Hollywood: N.p., circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Don and Irene are a young and unhappy married couple whose lives and relationship are thrown asunder as Don gravitates toward Spiritology, a spiritual organization that promises the 'Ultimate Release." Gold titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Aaron Nash. 101 leaves, with last page of text numbered.....
![Hellbound [Voices] (Original screenplay for the 1994 film). Aaron Norris, Anthony Ridio Ian...](/pictures/thumb/141881.jpg?v=1638076186)
Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video / Cannon Films, 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film. Here under the working title, "Voices." Chuck Norris does his vigilante thing as no one else can in the this Cannon quickie, but with a horror twist. Two Chicago police officers are investigating the murder of a local Rabbi when their search leads them to.....
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., 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. A black man and his son struggle to survive in Apartheid-era South Africa, where they find themselves constantly at odds with white society, whether at the hands of questioning police, the disrespect Mogane faces when he is promoted to foreman at his job, and his son struggling to earn respect and.....
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, circa 1950s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Wild Bill Hickok must play a high stakes poker game in order to win back his beloved mare. The script is a partial treatment draft, with a moderate amount of script still in full paragraphs. Set in Deadwood, Dodge City, and the Chisholm Trail in 1867. Lacking wrappers, presumably.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Four interrelated vignettes about life in the American West featuring Will Bill Hickok, praised Indian killer, coming a wild town without law enforcement and him acting as sheriff until he humiliated by a woman, followed by a story in which he is found in a different town drinking himself to death. A......
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Master File Copy script for the 1939 film. With a few holograph ink corrections regarding actors for certain parts who were not in the finished film (Egon Brecher, Walter Long, and Irving Bacon)—indicating that this script was perhaps used for auditions. A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl.....
Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment, 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II, a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers, perfect bound.....
Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Company, 1960. Shooting script for the legendary 1961 Japanese film. Working copy belonging to Omura Senkichi, who played a small role as a traveling servant in the film, with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Though not credited as such, based thematically on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel, "Red Harvest," and subsequently the basis for.....
![I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film). Akira...](/pictures/thumb/150567.jpg?v=1638077802)
Circa 1955. Japanese post-production script for the 1955 film, with the approval stamp of Elrin (along with the approval number, 1836, in holograph ink) on the front wrapper. Elrin was Japan's censorial review body at the time. Text and titles in Japanese. An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in.....
![High and Low [Tengoku to Jigoku] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film). Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo...](/pictures/thumb/148706.jpg?v=1638077074)
1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text and titles in Japanese. A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however.....
Tokyo: Toho Company, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation, forbidding American criticism, leading Kurosawa to slip in.....
Tokyo: Shochiku Films, 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts leading.....
Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co., circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting, including the use of professional or amateur actors, as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro, who was fired on the first day of shooting. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy (or kagemusha).....
![Red Beard [Akahige] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film). Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni Masato...](/pictures/thumb/148710.jpg?v=1638077076)
Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co., 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film, preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the director's masterpieces, following a small-town doctor and his new intern, a highly educated, arrogant young.....
Tokyo: Film Art Association, 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on two leaves. Text in Japanese. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan, and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. White titled wrappers. 96 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96.....
![Dodes'ka-Den [Dodeskaden] [Clickety-Clack] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Akira...](/pictures/thumb/148810.jpg?v=1638077120)
Tokyo: Toho, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: (a) names of the chosen cast members, (b) set rehearsals and camera rehearsals, (c) times for.....
New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text, titles, and annotations in Japanese. Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A corrupt politician places one of his cronies in charge of a boy's home, where he intends to misuse funds in the home's budget. Unluckily for him the crony finds that he has much in common with the unruly boys he's been put in charge of. Tan wrappers. 12 leaves.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Draft script for the 1974 film. Annotation in holograph marker of copy number "#47" on the top right corner of the front wrapper, and copied annotations of "M" and copy number "#3(2)" on top of title page and copied Warner Brothers Story Library stamp on lower center of title page, with two annotations in holograph.....
N.p. Amicus Productions, 1969. Revised Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Charles Eric Maine, and one of the classics from Amicus Productions in the 1960s. A man has been in a coma since birth, and awakens for the first time at the age of 30 with the mind of an infant. Set in London.....
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1937. Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the 1937 film. A wagon train headed from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico is being tracked and planned on being thwarted on behalf of Alfredo Dupray, whose commission as Spanish authority will be over upon the wagon's arrival. His sabotage attempts are repeatedly thwarted by a mysterious Rider.....
N.p. N.p., 1944. Draft script for the 1946 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Final script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to producer Tony Bill, with his signature in black holograph ink at the top right corner: "Tony Bill director/producer." Included is a typed letter of provenance signed by Bill. The second pairing between Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, in which the two are members of a group.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1996. Draft script for the 1996 film. Based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which was in turn based on Rice and Webber's 1976 concept album, following the brief life of Argentinean first lady Eva Peron from her impoverished illegitimate beginnings to her later idolatry. The film went.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1983. First Draft script for the pilot episode of the 1983-1988 television series, "We Got It Made." Mickey Mackenzie (Copley) is a girl in her early 20s who applies for a housekeeping job in Manhattan. Her employers are two bachelors, David Tucker (McCoy), a conservative attorney, and Jay Bostwick (Villard), a liberal salesman. Both bachelors.....
Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1984. Revised Final script and shooting schedule for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with his holograph annotations throughout in blue ink. Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is an aspiring singer/songwriter whose ambition is thwarted by a bad contract with a record label. With the help of former singing partner Blackie.....
![Stowaway in the Sky [Le voyage en ballon] (Original screenplay and synopsis for the 1960 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143982.jpg?v=1532553884)
France: Filmsonor, 1958. Draft script and synopsis for the 1960 film, here under the original French title. From the collection of Christian de la Maziere, with his name in holograph ink on the title page of the script. Also included is a small press kit packet detailing cast and crew credits, and a small press relations packet, dated 1958, detailing.....
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced adaptation of B. Traven's 1929 novel by Hollywood Ten writer Albert Maltz. With xerographically duplicated annotations and typeovers throughout. Agency script, in wrappers from the Paul Kohner agency, although this script appears to bear no relationship to the 1971 adaptation of "The Bridge in the Jungle" written and directed by.....
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.....
![The Chosen [Holocaust 2000] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Alberto De Martino, Ennio...](/pictures/thumb/133020.jpg?v=1638075908)
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British film, here under the working title "Holocaust 2000." Laid in are additional 18 pages of production documents on legal size blue, pink, and goldenrod stock. About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist, a fervent believer in the benefit of nuclear power to all.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his annotations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1941 film, "Horror Island," along with a script for a "Double Bill Trailer" in which this film was featured with another George Waggner film of the same year, "Man Made [Man-Made] Monster." The latter film was based on a story called "The Electric Man," written by H......
New York: Stuart Millar Productions, Circa 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on George Plimpton's 1966 book. Alan Alda (in his first starring role) plays Plimpton, who has put himself into the sports arena, writing about his experiences. He's entered the ring with a professional boxer and pitched in an All-Star game. He decides to try his hand.....
Munich [Munchen]: Alex Tudor, 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An older man holds a party at his castle and attracts the attention of a young woman, though no one present understands what one sees in the other. Dr. Alexe Tudor is an independent German documentarian who focuses primarily on symbols and expression spotlighting the artist's case for both.....
Munich: N.p., 1984-1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German language. Laid in is a business card for Alex Tudor, a screenwriter and director. Teal untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1984-1985, with credits for screenwriter Roger Lynn, and director and screenwriter Alex Tudor. 170 leaves, with last page of text numbered 167. Xerographically duplicated, first generation copy.....
Munich: 1984-1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a business card for Alex Tudor, a screenwriter and director. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1984-1985, with credits for screenwriter Roger Lynn, and director and screenwriter Alex Tudor. 55 leaves, with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1950. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script and Trailer script for the 1950 film. A light comedy about a charismatic older woman who comes to live with her architect son (played by Ronald Reagan) and his family, striking up an unexpected romance with the local grocer. Things get far more complex when Reagan's boss also develops.....
![Sinners in the Sun [The Beachcomber] (Original screenplay for the 1932 film). Alexander Hall,...](/pictures/thumb/145944.jpg?v=1638076519)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Final Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film, here under the working title "The Beachcomber." Incomplete as stamped, with holograph pencil annotations on the front wrapper. A New York fashion model must decide between her poor but faithful mechanic boyfriend and a rich but untrustworthy libertine. Although William C. De Mille was initially slated to direct, his.....
![Dangerous Pursuit [Fast Lane] (Original screenplay for the 1990 television movie). Brian Wimmer...](/pictures/thumb/152816.jpg?v=1638078494)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1989. Draft script for the 1990 television film, here under the working title "Fast Lane." A woman discovers that the man with whom she has just had a one-night stand is a hired assassin, and tries to stop him from completing his next hit. Set in New York. Self wrappers. Missing title page, presumably as issued. 107.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Holograph annotations on first few leaves indicating the names of the actors playing the lead roles. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel, this film follows the adventures of English hero Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Set in the UK. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised.....
Hollywood: Goldfarb-Lewis Agency, circa 1970's. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Guy Endore's novel of the same name about the life of Alexandre Dumas. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Dale Wasserman and novelist Guy Endore. 39 leaves, with last page of text numbered 36. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, bound internally.....
![Midas Run [The Midas Run] (Original screenplay for the 1969 film). Alf Kjellin, James Buchanan...](/pictures/thumb/146046.jpg?v=1638076550)
Hollywood: Rayan Productions, 1967. First Corrected Draft script for the 1969 film. With a holograph pencil notation to the title page, and a single holograph ink notation to the first page of text. Dissatisfied with a lack of recognition in their careers, a retired British Secret Service agent and an aspiring author concoct a scheme to hijack a government shipment of.....
![Herzblatt oder Wie Sag Ich's Meiner Tochter [Honeybun or How Do I Tell My Daughter?] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/146544.jpg?v=1638076687)
Munich: Roxy-Film and Co, KG, Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Text in German. Director Harald Philip, who presumably worked on the film in addition to its credited director Alfred Vohrer, is credited on the title page. A reticent widower is forced to take on the uncomfortable task of educating his 16 year old daughter about sex, leading her.....
Los Angeles: Beacon Productions, 1946. Final Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy likely belonging to an uncredited costume designer, with annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Groucho Marx's first solo film appearance, and his first with a real mustache as opposed to one made with grease paint. Marx plays an incompetent theatrical agent whose only client is Carmen Miranda, in.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final script for the 1939 film. With a single holograph pencil notation on the front wrapper. A commercial pilot grounded for reckless flying decides to start his own flying school, which becomes the profitable hub of a new government-funded civilian pilots' training program. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Post-production Dialogue and Cutting Continuity script for the 1946 film. The original continuity for the film's premiere. Tall white titled self wrappers, brad bound at the top edge, dated July 18, 1946, noting 5 reels, 10 sections, and footage of 9292 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 137. Selby.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1949. Post-production 16mm Cutting Continuity script for the 1961 re-release of the 1945 film. Tall blue titled wrappers, top-stapled, dated May 15, 1961, noting 2 reels and footage of 3017 feet and 32 frames, 10 sections, and a running time of 83 minutes and 50 seconds. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic.....
![Spellbound [The House of Dr. Edwardes] (Original screenplay for the 1945 film). Alfred Hitchcock,...](/pictures/thumb/147297.jpg?v=1638076865)
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film, here under the working title, "The House of Dr. Edwardes." Based on the 1927 novel, "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. After director Alfred Hitchcock learned that producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a “psychiatric” story for the screen, he.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film, with an additional seven page addendum on pink stock with alternate endings written out in a treatment form. In addition to containing an alternate ending, the date on the script coincides with the takeover of the project by RKO from original producer David O. Selznick in July.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1938, 1939. Two early treatments for the 1940 film, consisting of (1) a Synopsis by Franclien Macconnell, dated October 10, 1938 and (2) a Chapter Breakdown by Mary Bowie, dated May 10, 1939. Both issued for the studio’s review of the novel’s content prior to it having been green-lit for adaptation to film. Macconnel was.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau with his signature in holograph pencil on top of first page, and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout, primarily making note of action and dialogue for Landau’s character Leonard. Martin Landau’s second film role, and a memorable early one, as James Mason's.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1946. Pre-production Costumes script for the 1947 film, dated April 17, 1946, noted as "Compiled From the Novel." Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hitchens. Anthony Keane (Peck) is a married British lawyer who falls in love with the woman he is defending, a woman who happens to be accused of poisoning. Nominated for an Academy.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1946. Pre-production Description of Settings and Props script for the 1947 film, dated April 17, 1946, noted as "Compiled From the Novel." Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hitchens. Anthony Keane (Peck) is a married British lawyer who falls in love with the woman he is defending, a woman who happens to be accused of poisoning.....
Los Angeles: The Selznick Studio, 1948. Post-production Trailer Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1947 film. Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hitchens. Anthony Keane (Peck) is a married British lawyer who falls in love with the woman he is defending, a woman who happens to be accused of poisoning. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films / Selznick Studio, 1948. Post-production Trailer Spotting List script for the 1947 film. Anthony Keane (Peck) is a married British lawyer who falls in love with the woman he is defending, a woman who happens to be accused of poisoning. Tall self wrappers, with two hole punches at the top edge, but stapled instead at the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1949. Post-production Dialogue Continuity script for the 1945 film, issued for the Selznick Studio files in 1949. Light blue titled wrappers, noted as DIALOGUE CONTINUITY on the front wrapper, dated Rerun May 31, 1949. 48 leaves, with last page of text numbered REEL SIX-B, Page 4. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films / Selznick Studio, 1946-1948. An archive four scripts, two pre-production and two post-production from the 1947 film. The two pre-production scripts, both dated April 17, 1947, and "Compiled From the Novel," are a nine page "Description of Settings and Props," and a twelve page "Costumes." The two post-production scripts are a 115 page Dialogue Cutting Continuity.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films / Selznick Studio, 1948. Post-production Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1961 re-release 1947 film. From the Richard Manney collection of film noir. Anthony Keane (Peck) is a married British lawyer who falls in love with the woman he is defending, a woman who happens to be accused of poisoning. Tall green titled wrappers, top stapled.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1934-1948. An archive of 7 scripts, including rough drafts, screenplays, post-production scripts and support documentation for the 1947 film, "The Paradine Case," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hichens, written for the screen by a host of screenwriters, including Hitchcock, Alma Reville, David O. Selznick, and others.....
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1932 film. Based on the 1931 novel "The Gay Bandit." A football and wrestling star Ted Radcliffe heads West to claim his inheritance, a cattle ranch smack in the middle of a Mexican-American border territory that wealthy land-grabber Paco Morales has been attempting to steal from its poorer residents.....
![Up the River [Hard to Get] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film). Alfred L. Werker, John...](/pictures/thumb/141607.jpg?v=1493907524)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to Jane Darwell, the actress who portrayed Mrs. Graham, with annotations to her lines in holograph pencil. Here under the working title "Hard to Get." A spoof of popular prison movies, where two con men end up in prison and becomes star athletes on the prison's football.....
N.p. Group W Productions, Circa 1969. Originial transcript of the David Frost interview with Muhammad Ali and Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier from Season 1, episode 8 of 1969-1972 television show, which aired on Group W (US Westinghouse Corporation) television stations on July 16, 1969. Single annotation in holograph red pencil on first page underlining "Cassius Clay" in title, which Ali is.....
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 production company wrappers (The Feldman-Blum Corporation). Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alice Altschuler. 96 leaves, with last page of.....
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also based on a MacLean novel. Set during WWII, US Colonel.....
![Hollywood Boulevard [The Starlets] (Original screenplay for the 1976 film, actor Dick Miller's...](/pictures/thumb/154169.jpg?v=1638078712)
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1975. Final Draft script for the 1976 film, seen here under the working title "The Starlets." Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, with his holograph ink annotations throughout, underlining lines. From the estate of Dick Miller. One of the most underrated and inventive exploitation comedies of the 1970s. A young woman arrives in Hollywood and is.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Script for the 1938 film. Loosely based on the events surrounding the construction of the Suez Canal, the film stirred controversy upon its release when the descendants of main characters Matthieu and Ferdinand de Lesseps unsuccessfully sued the studio for libel. With all the elaborate costuming, special effects, and production costs typical of a......
N.p. N.p., 1936. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A newsboy meets a professional dancer and the pair become highly respected in the couples dance circuit in New York City, before the newsboy's boss desires the dancer for himself and sends the newsboy to cover the dance circuit nationwide in order to get him out of the picture. Untitled manila.....
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. A woman checks into a motel in Wyoming, renting a cabin for a week and begins cleaning a rifle. No one has the slightest suspicion that she is responsible for a string of murders and will likely strike again. Set in Wyoming. Blue untitled wrappers with a die cut title window.....
Buckinghamshire: British Lion Film Corporation, 1964. Draft script for the 1964 film. Based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Douglas Hayes. A middle-aged stage actor moves from a conservative life in the provinces to the very center of Swinging London and tries to revitalize his career by performing in commercials. Set in London, shot on location there.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. First Draft Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to art director Joseph C. Wright, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward about a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and her long recovery at a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in holograph ink. Production number adjusted in holograph pencil with ."5." "#3" in holograph in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme to.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Revised Final Draft script for the 1960 film "Man on a String," seen here under the early working title "Ten Years a Counterspy." Espionage thriller in which Ernest Borgnine stars as Boris Mitrov, a US secret agent sent to Berlin to act as a double agent for the USSR. Tan titled wrappers, noted as.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Safari guide Van Heflin is hired to hunt murderer Abel McCracken in the wilds of Africa, though the guides motives may go beyond his assigned task. Pink titled wrappers, noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper, dated September 24, 1953. Title page.....
Brussels: Monome, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced French film, written by French director-screenwriter Andre Soupart. With a holograph ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the film's title, and to the first leaf noting a change of address for Monome Films. Text in French. The lives of two women intersect in dreamlike, mysterious ways. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in autograph letter signed by Andrea Ireland Stapley addressed to an anonymous editor recipient dated March 4th, 1976. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Andrea Ireland Stapley. 191 leaves, with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographically reproduced Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. First draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal's debut role as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop Zargon (Henry Silva).....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Harebrained comedy wherein international golf champion Richard "Ricky" Carrington Jr. (Ray Milland) returns home to New York with his new Parisian wife Julie (Olympe Bradna) only to find his.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1939 film. A musical drama that follows the romantic and professional arc of two performers. Louise Hall abandons her humble beginnings to become a singer in New York City, where she meets and falls in love with John Ramsey, the star of Victor Herbert's operas. Ramsey takes her under his wing, introducing.....
New York: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1967. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 8 of the 1967 Western television series starring Chuck Connors. Jim Sinclair and his young friend Sampson witness Commander Hayes and John Henry being kidnapped, and they set off to rescue them. Jim Sinclair is called from America to Africa to introduce modern ranching techniques to Kenyans at.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. An older rancher is threatened by bandits stealing his cattle. Together with Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, he participates in the Lincoln County War, a war against a dry goods monopoly that attempted to control cattle and water supplies as well, which had sprung up in the New.....
N.p. Wolper Pictures, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Based on the book of the same name by Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton. Based on the 1966 book by Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, in turn based on the true story of a specially trained unit of misfit American and Canadian soldiers given the.....
Oxford: University College, 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. The wife of a retiring Minister of Law in Johannesburg is assassinated just before her son begins school at Oxford. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa. Brown textured card wrappers. Title page present, dated 1987, with credits for screenwriters Andrew Meier and Clark Freshman. 118 leaves, with last page of text.....
![Eine Liebe in Deutschland [A Love in Germany] (Original screenplay for the 1983 film). Andrzej...](/pictures/thumb/146511.jpg?v=1638076674)
Berlin: CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst], 1980. Draft script for the 1983 German film, directed by Andrzej Wajda. With a few small holograph pencil annotations, mostly regarding a character's name change and changes to pagination. Laid in with the script is a handwritten letter discussing films with KO-Productions. Text in German. Based on the 1980 novel. In 1983, a middle-aged man returns to.....
![It Takes Two [Me and My Shadow] (Original screenplay for the 1995 film, signed by cast and crew)....](/pictures/thumb/149061.jpg?v=1638077209)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1995. Shooting Script for the 1995 film, here under the working title "Me and My Shadow." Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew, including director Andy Tennant, screenwriter Rick Parks, and actors Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, and Steve Bosco. From the collection of costume.....
![Flesh for Frankenstein [Andy Warhol's Frankenstein] (Original screenplay for the 1973 film). Andy...](/pictures/thumb/154484.jpg?v=1638078859)
New York: Sarx, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Single holograph ink annotation to the title page, noting copy No. 3. Small typed note stapled to the bottom edge of the inside rear wrapper, noting the film's German title, "Fleisch fur Frankenstein." An X-rated, Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel, featuring Warhol superstar Udo Kier as.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997. Final Draft script for the 1998 film, copy belonging to uncredited crew member Margaret Reeves, her name written in holograph ink, on the top right of front wrapper. Based on the 1996 novel by Terry McMillan. A high-powered San Francisco stock broker is persuaded to take a well-deserved vacation to Montego Bay, Jamaica, where she.....
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller, with his name to the title page, and his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. A sexploitation crime romp produced by Roger Corman, about the matriarch of a bootlegging family who begins a crime spree with her two daughters in tow.....
N.p. N.p., 1944. First Draft script for an unproduced film by noted screenwriter Anita Loos. With Loos' holograph ink annotations throughout, most noting editorial changes. Incomplete as issued. Loos was arguably the most famous of the women screenwriters of the silent era, a celebrity on the level of Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, unheard of at the time (or any.....
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.....
![The Old Maid [La vieille fille] (Original screenplay for the 1972 French film). Philippe Noiret...](/pictures/thumb/148995.jpg?v=1638077197)
Paris: Lira Films, Circa 1971. Draft script for the 1972 French film (text in French), belonging to uncredited sound engineer Gerard Dacquay, with name in holograph marker on bottom right margin of front wrapper, and name and address stamped on top right of title page. Copy number "17" in holograph ink on front wrapper. A few minor holograph annotations in.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final Script for the 1969 film. Originally set to be made by maverick director Joseph Strick, who actually did some location shooting in Tunisia. However, Strick ran into disagreements with Fox executives, and was replaced with George Cukor, who shot the remainder of the film in Hollywood. Set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British.....
![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=1638075879)
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.....
Rome: Vides Cinematografica, 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television mini-series, all dated June 1980, used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers (credited on the title page of each segment), and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1978. 13th and Final Draft script for the 1979 film. Brief holograph pencil annotations throughout. A lesser known New Hollywood sports film, set in the world of tennis. During a Wimbledon championship tournament, a rising tennis star falls in love with an older woman, a jet-setter who is in turn involved with a millionaire. Dean Paul Martin.....
New York: New World Pictures, ca. 1980. Draft Agency script for the 1980 film. Adapted for the screen by noted screenwriter Frederic Raphael, based on his 1973 novel. A woman begins an affair with her late husband's mistress after his death, using each other to cope with the grief of his loss. Black titled wrappers with the William Morris Agency.....