" A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA" SCREENPLAY BY....
[Hughes, Richard]: Johnson, Nunnally [adap]:
[Los Angeles]: Twentieth Century-Fox, 5 June 1963. [1],159 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Large overlap edges of wrappers a bit frayed and torn, internally fine. Denoted a "first draft" of Johnson's adaptation to the screen of Hughes's classic novel of the corruptibility of "innocent" children extracted by events from their normal environment. This would appear to be an exceptionally early form -- and perhaps even a form never utilized -- of the script for the 1965 film. Johnson, the accomplished writer/director whose long career included an Oscar for his adaptation of GRAPES OF WRATH a quarter century earlier, did not receive screen credit for the film. The final script is credited to Stanley Mann, Ronald Harwood and Denis Cannan.
(Item ID: WRCLIT59694) $400.00