David Harmon Screenwriter (8 results)

After the Promise (Original photograph from the 1987 television film)
Mark Harmon, Diana Scarwid, Rosemary Dunsmore, Donnelly Rhodes, Chance Michael Corbitt (starring); David Greene (director); Robert W. Lenski (screenwriter)
Published by CBS, Los Angeles 1987
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage reference photograph from the 1987 television film. With mimeo snipe advertising the film's television premiere on Sunday, October 11, 1987 affixed to the verso. A widowed man's four children are taken away from him by the government and re-homed. He tries to regain custody and find his children. Set in California, shot…on location in California and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine.

Published by H. N. Swanson, Los Angeles 1962
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerThird Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor a…s him, as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The boy is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th, to make the occasion of the first atomic bomb, leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to diffuse the situation. Set in New York City. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 14, 1962, noted as Third Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between September 24, 1962 and September 25, 1962. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.

Published by H. N. Swanson, Los Angeles 1962
- Softcover
- Signed
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerThird Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk…up the steps toward him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as the shooter, as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The shooter is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th, to commemorate the occasion of the first atomic bomb test, leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to defuse the situation. Set in New York City. White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 14, 1962, noted as Third Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between September 24, 1962 and September 25, 1962. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.
More imagesReprisal! (Four original photographs from the 1956 film)
George Sherman (director); Arthur Gordon (novel); David P. Harmon, Raphael Hayes, David Dortort (screenwriter); Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant (starring)
Published by Romson Productions, N.p. 1956
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFour vintage studio still photographs from the 1956 film with Columbia Pictures sticker on recto listing stars, title and Technicolor adhered to left of bottom margin. Based on Arthur Gordon's 1950 novel "Reprisal," about the 1946 lynching of two black couples, George Sherman's "Reprisal!" recasts the victims as Native Americans…. Frank Madden (Guy Madison) arrives in the prairie town of Kendall, Oklahoma just as the Shipley brothers are acquitted for the lynching death of a Native American man and woman. Frank is half Native American posing as white and soon has trouble with the Shipleys who are using Franks land to graze their cattle. When the husband of the lynched Native American woman kills one of the Shipleys, Frank is accused. Placed in jail by the sheriff for his own safety the remaining Shipleys organize a mob to abduct and lynch Frank. Set in Oklahoma, shot on location in Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near fine, some light creasing. Pitts 3363.

Published by H. N. Swanson, Los Angeles 1962
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerThird Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a suicide call and head to the scene, only to find the caller shooting wildly at anyone who tries to approach him. To make matters worse, police discover one of the building's other inhabitants has declared that he plans to use his homemade bomb to destroy the building an…d everyone in it. Set in New York City. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 14, 1962, noted as Third Draft, with credit for screenwriter David P. Harmon. 147 leaves, with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
More imagesArcher: The Turkish Connection (Original screenplay for the 1975 television episode)
Brian Keith, Marjoe Gortner, John P. Ryan (starring); Ross Macdonald (novels); David P. Harmon (screenwriter); Gary Nelson (director)
Published by Paramount Television / Leda Productions, Hollywood 1974
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSecond Draft script for Season 1 Episode 1 of the 1975 television series. Copy belonging to an uncredited sound engineer, with his name and title on the front wrapper in manuscript ink. The first adaptation to celluloid of hardboiled Southern California private eye Lew Archer, a character originally created by novelist Ross Macd…onald. In this episode, Archer investigates a con man exploiting naive teenagers out of their parents' money. The episode originally aired on January 30, 1975, on NBC. Orange titled wrappers, noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper, dated December 9, 1974. Title page present, noted as SECOND DRAFT, dated December 9, 1974, with credits for screenwriter David P. Harmon and novelist Ross Macdonald. 66 leaves, with last page of text numbered 61. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 12/12/74. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
More imagesJohnny Concho (Original screenplay for the 1956 film, presentation copy belonging to actor Robert Osterloh)
Frank Sinatra, Keenan Wynn, William Conrad (starring); Don McGuire (director, screenwriter); David P. Harmon (screenwriter)
Published by Kent Productions, Beverly Hills, CA 1955
- Hardcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerDraft script for the 1956 Western film. Specially bound copy belonging to actor Robert Osterloh, with his name in gilt on the front board. The brother of a notorious gunfighter must help take down two desperadoes who have invaded his town. Actor Frank Sinatra's first serious Western, allowing him to play against type as a dislik…able character. Bound in full maroon leather, with two raised spine bands, and gilt titles and rule. Title page integral with the distribution page, stamped copy No. 101, with credit for Sinatra, director Don McGuire, and screenwriter David P. Harmon. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages dated 11/15/55 and 11/28/55 bound in throughout. Pages Fine, binding about Fine.

The Shadow on the Window (Original pressbook for the 1957 film)
William Asher (director); Leo Townsend and David P. Harmon (screenwriter); Phil Carey, Betty Garrett, and John Barrymore, Jr. (starring)
Published by Columbia Pictures, Culver City, CA 1957
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage pressbook for the 1957 film. Betty Garrett plays a woman being held hostage by three thugs who have just killed her employer and whose son, shocked catatonic by seeing his mother being terrorized, helps lead her husband and the police to find her. Eight pages, saddle stapled, 12 x 16 inches. Near Fine, with a manuscript…ink notation on the front wrapper. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.