Typhoon (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)
by Louis King (director); Steve Fisher (story); Allen Rivkin (screenwriter); Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman (starring)
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1940 film, with the name of uncredited screenwriter Leonard Lee in manuscript pencil over date on lower left. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps and manuscript annotation in pencil on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period.
Paramount's 1940 Technicolor south seas adventure. Dea (Dorothy Lamour) is marooned on an isolated island since childhood with only the company of Koko the chimp, when Skipper Joe (Lynne Overman) and Johnny Potter (Robert Preston) are marooned on the island by a mutinous crew. The three must battle angry natives and survive tidal waves, a forest fire, and the titular typhoon to survive.
Nominated for an Academy Award.
Set on a South Sea island, and shot on location in Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and Baldwin Dry Lake, California.
Self wrappers, with front wrapper dated July 8, 1939, rubber-stamped production No. 1908. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered E-31. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.
Paramount's 1940 Technicolor south seas adventure. Dea (Dorothy Lamour) is marooned on an isolated island since childhood with only the company of Koko the chimp, when Skipper Joe (Lynne Overman) and Johnny Potter (Robert Preston) are marooned on the island by a mutinous crew. The three must battle angry natives and survive tidal waves, a forest fire, and the titular typhoon to survive.
Nominated for an Academy Award.
Set on a South Sea island, and shot on location in Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and Baldwin Dry Lake, California.
Self wrappers, with front wrapper dated July 8, 1939, rubber-stamped production No. 1908. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered E-31. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.
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- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 147709
- Title
- Typhoon (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)
- Author
- Louis King (director); Steve Fisher (story); Allen Rivkin (screenwriter); Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman (starring)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Paramount Pictures
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Film Scripts | 1940s Cinema | Adventure | Romance | Academy Awards
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film Scripts; Adventure; Academy Awards; 1940s Cinema;
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