Original Shooting Script for the Television Movie The Hostage Heart by Andrew J. Fenady, Charles Sailor, and Eric Kaldor, Starring Bradford Dillman, from His Library

Los Angeles: A.J. Fenady Associates, Inc. / MGM Television / CBS, 1977. Original final shooting script with color rewrite pages for the television movie The Hostage Heart written by Andrew J. Fenady, Charles Sailor, and Eric Kaldor, co-starring Bradford Dillman alongside Sharon Acker, Cameron Mitchell, Carl Weathers, Loretta Swit, and Vic Morrow. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and “For Role of Lake” (his character) written on the front cover in an unknown hand. With Dillman’s estate stamp which reads, “From the Library (truncated) of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 102 pages. Near fine copy with a hint of handling. The movie aired on CBS on September 9, 1977 and tells the story of terrorists overtaking an operating room where open heart surgery on a wealthy man is taking place, with a demand for $10 million dollars. 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 #: 22008E)