ORIGINAL Film SCRIPT The Mephisto Waltz BRADFORD DILLMAN'S COPY with His Notes

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[THE MEPHISTO WALTZ - THE FILM]. MADDOW, BEN, FRED M. STEWART & BRADFORD DILLMAN. Original Shooting Script for the Film The Mephisto Waltz, with Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
. Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions, 1970. Original final draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for the feature film The Mephisto Waltz written by Ben Maddow, adapted from the novel by Fred M. Stewart, co-starring Bradford Dillman and directed by Paul Wendkos. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout. Bradbound in printed studio covers, 131 pages, dated May 5, 1970. With Dillman’s estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Very good plus copy with a hint of use. Dillman co-starred with Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, William Windom, Curd Jurgens, and Curt Lowens. The film’s title is taken from the piano work by Franz Liszt and tells the story of a pianist’s (Alda) failed career as a performing musician who as a result turns to music journalism as a second choice, with murder and Satanic themes involved. It is interesting to note that this production was the only big-screen work of veteran television producer Quinn Martin. 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.