Search Results: Unproduced Films from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. First Draft Continuity script for an unproduced film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter George Bruce, bound in full brown leather with gilt titles and rule, and Bruce's name on the bottom right corner of the front board. Single manuscript pencil annotation on the verso of page 174. Loosely based on the experiences of veterans of the 14th Regiment, a volunteer militia regiment composed primarily of abolitionists from Brooklyn, New York. The group is now best remembered for serving in the American Civil War, although it later served in the Spanish-American War and World War I. Screenwriter George Bruce was best known for "The Duke of West Point" (1938), "South of Pago Pago" (1940), and "Two Years Before the Mast" (1946). Housed in a brown paper slipcase. Title page present, noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY SCRIPT and dated October 23, 1940, with credits for screenwriter George Bruce. 177 leaves, with last page of text numbered 174. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Near… Read More

Hollywood: Self published, 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "20,000 Bikinis Under the Sea." Maurer rose to some popularity after his brief stint as a comic book artist, notably for "Three Stooges" titles and the first 3-D comics, "Three-Dimension Comics," featuring Mighty Mouse. He also married Joan Howard, daughter of Stooge Moe Howard, and this association led him to managing the Stooges after their contract with Columbia, producing seven Stooge films as well as the television series, "The New 3 Stooges" (1965). An interesting take on beach party phase during the 1960s, where an inventor develops a sustainable way to live underwater. He eats, drinks, and gets married, all underwater. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with a credit for writer Maurer. 45 leaves, with last page of text numbered 44. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p.. Draft script for an unproduced film. Former Korean War vet and baseball player and current junkie has been completely out of his son's life as a father and only involved later on as a "friend" who happens to meet him on the street. His son is pursuing his dream of being a filmmaker while his father struggles to get clean and be a role model for his son. Set in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Richard Grand and Laurie Post. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 109. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong binding.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paul is a little person dealing with life the only way he knows how. He is typecast in Hollywood and frequently plays a ventriloquist's dummy and stared at when he is just trying to go about his day. He has great luck with women but not so much in forging close relationships. His only friends are other freaks and he hopes to hit it big at the horse races and on the stock market. Set in Hollywood. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter J. Michael Nicholson. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between January 3, 1973 and November 21, 1973. Pages Near Fine, bound in a standard three ringed binder with an affixed title label on the front board.

Nassau, Bahamas: Film Accounting Services, 1982. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A proposed reboot of the 1969 film "99 Women" (also written by Peter Welbeck), with the same plot, but now in 3D. A woman arrives at a penal colony on an island, where she is controlled by a cruel lesbian who oversees all the prison's functions. Black blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated February 6, 1983, with credits for screenwriter Peter Welbeck. 13 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 11. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film, dated December 26, 1979, a collaborations between screenwriters Peter Gethers and David Handler. The two writers seem to have been inseparable throughout their film careers, collaborating almost exclusively on episodes for television series like "Charles in Charge" (1984), "Kate & Allie" (1984-1986), "CBS Summer Playhouse: 'The Saint in Manhattan,'" (1987), and "Working It Out" (1990). They have also written novels together, under the pseudonym Russell Andrews. Ray Burns is a soap opera actor who is caught in a love triangle with his son Mike and a reporter, Joanna. Set in New York. Brown studio wrappers, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper, dated December 26, 1979. Title page present, dated December 26, 1979, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Gethers and Handler. 138 leaves, xerographically duplicated, eye-rest green with white revision pages throughout. Faint… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film based on Ernest Hemingway's final novel. A middle-aged man dying of a heart disease takes a duck hunting trip in Trieste, Italy, reminiscing on his past experiences as a military officer and recent romance with an 18 year old girl. Set in Italy. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alan Scott and novelist Ernest Hemingway. 114 leaves, with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.

London: John C. Mather / Ben Arbeid, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced British film called "Act of Treason," written by Guy Elmes, based on Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Emmanuel Robles' 1948 play, "Montserrat." Screenwriter Elmes also wrote for films like "Bad Blonde" (1953), "Across the Bridge" (1957), "Pontius Pilate" (1962), "the Invincible Six" (1970), and "White Fang" (1973). Robles' play opened in Paris in 1948, a story about the civil war in Venezuela during the early 1800s, where a Spanish officer commits treason and joins the Venezuelan revolutionaries. Guy Elmes is a screenwriter, primarily known for his work in writing the original story and screenplay for "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (1979). Gray blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Guy Elmes, playwright Lillian Hellman, and producer Ben Arbeid. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974, but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. Abby Mann (1927-2008) wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), earning him an Academy Award, "A Child Is Waiting" (1963), "Ship of Fools" (1965), "The Detective" (1968), "Report to the Commissioner" (1975), and "War and Love (1985). His work also extended into television, for series like "Medical Story" (1975-1976) and "Kojak" (1973-1978), a show he helped create, and several "Kojak" television movies. Black wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves, with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on… Read More

New York: Delia Productions, 1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth, in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alfred. 102 leaves, mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Second Draft script for an unproduced film, using the hook from singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp's 1983 song "Pink Houses" as its moniker. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, noting copy No. 20. An unproduced drama about unemployed steelworkers in western Pennsylvania, by acclaimed screenwriter and director Frank Pierson. Pierson was the writer of "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975, winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay) and co-writer of "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "Cat Ballou" (1965), and "A Star is Born" (1976), among many others. Pierson served as the President of the Writers Guild of America, West, for two terms in the 1980s and 1990s, and was also associated with the American Film Institute, the Academy of American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Sundance Film Festival. Considered by many to be one of the best unproduced, still-unfilmed screenplays, written in the wake of an April, 1984, "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" magazine article about the spate… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1941. Fourth Draft script for an unproduced film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter George Bruce, bound in full brown leather with gilt titles and rule, and Bruce's name on the bottom right corner of the front board. A cartographer unwittingly involves himself in a legal battle between a maritime mob gambling syndicate and the city government, in the process falling in love with the mob boss's daffy girlfriend and discovering a career as an amateur boxer and gambling shark. Screenwriter George Bruce was best known for "The Duke of West Point" (1938), "South of Pago Pago" (1940), and "Two Years Before the Mast" (1946). Set in New York. Housed in a brown paper slipcase. Title page present, dated June 4, 1941, noted as FOURTH DRAFT (ESTIMATING), with credits for screenwriter George Bruce. 186 leaves, with last page of text numbered 185. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Very Good only, with front board detached from the binding, in a Very Good plus slipcase.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a wealthy New York City businessman struggles over her position in life when she can't seem to choose between a wealthy British suitor and a middle class New York City police detective. She attempts to strike out on her own and work for her own money, but the men in her life secretly protect her. Although it disturbs her when she finds out she's been watched over, she eventually forgives them both, and then must choose one to marry, of course. Though similar in title to the 1944 King Vidor film "An American Romance," also written by Herbert Dalmas, this script bears little to no resemblance in plot to that film, and we must assume that this was an earlier, less effective screenplay of Dalmas'. Pale yellow wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Dalmas. 177 leaves, carbon typescript. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads.

Inglewood, CA: B.P. Powell, 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, 1979. One copied annotation on title page corrected and adding contact phone number and one annotation in script, in manuscript ink, adding character name before dialogue. Based on the 1839 trial of Joseph Cinque and 44 African Mende men, on charges of murder and piracy after staging a revolt on the slave ship La Amistad, represented by former President John Quincy Adams, and bolstering the abolitionist movement. Set in New Haven, Connecticut. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1979, with credits for screenwriter Betty Price Powell. 121 leaves, with last page of text numbered [125]. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1922 novella by the same author, of the same title. The protagonist, a doctor who has moved to India from Germany to practice medicine is overcome by an obsession which eventually leads to his committing suicide. "Amok" is an Indonesian word of Malay origin, referring to people caught up in a blind rage who try to kill their enemy and do not care about whoever else gets killed in their way. From this novella and the word's meaning originates the term "running amok." Set in India. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for Stefan Zweig. 65 leaves, with last leaf of text number 65. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Not related to the 1997 movie of the same name. After his father's death, a young man travels to the small town of Anaconda to uncover the secrets of his father's past, which seem to include a long-lost half-sister. Set in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Montana. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 9/89, noted as Revised, with credits for screenwriters Laurie Taylor-Williams and Merce Williams. 117 leaves, with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good, with light foxing and several partial ring stains on the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads.

Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, 1937. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by [William] Vaughan Wilkins initially published on May 3, 1937 by Jonathan Cape. 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 usual problems. Blue titled wrappers, with credits for novelist William Vaughan Wilkins. Title page present, dated April 20, 1937 for the treatment submission and May 3, 1937 for the novel's publishing date, with credits for novelist William Vaughan Wilkins. 46 leaves, with last page of text numbered 41. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Manuscript ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on win an Academy Award for his 1954 adaptation of "From Here it Eternity." Set in 1840s France. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, noted as Treatment, with credits for screenwriter Daniel Tardash. 98 leaves, with last page of text numbered 57. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two gold brads.

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 title page. A ruthless sea captain and his crew of pirates takes a young orphan boy under his wing after the orphan stows away on his ship. The orphan turns out to be smarter than he initially appears, and quickly rises in the ranks. Both scripts Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus bound with gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Typescript for an unproduced film. Synopses in English are laid into the front wrapper for "That Boy Named Jesus," "Young Jesus," and "Don Quixote Goes West." Text in English. An imagining of the infancy, youth, and adolescence of Jesus Christ. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Ismael Rodriguez. 98 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, clip binding.