" MASH" FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY BY ... FROM THE NOVEL BY RICHARD HOOKER.
Lardner, Ring, Jr.: [screenwriter]:
[Beverly Hills]: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1 November 1968. [1],156 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Title neatly lettered on spine, production number stamped on upper wrapper, a few faint marks to wrappers, otherwise near fine. A "first draft" of the screenplay for Lardner's adaptation of Hooker's novel, one of the seminal films of its era, and though set in Korea, one of the handful of on-target critiques of the Vietnam war released by a Hollywood studio. A cursory comparison with a "final" draft from 26 February 1969 (which itself differs substantially from the released film) reveals both subtle and significant revisions took place between the two drafts. The January 1970 release was directed by Robert Altman, and starred Donald Sutherland, Eliott Gould, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, Gary Brughoff, et al. It was also one of Lardner's post Blacklist triumphs, for which he won an Academy Award.
(Item ID: WRCLIT61278) $750.00