Original Shooting Script for the Film Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? by Hal Captain and Don McGuire, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library

Burbank, CA: Brien Productions, n.d. (1970). Original shooting script for the film Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? written by Hal Captain and Don McGuire (although uncredited in this script), co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside an all-star cast including Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Ewell, John Fiedler, Don Ameche, Arthur O’Connell, and Christopher Mitchum. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and 2 pages of his handwritten character and scene notes. With Dillman’s (truncated) estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Bradbound, 149 pages, with a U.S. release date of September 11, 1970. Near fine copy with a hint of handling. The film tells the story of the growing tensions between a small army base and the nearby town. 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 #: 22026E)