Original Shooting Script for the Film Mastermind by William Peter Blatty as Terence Clyne, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1969 · Los Angeles
by BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: Malcolm Stuart Productions, 1969. Original shooting script for the film Mastermind, written by William Peter Blatty (as Terence Clyne), co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside Robert Zero Mostel, Keiko Kishi, and Gawn Grainger. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and 2 pages of his handwritten character notes. With Dillman’s estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 119 pages, dated September, 1969, with a release date in 1976. Near fine copy with some minor handling. The film is essentially a Charlie Chan comedy thriller spoof, filmed in 1969 script by William Peter Blatty (as Terence Clyne). 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 #: 22000E)