Kingdom of the Spiders (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)

  • Culver City, CA: Arachnid Productions, Ltd, 1977
By William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Altovise Davis (starring); John 'Bud' Cardos (director); Richard Robinson, Alan Caillou, Jeffrey M. Sneller, Stephen Lodge (screenwriters)
Culver City, CA: Arachnid Productions, Ltd, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to actor Altovise Davis, with her first name and copy No. 11 written in manuscript ink on the second leaf, and with her annotations throughout. Laid in is an annotated call sheet dated April 8, 1977, with annotations in manuscript pencil.

Altovise Davis starred in six films and made several guest appearances on television shows in the 1970s and 1980s, but is best known as Sammy Davis Jr.'s third wife.

A group of townsfolk are trapped in a remote hotel when a horde of migrating tarantulas overruns the town. A cult classic, and one of the best remembered of the "nature on the rampage" films of the 1970s, in no small part due to William Shatner's starring performance as veterinarian Dr. Rack Hansen.

Set in Verde Valley, Arizona, shot on location in Camp Verde, Oak Creek Canyon, and Sedona, Arizona.

Orange titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jeffrey M. Sneller, Stephen Lodge, and Alan Caillou. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue, pink, and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/11/77 and 3/26/77. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.

Nilsen, Warped and Faded.

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