Los Angeles: Toonerville Films, 1977. Archive of two scripts for the 1978 film belonging to the film's editor Lou Lombardo. First script:Fifth revision draft script for the 1978 film, here under the working title(s) of "'The Adventures of Pedro and Man' or 'Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hits,'" in leather presentation binding belonging to producer and supervising editor Lou Lombardo with.....

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 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.....

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.....

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. 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.....

Paris: SOPROFILMS, Circa 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on Umberto Eco's 1980 novel. When two monks are found dead in a medieval abbey in northern Italy, a former inquisitor-turned-Franciscan friar is called upon to find the culprit.Set in northern Italy and shot on location in Rome, Abruzzo, and Apulia, Italy, and Eberbach Abbey in Germany.Blue titled wrappers.....

Rocca di San Casciano, Italy: Cappelli, 1962. First Edition. Text in Italian.The screenplay and affiliated commentary for the 1962 film, illustrated with black and white film stills.Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean and light soil to the endpapers, with a vintage bookseller's price sticker to the rear pastedown. Jacket spine is lightly faded.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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) 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.....

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 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.....

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: 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.....

Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1981. Third Draft script for the 1983 film, here under the working title "The Genius." Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with his name on the front wrapper, and holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout.A bored teen hacker looking for new computer games unwittingly breaks into the Defense Department computer system, activating an.....

London: Hammer Film Productions, 1969. Original draft script for the 1970 film. Actress and star Ingrid Pitt's working copy, with her signature in holograph ink on top right corner of title page with annotations through, including character motivations such as, "cynical attitude to guests - thinking of next feed!!"Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella "Carmilla," this is the first.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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. 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.....

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.

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....