N.p. N.p. Two screenplays for an unproduced film. With annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. After three strange coincidental deaths in Rome witnessed by Ted Fraser, an American on vacation and special CIA operative, he begins to ask questions and ends up finding out more about the connections Vatican City has with former and resurgent Nazi groups. Set in.....
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 blank wrapper. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alice Altschuler. 96 leaves, with last page of text numbered 95. Carbon.....
N.p. N.p., 1954. Draft script for the pilot of a presumably unproduced Daniel Boone television series, entitled "The Gun Runners." A merchant wishes to pay Daniel Boone to take him to see the chief of the Cherokee Indians, in order to try and sell them rifles. Screenwriter Robert Angus envisioned Touch (later Mike) Connors in the role of Daniel Boone.....
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.....
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 Corp. 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.....
New York: The Film Company for Champions, 1978, 1980. Draft Agency script an unproduced film called "Hoops," based on an original story called "Champions" by John H. Ballard, written for screen by Ballard and Dennis Watlington, and which later served as the basis for Walter Dean Myers' 1981 novel. Laid in is an interoffice memo from Brenda Beckett at the.....
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, mechanically reproduced. Pages.....
London: London Management, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old sentry at an abandoned fort in South Africa finds a man dying of thirst in the desert and brings him back to the fort to nurse him back to health. From there, he learns the man is a crook and Herbie reveals his plan to rob a gold.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A monster comedy in which a life insurance salesman stumbles upon a welcoming subdivision of undead monsters. Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bob Kaufman. 16 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.....
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.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 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.....
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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. Story set in Africa, where an.....
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 Ltd., 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.....
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.....
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.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films, circa 1960s. Early Draft script for the 1966 Hammer film, here under the working title "Land of Prehistoric Women." Remake of the 1940 film of the same name directed by Hal Roach. While this script is undoubtedly an early draft, written by David Moessinger (who would go uncredited in the final film), using.....
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 Productions, 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.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1947. First 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 First 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 First Draft 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 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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. First Draft screenplay for an unproduced film called "The King Must Die," written by Norman Corwin, presumably based on the 1958 Mary Renault novel of the same name. The central characters in the script are Theseus, founder-king of Athens, Ariadne, Corinthian, Asterion, and various figures of Greek mythology. Renault's novel is a plausible story 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.....
Rome: N.p., 1974. Draft script for the first episode of an unproduced television series. Based on "De Novelle Della Pescara" or "The Stories of Pescara" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1902. The whole collection was envisioned as a miniseries and here is the first episode, based on the first story, "The Virgin Orsola." A schoolteacher in a convent is threatened.....
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.....
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: 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.....
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.....
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......
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 Productions, 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. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three small gray brads.
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 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. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine with a chip, bound with three small gray brads.
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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.....
Coconut Grove, FL: Viking Films, Ltd., 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.....
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.....
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 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. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from literary agent Bertha Case to producer Lester Cowan. 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.....
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 Productions, 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.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 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.....
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., 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a holograph notation in brown marker on the title page noting producer Cassius Weathersby's contact information. A magazine photographer sent on assignment to Mardi Gras in New Orleans becomes embroiled in a centuries-old West African religious ritual in which a priestess kills 40 victims in order to turn them into.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 1941. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A substantial Treatment script for an evidently unproduced film set during the 1940 battle and evacuation of Dunkirk. Also a novelist, Garrett contributed to many of the great films of Hollywood's golden era, including "The Story of Temple Drake" (1933), "Gone with the Wind" (1939), and.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1936. Draft script for an unproduced film called "One Thing Worth While," written for screen by Oliver H.P. Garrett, whose film credits include "Ladies of the Mob" (1928), "The Texan" (1930), "City Streets" (1931), "A Farewell to Arms" (1932), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), and "Duel in the Sun" (1946). Brief notation in holograph pencil on.....
Los Angeles: Underworld Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on John Gay's 1728 play, "The Beggar's Opera," source for many similar adaptations, including "The Threepenny Opera." The odds are constantly stacked against Mickey Moore, an honest gambler who is about to be killed for owing a powerful man too much money. He falls for a female acrobat and.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film, dated December 26, 1979, a collaborations between screenwriters Peter Gethers and David Handler. The two writers seem to have been inseparable throughout their film careers, collaborating almost exclusively on episodes for television series like "Charles in Charge" (1984), "Kate & Allie" (1984-1986), "CBS Summer Playhouse: 'The Saint.....
Los Angeles: Chateau Productions. Draft script for an unproduced film. An Egyptologist-turned-author returns to Egypt from America after many years to look for the tomb of Nefertiti, but instead finds a mystery including many who keep dropping dead in his path. Not only is he covering up his own secrets concerning his past, but many of the unfortunate travelers on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Temporary Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Great Lie," written by Ivan Goff under the supervision of Henry Blanke. Not to be confused with the 1941 Emund Goulding film starring Bette Davis. Owner name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Set in England, a prolific.....
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N.p. N.p., 1974. First Draft script for ah unproduced play. A whimsical play within a play about the hardships of finding monetary backing and the windfalls of governmental control. A tax error grants a theatre producer and unsuccessful Broadway promoter $687,700 instead of the $68.77 he is actually due. Satire ensues. Ray Golden was a lyricist and composer who primarily.....
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.....
Chicago, IL: 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.....
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.....
Hollywood: Deseret Productions, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Powderkeg," written by Leo V. Gordon and Paul Leslie Peil. Gordon would later turn the script into an historic novel about the Campaign of 1857, coauthored with Richard Vetterli. Set during the mid 1800s, during the presidency of James Buchanan. A conspiracy involving Secessionists is taking place in.....
N.p. N.p. Typed script for an unproduced film with holograph annotations and type corrections throughout. Thomas, a bureaucrat for an oppressive regime goes undercover as a clown to spy on civilians until his legitimacy is called into question on both fronts. Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as First draft on the front wrapper, with credits for screenwriter Laszlo Gorog and cinematographer.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Former Korean War vet and baseball player and current junkie has been completely out of his son's life as a father and only involved later on as a "friend" who happens to meet him on the street. His son is pursuing his dream of being a filmmaker while his father struggles to.....
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......
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1993. First Revised Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of "Night of the Hunter," based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb, written for the screen by Don Michael Paul. White MGM titled wrappers, with studio logo and die-cut window as issued. Title page present, with a date of April 30, 1933, and credits.....
N.p. N.p., 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film. No doubt obsolete in terms of present-day societal norms, this screwball comedy film deals with unmarried college couples living together on campus and the concern that their hypocritical free-loving parents express towards such an arrangement. Green titled wrappers, noted as First Draft on the front wrapper, dated October 9, 1967.....
N.p. N.p., 1966. First Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Franz Habeck, the French resistance works to send a Nazi prisoner of war back home but is engaged with the question of why. The consequences of not sending him back leaves 50 innocent French citizens slaughtered daily at the hands of the German Army as.....
Paris: Criterion Film. Draft script for an unproduced film. A beautiful Soviet skier and pilot is taken hostage by a gangster, who also steals the mysterious Weapon D, capable of beginning a nuclear war, which is all a part of his plan to destroy the world and repopulate it with the smartest, most beautiful people. She is saved and subsequently.....