VIDOR, KING. Three Wise Fools - From the Play by Austin Strong and Winchell Smith. Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, February 5, 1923. Original shooting script for the early silent film directed by King Vidor. The script is a combination of mimeographed pages mixed with many carbon typescript pages and is the studio’s own file copy stamped VAULT COPY twice on the front cover. Bradbound in original studio wrappers which has some chipping and the covers are backed with rice paper by an expert paper conservationist. The film which survives stars Eleanor Boardman, Creighton Hale, Raymond Hatton, Zazu Pitts and Claude Gillingwater. Claude Gillingwater. IMDB describes the story: “Three elderly—confirmed bachelors all—are unexpectedly visited by a young woman who announces herself as the daughter of the lady that all three men had once been in love with. When the girl is falsely suspected of involvement with a robbery, the old men come to her aid and the real culprit is ultimately apprehended”. Silent film scripts of this vintage are rare.