Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." An American naval officer purchases, marries, and.....
New York: Delia Productions, circa 1960-1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth, in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present, with.....
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.....
Montreal, Canada: Quest Film Productions, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1976 film. With a few holograph pencil and ink annotations to the title page. An international hunt begins for a powerful, rare stone amulet activated through ley line energy produced by an upcoming solstice. Orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July.....
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., 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.....
Rome: Pegaso, 1969. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in English. A bleak retelling of the siege of Masada by Roman troops in 74 AD, leading one thousand Jews to commit suicide in order to avoid death at the hands of the Roman soldiers. An early career script by noted Italian screenwriter Nicola Badalucco, who was best known for "The.....
Hollywood: Paramount Television, 1976. Third Revised Final Draft script for the pilot of an 1976 unproduced television series. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board. A comedy about the house hold of a 45 year old widowed man with two daughters, ages 12 and 20, who is remarried to a woman just a......
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.....
Los Angeles: Sandy Howard Productions / New World Pictures, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink notation 108 on title page. Bar-Yotam is an Israeli actor and screenwriter, who is best known for his roles in "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" (2008), and "Moon Over Parador" (1988) along with several television appearances dating from 1981-2016 on.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced television episode. Barish is screenwriter best known for "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and two episodes of "The Hitchhiker" television series (1985-1986). Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 22, 1986, noted as Revised First Draft, with credits for writers Barish and Bean. 39 leaves, mechanical duplication. Pages.....
N.p. Self published, 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a nazi. This script is very likely a lengthening of the original short.....
N.p. Self published, 1983. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a Nazi. This script differs slightly in dialogue and scene changes from.....
N.p. N.p., 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and "Portrait of Jennie," in 1949, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other 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. Self published, Circa 1970s. Typescript treatment script for an unproduced film called "Who Loves Jackie?" written by Richard G. Berry. Copy belonging to Paul Kohner agency representative Ilse Lahn, with two holograph letters addressed to her from Berry: one letter requesting that Lahn read the script, noting a date of 9/7/78, and the other thanking Lahn for reading the.....
Philadelphia: N.p., 1985. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. A drama about the members of the fictional Omega Que Rho fraternity, likely based on Omega Psi Phi, a historically black fraternity of which screenwriter S. Torriano Berry is a member. Berry would go on to find success in horror film, creating an anthology series, "The Black Beyond," writing and.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Discovery Productions, 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1949 Jim Thompson novel. The story of a small town movie theater owner who gets mixed up in a murderous love triangle with his wife and lover. Though a film from this script was never made, the original Thompson story, adapted by a different writer, remains.....
New York: H.B.L. Productions, 1972. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "Such Men Are Dangerous," written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., based on a novel by "J.O. Kerr" (joker), the pseudonym originally used by Lawrence Block for his 1969 titular novel, but the novel was released as written by Paul Kavanagh, the lead character of the script and another.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A man awakens in a hospital and finds out he has been in a coma for two weeks due to an assassination attempt on his life. He begins searching for clues as to why someone would want him dead. Bloom is a screenwriter and director best known for his science fiction, horror.....
Los Angeles: Paul Kohner Inc., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Le Testament D'Archibald," written by Philippe M. Blot. Set in the Caribbean Sea and in France during the 1950s, the story involves sunken treasure, a Samurai, and two pregnant women with their husbands. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982, noted as Original story and screenplay.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paper clipped to the front wrapper is a typed note initialed by Edwin Blum in blue holograph ink. Two women repeatedly arrange to be the beneficiaries on the life insurance policies of numerous dead men. In the course of their activities a romance is struck up with an.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators," written by novelist Norman Bogner, and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" (1967, screenwriter, his only film), "Emerald Soup" (1963 television series, story editor).....
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.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Script opens with a three page "Author's Note on the script: ..." in which screenwriter John Briley examines his intents in writing a story regarding the Arab world and culture. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The.....
St. Albans: Tillman Trevone Productions, 1974. Final 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). John Briley, Academy Award winning screenwriter for Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic "Gandhi," adapts his 1968 Vietnam War novel.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film, adapted from the 1949 novel by John Mason Brown. A comedic story about parents and children, the parent in this case being a conservative mystery novelist named John Timothy Adams. Blue titled wrappers, noted as treatment on the front wrapper, dated August 9, 1950, with credit for screenwriter.....
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N.p. N.p., 1932. Treatment script for tan unproduced film called 'The Revolt of the Dead," with an alternate title, "The Revolt of the Savage," written for screen by Gouverneur Morris and Gerrit Lloyd, from a story suggested by Tod Browning. Holograph annotations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. In Africa, an Englishman named Trelawney.....
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.....
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.....
Phoenix, AZ: Associates XV, circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a holograph letter in pen, and a mimeograph copy of the screenwriters profile. A story about the intergenerational experiences in a indigenous Navajo community as the teenage boy, Yazzie, starts attending a Catholic boarding school which stirs conflicts between his families indigenous wisdom and the schools Catholic.....
New York: United Artists, Circa 1980. Story script for an unproduced film based on the novella "Hand-Carved Coffins" by Truman Capote, originally published in his 1980 story collection "Music for Chameleons." An exact match to the published text in the novella, and credited on the title page to United Artists, thus clearly printed for their use and ultimately unproduced. One of.....
N.p. Frank Capra Productions, Inc., 1965. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Walter Newman, with Frank Capra credited on the title page as "Producer-Director," and with Capra's production company, Frank Capra Productions, Inc. heading the front wrapper. The script is 247 pages, which would roughly amount to a four hour film. In 1965 Capra was in negotiations to.....
France: Hermes-Films, Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced French film based on Maheux-Forcier's 1963 novel of lesbian love, "Amadou." Notations throughout in holograph ink, some noting cut scenes. French language. Opening scene translated: "It's dawn. The light is still undecided. In the fields, the first cries of insects, in the trees, songs of birds that awaken. The water of.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Agency script, for an unproduced film. Based on the 1965 novel "Et mon tout est un homme" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, which was later adapted into the film "Body Parts" (1991), directed by Eric Red and starring Jaff Fahey and Kim Delaney. A famous professor tries out a brand new technique on seven accident.....
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1976. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to page 60, correcting a line of dialogue. In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, two lawmen decide to join the Gringo Legion, a group of white volunteers fighting for revolutionary general Pancho Villa. Set in Mexico. Green titled wrappers, noted as FIRST DRAFT.....
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.....
![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.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1946. Draft script for an unproduced film, a romantic comedy set in the small town of Kenwood, Missouri. Blue titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 43, dated December 14, 1946, with credit for screenwriter Cockrell. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated December 14, 1946, with credit for Cockrell. 184 leaves, mimeograph duplication.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1947. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Cockrell is best known for the seminal film noir, "Dark Waters" (1944), directed by Andre De Toth, and went on to write for television between 1956-1966, including original stories for "Perry Mason," "Johnny Staccato," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," and "Batman." Peach titled wrappers, noted as Second Draft script on.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1947. Final Shooting script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Cockrell is best known for the seminal film noir, "Dark Waters" (1944), directed by Andre De Toth, and went on to write for television between 1956-1966, including original stories for "Perry Mason," "Johnny Staccato," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," and "Batman." Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as Final Shooting script on.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. After one too many liabilities, Joe is demoted from sports writer to gossip columnist at a New York newspaper, especially after the former columnist entered rehab and does not plan to leave. His befriends Samantha Worthington, who gives him the goods on the dirt around the city.....
New York: Double Helix Films, circa 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Kimberly Ryan, with her name and phone number on the title page in holograph pencil and ink. With a few annotations in holograph pencil. An unproduced film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes," which many consider to be Conrad's response to.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1982. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. With 17 pages of information about Polish screenwriter Witold Orzechowski laid in, including a background on his film career on the other side of the Iron Curtain and about his affiliation with the Solidarity political party. Orzechowski directed the first Eastern European cinematic adaptation of Joseph Conrad with the.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes," which was considered by some to be Conrad's response to "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, whom Conrad purportedly despised. The narrative generally depicts the life of an oft-downtrodden revolutionary, told through the story of a language teacher living in Geneva.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Second Draft script for an unproduced film, with single holograph annotation at bottom of title page. Written by author, poet, journalist, and speechwriter Jeremy Larner, who won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Michael Ritchie's "The Candidate" starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle. Larner also co-wrote with Jack Nicholson the 1971 Nicholson film "Drive She Said,".....
N.p. N.p., Circa early 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film, adapted from the collaborative novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford in 1909, but not published until after Conrad's death in 1924. The third of three collaborations by the two novelists. Black stiff generic report wrappers, with a red-and-white title label on the front wrapper crediting screenwriter.....
![La Sortie de Versailles [Leaving Versailles] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Hubert...](/pictures/thumb/147427.jpg?v=1590295337)
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in French. An unassuming couple accidentally overhears a gang's plans to rob a bank, and decide to personally interfere, with the end goal of securing the money for themselves. Screenwriter Hubert Cornfield was best known as a director for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1950s and 60s. From the estate of.....
N.p. N.p., 1940s. Collection of four vintage black-and-white press photographs of Lester Cowan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Hernan Santa Cruz (former Chilean UN Ambassador), and author Enrique Campos Menendez, signing a contract for the proposed film "Bolivar." The film was set to portray the life of Simon Bolivar, the Venezelan military and political lead of the 19th century, though the.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The story of a young girl whose emotionally disturbed mother commits suicide while the family is traveling to Mexico City by train, and whose previously estranged oil baron father must then assume her care. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for Victor Wolfson. 29 leaves, mimeograph on onionskin.....
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: Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions, 1980. Original "pre-production package and script" for an unproduced film called "Yaqui, Fox and Mose," including a separate synopsis. Included in the "pre-production package" is character information: Fox, half Choctaw Indian, half Irish, a loner in total control of his destiny; Yaqui, an Indian at the end of his rope looking for redemption;.....
Universal City, CA: Becerkamn Productions / Universal, Circa 1970s. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "One to Count Cadence," written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., based on James Crumley's 1969 first novel, a violent Vietnam War tale of friendship and survival. Agency copy, with an address label from the Paul Kohner agency in Hollywood on the front wrapper. Blue.....
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.....
Rome: Aquila Cinematografica, 1974. Two Draft scripts and one treatment script for an unproduced television miniseries, bound together in a black binder. Text in English. Loosely based on Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1902 collection "De Novelle Della Pescara." A triad of violent, often romantic fables about three women—a nun whose downfall is desire, a widow who begins a romance with a......
![Le Novelle Della Pescara [The Pescara Stories] (Original screenplay for an unproduced television...](/pictures/thumb/146512.jpg?v=1602833720)
Rome: Aquila Cinematografica, 1974. Draft script for the first episode of an unproduced television miniseries. Based on the short story "The Virgin Orsola" from Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1902 collection "De Novelle Della Pescara." A chaste schoolteacher in a convent survives a life-threatening illness but soon after is violently sexually assaulted, beaten, and left for dead. Set in Italy. Orange untitled.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the amazing life of Agnes Salm-Salm, a woman born in Vermont who married the Prussian mercenary, Prince Felix Salm-Salm. This story focuses on their time in Mexico when Felix was fighting in defense of Maximilian I, the short lived Habsburg appointed Emperor of Mexico. Felix Salm-Salm and Maximilian.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a wealthy New York City businessman struggles over her position in life when she can't seem to choose between a wealthy British suitor and a middle class New York City police detective. She attempts to strike out on her own and work for her own money, but.....
N.p. N.p., 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. An unproduced English-language remake of the 1966 Czech film "Posledni Ruzz od Casanovy" or "The Last Rose of Casanova," by the same screenwriter, then as Frantisek Daniel and now Americanized as Frank Daniel. The legendary seducer of women Casanova is living out his elder years in a castle as the librarian.....
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: APJAC Productions, 1972. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. It is 2048 and the Republic of America is shadowed in a deep dystopia following control of the Northeast region of Mayor Tupman and his Tenants Association, a private militia which illegally murders those who speak out and get others hooked on drugs to keep them happy.....
London: Charwill Productions, 1967. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the 1959 novel by Mark Rascovich, co-written by Jack Davies and director Ken Annakin, who had received an Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" the previous year. A man and his bear attempt to flee Soviet Russia after the bear is.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Marisa immigrates to Los Angeles from Guatemala to go to a university for the deaf. She struggles to find work without a green card, and as she is forced into increasingly precarious situations she must defend herself from violent and predatory men. Set in Guatemala, and Los Angeles, California. Green.....
Rome: Aquila Cinematogtafica, circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on a story from volume three of "De Novelle Della Pescara" or "The Stories of Pescara" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1902. Don Giovanni makes a clamorous entrance into a production of "The Countess of Amalfi" in a makeshift theater inside an old military hospital in the small.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A passenger plane headed to Paris has a psychotic killer on board. Screenwriters Mauro Severino and Lucia Drudi Denby were known for co-writing the 1971 Italian television miniseries "Il carcerato." Beige titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as Original screen story, with credits for screenwriters Mauro Severino and Lucia Drudi Demby. 33.....
Simi Valley, CA: Self published, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film, circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan, whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley," "The Great Impostor" (1961), "Man's Favorite Sport?" (1964), "The Brass Bottle" (1964), and "White Lightning" (1973). Set in post WWII West Virginia, where Stosh and his buddies gamble.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film, circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan, whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley," "The Great Impostor" (1961), "Man's Favorite Sport?" (1964), "The Brass Bottle" (1964), and "White Lightning" (1973). Set in post WWII West Virginia, where Stosh and his buddies gamble on billiards games.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. A pacifist professor of physics at a southern university is convicted of manslaughter and incarcerated. Screenwriter James Dickey was best known for his prolific work as a poet, as well as for the 1970 novel "Deliverance" and its subsequent adaptation for the 1972 film. "The Sentence" was inspired by Dickey's 1975.....
New York: Challenger Productions, 1965. Ribbon copy typescript of a Preliminary Treatment script for an unproduced film. The manuscript does not name the author, however, we can reasonably presume this is Robert Newman's known treatment for Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales," under the title "The Gothic Tales," which we have offered once in the past, with that copy having a......
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Estimating script for an unproduced film. The story of a small contingent of militant mercenaries who attempt to stir up a conflict between Cuba and the United States by piloting a hostile decoy Navy ship into enemy waters off Key West, only to be thwarted by the actual Navy and a few well-meaning American citizens.....
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 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......
London: Winkast Programming, circa early 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Stanley Ellin's screen adaptation of his 1970 novel. Film rights for Ellin's novel had been bought in 1969, prior to its publication, by producer Phil Waxman, wanting Robert Redford in the lead. It would not be made into a motion picture until 1979 when Richard C. Sarafian filmed a......
Pasadena, CA: Night Train Films, circa 1990s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the 1930's United States. Jack faces the hardships of unemployment, jail, and a future without promise. He is driven mad, ultimately torching the last of what he has in a frenzy. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter James Elliot. 131 leaves.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1945. Descriptions of Settings and Props for an unproduced film, set in Biblical times. Light blue titled wrappers, noted as Descriptions of Settings and Props on the front wrapper, dated January 29, 1945, with credit for compiler Elwood. 28 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three small gray brads.
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1945. Costumes script for an unproduced film, set in Biblical times. Teal titled wrappers, noted as Costumes on the front wrapper, dated January, 1945, with credit for writer Elwood. 9 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine with a chip, bound with three small gray brads.
![The Devil Canyon [The Devil Canon] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Frank Emery,...](/pictures/thumb/145346.jpg?v=1568059742)
West Hollywood: Emery Pictures, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film, with the word "canyon" spelled in Spanish instead of English on the title page. A teenager is killed in a car accident, only to come back as a vampire in order to protect his girlfriend from a serial killer. Untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1984, with credits for.....
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., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Members of the French Foreign Legion experience their own conflicts of romance and resentment in the final weeks before they leave Algiers. Prolific screenwriter Ken Englund was known for "No, No, Nannette" (1940), "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1943), and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947), among others. Set in Algiers and France. Yellow.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two men are captured and are being held in a plantation camp deep within the Mexican jungle, where conditions are unspeakably horrendous. Set in Mexico. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Roger Ernest. 25 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 24. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper.....
Coconut Grove, FL: Viking Films, 1984. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Business card for Carl Johnson and Viking Films, Ltd., attached with a paper clip to the front wrapper. Based on the ancient Greek play, "Medea" by Euripides. Medea is wife of Jason, famous fetcher of the Golden Fleece and leader of the Argonauts. But her position in the.....
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.....
West Hollywood: N.p., Circa 2000s. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Dedication on the front wrapper to "Eric Olsen and all the firefighter's who died in 9/11" White titled wrappers, lacking rear wrapper, noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page integral to front wrapper, with credits for screen writer James Kevin Fenwick. 60 leaves, with last.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s, 1980s. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced, English-language film, circa 1960s and 1980s, about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date of his canonization. Although the scripts appear to have been.....
Hollywood: Paul Kohner Inc., Circa 1963-1964. Draft agency script for the an uproduced film called "A Thousand Several Tongues," written by Jeremy Fey, whose film credits include three episodes of the 1976-1977 television series, "ABC Afterschool Specials," his job being Productions Assistant. Agency copy, with the address imprint and label present from the Paul Kohner, Inc. agency in Hollywood. Copy.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1983. Draft script for an unproduced Spanish film. Spanish language. "Satanik" written in holograph marker in a large stylized fashion on front wrapper. Stamp of Spanish film company "Copercines" on front wrapper. Title page stamped with "Filmoteca Nacional de Espana" (National Film Library of Spain) "Procedencia" (Origin) with the name Manzanos written in holograph ink, boxed below.....
N.p. Televison Film Production, circa late 1940's. Draft shooting script for an unproduced British television film, circa late 1940's. Note on title page, in holograph ink, in hand of "Punch" editor E. V. Knox, "See article on this subject [arrow] Argus," "(EVK)" to right of note, with "(sent by producers)" below. Eight page "Foreword" bound in after title page, details.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small holograph ink annotations to the title page. After a dissatisfying experience with a prostitute, a man begins to have a number of hallucinatory experiences while sitting in a bar. Blue untitled card wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Frank Flannery. 110 leaves, with last page of.....
N.p. The Greenblatt Janollari Studio, 2000. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. A few months after graduating high school, the eponymous teen couple Nick and Emily discover that Emily is pregnant, forcing the pair to grow up more quickly than anticipated. Screenwriter R. Lee Fleming Jr. was better known for his involvement in early 2000s young adult-oriented television.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1980s. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. The wife of a wealthy Los Angelean developer realizes that her mother has become homeless, and has been living on the street for six months after having lost the money her husband left her when he died. The discover forces the developer to realize that the "under-utilized" area he.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A wounded Polish soldier is treated by a Jewish doctor in World War I, and impregnates the doctor's daughter before he is sent back home. The same Jewish doctor treats him again years later when he is found disfigured in the wreckage of an attack on Jews by Polish forces.....
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. An unproduced English-language version of "Mina Drommars Stad" or "City of My Dreams," a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingvar Skogsberg, based upon a novel by Per Anders Fogelstrom. Young Henning and his three friends struggle to survive with their freedom intact in 19th century Stockholm. Based.....
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: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Carbon typescript 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 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.....