Watcher in the Shadows (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

  • Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967
By Geoffrey Household (novel); Marvin H. Albert (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film, written by Marvin H. Albert, based on the 1960 Geoffrey Household novel, about an ex-military man with a dark past that comes back to haunt him. "Frances Richardson" in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper, but this person's role in the film is undetermined. An interesting script, with several "storyboard" pages throughout, detailing scenery.

A story set in Middleburg, Virginia, circa 1869, just after the defeat of the Confederate Army, and nearing the end of the Civil War.

Blue studio wrappers, noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, copy No. 120, dated January 19, 1967. Title page present, dated January 19, 1967, noted as First Draft Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Albert and novelist Household. 148 leaves, mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock, with 5 storyboard leaves on white stock. Toning to the wrapper and storyboard leaves, and a few light creases to the wrapper, else pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.

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