N.p. N.p. Collection of 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... (read more)
San Francisco: Monkey Studios, 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Inter Ice Age 4," written by Michael Weise, based on K b 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... (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)
![[The] Frankenstein from Space (Original treatment for an unproduced film). Forrest J. Ackerman, story writer, G. John Edwards, screenwriter.](/pictures/thumb/135933.jpg?v=1492979214)
Los Angeles: Self published, Circa 1970s. Treatment script, incomplete, circa 1970s, for an unproduced film. Brief notations and sketches on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, adding the word "The" to the title (not present on the title page), and adding a creepy flourish around same. Likely either the only copy, or one of only a few that could have... (read more)
![Ultraviolet - Episode 2: In Nomine Patris [Crossing the Line] (Original screenplay for the 1998 television episode). Joe Ahearne, screenwriter director, Jack Davenport Idris Elba, Susannah Harker, 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 never... (read more)
Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox Television, 1982. Second Draft script for the 1983 TV 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... (read more)
![The Frisco Kid [No-Knife] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film). Robert Aldrich, director, Frank Shaw Michael Elias, screenwriter, Harrison Ford Gene Wilder, 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)
Los Angeles: Paramount, 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. Second 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 films... (read more)
Beverly Hills: BNB Productions. Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page laid-in, a letter from Jess S Morgan to Paul J. Kohner. A man's wife and son are killed on a camping trip to Glacier National Park, mauled to death by a female grizzly bear. He brings the bodies home himself and soon loses his mind. He goes... (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 credits... (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 leaf of text numbered 95. Carbon typescript on... (read more)
![Entree des artistes [The Curtain Rises] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film). Marc Allégret, director, André Cayatte André Cavin, Henri Jeanson, screenwriter, Louis Jouvet, 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. Owner name in light pencil to the second leaf, and a few pencil notations to the... (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 Jérôme (Marais) meet in Paris shortly before WWII, fall in love and expect... (read more)
![Dédée d'Anvers [Dedee from Antwerp] (Original carbon typescript for the 1948 film). Yves Allégret, screenwriter director, Ashelbé, novel, Jacques Sigurd, screenwriter, Simone Signoret Bernard Blier, Marcel Dalio, Marcello Pagliero, 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)
Los Angeles: Paramount, 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 knows... (read more)
Los Angeles: Paramount, 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)
Los Angeles: Paramount, 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, director, Jonathan Latimer, screenwriter, Lionel Shapiro, novel.](/pictures/thumb/128666.jpg?v=1418080409)
Los Angeles: Paramount, 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)
San Francisco: Heywood-Hillary Productions, 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film. Woody Allen's first film as a director, and the film that set the template for his 1970s comedies, as well as later films by Christopher Guest ("Waiting for Guffman," "Best in Show"). Allen initially asked Val Guest to direct, then Jerry Lewis, but both men were denied by the... (read more)
Los Angeles: Paramount / APJAC Productions / Rollins-Joffe Productions, 1971. Revised Shooting script for the 1972 film. A comedy that is pretty difficult to overestimate: even though it was not directed by Woody Allen, it was the template for the many great films he would subsequently write and direct in the 1970s, in terms of shooting style, timing, romantic themes... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1973. Combined Continuity script for the 1973 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1954 novel. Philip Marlowe (Gould) tries to help his friend clear his name of murder. Shot on location in Los Angels and Mexico. Tall goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as Continuity on the front wrapper, dated March 9, 1973, with credits for starring actors... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. First Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker. It's a little difficult to believe the Robert Altman was not the first choice to direct the film, as it became the film that, as much as any of his best work, has come to epitomize a patented style of “controlled... (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)
Los Angeles: 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 takes... (read more)