Lederer, Eugene Burdick (novel); Stewart Stern (screenwriter); Marlon Brando, Pat Hingle (starring) Title: The Ugly American (Original screenplay for the 1963 film) Publication: Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1959. Description: First Draft screenplay for the 1963 film. Brando plays a scholar named Harrison MacWhite, who becomes ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country in the midst of civil war. He realizes that the anti-American sentiment towards Communism symbolizes his own longing for self-determination and nationalism.
Released early the same year as the assassination of JFK and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Green titled wrappers, noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 8378, dated May 21, 1959. Title page present, noted as First Draft Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Stern.
Pages about Fine, wrapper about Fine bound with three gold brads. Subject: 1960s Cinema, Actors, Asian Interest, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Literature, Politics.
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