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Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. After nuclear war has destroyed America, a small group of survivors find themselves forced to battle a nation of radiation-warped mutants. One of the first releases of American Releasing Corporation, and the fourth feature film directed by Roger Corman. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light cracking to the emulsion at the top corners.

Draft script for the 1958 film, "Suicide Batallion," here under its working title, "Hell Raiders." The screenwriter-director team of Rusoff and Kahn worked together on several AIP films, including "Girls in Prison" (1956), "The She-Creature" (1956), "Shake, Rattle & Rock" (1956), "Runaway Daughters" (1956), "Dragstrip Girl" (1957), and "Motorcycle Gang" (1957). Rusoff also scripted a few Roger Corman films, including "Apache Woman " (1955), "Day the World Ended" (1955), "The Oklahoma Woman" (1956), and "It Conquered the World" (1956). A group of men are recruited for a dangerous mission to destroy an American base in order to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. Set in the Philippines, shot on location in Dallas, Texas. AIP moved from big screen productions to television at the turn on the 1960s, remaking several film scripts as television movies, including this one, which was eventually released as Larry Buchanan's 1968 film, "Hell Raiders" (the original title). Blue titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 36. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page, with credits for screenwriter/producer Rusoff, and slated director Edward L. Kahn. 121 leaves, with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound three two gold brads. Davenport US. Ray US.

Draft script for the 1956 film, belonging to actress Adele Jergens, with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper, and printed title inked over, both in manuscript ink. Annotations throughout, striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny, played by Jergens, in manuscript ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips, all along the top page edges, still in place, with many pages dog-eared. Jergens' career began after being named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair, after which she briefly worked as a Rockette, being named the Number One Showgirl in New York City, and was understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1942 Broadway show "Star and Garter." In 1944 she landed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went on to act in over 50 films over the next twelve years. Jergins did two films following "Girls in Prison," George Blair's "Fighting Trouble," (1956) and Edward L. Cahn's "Runaway Daughters," (1956) before retiring from acting in late 1956. Anne Carson (Joan Taylor), convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery she claims she's innocent of, finds herself in prison with three cellmates, the hardened Jenny (Jergens), boss of the other inmates, the mentally delusional Dorothy (Phyllis Coates), and sweet-talking Melanee (Helen Gilbert). Green titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Lou Rusoff, producer Alex Gordon and director Edward L. Cahn. 125 leaves, with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink revision pages throughout, dated 2/21/56. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with slight toning at the edges and small dampstain on right center, bound internally with three gold brads.

Vintage contact sheet showing twelve images of actors Lloyd Bridges and Joan Taylor with unidentified crew members on the set of the 1955 Western. With manuscript ink notations on the verso identifying the film. Roger Corman's second film as a director, about a lawman sent to a small town to investigate reports of Apache attacks, but finds things might not be exactly as they seem. Contact sheet 8 x 10 inches, images 2.5 x 2.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing.