Original Shooting Script for the Film Heroes Stand Alone, Originally Titled Duncan’s Dodgers, by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, Co-Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1988 · Los Angeles
by CLEAVER, THOMAS MCKELVEY & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Los Angeles: Concorde Pictures, 1988. Original final draft shooting script for the film Heroes Stand Alone, originally titled Duncan’s Dodgers (as printed on the cover), written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, co-starring Bradford Dillman, alongside Chad Everett, Wayne Grace, Michael Chieffo, and Roddy McDowall. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Laid in are cast and crew sheets in Dillman’s hand. Bradbound, 95 pages, dated August 28, 1988, with a U.S. release date of September, 1989. Very good copy with some minor handling. The film tells the story of Zack Duncan (Everett) and a team of seasoned commandos sent into enemy territory in South America with a mission to recover the black box from a crashed Air Force cargo plane. 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 #: 22007E)