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Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Shooting script for the 1933 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member, with his name in manuscript pencil on two revision pages. An incarcerated bootlegger conspires with the police to ensnare his own gang after they kidnap the daughter and son-in-law of the judge who jailed him. … Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film, copy belonging to Second Assistant Director James W. Skotchdopole with the manuscript ink annotation of "Jimmy Scotch 2nd" on the top of the title page, with 16 color slides, shooting schedules, call sheets, various production documents and memos, and newspaper clippings laid in, all housed in a… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Filmways, 1970. First Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1969 novel by Elmore Leonard, who also adapted it for the screen. An early example of the character-driven insanity that would become Leonard's trademark as he rose from being more than just a writer of Westerns. A federal agent… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the 1932 pre-Code film. Single stamp on the verso. Based on the 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair, following the members of two families whose lives are impacted by alcohol addiction and Prohibition. Set in Louisiana, New York City, and Long Island. 10 x… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. First Draft script for the 1975 film. A young widow begins smuggling liquor in San Diego during Prohibition, and subsequently also becomes romantically involved with two men. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated August 24, 1973, noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Huyck and Katz. 165 leaves, mechanical… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. In Prohibition-era America, two men end up in prison after attempting to sell some home-brewed beer to a policeman. The first feature film to star Laurel and Hardy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, moderately toned overall, with creasing and wear to the corners. … Read more about this item

Cincinnati: Romach and Groene, 1933. Vintage photograph of the first legal whiskey produced in Ohio during prohibition at the Carthage Distilling Company in Cincinnati, with contemporary annotations of location, dates, and personnel, and a "Rombach and Groene Commercial Photographers Cincinnati Ohio" stamp on the verso. A fascinating prohibition artifact depicting fifteen men and one woman standing in… Read more about this item

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film, showing Dan O'Herlihy menacing Mickey Rooney. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1959 book by Leo Katcher. A dramatization of the exploits of Arnold Rothstein, a small time gambler during the Prohibition Era who rises through the New York ranks to… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Three striking vintage reference photographs from the 1967 Roger Corman film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer. A dramatization of the 1929 mass murder of seven members of the Northside Gang by members of Al Capone's gang, led by… Read more about this item

N.p.: United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in manuscript ink to upper right and annotations to dialogue of lead character Legs in manuscript… Read more about this item

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song… Read more about this item

Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1984. Original press kit for the 1984 Italian-American film. Included in the press kit are 24 black-and-white still photographs, including one photograph of director Sergio Leone, biographies of select cast and crew, final credits, production information, and insight into Leone's process. Based on Harry Grey's 1952 novel, "The Hoods." David Aaronson (De Niro)… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Presentation copy belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles on the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop man William Carr, as the script itself has Carr's… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: First National Pictures / Warner Brothers, 1933. Vvintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1933 film. With a typewritten snipe affixed to the verso, as issued. Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from… Read more about this item