" MONSIGNORE" SCREENPLAY BY....
Polonsky, Abraham:

[Np]: Twentieth Century-Fox, 18 - 25 October 1979. [1],145 leaves plus lettered inserts and revised on blue paper. Quarto. Photographically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Title lettered in ink on upper wrapper, very good. An unspecified but early draft of Abraham Polonsky's adaptation to the screen of Jack-Alain Léger's novel. Many subsequent revised drafts followed, and the script for the 1982 film release directed by Frank Perry was credited on screen to Wendell Mayes, who wrote at least one early draft in February 1979. In spite of that, other drafts as late as October 1981 bore only Polonsky's name. This was the last film with which Polonsky was associated as screenwriter, though to what degree it was a collaborative effort is unclear. As screenwriter for BODY AND SOUL (1947) and writer/director of FORCE OF EVIL (1948), Polonsky was well on his way toward a distinguished career in film when he was blacklisted and fired by Fox for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. He continued to work during the Blacklist, either uncredited or pseudonymously, and in 1996 the Writers Guild restored his real name and credits.

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