This is Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com. The set of auctions we have closing tonight is *REALLY* special! We have *234 original vintage scripts (an incredible collection, covering all years & genres)* ending * TONIGHT <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html>*, Tuesday, July 9th beginning at 7 PM CST. See them all at * http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html*
*I JUST LOOKED OVER THE **234 SCRIPTS CLOSING TONIGHT (most from a single owner collection, assembled over many years), AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHILE IT MAY LOOK LIKE SOME ARE ALREADY AT HIGH PRICES, THERE REALLY ARE LOTS AND LOTS OF BARGAINS AT THE CURRENT PRICES, BECAUSE SOME OF THESE REALLY ARE "THE BEST OF THE BEST", THE KIND YOU WOULD SEE PRICED AT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER SCRIPT!* Scripts of this quality are almost never offered for sale at fixed prices at all, and the few times they are the prices are often in the thousands of dollars each! This set of auctions has already attracted a lot of interest from dealers who buy and sell scripts, hoping to buy at low enough prices that they can make money by re-offering them at higher prices later. And of course, this is a dream for script collectors, to be able to choose from so many wonderful scripts at once! Here are some of the very best scripts in this most special auction (note that clicking on any of the below takes you to that auction, where you will see additional images inside the script, and learn all we know about each one): 1a001 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE script Mar 25, 1955, screenplay by Stewart Stern, Nicolas Ray classic!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027635> 1a080 GODFATHER second draft script March 1, 1971, screenplay by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027714> 1a215 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD first draft script October 3, 1961, screenplay by Horton Foote!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027849> 1a162 PRIDE OF THE YANKEES shooting script February 11, 1942 screenplay by Mankiewicz & Swerling!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027796> 1a119 LITTLE FOXES final draft script April 15, 1941, screenplay by Lillian Hellman!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027753> 1a168 QUIET MAN shooting script February 22, 1951, screenplay by Frank Nugent!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027802> 1a118 LIFEBOAT temporary script June 17, 1943, Alfred Hitchcock screenplay written by Jo Swerling!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027752> 1a102 HUSTLER script August 20, 1960, screenplay by Robert Rossen, billiards classic!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027736> 1a144 NORTH BY NORTHWEST composite script script Jul 21, 1958 Hitchcock screenplay by Ernest Lehman<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027778> 1a111 LAURA final draft script November 29, 1943, screenplay by Jay Dratler & Ring Lardner Jr.<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027745> 1a134 MIRACLE ON 34th STREET final draft script January 2, 1947, working title It's Only Human!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027768> 1a216 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD revised final draft script December 27, 1961, screenplay by Horton Foote<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027850> 1a075 FRENCH CONNECTION revised script October 6, 1970, screenplay by Ernest Tidyman!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027709> 1a030 CAINE MUTINY signed revised final draft script May 6, 1953, by director Edward Dmytryk!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027664> 1a138 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY script October 12, 1934, screenplay by Talbot Jennings & Jules Furthman<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027772> 1a173 RAWHIDE TV revised first rough draft script January 28, 1960, screenplay by Winston Miller!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027807> 1a133 MILDRED PIERCE revised temporary script August 11, 1944, screenplay by Katherine Turney!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027767> 1a108 L.A. CONFIDENTIAL signed revised draft script Feb 12, 1996 by Helgeland, Hanson & Ellroy!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027742> 1a083 GOODFELLAS revised draft script March 24, 1987, screenplay by Pileggi & Scorsese, Wiseguy!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027717> 1a170 RAGING BULL revised draft script February 1, 1979, screenplay by Paul Schrader & Martin!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027804> 1a145 NOTORIOUS revised final draft script Oct 10, 1945, Alfred Hitchcock screenplay by Ben Hecht!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027779> 1a086 GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH wardrobe reference and script December 20, 1950 with lots of photos!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027720> 1a171 RAGING BULL revised draft script November 1, 1978, screenplay by Paul Schrader, Prize Fighter<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027805> 1a074 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS revised final script July 20, 1942, screenplay by Dudley Nichols!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027708> 1a152 PATTON final draft script January 1, 1969, screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund North!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027786> 1a104 JULIUS CAESAR script July 7, 1952, screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027738> 1a096 HERE COMES MR. JORDAN final script April 7, 1941, with the working title Heaven Can Wait!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027730> 1a032 CAPTAIN BLOOD script February 13, 1935, screenplay by Casey Robinson, Michael Curtiz!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027666> 1a167 PSYCHO revised draft script November 10, 1959, screenplay by Joseph Stefano!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027801> 1a139 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY script January 12, 1960, screenplay by Eric Ambler!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027773> 1a012 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN first draft script August 13, 1974, screenplay by William Goldman!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027646> 1a082 GOODBYE GIRL signed revised third draft script December 1976, by writer Neil Simon!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027716> 1a078 GLENN MILLER STORY revised final draft script May 8, 1953, screenplay by Valentine Davies!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027712> 1a141 NIGHT OF THE IGUANA script 1964 screenplay by John Huston & Anthony Veiller!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027775> 1a127 MAGNUM FORCE revised final draft script March 5, 1973, screenplay by Michael Cimino!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027761> 1a178 ROCKY revised draft script November 28, 1975, screenplay by Sylvester Stallone!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027812> 1a227 VERDICT final draft script November 23, 1981, screenplay by David Mamet!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027861> 1a193 SMASH-UP script May 4, 1946, screenplay by John Howard Lawson!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027827> 1a081 GOODBYE GIRL 2nd revised draft script July 7, 1975, written by Neil Simon, Bogart Slept Here!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027715> 1a028 BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA script Jul 8, 1972, screenplay by Sam Peckinpah & Dawson<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3027662> and on and on and on and on! * About the **collection of scripts in this set of auctions* This is a really incredible collection of 234 original vintage scripts! All the *scripts *we auction are originals that were printed for use by actors when the movie first came out (or were printed to "pitch" the movie to studio executives). *EVERY* one of the *scripts* we auction are absolutely genuine and from the time the movie first came out (there are unscrupulous dealers on the Internet who take original scripts and copy them and then sell those copies as if they were originals). There *ARE* a very few scripts that are not from the time the movie came out, but those are very clearly noted. If you are new to collecting vintage scripts, here are some important things to know: *There are three basic kinds of scripts:* 1) *OUTLINES AND TREATMENTS.* These are preliminary story proposals which are later fleshed out into scripts. These scripts always are called either * OUTLINE* or *TREATMENT*. 2) *SCRIPTS/SCREENPLAYS *These are shooting scripts for movies. They are written before a film is made, and they are often revised during the shooting of a film. In some cases, you will find multiple *DIFFERENT*versions of a script for the same film. The script might say *FIRST DRAFT* or *REVISED FIRST DRAFT* or *SECOND DRAFT*, etc., and these are all different things. Some script collectors would only want one script for a film, whereas others could be quite interested to buy different drafts or versions for the same film. *NOTE: *Sometimes two scripts may initially look identical. They will have the same covers and both will say, for example, *THIRD DRAFT*. But, if the number of pages is different (and, typically, one version is all on white paper, and the other one has various pages of revisions, on various other colors of paper), then the two scripts are actually separate and different from each other. Most commonly, when a script was revised, the changed pages were printed in a new color, with the date of the revision at the top of each page, and then someone would collect all the scripts and manually take out the old pages and insert the new pages, and then pass the scripts back out! That way, everyone could quickly see the changed pages by looking for the pages of a new color. Often, the script would be revised a second time, and then yet a different color would be used for the second changes, and the same procedure would be followed. Sometimes there would be five or more revisions, and all of the scripts would end up looking like they were "rainbow colored", because of the many different color revision pages inserted inside. Sometimes, however, the revision pages would be printed in white, and sometimes they would not be inserted where they belonged, but would simply be added to the back of each script. 3) *POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPTS* These are summaries of what is on the screen, and they are made up by the studios after the film has been completed. They have different names, among them *CONTINUITY, DIALOGUE CUTTING SCRIPT, CUTTING SCRIPT, CENSORSHIP SCRIPT.* Please realize that the prices of scripts do *NOT* correlate to the prices of the corresponding posters from those movies! There are cases where the posters sell for little and the scripts are quite valuable, and vice versa. Sometimes, the title of a script was changed by the time of a film's release (the earlier title is commonly referred to as the "working title"). In the cases of those scripts, we have listed it under the title the movie was ultimately produced as. There are some scripts where we can find no information about whether they were ever turned into movies, and we think that they were never produced, but we are far from experts on this subject, so in those cases, we list it under the title that is on the script (and ask for help in identifying if it was ever produced, and if so, under what title). *KNOW THAT ORIGINAL VINTAGE SCRIPTS ARE FAR MORE RARE THAN POSTERS FROM THE CORRESPONDING TITLES!* An initial outline or treatment would have had a tiny number of them printed, perhaps 5 or 10. An early draft prior to a final shooting script of a movie might have had 10 or 20 copies produced. And even a final shooting script of a film might have had a couple of hundred copies printed. And, of course, very few of these scripts survive, because no one valued them at the time. This was true all the way into the 1990s (long after collectors began placing a premium value on vintage posters, very few collectors sought out original vintage scripts, which means there is an extreme rarity of even 1990s scripts, and very few authentic scripts of the last forty years are offered for sale or auction). * About the condition of these scripts* Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", "good", and "fair", with only a few graded "poor") along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much only if they are defects that *CAN'T* be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable). We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, we still *strongly* recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the script for minor defects that we did *NOT*describe. In the case of scripts, we use a slightly different grading method, because they are not a single piece of paper like a poster, lobby card, or still. Often, the covers of a script will acquire slight staining or wear, simply because they were what was exposed, and the interior of the script will be in generally nice condition. In that case, we will still give the script a "very good" grade, but we will note the cover wear, and of course, we always take an image of the cover. We also take an image of the first interior page of the script (usually a "title page"), and also one or more images of other interior pages. These images let you see important information about the script, but they also are a great help in judging the overall condition of the script! * If a script is in less than very good condition, should you not bid on it? *Of course not, as long as you are accepting of the defects the script has! The item that is graded "very good", but has as many minor defects as is allowed under the "very good" definition is only in *SLIGHTLY* better condition than the best of the "good to very good" items. So please take the time to look at the larger images of items that interest you, and see if the defects are the sort that you can "live with", or are willing to restore. Some of these items are *EXTREMELY* rare, and it may be years before you see them offered again! We know that many of you are collectors but that some of you are dealers (and some *BOTH*!) and either way, *YOU REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER LOOKING OVER ALL THE SCRIPTS AND PLACING AS MANY BIDS AS MAKE SENSE TO YOU* (if some are going to sell inexpensively, then why shouldn't *YOU* get those good buys?). But you can't do that unless you bid, so why not go right now to * http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html *and look at the many wonderful scripts? *SOME IMPORTANT ADVICE ABOUT OUR AUCTIONS, WHICH DIFFER FROM MANY OTHER AUCTIONS IN A FEW KEY WAYS: *Please remember that in our auctions, a *LOT*of the bidders like to wait near the end of the auctions to place their bids! So don't get a false sense of security just because you have had the high bid for almost all of the seven days an item has been on for, *BECAUSE ON BETTER ITEMS, IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR THEM TO DOUBLE OR TRIPLE IN PRICE IN THE CLOSING HOURS*. But also remember that our auctions have "time extended bidding", which means that five minutes must go by without a bid before an auction closes, so you can *NEVER* have an item snatched away from you in the final seconds (but you have to be watching the item as it closes, to make certain that no one entered a higher bid than yours in the closing minutes). Good luck on whatever you may bid on of the *234 original vintage scripts (an incredible collection, covering all years & genres)** *ending * TONIGHT<http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html> *, *Tuesday, July 9th* beginning at 7 PM CST at * http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html**. *I have been a full-time auctioneer for 24 years non-stop, and I know full well that many years will likely go by before a collection of scripts like this one is offered again! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. 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