Man Hunt (Original Script for the 1941 Film)
Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, 1940. Letter (295 x 230mm), pp. [Title], [1], 2-186 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). First draft continuity script for the 1941 film. Orange titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped, internal three brass brad binding. Noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper, production number 559, copy number 29, dated October 7, 1940. Title page present, also dated October 7, 1940 and noted as 1st Draft Continuity. Pages very good but for a bit of toning and worming to the upper left corner of the final 15 pages, cover soiled, worn and with some splits to the extremities, good. Ex-Howard Barnes; Richard Manney; Gene Hackman. Custom cloth box. Item #1355
Inscribed on the title page by screenwriter Dudley Nichols to film critic Howard Barnes; “Critic par excellence in memory of our old days on The World when neither of us dreamed of working in this fascinating medium of the film Affectionately Dudley Nichols July 15, 1941”. Referencing the time they both spent as journalists for the New York World. There is a postscript that reads: “This was my first draft, done in three weeks. Many things happened to it afterwards, as your keen eye will note. D.N”.
A British big-game hunter is captured after stalking Hitler as a sporting challenge, then escapes to England only to be relentlessly pursued by Nazi agents whose campaign of terror claims the life of the young woman who sheltered him. After a harrowing confrontation with his nemesis, he acknowledges his true intent and parachutes back into Germany, now committed to carrying out the assassination he once denied contemplating.
Set in 1939 Bavaria and London, shot on set at 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.
Price: $2,500.00