James R. Webb Papers, 1953-1964

Scope and Content Note

The James R. Webb collection consists of four boxes of materials relating to Webb's work as a screen writer. The material covers three films written by him: Pork Chop Hill (1959), Kings of the Sun (1963) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). The collection contains correspondence, notes, scripts, and working pages concerning each film. It includes many pages with handwritten changes showing the slow evolution of a screenplay from rough treatment to final script.