Trapnell, Coles

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Synopsis of a story by Roger Marshall: Our old friend, the mad doctor, is loose again in this determinedly bloody British murder tale about a country medic who suffers from something impressively termed temporal lobe epilepsy.... Story suggestion submitted via inter-office memo, by Coles Trapnell to Jerry Adler.

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Synopsis, author unknown: This is one of those sketchy story submissions where the heart of the matter -- the development and incident that might make the piece of practical interest -- has to be taken on faith. A law professor who moonlights as an un-official detective for the Deputy Police Commissioner suspects a young girl law student of having murdered her landlord.... Story suggestion submitted via inter-office memo, by Coles Trapnell to George Santoro.

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Synopsis of a screenplay by Ron Randell: A spooky melodrama about a charming, vicious fortune hunter who murders his heiress wife and meets a grim retribution in the same ghastly Singapore mansion where both she and her father have perished. In the script's favor are the excellent advantage[s] taken of the Singapore locale.... Story suggestion submitted via inter-office memo from Coles Trapnell to George Santoro.

Scope and Contents Memo regarding Wax Apple.. Universal City: MCA, June 14, 1971. A typed Inter-Office Memorandum addressed to George J. Santoro from Coles Trapnell on the subject of Wax Apple by Sam Rolfe, based on the novel by Tucker Coe.The memo states: 'I think there's a pretty interesting picture in this property. I It's about a Half Way House, a rambling old mansion where people recovering from mental and emotional illnesses, who have been released from sanitariums, can get their heads...

Scope and Contents Synopsis of a story by Ken Becker and Jeri Taylor: In this creepy horror story the mad caretaker of deserted Alcatraz stalks and destroys three young people who, high on pot, land on the island at night, after a drunken party, and play cruel pracitcal jokes on him. It's too wild and unrestrained to be effective, too relentlessly downbeat to be anything by depressing.... Story suggestion submitted via inter-office memo by Coles Trapnell to George Santoro. The inter-office memo is...

Scope and Contents Memo regarding Snake in the Gingerbread House. Universal City: Universal City Studios, June 4, 1970. A memo from Cole Trapnell to Sid Sheinberg on the subject of Snake In The Gingerbread House by Laird Koenig.The memo states: 'A diabolically clever exercise in sensationalism and suspense poses some formidable problems. I Plot is ridiculous but completely absorbing: I Hollywood record tycoon is murdered by wife and her lover. The slain magnate, a devout believer in Hindu...

Scope and Contents Memo regrading Something Evil. Universal City: Universal City Studios, January 25, 1971. A stapled two-page memo from Coles Trapnell to George J. Santoro on the subject of Something Evil by Robert Clouse. The memo states: 'An advertising exec with his wife and two children moves into an old farmhouse in the country north of Pennsylvania. The wife, Marjorie, meddles with witchcraft and demonology and unlooses the powers of darkness to bring down doom and destruction on herself and her baby...

Scope and Contents Memo regarding The Hands of Dr. Maniacal.. Universal City: Universal City Studios, October 7, 1970. A stapled two-page memo from Coles Trapnell to George J. Santoro on the subject of The Hands Of Dr. Maniacal by Tim Kelly.The memo states: 'A feeble fleshcreeper that seems to have been inspired by an old German horror film (remade twice in America) called THE HANDS OF ORLAC, which was about a pianist who loses his hands in an accident and has the hands of a murderer grafted on...

Scope and Contents Memo regarding Todd Streeter and The Samurai. Universal City: MCA, October 29, 1971. A typed Inter-Office Memorandum addressed to George J. Santoro from Coles Trapnell on the subject of Todd Streeter And The Samurai by Lee Williams.The memo states: 'The heart of this presentation for T.V. is on its first page: I. Adult action, adventure, romance and derring-do in California in the 1870s. 2. Two PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, ONE featured role, EACH recurring: I TEXAS RANGER TODD STREETER...