New Hollywood Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Noted as copy No. 54 in blue manuscript ink on the title page. Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto, with his annotations on several pages, and with several pages folded by Leto, indicating the completion of scenes during production. Based on the 1969 novel by… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Vintage borderless studio still photograph taken on the set of the 1981 film, showing director Bob Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, cinematographer Sven Nykvist, and other crew members gathered around a monitor. Partial provenance label and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1939 novel by James M.… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Collection of eight color front-of-house cards from the French release of the 1972 film. Included with the collection are two promotional pages specific to the film's French release, with text in French. Based on the 1969 novel by Philip Roth. The fourth Roth novel (after "Goodbye, Columbus") to be adapted for the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing Dustin Hoffman in a mug shot as Lenny Bruce. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Bob Fosse's third directorial effort, and first non-musical. A tour de force, shot in black-and-white in a documentary style, interspersed with interviews, jumping back and forth from… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actor James Coburn talking to a rodeo clown during a smoke break on the set. Provenance stamp on the verso. Well-regarded New Hollywood Western about an aging rodeo champion (a "honker") whose arrogance hurts everyone around him, including his family. Notable for its accurate depiction of rodeo… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Four vintage color studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Provenance stamps on the versos. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film, one of the best genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema, bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director, established producer William… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Two vintage photographs from the 1968 film, including one studio still portrait of actress Shirley Knight and one borderless reference photograph of Knight and actor George C. Scott. Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase, about an unhappy, newlywed socialite who relentlessly… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1975. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam, taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Vintage program for the 1973 film, which premiered at The Regent Theater in Westwood Village in Los Angeles on October 3, 1973. With his cowboy days suddenly behind him, as the American West becomes tame, Kid Blue decides to try his hand at a factory job. He finds the routine workday to… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Based on the 1956 novel by screenwriter Mark Harris, about a developmentally disabled baseball catcher with a terminal illness, and his friendship with the team's star pitcher. Shot on location in New York, Washington DC, and Florida. 27 x 41 inches. Very… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Vintage Spanish lobby card for the 1975 film. Based on the 1974 novel by Patrick Mann, in turn based on a true story published in "Life" magazine. An inexperienced robber and his friend attempt to rob a bank, largely in order for the robber's girlfriend, a preoperative transgender woman, to afford gender… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1975 film. Based on the 1974 novel by Patrick Mann, in turn based on a true story published in "Life" magazine. An inexperienced robber and his friend attempt to rob a bank, largely in order for the robber's girlfriend, a preoperative transgender woman, to afford gender… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film, both showing Tina Chen and Arlo Guthrie. Based on Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song, a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. Set and… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Vintage banner poster from the 1973 film. Based on the 1956 novel by screenwriter Mark Harris, about a developmentally disabled baseball catcher with a terminal illness, and his friendship with the team's star pitcher. Shot on location in New York, Washington DC, and Florida. 81 x 24 inches. Very Good… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing actor Lee Marvin in a crowd. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1963 novel "The Hunter" by Donald E. Westlake. An unapologetic, nihilistic work, one of the gems of early neo-noir and a foundational late 1960s crime film, setting the… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Continental, 1968. Original pressbook for the 1968 film. A searing, emotional depiction of a disintegrating marriage in American middle-class suburbia. John Cassavetes' seminal fourth film as director took three years to complete, was shot (and edited) in his own house, starred his friends (who often doubled as camera operators), and ushered in an entirely… Read more about this item

New York: The Film Desk, 2024. First Edition. First Edition. Richard C. Sarafian's "Vanishing Point" (Twentieth Century Fox, 1971) is the ultimate analog car chase movie with that hard-to-pin-down something extra. Written for the screen by renowned Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante under a pseudonym (Guillermo Cain), it's nominally the saga of a speed- addled Vietnam vet existentially… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Jules Brenner, with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A successful race car driver dreams of winning the Indy 500 and stops at nothing to achieve his goal, sacrificing his relationships with his wife and stepson in… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: William Morris Agency, 1973. Post-production script for the 1973 film. Director George Roy Hill again enlists Paul Newman and Robert Redford as his leads, following his 1969 hit "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," with an even greater success. A jaunty tale of two confidence men taking a crime boss in for the long… Read more about this item

Bradford: W.E. Berry, 1973. Vintage British quad poster for the 1973 Italian-English film. Based on John Gardner's 1969 novel "A Complete State of Death." A detective uncovers a plot by the mob to use Vietnam veterans in a vast murder scheme. Shot on location in New York and California. 40 x 30 inches, folded. Fine.… Read more about this item