Robbery Under Arms (Original screenplay for the 1957 film)

Author: Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum, Maureen Swanson (starring); Jack Lee (director); Thomas Alexander Browne writing as Rolf Boldrewood (novel); Alexander Baron, W.P. Lipscomb, Richard Mason (screenwriters)
Title: Robbery Under Arms (Original screenplay for the 1957 film)
Publication: N.p. N.p., 1956

Description: Early Draft typescript for the 1957 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with their annotations in manuscript ink throughout, noting substantive and editorial revisions and deletions.

Based on the 1888 novel by Thomas Alexander Browne writing as Rolf Boldrewood, about two Australian brothers who are drawn into a life of crime by their father and his friend, a famed cattle thief.

Set and shot on location in England and Australia.

Housed in a blue untitled spring binder. Title page integral with the first page of text. dated 24th August, 1956, with credits for novelist Rolf Boldrewood. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 106. Typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages and binder Near Fine.

Seller ID: 152581

Subject: 1950s Cinema, Adventure, British Cinema, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Mystery and Crime



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