Rare 1957 RKO Movie Screenplay Script The Naked & The Dead by Norman Mailer WWII

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Rare 1957 RKO Movie Screenplay
The Naked & The Dead by Norman Mailer
World War II Classic
The Naked and the Dead.
Screen Play by Denis and Terry Sanders.
From the Novel by Norman Mailer.
Final Script – Third Revised Final December 6, 1957.
Includes color-coded pages with changes and revisions dated through January 24, 1958.
RKO Radio Pictures.
Large 8.5x11 inch format prepared for three-ring binding, stiff blue paper covers, 162 typescript single-spaced single-sided pages.
Quite rare!
A rare surviving original screen play from the 1958 Hollywood Technicolor blockbuster directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, and Lilli St. Cyr!
The Naked and the Dead was one of the last movies made by RKO before the legendary studio shut down!
Based on Norman Mailer’s bestselling novel of World War II combat in the Pacific, the novel was originally published in 1948 when Mailer was 25, it was his debut novel.
Based partially on Mailer’s own experiences with the US Army's 112
th
Cavalry Regiment in the Philippines during the Second World War, it depicts the wartime experiences of the men of a single platoon battling the fanatical Japanese in the stifling tropical hell of a jungle island and a maddening odyssey of loneliness, fear, exhaustion, and death!
Very good condition, faded blue wraps edgeworn with some minor spotting, rubbing.
Internally a nice clean copy.
Bottom edge of last page wrinkled.
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