*THE HEAVEN TRAIN Revised First Draft and 20 similar items

Vintage original Revised First Draft screenplay for an unproduced film entitled THE HEAVEN TRAIN, written by author, producer, and screenwriter James Lee Barrett. The story is a period piece set in the Great Smoky Mountain of Southeastern Tennessee during 1867 and entails a group of religious people who ultimately make their way to California. The story was owned by Universal City Studios (AKA Universal Pictures) and features the company's logo on the bottom of the front cover. Dated December 8, 1965, this script consists of a total of 134 pages on eye-rest green stock that were 3-hole punched and bound with 3 metal grommets between separate front and back green cardstock covers. This script is complete in very fine condition without any missing pages, tears, stains, or other flaws, nor are there any handwritten notations present within. James Lee Barrett (November 19, 1929 – October 15, 1989) was an American author, producer, and screenwriter born in 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina and graduated in 1950 from Anderson University (South Carolina). Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he served in the United States Marines. His first screenplay (based on his teleplay The Murder of a Sand Flea) was for the 1957 film, The D.I., which starred Jack Webb as a Marine Corps drill instructor at MCRD Parris Island. Barrett had been on Parris Island as a recruit in 1950 and served in the Korean War. Barrett, along with Peter Udell and Phillip Rose, won the 1975 Tony Award for "Best Book of a Musical" for Shenandoah, which was based on his 1965 film by the same name, which starred James Stewart. He often worked with director Stanley Kramer at Universal Studios and other notable works written by Barrett include the 1965 epic film, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Smokey and the Bandit, The Green Berets, Bandolero!, and co-writing On the Beach. Barrett also scripted a made-for-TV remake of The Defiant Ones (which starred Carl Weathers and Robert Urich in the Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis roles), and adapted the 1967 movie, In the Heat of the Night, for a weekly series (the show starred Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins, in the Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier roles.) Barrett wrote and produced ...tick...tick...tick..., a similarly-themed Southern crime drama starring Jim Brown and George Kennedy.