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) about Dracula's Block Party (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about The Revolt of the Dead [The Revolt of the Savage] (Original treatment script for an uproduced film)

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) about Lucky You (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about Portrait of Jennie (Original screenplay for the 1948 film | Treatment dated May 18, 1946)

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... (read more) about The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Original screenplay for the 1929 film)

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) about Casimir (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about Some Kinds of Bad Luck (Original studio transcription for an unproduced film)

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) about China Seas (Original screenplay treatment script for the 1935 film)

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... (read more) about Screenplay for The Thin Man Sequel [After the Thin Man] (Original screenplay, Hammett's copy,...

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) about The Wings of the Dove (Reader's Notes script for an unproduced film)

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) about CinCUS (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about Untamed (Original treatment script for the 1955 film)

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) about The Man Who Could Hypnotize Racehorses (Original Film Treatment)

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) about The Fifth Day of Peace [Gott Mit Uns] [God's On Our Side] (Original treatment script for the 1970...

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) about The Murder on Jefferson Street (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about Stagehand, or Brother Against Brother (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about Archive of Treatment Scripts for an unproduced film The Merry, Merry Maidens (Five treatment...

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) about The Paper Tiger (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about The Brutes: The Idols I Have Loved So Long (Original treatment script for an unproduced...

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) about Two Against Tomorrow [The Big Parade of 1942], [No Time for Tears], [12 Stolen Hours], [Lover...

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) about "...And So Victoria" (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

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) about Half-Time (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)