Kirk Douglas Papers, 1945-1978

Container Title
Series: Motion Pictures - Unproduced
“The Man Without a World”
Box   55
Folder   12
Agreement, 1950
“The Travelers”
Box   55
Folder   13
Script notes, script fragments, music, 1950 May-September
“Allison Brothers”
Box   55
Folder   14
Contract, 1955
“The Syndicate”
Box   55
Folder   15
Correspondence, contracts with King Brothers, 1954 October-1956 June
Note: Tentative film title: “Britian's Two-Headed Spy”
“Shadow of a Champ”
Box   55
Folder   16
Correspondence, financial records, 1955 November-1959 April
Box   55
Folder   17
Contracts, promotional materials, clippings
“A Most Contagious Game”
Box   55
Folder   18
Correspondence, 1955 January-1966 November
Box   55
Folder   19
Contracts
Box   55
Folder   20
Financial records, promotion, clippings
Box   55
Folder   21-22
Financial records - bank deposits, 1956-1957
Scripts
Box   55
Folder   23
Original by Samuel Grafton, undated
Box   55
Folder   24
Script by Grafton, 1956 January 16
Box   55
Folder   25
First draft by Sidney Boehm, 1956 December 24
“Mavourneen”
Box   55
Folder   26
Correspondence, 1956 January-1967 January
Box   55
Folder   26
Contracts, financial records, clippings
Box   55
Folder   27
Script by Edward Lewis, 1960 August 19
“The Shadow”
Box   55
Folder   28
Correspondence, 1964 July-1972 March
Box   55
Folder   29
Literary material, 1944 October-1968 March
Box   55
Folder   30
Financial records, 1957 February-1965 December
Box   56
Folder   1
Script, “Count Bruga” / by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, undated
“Deliver Us From Evil”
Box   56
Folder   2
Correspondence, clippings, 1956 April-August
“Quality of Mercy”
Box   56
Folder   3
Correspondence, contract, 1956 April-May
Box   56
Folder   4
Production file, 1956
“Silent Gun”
Box   56
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1956 February-1966 May
Box   56
Folder   5
First draft screenplay, 1956 June 23
Box   56
Folder   5
Clippings
Box   56
Folder   6
Literary property, 1956 March-1966 June
Box   56
Folder   7
Script by Carson A. Wiley, circa 1958
Box   56
Folder   8
Revised script by Wiley, 1958 June 20
“Man on a Motorcycle”
Box   56
Folder   9
Financing, 1956-1957
“The Golden Triangle”
Box   56
Folder   10
Correspondence, clippings, 1956 December
“I Stole $16,000,000”
Box   56
Folder   11
Correspondence, 1957 December-1960 March
Box   56
Folder   11
News releases, clippings
“Montezuma”
Box   56
Folder   12
Correspondence, 1960 May-September
Box   56
Folder   13
Script / unknown author, 1957 October 12
Box   56
Folder   14
Title contract, promotional materials, clippings
“The Sun at Midnight”
Box   56
Folder   15
Correspondence, 1957 March-1961 October
Box   56
Folder   15
Contracts, financial records, distribution agreement, clippings
Box   56
Folder   16
Script by Edward Lewis, 1958 September 10
“The Incredible Yanqui”
Box   56
Folder   17
Memo regarding treatment by Hans Jacoby, 1951
“The Beach Boys”
Box   56
Folder   18
Script / unknown author, 1958 February 5
The Disenchanted
Box   56
Folder   19
Correspondence, 1958 June
Box   56
Folder   19
Partnership agreement, clippings
The Mound Builders
Box   56
Folder   20
Correspondence, 1958 July-1961 October
Box   56
Folder   20
Financial records, contract
“Port of Call”
Box   56
Folder   21
Treatment (sales presentation), 1958 December 11
“Viva Gringo!”
Box   56
Folder   22
Correspondence, 1958 August-November
Box   56
Folder   22
Titles, clippings
Box   56
Folder   23
Budget, 1958 May
Masters of the Dew (alternate title “Les Gouverneurs de la Rosee”)
Box   56
Folder   24
Literary material, 1958-1959
“The Indian Wars”
Box   56
Folder   25
Correspondence, 1961 April
“King Kelly”
Box   56
Folder   26
Correspondence, 1955 July-1960 April
Box   56
Folder   27
Literary material, 1955-1959 December
Box   56
Folder   28
Loew's correspondence, 1955 October-1963 March
Box   56
Folder   29
Loew's contracts, 1955 November-1963 March
Box   56
Folder   30
Employment contracts and casting file, 1955-1957
Production Files
Box   56
Folder   31
Continuity step outline by Daniel Mainwaring, with certificate of authorship and assignment of rights, 1956 January 24
Box   57
Folder   1
Production file, 1956
Box   57
Folder   2-3
Promotion and publicity files and stories, 1955-1956
Scripts
Box   57
Folder   4
Script / unknown author, 1956 August 20
Box   57
Folder   5
Working first draft by Edna Anhalt, 1956 September 6
Box   57
Folder   6
Script, “Jethro” / by Allan Scott, circa 1956
Box   57
Folder   7
Script by Daniel Mainwaring, circa 1956
Box   57
Folder   8
Revised, “Jethro” / by James Edward Grant, 1957 January 25
Box   57
Folder   9
Script, revisions, undated
“Trapeze”
Box   57
Folder   10
Distribution statement, 1961
“Walls of Jolo”
Box   57
Folder   11
Revised first draft script by Robert I. Holt, 1963 February 20
“Automation”
Box   57
Folder   12
Correspondence, 1964 February-July
Box   57
Folder   12
Contract
Box   57
Folder   13
Script, “The Art of Living” / by Howard Dimsdale and Ned Young, undated
“The Confessor”
Box   57
Folder   14
Correspondence, 1964 February-1965 January
“Bolivar!”
Box   57
Folder   15
Script by Robert Presnell Jr., 1966 February 22
Box   57
Folder   16
Script by Presnell, 1966 July 14
“Something for Nothing”
Box   57
Folder   17
Financial - paid bills, 1966 April-May
Box   57
Folder   18
First draft script by William Hanley, 1966 March 1
Note: With letter (from Kirk Douglas?) of March 10, 1966, suggesting script changes
Box   57
Folder   19
Second draft script by Hanley, 1966 April 8
“Lie Down, I Want to Talk to You”
Box   57
Folder   20
Second draft script by William P. McGivern, 1967 October 10
“Shady Baby”
Box   57
Folder   21
First draft script by Richard A. Guttman, 1967 October 9
“Seat of Power”
Box   57
Folder   22
Correspondence, 1967-1970
Box   57
Folder   23
Literary rights, 1968-1969
Financial
Box   57
Folder   24
Bills, 1968 February-May
Box   57
Folder   25
Expenditures, 1968-1969
Scripts
Box   57
Folder   26
Plot synopsis by Abby Mann, circa 1970
Box   57
Folder   27
First draft script by Abby Mann, annotated, circa 1970
“The Piano Sport”
Box   57
Folder   28
Script by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., and Stephen H. Yafa, 1968 November 1
“The Bronc Rider”
Box   57
Folder   29
Expenditures, 1968-1969
“Charlemagne”
Box   57
Folder   30
Expenditures, 1968-1969
“Chaka”
Box   58
Folder   1
Revised second draft script by Alan Scholefield, 1969 February 17
“Project II”
Box   58
Folder   2
First draft script by A. Newley and H. Raucher, 1969 March 31
“A Last Valley”
Box   58
Folder   3
First draft script by James Clavell, 1969 May 13
“Fling!”
Box   58
Folder   4
Third draft script by Bernard Slade, 1969 June 15
Box   58
Folder   5
Script by Slade, undated
“Adam's Garden”
Box   58
Folder   6
Agreements, 1969 October-December
“Alimony Jail”
Box   58
Folder   7
Expenditures, 1969
“Le Photographe”/“The Photographer”
Box   58
Folder   8
Synopsis by Pierre Boulle
Box   58
Folder   9
Expenditures, 1969
“The Stranglers”
Box   58
Folder   10
Synopsis by Alexander Jacobs, undated
Box   58
Folder   11
Expenditures, 1969
“Catch Me a Spy”/“Fabienne”
Box   58
Folder   12
Call sheets, 1971 March-May
Box   58
Folder   13
Script by Dick Francis and Ian la Frenais, 1971 February 24
Box   58
Folder   14
Script / unknown author (annotated), circa 1971
“The Black Box”
Box   58
Folder   15
Script by Paul Jarrico and Philip Reisman Jr., undated
“The Heroine”
Box   58
Folder   16
Script by Frank Tarloff, undated
“The Changing Man”
Box   58
Folder   17
Script by Jon Edward Manson, Thomas Y. Drake, and James Tugend, undated
“Jamie”
Box   58
Folder   18
Script by Ed Adamson, undated
“Aces 'n Eights”
Box   58
Folder   19-20
Scripts by Ronald M. Cohen and Dennis R. Shryack, undated
“Brief Madness”
Box   58
Folder   21
Script by Edward Hume, undated
“Fuzz”
Box   58
Folder   22
First draft script by S. L. Stebel, undated
“The Glory of Love” (“The Life and Songs of Billy Hill”)
Box   58
Folder   23
Synopsis by Sammy Cahn, undated
“The Many Loves of Jerome”
Box   58
Folder   24
First draft treatment by L. Capetanos, undated
“Marauder”
Box   58
Folder   25
Script by Arthur Rowe, undated
“The Milkrun, or the Aerodynamic Love Song of Eddie MacLean”
Box   59
Folder   1
Script by Lawrence A. Hauben, undated
“The Rustler and the Prostitute”
Box   59
Folder   2
Script by Halsted Welles, undated
“Yatra: A Beginning, A Pilgrimage”
Box   59
Folder   3
Synopsis by Paul Aratow and Mark Hirschman, undated
Box   59
Folder   4
Untitled script by Jaimie Castell, undated
Box   59
Folder   5
Miscellaneous stories considered for movies