N.p. N.p. Two screenplays for an unproduced film. With annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. After three strange coincidental deaths in Rome witnessed by Ted Fraser, an American on vacation and special CIA operative, he begins to ask questions and ends up finding out more about the connections Vatican City has with former and resurgent Nazi groups. Set in.....
Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures, 1946. Draft script for the 1946 film. Working copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. The final film in the Nevada McKenzie series, in which US Marshal Jack "Nevada" McKenzie is asked to help investigate the death of a man who supposedly drowned in a haunted mine.....
![Ultraviolet - Episode 2: In Nomine Patris [Crossing the Line] (Original screenplay for the 1998...](/pictures/thumb/135816.jpg?v=1492979179)
London: World Productions, 1997. Shooting script for the 1998 British television miniseries "Ultraviolet," seen here as "Crossing the Line," episode 2: "In Nomine Patris." Accompanied by 114 pages of call sheets, scene breakdowns, shooting schedules, and detailed notes on hair and makeup for each character. A six episode miniseries in which Jack Davenport plays a Detective Sergeant whose best friend.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. 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." An American naval officer purchases, marries, and.....
![The Frisco Kid [No-Knife] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film). Robert Aldrich, Frank Shaw...](/pictures/thumb/130194.jpg?v=1418080683)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1978. Final Draft screenplay for the 1979 film "The Frisco Kid," seen here under the early working title "No-Knife." Though first offered to John Wayne, the part of "Tommy" went to Harrison Ford when Wayne declined, having been offered less than his usual fee. Director Aldrich's second Comedy Western, following his 1963 Frank Sinatra film "Four.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Revised Final Script for the 1974 film, "The Longest Yard," directed by Robert Aldrich, written for the screen by Tracy Keenan Wynn and Albert S. Ruddy (though only Wynn is credited here), and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, and Bernadette Peters. Ex-football star Burt Reynolds ends up in a prison run by sadistic sports-nut Warden Eddie.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. First Draft script for the 1965 film. Included are production notes dated November 1965 (laid in) and an architectural sketch of the "sky truck" noted as "REVISED / APR. 22. '65," As deluxe a script for this film as we have seen, and a highspot for noted director Robert Aldrich. One of the great adventure.....
New York: Delia Productions, circa 1960-1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth, in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present, with.....
N.p. N.p., circa. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Altschuler is best known for her work on Harold Young's 1939 film "Sabotage." Story of a romance between a shopgirl named Amy and a struggling writer named James. Brown production company wrappers (The Feldman-Blum Corporation). Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alice Altschuler. 96 leaves, with last page of.....
![Entree des artistes [The Curtain Rises] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film). Marc Allegret,...](/pictures/thumb/106085.jpg?v=1418079894)
Paris: Regina / Kassler, 1938. Original screenplay for the 1938 French drama, "Entree des artistes" [The Curtain Rises], one of the best-loved Louis Jouvet dramas of the 1930s, wherein Jouvet played exactly what he was in real life: an actor and teacher of drama. One of only a handful of screenplays from 1930s French films that we have ever seen.....
Culver City, CA: Selznick Studio, 1950. Draft English language script for the 1951 French-Italian film, "Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois," here under the English title, "Miracles Only Happen Once." Based on an original scenario by Jacques Sigurd, adapted to English by Hugh Brooke. Claudia (Valli) and Jerome (Marais) meet in Paris shortly before WWII, fall in love and expect.....
![Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee from Antwerp] (Original carbon typescript for the 1948 film). Yves...](/pictures/thumb/138070.jpg?v=1492979845)
Beverly Hills, CA: Victor Glaser, Circa 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development, with brief annotations throughout in holograph ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser, with his name and address on the front wrapper in holograph ink, and the person to whom the internal.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1978 film. One of "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen's last disaster films (his penultimate film as director), following up on his success with "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), and "The Towering Inferno" (1974), and featuring an enormous star-studded cast, which included seven Academy Award winners (Michael Caine, Olivia de Havilland.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1948 film noir. Based on the 1947 novel. In 1890s London, the widow of a missionary falls for an amoral grifter who lodges at her boarding house. He soon drags her into his nefarious schemes, manipulating her into blackmailing and stealing from her enfeebled childhood friend. The first Paramount picture to.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-Production Superimposed Spotted List and Combined Dialogue script for the 1948 film. Single holograph notation in pen to the front wrapper. Based on the 1947 novel. In 1890s London, the widow of a missionary falls for an amoral grifter who lodges at her boarding house. He soon drags her into his nefarious schemes, eventually manipulating her into.....
![Crimes and Misdemeanors [Brothers] (Original screenplay for the 1989 film belonging to actor...](/pictures/thumb/148416.jpg?v=1589614221)
N.p. Untitled Productions, 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film, belonging to and heavily annotated throughout by actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "Brothers." Bound in a spring binder with "Kraft Music Hall" and Landau's name in gilt on front ("The Kraft Music Hall" was a revival of the NBC variety television show with various hosts and performers.....
Montreal, Canada: Quest Film Productions, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1976 film. With a few holograph pencil and ink annotations to the title page. An international hunt begins for a powerful, rare stone amulet activated through Easter Island energy produced by an upcoming solstice. Orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the noir influenced television series starring the sophisticated, sharp-dressed.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the classic 1942 film noir. An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. Set in Turkey. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped and production No. 1223, dated July.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Final Draft script for 1989 science fiction film, adapted by John Varley from his 1977 short story "Air Raid," which he then expanded into the 1983 novel "Millennium." In a custom wrapper with a two-color logo for the film's initial production company (prior to being picked up by Twentieth Century-Fox), First Millennium Partnership. A soldier.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original Treatment script for the 1977 horror film, here under the alternate title of "Orc." A blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of "Jaws" two years earlier, the film follows a fishing vessel being stalked by a killer whale bent on avenging the death of its pregnant mate at the hands of the crew.....
Hollywood: Berkshire Productions, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1968 film, with titled written on front wrapper very boldly in holograph marker, script containing a few copied annotations, striking dialogue and altering actions. From an original story from producer and director Josef Shaftel. When no one will pay the ransom for the return of retired Mob Boss Cesare Celli (Vittorio De.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Original UK script for the 1965 film. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation, the bloodiest battle that the US fought in WWII and one of the key turning points in the war. Filmed almost entirely.....
Los Angeles: Savoy, 1993. Revised Final Draft script for the 1994 film. Loosely based on Anne Rice's 1985 novel. A young Australian photographer ventures to a private tropical island where he can explore his sadomasochistic proclivities, unaware that he is carrying inadvertent film evidence of a multimillion dollar diamond smuggling operation with him. Two undercover detectives follow him to the.....
N.p. N.p., 1978. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on 1974 novel of the same name by Evelyn Anthony. After her brother dies of a heroin overdose, Katharine Dexter decides to isolate the source of an Italian villa of some distant relatives. Set in Italy. White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1978, noted as FIRST DRAFT, with.....
![Identification Of A Woman [Identificazione Di Una Donna] (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144397.jpg?v=1559338803)
Rome: Iterfilm, 1982. Agency draft script in English for the 1982 Italian film. Antonioni's rarely discussed final feature, and one of his greatest achievements. Niccolo (Tomas Milian), a recently divorced movie director pursues a new relationship with a younger woman, Mavi (Daniela Silverio), who he imagines could play the leading role in his next film. She quickly vanishes and he.....
N.p. N.p., 1982. Third Draft British script for the 1983 film. With a single holograph ink notation reading "4" to the title page. Based on the 1981 novel. A Moscow officer's investigation into a brutal triple homicide uncovers an international smuggling conspiracy. Set in Russia, shot on location in Finland and Sweden. Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Laid in is a five-page staff and crew list, with brief annotations in holograph ink on the verso of the last page. Based on Klane's 1975 novel. The last of four films directed by Alan Arkin between 1967-1977, and probably the best. An anarchic comedy about the owner.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1943 film. Based on the 1942 novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place. White titled wrappers, dated January 8, 1946.....
Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Draft script for the 1975 episode "The Deadly Volley" from the television series "The Wide World of Mystery," first aired on January 27, 1975. An unliked professional tennis team owner is nearly murdered and the team members are all suspects. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/10/74, noted as SECOND DRAFT.....
N.p. The Corman Company, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. A Vietnam vet is hired to deal with a group of rowdy oil workers causing trouble in a small town, and decides to occupy the town with his mercenary buddies in order to provide a solution. A low budget action film, shot in just 30 days, after producer.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1958 film. White brad-bound titled wrappers, dated December 16, 1957, noting 11 reels. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine.
![Carrington V.C. [Court Martial] Original screenplay for the 1954 film). Anthony Asquith, John...](/pictures/thumb/140965.jpg?v=1492980651)
London: Romulus, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965). Based.....
![The V.I.P.s [Very Important Persons] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film). Anthony Asquith,...](/pictures/thumb/131486.jpg?v=1418080807)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film "The V.I.P.'s," seen here as "Very Important Persons," which has been struck through with "The V.I.P.'s" written above in holograph pencil. Rubber-stamped FILE COPY, and number 5974 on the front wrapper. Notations to dialogue throughout, in holograph pencil, red pencil, and blue and black ink. A star-studded drama.....
![Shall We Dance [Stepping Toes] (Original screenplay for the 1935 film). Fred Astaire, Ginger...](/pictures/thumb/145692.jpg?v=1560892787)
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Estimating script for the 1937 film, here under the working title "Stepping Toes." A ballet star (Astaire) start falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers would make together.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Treatment script for the 1937 film. Almost certainly the earliest draft associated with the film, a typescript prose synopsis. A ballet star (Astaire) falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire.....
N.p. N.p., 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film. Copy belonging to art director Michael Lamont, with his name in holograph ink on the verso of the front wrapper, and to the top edges of several leaves. Based on the 1985 play. The true story of the doomed autumn romance of novelist and theologian C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham.....
![The Eternal Sea [The Admiral Hoskins Story] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). John H....](/pictures/thumb/128682.jpg?v=1418080414)
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1954. Final shooting script for the 1954 film. Holograph annotations on the front wrapper reading "Revisions / Blue 9-28-54" and "part of 'Admiral John Hoskins.'" One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, "The Eternal Sea" is the biography of American admiral John M. Hoskins. Sterling Hayden delivers a superbly understated performance as Hoskins, who continued.....
N.p. N.p., N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old, blind beggar ends up charged with taking care of a young girl whom he calls his niece because she is deaf and dumb, and he believes he can make money by having people pity her and giving her money. He is urged by a local clergyman to bring the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1973. Post-production script for the 1973 film. The story of two jaded police officers who turn to crime, using knowledge they learned as cops to plan heists and augment their low salaries. Westlake's darkly comic and bitter story received a very positive critical response. Set in 1970s era New York and shot there on location.....
Beverly Hills, CA: EK / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen, he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Shagan's 1979 novel. Barney Caine (Scott) of the LAPD uncovers a formula for synthetic gasoline devised by the Nazis in WWII. A greedy and ruthless oil magnate, Adam Steiffel (Brando) and his company hear of the formula, and stop at nothing to destroy it.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Script belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, and three pages of annotations in holograph marker and ink with reference to sound work laid in. Also laid in is a separate Sound EFX Breakdown with sections underlined in holograph.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1946 film. Phyllis Allenby (Lockhart) has an ancient curse on her family, cast by a pack of wolves. After a series of local murders, she is convinced she and her werewolf curse are to blame, for she finds her belongings muddied, torn, and streaked with blood almost.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Final Script for the 1951 film musical, "Call Me Mister," directed by Lloyd Bacon, written for the screen by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler, and starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, and Richard Boone. With choreography by Busby Berkeley and songs by Frances Ash, Earl K. Brent, Sammy Fain, and Mack Gordon. "Call.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice, about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100, dated MARCH 2.....
![The Great Sioux Uprising [Sioux Uprising] (Original screenplay for the 1953 film). Lloyd Bacon,...](/pictures/thumb/137487.jpg?v=1513032805)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Revised final script for the 1953 film "The Great Sioux Uprising," seen here as "Sioux Uprising." Though very loosely based on true events surrounding the two-year Red Cloud's War, during which a Cheyenne Native American chief repeatedly attacked US forces in an effort to stem the flow of White settlers, this film centers around.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final script for the 1939 film. Copy belonging to director Mort Blumenstock, with his ownership name on the front wrapper, and brief annotations throughout in holograph pencil. Blumenstock (1900-1956) was a director of short films like "Morals for Women" (1931) and "Office Blues" (1930), and was Warner Bros. Eastern advertising and publicity representative (through "House.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Based on Raphael Blau's unpublished story. Widow Abby Abbott (Loretta Young) and her teenage daughter Susan (Betty Lynn) support themselves on a trust fund started from her late husband. In order to get Susan the needed funds to pay for college tuition, Abby must enroll as well to.....
![Give My Regards to Broadway [Off to Buffalo] (Original screenplay for the 1948 film). Lloyd...](/pictures/thumb/140099.jpg?v=1492980441)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in holograph blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family, a juggling act struggling to find work. They.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Revised Final Draft for the 1953 film musical. Producer George Jessel, playing himself, holds a story writing conference where debates surrounding the life of vaudeville star Eva Tanguay (Mitzi Gaynor), the subject of the upcoming film, give way to conflicting stories told by her former partner Eddie McCoy (David Wayne) and piano player Charles Bennett.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the front wrapper. Based on Brian Clark's 1972 play. A sculptor finds his career and personal relationships ended after a gruesome car accident paralyses him from the neck down, and decides to.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member, Betty St. Clair, who was a costume designer, with her name in holograph ink on the first page of text. Based on the 1938 autobiograhy Trader Horn: The Ivory Coast in the Earlies by Alfred Aloysius “Trader” Horn about an ivory trader.....
Hollywood: Paramount Television, 1976. Third Revised Final Draft script for the pilot of an 1976 unproduced television series. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board. A comedy about the house hold of a 45 year old widowed man with two daughters, ages 12 and 20, who is remarried to a woman just a......
Los Angeles: ABC Pictures, Circa 1970s. First Draft Scenario script for an unproduced film called "Swift Runner," written by Oscar-nominated director Carroll Ballard. Ballard received his nomination for his 1967 documentary, "Harvest." A story about an old man named Doc, his days as a horse thief, and the young boy and his mother who give Doc a new outlook. Blue.....
Los Angeles: Sandy Howard Productions / New World Pictures, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink notation 108 on title page. Bar-Yotam is an Israeli actor and screenwriter, who is best known for his roles in "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" (2008), and "Moon Over Parador" (1988) along with several television appearances dating from 1981-2016 on.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Dave Hinkle is a weatherman on a local television station, who is recruited by his boss to report on breaking news involving a robbery. While reporting and being confused by his microphone, he is snatched by the bandits and held hostage. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bud.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced television episode. Barish is screenwriter best known for "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and two episodes of "The Hitchhiker" television series (1985-1986). Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 22, 1986, noted as Revised First Draft, with credits for writers Barish and Bean. 39 leaves, mechanical duplication. Pages.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1935. Draft script for the 1935 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Based on F. Britten Austin's 1923 short story "The Drum." During WWI British Officer Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) is captured and awaiting execution when local Turkish commander helps him escape, revealing.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1946 film. A woman witnesses a murder committed by a killer who happens to also be a Gilbert and Sullivan fan. The police then produce an entirely new Gilbert and Sullivan musical on Broadway for her to star in, so that while acting in the play she.....
![Girl on the Spot [Serenade for Murder] (Original screenplay for the 1946 film). William Beaudine,...](/pictures/thumb/128372.jpg?v=1570926231)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Draft script for the 1946 film "Girl on the Spot," here under its original title "Serenade for Murder," which is stricken through and replaced with "Girl on the Spot" written above in holograph pencil. Copy belonging to Executive Producer Milton Schwarzwald, with his name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper and his annotations.....
N.p. Self published, 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a nazi. This script is very likely a lengthening of the original short.....
N.p. Self published, 1983. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a Nazi. This script differs slightly in dialogue and scene changes from.....
Los Angeles: United Artists Television, 1965. Draft script for what was to have been the pilot to the television series, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" in 1966. Instead the pilot was aired as a 30-minute television movie. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink. Created as a vehicle for the Canadian comic duo Wayne and Shuster (and based on their recurring stage routine).....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1931. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1931 pre-Code film. Complete, representing seven reels. Brad-bound self wrappers. Mimeograph duplication. Long tear to the first leaf (about 5.5 inches), else Near Fine.
![Seminole Uprising [Bugle's Wake] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film, editor Jerome Thom's...](/pictures/thumb/130141.jpg?v=1434404443)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film, "Seminole Uprising," seen here as "Bugle's Wake." Based on the 1942 novel, "Bugle's Wake," by Curt Brandon. Script editor Jerome Thom's working copy with his name ("Jerry Thoms") on the front wrapper, and profuse annotations throughout. A cavalry lieutenant is ordered to bring in Seminole Indian chief.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. Satirical horror farce, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Jerry Belson's cinematic directorial debut, based on a late-night sketch from ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live, "Fridays," wherein comedian Mark Blankfield played a recurrent cocaine-snorting pharmacist. Belson, most often noted.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on three pages. A cocaine fueled spoof of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," that could have only been made in the early 1980's. With tag lines like, "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his.....
![The Birthday Boy [Is Anybody Listening?] (Original screenplay for the 1986 television short). Jim...](/pictures/thumb/150006.jpg?v=1603781056)
N.p. Whitehorse, 1986. Second Draft script for the 1986 comedy short, here under the working title "Is Anybody Listening?," which originally aired on August 2 on Cinemax. With a holograph pencil annotation to the title page reading "Second Draft," and copied holograph annotations throughout the script. A cynical, beleaguered salesman for a sporting-goods store decides to take a road trip.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Temporary Complete script for the 1939 short film, one of several classic shorts featuring the great Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley. A stereotypically clueless husband is left in charge to show his apartment to a prospective subletting couple while his wife is at church, and manages to botch the job in all the.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Revised Sixth Draft script for the 1990 film. A police officer working in a rich suburb of Philadelphia pulls over a wealthy business owner and messed with the wrong guy, as he is reassigned to downtown Philadelphia. Everyone is sure he will get himself and his partner killed so Sergeant Curren (Whitaker) is assigned to.....
Beverly Hills, CA: MGM, 1981. Final Draft script for the 1981 film. Richard Benjamin's directorial debut. A junior comedy writer for a network variety show is assigned the formidable task of watching over a drunken, badly-behaved, and mostly washed-up matinee idol who is slated to appear as a guest on the show at the end of the week. Nominated for an.....
Los Angeles: April Fools Productions, 1977. First Draft script for the 1978 film. Barbara Eden plays a quirky, resourceful cosmetic saleswoman Stella Johnson who, after her young daughter is singled out by the nosey PTA for her mother's liberal lifestyle, decides to take on the organization using any means necessary, with comedic results. Basis for the 1981 television series of.....
N.p. N.p., 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and "Portrait of Jennie," in 1949, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films.....
![Persona [Kinematografi] (Original Swedish screenplay for the 1966 film). Ingmar Bergman,...](/pictures/thumb/149987.jpg?v=1600922530)
N.p. N.p., 1965. Final Draft script for the legendary 1966 film, under the original Swedish title "Kinematografi." In Swedish. "Persona" was in 2020 called “the greatest film ever made” by filmmaker and essayist Paul Schrader, a distinction he has considered probably as thoroughly as any cinema thinker of his generation. Schrader went on to note the ." . . [the stunning].....
![Island Women [Calypso Island] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film, Marie Windsor's copy)....](/pictures/thumb/137620.jpg?v=1492979723)
Hollywood: Security Pictures, 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1958 film, "Island Women," here under the working title, "Calypso Island." Copy belonging to actress Marie Windsor, with her name in holograph ink on the first page of text, annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout, one page noting scene wardrobe changes, and custom place markers at the fore-edges noting scene.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist, a French woman married to a man in the CIA, a mercenary pilot, and a shameless adventurer are amuck.....
![Le facteur s'en va-t-en guerre [Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu] (Original screenplay and scenario for...](/pictures/thumb/143838.jpg?v=1569976865)
Paris: Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton, Circa 1966. Draft script (carbon typescript) and scenario (offset printing) for the 1966 French film, here under the working title, "Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu." Released in the US as "The Postman Goes to War" (1968). Numerical notation in holograph pencil on one page. Also included is the original manila folder used to house the.....
![Space Master X-7 [Missile into Space] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film). Edward Bernds,...](/pictures/thumb/140666.jpg?v=1492980585)
N.p. Regal Films, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with annotations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The rust expands rapidly, threatening to consume the entire planet. Produced.....
Culver City, CA: Associated Producers Inc., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly," and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre (Brett Halsey) takes up his father's work of matter transmission, and with his uncle Francois (Vincent Price) they accidentally produce a monstrous creature, a man with the head.....
N.p. Self published, Circa 1970s. Typescript treatment script for an unproduced film called "Who Loves Jackie?" written by Richard G. Berry. Copy belonging to Paul Kohner agency representative Ilse Lahn, with two holograph letters addressed to her from Berry: one letter requesting that Lahn read the script, noting a date of 9/7/78, and the other thanking Lahn for reading the.....
Philadelphia: N.p., 1985. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. A drama about the members of the fictional Omega Que Rho fraternity, likely based on Omega Psi Phi, a historically black fraternity of which screenwriter S. Torriano Berry is a member. Berry would go on to find success in horror film, creating an anthology series, "The Black Beyond," writing and.....
New York: Dove Productions, 1976. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a photocopied letter from casting director RoseMari St. Charles to Paul Kohner, dated September 24, 1976. The memo makes mention of several possibilities for casting the film, including Charlie Sheen and Joanne Woodward. A hardboiled detective tale featuring a private investigator who was formerly a street.....
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Los Angeles: The S. Paul Company, 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. With a single holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper. A campy Bond-style action comedy, featuring John Stamos as a high school gymnast seeking vengeance for his secret agent father's untimely death at the hands of a powerful intersex gang leader named Velvet Von Ragnar (played to.....
Rome: Fair Film, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. An English language script for consideration by US filmmakers, though the film was shot in Italian. Based on Alberto Bevilacqua's 1964 novel of the same name. The widow of a worker killed by police joins the militant strike against the factory owners, one of which falls in love with her.....
London: Foxwarren-Elthea / Hemisphere Pictures, 1961. Draft British script for the 1961 film "Bomb in the High Street" seen here as "Bomb in High Street." An elaborate and highly entertaining British thriller in which a Nazi-era bomb is found in an English town. A bomb squad is called in, but the men in the squad are not who they seem, and.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1956 film noir. The co-owner of a dog track (Barker) discovers his partner has sold out to a local gangster, and soon finds himself framed for two murders by the gangster and a femme fatale (Oberon). White self wrappers, noted as Continuity and Dialogue on the front.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1967. Two Draft scripts for "The Barren Ground," the 1967 episode of "The Virginian" television show. Loosely based on the 1902 novel by Owen Wister. Television's first 90-minute western series, and one of the longest running western shows in history, having aired from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. The series.....
N.p. N.p., 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative holograph black ink, presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards, corresponding with the script that follows, all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of.....
London: Warden Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 British film, with notation of underlined "A-9" in holograph ink on top right of title page. Young couple Robert (David Hemmings) and Claire (Gayle Hunnicutt) tragically lose their 6-year old son David (Adam Bridge) in an accidental drowning. Claire, traumatized, breaks down, and after multiple suicide attempts is committed to a......
Los Angeles: Discovery Productions, 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1949 Jim Thompson novel. The story of a small town movie theater owner who gets mixed up in a murderous love triangle with his wife and lover. Though a film from this script was never made, the original Thompson story, adapted by a different writer, remains.....
London: Jack Parsons, 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in holograph pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers, dated May 1953, with credits.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1997. Revised Draft script for the 1997 television movie. Based on the 1994 novel "The Advocate's Devil" by Alan Dershowitz. A film whose message regarding the nature of sexual assault remains potent and relevant, "The Advocate's Devil" follows an attorney who successfully helps a young athlete shake rape charges that have been brought against.....
London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film, featuring four different stories, including vampires, witchcraft, wax ladies, and eerie stranglers. In one story, a writer is haunted by the psychopathic central character of his.....
New York: H.B.L. Productions, 1972. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "Such Men Are Dangerous," written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., based on a novel by "J.O. Kerr" (joker), the pseudonym originally used by Lawrence Block for his 1969 titular novel, but the novel was released as written by Paul Kavanagh, the lead character of the script and another.....
Los Angeles: Ablo, 1987. Draft script for the 1988 film. After his friend Cody disappears into the forest, Dallas is determined to find him, unbeknownst to his younger brother Joey, whom he invites along on his trip and believes them to be on a simple hunting trip. After Cody is found crucified in the woods and a young woman Stevie.....
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1986. Revised Third Draft script for the 1987 film. INSCRIBED by actor Kristy Swanson on the title page to an unknown crew member. Based on the 1979 Gothic novel by Virginia C. Andrews, about the incestuous plight of four unlucky siblings whose mother abandons them in the attic of her family's decaying ancestral home after their.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Paul Kohner Inc., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Le Testament D'Archibald," written by Philippe M. Blot. Set in the Caribbean Sea and in France during the 1950s, the story involves sunken treasure, a Samurai, and two pregnant women with their husbands. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982, noted as Original story and screenplay.....
N.p. N.p., 1983. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Written by film producer Richard Bluel (best know for his work on the 1966 television series "The Green Hornet") and screenwriter Pat Fielder (best known for the 1962 film "Geronimo"). "The Summoning" follows a man who seeks psychiatric help for his nightmares, believing that he is seeing visions of his.....