william ray screenwriter (9 resultados)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 Western film. Based on Gordon Ray Young's 1948 novel "Quarter Horse." A young boy is tasked with training a quarter horse for a big race-unaware that the race is fixed, and that the horse's owner plans to bet on a different horse. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 470.

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. A ship's cargo is washed ashore in Hong Kong after a typhoon. The people living on the island claim the cargo as their own but a local powerful man threatens them all unless he is the sole owner of the cargo. The locals hire a mercenary to take him on. Set in New Territories, Hong Kong, shot on location in Hong Kong, and Macau, China. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Weldon 1996.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Meta sexploitation film in which Tina Russell stars as May, a woman held hostage in a mansion after seeking a job in an experimental film. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine.

Draft script for the 1938 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script are four pages of mimeographed notes regarding main title billing for the film. Two aviators' friendship is tested when a love triangle forms between them and their shared childhood sweetheart. Another tribute to the glories of aviation by director (and former WWI fighter pilot) William A. Wellman, best known for "Wings" (1927), the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. White titled self wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 1156 and marked as production No. 1172, dated February 15, 1938. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 144 leaves, with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 2-14-38 and 6-21-38. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, side stapled.

Shooting Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1957-1966 television series. A woman dies of arsenic poisoning, with her nurse fingered as the key culprit, although her estranged husband also seems to have had a hand in her death. Originally aired on May 3, 1958, on CBS. Blue titled wrappers, dated February 24, 1958, on the front wrapper, noted as Shooting Final and production No. 57-35, stamped copy No. 37, with credit for writer Erle Stanley Gardner. Title page present, dated February 24, 1958, noted as Shooting Final, with credit for screenwriter Laurence Marks. 79 leaves, with last page of text numbered 76. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.

Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper, "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD," and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title, "Don't Call Me Madam," is present on the front wrapper, crossed through, with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in manuscript ink above it. Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame," by Rupert Hughes, about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom (Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields) and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events, including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket, the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers," one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields, the others being "Six of a Kind" (1934) and "If I Had a Million" (1932). Tall, side stapled salmon self wrappers, noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837, dated March 10, 1933, with credits for screenwriters Jones, McNutt, and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves, mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine, rear wrapper detached but present, else wrappers Very Good plus.

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1937 film, one in black-and-white and one a hand-tinted color print. One with the stamp of Consolidated Poster Service on the verso. Based on the 1934 novel, following a veteran lineman who takes a young farmer on as a "grunt," or apprentice. Set in Ohio and Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus, one Very Good, with a one inch open tear to the lower right corner and a small tear to the upper right corner.

Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1965 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. Set amidst the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Colin (Michael Crawford), an awkward school teacher is desperately trying to have the kind of sexual experiences as his womanizing friend Tolen (Ray Brooks). When Nancy (Rita Tushingham) arrives in London from the countryside Tolen's macho disposition and Colin's trepidation's are brought to the surface. Shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine.

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film, showing actors James Coburn and Dick Shawn crouching in a bush, with director Blake Edwards and a camera to the right, capturing the shot. During the Allied invasion of Sicily, an outfit of US soldiers are assigned to capture the small town of Valerno, but find the townspeople ready and willing to be captured, with two stipulations: a soccer match and a wine festival. Set in Sicily, shot on location in Lake Sherwood, California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.