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Rewrite by Jo Napolean. Revised 1st Draft 11/19/90. Studio-generated script, brad bound in studio wrappers, very fine, 119 pp. Film eventually released under the title ACES: IRON EAGLE III. Lou Gossett, Jr., starred in this action film primarily set in South America.

Scope and Contents Scr/l James Lee with Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Studio-generated script, [ca 1959], brad bound, original mimeograph in studeo printed wrappers, 130, 1 oo,m very fine with many pages of rewrites on colored paper. Boxer Archie Moore made a distinguished big screen debut in the seminal sole of escaped slave Jim; his friendshup with Huck Finn as they raft up the Mississippi, is the subject of this superb film which is, after four decades, still highly esteemed as one of the finest adaptions of...

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By Walter Hill/David Giler. 12/18/90. Studio generated photocopy, printed wrappers, 110 pp.

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An original screenplay by E Max Frye. December 1991. Studio generated script, brad bound in studio wrappers, 113 pp., fine.

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8/17/01. Studio-generated script, printed wrappers, 121 pp. This script was printed for distribution to members of the Motion Picture Academy for consideration for Oscar for best original screenplay. This was Denzel Washington's debut as director of a feature film.

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3rd revision by Simon Davis Barry. 8/17/99. Studio generated script in special leather binging for producer Victor McGauley, 114 pp., very fine. Wesly Snipes starred in the role of Neil Shaw, a special agent for a fictional dirty tricks squad of the UN. Excellent example of the kind of exciting action pictures that made Snipes a serious box office star in the 1990s.

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Based on the book "A Time to Die" by Tom Wicker. Revised final draft, 10/8/79. Printed wrappers, brad bound in plain stiff wrappers, 114, 3 pp., studio-generated mimeograph, fine. Film about the uprising at the Attica State Penitentiary in New York in 1971, film starred, among others, Morgan Freeman, Roger E. Mosley (who founded the Watts Repertory Company in 1974), Glynn Turman, and Noble Lee Leste.

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Studio-generated script, printed wrappers, 2/1/5/75, 41 pp., some MS. changes in the hand of a presumed cast member, fine. Ron Glass had the role of Detective Ron Harris.

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FIRST DRAFT, 8/4/75, 49 pp.

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Written by Bob Frazer and Rob Datnes FIRST DRAFT 3/30/81. Studio-generated script, brad bound, 67 pp. Robert Guillaume starred in this immensely popular weekly television comedy series.

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Written by Larry Wilmore. Revised shooting draft, 3/1/01 Studio-generated script, brad bound, 37 pp., with numerous pages rewrites in a rainbow of colors. Original pilot script for this popular African American comedy television series.

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Written by Larry Ferguson and Warren Sklaaren. Revised, 11/12/86 Studio-generated photocopy, with many pages of revisions on a rainbow of colors; some creasing to front cover and first pages, overall fine, 118 pp.

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Written by Steven E. de Souza. First draft, 7/17/92. Studio-generated script in studio wrappers, 119 pp.

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Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins. 4/17/75. Studio-generated mimeograph, brad bound in printed wrappers, 129 pp. Film about an all-black baseball team traveling through the country in 1930, with cast including Billy Dee Williatns, Richard Pryor, and J runes Earl Jones.

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By Paul and Leonard Schrader. Original mimeograph, generated by film's authors, in printed wrappers, 103 pp., approximately 1977. Early draft of a script for one of the few important socially conscious films of the 70's with an African American subject.

Scope and Contents Screenplay by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris. Shooting draft, 4/1/84. Studio-generated script, printed with revisions in a rainbow of colors, brad bound in studio wrappers, 138 pp. This script belonged to a Don Zepfel, who worked on an uncredited basis on the film as assistant production manage; he has left MS notes on various pages mostly reflecting completion dates of the relevant scenes. Richard Pryor starred as a professional athlete who, reflecting an eccentric grandfather's...

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Screenplay by Ernest Kinoy. 140 pp., studio generated mimeograph in printed studio wrappers, 140 pp. This is one of a small number of films made by Poitier's own production company E and R Productions.

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Written by W.D.Richter. Final draft with revisions, 7/19/79. Studio-generated photocopy in studio printed wrappers, with many pages of rewrites on various colors of paper, 135 pp.

Scope and Contents Second draft, 8/10/79. Based on Original Story by Richard Pryor Second Draft Screenplay by Roger L. Simon and Lonne Elder, III. Studio-generated mimeograph, in printed studio wrappers, 109 pp. Family picture about an ex-con (Richard Pryor) and a schoolteacher (Cicely Tyson) guiding a group of emotionally disturbed schoolchildren across the country. The film was significantly altered prior to its 1981 release. Lonne Elder III was the first African American writer to be nominated for a Best...

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Final draft, 2/13/76. Studio-generated mimeograph, in printed studio wrappers, 127 pp. Uneven film that remains popular and is, for some, one of the final classics of the Blaxploitation era. Slice-of-life feature about West Coast car wash workers, starring Franklin Ajaye, the Pointer Sisters, Antonio Fargas, Bill Duke, Tracy Reed and Ivan Dixon.

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Written by Stanley Shapiro around 1981. Printed wrappers, 129 pp., very fine. A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teenage son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California. Denzel Washington starred as the teenage son and made an immense impression in this, his first role in a feature theatrical film.

Scope and Contents Teleplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn. Revised shooting draft, 4/29/91, Studio-generated photocopy in plain wrappers, printed on blue and then gray paper, 105 pp. After a long time in the army, an African-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of...

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Revised secong draft, 10/27/77, Studio-generated photocopy in printed wrappers, front wrapper present but coming detached, 55 pp. An unusual episode of this popular TV series of the 70's, featuring a rare guest performance by Sammy Davis, Jr. starring as himself.

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Final draft, 7/24/75, Studio generated script, printed wrappers, 35 pp. Scatman Crothers was featured.

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Final draft, 9/19/75, studio-generated script, 30 pp.