Search Results: Post-Production Film Scripts from Royal Books, Inc.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1948. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1948 film. Based on the 1946 play by Arthur Miller. An engagement between the children of two old business partners complicates the dynamic between both families until a secret is revealed. One of the most successful adaptations of a Broadway drama to film during the 1940s. Shot in Culver City and Santa Rosa, California. White titled self-wrappers, noted as Continuity and Dialogue on the front wrapper, production No. 1563, dated February 4, 1948, with credits for director Irving Reis. Approximately 140 leaves, with last page of text numbered 4. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads along the top edge. Selby US. Spicer US.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1958. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1957 film noir. An alcoholic reporter gains one last chance to save his career when he receives a tip on a well-known criminal's wrongful arrest for murder, and decides to write an investigative piece naming the true killer. White titled self wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper, dated JULY 18, 1958, with credits for director Richard Carlson, actors George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field, Frank deKova, and Stephen Chase, noting 4 reels and production No. 1878. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with fading on the front wrapper and rust at the binding, bound with two silver brads at the top edge. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.

Berlin: Personafilm, 1978. Post-production script for the 1978 film, noted in brown manuscript ink on the front wrapper as "P.D. copy." With manuscript ink annotations throughout, mostly regarding word choice and grammatical revisions, likely in preparation for the film's release in English. Included with the script are two copies of dialogue from reels one and six. Text in English. A troubled pianist travels to Norway to visit her estranged, neglected daughter. Actor Ingrid Bergman's final film role, and director Ingmar Bergman's final film for theatrical distribution. Set in Sweden and Norway, shot on location in Norway. White, lacking wrappers and a title page, with material from each reel of film bound separately. Approximately 50 leaves, with last page of text numbered 6-6. Pages xerographically duplicated, rectos only. Pages Very Good.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. Post-production Domestic Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1956 film. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to deal with as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown." Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action, landing troops on enemy beachheads-and with few anticipating the challenges in store at Okinawa. White titled wrappers, dated April 6, 1956. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. Multilith duplication. Near Fine.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1964. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1964 film. Manuscript annotations in ink and pencil to the title page. A love-them-and-leave-them womanizer meets a man equal in skill at deceiving women, but with an added knack for conning them out of money. The two men attempt to seduce a naive American woman to settle a bet as to which one is the better con artist. Later remade as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988). Set and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes, France. White titled wrappers, noted as production No. 01934, dated JANUARY 25, 1964, with credits for director Ralph Levy and actors Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, and others. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. Multilith duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads at the top edge.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1939. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1939 film. A prison warden must decide between keeping a huge lot of stolen goods and saving a man from the electric chair. Tall yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as production No. 1032, with credits for director Arthur Lubin and actors Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads at the top edge.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1937. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1938 film. Based on the 1936 novel by William Edward Haynes. The second installment of the Universal Crime Club mysteries. A man finds a black doll after murdering his business partner and is then later murdered himself. A detective tries to solves the mystery with multiple suspects. White self-wrappers, with credits for director Otis Garrett. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 15. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads along the top edge.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1941. Post-production script for the 1942 film. An aviation drama celebrating Pan-American oceanic flyers, wherein a young foreign correspondent agrees to take on one last mission to investigate a missing jewels case in Bombay, India before retiring his wings and settling down with his fiancee. An early appearance by noted Dominican actress and so-called "Queen of Technicolor" Maria Montez, better known throughout the 1940s for playing hot-blooded, bejeweled seductresses in adventure epic films. Set in India and the Philippines. White titled self wrappers, with title page integral with the front wrapper, dated AUGUST 26, 1941, with credits for actors William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Charles Lang, Maria Montez, Lloyd Corrigan, and Mary Gordon. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered REEL SIX PAGE 20. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with creasing to the right edges, bound with two gold brads.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1936. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1936 film. With manuscript pencil and pen annotations on the front wrapper. Lieutenant Pat Tornell, a pilot newly sworn into the US Coast Guard's airborne division, realizes he will be working closely with his former school rival, Lieutenant Dan Conlon. The two men try to outperform each other at every turn, and are divided further and further in competition, culminating in a love triangle with Lieutenant Conlon's beautiful girlfriend Anne. Frances Farmer's second feature film. Tall white titled self wrappers, noted as RELEASE DIALOGUE SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 179 and noted as production No. 1082, dated APRIL 25, 1936. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 79 leaves, with last page of text numbered REEL 7 - PAGE 11. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, stapled at the top left corner.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1949 film noir. Based on Tiffany Thayer's 1947 novel "One Woman." A South Side reporter discovers the body of a dead call girl, and tries to track down her killer using her address book. Set in Chicago. Tall white titled wrappers, noting 11 reels, dated December 20, 1948. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, unbound.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1949. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1949 film. Based on Tiffany Thayer's 1947 novel "One Woman." A South Side reporter discovers the body of a dead call girl, and tries to track down her killer using her address book. Set in Chicago. Tall white titled wrappers, noting 10 reels, dated February 21, 1949. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads at the top edge.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Revised scenes for second unit post-production re-shooting and editing for the 1973 film, seen here under the working title "Valdez Horses." With annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Based on the 1967 novel "The Valdez Horses" by Lee Hoffman, about a mixed-race horse breeder who lives on the outskirts of New Mexican society, a solitary life that is disrupted for better when he takes in a young runaway boy who asks to be his protégé. Set in southwest New Mexico, shot on location in Andalucia, Spain. Blue untitled wrappers. Lacking title page. 40 leaves, with last page of text numbered 38. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / Hammer Films, 1961. Deluxe publicity manual for the 1962 film. Based on H.L. Lawrence's 1960 novel "The Children of Light." An extensive publication, containing cast and crew lists and biographies, a synopsis of the film, stories from the film's production, and captions for still photographs (though the stills are not included with the manual). Joseph Losey's cult science fiction classic, in which a couple discovers a group of radioactive children who are being imprisoned and studied by the military, though their discovery inevitably proves fatal. Tall red illustrated wrappers. Title page dated August 1961. Mimeograph duplication, 121 pages, with a couple of xerographically duplicated pages bound in. Near Fine.

Calgary, AB: Transcontinental, 1969. Combined Continuity script for the 1969 film. A fictionalized account of the life of the French nobleman and writer, Louis de Sade. After escaping incarceration, de Sade returns to his estate and watches a play as he has vivid flashbacks of his life. Set in Lacoste, France, shot on location in Bavaria and Berlin, Germany. Goldenrod wrapper, with missing front wrapper. 155 leaves, with last page of text numbered 155. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with one silver brad at the top left corner.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1950. Continuity and Dialogue for the 1950 film. Loosely based on the real deportation of Italian-American gangster Lucky Luciano. A gangster is deported from the US to Italy, where he falls in love with a widowed countess and becomes involved in black-market goods dealing. Set in Italy, shot on location in Colle di Val d'Elsa, Tuscany, Italy. White titled self-wrappers, noted as Continuity and Dialogue on the front wrapper, production No. 1607, dated February 21, 1950, with credits for director Robert Siodmak. Approximately 130 leaves, with last page of text numbered 5. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads along the top edge. Indicator 330.

Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1947. Censorship Cuts script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Niven Busch. A recently orphaned girl is sent to live with her father's cousin. When both of sons take a liking to her, she must make a decision amid their growing conflict. Set in Texas, shot on location in Arizona and California. Gray titled wrappers, noted as Censorship Cuts on the front wrapper. Title page integral with first page, dated July 31, 1947, noted as Censorship Cuts. 4 leaves, with last page of text numbered 4. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorcese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward US.

Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1947. Trailer #3 Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Niven Busch. A recently orphaned girl is sent to live with her father's cousin. When both of sons take a liking to her, she must make a decision amid their growing conflict. Set in Texas, shot on location in California and Arizona. Gray titled wrappers, noted as Trailer #3 Dialogue Cutting Continuity on the front wrapper, dated May 29, 1947. 4 leaves, with last page of text numbered 4. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two staples along the top edge. Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorcese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward US.

Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1947. Trailer #2 Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Niven Busch. A recently orphaned girl is sent to live with her father's cousin. When both of sons take a liking to her, she must make a decision amid their growing conflict. Set in Texas, shot on location in Arizona and California. Gray titled wrappers, noted as Trailer #2 Dialogue Cutting Continuity on the front wrapper, dated May 29, 1947. Two leaves, with last page of text numbered 2. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three staples. Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorcese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward US.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1939. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1940 film. A young journalist finds himself unjustly accused of murder. White titled self-wrappers, production No. 1033, dated December 19, 1939, with credits for director Harold D. Shuster. Approximately 130 leaves, with last page of text numbered 19. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, with tearing to the last three leaves along the top edge, wrapper Very Good plus, with some tearing to the back self-wrapper along the top edge, bound with two gold brads along the top edge.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Combined Continuity script for the 1972 film. A group of police officers at a precinct in Boston try to stop a man extorting the city for money. Set in Boston, shot on location in Charlestown and Boston, Massachusetts. Tall rust colored wrapper, with no back wrapper, noted as Combined Continuity on the front wrapper, dated May 15, 1972, with credits for director Richard A. Colla. 121 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with silver prong at the top edge.