Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a note typed on casting agent Paul Kohner's office letterhead introducing the screenplay, addressed to actor Charles Bronson. The note is paper-clipped to a four page typed synopsis of the unproduced film "The Last Jump," which is also mentioned in the note. Based.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Beans is the chauffeur secret agent Jedediah Norris, a beautiful young woman who is in graduate school and adopted from Vietnam during the war by her father, a black man named Tom Callahan. She is also a gourmet chef and is in desperate love with her boss, but he only seems.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1983. Draft script for an unproduced Spanish film. Spanish language. "Satanik" written in holograph marker in a large stylized fashion on front wrapper. Stamp of Spanish film company "Copercines" on front wrapper. Title page stamped with "Filmoteca Nacional de Espana" (National Film Library of Spain) "Procedencia" (Origin) with the name Manzanos written in holograph ink, boxed below.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two brothers with a patchy relationship both end up becoming competent jockeys, and one who had previously slighted the other throws the important race so the other can win. Self wrappers, with integral title page present, showing credits for screenwriter Pinkham. 9 leaves, original typescript. Pages Very Good plus bound.....
N.p. Frank Capra Productions, Inc., 1965. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Walter Newman, with Frank Capra credited on the title page as "Producer-Director," and with Capra's production company, Frank Capra Productions, Inc. heading the front wrapper. The script is 247 pages, which would roughly amount to a four hour film. In 1965 Capra was in negotiations to.....
![The Devil Canyon [The Devil Canon] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Frank Emery,...](/pictures/thumb/145346.jpg?v=1568059742)
West Hollywood: Emery Pictures, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film, with the word "canyon" spelled in Spanish instead of English on the title page. A teenager is killed in a car accident, only to come back as a vampire in order to protect his girlfriend from a serial killer. Untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1984, with credits for.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small holograph ink annotations to the title page. After a dissatisfying experience with a prostitute, a man begins to have a number of hallucinatory experiences while sitting in a bar. Blue untitled card wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Frank Flannery. 110 leaves, with last page of.....
N.p. N.p., ca. 1944. Treatment script and copy of the original story for an unproduced film "The Murder on Jefferson Street," based on the 1944 short story by Dorothy Canfield. Copy belonging to screenwriter Frank Partos, with his name in holograph pencil. Also included with the script are contracts from Dorothy Canfield, Story Magazine, and Harcourt, Brace and Company signing.....
N.p. N.p., ca. 1956. Draft script for an unproduced film "Just Before Laughter," based on the 1955 novel "A Change of Climate" by Stanley Kauffman. Copy belonging to screenwriter Partos, with a Jaffe Agency label on the title page. The story of a professor who leaves his teaching position to become a salesman at a company he later finds had.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1968-1970. Dialogue transcript for the unfinished film, copy belonging to Frank Zappa, circa 1968, with a single annotation in Zappa's hand, in holograph ink, of "Wednesday" on top of first page. A transcript of multiple takes of ten scenes shot by Zappa, for his long aspired, but never finished experimental film. Featuring scenes primarily between Don Preston.....
N.p. N.p., 1944. Treatment script and Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Partos. The story of a woman on parole who hides her past from a blind soldier with whom she falls in love and marries. Blank black spring binder. Title page present, dated November 17, 1944, with credits for screenwriters Waldman and Partos. 180 leaves.....
![Tutty Frutty [Surprise Surprise] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Fred Hilberdink,...](/pictures/thumb/143912.jpg?v=1541362791)
Amsterdam: Fred Hilberdink Film Productions, 1983. Second draft for an unproduced film. Noted on the title page: "Working title for a really shocking horrorfilm." Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1983, noted as second draft, with credits for screenwriter Fred Hilberdink. 178 leaves, with last page of text numbered 180. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, bound with combs.
![Kean: A Play for Life [Kean: A Film Biography] (Two original screenplays for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/147444.jpg?v=1590295343)
New York: N.p., 1983, 1990. Two scripts for an unproduced film, a 1983 First Draft script and a 1990 Draft script. The First Draft script, titled "Kean: A Film Biography," contains a few annotations in holograph marker of text and dialogue corrections. The 1990 Draft script is entitled "Kean: A Play for Life." Accompanying the First Draft script is a......
N.p. N.p., 1954. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a copied holograph annotation to the front wrapper and title page noting: "BASED ON the play and NOVEL / "THE HUMAN STRONGBOX" / by / Frederic MAUZENS." Based on Frederic Mauzens' 1941 play "The [Human] Strong Box," about a daffy young man who accidentally swallows a priceless ruby, and subsequently.....
N.p. N.p., 1966. First Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Franz Habeck, the French resistance works to send a Nazi prisoner of war back home but is engaged with the question of why. The consequences of not sending him back leaves 50 innocent French citizens slaughtered daily at the hands of the German Army as.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1945. Incomplete First Draft Shooting script for an unproduced film called "Daybreak," written for screen by Jay Dratler, whose film credits include "Laura" (1944), "The Dark Corner" (1946), "Call Northside 777" (1948), "Pitfall" (1948), and "Impact" (1949). Fritz Lang's only effort with Selznick, also known as "Dawning." Intended for Ingrid Bergman, the project was called off.....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film by screenwriters Daniel Fuchs and Phil Rapp, dated 10/16/46. First page of carbon typescript treatment is a contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., signed and dated by Fuchs in holograph ink, with date illegible. Daniel Fuchs began his writing career in his mid-twenties with the novels "Summer in.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. An Irish comedy involving a small village which finds itself on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (i.e., the British Empire). A man and a woman on opposite sides of the border fall in love. Set in Ireland. Green titled wrappers with typescript.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript with type in black and red. A sixteen year old living in her sick aunt's boarding house receives a proposition from a local wealthy individual for marriage, which she would only do to pull herself out of her situation, but she cannot abandon her sick aunt who.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript, with type in black and red. A family visits France and deals with all sorts of upper class conveniences and distractions, including eating dinner and being invited for tea. Text partially in French language. Set in France. Unbound leaves. Title page integral with first page of text.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. A gentleman pays the bail of a recently-jailed political activist, who is then invited to a meeting of the League of Free Men. When the activist turns up murdered a few days later with a mysterious note found on his body, the police begin investigating exactly what.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Archive of various ribbon copy typescript draft script revisions (in both red and black ribbon type) for an unproduced film. With annotations throughout in holograph ink. A mystery begins to unfold as Tom Fielding finds an acquaintance of his in a highly distressed position. When he returns to his home, he finds his wife has been.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Archive of Draft scripts for an unproduced film, the first draft being a ribbon copy typescript. A man experiences constant ennui in high society life, and soon falls for a married woman whom he meets at a salon in her husband's house. They begin an affair amongst affluent society and start traveling secretly around Europe. Set.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Original treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. In a nonspecific, Communist-occupied country in Central Europe during the Cold War, a group of military police arrest a woman they believe to be a spy. She maintains her innocence, yet still she has an interesting alibi, married an artist three days before and finding him.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. The supposed memoir of a showgirl, who begins who career simply as a beautiful woman who think she is untalented in all other areas, and ends up embarrassing herself rather often at the start of her career. She eventually develops a camaraderie with her fellow performers and.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Archive of four Draft scripts for four different films, all unproduced. Set in London. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter G.E. Moore. 255 leaves, with last page of text numbered 12. Mixed ribbon copy typescript and carbon typescript, variously on white, green, and yellow stock. Pages Very Good plus with some foxing at the edges.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. A violent gang of men chaos all over the outskirts of London by beating up the daughter of an older woman they are sheltering, and abducting people throughout the London countryside. Set in London. Brown titled wrappers with typescript title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Archive of screenplays for an unproduced films, all by the same screenwriter, from the screenwriter's estate. Collection of unproduced screenplays by screenwriter G.E. Moore, including "The Wittering Alp," "Portrait of Catherine," "The Trojan Story," "The Nine Days' Wonder" and "The Choice Spirit." Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Moore. 150 leaves, with last page of.....
Rome: Aquila Cinematografica, 1974. Two Draft scripts and one treatment script for an unproduced television miniseries, bound together in a black binder. Text in English. Loosely based on Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1902 collection "De Novelle Della Pescara." A triad of violent, often romantic fables about three women—a nun whose downfall is desire, a widow who begins a romance with a......
![Le Novelle Della Pescara [The Pescara Stories] (Original screenplay for an unproduced television...](/pictures/thumb/146512.jpg?v=1602833720)
Rome: Aquila Cinematografica, 1974. Draft script for the first episode of an unproduced television miniseries. Based on the short story "The Virgin Orsola" from Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1902 collection "De Novelle Della Pescara." A chaste schoolteacher in a convent survives a life-threatening illness but soon after is violently sexually assaulted, beaten, and left for dead. Set in Italy. Orange untitled.....
N.p. N.p., 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. A con man and his partner rob some jewel thieves by posing as cops. However, later at a party, the con man sees the unique, priceless emerald he just stole around the neck of a rich American and begins to realize either that one or the one in his pocket is.....
Los Angeles: Selznick/Glickman Productions, Circa 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter on Selznick/Glickman Productions letterhead introducing the screenplay, addressed to an agent at the Paul Kohner casting agency and signed by film producer Daniel Selznick. Based on the 1972 novel. An American physician is the only doctor who can perform a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film, written by Marvin H. Albert, based on the 1960 Geoffrey Household novel, about an ex-military man with a dark past that comes back to haunt him. "Frances Richardson" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, but this person's role in the film is undetermined. An interesting script, with.....
New York London: Louis De Rochemont Associates / Grand Prize Films, 1962. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1909 one-act play. Blanco Posnet, a drunkard in a small Western town, faces hanging for stealing the sheriff's horse, but the situation grows complicated when the jury learns that Posnet gave the horse to a woman carrying her dying child to.....
London: Carter De Haven. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation in holograph ink. Gerald Vaughan-Hughes is a British screenwriter best known for his work on "The Duellists" (1977), "To the Devil a Daughter" (1976), and "Sebastian" (1968). Damon is a young jazz singer in England, performing on the night club circuit, and dealing with the daily.....
N.p. N.p., 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the true story of Padre Pio, an Italian friar and mystic who was later venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Screenwriter Giampaolo Lomi was best known for "Tropic of Cancer" (1972) and "The Barons" (1975). Set in Italy. Mustard cloth covered titled boards. Title page present, dated 1976, with.....
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Circa 1970. Original treatment script for an unproduced film called "Deeper Into the Forest," written by Giulio Questi, whose film credits include "The Possessed" (1965), "Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!" (1967), "Death Laid an Egg" (1968), and "Arcana" (1972). From the Paul Kohner agency, with his name and notation in holograph ink on the first page.....
Rome: Titanus, Circa 1960s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a "With Compliments" card from film producer Goffredo Lombardo, the head of Italian production company Titanus Distribution, stapled to the front wrapper. An Italian-American pro boxer on the rise discovers he's been framed for murder. Set in New York. Brown faux leather titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for.....
![Jim Now [The City and the Pillar] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Gore Vidal,...](/pictures/thumb/152410.jpg?v=1620078798)
N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film, attributed to Gore Vidal. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Loosely based on Vidal's 1948 classic landmark novel "The City and the Pillar," one of the few books of the period which portrayed overt homosexuality as natural and without moral ramifications. In 1970 and 1971 Variety International reported Franco Rossellini.....
London: Winkast Film Productions, 1969. First draft screenplay and copied second draft screenplay for an unproduced film from author Gore Vidal adapting his esteemed 1964 historical fiction novel "Julian." From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Vidal's account of.....
N.p. N.p., 1979. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Bound in with the film treatment are a few pages discussing the film's purpose and prospective audience. A biography of two-time Olympic gold medal recipient and football great Jim Thorpe, as told from the perspective of his daughter Grace. Set in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. Clear plastic front wrapper, with a white rear wrapper. Title.....
Nassau, Bahamas: McWhorter Productions, 1968. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Keep," adapted from Gwyn Thomas' 1962 play by Ray Jenkins. Bound in is an excised shooting schedule leaf, on one side noting $7000 owed to Jean McDonald, and the other side detailing production requirements for Ernest Lehman's 1972 film, "Portnoy's Complaint," the film with Richard.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. An antique dealer finds himself in possession of a religious icon, one of six in the world. When word gets out that he has it, many people decide to try a variety of techniques to obtain it, legally or illegally. Set in China. White titled self wrappers, with credits for screenwriters Michael.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a mix of holograph annotations, copied annotations, and white-out deletions throughout. Issued from a master copy, with no copied holes. Attached to the first leaf of the script is an stationery envelope from the Beverly Hills Hotel, with the name of screenwriter Jed Harris written in holograph ink on the front.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1988. Draft script for an unproduced film. Controversy divides a small southern town when a mixed-race man decides to revive his father's ancient Staggerwing plane in time to ride it in the town's Fourth of July parade. Set in the northwest Arkansas Ozarks. Black wrappers with silver titles. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Harry Minetree. 124.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot, in a post-feminist mode, about a pair of women named Maureen and Estelle. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 11, 1986, noted as First Draft, with credit for screenwriter Miller. 36 leaves, mechanical duplication. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
Los Angeles: Hollywood Television Theatre, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in holograph pencil. Based on Ibsen's 1892 play, considered one of his most revealing works, about Halvard Solness, a master builder who returns to his hometown to construct a church with a towering steeple. Iit is revealed Solness has a great fear of.....
Culver City, CA: Vanguard Films, 1939. Reader's Notes script for an unproduced film, intended for development at Selznick International in 1939. A document designed to summarize James' story down to two readable pages, created for producers and other filmmakers to consider. White wrappers, title page integral with the first page of text, with credit for reader Frances Millington and novelist.....
Culver City, CA: Vanguard Films, 1950. First Rough Draft script for an unproduced film, intended for development at Vanguard Films, inherited by Vanguard from Selznick International. Based on the novel by Henry James. Blue titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Stevenson, noted as First Rough Draft, and dated February 3, 1949. Title page present, dated February 3, 1949 noted as.....
n.p. N.p., 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman, credited for adding additional dialogue, holograph pencil signature on front wrapper. Holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club, second director of.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a wealthy New York City businessman struggles over her position in life when she can't seem to choose between a wealthy British suitor and a middle class New York City police detective. She attempts to strike out on her own and work for her own money, but.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced fictional film, set on a kibbutz in Israel, by documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline. Accompanying the script is a typed letter signed by Kline, dated "May II, 1964," discussing casting of the film, plans for script rewrites, including the removal of some "overt political statements" that aided in getting Israeli financing, and.....
Vienna: N.p., Circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on Herman Hesse's last full-length novel "Das Glasperienspiel" or "The Glass Bead Game," published in 1943. Years into the future, a class of intellectuals is concerned only with running boys' boarding schools and playing the Glass Bead Game, which involves a sophisticated synthesis of arts, science.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the front wrapper. A mild-mannered waiter and a spirited bartender start their own hit business after realizing the world is full of people who deserve to be killed. Screenwriter Herman Raucher was best known for the films "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget.....
![Magistra Ludi: Die Glasperlenspieler [Master of the Game: The Glass Bead Game] (Two original film...](/pictures/thumb/147395.jpg?v=1622149627)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Set of two treatment scripts for an unproduced television project, variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German and English. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel, set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future, a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits.....
N.p. Televison Film Production, circa late 1940's. Draft shooting script for an unproduced British television film, circa late 1940s. Note on title page, in holograph ink, in hand of "Punch" editor E. V. Knox, "See article on this subject [arrow] Argus," "(EVK)" to right of note, with "(sent by producers)" below. Eight page "Foreword" bound in after title page, details.....
N.p. N.p., 1988. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A comedy about the titular fictional music variety show. The cast list notes several heavyweight comedic actors, including Richard Pryor, Lilly Tomlin, Dan Ackroyd, and Eddie Murphy, but it's unclear if they were attached to the project or if it's a wish list, as the script also calls for cameos.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, circa early 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced television pilot by Howard Rodman, whose brief but extremely impressive docket includes the screenplay for three Don Siegel-directed films: "Madigan" (1968), "Coogan's Bluff" (1968), and "Charley Varrick" (1973). Rodman also served as a writer and story supervisor on three major television series: "Naked City" (1960-1963), "Route 66 (1960-1963).....
![La Sortie de Versailles [Leaving Versailles] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Hubert...](/pictures/thumb/147427.jpg?v=1590295337)
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in French. An unassuming couple accidentally overhears a gang's plans to rob a bank, and decide to personally interfere, with the end goal of securing the money for themselves. Screenwriter Hubert Cornfield was best known as a director for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1950s and 60s. From the estate of.....
London: K.L.K. Films, 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film, Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Nicholas Luard's 1967 novel, a political thriller. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Down on his luck news photographer, Sear, is offered a......
London: Jon Thurley MA, Circa 1960s. Treatment (synopsis) script for an unproduced film called "The Richest Man in the World," written by Ian Shand, whose film credits include "Mischief" (1969), "Kadoyng" (1972), and the 1960-1962 television series, "Bonehead." Owner name ("H. Janis") in holograph ink on the title page. A story set in Dallas, Texas, about a cab driver who.....
N.p. N.p., 1965. Synopsis for an unproduced film, based on the novel of the same name by Irving Wallace. Included with the synopsis is a two-page typed document on Brenco Pictures Corporation letterhead, dated November 11, 1965, discussing the popularity of Wallace's prior novels, and proposing a budget for the film, along with a small note addressed to casting agent.....
Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954. Final Script for the short from the 1954 film "Light's Diamond Jubilee." "Light's Diamond Jubilee" was a David O. Selznick television production aired simultaneously on all three of the major networks. The special was mounted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison's.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963. Revised Final Draft script for an unproduced film called "Voyage Out, Voyage Home," written by Sidney Buchman, based on stories by Irwin Shaw. Buchman's film credits include "Lost Horizon" (1937), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), and "Cleopatra" (1963). A story about Christine, who returns to her father in New York after a bad romance.....
New York: Challenger Productions, 1965. Ribbon copy typescript of a Preliminary Treatment script for an unproduced film. The manuscript does not name the author, however, we can reasonably presume this is Robert Newman's known treatment for Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales," under the title "The Gothic Tales," which we have offered once in the past, with that copy having a......
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on.....
![Aquel Nino Llamado Jesus [That Boy Named Jesus] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/144162.jpg?v=1621748019)
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Typescript for an unproduced film. Synopses in English are laid into the front wrapper for "That Boy Named Jesus," "Young Jesus," and "Don Quixote Goes West." Text in English. An imagining of the infancy, youth, and adolescence of Jesus Christ. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Ismael Rodriguez. 98 leaves, with last page of.....
![4 ft. 2 [Four Foot Two] [4 Foot 2] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). J. Michael...](/pictures/thumb/140783.jpg?v=1530722707)
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paul is a little person dealing with life the only way he knows how. He is typecast in Hollywood and frequently plays a ventriloquist's dummy and stared at when he is just trying to go about his day. He has great luck with women but not so much in forging close.....
London: Charwill Productions, 1967. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the 1959 novel by Mark Rascovich, co-written by Jack Davies and director Ken Annakin, who had received an Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" the previous year. A man and his bear attempt to flee Soviet Russia after the bear is.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced television film. With the name "ILSE LAHN," a reader for the Paul Kohner Agency, in holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper. Bandit Samuel Thaddeus Tartar arrives in town, injured from a gunfight, forcing his mother to admit that she has lied about his profession for years to preserve both of.....
Houston, TX: Crescent Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Childhood sweethearts John and Mary are set to wed and eventually inherit John's father's horse ranch, but Tim, the disturbed son of a ranch hand, desires nothing more than to see John brought low. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" (1960) and for his prolific.....
N.p. N.p. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Detective Doom is investigating a gang war when he discovers one of the gangsters must be in possession of a large cache of grenades and is not afraid to use them. Midge, a shorter man with dreams of climbing the ranks in the gang is threatening everyone with grenades, but especially.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Included with the bound script are five xerographically duplicated copies of the script, individually partially bound with one staple to the top left corners, and two unbound copies of the title page. A series centering the adventures and exploits of the members of a women's rodeo association. Yellow untitled generic Paul.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in holograph ink and pencil. When Peg is scorned by the townsfolk for being simply a singer and not able to get a real job, she forms a all-women gang and begins robbing banks and stagecoaches. The saloon she opens is run out of town and she is.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script (ribbon copy typescript) for the pilot episode of an unproduced television series. Jonothan Doom, an ex-war correspondent has turned private investigator in this series, along with his sidekick, old cop, Shannon Muldoon. Using their wits and judo techniques instead of firearms, their unorthodox approach to crime will bring them fame and infamy, in an.....
N.p. N.p., Circa early 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film, circa early 1970s. With holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page noting the name "Ilse Lahn," an agent and story editor for the Paul Kohner agency. A former Eastern European silver screen star turned vampire vixen tries to recruit undead minions through one-on-one acting lessons. Set in Hollywood. Yellow.....
Universal City, CA: Becerkamn Productions / Universal, Circa 1970s. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "One to Count Cadence," written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., based on James Crumley's 1969 first novel, a violent Vietnam War tale of friendship and survival. Agency copy, with an address label from the Paul Kohner agency in Hollywood on the front wrapper. Blue.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. A pacifist professor of physics at a southern university is convicted of manslaughter and incarcerated. Screenwriter James Dickey was best known for his prolific work as a poet, as well as for the 1970 novel "Deliverance" and its subsequent adaptation for the 1972 film. "The Sentence" was inspired by Dickey's 1975.....
Pasadena, CA: Night Train Films, circa 1990s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the 1930s United States. Jack faces the hardships of unemployment, jail, and a future without promise. He is driven mad, ultimately torching the last of what he has in a frenzy. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter James Elliot. 131 leaves.....
Hollywood: Firewater Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a number of small holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting grammatical revisions and diacritical marks. In the final days of World War II, Allied forces race to take down Hitler and the Nazi elite, while German and Italian prisoners of war plot to escape from an American camp in Texas. Set.....
Los Angeles: Self published, 1940. First Draft script for an unproduced film titled "And Now Goodbye," an adaptation of his 1931 novel. Included are three typed letters signed by Hilton. Each letter is from Hilton to producer Lester Cowan on Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, and RKO Radio Pictures letterhead, dated October 24, 1939, May 14, 1940, and May 22, 1940.....
West Hollywood: N.p., Circa 2000s. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Dedication on the front wrapper to "Eric Olsen and all the firefighter's who died in 9/11" White titled wrappers, lacking rear wrapper, noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page integral to front wrapper, with credits for screen writer James Kevin Fenwick. 60 leaves, with last.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. First Draft script for an unproduced film, separated into nine separate parts, likely for a television miniseries. Based on the 1965 historical novel by James Michener, a survey of the history of the Jewish people and the land of Israel. Screenwriter Robert L. Joseph was known for the 1953 film noir "The Hitch-Hiker" and for the television.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced English-language adaptation of Jean Renoir's 1960 play. Presentation copy, inscribed by Renoir on the title page: "Pour Ruth et Mark / en tout amitie / Jean Renoir" ("For Ruth and Mark / in all friendship / Jean Renoir"). Based on Renoir’s 1960 French play. A beautiful, troubled stage actress in Nazi-occupied.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A man awakens in a hospital and finds out he has been in a coma for two weeks due to an assassination attempt on his life. He begins searching for clues as to why someone would want him dead. Bloom is a screenwriter and director best known for his science fiction, horror.....
Hollywood: Paul Kohner Inc., Circa 1963-1964. Draft agency script for the an uproduced film called "A Thousand Several Tongues," written by Jeremy Fey, whose film credits include three episodes of the 1976-1977 television series, "ABC Afterschool Specials," his job being Productions Assistant. Agency copy, with the address imprint and label present from the Paul Kohner, Inc. agency in Hollywood. Copy.....
Hollywood: Andrews-Vagemann Productions, circa 1960s. Two treatment scripts for an unproduced television series "The Brutes." Written by Jerome B. Thomas, occasional writer for shows like "The Outer Limits" and the 1965 "Branded." This listing contains two scripts, "HERE COME THE BRUTES" and "THE BRUTES: THE IDOLS I HAVE LOVED SO LONG." "HERE COME THE BRUTES" introduces the principle characters, two.....
New York: N.p., Circa 1979. Archive including a Draft script for an unproduced film, and several associated typed letters signed relating to the possible casting of Liv Ullmann and Carol Kane. Based on the 1972 novel by Jerome Weidman. Laid in to the script are a three page handwritten letter on Film Friends letterhead from Marilyn Feinstein to Paul Kohner.....
N.p. N.p., 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. A depiction of the struggles of two US soldiers after returning home from the Vietnam War. Copper untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1985, with credits for screenwriter Jesse Wolf. 128 leaves, with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three.....
N.p. N.p., 1984. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a signed letter from the screenwriter to the Walter Kohner, dated January 31, 1985. An interpretation, memorialization, dedication and history of Jimi Hendrix, told through art and collages made by the screenwriter, which are in this screenplay, as well as a fantasy meeting between della Sala and Hendrix.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Script opens with a three page "Author's Note on the script: ..." in which screenwriter John Briley examines his intents in writing a story regarding the Arab world and culture. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The.....
St. Albans: Tillman Trevone Productions, 1974. Final draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). John Briley, Academy Award winning screenwriter for Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic "Gandhi," adapts his 1968 Vietnam War novel.....
Paris: Criterion Film. Draft script for an unproduced film. A beautiful Soviet skier and pilot is taken hostage by a gangster, who also steals the mysterious Weapon D, capable of beginning a nuclear war, which is all a part of his plan to destroy the world and repopulate it with the smartest, most beautiful people. She is saved and subsequently.....
New York: LaMarca Productions, circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1960 novel by John Hersey. A satire about the American educational system, in which a man tries to buy a smart young child with a difficult home life in order to utilize him in an experiment to engineer super-intelligent humans. Adaptation written by Lee Minoff.....
N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....
New York: Louis de Rochemont Associates, 1963. Third Draft script for an unproduced film about John Knox, the Scottish clergyman and theologian, considered to be the founder of the Presbyterian denomination in Scotland. Screenwriter Sloane (credited as Sloan here) was a screenwriter and wardrobe consultant, whose film credits include "Martin Luther" (1953), "Stalag 17" (1953), "The Monster That Challenged the.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1963. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. An early draft of a planned remake of the 1935 film—which was in turn based on the 1925 lost silent film—with the setting moved from World War I to the Korean War. Gerald and Alan are rivals in love for Kitty, their mutual childhood friend, although.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An American naval officer purchases, marries.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film, adapted from the 1949 novel by John Mason Brown. A comedic story about parents and children, the parent in this case being a conservative mystery novelist named John Timothy Adams. Blue titled wrappers, noted as treatment on the front wrapper, dated August 9, 1950, with credit for screenwriter.....
London: J. Arthur Rank, 1957. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to novelist and screenwriter John Masters, with his name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper, his holograph pencil annotations to virtually every page, and two handwritten pages stapled to the verso of the front wrapper, noting concerns about the script and deletions. Based on Masters'.....