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.....

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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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, 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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film science fiction film. Developed for David O. Selznick by Paul MacNamara, who worked as a publicity director on several Selznick projects, including "Duel in the Sun" (1946), "The Paradine Case" (1947), and "Portrait of Jennie" (1948). A story about a New York City reporter who finds himself the.....

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., 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., 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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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., 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., 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.....

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: 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.....

Culver City, CA: Selznick International Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Early Draft 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., 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.....