John Wexley Papers, 1929-1963

Container Title
Series: Motion picture scripts
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse(1938)
Note

Prod: None listed

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: John Wexley, John Huston

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart

Box   7
Folder   1
Mimeo script, 1938, Jan. 26
Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)
Note

Prod: Sam Bischoff

Dir: Michael Curtiz

S. Play: John Wexley, Warren Duff

Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan

Mimeo script
Box   7
Folder   2
1938, May 27
Box   7
Folder   3
1938, June 22
Confessions of a Nazi Spy(1939)
Note

Prod: None listed

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: Milton Krims, John Wexley

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders

Box   7
Folder   4
Mimeo script, 1939, Jan. 27
The Roaring Twenties(1939)
Note

Prod: Hal B. Wallis

Assoc. Prod.: Samuel Bischoff

Dir: Raoul Walsh

S. Play: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Robert Rossen

Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George

Box   7
Folder   5
Treatment, proposed by John Wexley, titled The World Moves On, 1939 May 9
Footsteps in the Dark(1941)
Note

Exec. Prod: Hal B. Wallis

Assoc. Prod: Robert Lord

Dir: Lloyd Bacon

S. Play: Lester Cole, John Wexley

Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale

Box   7
Folder   6
Mimeo script, temporary, 1939, March 25
Box   7
Folder   7
Second revised final, 1940, Oct. 1
Box   7
Folder   8
Clippings
City for Conquest(1940)
Note

Prod: Hal B. Wallis

Assoc. Prod: William Cagney

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: John Wexley

Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven

Carbon typescript
Box   8
Folder   1
1940, Jan. 19
Box   8
Folder   2
1940, Jan. 26
Box   8
Folder   3
1940, May 8
Mimeo script
Box   8
Folder   4
1940, May 15
Box   8
Folder   5
1940, July 15
Danger Signal(1945)
Note

Prod: William Jacobs

Dir: Robert Florey

S. Play: Adele Commandini, Graham Baker

Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott

Box   8
Folder   6
Treatment, proposed by John Wexley, 1940, May 20
Carbon typescript, draft by Wexley
Box   8
Folder   7
1940, August 3
Box   8
Folder   8
1940, August 9
Knockout (1941)
Note

Assoc. Prod: Edmund Grainger

Dir: William Clemens

S. Play: M. Coates Webster

Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn

Box   9
Folder   1
Treatment, by Wexley and Warren Duff
Box   9
Folder   2
Carbon typescript, by Wexley and Warren Duff
Box   9
Folder   3
Mimeo script, 1940, Nov. 7, by M. Coates Webster
Mackintosh (unproduced?)
Box   9
Folder   4
Treatment, 1941, Feb. 13
Box   9
Folder   5
Revised treatment, 1941, March 15
Hangmen Also Die (1943)
Note

Prod: Fritz Lang

Assoc. Prod: T. W. Baumfield

Dir: Fritz Lang

S. Play: John Wexley (from an original story by Fritz Lang and Berthold Brecht)

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart

Box   9
Folder   6
Mimeo shooting script, 1942, Oct. 16
Malta (unproduced?)
Box   9
Folder   7
Carbon typescript, 1943, April 1, written for Joe Pasternak
Cornered (1945)
Note

Prod: Adrian Scott

Dir: Edward Dmytryk

Author: John Wexley

S. Play: John Paxton

Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel

Box   9
Folder   8
Typescript, 1945, April 15
The Long Night (1947)
Note

Prod: Robert Hakim

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: John Wexley

Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price

Box   10
Folder   1
Carbon typescript, 1946, June 19
Mimeo script
Box   10
Folder   2
With annotations, 1946, Aug. 16
Box   10
Folder   3
1946, Sept. 18
Box   10
Folder   4
Photograph (group photo of cast and production team)