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The Dark Wind (Archive of material from the 1991 film belonging to carpenter Jamie Upham

The Dark Wind (Archive of material from the 1991 film belonging to carpenter Jamie Upham, including an original screenplay and extensive production ephemera)

Errol Morris (director); Tony Hillerman (novel); Neal Jiminez, Eric Bergren (screenwriters); Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, Gary Farmer (starring) Archive of material from the 1991 film belonging to carpenter Jamie Upham. Included in the archive is a Shooting script dated 8/15/90, and approximately 150 pages of production ephemera, including memos and notes regarding housing, filming locations, transportation, and catering, contact sheets, and call sheets. Based on the 1982 novel by Tony Hillerman, the fifth in the Navajo Tribal Police series, and the second in the series to feature Jim Chee, about a Native police officer who is drawn into a web of theft and murder after a small plane crashes on the reservation. The feature film debut of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. Shot on location in Tuba City and the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona, and in New Mexico. Screenplay: Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 8/15/90, noted as 1st Draft Shooting Script, with credits for novelist Tony Hillerman and screenwriters Eric Bergren, Neal Jimenez, and Mark Horowitz. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated 8/17/90 and 8/22/90. Pages Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads. Ephemera generally Very Good plus to Near Fine, with occasional creasing and wear.
  • $450
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The Graduate (Original screenplay and bound set of breakdown sheets from the 1967 film)

Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross (starring); Mike Nichols (director); Charles Webb (novel); Calder Willingham, Buck Henry (screenwriters) Archive of material from the 1967 film belonging to an unknown crew member, including one annotated Final Draft script and a bound set of manuscript breakdown sheets. Screenplay annotations primarily note scene changes, with occasional mentions of transportation in the film. Based on Charles Webb's 1963 novel, a satirical tale of the suffocation of the middle class, told through a recent college graduate's ersatz relationship with an older married woman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Mike Nichols. In an introduction to a 2010 screening of the film screenwriter Buck Henry noted that it was not until he had completed his version of the script that he discovered Calder Willingham had written an earlier one-meaning there was no collaboration between the two writers whatsoever. Though Henry's was the script used for the film, both screenwriters were ultimately credited. Set in Pasadena. Screenplay: Beige wrappers with title noted in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper. Title page present, noted as Final Draft, dated March 29, 1967, noting production No. 20055, with credit for screenwriter Buck Henry. 162 leaves, with last page of text numbered 176. Early xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with light rusting on the wrapper versos near the binding, bound internally with three silver brads. Bound breakdown sheets: Beige wrappers with title noted in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper. Lacking title page, presumably as issued. 154 leaves, with last page numbered 154. Early xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with light rusting on the wrapper versos near the binding, bound internally with three silver brads.
  • $3,500
  • $3,500