1939 · Los Angeles
by Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood (starring); Frank Lloyd (director); Talbot Jennings, Frank Cavett, Richard Collins (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Second Buff script for the 1939 film, here under the working title "Ruler of the Seas." Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period.
Inspired by the success of "Lloyds of London" (1936), Paramount made a series of million-dollar "spectacles" revolving around the history of companies. Based on the history of the British Cunard Line, the story of the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the North Atlantic from Britain to the US.
Featuring the writer and director of the MGM hit "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1939), (truncated)
Inspired by the success of "Lloyds of London" (1936), Paramount made a series of million-dollar "spectacles" revolving around the history of companies. Based on the history of the British Cunard Line, the story of the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the North Atlantic from Britain to the US.
Featuring the writer and director of the MGM hit "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1939), (truncated)