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.....

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 manila.....

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. Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Bret Hart's unedited 1869 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 9, 1944.Harte's short story was originally published in the January 1869 edition of Overland Monthly magazine. There have been several film and television adaptations made of the popular story, the earliest being John Ford's 1919 silent.....

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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, "Interludes," an unedited segment from the 1942 novel "Follow the Leader" by "Clyde Brion David" (sic), dated 7-27-42.A satiric picture of success in American business.Set in Washington DC, shortly after World War I.Blue titled wrappers, dated 7-27-42, with credits for author Clyde Brion David (sic). Title page integral.....

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.....

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......

Culver City, CA: Selznick International Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Early Treatment script for the 1945 film, here under its working title, "Some Must Watch." An early treatment by Mel Dinelli, basically a sketch of what would become a much more developed screenplay, offering significant insight into the early development process. Based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch".....

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.....

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., 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.....

Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Circa 1970. Original treatment script for an unproduced film called "Deeper Into the Forest," written by Giulio Questi, whose film credits include "The Possessed" (1965), "Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!" (1967), "Death Laid an Egg" (1968), and "Arcana" (1972). From the Paul Kohner agency, with his name and notation in holograph ink on the first page.....

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.....

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., Circa 1980s. Set of two treatment scripts for an unproduced television project, variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German and English. 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.....

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 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 1920s Chicago, we follow a group of lovable heist-pulling criminals as.....

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: 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.....

N.p. N.p., 1978. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Criminals plan a massive theft from a military air base in order to secure the materials to build a nuclear warhead. Screenwriter Josef Shaftel was better known for "The Biggest Bundle of them All" (1968).Set in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, and New York.Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated June 15.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], Circa 1960s. Treatment script for an unproduced television film. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page, with Cohen's holograph ink annotations throughout, noting both substantive and editorial revisions. Title page on National Broadcasting Company letterhead. An unhappily married man is forced to defend his wife and home during a violent robbery. An.....

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., 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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Nathaniel Hawthorne's unedited 1844 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 8, 1944.Hawthorne's short story was first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. It has been adapted into two plays and several operas, as well as a section.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965-1966. Archive of material belonging to screenwriter Mann Rubin from the 1968 film. Included in the archive are one Treatment script dated June 4, 1964, two Treatment scripts dated 2/23/65, one Treatment script dated March 19, 1965, one Draft script dated October 1, 1965, and one Final script dated March 1, 1966. 1965. Additionally included in.....

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.....

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., 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., 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. N.p., Circa 1970. Eight-page Treatment script for an unproduced film. Attached on 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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Archive of material from the 1973 television movie, originally planned to be the pilot episode of a television series, which originally aired on March 14, 1973, on NBC. Included in the archive are nine copies of a treatment script for a prospective episode, titled "A Fungi Affair," an early treatment script for an untitled separate episode.....

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.....