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Toronto: Roy Krost Productions. Draft script for an unproduced film. A woman comes to a Vietnam vet turned private investigator to learn the truth about her dead fiance, who she still believes is alive. Both are Irish and are led on a long road of Irish organizations, some fighting for a United Ireland, some old blood from… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Collection of ten vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso, along with a stamp noting production No. 75-218. Director Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking period drama, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon," charting the astronomic rise… Read more

Los Angeles: Continental Distributing, 1967. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel, and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane (for the time) language, and was… Read more

Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1936 film, featuring (L-R) cinematographer Joseph H. August, an unidentified crewmember, director John Ford, Preston Foster, Denis O'Dea, Barbara Stanwyck, and J.M. Kerrigan. Mimeo snipe and "RKO Radio Films" stamp on verso. Based on the 1926 play by Sean O'Casey, the third of… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1949. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1949 film. The Blarney Stone is stolen and singing insurance investigator Joe Mulqueen (Bing Crosby) travels from America to Ireland to recover it, the local policeman's lovely daughter Conn (Ann Blyth) in tow. Set in and shot on location in Blarney Castle, Ireland. 27… Read more

London: Pinewood Studios, 1957. Shooting script for the 1958 British film. Annotation in holograph ink of copy number "64" on front wrapper. Laid in are two loose pink revision pages and 36 bound pink revision pages. Based on the 1957 novel by Catherine Cookson. John Gregson, in a memorable performance, stars as Dublin trash collector James Ignatius Rooney,… Read more

Los Angeles: Continental Distributing, 1967. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel, and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Revised Draft script for the 1953 film. With screenwriter Daniel Fuchs' holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, most noting substantive revisions and deletions. Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband.… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1995. Vintage reference photograph of director Peter Yates on the set of the 1995 film. Based on the 1991 novel by screenwriter Shane Cannaughton, Richard Yates final theatrical feature film. An Irish boy finds his strained relationship with his oppressive, widowed father, at its breaking point when he falls for an affluent northern… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Two vintage photographs from the 1971 film, one studio still of Ron Moody with Jack Wild and Helen Raye, and one headshot of Ron Moody. Both with "SIlver Screen Archives" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1963 Children's novel by Walter Macken. Two orphaned children, Finn and Derval Dove (Wild… Read more

New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, 1948. Draft script for an unknown touring version, circa 1947-1948, of the stage musical originally produced on Broadway. In Tams-Witmark wrappers, a duplicating service associated with scripts printed for touring stage productions. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member, Donald Burr, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the title page and… Read more

London: HandMade Films, 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. Single holograph notation in ink on page 62 (a scene deletion). Based on the 1955 novel by Brian Moore. A pious spinster living in a boardinghouse begins an ersatz romance with a fellow resident looking to bankroll his next business venture. Novelist Moore, born and raised in… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which premiered on May 1 at the Morosco Theatre in New York. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Basis for the 1988 film, directed by Matt Clark. In 1968, a young expatriate writer returns to his childhood home in Dalkey after the death of his… Read more

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the… Read more

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film. INSCRIBED in holograph ink on an inset page preceding the script by actor Gene Reynolds, who played a young Douglas Corrigan in the movie: "For Art / From Corrigan-as-a-boy / Gene Reynolds / Mar - 71." With blue and white revisions pages (including some detail… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and Tony Crawley stamp on verso. A young Julie Christie sunning herself on the set of "Young Cassidy." Biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey, John Cassidy (Taylor) in the film. Following the 1911 protest against British rule… Read more

New York: Rick Leed, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble to John Huston of the Paul Kohner Agency. Based on Humble's award winning play of the same name, "The Flight of the Earls" which derives its title from the important event in Irish history in… Read more

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Collection of three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. The film follows the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland. A young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. … Read more

New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white double-sided poster for U2's 1980 US tour promoting their debut album "Boy" and hit single "I Will Follow." One side of the poster advertises press responses to U2's debut album "Boy," alongside a list of the band's upcoming US tour dates, while the other side has a close up… Read more