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, 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.....

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.....

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 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.....

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.....

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.....

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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1971. Shooting Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "Sunshine Ladies."The second film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet," preceded by "Student Nurses" (1970), and followed by "Night Call Nurses" (1972) and "Candy Stripe Nurses" (1974). Also, the second film released by Corman's New World Pictures. George Armitage's first film as director.Set and shot.....

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.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1957 film. A dark tale about Nick Hoak, a corrupt sheriff in a small Nevada town whose principal concerns are the maintenance and upkeep of all illegal activity. A lawyer and his lascivious wife stumble into Hoak's territory, and conflict ensues. One of the seedier late noirs.....

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, 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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced Western film. A Mexican outcast riding through New Mexico kills three white cowboys in self-defense, but finds that the local sheriff won't believe his story. Subsequently, he decides to hold the wife of a rancher hostage in exchange for unhindered passage out of the town—but as tension escalates, the outcast sexually.....

N.p. N.p., 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film, blue and pink revision pages throughout, and with a holograph ink annotation on a post-it note affixed to page 28 addressing editorial changes. A group of young graduates decide to stay on campus for the foreseeable future, fearing the uncertainty of the outside world. Noah Baumbach's directorial debut, an incisive.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1970. First Draft script for 1973 ABC televison film, filmed in 1971, not aired until July 31, 1973 on British television as "The Return of Charlie Chan," and not until July 17, 1979 in the US as "Happiness is a Warm Clue." Here under the working title "The New Adventures of Charlie Chan," annotated in holograph marker from.....

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.....

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.....

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: 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.....

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.....