The Great White Hope - Screenplay by Howard Sackler Based On His Play
signed
May 12, 1969 · Los Angeles
by SACKLER, HOWARD, JAMES EARL JONES & JANE ALEXANDER
Los Angeles, May 12, 1969. Original 155 page revised first draft screenplay printed on eye-rest green paper hardbound in black cloth with gilt-stamping. This copy belonged to casting director Eddie Foy III who has signed the script and laid in is a document signed by Foy providing provenance. The Great White Hope, the 1970 Martin Ritt boxing sports biographical melodrama starring James Earl Jones (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Jane Alexander (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Lou Gilbert, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Moses Gunn, and Robert Webber. Howard Sackler’s play won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Award and Sackler successfully adapted his work to film. The story is a fictionalized veiled biography of legendary heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, an incredible black African American boxer who encountered many problems due to his refusal to be treated as a second class citizen. (Inventory #: 16258J)