To Die in Lima (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Bill Kerby (screenwriter); Bertram Gabriel (article)
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About This Item
Los Angeles: The Producers Group, 1984. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the inside rear wrapper, noting a name and phone number.
Loosely based on the 1982 "Life" magazine article "To Die in Lima: a Cocaine Tragedy, the Tale of an American Who Got Mixed Up in the Drug Trade" by Bertram Gabriel. An American farmer visiting Lima after a life-threatening heart attack is conned into working as a drug mule, leading to his arrest and torturous detainment by the Peruvian government.
Set in the Sierra Mountains, California and Lima, Peru.
White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated January 26, 1984, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Bill Kerby. 132 leaves, with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with five blue revision pages at the end of the script, two dated 2/21/84. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus overall, bound with two gold brads.
Loosely based on the 1982 "Life" magazine article "To Die in Lima: a Cocaine Tragedy, the Tale of an American Who Got Mixed Up in the Drug Trade" by Bertram Gabriel. An American farmer visiting Lima after a life-threatening heart attack is conned into working as a drug mule, leading to his arrest and torturous detainment by the Peruvian government.
Set in the Sierra Mountains, California and Lima, Peru.
White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated January 26, 1984, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Bill Kerby. 132 leaves, with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with five blue revision pages at the end of the script, two dated 2/21/84. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus overall, bound with two gold brads.
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- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 149806
- Title
- To Die in Lima (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
- Author
- Bill Kerby (screenwriter); Bertram Gabriel (article)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Producers Group
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Film Scripts | Unproduced Films | 1980s Cinema | Action Film | Prison | Drugs and Alcohol
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film Scripts; 1980s Cinema; Drugs and Alcohol; Action Film; Prison;
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