MURDER BY DEATH SCREENPLAY BY

Book Description

[Burbank]: Rastar Films, 7 July - 8 October 1975.. [1],134 leaves plus 12 noncontiguous leaves of revisions inserted at end meant to replace leaves in the main text. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript on rectos only of blue and white stock. Bradbound in stenciled production company wrappers. Title lettered on spine, old tape mend at lower spine-corner of upper wrapper at brad- tear, otherwise very good. Denoted the "Second Draft" of this original screenplay by Simon, but with nearly half that draft replaced with variously dated revises on blue paper extending over the next three months. Laid in is a shooting Call Sheet for the actual production, dated 24 October 1975. The 1976 film was directed by Robert Moore, and starred Truman Capote, Eileen Brennan, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, et al, in a highly successful spoof of the master-detective genre. A novelization by Henry Keating appeared as a Warner paperback original in 1976, but there was no contemporary published form of Simon's own work. OCLC locates only two copies of some form of this script.

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