Original Shooting Script for the ABC Movie of the Weekend Revenge!, Originally Titled There Was an Old Woman by Joseph Stefano, Based on the Novel by Elizabeth Davis, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library

Los Angeles: ABC Circle Entertainment / Samuel Goldwyn Studios, 1971. Original shooting script with color rewrite pages for the ABC Movie of the Weekend Revenge!, originally titled There Was an Old Woman (as printed on the front cover and title page) written by Joseph Stefano, based on the novel by Elizabeth Davis, co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, and Carol Eve Rossen. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and 2 pages of his handwritten character and scene notes. With Dillman’s estate (truncated) stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 63 pages, dated July 13, 1971. The movie aired on November 6, 1971. Very good copy with some minor handling. The movie tells the story of a deranged mother (Winters) who avenges herself against the man (Dillman) she thinks seduced her daughter by holding him captive in a cage in her basement. The mystery of Dillman’s character’s disappearance is solved with the help of his wife (Rossen) working with a psychic (Whitman). 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 #: 22012E)