8TH AVENUE SCREENPLAY BY....
Flender, Harold:
New York: Film Projects Inc./ Ric Eyrich, [nd. but ca. early 1960s]. [1],96 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bolt-bound in gilt-stamped stiff-card steno binder, with small production logo label at lower corner of upper wrapper. Wrappers somewhat creased and used at overlap edges, internally very good or better. Denoted a "Revised" draft. An original and evidently unproduced screenplay about life among working stiffs, street-people, and hustlers in New York. Flender wrote the 1957 novel, PARIS BLUES, that served as the basis for the superb 1961 Martin Ritt film, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Sidney Poitier, and it's possible this script dates from the period following the success of that film. In later years, Flender turned to works on the Holocaust and life in Israel, beginning with RESCUE IN DENMARK (1963), and a book chronicling the late '60s drug culture.
(Item ID: WRCLIT41864) $450.00
Unproduced