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Francis Ford Coppola (director), Bram Stoker (source) DRACULA [released as BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA] (1991) Film script

Np: American Zoetrope, 1991. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (29 x 22 cm), plain wrappers, brad bound, 96 pp. Script credited to Jim Hart. Title labeled on spine, just about fine.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film features an ensemble cast led by Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves. Set in 19th-century England and Romania, it follows Count Dracula (Oldman), a vampire who falls in love with Mina Murray (Ryder), the fiancée of his solicitor Jonathan Harker (Reeves). When Dracula begins terrorizing Mina’s friends, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Hopkins), an expert in vampirism, is summoned to bring an end to his reign of terror. (Wikipedia)

Mario Puzo (source, screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay, director) THE GODFATHER (Mar 29, 1971) Third Draft film script

New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm.), red leatherette Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, 158 pp. Many pages have vertical creases where they were once folded for set use by hair stylist Phil Leto; there are a number of pages with underlinings and a few notes in his hand. Brad bound, considerable wear to back wrapper (with part of leatherette surface worn off). Overall very good in very good- wrappers.

This film about a powerful Mafia family in New York is now acknowledged as one of the great classics of cinema. The film received ten Oscar nominations and won three (Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando and Best Adapted Screenplay for Puzo and Coppola).

The Godfather is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, as well as a landmark of the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and is ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).

GREAT GATSBY, THE (1974) Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola / Rev Version by J.C.

GREAT GATSBY, THE (1974) Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola / Revised Version by J.C. [Jack Clayton] F. Scott FItzgerald (source) New York: [Paramount Pictures, 1974]. Vintage original film script, 11 ½ x 9:” (29 x 23 cm.), leatherette Studio Duplicating Service covers with stenciled title, brad bound, mimeograph, light wear to extreme edges of yapped covers, signed on title page by crew member Jack Stager, with a few MS notations in his hand. Just about fine in near fine wrappers, 131 pp.

Jack Clayton directed this, the third screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, with a cast which included Robert Redford as Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, Bruce Dern as Tom Buchanan, Karen Black as Myrtle Wilson, and Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway.

GODFATHER: PART II, THE (1974) First Draft screenplay prepared Jul 4th 1973 [by] F.F. [Francis Ford] Coppola

Mario Puzo (source) Francis Ford Coppola (screenwriter, director) Vintage original film script, USA. Beverly Hills: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Plain wrappers, brad bound, 165 pp., Xerographic duplication. Light stains to wrappers, overall NEAR FINE, in a quarter morocco clamshell case.

This first draft screenplay of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece – arguably, one of the greatest of American films – is unfinished. As Coppola himself explains in his preface to the screenplay:

 

“NORMALLY, I’D LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FINISH THE ENTIRE DRAFT, AND THEN MAKE REVISIONS BEFORE LETTING ANYONE READ PAGES. SINCE IT’S MORE IMPORTANT THAT I PUSH ON TO COMPLETE THE DRAFT, I’VE NOT GONE BACK [TO] FINESSE ANY OF THESE PAGES: THEY ARE ENCLOSED PURELY AS AN ACCOMMODATION TO PARAMOUNT TO SEE THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECTED FILM, AND FOR SCHEDULING AND BUDGET PURPOSES. SO PLEASE READ THIS AS A WORK IN PROGRESS…”

 

Remarkably, given the complex and innovative structure of the narrative, this detailed first draft is fairly close to the completed film, as if Coppola had the entire movie in his mind – knew exactly where it was going and how it would end – but hadn’t yet put it all on paper.

GODFATHER: PART II, THE (1974) Second Draft screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola dated Sep 24, 1973

From the Richard Manney collection of film scripts, with his name on a 1990 bill of sale, which is laid in.

One of the great American films, and one of the cornerstone classics of the New American Cinema movement of the 1970s. Winner of six Oscars, including for Best Picture and Best Screenplay.
Brad-bound, pictorial wrappers, 200 pp., studio mimeograph, this script belonged to an uncredited member of the crew, and has various notations in holograph ink, including a few on front wrapper, NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD+ wrappers.

Posters – What They Are & Do

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A rich and accessible art form, Walter Film’s collection of pictural posters charts global concerns, popular tastes and artistic and technological developments across two centuries. (See Below) A Short History of the Poster A 1476 Birth The process of posting hand-drawn public notices can be traced back to[…]

ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI [ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS] (1960) Set of 16 Italian photos

[Rome: Titanus, 1960]. Set of sixteen (16) vintage original 7 x 9 1/2″ (18 x 24 cm.) borderless Italian black-and-white photos, most of them have stamps on verso of Italian paparazzo G. B. Poletto. With stamps on verso of a photo agency, just about fine.

Luchino Visconti’s epic about a migrant family from southern Italy who come to a prosperous Milan, then an industrial center, and whose family gradually disintegrates under the weight of the new and unfamiliar world in which they find themselves. The film is now accepted as a masterpiece of post-war cinema, and it has been acknowledged by such directors as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola as a major influence on their works, with Coppola specifically citing it as an important inspiration for The Godfather. Such future stars as Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale were in a cast, along with Annie Girardot and Renato Salvatori.