Original Shooting Script for the Television Movie Running Scared by David Odell, Paul Glicker, and Vicki Polon, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1979 · Topanga, CA
by ODELL, DAVID, PAUL GLICKER, VICKI POLON & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Topanga, CA: Paul Glicker / CBS, 1979. Original revised shooting script with color rewrite pages for the television movie Running Scared written by David Odell, Paul Glicker, and Vicki Polon, co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside Ken Wahl, Judge Reinhold, Annie McEnroe, John Saxon, and Pat Hingle. This was Dillman’s working script with his notations and with his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 130 pages, dated 1979. The movie aired on CBS in November, 1980. Very good plus copy with some minor handling and some aging to the covers. The film is set in 1961 and tells the story of two servicemen who smuggle a box of military gear into the U.S. and, once the Army gets wind of it, they are considered to be communist spies. 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 #: 21992E)