Original Shooting Script for an Episode To Catch a Butterfly by Richard Fielder for the Television Series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1962 · Universal City, CA
by FIELDER, RICHARD & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Universal City, CA: Universal Studios, 1962. Original revised shooting script with color rewrite pages for an episode To Catch a Butterfly written by Richard Fielder and directed by David Lowell Rich for the classic television series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, starring Bradford Dillman. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout referencing his role as Bill Nelson. With his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. 63 unbound pages dated December 4, 1962 through December 10, 1962. Season 1, Episode 19 which aired on February 1, 1963. A lightly handled copy with some edge wear and paper clip marks. In this episode, Dillman costars with the host, Alfred Hitchcock, Diana Hyland and Edward Asner. 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 #: 21927E)