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Shooting final screenplay of Drums Along the Mohawk
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Shooting final screenplay of Drums Along the Mohawk
Mimeograph Manuscript, 147 pp, May 18, 1939, marked "Shooting final" and with writing credit attributed to Lamar Trotti (only), housed in brown Twentieth Century-Fox wraps stamped "shooting final," copy #40, blue revision pages dated as late as June 27, 1939 bound in, minor wear to cover.
Provenance: Serendipity Books; the Richard Manney Collection.
Drums Along the Mohawk was based on the popular 1936 novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds. The first writer to take a crack at the story and screenplay was William Faulkner, who turned in a 27 pp treatment in March of 1937 and an unwieldy 237 pp dialogue treatment on July 3, 1937. Soon after, Faulkner was taken off the project, and ultimately Lamar Trotti and Sonia Levien shared screenplay credit on the film. (Bruce F. Kawin's monograph, Faulkner and Film [1977], analyzes Faulkner's contribution to the final screenplay in detail.)
Provenance: Serendipity Books; the Richard Manney Collection.
Drums Along the Mohawk was based on the popular 1936 novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds. The first writer to take a crack at the story and screenplay was William Faulkner, who turned in a 27 pp treatment in March of 1937 and an unwieldy 237 pp dialogue treatment on July 3, 1937. Soon after, Faulkner was taken off the project, and ultimately Lamar Trotti and Sonia Levien shared screenplay credit on the film. (Bruce F. Kawin's monograph, Faulkner and Film [1977], analyzes Faulkner's contribution to the final screenplay in detail.)
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