Cobbler Jonathan David Balsiger Charles (1 results)

Original second draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for the film The Lincoln Conspiracy, originally titled Conspiracy to Kill President Lincoln written by Jonathan Cobbler (though not credited as such here), based on the book by David W. Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr., starring Bradford Dillman as President LincolnÕs assassin John Wilkes Booth. This was DillmanÕs working script with his extensive notations throughout, a 5Ó x 7Ó black & white glossy photo laid in of Dillman in character as Booth - posed in the style of a portrait of the times, and with photocopies of photographs of the real Booth affixed to the inner front and rear covers. With DillmanÕs estate stamp which reads, ÒFrom the Library of Bradford DillmanÓ and a single page typed crew list laid in. Bradbound, 117 pages, dated February 1, 1977 on the title page, with a U.S. release date of October, 1977. Near fine bright copy with some minor handling, enclosed in a dark blue cloth custom clamshell box with gilt-stamped leather to the spine. Dillman co-stars with John Anderson as President Lincoln, John Dehner as Col. Lafayette C. Baker, Robert Middleton as Edwin M. Stanton, James Green as Capt. James Boyd, Whit Bissell as Sen. Jon Conness, and E.J. Andre as Rep. Thaddeus Stevens in this story of speculative fiction in which Booth escapes to Canada after he assassinates Lincoln, instead of the traditional story that he was tracked down and killed immediately after the shooting. Bradford Dillman (1930-2018) was one of HollywoodÕs 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 FleisherÕs 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.