Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1979. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs and two advertising mockups from the 1979 film. Both the photographs and the advertising mockups have been hand-retouched, adhered to a backing board, and prepared for use in advertising. A stark black comedy in which a man who is caretaker for his mentally disabled mother becomes.....

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.....

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, "Suicide Batallion," here under its working title, "Hell Raiders." The screenwriter-director team of Rusoff and Kahn worked together on several AIP films, including "Girls in Prison" (1956), "The She-Creature" (1956), "Shake, Rattle & Rock" (1956), "Runaway Daughters" (1956), "Dragstrip Girl" (1957), and "Motorcycle Gang" (1957). Rusoff.....

Burbank, CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates, 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter, released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers, some actors that would soon.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Billy O'Sullivan, who portrayed Teddy, with his autograph on the title page. Two parents discover horrible stories of abuse coming from the daycare their children attends, especially since the people running the center are moral pillars of the.....

N.p. ABC Circle Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 television film, first aired on ABC on March 6, 1975. Prominent underlined "29" in holograph pencil on top right of front wrapper. Set in late Edwardian London, aging actress Jessica Medicott (Katharine Hepburn) is being sued for breach of promise and hires her old suitor, lawyer Sir Arthur Granville-Jones (Laurence.....

Culver City, CA: Lorimar, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A woman dying from a blood disease who needs a bone marrow transplant contacts the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth in the hopes that they might be a match.Set in California. Brown titled wrappers, noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1988. Third Draft script for the 1988 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Brandon Marsh, who portrayed Tommy, with annotations in holograph ink related to his role. Country musician John Denver stars as John Clayton, a disillusioned CIA agent, who retires to become a bush pilot in the Alaskan wilderness.....

Los Angeles: Paul Kohner, Inc., 1982. Draft script for the 1987 West German film, "Lang soll er leben," here under the English working title, "More Than One Life." Agency copy, in Paul Kohner, Inc., wrappers. Screenwriter Mally was an actress in the 1970s, starring in several German films, and starred in German television throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A comedy.....

Los Angeles: Edgar J. Scherick Associates, 1987. Final Draft script for the 1988 television film, here under the working title "Eminent Domain," originally aired on ABC on January 17, 1988. With the name and phone number of casting agent Pam Dixon in holograph ink to the title page, and holograph annotations throughout noting lines for the character Tiger, whose name.....

Grunwald, Germany: Bavaria Film, 1980. Vintage photograph showing director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of 1980 German television mini-series. With the stamps of German magazine "Der Spiegel" and photo agency Presse-Seeger, as well as holograph annotations, on the verso. Based on the 1929 novel by Alfred Doblin, previously filmed in 1931, directed by Phil Jutzi. Despite taking place over.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1986. Fifth Draft script for the 1986 television movie, directed by William Friedkin and written for the screen by Gerald Petievich. "C.A.T. [Counter Assault Tactical] Squad" was the first of two television movies, intended to become a series but never further developed. The sequel, "C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf," was broadcast two years later, in.....

Culver City, CA: Harry Bennett Productions, 1981. Final Draft script for Part II the 1982 television movie (shown in two installments, at a length of 240 minutes). Winner of three Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress, and nominated for four more. A biopic on the life of Israel's first female prime minister, Golda Meir, who tells her story at her old.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1975. Second Revised Draft script for the 1976 film "The Desperate Miles," seen here under the title "No Help Required."A disabled Vietnam war veteran takes a road trip from LA to San Diego in his wheelchair to prove himself. Green titled wrappers, noted as 2nd Rev. on the front wrapper, production No. 42128, dated.....

New York: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1962. Draft script for the 1962 television documentary. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who narrated the film, with his holograph name on the title page and holograph annotations throughout. An hour long documentary about US Route 1, which runs from Maine to Florida. Nominated for an Emmy Award. Script is as issued with.....

Los Angeles: TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion, 1987. British Draft script for the 1988 television film, originally airing on December 21, 1988 on TNT, the first made-for-television movie produced for the fledging network. Brief annotations in holograph ink throughout. Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt, about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1959. Revised Final Draft script for the 1959 television episode. Screenwriter Charles Hoffman's copy, with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. An interesting but short lived series, set in New Orleans, preceding similar detective-based programs that are today better remembered, such as "77 Sunset Strip" and.....

Hollywood: Westgate, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 television film. Copy belonging to host and narrator Telly Savalas, with his autograph on the title page, and his annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. A live television event broadcast in 1987, featuring the latest footage of the sunken vessel, shot via a French submarine expedition. The event was highly publicized.....

Los Angeles: Hollywood Television Theatre, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in holograph pencil. Based on Ibsen's 1892 play, considered one of his most revealing works, about Halvard Solness, a master builder who returns to his hometown to construct a church with a towering steeple. Iit is revealed Solness has a great fear of.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1967. Final Draft script for episode 19 of the 1967-1968 television anthology show. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with the name of his character in holograph ink on the front wrapper and holograph annotations on nearly every page. "The Danny Thomas Hour" ran for one season on NBC as an anthology show, with Thomas presenting.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1987. First Draft script for the 1987 television movie. Based on the true crime story from the 1970's, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh. Susan Reinert is a schoolteacher in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania who goes missing and is found murdered with her two children. Nominated for two.....

New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]. Revised final Draft script for the 1985 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. A television film featuring Solomon Stark, a crack private investigator who assembles a team of various experts in order to investigate and solve crime. White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present, dated March 26, 1985, noted as.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1974 television movie. The wife of a bootlegger in the backwoods dies while giving birth to her seventh child and her husband falls off the roof in a drunken stupor, thus leaving the seven children orphaned. Following the guidance of the oldest sibling, children seek replacement parents by.....

Universal City: Universal Television, 1972. Draft Script for the 1972 television movie pilot, here under the working title "Nick Carter: Where is Ivy Duncan?" which premiered on ABC's ABC Sunday Night Movie on February 20, 1972. Laid in on a sheet of heavy stock paper is a note to Art, potentially producer Arthur Hilton, from Robert Conrad, "To Art, I......

Studio City, CA: Chrles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions, 1977. Draft script, circa 1977, for the 1978 television movie. Jeannie Haskins (James) is a schoolteacher who is told, during labor, that her baby has died. Soon after she is haunted by nightmares that seem to indicate her child is alive, so she seeks the help of a dream therapist. Director.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1982. First Draft script for the 1983 television movie. Rosemary Barton sat down for dinner with six others and never got back up. Her death was ruled a post-depression suicide but her husband George was skeptical, so he staged a reenactment of the dinner a year later and he dies by the same means.....

N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for an unproduced television film. Laid in are six pages of letters urging the production of this film. Based on Ed McBain's police procedural novels set in "The 87th Precinct" specifically the 1972 novel "Sadie When She Died," but not to be confused with the 1961-1962 television series also based on this series of.....

London: Independent Television, 1986. 3rd Draft script for the television movie. Based on the 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh, which in turn was based on Waugh's own experiences working at the Daily Mail. Working copy, with holograph annotations in blue, red, and black ink and pink highlighter throughout, as well as handmade tape tabs marking the scenes. Laid in are.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1971. Draft script for the 1971 television movie, here under the working title "The Day They Took the Babies Away." Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his holograph annotations throughout. A film produced for ABC's now-legendary "Movie of the Week" series. A pregnant woman goes on the run in a dystopian future where having.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. Draft script for the 1969 television movie. During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness (Gabor). She is taken with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she.....

Atlanta: Turner Home Video, 1990. Final Draft script for the 1991 television film. Here under the working title, "The Final Warning." Copy belonging to crew member Robert Easton, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Based on the 1988 book, "Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl" by Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. Even Jon Voight and.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1969 television movie. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A television-movie broadcast on NBC as a Hallmark Hall of Fame Easter special and set during Jesus' life. The film follows a Hebrew judge and his son, Jonathan, who interprets Jesus' message as a call to arms. Script as issued, without.....

France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF), 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir and actor Jean-Louis Barrault on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamp of photographer Albert Decamps on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," premiering at the Venice Film Festival, followed by airing.....

France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF) / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink annotations with the name of the production, credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet, and with.....

N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television miniseries. Based on the true story of Erwin Rommel, a field marshal of the Nazi Army during World War II, who rose to infamy and great respect amongst comrades and foes during the North African campaign of the war, one of the longest campaigns of the entire war. The format of the.....

Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1981. Feature Draft script (television equivalent of a Shooting script) for the 1982 television film, which originally aired November 28, 1982 on NBC.Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, following his release.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1975. Final Draft script for the 1975 television movie. A biography of Rudolph Valentino, a silent movie star and widely-regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol, who established the archetype of the "great lover" and popularized "gaucho" pants, among other things. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated July 28, 1975, noted as.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1983. Third Draft script for the 1983 television film, originally broadcast on CBS. An American investigator is sent to Manila in order to negotiate the release of a hostage. Set in Manila. Tan titled wrappers, notated copy No. 22 and production No. 89. Title page present, dated January 6, 1983, noted as THIRD DRAFT.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1966. As Broadcast script for the 1966 television special, which originally aired on December 7, 1966 on CBS. The second of five annual television specials by Frank Sinatra, after his departure from Columbia and the founding of Reprise Records saw him more in control of his career and revitalized artistically. In the same way.....

Los Angeles: The Aubrey Company, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 television film, which originally aired December 10, 1980 on CBS.Based on the 1967 book. In the wake of the critical and commercial success of "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), this film depicts the long and painful custody battle between a widower and his late wife's parents over his ten.....

France: Gray-Film, 1974. Vintage oversize, borderless, color photograph of director and star Jacques Tati on the set of the 1974 French film. Tati's final film, in which the beloved director plays a circus clown. Shown out of competition at Cannes, and then released in France as a television movie. 11.75 x 9.5 inches (30 x 23 cm). Near Fine. BFI.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1978. Final Draft script for the 1979 television film. Based on the novel by Pete Hamill, a convict begins boxing while in prison, excelling to great lengths in his newfound sport. Upon release, he begins training and pursues a career as a professional boxer. Nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Salmon titled wrappers. Title.....