Edgar Rice Burroughs TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE Original screenplay #166267

  

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (Original screenplay for the 1959 film). Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters); John Guillermin (director); Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane (starring); Les Crutchfield (screenwriter) Title: Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (Original screenplay for the 1959 film) Publication: N. Description: First Draft script for the 1959 film, credited to Les Crutchfield, who would only receive a "story" credit in the final release, and featuring different secondary characters than those in the final release. Incorrect ink annotation on the front wrapper, stating "Filmed as'Tarzan Goes to India', " a film that was released four years later in 1962, and features a different location and storyline with no relationship to this script. The script ends prematurely on page 109, and laid in are eight pages (125-132) which conclude the story, with pages 110-124 missing.

Also laid in is an undated 47-page "Tarzan Outline" by Crutchfield, circa 1958, thermo-fax duplication. Based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan pursues four British diamond hunters who raided a village and killed two locals while searching for explosives for a local mine. Shot on location in Kikuyu, Kenya. Title page present, dated Ocotober 29, 1958, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Les Crutchfield.

110 leaves, with last page of text numbered 109. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, prong binding. Laid in script pages Near Fine. Laid in thermo-fax "Tarzan Outline":47 pages, bound with four staples and a paper clip at the upper left corner, Very Good, with creasing along the right edge, and with the last two leaves separated, chipping to the top left corner. Subject: 1950s Cinema, Adventure, Family Film, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources.

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