LEWIS GILBERT – A LARGE COLLECTION OF DIRECTOR’ SCRIPTS AND RELATED MATERIAL 1947 - 2002 (QTY)

-The Little Ballerina, 1947: 39 black and white stills comprising 16 vintage stills, two of which feature Margot Fonteyn and 23 later prints, seven of which feature Fonteyn, in original brown paper envelope, with typescript `National Film Theatre Programme Notes’, 1p., and a small quantity of related material;

-Man With A Gun, circa 1940s [?]: an original typescript screenplay treatment by Vernon Harris based on a story by Alan Stranks, 24 pp, and a few pages of unidentified script;

-Scarlet Thread, 1951: a mimeograph typescript film script in blue paper covers with a few annotations; and a small quantity of related production paperwork;

-Johnny On The Run, 1953: an original typescript ‘Shooting Script’ dated June 1952, 77 pp with a few annotations in Gilbert’s hand, the card cover dated on the front 1 August 1952 with Gilbert’s name inscribed top right in pencil in an unidentified hand, the film was made for The Children’s Film Foundation;

-Cosh Boy / Black Jack Hoodlums [U.S. title The Slasher], 1953: a British half-sheet cinema poster with the UK title Cosh Boy painted over with the U.S. title Black Jack Hoodlums, this poster used for cinemas in Canada – 55 x 72cm., a U.K. Campaign Book for Cosh Boy and a corresponding black and white still featuring a teenage Joan Collins - 25.4 x 20.3cm;

-The Good Die Young, 1954: a Belgian poster and an acetate recording of the film soundtrack;

-Ferry To Hong Kong, 1959: a mimeograph typescript film script in red card covers, heavily annotated in Gilbert’s hand bound in red card covers, a scrapbook of press cuttings, a Gala World Premiere Programme; and a small quantity of related material;

-Light Up The Sky, 1960: a mimeograph typescript ‘Draft Screenplay’ titled Touch It Light the working title for Light Up The Sky with a few annotations in Gilbert’s hand; a printed ‘Information Folder’ booklet for the production, a scrapbook of press clippings, and a 10-inch acetate Touch It Light Version 1 / Touch It Light Version 2;

-The Adventurers, 1970: a mimeograph typescript film script dated 22 July 1968 with a few annotations in Gilbert’s hand, bound in black hard covers with Gilbert’s name and the film’s title on the cover; a slim file of production paperwork, an acetate recording of the soundtrack, an extra-large scrapbook of press clippings and related material;

-Friends, 1971: a large file of paperwork and correspondence relating to the production including financial statements and photocopies of agreements, a Japanese double-panel cinema poster, the top half of a Japanese double-panel poster, a British quad poster, a British double crown poster and two large photocopies of other cinema posters, a collection of press clippings and related material – the sound track for this film is by Elton John, who was suggested to Gilbert by his son John Gilbert, Lewis had listened to Elton’s eponymous LP released in April 1970 and knew that he would be the perfect person to do the sound track;

-Paul And Michelle, 1974: five mimeograph typescript film scripts: one an undated ‘1^st Draft Screenplay’, unannotated, one dated 25 November 1969 with the working title Young And Lonely, two with the working title The Intimate Game, both dated 31 March 1970, and Gilbert’s annotated shooting script bound in hard covers, with his name on the front, and related material;

-Operation Daybreak, 1975: three mimeograph typescript film scripts, all with the working title 7 Men At Daybreak, dated 23 December 1973, 1 September 1974 and 19 September 1974, two black and white stills, a quantity of press clippings and related material;

-7 Nights In Japan, 1976: four mimeograph typescript film scripts, two dated March and June 1975, unannotated in red card covers, and two dated 18 June 1975, one heavily annotated in Gilbert’s hand with pink script revision pages inserted, the other with Gilbert’s name inside, also annotated, both with blue covers, and a small quantity of related material;

-Not Quite Jerusalem / Not Quite Paradise, 1985: four mimeograph typescript film scripts, two dated September and December 1983, unannotated in dark blue and red covers, and two dated February and March 1984, with a few annotations, in pale blue and yellow covers, a page of script notes in Gilbert’s hand, a photo album and a slim file of press cuttings and production paperwork;

-Stepping Out, 1991: two mimeograph typescript film scripts comprising a ‘1^st Draft Script’ dated 19 January 1990 in blue hard covers, and a ‘3^rd Draft Script’ dated 2 February 1990 in illustrated paper covers,  both unannotated; a black and white photograph of the cast signed in black felt pen by Liza Minnelli, Julie Walters and seven others – 28 x 35 cm.; a file of production paperwork and correspondence, a scrap book containing press cuttings and correspondence, 35 colour photographs taken at the Royal Gala Premiere, subjects include: Diana, Princess of Wales with Lewis Gilbert (6), and with Gilbert and Liza Minnelli (1), and with other subjects (9), Lewis Gilbert and family (6), Michael Caine with Bruce Forsyth (1), Michael Winner with Jenny Seagrove (1)  and one other, all – 25.4 x 20.3 cm., and 11 corresponding black and white contact sheets, all 51 x 41 cm. (rolled); a folder of photographs comprising: 128 stills, the majority black and white, subjects include Gilbert with Liza Minnelli, Julie Walters and others (50 plus, six in colour); Liza Minnelli with others (24), Liza Minnelli on her own (24) and other cast members (24), seven colour slides in Paramount card mounts of Gilbert on location, and approximately 77 colour snapshots of Gilbert and others taken on location and elsewhere, and related material;

-Haunted, 1995: three mimeograph typescript film scripts comprising two revised scripts and a shooting script, all unannotated, an album of location photos, a file of production paperwork, and related material;

-Unmade Production – an original typescript treatment for an unmade project, unbound in a card folder inscribed in an unidentified hand, “Josephine Baker” / Diana Ross wanted Lewis to do this. They met. – Gilbert recalls in his autobiography that he met Ross the day after the BAFTA ceremony in 1990 at which she had presented him with an award. Ross wanted him to make a biopic of Josephine Baker, but the project failed to materialise;

-Before You Go, 2001 [working title: Memory Of Water]: five mimeograph typescript film scripts including Gilbert’s Shooting Script, revised 11 June 2001, with a few annotations, bound in blue hard covers, and an Isle of Man Film Commission Locations booklet;

-James Bond Publications, comprising: The James Bond Archives, ed. Paul Duncan, Taschen, 2012, with original strip of Dr.No 35 mm film attached inside, a mimeograph typescript film script for GoldenEye, in red covers, unannotated, dated 28 November 1994, 143 pp including pink script revision pages, James Bond Movie Posters The Official 007 Collection, Tony Nourmand, Boxtree, 2001, Some Kind Of Hero – The Remarkable Story Of The James Bond Films, Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury, History Press, 2015, signed on the title page in black felt pen by the authors, and three other publications.

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Bellmans is grateful to Wallace and Hodgson for their assistance with cataloguing the Lewis Gilbert Film Script and Production Archive.