Best Film Plays - 1945

New York: Crown Publishers Inc.. Very Good-. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound book with modest wear at the corners, age-toning to edges of text block; gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable]. (B&W photographs) Only the second annual volume in this series, but unfortunately also the last. Contains ten screenplays (writers following each title) -- "The Lost Weekend" (Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder); "Spellbound" (Ben Hecht); " Double Indemnity" (Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler); "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (Tess Slesinger & Frank Davis); "None But the Lonely Heart" ( Clifford Odets); "The Southerner" (Jean Renoir); "Story of G.I. Joe" ( Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson); "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (Dalton Trumbo); "Over Twenty-One" (Sidney Buchman); "A Medal for Benny" ( Frank Butler). Co-editor Nichols has also contributed an essay on filmmaking, "The Machine from the God." .