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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Culver City Studios, 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film, with the name "Jim Woods" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay, likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods, with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper, and "13" on top right of title page, in.....

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 ley line energy produced by an upcoming solstice.Orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film.In order to track down a gang of hacker crooks known for skydiving onto the buildings they plan to rob, a disgraced cop turns to a skydiving expert to learn the tricks of the trade and infiltrate the criminal team.Shot on location in Florida, California, and Washington, DC. Red titled.....

London: J. Arthur Rank, 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 film. Laid in with the script is a 36-leaf gathering of revision pages on pink stock, bound with a single staple on the top left corner, dated 5.4.60. Based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A Catholic priest is sent to establish a parish in a rural Mexican.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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).....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film, here under the working title "I'll Tell You When I See You." With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the title page and first page. A heretofore unknown screenplay adaptation by noted novelist Daniel Fuchs, based on the 1951 short story, "A Modern Cinderella," by James M. Cain.....

London: David Paradine Films, 1968. Draft script for the 1970 British film. An early effort by the stalwart British comedy writers who would a year later debut as Monty Python’s Flying Circus.A satire of late twentieth century British advertising and politics, created by following a mysterious young man who gradually assumes control of a small, unsuccessful advertising agency, and uses.....

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.....

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.....

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.....