WAR PARTY SCREEN PLAY BY...SUGGESTED BY THE STORY "MASSACRE" BY JAMES WARNER BELLAH [wrapper title]

Book Description

[Culver City]. 10 July 1947.. [1], 190 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Release title (FORT APACHE) written in ink on upper wrapper, a couple minor smudges, small pinhole and one corner crease to upper wrapper, otherwise a very good or better copy. A "revised" draft of Frank Nugent's screenplay, based on a story by James Warner Bellah, of the film eventually released in March 1948 under the title FORT APACHE, directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, et al. FORT APACHE, among John Ford's most popular and commercially successful films, was one of the long line of his films scripted by Frank Nugent -- eventually Ford's son-in-law -- over a fifteen year period that included SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949), THE QUIET MAN (1952), MISTER ROBERTS (1956), THE LAST HURRAH (1958), etc. The substantial length of the present draft reflects the length of one of the author's own working drafts we handled a few years ago, but still suggests, in comparison with the release running time of 125 minutes, that considerable revision and editing were still to be done before the script neared production status Bogdanovich, JOHN FORD (Revised ed. 1978), pp. 86- 7, 138.

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