Vintage original 8.5 x 11 in. Cherry Revisions Final Draft script from the 1990's western television series, DEAD MAN'S GUN, an original anthology created by Howard Spielman and Ed Spielman. It is Season 2, Episode 2, which was entitled Seven Deadly Sins, in which Joe Morgan (Daniel Baldwin) returns to bury his father who ran the town bank. When he figures to share in the bank's ownership his brother (Malcolm Stewart) objects. After a time, he becomes ensnared in what his father reminded him were the seven deadly sins.
This Cherry Revisions Final Draft script is dated 09/01/98. It consists of 48+ pages on various colored paper stocks (to indicate the different revisions, which is referred to as a "rainbow" script), all of which were 3-hole punched and bound with one grommet without any outer wrapper. There are no markings or handwritten notations present within. It was signed by the episode's star, Daniel Baldwin, on the front cover in a black felt-tip pen. It is complete in overall very fine condition.
Provenance: The Henry Winkler Collection. Acquired through auction at Bonhams (TCM Presents...Hollywood Cool). We attended this sale in person and met Mr. Winkler, who attended as well and spoke to the audience several times throughout the session during which items from his personal collection were sold to benefit his daughter's charity.
Dead Man's Gun is a western anthology series that ran on Showtime from 1997 to 1999. The series followed the travels of a gun as it passed to a new character in each episode, and the gun would change the life of whoever possessed it. The executive producer was Henry Winkler and each episode was narrated by Kris Kristofferson.
Set in the Old West, this anthology follows the eponymous artifact, a handsome, yet cursed, gun that brings either disaster or fortune to whoever possesses it. In some cases of the former consequence, the gun's more villainous owners are killed at the end of the episode, while in others they live, but suffer for their misdeeds. In a similar fashion to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, there are often twist endings to the stories. For example, in the episode, "The Collector", the main character discovers that his servant is actually the infamous criminal, El Lobo, who then scalps him. And the series finale, "A Just Reward," provides a twist ending to the series as a whole when it is ultimately revealed that the gun's original owner was the Grim Reaper.