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Screenplay

Screenplay

by Syd Field

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A play for television is known as a teleplay.
La Confidential

La Confidential

by Brian; Hanson, Curtis Helgeland

Trainspotting

Trainspotting

by John / Welsh, Irvine Hodge

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

by Penelope Gilliatt

Screenplays Books & Ephemera

The Screenwriter Looks At the Screenwriter

The Screenwriter Looks At the Screenwriter

by Froug, William

The Serpent\'s Egg

The Serpent's Egg

by Bergman, Ingmar

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

by Bradbury, Ray

(Screenplay): Peter and Catherine

(Screenplay): Peter and Catherine

by WOLFE, Bernard

Universal City, California: Universal-International Pictures, 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Revised second draft script. Quarto. 114 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. Bradbound in printed gray Universal-International Pictures card wrappers. Ownership signature of producer Ross Hunter and a few light stains, all on front wrap, else near fine. Apparently unproduced script by an interesting American novelist.
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NZ$764.73
Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles

by RICHARDS, Tad

(New York): Warner Paperback Library, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. First Warner Paperback Library edition. Mass market paperback. 175pp. Illustrated with black and white scenes from the movie. Pages age-toned, spine creased and cocked, very good. A novel from the screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger. Based on a story by Andrew Bergman.
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NZ$424.85
Judgement Over the Dead: The Screenplay of The Last Place on Earth

Judgement Over the Dead: The Screenplay of The Last Place on Earth

by GRIFFITHS, Trevor

London: Verso, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good paperback. First British edition. Text clean. 305 pages. Small burn mark on the bottom edge on front cover and first few pages. Light rubbing to cover.
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NZ$195.43
(African American film) A PIECE OF THE ACTION (Nov 1, 1976) Film script

(African American film) A PIECE OF THE ACTION (Nov 1, 1976) Film script

by Charles Blackwell

Vernon Productions. No binding. Very Good+. [Los Angeles]: Vernon Productions, November 1, 1976. Vintage original film screenplay, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, 149 pp. Script has a vertical crease in middle, overall very good+ or better. A 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and... Read more about this item
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NZ$1,274.55
Sid & Nancy

Sid & Nancy

by COX, Alex, and Abbe Wool

(London: Faber and Faber, 1986. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Pink pages illustrated from black and white stills from the film. Trade paperback. Fine. Screenplay for the classic 1986 film about punk, love, and drugs starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb.
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NZ$127.46
HALLELUJAH (1929; ca. 1930 first French release) Program

HALLELUJAH (1929; ca. 1930 first French release) Program

by Les Miracles Cinema

Les Miracles Cinema. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Paris: Les Miracles Cinema, [ca. 1930]. Vintage original French program, pictorial wrappers, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2" (22 x 14 cm.), stapled, 16 pp. Light creasing, near fine. A program for King Vidor's Black-cast film, the second such talking film, with six full-page images of actors, four half-pages of scenes from the movie, and one 2 x 9" (5 x 23 cm.) image of the actors with their arms raised. This... Read more about this item
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NZ$849.70
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) Pressbook

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) Pressbook

by Eve Productions

Eve Productions. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. [Hollywood]: Eve Productions, [1965]. Vintage original 17 x 11" (43 x 28 cm.) campaign book, pictorial wrappers, 8 pp., light creasing, near fine. Director Russ Meyer's cult classic about three go-go dancers who embark on a wild spree of kidnapping and murder in the California desert. The film was not really appreciated at the time of its 1965 release, but it has come to be recognized as a forward-looking... Read more about this item
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Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay

Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay

by WRANOVICS, John

(New York): Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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NZ$33.99
Carnal Knowledge: A Screenplay

Carnal Knowledge: A Screenplay

by FEIFFER, Jules

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket with two short edge tears. Basis of the 1971 film starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Mike Nichols.
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NZ$84.97
[Two Radio Scripts]: The Special Service Division of the War Department Presents "Bob Hope Show #8" [and] "Bob Hope Show #9

[Two Radio Scripts]: The Special Service Division of the War Department Presents "Bob Hope Show #8" [and] "Bob Hope Show #9

[No place, 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. Quartos. Bradbound typed leaves printed rectos only. Combination ribbon and carbon copies. Scripts have the printed admonition "Restricted for Army Use Only" and both are stamped as "Master Copy as Recorded." Heavily edited in ink and blue pencil. Both episodes also starred Frances Langford, Jerry Colona, and Skinny Ennis and his Orchestra. Each show had elements of a Christmas theme. The text of one script references Hope 1942 film *Road to Morocco*, and... Read more about this item
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NZ$2,039.28
The Road to Glory: A Screenplay

The Road to Glory: A Screenplay

by FAULKNER, William and Joel Sayre

Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Afterword by George Garrett. Gently bumped at the spine ends else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear and a tiny bit of rippling on the cover panel. First printing of the screenplay for the 1936 Twentieth Century-Fox film, directed by Howard Hawks (his first collaboration with Faulkner) and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
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NZ$67.98
Four Different Treatments for the film "Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Four Different Treatments for the film "Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

by MURNAU, F.W. and R.J Flaherty

Beverley Hills: Feldman-Blum Corporation / MGM, 1934. Softcover. Near Fine. Four different film treatments by Murnau and Flaherty of the story "Turia," which was eventually filmed as the movie *Tabu*. Each is mimeographed leaves printed rectos only and bradbound into blue wrappers with title in type. Condition ranges between very good and near fine. Details as follows, in what is likely chronological order: 1. *Turia: An Original Story*. Beverly Hills: Feldman-Blum Corporation. 15pp. Feldman-Blum... Read more about this item
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NZ$8,497.00
In America: A Portrait of the Film

In America: A Portrait of the Film

by SHERIDAN, Jim, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan

New York: Newmarket, 2003. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. 144pp. Near fine with some creasing. A play.
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NZ$33.99
[Playscript]: I Remember Mama: The Musical

[Playscript]: I Remember Mama: The Musical

by [RODGERS, Richard] MEEHAN, Thomas

New York: (Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks) / Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Playscript. Mimeographed leaves printed rectos only, screw bound into embossed black wrappers. Very near fine. Rodgers and Hammerstein label on first leaf noting that this copy has been revised for their production company in 1981. This musical, the last to be composed by Richard Rodgers (who died in 1979), is an adaptation of the comic play that Rodgers and Hammerstein produced in 1944. That in turn... Read more about this item
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NZ$2,124.25
[Unpublished "novel script"]: Stage Struck

[Unpublished "novel script"]: Stage Struck

by MAYER, Edwin Justus and Oliver H.P. Garrett

Hollywood, California: John McCormick, Inc, 1935. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 106 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. Brad-bound in blue wrappers with a Hollywood agent's printed name. Small corner of front wrap lacking, a little smudging on the wrappers, very good or better, internally fine. A fully realized and unpublished screwball comedy novel set around Broadway, presumably prepared for distribution in anticipation of being converted into a film script. Both Mayer and Garrett were... Read more about this item
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NZ$2,549.10
GWTW: The Screenplay

GWTW: The Screenplay

by HOWARD, Sidney

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell. Edited by Richard Harwell. Tall octavo. 229pp. Wrappers age-toned and rubbed, small stain on front panel, else a very good copy.
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NZ$42.48
[Playscript]: Blood Brothers

[Playscript]: Blood Brothers

by RUSSELL, Willy (CASSIDY, Shaun)

London: Bill Kenwright Ltd, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Playscript. 70pp. Photocopied sheets in clasped bound in blue textured wrappers with die-cut window revealing title. Very good with toning, wear and tidemarks to the front wrappers and first page. From the 1993 Broadway production at The Music Box of this Olivier Award-winning musical, directed by Bill Kenwright and Bob Tomson and starring, at the time this play script was signed, Petula Clark, David Cassidy, and Shaun Cassidy. Signed by Shaun... Read more about this item
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NZ$212.42
[Playscript]: Malcolm: Adapted by Edward Albee from the Novel by James Purdy

[Playscript]: Malcolm: Adapted by Edward Albee from the Novel by James Purdy

by ALBEE, Edward

New York: Theatre 1966, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto. Mimeographed leaves printed rectos only bradbound into an unprinted folder. Number "#10" written on title page, near fine. Script of the play adapted by Albee from the novel by James Purdy. Signed by Albee and dated by him in 1979, with the note "(rewritten) [1966]
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NZ$934.67
IT'S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1986) Signed archive

IT'S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1986) Signed archive

by Larry Cohen

Warner Brothers. Softcover/Paperback. Just About Fine. Larry Cohen (screenwriter, director) Consisting of: Vintage original film script. Revised 1/26/86 Printed wrappers, 11 x 8.5" (28 x 22 cm.), brad-bound, mimeograph, 117 pp. (with many pages of undated revisions on blue paper). Boldly signed by Larry Cohen on front wrapper. Just about fine. Approximately 50 pp. of letters sent to... Read more about this item
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NZ$1,104.61
[Manuscript]: Morning in America: Play in Three Acts, Six Scenes, and an Epilogue

[Manuscript]: Morning in America: Play in Three Acts, Six Scenes, and an Epilogue

by WIENER, Willard

Forest Hills, Long Island: Willard Wiener, 1938. Softcover. Good. Quarto. Carbon leaves typed rectos only in brad-bound unprinted wrappers. Author's phone number handwritten on the title page, wrappers quite worn, first leaf partly pulled away, overall good or better, internally very good. An unpublished play about Charles Lee and the American Revolution that was later adapted into a 1942 novel published by Farrar and Rinehart. The denouement in the third act revolves around the Battle of Monmouth in... Read more about this item
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NZ$2,549.10
OF MICE AND MEN (1939) Promotional book

OF MICE AND MEN (1939) Promotional book

by United Artists

United Artists. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Vintage original 14 x 11"" (36 x 28 cm.) promotional book, USA. Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, dir: Lewis Milestone; United Artists. Folio, 24 pp., stapled at spine, pictorial wrappers exhibit faint tanning with light diagonal crease to bottom right corner of front wrapper. Generally near fine in very good+ wrappers. A sumptuous and... Read more about this item
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NZ$849.70
[Playscript]: The Good Time

[Playscript]: The Good Time

by HERSTENS, Marc

Softcover. Very Good. Mimeographed playscript. Quarto. 88pp, and 53pp. Claps bound loose sheets. Near fine with a bump to one corner and rubbing along the spine. An unproduced musical comedy based on Louisa M. Alcott's *Little Women*.
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NZ$84.97
John Frankenheimer (director) BLACK SUNDAY (Jan 15, 1976) First draft film script

John Frankenheimer (director) BLACK SUNDAY (Jan 15, 1976) First draft film script

by Ivan Moffat

Paramount. Softcover/Paperback. Just About Fine. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, January 15, 1976. Vintage original film screenplay, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), die cut studio wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, 117 pp., just about fine. First draft script by Ivan Moffat based on previous work by Ken Ross and Ernest Lehman and adapted from the novel by Thomas Harris.... Read more about this item
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NZ$1,274.55
The Queen: A Screenplay

The Queen: A Screenplay

by MORGAN, Peter

New York: Miramax Books, 2006. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Wrappers. About fine with slight edge wear. Screenplay for the feature film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Helen Mirren.
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NZ$33.99
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