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Scarne, John. “The Big Caper” Film Treatment and Related Correspondence. 1974. Scarne’s personal copy of a 90-page mimeographed film treatment for The Big Caper, a proposed sequel to The Sting, the 1973 film for which Scarne was a technical advisor and a double for Paul Newman’s hands in scenes involving card manipulation. Printed on rectos only, bound with metal fasteners in maroon folder with printed title slip on front cover, copyrighted by Scarne on the first page and dated 1974. 4to. With original copyright claim form pasted on the inside front cover, along with other papers. Includes several laid in pieces of correspondence, including a letter from Scarne to Michael Phillips, producer of The Sting, pitching this sequel, together with Phillips’s reply; a rejection letter from David Brown of Zanuck/Brown Co. on the same subject; and Scarne’s heated reply to Brown, calling The Sting a “rip-off” of David Maurer’s The Big Con and threatening a lawsuit if any material in The Big Caper were to appear in a future Zanuck/Brown production. Provenance: Steffi Scarne (nee Norma Kearney). “The Big Caper” was never produced, and no other copies of Scarne’s treatment are known.