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... (read more)
San Francisco: Monkey Studios, 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Inter Ice Age 4," written by Michael Weise, based on Kobo Abe's serialized science fiction novel. Laid in is a photocopied letter from Weise to agent Paul Kohner, dated January 20, 1973, suggesting actor Charles Bronson a good candidate for the project. As stated in the accompanying letter... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Ultraviolet - Episode 2: In Nomine Patris [Crossing the Line] (Original screenplay for the 1998 television episode). Joe Ahearne, Jack Davenport Idris Elba, Susannah Harker, screenwriter director, starring.](/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... (read more)
Los Angeles: 20th 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... (read more)
![The Frisco Kid [No-Knife] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film). Robert Aldrich, Frank Shaw Michael Elias, Harrison Ford Gene Wilder, director, screenwriter, starring.](/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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Entree des artistes [The Curtain Rises] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film). Marc Allegret, Andre Cayatte Andre Cavin, Henri Jeanson, Louis Jouvet, director, screenwriter, starring.](/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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee from Antwerp] (Original carbon typescript for the 1948 film). Yves Allegret, Ashelbe, Jacques Sigurd, Simone Signoret Bernard Blier, Marcel Dalio, Marcello Pagliero, screenwriter director, novel, screenwriter, starring.](/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... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1948 film. In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the officer, one Army prosecutor is not convinced of the man's guilt and begins working to prove his innocence. He is assisted by a beautiful woman who... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-production Super Imposed Spotted List and Combined Dialogue script for the 1948 film. In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the officer, one Army prosecutor is not convinced of the man's guilt and begins working to prove his innocence. He is assisted... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1948 film. In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the officer, one Army prosecutor is not convinced of the man's guilt and begins working to prove his innocence. He is assisted by a beautiful woman who... (read more)
![Sealed Verdict [The Sealed Verdict] (Original screenplay for the 1948 film). Lewis Allen, Jonathan Latimer, Lionel Shapiro, director, screenwriter, novel.](/pictures/thumb/128666.jpg?v=1418080409)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1947. Draft Script for the 1948 film. In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the officer, one Army prosecutor is not convinced of the man's guilt and begins working to prove his innocence. He is assisted by a beautiful woman who knows the... (read more)
Beverly Hills: United Artists, circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973, only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Shot on location in Colorado and California. Dark... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Filmworks, 1982. Working Draft script for the low-budget 1985 film. Predicting the contemporary advent of vigilante hackers who blur the lines of legality in the name of justice, this film depicts a masked secret society of hackers on a college campus who personally dispense punishment to those they deem guilty of crimes. Set on a small college campus... (read more)
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... (read more)
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.... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original treatment 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. The... (read more)