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WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) Press kit

Richard Adams (source) Los Angeles: Avco Embassy Pictures, [1978]. Vintage original film press kit, printed portfolio, 12 x 9″ (31 x 23 cm.), with 18 borderless 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos laid in, and ten promotional inserts, of between 1 and 13 pp. in length. Slight creasing to edges of printed wrappers, overall just near fine.

A beloved animated film of the late 1970s, and a very scarce promotional press kit, amply Illustrated, with extensive information about the film.

UNMARRIED WOMAN, AN (1978) Press kit

AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (1978) Press kit [Hollywood]: Twentieth Century Fox, 1978. Vintage original film press kit, printed portfolio, 12 x 9″ (31 x 23 cm.), with 10 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos laid in, and fifteen promotional inserts, of between 1 and 3 pp. in length. Some wear to extremities of the printed folder, a few circlings of text in pencil, overall near fine in very good+ printed portfolio wrappers.

Paul Mazursky wrote and directed Jill Clayburgh in this classic feminist film.

“Erica is unmarried only temporarily, in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. This movie shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up, while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else’s personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him, because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly ‘available’ woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.” (Wikipedia)

GREASED LIGHTNING (1977) Press kit

[Burbank]: Warner Brothers, 1977. Vintage original press kit, 12 x 9″, printed folder, ten photos approximately 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) laid in, along with twelve loose inserts, between 1 and 4 pp. each. One page of text tanned, overall NEAR FINE or better.

Richard Pryor starred, along with Pam Grier, in this film about African American race car driver Wendell Scott. The studio was promoting this as Pryor’s first starring role.

GREATEST, THE (1977) Press kit

(Muhammad Ali) Burbank: Columbia Pictures, 1977. Vintage original press kit, 12 x 9″ (31 x 23 cm.), printed folder, fourteen (14) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos laid in brown envelope, 11,3,2,2,2,2 pp. Some creasing to edges of folder, NEAR FINE or better.

Muhammad Ali starred as himself in a dramatized version of his life story, adapted from Ali’s autobiography, The Greatest: My Own Story, with screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr.

A number of distinguished African American actors appeared in supporting roles, among them James Earl Jones, Paul Winfield and Roger Mosley.

PURPLE RAIN (1984) Press kit

[Hollywood]: Warner Brothers, 1984. Vintage original press kit, 12 x 9″ (30 x 23 cm.) printed folder, with eleven (11) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos laid in, and four (4) printed supplements, varying from 1 to 13 pp. each. Light creasing to edges of outer folder, generally JUST ABOUT FINE.

LENNY (1974) Press kit

[Hollywood]: United Artists, 1974. Vintage original press kit, printed folder, 11 1/2 x 9″ (29.5 x 23 cm.). Covers show wear at extremities. Seventeen (17) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos laid in loosely, along with extensive text, consisting of 14 inserts varying from 2 to 6 pp. Generally NEAR FINE.

Bob Fosse’s classic film about the life and career of Lenny Bruce, in which Dustin Hoffman played the troubled and brilliant comedian. The film received 7 Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

CONVERSATION, THE (1974) Press kit

New York: Paramount Pictures, [1974]. Vintage original press kit. Printed folder, 11 1/2 x 9″ (29.5 x 23 cm.), with extensive text, consisting of thirteen 2 pp. inserts, one 3 pp. insert, three 4 pp. inserts and one 6 pp. insert, and five 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos laid in loosely. Covers lightly creased, overall NEAR FINE.

As the Watergate scandal was unfolding in 1974, writer-director Francis Ford Coppola created this haunting film about a paranoid surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) who increasingly comes to believe that a couple whom he is surveilling are about to be murdered.

The film, which can surely be considered a major neo-noir movie, makes very effective use of its San Francisco locations, making it a rather eerie time capsule of early 1970s San Francisco.

ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) Press kit

Burbank: Warner Brothers, 1974. Vintage original 12 x 9″ (31 x 23 cm.) press kit, printed portfolio, with 12 promotional inserts, 1 and 2 pp. each, thirteen (13) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) photos, title written at extreme left of front cover, NEAR FINE.

Martin Scorsese’s fourth film, about a recently widowed woman who sets out on the road with her precocious young son, determined to create a new life for herself and create a career as a singer.

TAXI DRIVER (1976) Press kit – 1

Burbank: Columbia Pictures, 1976. Vintage original 12 x 9″ (31 x 23 cm.) press kit, printed portfolio, with 1 p. screening itinerary for East Coast critics, with 6 bios of principals varying from 2 to 4 pp., two different 17 pp. booklets about the film, and seven (7) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) photos, accompanied by a 2 pp. list of photo captions, near fine.

Martin Scorsese’s classic film about an alienated and increasingly deranged loser, in which Robert De Niro gave a classic performance.