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Los Angeles: The Producers Group, 1984. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the inside rear wrapper, noting a name and phone number. Loosely based on the 1982 "Life" magazine article "To Die in Lima: a Cocaine Tragedy, the Tale of an American Who Got Mixed Up in the Drug… Read more about this item

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1939. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1939 film. A prison warden must decide between keeping a huge lot of stolen goods and saving a man from the electric chair. Tall yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as production No. 1032, with credits for director Arthur Lubin and actors… Read more about this item

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1950. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1950 film noir. A paroled ex-con gets a job at a sanitarium and promptly falls for a gold-digging nurse, leading him back into crime in order to win her over with wealth. White titled self wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: European American Entertainment, 1990. Second Draft script for the 1991 film, here under the working title "Chained Heat II," with a manuscript marker annotation of copy number "40" on the front wrapper. Not to be confused with the 1993 film, "Chained Heat II," directed by Lloyd Simandl and starring Brigitte Nielsen and Paul Koslo. Copy… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1930. Vintage reference photograph from the 1930 film. Based on the 1929 play by Martin Flavin. A man convicted of manslaughter over a drunken brawl is given new work duties as a valet for the warden. A group of prisoners plan to escape but are ratted out by an informant. When one… Read more about this item

N.p.: Allan Dwan, 1920. Vintage reference photograph from the 1920 silent film, showing actor James Kirkwood. A doctor frames his colleague and former friend for an illegal abortion, resulting in the man being sent to prison for five years. When he is released, his new outlook on life leads him to reject the kindness of others. … Read more about this item

New York: American International Pictures [AIP], 1972. Collection of 10 vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film, housed in their original envelope stamped "Savage Sisters / 10 Stills / Story in Tens," with the original three-page press release of descriptions for all ten photographs. Pam Grier and Margaret Markov escape from a remote women's prison, aided… Read more about this item

New York: American International Pictures [AIP], 1974. Collection of 10 vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film, housed in their original envelope stamped "Savage Sisters / (Story in Ten) / 10 Stills," with the original two-page press release of descriptions for all ten photographs. A "women in prison" exploitation film which eschews sex for revolutionary politics… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Vintage studio still photograph of Mickey Rooney from the 1959 film noir. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1932 film starring Preston Foster, about nine death row inmates whose uneasy peace is disrupted by the arrival of a vicious, hardened killer hell-bent on a… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's review slip laid in. Basis for the 2000 film directed by Steve Buscemi, written by Edward Bunker, and starring Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, and Danny Trejo. Faint foxing on the top page edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Estimating Script for the 1970 film, seen here under the working title "The Prison Story." Included is a vintage reference photograph from the film. The leader of a band of outlaws steals $500,000, but not before many in the gang are shot dead. Before he is arrested, he hides the loot in… Read more about this item

Washington DC: The United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, 1951. First Edition. First Edition. Complete in ten volumes. A correspondence course for jail personnel, with each volume detailing different aspects of the job-including food, sanitation and safety, reception of new prisoners, medical and health services, supervision, prison labor, and "unusual prisoners in the jail," a broad… Read more about this item

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 about this item

New York: Samuel French, 1930. First Edition. First Edition, wrappered variant. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Audrey and Bill / Happy we are together / John Wexley / 2/14/46." Name stamp of one of the inscribees, Audrey Wood of Westport, Connecticut, on the front endpaper. Basis for the 1959 film noir starring Mickey… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. Play that is the basis for the 1950 film noir "Convicted," starring Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, and Dorothy Malone. Rare in dust jacket. Near Fine in an About Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is professional mended at several spots along the folds, a bit spotted… Read more about this item

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1957. First published in hardcover in the UK by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1957, and first published by Dell in the US as a paperback original the same year. This offering includes both the editions, the paperback original being SIGNED by the author on the title page and scarce thus. Basis for the… Read more about this item

N.p.: Sam Lake, 1969. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film, here titled "Detention Girls" (without the definite article). Seven of the photos show a stamp noting No. 73-645 on the bottom right corner of the recto (in the white margin), and one with the number written in the same spot in manuscript ink. … Read more about this item

N.p.: Golden State Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, belonging to actress Adele Jergens, with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper, and printed title inked over, both in manuscript ink. Annotations throughout, striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny, played by Jergens, in manuscript ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips, all… Read more about this item

N.p.: Kaufman-Lubin Productions, 1962. Collection of 104 vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film including some great in-character photographs and head shots from Ben Gazzara, Sammy Davis Jr., Broderick Crawford, Vincent Price, Roland LaStarza, Timothy Carey, Ray Walston and others, also includes 5 photographs of Gazzara with author John Resko and one head shot of Resko. Mimeo snipes… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1945. Third Draft Continuity script for the 1945 film, here under the working title "This is the Law." Copy belonging to producer Ben Silvey, with his name on the front wrapper and manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. A stern judge moves with his family across state lines for a new job as a prison warden,… Read more about this item