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Time Out For Murder [Meridian] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film)

Time Out For Murder [Meridian] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film)

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Time Out For Murder [Meridian] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film)

by H. Bruce Humberstone (director); Jerry Cady (screenwriter); Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley (starring)

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About This Item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, here under the working title "Meridian." Laid in with the script are two copies of a set of two carbon typescript pages of notes on the film.

A newspaper reporter and photographer investigate a murder in order to exonerate the main suspect, a bank runner accused of killing his client.

Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 48, dated MAY 12, 1938. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated May 12, 1938, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Jerry Cady. 130 leaves, with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.

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Royal Books, Inc. US (US)
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Title
Time Out For Murder [Meridian] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film)
Author
H. Bruce Humberstone (director); Jerry Cady (screenwriter); Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley (starring)
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox
Place of Publication
Los Angeles
Date Published
1938
Keywords
Film Scripts | 1930s Cinema | Mystery and Crime | Media and Journalism
Bookseller catalogs
Media and Journalism; Film Scripts; Mystery and Crime; 1930s Cinema;

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