To the Victor (Original screenplay for the 1948 film, presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald)
- N.p.: N.p., 1948
N.p.: N.p., 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Ten reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages.
Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).
In postwar Paris, an American black marketeer and war veteran falls in love with the wife of an imprisoned Nazi collaborator.
Shot on location in Calvados and Paris.
Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, undated, with credit for screenwriter Richard Brooks. 159 leaves, with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 9/10/48 and 10/22/47. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, moderately foxed on the cloth.
Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).
In postwar Paris, an American black marketeer and war veteran falls in love with the wife of an imprisoned Nazi collaborator.
Shot on location in Calvados and Paris.
Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, undated, with credit for screenwriter Richard Brooks. 159 leaves, with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 9/10/48 and 10/22/47. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, moderately foxed on the cloth.