Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original treatment for the 1977 horror film, here under the alternate title of "Orc." A blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of "Jaws" two years earlier, the film follows a fishing vessel being stalked by a killer whale bent on avenging the death of its pregnant mate at the hands of the crew. The... (read more)
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..... (read more)
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... (read more)
![The Revolt of the Dead [The Revolt of the Savage] (Original treatment for an uproduced film). Tod Browning, Gerrit Lloyd Gouverneur Morris, story, screenwriters.](/pictures/thumb/133776.jpg?v=1418081706)
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 notations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. Story set in Africa, where an..... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1943. Typescript treatment script for an unproduced film called "The Sailor and the Girl," written by Martha Chapin, whose notable film credits include "Gambling with Souls" (1936), "Slaves in Bondage" (1937), and "Lightning Strikes West" (1940). Typeovers on a few pages. Set in New York during World War II, with a touch of hard-boiled attitude, the story follows... (read more)
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 notations made... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Shiffrin-Litto Agency, 1964. Agency treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in is an ALS from William Shiffin to Milton Ebbins, requesting a conversation about the script. A humorous story about a Hollywood agent attempting to balance his home life with his unusual work responsibilities. Blue wrappers. Title page present, with gold agency label affixed, and with... (read more)
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..... (read more)
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..... (read more)
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1947. Treatment script for the 1948 film. Painstakingly developed by Selznick International and then released under the auspices of Vanguard Pictures (to whom Selznick International was sold),"Portrait of Jennie" is a romantic fantasy so strange and concept-driven that it has always eluded mass popularity. Joseph Cotten portrays a struggling artist who becomes enamored with a little... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1962. Treatment script for the 1963 film. Paul Brenner at AllMovie: It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether, who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent, basing his exploration of the African subcontinent on old diaries of his uncle. When an American space capsule crashes in an uncharted region of Africa, Merriwether... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early treatment for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The first known treatment was written by Oliver P. Garrett, followed... (read more)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Treatment script for an unproduced television series "The Bunglers." Written in part by H. Bud Otto, who would go on to be Script Supervisor on a large number of films and television shows, including "JAG," "Mr. Mom," "Short Circuit," "The Mack," and "Billie." Set in 1920's Chicago, we follow a group of lovable heist-pulling criminals as..... (read more)
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..... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A homicidal playboy takes advantage of a family after he crashes into their car and is disfigured. Will the family escape his ever-tightening grasp? Likely not the same Charles Fuller as screenwriter for the 1984 film "A Soldier's Story." Title page integral with front wrapper, and with the first page of..... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment (Dec. 15, 1931) in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931 novel by Crosbie [here spelled Crosby] Garstin, with Garstin and... (read more)
![Blowing Hot and Cold [Kamikaze Trail] (Original treatment for the 1989 film). Marc Gracie, Sergio Donati Luciano Vincenzoni, Joe Dolce Peter Adams, Bruce Kane, Kate Gorman, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/137740.jpg?v=1515088093)
Rome: Colombo, Circa 1970s. Treatment script for the 1989 Australian film, "Blowing Hot and Cold," here under the working title, "Kamikaze Trail." Vincenzoni and Donati were prolific screenwriters, particularly in the Spaghetti Western genre, writing scripts for some of Sergio Leone's best films, including "For a Few Dollars More" (1965), "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966), "Once Upon... (read more)
![Screenplay for The Thin Man Sequel [After the Thin Man] (Original screenplay, Hammett's copy, with holograph correction). Dashiell Hammett.](/pictures/thumb/124528.jpg?v=1434404426)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. Dashiell Hammett's original submitted treatment for the first sequel to "The Thin Man," here referred to only as "Thin Man Sequel," and ultimately titled "After the Thin Man." With a single holograph correction by Hammett, and letter of provenance from Hammett's daughter Josephine Hammett Marshall regarding the discovery of the treatment in the family's... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Original treatment (titled "Characters and Premise") and complete set of continuities for the 1945 13-episode film serial, including a continuity for the trailer, constituting a virtually complete record. Hammett debuted his Nazi-fighting agent in 1934 in comic book form, with artwork by the legendary Alex Raymond. A film adaptation was made by Universal in... (read more)
Los Angeles: International Pictures, 1944. Original treatment by Eric Hatch, along with the subsequent Final script by Lynn Starling for an unproduced film about a sailor returning to New York City after World War II. Treatment: Olive green titled wrappers, rubber-stamped production No. 7480, with credits for screenwriter Hatch. 110 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good bound internally... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Vanguard Films, 1939. Reader's Notes script for an unproduced film, intended for development at Selznick International in 1939. A document designed to summarize James' story down to two readable pages, created for producers and other filmmakers to consider. White wrappers, title page integral with the first page of text, with credit for reader Frances Millington and novelist... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Vanguard Films, 1950. First Rough Draft script for an unproduced film, intended for development at Vanguard Films, inherited by Vanguard from Selznick International. Based on the novel by Henry James. Blue titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Stevenson, noted as First Rough Draft, and dated February 3, 1949. Title page present, dated February 3, 1949 noted as... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1941. Story Outline for an unproduced film called "CinCUS," written for screen by Lieutenants Victor F. Blakeslee and Hartley E. How, and Welbourn Kelley, who was a witness in the Pearl Harbor Attack investigations, 1945-1946. A story about the CinCUS, a naval term for Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet. Admiral Todd Emery leads his Navy crew to battle "somewhere..... (read more)
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..... (read more)
New York: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Brief notations in holograph pencil throughout, and two names, Collins and Swann (presumed, association unknown), on the first page. Noted in pencil on the last leaf of text as "13 page treatment / 28 story developments / The entire story related here / story of taming of a.... (read more)
Hollywood: Self published, 1980. Original treatment 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 a.... (read more)
N.p. Self published, Circa 1960s. Original carbon typescript treatment for an unproduced film called "It's No Wonder," written by Albert Mannheimer and Frederick Kohner, who also worked together on the television series, "Gidget" (1965-1966), and Fred M. Wilcox's musical, "Three Daring Daughter" (1948). Typescript corrections throughout. A story about Sylvester Smith, an attendant at a drive-in movie theatre, who is... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1947. First Draft Treatment script for an unproduced film. An aging circus clown tells his life story, filled with lurid details, to his young apprenticed son in an attempt to prevent him from quitting the circus to marry and become an officer in the Navy. Written by Joseph Moncure March, known for his poems "The Wild Party" and..... (read more)
N.p., circa 1955. Original film treatment by Robin Maugham, which made up part of the screenplay for an unproduced film called "The Speaker's Corner." Very Good in original mauve titled wrappers, string-bound, with a typed label crediting Robin Maugham on the front panel. Fore-edge of the front panel is chipped, pages are evenly (but only slightly) toned, and there is... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1943. Treatment script by Elizabeth Meehan for an unproduced film. Meehan was a British screenwriter who worked in Hollywood and the UK in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Among the 29 credits she amassed, she is best known for "The Great Gatsby" (1926), "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" (1928), and "Oliver Twist" (1933). A romantic melodrama about women on... (read more)
![The Fifth Day of Peace [Gott Mit Uns] [God's On Our Side] (Original treatment for the 1970 film). Giuliano Montaldo, Ottavio Jemma Lucio Battistrada, Richard Johnson Franco Nero, Larry Aubrey, Helmuth Schneider, screenwriter director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/137628.jpg?v=1492979724)
Italy: Clesi Cinematografica, 1969. Typescript Treatment script for the 1970 film, "The Fifth Day of Peace," here under the working title, "Gott Mit Uns!!", its translated title being "God's On Our Side." Laid in is a single typescript leaf (author unknown), dated 9/8/69, detailing the story outline, and noting the possibility of actor Max von Sydow taking on the lead... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A man accidentally engaged to be the driver in two identical bank heists on the same night ends up using the heist money to build a modern hospital in Brazil while he evades capture. Yellow wrappers, with credits for screenwriters Naidich and Goodman. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters..... (read more)
N.p. N.p., ca. 1944. Treatment script and copy of the original story for an unproduced film "The Murder on Jefferson Street," based on the 1944 short story by Dorothy Canfield. Copy belonging to screenwriter Frank Partos, with his name in holograph pencil. Also included with the script are contracts from Dorothy Canfield, Story Magazine, and Harcourt, Brace and Company signing... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1944. Treatment script and Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Partos. The story of a woman on parole who hides her past from a blind soldier with whom she falls in love and marries. Blank black spring binder. Title page present, dated November 17, 1944, with credits for screenwriters Waldman and Partos. 180 leaves... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two brothers with a patchy relationship both end up becoming competent jockeys, and one who had previously slighted the other throws the important race so the other can win. Self wrappers, with integral title page present, showing credits for screenwriter Pinkham. 9 leaves, original typescript. Pages Very Good plus bound... (read more)
Rome: Rafran Cinematografico, 1970. Original treatment script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Questi's other notable screenplay credits include "The Possessed" (1965), "Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!" (1967), "Death Laid an Egg" (1968), and "Arcana" (1972). Laid in is a typed letter from Irene, a Paul Kohner agency representative, dated June 16, 1970, addressed to actor Charles Bronson, suggesting he... (read more)
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 manilla..... (read more)
![Daybreak [Dawning] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Dore Schary, Fritz Lang, screenwriter, director.](/pictures/thumb/129751.jpg?v=1539899883)
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, circa 1944. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Fritz Lang's only effort with Selznick, also known as "Dawning." Intended for Ingrid Bergman, the project was called off after four weeks of work, supposedly because Bergman had decided to take on a different project. In truth, there was also a fair bit of conflict between... (read more)
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 1937, 1938, 1946. Five treatment scripts from various dates for an unproduced film at Selznick Studios. Including a treatment by a young Budd Schulberg, one of his earliest efforts in Hollywood. The story centers around the lives of several women on the home front during World War I, following their lives through to the... (read more)
London: Jon Thurley MA, Circa 1960s. Treatment (synopsis) script for an unproduced film called "The Richest Man in the World," written by Ian Shand, whose film credits include "Mischief" (1969), "Kadoyng" (1972), and the 1960-1962 television series, "Bonehead." Owner name ("H. Janis") in holograph ink on the title page. A story set in Dallas, Texas, about a cab driver who... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1961. Agency Treatment script for an unproduced film. A quaint, if dated, comedy concerning an American consulate in a small Southeast Asian country on the brink of a revolution, and their reactions as their first six Peace Corps volunteers are stationed there. A unique pre-Vietnam War look at American attitudes towards the area. Blue wrappers, with the..... (read more)
![Under the Gun [Undertow] (Original treatment screenplay for the 1951 film). Ted Tetzlaff, George Zuckerman Daniel B. Ullman, Audrey Totter Richard Conte, Sam Jaffe, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/129082A.jpg?v=1418080479)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Treatment script for the 1951 film. With the film's original title, "Undertow," marked through in holograph ink. An overlooked but interesting film noir, about a gangster (Conte) who shoots and kills a man in front of nightclub diva (Totter), and after her testimony, is sent to a corrupt Florida prison, where he devises a.... (read more)
Hollywood: Andrews-Vagemann Productions, circa 1960s. Two treatment scripts for an unproduced television series "The Brutes." Written by Jerome B. Thomas, occasional writer for shows like "The Outer Limits" and the 1965 "Branded." This listing contains two scripts, "HERE COME THE BRUTES" and "THE BRUTES: THE IDOLS I HAVE LOVED SO LONG." "HERE COME THE BRUTES" introduces the principle characters, two... (read more)
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... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1980. Treatment script for "Death Warmed Over," which would later be turned into a radio broadcast and aired in on September 24, 1980 on the Mutual Radio Theater program, then replayed on December 3, 1980. Mutual Radio Theater, formerly the Sears Radio Theater, changed names in 1980 when the program moved from CBS to the Mutual broadcasting... (read more)
Los Angeles: Selznick Studio, circa 1945-1946. Draft treatment script for the 1946 film. A treatment that deals with only the first portion of the film story, written by Niven Busch, in a format typical for scripts issued by Selznick International in the 1930s-1940s. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Light blue titled wrappers with credit for for writer Busch. 23 leaves... (read more)
![Two Against Tomorrow [The Big Parade of 1942], [No Time for Tears], [12 Stolen Hours], [Lover Come Back] (Original treatment screenplay for an unproduced film). Peter Viertel, David Selznick, screenwriter, producer.](/pictures/thumb/130055.jpg?v=1434404443)
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1942. Second Draft treatment script for an unproduced film "Two Against Tomorrow," with alternate titles "The Big Parade of 1942," "No Time for Tears," "12 Stolen Hours," and "Lover Come Back" also written on the front wrapper. One of a number of original scripts written by noted screenwriter and novelist Viertel for producer David O. Selznick... (read more)
New York: William Morris Agency, Circa 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Don't Bury Me At All," written by Robert Penn Warren and Max Shulman. An unusual collaboration between screenwriter Max Shulman ("The Affairs of Dobie Gillis," 1953) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Penn Warren. A cursory look at the script leads us to believe the film would... (read more)
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 1937. Treatment script for an unproduced film, dated April 20, 1937. Based on the 1937 novel by [William] Vaughan Wilkins, subsequently published by Jonathan Cape on May 3, 1937. A romantic adventure story, set in the 19th century, involving a poor girl who falls in love with a boy descended from royalty, resulting in... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1940-1944. Treatment and production design notes for an unproduced live action film based on Charles Williams' beloved 1862 children's novel "The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby," by inventor and undersea photographer John Ernest Williams, circa 1944. Presumably unique, with holograph notations throughout. The novel was eventually adapted as an animated film in 1978, though... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A divorce court judge awards a family's three children the house, forcing the two parents to alternate living there every week. Of course the expected high jinx occur: Dad lets them be messy and eat junk food, Mom requires they clean and eat green vegetables, and the kids misbehave at every..... (read more)