Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original Treatment script 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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. With what we assume to be translator Alan Blair's handwritten ink annotations throughout the script, mostly in English but occasionally in Swedish, noting many substantive revisions and deletions. Text in English. Bergman's first English language film, shot in England and Sweden, and his first film to involve a major American.....
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.....
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.....
![The Revolt of the Dead [The Revolt of the Savage] (Original treatment script for an uproduced...](/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 annotations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. In Africa, an Englishman named Trelawney.....
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.....
![Charlie Chaplin [My Father, Charlie Chaplin] (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/135074.jpg?v=1570753006)
Woodland Hills, CA: N.p., Circa 1980s. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Charlie Chaplin" or "My Father, Charlie Chaplin," written by Margaret Rau and Susan Martinov (wife of Chaplin, Jr.), and based on the 1960 autobiographical book, "My Father, Charlie Chaplin," by Charles Chaplin, Jr., with help from Rau. All pages photocopied, including a few that have annotations made.....
N.p. N.p., circa 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.....
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.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early Treatment script 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.....
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., 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
![Blowing Hot and Cold [Kamikaze Trail] (Original treatment script for the 1989 film). Marc Gracie,...](/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 Euro 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.....
![Screenplay for The Thin Man Sequel [After the Thin Man] (Original screenplay, Hammett's copy,...](/pictures/thumb/124528.jpg?v=1434404426)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. Dashiell Hammett's original submitted Treatment script 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.....
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.....
![Magistra Ludi: Die Glasperlenspieler [Master of the Game: The Glass Bead Game] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/146495.jpg?v=1602304868)
N.p. N.p., 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel, set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future, a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits, encapsulated in the "glass bead game," an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music, math.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a holograph ink annotation to the title page. Set in the near future, the Ayatollah Khomeini has recently died and the new leftist regime in Iran has begun to work together with the Soviet Union. The young and untraditional US president embarks on an diplomacy trip to address the Soviet.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An aging millionaire arranges to have his daughter—a cold-hearted, nosy serial bride—kidnapped and taken to a chateau in rural France in order to stop her from interfering in his libidinous affairs. Screenwriter Stephen Kandel was best known as a writer for television in the late 20th century, including episodes of "Sea.....
Los Angeles: Selznick/Glickman Productions, Circa 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter on Selznick/Glickman Productions letterhead introducing the screenplay, addressed to an agent at the Paul Kohner casting agency and signed by film producer Daniel Selznick. Based on the 1972 novel. An American physician is the only doctor who can perform a......
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.....
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.....
New York: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Brief annotations 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......
Hollywood: Self published, 1980. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Instant Withdrawal," written by Anton Kothuis (as Anton Kothuys), whose film credits include "Overload" (1972), "The Assault" (1986), and television movies "Gossamer" (1980), and "Kopzeer Aan Die Waanzee" (1985). A story about a young group of filmmakers who decide to rob a bank to fund their project for.....
Rome: Titanus, Circa 1960s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a "With Compliments" card from film producer Goffredo Lombardo, the head of Italian production company Titanus Distribution, stapled to the front wrapper. An Italian-American pro boxer on the rise discovers he's been framed for murder. Set in New York. Brown faux leather titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for.....
N.p. N.p., 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the true story of Padre Pio, an Italian friar and mystic who was later venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Screenwriter Giampaolo Lomi was best known for "Tropic of Cancer" (1972) and "The Barons" (1975). Set in Italy. Mustard cloth covered titled boards. Title page present, dated 1976, with.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a holograph ink annotation to the title page (stating "ROUGH TRANSLATION / VERY ROUGH"), and a few small proofreader's annotations. Text in English. Incomplete, apparentlhy as issued. An assassin becomes involved with a solitary young woman, and gives her a handgun to protect herself while he's out of the country on.....
N.p. Omnibus Productions Inc., 1968. Treatment script for the 1970 television film which aired on NBC on January 4, 1970 and released theatrically in Europe. Annotations on top right, and copy number "3" circled, all in holograph pencil on front wrapper. Treatment is broken into a prologue, three acts, then an epilogue which follow character and sets. Producer Frederick H......
N.p. Self published, Circa 1960s. Original carbon typescript Treatment script 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.....
![The Iron Commissioner [Il commissario di ferro, A Questionable Cop] (Original treatment script...](/pictures/thumb/146546.jpg?v=1583899540)
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for the 1978 Italian poliziotteschi film, here under the working title "A Questionable Cop." Text in English. A tight crime thriller which takes place over 24 hours, about a young man seeking revenge on the police lieutenant who captured his father, leading to the father's death in prison. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1938. Treatment Outline script for an unproduced film. Though we have seen further treatment scripts indicating that screenwriter Budd Schulberg at Selznick International studios also tried his hand at this script, the film was never made. The story centers around the lives of several women on the home front during World War I, following their lives through to.....
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.....
![The Fifth Day of Peace [Gott Mit Uns] [God's On Our Side] (Original treatment script for the 1970...](/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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
![Mexico Suena [Mexico Dreams] (Original treatment script for an unproduced television series)....](/pictures/thumb/146600.jpg?v=1579129041)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A seven-part television series exploring the cultural heritage of Mexico, using noted director John Huston's reflections on his time spent in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as a reference. Set in Mexico. White untitled generic Paul Kohner casting agency wrappers. Title page present, noted as Tratamiento, with credits for screenwriters Charles Pavlich and.....
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.....
![The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [Castles in the Air] (Original treatment script for the 1939...](/pictures/thumb/147234.jpg?v=1588818125)
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. Treatment script for the 1939 musical, here under the working title "Castles in the Air." Based on real-life ballroom dancers Irene and Vernon Castle, who rekindled an interest in Western ballroom dancing in the early 20th century. Irene Castle served on the film's production team and was purportedly quite difficult to please, criticizing actor.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Original manuscript for an unproduced Western film, with a hand-drawn half-title page in red and black pencil. In 1861, the riders of the short-lived Pony Express transcontinental mail service face the extinction of their trade—but must band together one last time to battle the mysterious and murderous Black Glove tribe, who seek vengeance for the unjust seduction.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the apocryphal tale of the Taj Mahal's origins, built to honor the deceased Persian wife of seventeenth-century Indian emperor Shah Jehan. At one point, the film was slated for the highly regarded directing-producing team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, a plan which was unfortunately never set into effect. Set.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1947. Treatment script for the 1947 film, here under the working title "That Wonderful Urge." Accompanying the film are several production documents, including multiple sets of revision pages and two interdepartmental typed notes on Twentieth Century-Fox letterhead. A very interesting piece of Hollywood history: the script here reads as a remake of the 1940 film, "He Married His Wife".....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Eight-page Treatment script for an unproduced film. Attached to the front wrapper is a handwritten note from producer Anthony Unger to casting agent Paul Kohner on Academy Players Directory letterhead introducing the script. A veteran posts an ad in the newspaper offering to perform any service—especially seeking out risky and problematic endeavors—for $107,941.72, which he intends.....
![Under the Gun [Undertow] (Original treatment screenplay for the 1951 film). Ted Tetzlaff, George...](/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......
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.....
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.....
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.....
Rome: Tigielle, Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in English. A woman leaves her luxury life in the Italian countryside behind and heads to Monte Carlo with a lover, hoping to pull off a jewelry heist that will pay her debts. Set in Monte Carlo and Italy. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for TIGIELLE production company.....
Los Angeles: Selznick Studio, circa 1945-1946. Treatment script for the 1946 film. This draft deals with only the first portion of the film story, written by Niven Busch, 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, mimeograph duplication. Pages.....
![Two Against Tomorrow [The Big Parade of 1942], [No Time for Tears], [12 Stolen Hours], [Lover...](/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.....
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.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 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 the.....
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.....