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Universal City: MCA / Universal, 1997. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 re-release of the 1943 film, showing Akim Tamiroff, Franchot Tone, and Anne Baxter. Based on Lajos Biro's 1917 play "Hotel Imperial: Szinmu negy felvonasban." During World War II, a British soldier passes himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered by Nazis, later becoming… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing actors Trini Lopez, John Cassavetes, and Jim Brown waiting out the rain on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by E. M. Nathanson, about a US Army Major who is assigned a group of dozen convicted murderers to execute… Read more about this item

New York: Barovick Konecky Braun Schwartz and Kay, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil on the first page. Based on the 1978 novel by Michael Barak. In order to win World War II and understand where Nazi Germany's bombs are going to fall, Winston Churchill tasks his intelligence service… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1943. Vintage photo setup for an unknown publication of actor Jean-Pierre Aumont from the 1943 film. Aumont's American film debut. Based on the 1942 serialized novel by Helen MacInnes. A French army captain is in Brittany with the task of finding where Nazis are hiding their U-boats. He meets a woman who he takes a… Read more about this item

London: National Film Archive, 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, showing director Frank Borzage measuring Helen Hayes' foot. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel by Ernest Hemingway, about the doomed love affair between an ambulance… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1962 film. The true story of George Ray Tweed, the only US naval officer to avoid capture by the Japanese while stationed in Guam during World War II. One of the only American film appearances by noted Filipina actress Barbara Perez. Set in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Gunnar Hellstrom's address on the title page in manuscript ink. German and Italian ambassadors meet in Stockholm in discuss how neutral Sweden will work for the Axis war effort in 1943, with a particular focus on acquisition of the Swedish steel industry. Set in Stockholm. … Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Monarex, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1970 film directed by Carol Reed. Years into the future, World War III has decimated most of the planet, leaving the final battle to take place in southeast Asia. Clear mylar front wrapper, red rear wrapper. Title page present,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: The Selznick Company, 1956. Souvenir script for the 1957 film, issued by the Selznick Studio upon the film's release for film industry promotion. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel, about an American soldier stationed in Italy whose romance with a Red Cross nurse becomes his only joy amidst the horrors of war. The second film… Read more about this item

Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 film, seen here under the working title "Assassination at Sarajevo." The story of a group of Yugoslav rebels who inadvertently begin World War I through their assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Set in Sarajevo. Mustard titled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 4,… Read more about this item

London: Galactacus Productions, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Laid in with the script are two letters addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from producer Antony Rufus Isaacs, introducing the script and suggesting the part of Grabinski for actor Charles Bronson, as well as a four-page typed synopsis of the script. Based on the 1955 novel… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American working for the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco has to get a supply caravan across the desert. A woman begs to come along in order to find news of her husband, a captain known by the American to be dead already. She stows away on the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1965. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a thank you note from agent Paul Kohner. The heir to the Irish throne is denied his birthright, and all of Ireland must unite behind him in order to win their freedom and sovereignty from England. Set in Ireland. Green… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American working for the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco has to get a supply caravan across the desert. A woman begs to come along in order to find news of her husband, a captain known by the American to be dead already. She stows away on the… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. Treatment script for the 1987 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the rear wrapper and on page 156. With the film's two segments printed on white and yellow stock, respectively. Based on Gustav Hasford's 1979 novel "The Short-Timers." Stanley Kubrick's penultimate film, one of the best known depictions of the brutality and… Read more about this item

N.p.: Europ-Films, 1961. Vintage French poster for the 1961 Hungarian film, seen here under the French title, "Les cignognes s'envolent a l'aube." Based on a true love affair between a Hungarian doctor and a Russian girl during World War II. A man recalls through flashback the parting words of a woman, "I'll Come Back." Director Mihaly Szemes'… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1983. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are three pages of cast lists. After a young girl witnesses the death of her father at the hands of assassins, she is taken in by her uncle, who aids her in tracking down the assassins. He also gives her a magic ring that allows… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Filmtel, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper, noting copy No. 14. During World War II, a Greek amateur boxer is intentionally captured by the Nazis in order to help his father escape from a concentration camp. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film, with manuscript ink and pencil annotations on three pages. Handwritten note on page 55 reading, "Tim - you're the soldier," almost certainly referring to actor Timothy Busfield, who played a soldier in the scene. Bill Murray stars as the irresponsible John Winger, a New York cabbie,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Revision Draft script for an unproduced film, with a copied "(1st) Revision" stamp on the titled page. OCLC locates three copies. An early draft, dated "June 1989," written by screenwriters Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen (who had been previously nominated for an Academy Award for their screenplay for the 1983 Mike Nichols'… Read more about this item