); Daniel Mann (director); Steven W. Carabatsos (story); Wendell Mayes (screenwriter)
N.p.: National General Pictures, 1972. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film, one of Susan Hayward and one of Scott Holden. Based on a story by Steven W. Carabatsos. A key Western vigilante film, John Benedict (Holden) leads a peaceful life on his ranch until a gang of Comanche Indians, led by a white man,... Read More
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Lover Come Back (Original photograph of Vera Zorina and George Brent from the 1946 film)
by William A. Seiter (director); Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano (screenwriter); Lucille Ball, Vera Zorina, George Brent (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1946 film, showing actors Vera Zorina and George Brent. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. A woman is anxious to spend time with her war correspondent husband when he returns home, but begins to suspect he has had several extramarital affairs during his absence, and... Read More
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The Whip Hand (Original banner poster for the 1951 film)
by William Cameron Menzies (director); George Bricker, Frank L. Moss (screenwriters); Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Raymond Burr (starring)
Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1951. Vintage banner poster for the 1951 film. Elliott Reid, a magazine writer on a fishing vacation in Wisconsin, stumbles upon a nearly deserted town, where all of the fish have mysteriously died and the villagers are either tight-lipped or outright hostile, eventually uncovering a communist plot to poison the US water supply. ... Read More
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The Best Years of Our Lives (Original production document for the 1946 film)
by William Wyler (director); MacKinlay Kantor (novella); Robert E. Sherwood (screenwriter); Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews (starring)
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Vintage draft production document made for the shooting of the 1946 film, entirely specific to the many extras in the film (see images). Lacking the front wrapper and the first 4 leaves of text. Based on MacKinlay Kantor's 1945 classic novella "Glory for Me," about three veterans who return home,... Read More
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Trifling with Honor (Original jumbo window card for the 1923 film)
by William Slavens McNutt (short story); Harry A. Pollard (director); Raymond L. Schrock (screenwriter); Rockliffe Fellowes, Fritzi Ridgewary, Buddy Messinger (starring)
N.p.: Universal Jewel, 1923. Vintage hand-tinted jumbo window card for the 1923 film. Also released under the titles "His Good Name" and "Your Good Name." Based on the 1922 short story "His Good Name" by William Slavens McNutt. Years after returning home from prison and finding his mother dead and father evicted, Bat Shugrue, then known as "Gas-Pipe... Read More
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An Angle of Love (Two original photographs from the 1968 film)
by William K. Hennigar (director); Coral Byrde, Gary Allen, Gregory Hope (starring)
N.p.: Distribpix, 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Gloria is a frigid virgin and a tease until she is raped in her hallway, turning her into a voracious nymphomaniac. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with faint creasing at the extremities. ... Read More
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The Iron Curtain (Original photograph of Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews from the 1948 film)
by William A. Wellman (director); Milton Krims (screenwriter); Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger, Edna Best (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film, showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko, a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release, with liberals protesting the film's depiction... Read More
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Mrs. Miniver (Original photograph of William Wyler, Walter Pidgeon, and Jan Struther accepting awards at Radio City Music Hall for the 1942 film)
by William Wyler (director); Jan Struther (novel); Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West (screenwriters); Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1942. Vintage photograph of director William Wyler, writer Jan Struther, and actor Walter Pidgeon accepting Radio City Music Hall Oscarette awards for the 1942 film "Mrs. Miniver." Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with file stamps. Based on Struther's 1940 novel, about the experiences of an unassuming British housewife during World War II.... Read More
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Blazing Days (Original photograph from the 1927 film)
by William Wyler (director); Robert F. Hill, George H. Plympton (screenwriters); Ena Gregory, Fred Hume, Bruce Gordon (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 silent Western film. While en route to repay his debts, a rancher is robbed, deciding to pursue the bandit. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing at the corners.
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Original press photograph of W. Somerset Maugham and Glenway Wescott playing cards, 1942
by William [ W.] Somerset Maugham, Glenway Wescott (subject); Serge Balkin (photographer)
N.p.: N.p., 1942. Vintage double weight borderless press photograph of writer W. Somerset Maugham and his friend, fellow writer and American expatriate Glenway Wescott, playing cards together in 1942. PIX agency stamp crediting photographer Serge Balkin and partial printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Wescott and Maugham were lifelong friends, having first met in 1928 in the... Read More
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