Original Shooting Script for the Film Man Outside, Originally Titled The Tuscaloosan, by Mark Stouffer, Ira Levine, and Pat Duncan, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1985 · Santa Barbara, CA
by STOUFFER, IRA LEVINE, PAT DUNCAN & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Santa Barbara, CA: Stouffer Ent., Inc, 1985. Original revised fourth draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for the film Man Outside, originally titled The Tuscaloosan as printed on the title page, co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside Robert Logan, Kathleen Quinlan, and Levon Helm. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout. Laid in is a typed 2-page unsigned letter to the director / screenwriter Mark Stouffer, presumably written by Dillman, as it details his concerns for his character Frank Simmons. Also laid in is a crew and cast list. With Dillman’s estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 115 pages, dated July 24, 1985 through October 6, 1985, with a release date in 1987. The film tells the story of a lawyer running away from his past who becomes a recluse in the Alabama backwoods and becomes the primary suspect in the abduction of a local boy. Bradford Dillman (1930-2018) was one of Hollywood’s best regarded actors among his peers and the public. He was trained at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg and knew James Dean in early television. Dillman rose to sudden fame with his appearance in Richard Fleisher’s film Compulsion (1959) with Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles, and continued in movies throughout his career in such films as The Way We Were, The Iceman Cometh, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, Crack in the Mirror, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Francis of Assisi, Piranha, The Swarm, etc. A great success in television, Dillman appeared in a remarkable number of shows and made for TV movies in a variety of genres, including, Mission Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Columbo, Wagon Train, Ironside, Dynasty, The Wild Wild West, Thriller, Wonder Woman, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and many others. (Inventory #: 21993E)