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Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1962 film. The true story of George Ray Tweed, the only US naval officer to avoid capture by the Japanese while stationed in Guam during World War II. One of the only American film appearances by noted Filipina actress Barbara Perez. Set in… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1964. Vintage banner poster from the 1964 film. Based on popular 1962-1966 ABC television sitcom, made during the series second season, and followed by the 1965 sequel, "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force," also directed by series producer Edward Montagne. Remade in 1997, directed by Bryan Spicer, and starring Tom Arnold and David Alan… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a page from the "Independent Trade Reviews." While on their honeymoon, a sailor and his Japanese wife get into an altercation with a drunk. Police intervene, resulting in the wife being shot, and the man sent to prison. Set in San Francisco. … Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1956. Three screenplays from the 1956 film, including two draft scripts dated 7-21-55 and one partial draft script dated 2-16-56. One script with manuscript pencil annotations to the inside rear wrapper, noting revisions, and one with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper, noting "22" and "Comp". Also included in the collection is a… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Jaguar Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1953 novel by Martin Dibner. A pacifist naval officer experiences conflict with his shipmates over his refusal to fire upon an unidentified plane, and volunteers for a dangerous mission in an attempt to prove his bravery. Red titled wrappers. Title page… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 re-release of the 1941 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A student at a reform high school finds his life upended when he gets the chance to attend a naval academy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1945. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1945 film, showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra with then-child actor Dean Stockwell. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly, followed by "Take Me… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Darryl Ponicsan. Two foul-mouthed sailors are assigned a shore patrol to escort a young seaman to a Navy prison in Maine to begin a heavy-handed eight year sentence. The pair decides to take their captive out for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Archive of 64 vintage photographs, including 53 matte-finish and eleven glossies, documenting reconstruction of the Panama Canal's Dock 15 in Balboa. Most photographs with technical captions and dates from the negative on the rectos. Additionally included with the photographs is a collection of four booklets, dated between 1919 and 1943, discussing various aspects of the canal's… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1942. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1942 film, showing actors Russell Hicks, Blanche Yurka, Lee Bowman, and Mona Maris. Anxious to impress, a young naval lieutenant lies to his girlfriend that he is an expert code-cracker, leading her to convince her uncle to add him to a special unit formed to… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film, showing actors Dan Dailey, Edmund Lowe, Maureen O'Hara, May McAvoy, and Mae Marsh. With the stamp of Dell Publishing Company Library to the verso. Based on the life of naval aviator Frank "Spig" Wead, who became a Hollywood screenwriter following a spinal injury which left… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good, without dust jacket as issued. Boards lightly rubbed, with rubbing and light fraying at the corners and crown, with rear hinge starting at crown, and gilt lettering on spine moderately rubbed. Pages with light foxing overall.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1982. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film. Two photographs with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. A young cadet begins dating a beautiful working girl during his time at the Naval Aviation training camp, while attempting to survive in the punishing attitude of a hard-nosed Marine Corps… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage borderless promotional photograph from the 1949 film, showing director and actor Gene Kelly sitting atop a rail. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1944 play. Three US Navy sailors on 24 hour shore leave hit the streets… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film, showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Cinema International Corporation. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Vintage pressbook from the 1946 film noir. Based on the 1944 novel by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish. After a night of heavy drinking, a US Navy sailor's attempts to return a mysterious wad of cash force him down a shadowy path of blackmail and murder. 12… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1991. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a xerographically duplicated design for the film title, and a typed list of editorial notes on the script, dated 7/24/91, with a manuscript ink annotation to the top right corner, noting "Viacom's list." Loosely based on the nonfiction writings of Tom Clancy,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Atlas Films, 1976. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1976 film, including five glossy and three matte-finish. A fearless WAVE (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the US Navy embarks on a mission to find her missing friend, a search which leads her and her fellow WAVEs into a world of illicit… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1954. Draft script for the 1955 film, here under the working title "The Annapolis Story." With small manuscript ink annotations throughout, mostly noting the scene entrances of different characters throughout the script. Two sibling cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy fall for the same girl, creating a love triangle that can only be… Read more about this item