Lot 486
Collection of Nine (9) Vintage Original Scripts from 20th Century Fox: Original PLANET OF THE APES, THE DETECTIVE, GREAT WHITE HOPE +6. Excellent collection of revised, final and shooting scripts all from 20th Century Fox:
1.) PLANET OF THE APES: Final Revised Screenplay April 18, 1967 by Michael Wilson with two pages of revisions in blue paper. Excellent condition. One of the landmark films of the 1960s starring Charlton Heston which spurred sequels and then the entire catalog remade with remarkable enhancements in digital effects.
2.) THE GREAT WHITE HOPE: Final script Sept. 26,1969 by Howard Sackler about boxer Jack Johnson, his boxing career and his relationship with white women violating the Mann Act. Film made a star of James Earl Jones and launched the career of Jane Alexander
3.) THE DETECTIVE: Abby Mann screenplay with Frank Sinatra starring as the titular character, one of his best performances. Of note, FOX owning this property led to it's sequel, completely reworked, character's names changed and became the boxoffice smash, DIE HARD.
4.) THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March drama which addressed post-WWII trauma, infidelity, and family. A remarkably ambitious film for the time written by Nunnally Johnson based on novel by Sloan Wilson
5.) THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN: George Stevens last film, screenplay by Frank D. Gilroy starring Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty. Film is notoriously known as being the biggest box-office bombs for Fox next to CLEOPATRA losing a huge 9 million dollars which meant something back then.
6.) Four scripts from the 1950s: THREE CAME HOME by Nunnally Johnson starring Claudette Colbert, HALF AN ANGEL by Robert Risking starring Joseph Cotton and Loretta Young, FROM THE TERRACE written by the great Ernest Lehman base on John O'Haras novel which starred Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward and BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF which appears to have not been made using this script from Edmond North. Estimated Value $600 - 1,000
From the Collection of Mark Rofeh.
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