Bonham's June auction features a number of items of interest to horror fans. Included in the lots are numerous scripts and ephemera from early Hammer Films productions, including THE MUMMY and the Dracula series.
You can view the "Hollywood Then and Now" catalog HERE. A great chance for a glance at classic horror history!
Hammer The Mummy Final Shooting Script.
Hammer, 1959. Studio bound and bradded final shooting script. Stamped with title and date handwritten to top right corner, "Peter Alchorne" who was a member of production. The script also includes a 4-page appendix in the back listing Shepperton Studios Interiors, Bray Studio Interiors and Bray Studio exteriors to be used in production. Covers are bent at outer edges, but all else remains clean and well preserved. Includes a small The Mummy promotional card. Acquired from the studio at time of production. Exhibiting age and production handling.
Hammer's The Mummy Group of Items Including Photos and Original Sketches from Production Designer Bernard Robinson.
Hammer, 1958. Archive of 18 personal materials from Hammer production designer Bernard Robinson including 9-black and white and sepia photographs of the set, props, and design from The Mummy. Photos range in size from 5 x 4 in. to 15 x 12 in. 1-original sketch from a western, 1-brown line print of an "Inquisitor's Procession", 2-black and white 15 x 12 in. photographs from The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, and 5-color 10 x 8 in. lobby cards from The Hound of the Baskervilles with all but one featuring Peter Cushing. All exhibit expected age.
Largest: 15 x 12 in.
Hammer Dracula - Prince of Darkness Annotated and Edited Producer's Shooting Script.
Hammer, 1966. Studio bound and bradded 111-multi-color revision page shooting script including some carbon copy typed pages tipped between printed pages. Interior title page attributed as written by "John Sansom" and dated "4th March. 1965". While this script is marked for the publicity department, it obviously came from a person of authority as there are copious notes, production markings, dialog changes, comments, cuts, and edits. One clue is a butter yellow revision page 45 with "A. Keys" handwritten at the top, indicating legendary Hammer Producer Anthony Nelson Keys. Handwritten highlights include technical notes like "Candles. No Wind" and during a stake-through-the-heart-scene, "Dummy required for Japanese version." In a scene marked for a close-up of "Dracula" (Christopher Lee) "No Colored Eyes" then later in the scene "Eyes in for Drac". There are also some examples of leavening of language for an international audience as when the line, "There's something the matter" has been changed to "There's something wrong." An insider's look at the making of a Hammer Horror Classic. Exhibiting age and production wear.
Dracula Prince of Darkness 40+ Pages of Musical Score by James Bernard.
Hammer, 1966. Archive of 40+ pages of music handwritten on 11 x 15 in. manuscript/music paper with printed staves. Film composer Bernard was a Hammer Film Productions staple composing scores for The Quatermass Xperiment. He scored Hammer's first Horror movie; The Curse of Frankenstein, and continued on with Dracula (1958) Kiss of the Vampire (1962), The Gorgon (1964), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Devil Rides Out (1968), Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974). He also scored non-horror Hammer films such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Stranglers of Bombay (1959), The Terror of the Tongs (1961), The Damned (1963), The Secret of Blood Island (1964), and She (1965), as well as non-Hammer titles including Windom's Way and Torture Garden. In later years, historian Kevin Brownlow prevailed upon Bernard to write an original score for F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent Vampire film Nosferatu. This unique manuscript incorporates Bernard's original motifs for what is arguably the most influential horror movie score of all time; 1958's Horror of Dracula. The manuscript features many hand annotations and marks. Exhibiting expected age and production handling.
Hammer The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Working Title: "Dracula is Dead...and Well and Living in London!") Crewmember Shooting Script.
Hammer, 1973. Studio bound and bradded 120-page screenplay with additional 100+multi-color loose revision pages. Attributed as written by Don Houghton and dated on the interior title page "26 October, 1972". Front cover and some interior pages handwritten at the top, "Charles Crafford" who was an established sound engineer of the era. Exhibiting expected age and production handling.
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