Scenario by Elliott Clawson
[Cover dated June 14, 1928 ; on page 1 dated June 7]
Pale yellow covers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped “file copy”; two-hole punched, brass brads. No. 1666 stamped upper right corner; no. 3580 on the label. Lower right corner: “Script Okayed” by [producer] Mr. [Irving] Thalberg. June 14. 1928. 85 pages mimeographed in black ink. Title page integrated with first lines of text.
West of Zanzibar is a 1928 silent film directed by Tod Browning. The screenplay concerns the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (L... View More...
Story by Harlan Ellison, teleplay by Al Hayes.
A Goff-Roberts-Steiner Production [MGM Television] Final Draft Sept 2, 1977. 53 printed pages plus 2-page integrated title page and character/set list; mostly on white first draft sheets but with about a dozen pink and blue revision sheets inserted.
Script Supervisor Jack Gannon’s copy, with his penciled name on the cover and extensive handwritten annotations and dialog changes on every page, including versos, recounting production notes, changes in dialog, camera references. Probably used to prepare for editing [or for a continuity scri... View More...
8-1/2x1, typed carbon, yellow paper. 12 looseleaf sheets in three post paper folder with typed titles; dated May 28, 1957. Completely different from the 1958 film Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, but you have to wonder whether it gave someone at the studio the brilliant idea. “Think of Esther Williams; now think of Anita Ekberg. Think of them both -- physically. Then after turning them both slowly over [in your mind, of course] dwell on the most luscious attributes lavished on each by a bountiful Nature. …Take that result and multiply IT by about twenty. Now you have Gigante. She’s something over ... View More...
Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly mimeographed, but with a dozen typed and corrected pages interleaved; numerous holographic additions or changes throughout by Matthi... View More...
First draft, original typescript for an unpublished and unproduced screenplay about migrant farmworkers and UFW organizers in the San Joaquin Valley of California. 8.5x11" in two-post card binder.#####A fictional treatment exploring some of the labor issues Matthiessen explored in his sojourns with Cesar Chavez and his 1969 nonfiction book Sal Si Puedes. 86 typescript pages, with a duplicate final page containing two holographic corrections by Matthiessen and handwritten delivery instructions to his Hollywood agent. Together with a brief handwritten note two decades later about the possibili... View More...
125 pp. Original screenplay for a proposed film based on the National Book Award winning memoir - cowritten by Matthiessen and the Polish producer/director Korzeniowsky. Nearly fine in studio wrappers bound with 3 posts, as issued. The screenplay is an original studio photocopy; the title page typed on production company letterhead. We are aware of no other copies having come on the market. Near fine: light wear to covers, internally fine. Unusual in that PM is a cowriter of the script; most proposed screenplays of his works were adapted by others. View More...
1st ed. thus. 4to, black cloth. Facsimile of the original script for the 1932 Boris Karloff film -- originally entitled "Im-Ho-Tep", screenplay by John Balderston. With 54 pages of introductory essays and photos from the film and promotional materials. Volume 7 in the Universal Filmbooks series, This is the special limited edition of 100 copies signed by the editor, the publisher, contributor Forrest Ackerman, Researcher Gregory Man, Egyptologist Walter Daughterty, and Zika Johann -- Boris Karloff's co-star in the 1932 film who contributes one of the essays. A fine copy but with a yellowed s... View More...
1940 MGM file copy of the original screenplay (Paramount, 1931), used for the 1941 direct remake of the film. Written by Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. /////"Second White Script" dated August 7, 1931 [and dated again March 8, 1940 when the script was copied by MGM for the film's remake with Spencer Tracy.] 8.5x11", pale blue studio covers fastened with two brad posts. Stamped Vault Copy/File Copy, with partially peeled studio label at top. 169 mimeographed pages. /////The 1931 film was nominated for three academy awards, with Frederic March wi... View More...
Apparent final draft; Metro Golden Mayer -- October 10, 1925
Story by Tod Browning / Scenario by Waldemar Young
Pale yellow covers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped “file copy” /with typed notation “The Mocking Bird” / “complete OK script by Waldemar Young”. Copy no. 1537 stamped at upper right; copy no. 4 on the label. Two-hole punch, brass brads. Approximately 119 spirit-duplicated pages -- purple ink on glossy white paper. Penciled name “Sullivan” at top right. Also a penciled notation, added later, that the film was released under the title Blackbird.
Inked and penciled notation... View More...
Publisher:
Culver City: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios : 1934
Seller ID: k200613f
Culver City: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, 1934. 4to, pale blue studio covers, 2-hole punched with brad fasteners. 225 pp. Based upon the 1932 best-selling novel, this is the complete shooting script, dated Dec 27,1934. Studio label on front cover with production no. 0554; “2072” stamped in upper right corner. All pages are white with black mimeographed text; no colored page insertions or written interlineations. The film was produced by Irving Thalberg and directed by Frank Lloyd. Starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, it was one of MGM's biggest hits of the 1930’s and was a critical succ... View More...
"Revised third draft" dated August 1979. Medway Productions, the original production company prior to Lucasfilm, 8.5x11", 102pp. plus inserted page 2-a. Beige wrappers with portrait of Harrison ford and scene elements on front cover; ink stamp "Temporary File" in the lower right corner. 3-hole punch, fastened with silver bracket. Consisting mostly of yellow and blue revision pages with several white originals; white title page. Screenplay by Laurence Kasdan, story by George Lucas.#####Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most popular and respected adventure movies ever released. It's endless ... View More...
Gone With the Wind / dialogue cutting continuity script. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939) 4to, Vintage studio covers. Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the epic film. Typed with title of Film Editor Hal C. Kern. Dated December 9, 1939 and copied by the MGM script department on May 4, 1943. Mimeographed manuscript, non-sequential numbering broken into 13 reels, December 9, 1939, bound at top with two brads in yellow Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wrappers, approximately 200pp with 5 additional pages of musical cue listings. The typed notice on the front wrapper states that it "is sent to the branches of t... View More...
1st ed. Original photocopy; 8.5x11", 125 pp. no covers. 3-hole volume-punch fastened with 2 brass brads. .Lovers Mickey and Mallory Knox [Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis] kill her family, exchange vows, and embark on a vicious road-trip of killing and mayhem. The outlaw lovers find themselves transformed into cult celebrities by the tabloid media [represented by Robert Downey, Jr.] The film was a box office success despite polarizing reviews. Some critics praised the plot, acting, humor, and combination of action and romance, while others found the film overly violent and graphic. It remai... View More...
Revised Final; June 197811 x 8 1/2?, mimeographed, 105 pp, plus insert pages 13a-d, 37a, 72a, 89 a b, 93a. All pages white; 3-hole volume-punch, brass brads. Yellow covers with title and 20th Century Fox logo in blue, lower right of title page. Based on a screenplay by David Bannon; story by David O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Brandywine Productions Los Angeles. 20th Century Fox ALIEN was the second feature film directed by Ridley Scott -- considered to be one of the best written and most influential science fiction movies made. The original story was by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Their... View More...
![Image for Original Teleplay/ Script for the television series Logan’s Run: “Crypt” [1977]
With extensive editing annotations by script supervisor Jack Gannon.](/assets/images/product/k200110c_1)
![Image for Film treatment -- Giant Woman: An Original Story Idea [Attack of the 50-ft Woman]](/assets/images/product/k190126m_1)
![Image for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1931 / 1940]](/assets/images/product/k220617b_1.jpg)
