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Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 Mexican-American exploitation film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing nine black and white photographs, and four gatherings of promotional reading material. The increasingly paranoid, fanatical leader of a large, independent church in San Francisco moves his congregation to a plot of land in Guyana in the hopes of… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film. With holograph penciled annotations regarding revisions on the title page, and also to every page that follows, striking through the first line of text to indicate scenes filmed. An insurance investigator poses as a thief to infiltrate a crime ring who have just committed a jewelry… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1981. Draft script for the 1981 Spanish-American film, here under the working title "Bloody Mary." Laid in with the script is a typed letter from casting agent Paul Kohner to producer John R. Pepper returning the script. Text in English. A disquieting satire of Catholicism in the late 20th century from noted Spanish director Bigas… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Two copied holograph annotations to the title page, presumably noting the phone numbers of screenwriters William Claxton and Lennie Bleecher. A troubled gay Latino teenager leaves his family in order to pursue his dream of performing onstage in drag as Judy Garland, but things quickly go too far… Read more

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1930. Vintage program for the 1930 film. With the stamp of Beltonian Theatre in Belton, Texas on the verso of the final leaf, along with contemporary holograph pencil annotations noting showings on two Saturdays in October. Based on the 1919 play by Langdon McCormick, about a love triangle between two adventurers and a… Read more

Los Angeles: ICM [International Creative Management], 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An action story, following two star-crossed lovers from Ireland who are sent to Texas in the early days of the state's independence. Set in Mexico City and Texas. Brown generic agency wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriters… Read more

US: Tesico Productions, 1970. Two vintage posters for the circa 1970s film, a Spanish-language film shot on location in New York City, but utterly unknown to our sources. 23 x 35 inches. Very Good plus, with short closed tears to the center fold, and light toning. Folded as issued. 11.5 x 17.5 inches. Very Good,… Read more

New York: Contemporary Films, 1970. Archive of ten vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Israel Film Archive. From the collection of film historian Joel Finler. A documentary about the Cuban revolution, told through interviews with activists, workers, students, and others. Co-director Adolfas Mekas was the… Read more

N.p.: Non Fiction Television, 1984. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1984 film, showing young gang leader Tito Lopez with members of his crew, looking down at a sidewalk memorial for his brother. A documentary depicting life in Los Sures, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn. A sharp portrait of Williamsburg in the mid-1980s, before gentrification,… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Ronald S. Dunas - Paul Leserman, 1971. Draft script for an unproduced Western film. Included with the script is a typed letter reviewing the screenplay, dated 12-8-71, ostensibly from a reader within the Paul Kohner Casting Agency. On the US-Mexico border, Captain Lucas Randall and his posse of ex-Texas Ranger bounty hunters believe they have… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. Vintage press kit for the 1960 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing one oversize matte-finish borderless reference photograph, showing actors Cantinflas and Janet Leigh. A ranch hand goes to California to rescue a white stallion (which he considers to be his family) from the hotshot Hollywood director who has purchased it.… Read more

Los Angeles: Group 1 Films, 1976. Collection of four vintage black and white color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1973 Mexican horror film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso, and one with a holograph ink annotation on the bottom right corner of the recto noting production No. 77-705. … Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1936. Typescript draft for the 1936 film. Copy belonging to director Arcady Boytler, with a notation to the first page in holograph ink: "Original de Arcady Boytler / Registrado conforme / La ley XII #1312 28 Sep. 1934," certifying the screenplay as original and registered according to law. The last page bears a similar annotation, also noting… Read more

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Very Good Plus in wrappers, with a small bump to the bottom right corner of the fore-edge.

San Francisco: Artspace Books, 1996. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in illustrated boards with no dust jacket as issued.

Las Vegas: Sanford International Entertainment, Inc, 1989. Archive of Draft script and production materials for the 1989 film. The script, here under the working title "Fists of Steel Part 1," contains two annotations of page numbers in holograph ink. Included in the archive are two investment proposals, a seven page Cast Sheet, a two page Staff and Crew List,… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Two vintage borderless photographs, one showing artist David Siqueiros trying on a new shirt, while his wife Angelica watches, the other showing Siqueiros alone, circa 1966. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso, along with two agency labels and the stamp of photographer Per-Olle Stackman. From the archive of the PIX Agency, a photo house… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film, showing actress Cyd Charisse dancing near a "magically" suspended sword. With a date stamp and holograph pencil and ink annotations to the verso. Based on the 1954 short story collection "The Mexican Village" by Josefina Niggli. Three couples from feuding Mexican villages face discrimination and difficulty in marriage.… Read more

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1957 film noir. A wealthy, cruel rancher owns the majority of a small western town's assets. Some of his employees brutally murder a young Mexican migrant laborer, stirring major controversy when the newly elected sheriff goes to great lengths to bring them to justice. … Read more

Mexico: Various, 1975. Collection of 19 vintage Mexican posters for films released between 1961-1975. The posters feature full color illustrations in a variety of styles, as the films represented include Westerns, comedies, thrillers, horror, and action films. Directors whose films are represented in the collection include Rene Cardona, Miguel M. Delgado, and Roberto Rodriguez, while actors featured… Read more