N.p. N.p., circa 1980s. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. The wife of a wealthy Los Angelean developer realizes that her mother has become homeless, and has been living on the street for six months after having lost the money her husband left her when he died. The discover forces the developer to realize that the "under-utilized" area he.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A wounded Polish soldier is treated by a Jewish doctor in World War I, and impregnates the doctor's daughter before he is sent back home. The same Jewish doctor treats him again years later when he is found disfigured in the wreckage of an attack on Jews by Polish forces.....
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. An unproduced English-language version of "Mina Drommars Stad" or "City of My Dreams," a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingvar Skogsberg, based upon a novel by Per Anders Fogelstrom. Young Henning and his three friends struggle to survive with their freedom intact in 19th century Stockholm. Based.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Original studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10, 1943. Printed as a mimeograph studio script in small numbers for internal distribution, the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. Red titled wrappers, with credits.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Carbon typescript studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10, 1943. Printed as a studio script in small numbers for internal distribution, the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. Red titled wrappers, with credits.....
N.p. N.p., 1986. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The true story of Benjamin Franklin traveling to France after the American Revolution, where he acts as a diplomat from the newly-established United States of America and he makes sure to throw around the new weight of this budding country. Set in Paris. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1986.....
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.....
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., 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.....
London: Winkast Programming, 1972. Revised Second Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, most substantive. The adventures of a nine year-old boy who travels from California to Washington DC to patent a bubble gun he has invented, with the hope of eventually impressing his emotionally distant father with his creation. Seemingly planned in conjunction with.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1941. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A substantial Treatment script for an evidently unproduced film set during the 1940 battle and evacuation of Dunkirk. Also a novelist, Garrett contributed to many of the great films of Hollywood's golden era, including "The Story of Temple Drake" (1933), "Gone with the Wind" (1939), and "Duel.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single holograph annotation in ink to the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a typed page crediting Pierre Gaspard-Huit as director. Text in French. An FBI agent infiltrates an international drug smuggling ring that operates primarily through a system of casinos. Set in Portugal. Grey titled wrappers. Title.....
Los Angeles: Underworld Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on John Gay's 1728 play, "The Beggar's Opera," source for many similar adaptations, including "The Threepenny Opera." The odds are constantly stacked against Mickey Moore, an honest gambler who is about to be killed for owing a powerful man too much money. He falls for a female acrobat and.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film, dated December 26, 1979, a collaborations between screenwriters Peter Gethers and David Handler. The two writers seem to have been inseparable throughout their film careers, collaborating almost exclusively on episodes for television series like "Charles in Charge" (1984), "Kate & Allie" (1984-1986), "CBS Summer Playhouse: 'The Saint.....
Los Angeles: Chateau Productions. Draft script for an unproduced film. An Egyptologist-turned-author returns to Egypt from America after many years to look for the tomb of Nefertiti, but instead finds a mystery including many who keep dropping dead in his path. Not only is he covering up his own secrets concerning his past, but many of the unfortunate travelers on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Temporary Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Great Lie," written by Ivan Goff under the supervision of Henry Blanke. Not to be confused with the 1941 Emund Goulding film starring Bette Davis. Owner name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Set in England, a prolific.....
![The Selling of a Musical '74 [Many Happy Returns] (Original script for an unproduced play). music...](/pictures/thumb/129252.jpg?v=1515181432)
N.p. N.p., 1974. First Draft script for ah unproduced play. A whimsical play within a play about the hardships of finding monetary backing and the windfalls of governmental control. A tax error grants a theatre producer and unsuccessful Broadway promoter $687,700 instead of the $68.77 he is actually due. Satire ensues. Ray Golden was a lyricist and composer who primarily.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Revised script for an unproduced film. Jim turns 18 years old and attends Beverly Hills High School where he begins fawning over Stephanie, a model and fellow senior with an abusive mother. Stephanie is leading a double life, concealing her lesbian inclinations while also losing her virginity to Jim, which brings on the condemnation from her mother.....
Chicago: Zev Braun Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Carruthers," circa early 1970s. Written by David Zelag Goodman, whose film credits include "Monte Walsh" (1970), "Straw Dogs" (1970), "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), "Logan's Run" (1976), and "Eyes of Laura Mars " (1978). Based on a story by Benjamin Manaster ("Goldstein," 1964, director), set in Texas just.....
Los Angeles: Jay Weston Productions, Circa 1970s. Revised Draft script for an unproduced action film about a American soldier trying to free his son from a military prison in a fictional South American county in the throes of revolution. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as Revised Draft, with credits for screenwriter Gordon. 96 leaves, with last page of.....
N.p. N.p. Typed script for an unproduced film with holograph annotations and type corrections throughout. Thomas, a bureaucrat for an oppressive regime goes undercover as a clown to spy on civilians until his legitimacy is called into question on both fronts. Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as First draft on the front wrapper, with credits for screenwriter Laszlo Gorog and cinematographer.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Former Korean War vet and baseball player and current junkie has been completely out of his son's life as a father and only involved later on as a "friend" who happens to meet him on the street. His son is pursuing his dream of being a filmmaker while his father struggles to.....
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: Jerry Merton Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a small holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "# 40." Based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's 1923 short story about a prospector who finally strikes gold, attributing the fortune to his lucky mule Jenet. Set in the American Southwest. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1993. First Revised Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of "Night of the Hunter," based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb, written for the screen by Don Michael Paul. White MGM titled wrappers, with studio logo and die-cut window as issued. Title page present, with a date of April 30, 1933, and credits.....
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.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Edward Everett Hale's unedited 1863 short story "The Man Without a Country," here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 7, 1944. Hale's short story was first published in the December 1863 issue of The Atlantic. The story has been adapted four times for film. First in 1917, directed by.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. "The Dakota Project" is a top secret government initiative to solve problems of the future. A recent recruit runs into the sickening truth that the project's end goal is to introduce humans as food to the overpopulated and environmentally degraded world of the future. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present.....
![Mysterien [Mysterier][The Mysteries] (Original script for the 1976 play). Knut Hamsun, novel](/pictures/thumb/146263.jpg?v=1602833715)
N.p. Theater-Verlag Kurt Desch, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German play. Text in German. The first known dramatic production of Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun's 1892 novel "Mysterier," premiering at Oslo's National Theater in the summer of 1976. Whether the stage adaptation was done by Hamsun or another unnamed party is not clear. The novel was adapted a few.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1946. Final Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1892 novel, adapted for the screen by Allan Scott for Selznick International. David O. Selznick held the movie rights to Hardy's story for many years (with Jennifer Jones in mind for Tess). Selznick's two greatest dreams had been to film "Gone With the Wind".....
Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson, 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting.....
Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson, 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him.....
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.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1989. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. A Russian assassin captured by the Americans escapes prison on the eve of a Russian Premier's visit to Washington DC. For help, the officer responsible for letting the assassin escape turns to the (nearly-crazy) agent who first caught him. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September.....
N.p. Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Francis Brett Harte's unedited 1869 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 9, 1944. Harte's short story was originally published in the January 1869 edition of Overland Monthly magazine. There have been several film and television adaptations made of the popular story, the earliest being John Ford's 1919.....
London: n.p., 1968. Original ribbon copy typescript screenplay, with two sets of comments from script readers, for an unproduced film, "Girl," written for the screen by Donald Ford and Derek Ford. From the collection of British director Robert Hartford-Davis, with whom the Ford brothers worked on several films during the 1960s. This script was intended to be something of a......
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. A middle-aged state legislator newly out of a job decides to run for president. Set in Washington, DC. Non-standard untitled Tommy's Productions wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter TOM HARTLAND. 56 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication, rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very.....
N.p. Self published, 1972. Draft Agency script for an unproduced film. About a police officer in San Francisco, his missing daughter, and his troubled past. Green wrappers. Title page present, dated 1972, noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY and REGISTERED WRITER'S GUILD WEST, with a credit for screenwriter Hattan and agent Bert Steinberger. Last leaf of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Nathaniel Hawthorne's unedited 1844 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 8, 1944. Hawthorne's short story was first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. It has been adapted into two plays and several operas, as well as a section.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1954. Vintage reference photograph of actress Rita Hayworth and costume designer Jean Louis examining fabric in preparation for Hayworth's appearance in the ultimately unproduced Columbia Studios film "Joseph and His Brethren," circa 1954. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. In defiance of her contract with.....
London: John C. Mather / Ben Arbeid, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced British film called "Act of Treason," written by Guy Elmes, based on Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Emmanuel Robles' 1948 play, "Montserrat." Screenwriter Elmes also wrote for films like "Bad Blonde" (1953), "Across the Bridge" (1957), "Pontius Pilate" (1962), "the Invincible Six" (1970), and "White Fang" (1973).....
N.p. N.p., 1973. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. With a business card for talent manager and film producer Arnold Stiefel stapled to the front wrapper, and a label sticker for casting agent Paul Kohner to the title page. Included with the script are two xerographically duplicated letters from Rudy Ramos, the head of the Speed Classic Racing Association.....
Los Angeles: The Producers Group, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the experiences of Ernest Hemingway's oldest son, John H.N. Hemingway, with a focus on his childhood and relationship to his family. White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated January 16, 198. With credits for screenwriter Denne Petitcler and primary source material from John H. N. Hemingway.....
N.p. N.p., 1988. Two Draft scripts, from 1987 and 1988, for an unproduced film. Both drafts SIGNED by screenwriter David Henderson in holograph ink on the title page in 1992, and each has a lengthy inscription about the development of the script, noting "Michael L. Parker" and his investment in the film, the script's general plot and characters, a proposed.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1988. Third Draft for an unproduced film. Mike is an unruly teenage boy who gets sent to a psychiatric hospital after being charged with stealing a car. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 4, 1988, noted as Third Draft, with credits for screenwriter Maxine Herman.125 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124.....
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.....
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.....
![Magistra Ludi: Die Glasperlenspieler [Master of the Game: The Glass Bead Game] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/146495.jpg?v=1602304868)
N.p. N.p., 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. 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, encapsulated in the "glass bead game," an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music, math.....
![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.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, likely a first draft. Based on James Crumley's 1978 gritty masterwork of crime fiction, featuring Crumley's recurring detective C.W. Sughrue scouring America's sleazy underbelly in search of a girl gone missing from Haight-Ashbury a decade earlier. After Walter Hill's critical and commercial success with "Warriors" (1979), and the critical success of.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two pages, one a letter dated November 4, 1982 and the other a synopsis of the film. Two men survive a nuclear blast in their city, only to be pursued relentlessly by roving bands of Nazi marauders. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982.....
London / Berlin: CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst], Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Representative." Written for screen by Joseph Gross and British novelist Andrew Sinclair. British script with die-cut window. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's 1963 play, "Der Stellvertreter," set during WWII. Set in Europe, a story about an SS officer named Gerstein, who attempts to inform the Pope.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film. A kind but reclusive woman inherits the fortune of her father, a man of dubious morals who was well known at Tammany Hall, and with the assistance of the Devil believes she can help put things to rights in part by funding a performance of "Faust." Written by Sidney Howard, who.....
London: Sawbuck Productions, 1981. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1980 debut novel by Christopher Hudson, who also wrote this screen adaptation. An ambassador's aide becomes embroiled in a US political coverup when a translator seeks asylum at the embassy, only to be carried off by police against diplomatic rules. Co-written by director/screenwriter Stuart Cooper, who.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s-1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film "Twist." Copy belonging to director Ken Hughes, with his annotations throughout. A police investigator shoots a longtime nemesis while chasing him after a heist, and must cope with the loss of his greatest equal. Set in England. Tall black wrappers, with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title.....
New York: Rick Leed, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble to John Huston of the Paul Kohner Agency. Based on Humble's award winning play of the same name, "The Flight of the Earls" which derives its title from the important event in Irish history in 1607 where the.....
n.p. N.p., Circa 1982. Two draft scripts for an unproduced film. Both have a flyer for the film laid-in, and are heavily notated with holograph ink and pencil. Based on the 1968 novel "Legion of Outcasts" by Hurk Davis, the autobiography of Peter Reeves as told to Mr. Davis, who was a Dutchman living comfortably until he ran out of.....
N.p. N.p., 1982. Original handwritten manuscript for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is an undated revision page, as well as a receipt from Fisher Graphics itemizing two copies of the script be printed and collated. Based on the 1968 novel "Legion of Outcasts" by Nick Hurk and Ben Roberts Davis writing as Hurk Davis. A Dutchman living in.....
N.p. N.p., early 1960s. 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). Actor and director Brian G. Hutton, noted for "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) and "Kelly's Heroes" (1970), adapts William Jacobs' 1959 western novel.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1964. Draft script for an unproduced film. Harriet is visiting Italy from The United States, recently divorced and ready to begin a new chapter of her life she meets Carlo, a handsome Italian man who falls in love with her despite being married. A passionate though consistently problematic and painful love affair ensues. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page.....
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.....
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.....
Los Angeles: James Ward and Larry H. Johnson, 1976. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink notation of phone number to listed Goldfarb Lewis Agency. Fred Zirbel gets no respect. At work his boss barks orders at him, and his subordinates pay him no heed. He loves his Edsel but it is mocked at the classic car contest. Will.....
![The $100,000,000 Snatch [The Fortunes of War] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/136404.jpg?v=1597723973)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, titled "The $100,000,000 Snatch," with the working title, "The Fortunes of War," on the front wrapper. Johnson was a screenwriter, director, and producer, and highlights of his forty-year career include "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957).....
London: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the near future, the Ayatollah Khomeini has recently died and the new leftist regime in Iran has begun to work together with the Soviet Union. The young and untraditional US president embarks on an diplomacy trip to address The Soviet Unions recent breach of an anti-nuclear treaty. His first.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a holograph ink annotation to the title page. Set in the near future, the Ayatollah Khomeini has recently died and the new leftist regime in Iran has begun to work together with the Soviet Union. The young and untraditional US president embarks on an diplomacy trip to address the Soviet.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An aging millionaire arranges to have his daughter—a cold-hearted, nosy serial bride—kidnapped and taken to a chateau in rural France in order to stop her from interfering in his libidinous affairs. Screenwriter Stephen Kandel was best known as a writer for television in the late 20th century, including episodes of "Sea.....
Hollywood: N.p., Circa 2000s. Draftscript for an unproduced film. A romantic comedy about the life of a "twenty first century Woody Allen" type. White titled self wrappers with credits for screen writer Zack Kaplan. Title page integral to the front wrapper 59 leaves, with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with.....
N.p. N.p., 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young woman discusses her problems with her mentally ill mother, her desire to save the whales, and her absent fiance in therapy—but all is not as it seems. White, lacking wrappers. Title page present, dated 3/16/02, noted as Rough Draft, with credits for screenwriter Zack Kaplan. 19 leaves, with last page of.....
N.p. N.p., 1985. Revised Shooting script and storyboard for an unproduced film. It is finals week at a local university where the graduating seniors are hoping to leave college and graduate, for better or for worse. Screenwriters Mary Anne Kasica and Michael Scheff are known for the work on television and working together on the series "The Wizard," at about.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. First Draft script for an unproduced television film. With a single holograph ink annotation to the first leaf reading "Return to: Paul Kohner." Based on Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy, wherein a group of women decide to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek states by refusing to have sex with their husbands until the battles end. Set in ancient.....
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......
Hollywood: Fred Roth Productions, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. A police chief has a heart-attack while visiting a brothel accompanied by three other cops. They panic and force the women in the brothel to flee the state. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Beth Keele and Fred Roth. 95 leaves, with last page.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the US in the early 1910s, the film follows the disparate lives of two women starting on the day of their college graduation. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Beth Keele. 102 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication, rectos only.....
Hollywood: Cum Laude Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in 1910s United States, the film follows the lives of two women starting on the day of their college graduation. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Beth Keele and Fred E. Roth. 102 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographically reproduced.....
N.p. N.p., 1941. Story Outline for an unproduced film called "CinCUS," written for screen by Lieutenants Victor F. Blakeslee and Hartley E. How, and Welbourn Kelley, who was a witness in the Pearl Harbor Attack investigations, 1945-1946. A story about the CinCUS, a naval term for Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet. Admiral Todd Emery leads his Navy crew to battle "somewhere.....
N.p. N.p., 1958. Two treatments for an unproduced film, one a brief eight page synopsis, the other a full treatment of the plot, about a retiring major. Included are two copies of the synopsis and three of the full treament. Each with the stamp of agent Rosemary Greene Brinson, and the full treatment with a mailing label affixed to the.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact, and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first.....
![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. Draft script for an unproduced play. Joseph, son of the biblical Jacob, is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1980. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1980 novel of the same title by Bert Kopperl. A wealthy businessman dies of a heart attack while on the job, only to find his spirit has gone on to inhabit the body of a six year old boy, who then attempts to continue the businessman's.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a resume laid in for actor Sharon Hawn, including holograph ink notation correcting her phone number, possibly due to her being considered for a role in this unproduced feature. Based on the autobiography "With Two Wheels and a Camera" by still photographer Bert Kopperl, who was a war correspondent and photographer.....
Hollywood: Self published, 1980. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Instant Withdrawal," written by Anton Kothuis (as Anton Kothuys), whose film credits include "Overload" (1972), "The Assault" (1986), and television movies "Gossamer" (1980), and "Kopzeer Aan Die Waanzee" (1985). A story about a young group of filmmakers who decide to rob a bank to fund their project for.....
Koln: Self published, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced German film called "Cabrio 174," written by Lennart Kremser, slated to star Klaus Kinski. Laid in is a holograph letter addressed to Kinski from Kremser, dated 1982, and signed by Kremser. The letter states that Kremser wrote the screenplay with Kinski in mind as the lead role, in a film that.....
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......
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1981. First Draft script for an unproduced film. David, a constant disappointment, is floundering coming up with new ways to make money. A doctor friend of his asks him to donate some sperm for an artificial insemination experiment and the First Lady is destined to give birth to his child. Set in New York. Clear untitled wrappers. Title.....
Hollywood: Marford Productions. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Marta Raynes meets her fiance's college roommate in San Juan, James Holliday, a brilliant chemist. Raynes runs a patent firm and soon Holliday brings her a new kind of tobacco leaf. What she is interested in is the camouflage he has accidentally developed but when an intern spills coffee all.....
New York: Tony Lazzarino, 1975. Second 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). An epic telling of the heroic outlaw Robin Hood, here Robert of Locksley, and his men from Sherwood Forest, fighting.....
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.....