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IVAN THE TERRIBLE A Screenplay.
by Eisenstein, Sergei M. ; Montagu, Ivor & Marshall, Herbert translators
New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book has some light wear on the spine, dust jacket has wear around the edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Price clipped jacket with light rubbing and edgewear. .
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£20.24
All about Eve A screenplay
by Mankiewicz, Joseph L
NY. Very Good with no dust jacket; No DJ. Boards show minor wear but nothing . major. Hinges are tight and pages are clean. ; Hardcover; Random House; . 1951. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 p. .
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£52.62
LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, A (1973) Theatre script dated Mar 5, 1973
by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman (source)
Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Playing version 5 March 1973. New York: Harold Prince. Vintage original theatre script, USA. Brad bound in leatherette printed wrappers for Studio Duplicating Service, Inc. Quarto, mimeograph, [1], 73, [1], 49 pp., wear to yapped covers at edges and also near bottom (where there is some damage to a blank area), stains to title page, the rest of the text is...
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£809.50
MISTER ED - "ED A GO-GO" (1965) TV script signed by Johnny Crawford
by Lou Derman, Larry Rhine
Hollywood: Filmways TV Productions, 1965. Vintage original television script. Self-wrappers, bound in plain tan wrappers with handwritten label, 11 x 8.5" (28 x 21 cm.), mimeograph, 42 pp. At front are also bound in 3 pp. of call sheets and a 7 pp. shooting schedule. This script belonged to child actor Johnny Crawford, who signed it on title page. Some pages of revisions on blue and pink paper dated up through 7/19/65 are also bound in."Ed a Go-Go" was the 2nd episode of the sixth season, broadcast on...
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£263.09
(Film noir) ONE WAY STREET (Sep 14, 1949) Revised first continuity script by Lawrence Kimble
by Lawrence Kimble
Universal. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), noted as Revised First Continuity script, here under the film's working title Death on a Side Street. That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title One Way Street written just above it. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in manuscript pencil on a second title page. Brief annotations throughout in...
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£688.08
ALL THE YOUNG MEN (Sep 15, 1959) Revised Final Draft script by Hall Bartlett
by Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett (screenwriter) Hollywood: Columbia Pictures. Brad bound, quarto, mimeograph, 131 pp., a few penciled notes throughout, a few pages with markings in heavy pen, and some pages of revisions on yellow paper dated Sept. 22, 1959. Various editorial notes on back wrapper in an unknown hand, overall NEAR FINE.A Korean War film in which Sidney Poitier was second-billed in the role of a stalwart troop commander who is forced to deal with racism as well as incoming fire.
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£364.28
LOOT (1970) Final Draft screenplay ca. Sep. 1969
by Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Joe Orton (source)
Joe Orton (source) Final Draft Screenplay London: Performing Arts Ltd., [1970]. Vintage original film script, Laid in is a form dealing with a delivery, dated September 13, 1969. Copy belonging to crew member Robert Canning, with his signature on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style, notated as copy no. 26 in holograph ink. Title page present, noted as Final Draft Screenplay, with credits for screenwriters Ray Galton and Alan...
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£1,214.25
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY: THE SCREENPLAY
by Dunne, Philip, (Richard Llewllyn)
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1990. First edition thus, Based on the book by Richard Llewllyn, Screenplay for the film directed by John Ford which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. SIGNED BY DUNNE. Illustrated with stills from the movie, many of which were deleted from the final cut, and includes a lengthy essay by Dunne on the making of the film. One of only 1000 copies in the trade edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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£60.71
BRAVE NEW WORLD, PART I & II (1978) Set of 2 revised draft scripts
by Robert E. Thompson, Doran William Cannon, Aldous Huxley (source)
Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Aldous Huxley (source) Robert E. Thompson (screenwriter) Set of two (2) vintage original revised draft scripts, USA. [Hollywood]: Universal Studios, 1978. Two volumes, brad bound, printed wrappers, quarto,.[1],118;[1],119-234. Revised drafts of scripts for what was originally conceived as a two part mini-series, but aired on television in the U.S. in March of 1980 as an abridged, single 3-hour film. The BBC, however, broadcast the uncut version in March of...
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£404.75
WONDERFUL TOWN (1958) TV script dated Nov 19, 1958 for live production
by Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields (source)
Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields (source) Vintage original television script, USA. New York: Fields Productions/CBS, 19 November 1958. [4],197,[1] leaves plus lettered inserts, etc. Quarto, mixed mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Some use and creasing, pencil annotations throughout. Script was never bound, and shows various creases throughout, VERY GOOD. A script utilized in the course of the production of the November 1958 television broadcast of Chodorov and Field's musical hit (which was...
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£303.56
SORCERER (ca. 1975) Script by Walon Green based on Georges Arnaud novel
by Walon Green, Georges Arnaud (source)
William Friedkin (director) A Screenplay by Walon Green, based on the novel Le Salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear) by Georges Arnaud. ND (ca. 1975) Vintage original film script, quarto, mimeograph, plain stiff wrappers, 200 pp. Wear to edges of blank wrappers, title labeled in ink on spine, FINE in VERY GOOD+ wrappers. Script belonged to art director Alex Tavoularis, who has had a distinguished career, but does not seem to have actually worked on this film.
Walon Green was born in Baltimore, MD on... Read more about this item
Walon Green was born in Baltimore, MD on... Read more about this item
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£607.12
PAT AND MIKE (1952) Film script by Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin dated Jun 6, 1951
by Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (screenwriters) George Cukor (director) Vintage original film script, USA. Culver City: MGM, June 6, 1951. Quarto, printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, chipping to blank back wrapper, 142 pp., overall NEAR FINE. Pat and Mike was the second romantic comedy written for director George Cukor by the married screenwriting team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin that was specifically tailored for its stars, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who were friends of Gordon and Kanin....
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£2,023.75
SEARCHING WIND, THE (1946) Final White script by Lillian Hellman, November 7, 1945
by Lillian Hellman
Vintage original film script, quarto, studio mimegoraph, 133 pp., bound into folder with metal clasps, title page torn and partly detached, some staining to last 30 or so pages, VERY GOOD. Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney, dir: William Dieterle; Paramount. "Final White," November 7, 1945. One of a few screenplays entirely credited to Lillian Hellman, this one adapted from her play of the same name. This movie is about an American diplomat who reflects on mistakes he made in the years prior to World War II....
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£1,214.25
Peter Jackson - A Film-Maker's Journey
by Brian Sibley
In very good condition - has slight markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In this authorised biography, the boy from Wellington's Pukerua Bay reveals how be beat Hollywood at its own game. It is a story of passion, single-minded determination, and, above all, an artistic vision and a sense of dramatic scale.Through Jackson's eyes and own words, as well as re-tellings and memories of friends, family and associates, we are shown how the director's early...
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STREET SCENE (1931) Revised film script Jun 20, 1931 by Elmer Rice
by Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (source, screenwriter), King Vidor (director) [Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Productions], 1931. Vintage original film script, USA. Quarto, brad bound, printed wrappers, mimeograph, 146 pp., moderate fraying of edges of yapped covers, JUST ABOUT FINE in NEAR FINE wrappers. Signed on front wrapper by assistant director Bruce Humberstone, using his nickname "Lucky".Elmer Rice won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1929 play about the interactions between an ethnically diverse group of poor residents of a...
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THE MIGHTY BARNUM: A Screen Play
by Fowler, Gene, and Bess Meredyth
New York: Covici Freide, (1934). First edition. Illustrated with photographs from the movie. Touted as "the first full-length scenario for an actual talking picture production to be published in book form." If not the first screenplay to published in book form, certainly among the very earliest. INSCRIBED TO A MAJOR BOOK COLLECTOR BY FOWLER, "To that assidious and clever collector, and my friend as well, Earle Bernheimer. Gene Fowler 1947." Bernheimer was part owner of a film company and a patron of...
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TOM SAWYER (Jul 20, 1930) First white script adapted from Mark Twain
by Sam Wintz, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt (screenwriters), Mark Twain (source)
[Hollywood: Paramount Pictures], July 20, 1930. Vintage original film script, folio, self-wrappers, 143 leaves, printed on rectos only. Mimeograph, pages near fine in very good wrappers, detached at punch holes, with closed tears and light soiling, side with three staples. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. Screenplay by Sam Wintz, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt. Adapted from the novel by Mark Twain.
The third film adaptation of Tom Sawyer -- preceded by a silent short in 1907 and a... Read more about this item
The third film adaptation of Tom Sawyer -- preceded by a silent short in 1907 and a... Read more about this item
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WINGS OF EAGLES, THE (1957) Two variant film scripts
by Frank Fenton
John Ford (director) Frank Fenton (screenwriter) Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 21 July - 4 October 1955 and 20 February - 11 July [rerun 27 July] 1956. Two volumes. 116 leaves, plus duplicate leaf 116 printing variant text; and [1],123 leaves, plus lettered inserts. Quarto. The first comprised of carbon typescript on yellow paper (with each leaf marked 'Permanent Script File' in red), and mimeographed typescript, text on rectos only. Brad bound in studio wrappers, with studio labels and stamps. A few...
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£2,145.18
FLYING DOWN TO RIO (Aug 25, 1933) Final film script
by Louis Brock
RKO. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. [Hollywood]: RKO, 1933. Vintage original film script, quarto, brad-bound, carbon typescript on onionskin. Tan titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 687, dated August 25, 1933, with credits for author Louis Brock. 161 leaves, with last page of text numbered 159. Ribbon copy typescript, rectos only. Brad-bound, light vertical creasing, near fine....
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£1,214.25
SLEEP ON THE ROOF (1967) Unproduced script based on the life of Margaret Sanger
by Marcia F. Cohen
No binding. Very Good. Manuscript Margaret Sanger (subject) Story and Screenplay by Marcia F. Cohen dated May 19, 1967. Vintage film script, quarto. 128 pp., in plain stiff wrappers, bolt bound, with typed label affixed. Mimeograph on blue paper, with some scattered MS revisions in Cohen's hand, and a few pages of revisions on onionskin paper. An unproduced screenplay for the life of Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an American nurse who became a birth control activist, sex educator,...
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£404.75
Clockwise: A Screenplay
by Frayn, Michael
Methuen, London, 1986. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Between pages 48 and 49 there are eight pages of black and white film stills. Colour photographic card cover, showing that John Cleese, with black, white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and yellow and white coloured titles to the backstrip. A fast about a high school headmaster who has a obsession session of time, whose trip to Norwich is one disaster after another. Creasing to the book corners...
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£4.81
LONG WALK HOME, THE (1990) 2nd draft script dated Oct 13, 1988
by John Cork
Softcover/Paperback. Fine. Manuscript (African American film) Vintage original Second Draft film script by John Cork, USA. Los Angeles: Dave Bell Associates, October 13, 1988. Plain wrappers, 112 pp., NEAR FINE. Whoopi Goldberg starred as a maid/nanny for a white family in Montgomery, Alabama, at the time of the city's 1955 bus boycott. The film was released to generally very positive reviews, and remains one of Goldberg's best-remembered films of the period.
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£303.56
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Oct 3, 1961) First Draft screenplay by Horton Foote, based on the 1960 novel by Harper Lee
by Horton Foote, Harper Lee (source)
[Hollywood]: Universal Pictures, October 3, 1961. Printed wrappers, brad bound, quarto, mimeograph, 157 pp. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), A few markings on front cover, generally near fine in very good+ covers. This particular script apparently belonged to Larry Germain, who was the film's hair stylist. It does not have any annotations in his hand.
This is the first draft of Horton Foote's Academy Award-winning screenplay adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper... Read more about this item
This is the first draft of Horton Foote's Academy Award-winning screenplay adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper... Read more about this item
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£4,047.50
![SHERLOCK HOLMES FIGHTS BACK [released as: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON] (1942) Screenplay](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/567/1349567493.0.b.jpg)
SHERLOCK HOLMES FIGHTS BACK [released as: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON] (1942) Screenplay
by Scott Darling, Edward T. Lowe, SIr Arthur Conan Doyle (source)
Screenplay by Scott Darling & Edward T. Lowe, based on a free adaptation of "The Dancing Men" (later "The Adventure of the Dancing Men") by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, released as SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON [Los Angeles: Universal Pictures], 22 May-17 June 1942. [1],110 leaves plus numerous numbered or lettered revised inserts or appended leaves. Quarto. Original carbon typescript on rectos only of onion skin stock denoted "Contract File Copy" in red. Brad bound in typed wrappers (neatly...
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£1,619.00
![The Symphony Story [Unfaithfully Yours]. Screenplay by Preston Sturges](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/090/788/707788090.0.b.jpg)
The Symphony Story [Unfaithfully Yours]. Screenplay by Preston Sturges
by Sturges, Preston
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Mimeographed sheets, 159 pages. Brad-fastened in covers stamped with the working title and the date, January 15, 1948; blue revised pages dated 1/19/1948. Copy number "16": stamped on cover and first page, distribution receipt removed. Covers show some use. The original screenplay for Sturges's first film for Fox. This classic dark comedy starred Rex Harrison in a character partly modeled on Sir Thomas Beecham. The copy of cinematographer Victor Milner, with his...
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£2,226.12
