Skip to main content

Flight From Destiny, 1965

 File — Box: 12

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This large series consists of scripts and outlines collected by Anthony Quinn dated from 1957-1972. The series is organized by title and includes screenplays, theater scripts, outlines and other pre-production film materials. Care was taken to keep the materials in their original order to facilitate research. The series is mostly English language, but it includes scripts and outlines in Spanish, French, and Italian as well. The series contains scripts of films starring Anthony Quinn such as The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), A Dream of Kings (1969), and Across 110th Street (1972). It also contains several teleplays from The Man and the City (1971-1972), a show starring Quinn as the Hispanic mayor of a city in the Southwestern United States. There are also scripts and outlines in various stages of development, many of which never made it to movie screens. Other notable materials include Last Resort, an early script by John Milius (The Dirty Harry Films, Conan the Barbarian); and La Strada: A New Musical Play (1968), a Broadway adaptation of the 1954 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winner of the same name, directed by Federico Fellini and starring Anthony Quinn. The play is a famous Broadway flop that closed on opening night. The series includes two scripts co-written by Quinn, The Eagle and the Horse, and The Bag Man or Harry the Gent (1966).

Dates

  • Creation: 1940 - 1972

Extent

From the Collection: 53.75 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Library South, Room 2079, 5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles CA 90032
(323)343-3960