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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1963. Vintage studio still photograph of Dean Martin and Ursula Andress from the 1963 film. Gambling, wenching, and struggles for control define this iconic Rat Pack film, with a stellar supporting cast including Victor Buono, Charles Bronson, Anita Ekberg, and Ursula Andress. Set in Galveston, Texas, shot on location in Red Rock Canyon and Mojave, California. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and a small bruise in bottom right margin, else Near Fine.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film, showing actors Jim Graves, June Marlowe, and Wilson Benge. With a typescript snipe to the verso. Based on the 1925 play "The Deacon," about a cardsharp with a heart of gold. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with a small chip at the bottom left corner, and a crease at the bottom right corner.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1950. Vintage reference photograph from the 1950 film noir. At the end of World War II, a veteran wakes up from an important surgery to discover his friend is missing-and suspected of murder. He follows a trail of clues to find his friend, and, more importantly, find out if the man is guilty. Set in California, shot on location in Los Angeles, and Glendale, California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film, two borderless photographs of Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann, and one photograph of Jacques Demy and Moreau on the set of the film. One with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. A young bank employee, Jean, encouraged by his friend to try gambling, decides to vacation in Nice, where he meets and begins an affair with the beautiful Jackie, a gambling addict whose addiction masks an emptiness and despair. Set in and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes, Val-d'Oise, and Paris, France and Monte Carlo, Monaco. 2) 8.75 x 7 inches, 1) 8 x 10 inches. One with faint creasing, else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715.

N.p.: N.p., 1956. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1956 French film noir, showing actor Roger Duchesne surrounded by Gallic toughs. With manuscript ink annotations to the verso. Faced with an unlucky streak and debts to pay, a former bank robber turned gambler plans a heist of the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend. A key French New Wave antecedent and core French film noir. Set and shot on location in the Montmartre district in Paris and Calvados, France. 9.5 x 12 inches, with a small bottom margin. Near Fine, with some light edgewear. Criterion Collection 150. Grant France. Ebert II. Lee, The Heist Film. Selby France.

N.p.: CBS, 1979. Three items, including one vintage photographic print of a promotional ad illustration and two other black-and-white prints demonstrating three color separation sheets (see images) for same, all made for the 1979 television special. With mimeo snipe on the recto of the promotional photograph advertising the broadcast of the 10th Annual World Series of Poker as part of the CBS Sports Spectacular, starting on Saturday, November 3, 1979. The mimeo snipe is dated as the Week of October 28, 1979. Photographic print and color separation sheets partially bound with a staple at the top left corner. The 10th Annual World Series of Poker took place from May 11, 1979 until May 22, 1979 and was held at Binions Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. One color separation sheet 5 x 8 inches, one color separation sheet 10 x 8 inches and one promotional ad illustration 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1995. Two truly striking vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film. 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.

Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film, with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes, dated February 28, 1936, also with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent lifestyle and pay off his debts. When he falls in love with a copper heiress in the process of trying to swindle her, he must decide between the wealth and power their marriage would bring him, and the social disgrace she would encounter if his prior indiscretions were ever made public. Final shooting script, 10-2-35: Green titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated 10-2-35, with credits for screenwriter Allen Rivkin and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 113 leaves, with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only,… Read More

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed by composer/producer Buddy Bregman and written by noted screenwriter Jesse Lasky, Jr. One of a handful of musicals to be written about the unlikely subject. Dark green wrappers with a die-cut window on the front wrapper revealing the title on the title page, in the British style. Title page present, dated September 1967, noted as Final Draft. 171 leaves, with last page of text numbered II-15-66. Mechanical duplication on yellow stock. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, with rear hinge starting bound internally with two silver brads.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Collection of 4 black and white stills photographs from the 1964 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film, one with mimeo snipe on verso. Sam Peckinpah was the original director on the film, but was fired after producer Martin Ransohoff saw the rushes from the first few days of shooting. Peckinpah's version was in black and white, reportedly with nudity (a very new thing for a mainstream film in 1965). Ransohoff said that Peckinpah's approach "vulgarized" the film, and also had grave concerns about the director's reliability after hearing reports of the ordeal that surrounded the making of Peckinpah's "Major Dundee" the year before. The firing left the director effectively banished from Hollywood for a few years, but he of course returned in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an era much more amenable to his personal style, to make his most classic flms, including "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and "Straw Dogs" (1971). Peckinpah was replaced by Norman Jewison, who scrapped the black-and-white footage in… Read More

North Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1955. Vintage color program for the 1955 film. Yvonne De Carlo stars as a café singer who inherits a fortune and buys a casino in Nassau, and the many suitors, including gangsters, she attracks. 5.5 x 8.5 inches, Tri-fold. Very Good plus, with a horizontal crease, and light creasing and edgewear overall.

Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir, here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in manuscript ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in manuscript pencil on upper right of wrapper. The final of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers starring Bill Elliott as a L.A.sheriff's department detective, following "Dial Red O" (1955), "Sudden Danger" (1955), "Calling Homicide" (1956), and "Chain of Evidence" (1957). Two detectives investigate the strangulation death of well-liked card player. A gambling addicted neighbor is suspected, but something doesn't quite add up. "Wild" Bill Elliott's final film, retiring from acting in 1957. Green titled wrappers. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page present, with receipt removed, dated March 14, 1956, with credits for screenwriter Albert Band. 95… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of Dale Robertson and Debra Paget from the 1954 film. Discharged army Captain Dale Robertson learns of his father's murder by three local Creoles at a card game and sets out to revenge the murder. Set in New Orleans. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light edgewear.

N.p.: N.p., 1942. Collection of three vintage reference photographs from the 1942 French film, all three showing noted Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa. Based on the 1938 novel by Maurice Dekobra, a melodrama set during the Sino-Japanese war, about a German arms dealer who runs afoul of a Chinese mobster. Originally shot with Erich von Stroheim in the lead, but released in 1942 with Stroheim's scenes re-shot with Pierre Renoir, the result of Stroheim's films and film appearances being banned in all German-occupied countries. Set in Macao. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1955 film, showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz handing a cup of coffee to actress Jean Simmons. Provenance label on the verso, along with manuscript ink annotations. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Four vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film, showing variously, actors Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, composer Frank Loesser, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. The first photo, double weight, shows Marlon Brando, as Skye Masterson, surreally socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. The second photo shows Brando rehearsing "Luck Be a Lady," with sheet music in hand, and with the song's composer Frank Loesser at the piano. The third photo shows Sinatra and Brando in a candid moment. The fourth photo, single weight, shows director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette relaxing contemplatively, Mankiewicz sitting and smoking his pipe, Leverette inside a large industrial exhaust pipe. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A serial gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1955 film, one showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz with actors Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye and wardrobe designer Irene Sharaff, and the other showing Sharaff, Mankiewicz, and choreographer Michael Kidd. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, one with three hole punches on the left edge.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1955 film, showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz talking with dance director Michael Kidd and actress Vivian Blaine between takes. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: Howard Film Group / REI Production, 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film. Front wrapper rubber stamped "Jul 31 1985," with annotations of copy number "88" in manuscript marker, and "Received from Scott White-discussed the products needed-," and "Revised Scrip (sic)," circled in manuscript ink. Scott White was the Unit Production Manager for the film. An unusual hybrid of exploitation and screwball cop comedy. Trish Van Devere stars as a mother who travels to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter and seeks the help of police after discovering her daughter's decent into the pornography industry. Robin Wright's film debut. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers, with a rubber stamped date of "Jul 31 1985." Title page present, dated July 26, 1985, with credits for screenwriter James J. Docherty. 115 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads. McPadden, Heavy Metal Movies. Read More