N.p. N.p. Two screenplays for an unproduced film. With notations 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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1982. First Draft script for the 1983 television episode. "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" was the final episode of Season 11, and the final episode of the series (1972-1983). The staff of the 4077th M*A*S*H unit find their lives no less hectic despite the fact that it appears that the war may soon be over. They...
Los Angeles: The Associates & Aldrich Company, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 neo-noir film. Leaves of script (pages 1-118) on blue paper with "'The Grissom Gang' 4/6/70" on top left. "The Grissom Gang" is the second film adaptation of James Hadley Chase's notorious 1939 crime novel "No Orchids for Miss Blandish," the first having been made in Britain in...
![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 blank wrapper. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alice Altschuler. 96 leaves, with last page of text numbered 95. Carbon...
![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 notations 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...
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...
Hollywood: 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 30, 1941...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Early Draft script for the 1964 film. A treatment unrecorded in IMDB, as the final rewrite and screen credit went to novelist-screenwriter Sally Benson. A superb, unheralded 1960s thriller in which an innocent man is convicted of murder, spends 10 years in an insane asylum, and at the start of the movie escapes and...
Canada: Alliance Entertainment, 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the 1986 television movie. Agency photocopy, not vintage, for research purposes only. Based on George Jonas' 1984 book, "Vengeance." Chronicles the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, where a handpicked team of Mossad agents track down the assailants. Shot on location in Canada, France, Israel, Italy, England, and New York...
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....
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...
N.p. N.p., 1954. Draft script for the pilot of a presumably unproduced Daniel Boone television series, entitled "The Gun Runners." A merchant wishes to pay Daniel Boone to take him to see the chief of the Cherokee Indians, in order to try and sell them rifles. Screenwriter Robert Angus envisioned Touch (later Mike) Connors in the role of Daniel Boone.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain, where much of the film was shot on location, with...
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...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964. Final Shooting script for the 1965 UK film. Included is a vintage color studio still from the UK release of the film. A British newspaper offers a prize to the winner of a cross-channel air race, bringing aviators from around the world to compete for the chance at victory, grabbing the attention of various women. Gert...
![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...
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 notations 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...
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. Near Fine.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1932 film. SPIN. Based on Cleo Lucas' 1931 novel, "I Jerry Take Thee Joan." Joan (Sidney) might just be the woman to bring newspaperman Jerry (March) out of his drunken stupor, long enough to write a play. Jerry meets a new girl upon the success of his play, but decides...
![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)
Los Angeles: 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, and...
Los Angeles: 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) 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...
![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 notations 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 Corp. / 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...
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...
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...
![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 notations 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 script for the 1948 film. This copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Beaumont Jackson, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and holograph pencil and ink notations, additions, and changes to his scenes throughout. Laid in is one page related to Mary O'Hara's "Green Grass of Wyoming." A widow hopes...
![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], 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 collection, "Trader Horn: The Ivory Coast in the Earlies," edited by Ethelreda Lewis (foreword by John Galsworthy), detailing...
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 Corp. 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...
New York: The Film Company for Champions, 1978, 1980. Draft Agency script an unproduced film called "Hoops," based on an original story called "Champions" by John H. Ballard, written for screen by Ballard and Dennis Watlington, and which later served as the basis for Walter Dean Myers' 1981 novel. Laid in is an interoffice memo from Brenda Beckett at the...
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, mechanically reproduced. Pages...
London: London Management, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old sentry at an abandoned fort in South Africa finds a man dying of thirst in the desert and brings him back to the fort to nurse him back to health. From there, he learns the man is a crook and Herbie reveals his plan to rob a gold...
Los Angeles: Trimark Pictures, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. The directorial debut of Noah Baumbach. After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane decides to move to Prague to write. When he declines to join her, Grover instead moves in with some college friends and sets about separating himself from the idea of being a professional student. Shot on location...
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...
Los Angeles: Allied Artists, 1954. Revised Draft script for the 1955 film. Copy belonging to a Set Continuity editor, Gloria Morgan, with her name in holograph pencil on two pages, and profuse notations throughout. Affixed to the front wrapper is a label indicating this is the "Cutter's Script," noting production number 5412, and a notation indicating that this is a....
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 notations...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1983. Revised First Draft script for the 1983 film, adapted for the screen by Daryl Ponicsan from the novel by Terry Davis. SIGNED by screenwriter Ponicsan on the title page. An unusually bright entry from novelist and screenwriter Ponicsan ("The Last Detail," "Taps," "The Boost"): a now classic coming-of-age film about a high school student athlete...
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: Allied Artists, 1955. Revised Draft script for the 1955 film, "Lord of the Jungle," here under the film's working title, "Rogue Elephant" on the front wrapper (struk-through and replaced with "Lord of the Jungle" in holograph pencil). File copy, with a file label on the front wrapper, dated 1955. The last installment in the "Bomba, the Jungle Boy"...
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 notations 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. 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 notations throughout. A cavalry lieutenant is ordered to bring in Seminole Indian chief...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1980. Duplicated 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...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Several teenagers head up to Lake Tahoe for winter shenanigans amongst the babes and the buffs. Set in Lake Tahoe, shot on location there. Red titled wrappers, noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 8774, dated February 22, 1965. Title page present, noted...
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: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Draft script for the 1982 film. Benjy Stone (Linn-Baker) is a writer for a top-rated variety show early in the 1950s. As a new form of entertainment, rules and standards have yet to be fully established. Enter Alan Swann (O'Toole), an actor with a drinking problem, who is to be the show's guest star...
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...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1953 film. The twelfth installment in the "Jungle Jim" series, based on the comic strip character created by Alex Raymond in 1934. Rather than a wild man like Tarzan, Jungle Jim is a hunter, and the action is set in Asia rather than Africa. Jim brings justice to the...
![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, notations 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 notations 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...
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 notations 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...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Tape Draft script for the 1974 film "Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya - General Yamashita," here seen with the title "Judgment: The Court-Martial of General Yamashita." . The second of three television films in the "Judgment " series directed for television by Stanley Kramer, following on the success...
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...
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...
![Untamed Heart [The Baboon Heart] (Original screenplay for the 1993 film). Tony Bill, Tom...](/pictures/thumb/133644.jpg?v=1418081665)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1991. Draft script for the 1993 film. Copy belonging to director Tony Bill with his ownership name in black holograph ink at the top right corner of the wrapper as well as the title page. Included is a typed letter of provenance signed by Bill. A sentimental romance in which Marisa Tomei plays a working-girl...
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 notations 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 notations 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...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paper clipped to the front wrapper is a typed note initialed by Edwin Blum in blue holograph ink. Two women repeatedly arrange to be the beneficiaries on the life insurance policies of numerous dead men. In the course of their activities a romance is struck up with an.....
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A drama about the extreme hazards of marrying for money, featuring early performances by Joan Bennett and Spencer Tracy. Bennett begins as a poor girl from Missouri, the daughter of a railway brakeman. Tracy works for the same railway line as an engine driver, who loves Bennett but...
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A monster comedy in which a life insurance salesman stumbles upon a welcoming subdivision of undead monsters. Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bob Kaufman. 16 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Revised Final script for the 1973 film. Laid in are two full-color studio stills from the film. Director Paul Bogart's sequel to Robert Mulligan's 1971 film, "Summer of '42." Hermie (Grimes), Oscy (Houser), and Benjie (Conant) graduate from high school in the waning months of World War II, and go separate ways. Benjie joins the...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Brief notation in holograph pencil, noting the role of "Ginger" to be played by Marianna Hill, on the distribution page (the part ultimately went to Susan Clark). Based on a story by Richard Alan Simmons, this unusual Civil War-era film for 1970s Hollywood is perhaps more in...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1993. Final Shooting script for the 1993 film. James (Phoenix), Miranda (Presley), Kyle (Mulroney), and Linda (Bullock) are a group of eager newcomers to the Country music scene, determined to gain fame and prestige. Actor River Phoenix's final film, released two months before he succumbed to a mixed-drug overdose, and the last film directed by Bogdanovich before...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1973 film. Based on Joe David Brown's 1971 novel, "Addie Pray." Real-life father-daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal play a con man and the girl who may or may not be his daughter. Shot on location in Nebraska, Kansas, Florida, Missouri, and California. Winner of an Academy Award, nominated for three...
Los Angeles: Time Life Films, 1980. Revised Shooting script for the 1981 film, dated February 28, 1980. Included are five vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. The story of three private detectives hired by jealous husbands to follow two beautiful women, though the detectives then become entangled themselves. In a tragic case of life mimicking art, director Bogdanovich...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Revised First Draft script for the 1975 film. SIGNED by Bogdanovich on the title page. Directed and written for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, featuring a score that consists entirely of songs composed by Cole Porter, and starring Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, and Madeline Kahn. The eclectic director's tribute to the musicals of Hollywood from...