Stephen Frears GUMSHOE Original screenplay for the 1971 film Signed #134464

Description

Gumshoe (Original screenplay for the 1971 film, Billie Whitelaw's working copy)
Author:
Stephen Frears (director); Neville Smith (screenwriter); Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Janice Rule (starring); Andrew Lloyd Weber (composer)
Title:
Gumshoe (Original screenplay for the 1971 film, Billie Whitelaw's working copy)
Publication:
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970
Description:
Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph annotations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film.
Director Stephen Frear's debut feature film, and the first film to feature an original musical score by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
A whodunit verging on spoof, Albert Finney plays a standup comedian and aspiring private detective. When he advertises his detective services in the local newspaper he may actually have to solve a real mystery. Set in Liverpool and London, and shot there on location.
Tall orange studio wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated 1st October, 1970, with credits for screenwriter Neville Smith. 123 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good, wrapper Good bound internally with three silver brads.
Grant US. Indicator 37.
Seller ID:
134464
Subject:
1970s Cinema, British Cinema, Comedy, Drugs and Alcohol, Film Scripts, Film Still Photographs, Hard-boiled Crime Fiction, Mystery and Crime
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