Editore: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA, 1973
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Draft script for the 1973 film. With a single notation to the title page in manuscript ink, indicating this copy is from Barry Levinson. Based on the 1955 novel "Le Blockhaus" by Jean-Paul Clebert, the story follows a mixed-group of forced laborers held by German forces taking shelter in a German bunker on D-Day. However, due to the heavy shelling, they are entombed in the blockhouse. Fortunately it is a storehouse as well so the prisoners have food to last them for years, but unfortunately they are permanently trapped in there. The film deals with how they lived in their underground prison and their eventual deaths. Set in Normandy, shot on location in Guernsey, Channel Islands. Blue blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter John Gould, and author Jean-Paul Clebert. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.
Editore: Galactacus Productions, London, 1973
Da: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Draft script for the 1973 film. Laid in with the script are two letters addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from producer Antony Rufus Isaacs, introducing the script and suggesting the part of Grabinski for actor Charles Bronson, as well as a four-page typed synopsis of the script. Based on the 1955 novel by Jean-Paul Clebert. On D-Day, a group of prisoners-of-war take shelter from the bombardment inside a German bunker, but find themselves permanently trapped underground when the entrances are blocked. Set in Germany, shot on location in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter John Gould and novelist Jean-Pierre Clebert. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two silver brads.