Alvah Bessie Papers, 1929-1991

Container Title
Series: The Last Volunteer
Note: Unproduced screenplay by Alvah Bessie and Arthur H. Landis, revised by Dan Bessie. See also the audio cassettes in this accession.
Box   1
Folder   6
Correspondence on the project, 1973-1975, mostly letters from Alvah Bessie, also from Arthur Landis, Dan Bessie, Milton Wolff, Martin Ritt
Box   1
Folder   7
The Volunteers, a film-story treatment by Alvah Bessie, February 12, 1972
Box   1
Folder   8
Continuity outlines, 1974
Box   1
Folder   9
Alvah Bessie's first draft, undated
Physical Description: Photocopy of script 
Box   2
Folder   1
“Final AB-AL & DB version, & re-worked by Dan, 1980”
Physical Description: Heavily annotated typescript 
Box   2
Folder   2
“1985 version,” “original story by Arthur H. Landis, screenplay by Alvah Bessie with Dan Bessie”
Physical Description: Cyclostyled script 
Box   2
Folder   3
“Pages revised and removed prior to , 1985 revision by Dan Bessie.”
Box   2
Folder   4
“Semi-Final Draft”/”Not final draft”, “original story and screenplay by Alvah Bessie, Arthur H. Landis, Dan Bessie”
Physical Description: Cyclostyled script 
Sound Archive  
Audio recordings with comments on the script for Dan Bessie's attention, dictated by Arthur Landis
Physical Description: 2 cassette tapes