THE WINGS OF EAGLES

Book Description

Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 21 July - 4 October 1955 and 20 February - 11 July [rerun 27 July] 1956.. Two volumes. 116 leaves, plus duplicate leaf 116 printing variant text; and [1],123 leaves, plus lettered inserts. Quarto. The first comprised of carbon typescript on yellow paper (with each leaf marked 'Permanent Script File' in red), and mimeographed typescript, text on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers, with studio labels and stamps. A few fore-edges in first script extended and slightly frayed; faint discoloration to fore- edge at toe of second script, otherwise very good or better, the first stamped "Vault Copy." Two widely differing drafts of the script for John Ford's 1957 film about the development of Naval aviation, and semi- biographical tribute to his friend, Navy flier turned screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead. John Wayne was cast as Wead, and Dan Daily, Maureen O'Hara and Ward Bond co-starred. Fenton shared final screen credit with William W. Haines for the script, but at this point in the creative process, Fenton is the sole identified screenwriter. A table inside the front wrapper of the second draft records in manuscript some of the dated revisions over the span noted above. Bogdanovich, JOHN FORD (Revised ed. 1978), pp. 95-6 ,143.

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