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.....
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......
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Treatment script by an unknown screenwriter for an unproduced film. Based on legendary science fiction author Alice Mary "Andre" Norton's 1952 novel "Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D.". Years after a massive nuclear war, a young mutant goes out in search of fortune among the tribal societies that have developed in the wake of global decimation. Set.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1972. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by Anthony Shaffer, with several holograph annotations in both marker and pencil striking, changing or adjusting dialogue and setting. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Novelist and.....
Hollywood: Self published, 1980. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Instant Withdrawal," written by Anton Kothuis (as Anton Kothuys), whose film credits include "Overload" (1972), "The Assault" (1986), and television movies "Gossamer" (1980), and "Kopzeer Aan Die Waanzee" (1985). A story about a young group of filmmakers who decide to rob a bank to fund their project for.....
Dharma Productions, 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. Escaping her recent divorce and death of her child, Leslie, an American, ends up in India where Buddhism has its roots, Banhasa, along the banks of the Ganges. A mysterious man gives her a ring that will not come off her finger, with a strange symbol on it, later revealed to.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released.....
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.....
London: Winkast Film Productions, circa early 1970s. Two scripts, a first draft script and a draft script, for an unproduced film. Annotations in holograph pencil on two pages, one with what appears to be a question mark and another with a question mark and a strike. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. After her father loses his grip on reality and murders his wife, Annie is picked up and taken in by her aunt and soon falls for a pony rider in the local fair. Their love last years and despite whatever distance may be between them. Set in the American Southeast. Brown titled.....
N.p. N.p., 1986. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The true story of Benjamin Franklin traveling to France after the American Revolution, where he acts as a diplomat from the newly-established United States of America and he makes sure to throw around the new weight of this budding country. Set in Paris. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1986.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the title page. In a small, majority Black bayou community in Louisiana, a white priest suffers a psychotic break which convinces him that he has been called by God to violently purge the community of all evildoers. Set in Louisiana. Beige titled wrappers, with credits.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a resume laid in for actor Sharon Hawn, including holograph ink notation correcting her phone number, possibly due to her being considered for a role in this unproduced feature. Based on the autobiography "With Two Wheels and a Camera" by still photographer Bert Kopperl, who was a war correspondent and photographer.....
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.....
Hollywood: Cum Laude Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in 1910s United States, the film follows the lives of two women starting on the day of their college graduation. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Beth Keele and Fred E. Roth. 102 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographically reproduced.....
Hollywood: Fred Roth Productions, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. A police chief has a heart-attack while visiting a brothel accompanied by three other cops. They panic and force the women in the brothel to flee the state. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Beth Keele and Fred Roth. 95 leaves, with last page.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the US in the early 1910s, the film follows the disparate lives of two women starting on the day of their college graduation. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Beth Keele. 102 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication, rectos only.....
Inglewood, CA: B.P. Powell, 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, 1979. One copied annotation on title page corrected and adding contact phone number and one annotation in script, in holograph ink, adding character name before dialogue. Based on the 1839 trial of Joseph Cinque and 44 African Mende men, on charges of murder and piracy after staging a revolt on.....
N.p. N.p., 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With extensive annotations in holograph ink throughout, noting substantive revisions. Based on Bill Pronzini's 1974 novel, wherein a small town's entire population is cut off from the outside world by a massive blizzard, unaware that three professional killers are trapped in their midst. Set in the Sierra Nevadas. White non-standard titled.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the apocryphal tale of the Taj Mahal's origins, built to honor the deceased Persian wife of seventeenth-century Indian emperor Shah Jehan. At one point, the film was slated for the highly regarded directing-producing team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, a plan which was unfortunately never set into effect. Set.....
Hollywood: Turman-Foster, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on noted African American writer and academic Cecil Brown's 1969 debut novel. An cynical, silver-tongued black man from the rural south makes a living through scamming and stealing, which he considers informal reparation for the injustices he has faced. Fed up with the quality of life in the US.....
N.p. N.p., 1983. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Written by film producer Richard Bluel (best know for his work on the 1966 television series "The Green Hornet") and screenwriter Pat Fielder (best known for the 1962 film "Geronimo"). "The Summoning" follows a man who seeks psychiatric help for his nightmares, believing that he is seeing visions of his.....
N.p. Self published, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film titled "Dracula," written and originally to have been directed by Ken Russell. Based on Bram Stoker's 1897 classic novel of vampire vengeance. Copy belonging to editor Rik Friday, who worked with Russell in post-production on "Altered States" (1980). Blue wrappers with paper spine label. Title page present, dated July 21.....
N.p. Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Bret Hart's unedited 1869 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 9, 1944. Harte's short story was originally published in the January 1869 edition of Overland Monthly magazine. There have been several film and television adaptations made of the popular story, the earliest being John Ford's 1919 silent.....
N.p. N.p., early 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Actor and director Brian G. Hutton, noted for "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) and "Kelly's Heroes" (1970), adapts William Jacobs' 1959 western novel.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation in holograph ink. Pete is a freeloader who makes a little money at the swap meet but has a keen propensity for getting laid off and living off his current wife. When wife number two tells him he has to keep his job for six months so that.....
N.p. N.p., 1958. Two treatments for an unproduced film, one a brief eight page synopsis, the other a full treatment of the plot, about a retiring major. Included are two copies of the synopsis and three of the full treament. Each with the stamp of agent Rosemary Greene Brinson, and the full treatment with a mailing label affixed to the.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Dave Hinkle is a weatherman on a local television station, who is recruited by his boss to report on breaking news involving a robbery. While reporting and being confused by his microphone, he is snatched by the bandits and held hostage. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bud.....
Los Angeles: William Morris Agency, 1990. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1997 film "Face/Off," directed by John Woo. A young man who does not believe he is smart enough to attend college receives a lacrosse scholarship from Amherst. Attending college is a dream of his family's, but he does not know whether going.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Original studio transcription of C.S. Forester's short story of the same name, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 10, 1943. Printed as a mimeograph studio script in small numbers for internal distribution, the studio would not go on to produce a film from the story. Red titled wrappers, with credits.....
Los Angeles: ABC Pictures, 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. Blue.....
![Charlie Chaplin [My Father, Charlie Chaplin] (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/135074.jpg?v=1570753006)
Woodland Hills, CA: N.p., Circa 1980s. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Charlie Chaplin" or "My Father, Charlie Chaplin," written by Margaret Rau and Susan Martinov (wife of Chaplin, Jr.), and based on the 1960 autobiographical book, "My Father, Charlie Chaplin," by Charles Chaplin, Jr., with help from Rau. All pages photocopied, including a few that have annotations made.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. A beloved rock star named Wednesday's Child battles with his record label for control over the rights to his music. African-American screenwriter Charles Eric Johnson was known for his work for television and film throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including "Beyond Atlantis" (1973), "That Man Bolt" (1973), "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off".....
Los Angeles: APJAC Productions, 1964. Treatment script for an unproduced film, with blue revision pages throughout. Bound in with the script are a number of black and white photograph illustrations of World War I aviators and airplanes, as well as a handmade bound-in paper pouch containing 11 color reference photographs of early airplanes, clipped from an issue of Life Magazine. A......
N.p. N.p., Unknown. First Draft script for an unproduced television film. With a single holograph ink annotation to the first leaf reading "Return to: Paul Kohner." Based on Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy, wherein a group of women decide to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek states by refusing to have sex with their husbands until the battles end. Set in ancient.....
Hollywood: Goldwyn Studios, 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a steel magnate is kidnapped from her college and being held for ransom by a group called the Army of the Oppressed, whose insane leader demands ten million dollars in food for the poor. His enemy, Turkey, the leader of the Liberators in Detroit exacts his own.....
![Mexico Suena [Mexico Dreams] (Original treatment script for an unproduced television series)....](/pictures/thumb/146600.jpg?v=1638076711)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico, using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled generic Paul Kohner casting agency wrappers. Title page present, noted as Tratamiento, with credits for screenwriters Charles Pavlich and.....
London: Sawbuck Productions, 1981. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1980 debut novel by Christopher Hudson, who also wrote this screen adaptation. An ambassador's aide becomes embroiled in a US political coverup when a translator seeks asylum at the embassy, only to be carried off by police against diplomatic rules. Co-written by director/screenwriter Stuart Cooper, who.....
New York: Rick Leed, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble to John Huston of the Paul Kohner Agency. Based on Humble's award winning play of the same name, "The Flight of the Earls" which derives its title from the important event in Irish history in 1607 where the.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. Lofton is primarily known for his work on the soap opera, "All My Children." At a mission in the New Mexico Territory, a newly completed chapel welcomes back an elder nun from her vacation, where she is shocked to find the choir balconies have no staircase and are far too high.....
N.p. N.p. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Christy Cabanne was one of the most prolific directors in the history of American cinema, beginning in the silent era and eventually directing low-budget movies all throughout the 1930s and 1940s with Universal. A recently paroled man gets out of prison and immediately murders someone else, resulting in a political.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel, which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown. 131 leaves, with last page of.....
N.p. Montfort-Intermovie. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With annotations to the title page in holograph pencil and ink. Rocky has been prospecting diamonds for five years, enough to build a reputation for himself and grow tired of working in the corporate structure under a boss who owns all the land he can see and a chief of police.....
N.p. N.p., circa early 1970s. First draft screenplay for an unproduced film from British director Clive Donner, circa early 1970s. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, with two small annotations, one on page 16 of the word "ice" written into the dialogue in holograph marker and the page number "100," underlined, in holograph ink at the top margin of that page. From.....
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Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, "Interludes," an unedited segment from the 1942 novel "Follow the Leader" by "Clyde Brion David" (sic), dated 7-27-42. A satiric picture of success in American business. Set in Washington DC, shortly after World War I. Blue titled wrappers, dated 7-27-42, with credits for author Clyde Brion David (sic). Title page integral.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Draft script an unproduced film by Curt Siodmak, based on his 1971 novel of the same name, about a scientist who discovers how to induce ESP in people. Sidomak was the screenwriter for such horror classics as "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "The Beast with Five Fingers" (1946), as well.....
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined.....
N.p. N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak, with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid," discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "Donovan's Brain".....
Los Angeles: Springfield Productions, circa 1957. Original story treatment script for an unproduced 1957 film by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, based on an idea by producer Alec March, with screenwriter Ben Perry fronting the script for the blacklisted Trumbo. Written in the prose style of most treatments. Trumbo bought out the rights of March and Perry, and sold the film.....
Los Angeles: Jay Weston Productions, Circa 1970s. Revised Draft script for an unproduced action film about a American soldier trying to free his son from a military prison in a fictional South American county in the throes of revolution. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as Revised Draft, with credits for screenwriter Gordon. 96 leaves, with last page of.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman, after previously being owned by screenwriter Maxwell Shane, with both of their names and addresses on the first page. Based in part on an adventure story by Daniel Defoe. The film opens with a man trying to drown himself in the ocean as he reflects.....
Universal City, CA: Daniel Grodnik Productions, 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. A university physics lab creates a pair of plaid shoes that have the ability to transport the wearer from one location to another via a hyperspace jump, with the serious caveats that the shoes cannot be removed, and that after 25 hours the wearer disappears forever. A......
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1947. First Draft script for an unproduced film, a romance set in the Near East. Taradash was a notable screenwriter from 1939-1977, penning the screenplays for "Rancho Notorious" (1952), "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "Picnic" (1955), and "Bell, Book, and Candle" (1956). Blue titled wrappers, noted as Second Draft on.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1946. Original Story and Treatment script for an unproduced film, a romance set in the Near East. Taradash was a notable screenwriter from 1939-1977, penning the screenplays for "Rancho Notorious" (Fritz Lang, 1952), "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "Picnic" (1955), and "Bell, Book, and Candle" (1956). Blue titled wrappers, noted.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a holograph ink annotation to the title page, presumably to a prospective actor from screenwriter Darin Mercado, and lines for the character "Billy" marked with holograph pencil. Possibly incomplete. After being dumped by a long-term girlfriend once again, a serial monogamist heads to a bar, determined to have a one-night-stand. White self.....
Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson, 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting.....
Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson, 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him.....
N.p. N.p., 1988. Two Draft scripts, from 1987 and 1988, for an unproduced film. Both drafts SIGNED by screenwriter David Henderson in holograph ink on the title page in 1992, and each has a lengthy inscription about the development of the script, noting "Michael L. Parker" and his investment in the film, the script's general plot and characters, a proposed.....
Culver City, CA: The Selznick Company, 1962. Rough Draft Outline script for an unproduced film. Not related to the 1953 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. Rather, a story about culture clash in Japan toward the end of World War II, centering on a forward-thinking woman who ultimately ends her own life with a ceremonial knife, in an ironically.....
New York: Clifford Hayman, 1966. Draft script for an unproduced play. Laid in is an ALS to actor Peter Lawford (here associated with Chrislaw Productions), from producer Hayman, in which Hayman requests Lawford consider funding the project for both a play and a film. A philandering husband is found out by his wife, who has an affair in order to.....
Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson, circa 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With three pages of synopsis laid-in. Peter Conrad is a successful American defense attorney and he is on a tour of Europe, revisiting places he had seen during World War II, places where his friends died. He ends up in Sicily, where he hopes to reconnect with.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced television miniseries. Based on the 1984 nonfiction book "The Kennedys: An American Drama" by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. Red titled wrappers. Title page present, dated February 14, 1985, noted as Second Draft, with credits for screenwriter Rintels, executive producer Marson, and writers Collier and Horowitz. 186 leaves.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1940. Report and Story Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Red titled wrappers, noted as Report and Synopsis on the front wrapper, with credit for screenwriter Weiss. 17 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
Chicago: Zev Braun Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Carruthers," circa early 1970s. Written by David Zelag Goodman, whose film credits include "Monte Walsh" (1970), "Straw Dogs" (1970), "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), "Logan's Run" (1976), and "Eyes of Laura Mars " (1978). Based on a story by Benjamin Manaster ("Goldstein," 1964, director), set in Texas just.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Revised script for an unproduced film. Jim turns 18 years old and attends Beverly Hills High School where he begins fawning over Stephanie, a model and fellow senior with an abusive mother. Stephanie is leading a double life, concealing her lesbian inclinations while also losing her virginity to Jim, which brings on the condemnation from her mother.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Charity Blackstock, a pseudonym of Ursula Torday, who is here mis-attributed as "Charity Blackstone." In a post-World War II French village a young Jewish survivor of a concentration camp and a girl away at finishing school experience a budding romance, only to be stymied by a......
N.p. Self published, 1972. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "Get the Police," written by David Scott Milton, based on a story by Dick Richards, who was set to direct the film. Brief annotations in holograph ink on the title page, noting Chartoff-Winkler, the production company set to produce the film. A story about two professional football players.....
Los Angeles: D.H. Wolfe and Associates, circa 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Lulu is an intrepid, astute young cellist studying at Julliard. While at home in Connecticut, playing in the.....
Paris: Étoile Dismage, 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Richard Parker's 1953 crime novel of the same name. Laid in is a typed letter from Mage to the Paul Kohner agency in Los Angeles, dated July 1, 1968, and signed by Mage, requesting that the script be considered for development, and that Mr. Gugo-Salice of Lux Films.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist, a French woman married to a man in the CIA, a mercenary pilot, and a shameless adventurer are amuck.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. After his sister is lured into snorting a fatal dose of heroin by a dastardly biker gang, a teenage boy and his group of friends vow to take their revenge and stop the bikers, forming their own "moped mob." Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Partial Draft script for an unproduced film by noted screenwriter Earl Felton. With a few holograph ink annotations, likely by Felton. Incomplete as issued, housed in a custom spring binder with Earl Felton's name embossed in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. The prodigal son of a rancher comes home to take over the.....
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.....
Glendale, CA: Jim Danforth, Circa mid 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film, SIGNED on the title page by screenwriter and stop-motion animator Jim Danforth, circa mid 1970s. Special effects artist James Danforth is a stop-motion animator and matte painter, best known for his work as designer, director, and animator of visual effects for the 1970 Hammer Film production of "When.....
N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film. A soldier's father is killed when witnessing a gang hit in Los Angeles and the soldier, on 30 day leave from his tour in Vietnam in order to attend his father's funeral, is out for revenge. A blunt condemnation of violent gangs. Lacking wrappers, as issued. Title page present, with credits for.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Edward Everett Hale's unedited 1863 short story "The Man Without a Country," here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 7, 1944. Hale's short story was first published in the December 1863 issue of The Atlantic. The story has been adapted four times for film. First in 1917, directed by.....
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paper clipped on 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Typescript for an unproduced television series including an introduction, short synopsis and full treatments of each episode. The series follows the childhood adventures of Robby Mcdonald, a turn of the century mountain boy raised by his pioneer grandmother. Set in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Yellow untitled Paul Kohner, INC. wrappers. Title page present with credits for.....
Tel Aviv: DAFNA International Films, 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. On her drive to work, Edna is rear ended by Dave, an American musicologist. Dave promises to pay for the damage, and uses this commitment as an excuse to get close to, and seduce Edna, who is raising her young son on her own. Set in Tel Aviv. Light.....
Pretoria, South Africa: Emil Nofal Films, N.D. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A half-hour television series, focusing on the unique cultures of Africa and how different groups interact with each other, especially in the modern age. Written for South African television by Nofal, an acclaimed South African director, producer and screenwriter. Set in South Africa. White titled wrappers.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film based on Ernest Hemingway's final novel. A middle-aged man dying of a heart disease takes a duck hunting trip in Trieste, Italy, reminiscing on his past experiences as a military officer and recent romance with an 18 year old girl. Set in Italy. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for.....
N.p. N.p., 1978. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on 1974 novel of the same name by Evelyn Anthony. After her brother dies of a heroin overdose, Katharine Dexter decides to isolate the source of an Italian villa of some distant relatives. Set in Italy. White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1978, noted as FIRST DRAFT, with.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. An unproduced British Draft script for the "Vile Bodies," based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh and written for the screen by John Wells. Assembled mostly from mechanically-reproduced leaves, with two leaves (pp. 138-139) being ribbon copies. Written as a screenplay, with dialogue and location information, but lacking camera direction, typical of a draft that is.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a note typed on casting agent Paul Kohner's office letterhead introducing the screenplay, addressed to actor Charles Bronson. The note is paper-clipped to a four page typed synopsis of the unproduced film "The Last Jump," which is also mentioned in the note. Based.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Beans is the chauffeur secret agent Jedediah Norris, a beautiful young woman who is in graduate school and adopted from Vietnam during the war by her father, a black man named Tom Callahan. She is also a gourmet chef and is in desperate love with her boss, but he only seems.....