Film Scripts from Royal Books, Inc.

Beverly Hills, CA: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Revised Draft script for the 1974 film. Copy belonging to location manager Nicole Smith, with a brief note in manuscript ink on the title page, addressed to a cat handler, noting scenes where cats will be required in the film, with annotations throughout indicating the same. While tracking down… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: BNB Productions, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, noting copy No. 78. Four teenagers accept a bet to spend the night at a sleazy traveling carnival, and find themselves stalked by the barker's violent, deformed son. Set in rural Iowa, shot on location… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil throughout, marking scene numbers. Based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel. The men of the Morgan family earn a living working in their small Welsh town's mine, where they face dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and exploitation at the hands of the… Read more about this item

Miami: Porky's Productions (Astral), 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Single photocopied manuscript annotation on the title page, noting "Received 10/9/80," and a single annotation in manuscript ink on the same page, noting copy No. 3. One of the highest grossing films of 1980, and the film that kickstarted the teen sex comedies of the 1980s, about… Read more about this item

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film, seen here under the working title "Hawks." Copy belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz, with his name in manuscript ink on several pages, and his profuse annotations throughout. Two undercover New York police officers are hired to take down a deadly European terrorist. Actor Rutger… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Agency script, machine-hole punched and with no copied hole shadows. Based on the classic 1952 novel by Flannery O'Connor, about an ambitious veteran who arrives in a small southern town, where he begins preaching for a religious organization of his own creation, the Church of Truth Without Christ.… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1980. Revised Final script for the 1948 film. Reproduced by Warner Brothers in-house in the 1980s, with a reader's carbon typescript report from 1948 summarizing the film's plot laid in, dated 5/11/48. Based on the 1927 novel by B. Traven, about two American drifters who join forces with an aging prospector to search for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1935. Final script for the 1935 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board, and his annotations in manuscript ink on the distribution page, identifying actors. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Revised Final Draft script for the 1938 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board. Script with manuscript pencil annotations on the registration page, and "Important! Return Story Dept." stamps on registration page, page 1, and page 156. Script followed by two pages (155-156)… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, with manuscript pencil annotations on page 2 striking two shots. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1935. Draft script for an unproduced film, with a single manuscript pencil annotation of screenwriter Jerry Wald's name on the registration page. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Noted as copy No. 54 in blue manuscript ink on the title page. Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto, with his annotations on several pages, and with several pages folded by Leto, indicating the completion of scenes during production. Based on the 1969 novel by… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Follows the travels of a Vietnam veteran and expatriate living abroad in France. Set in Paris. Red titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter E. Lourie. Title page present, dated 1974, with credits for screenwriter Lourie. 21 leaves, unnumbered. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine,… Read more about this item

New York: Cannon Films, 1985. First Draft script for the 1986 film. A hardened LAPD detective is framed by a vengeful ex-convict and sent to prison, where he befriends a foul-mouthed petty criminal, hatching a plot to escape together. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Second Revised Shooting Final script for the 1960 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 26 reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer… Read more about this item

New York: Barovick Konecky Braun Schwartz and Kay, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil on the first page. Based on the 1978 novel by Michael Barak. In order to win World War II and understand where Nazi Germany's bombs are going to fall, Winston Churchill tasks his intelligence service… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Belisarius Productions, 1992. Draft script for season five, episodes one and two, "Lee Harvey Oswald - October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: Parts One and Two," of the 1989-1993 television series, here under the working title "Lee Harvey Oswald." SIGNED on the title page by creator and screenwriter Donald P. Bellisario. Script incomplete, ending on page… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: NBC, 1975. Final Draft script for the twelfth episode of the thirteen episode 1975 comedy and variety show television series, SIGNED on the front wrapper, "Tom & Dick," by Tom and Dick Smothers, with an inscription on the top left, partially lost due to dampstaining, "[illegible] Wishes from the Smothers Brothers." Copy belonging to uncredited cast or… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1998. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1999 film, here under the working title "Carrie II," copy belonging to an unknown crew or cast member, with six small post-it tabs, affixed to the top of six pages in which characters are killed or injured, annotated with brief descriptions, e.g., "Lisa / Windshield," "Chuck Berry Boy," and "Jesse… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. Second Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal, in his film debut, stars as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths… Read more about this item