Mino Loy DESERT BATTLE Original screenplay for the 1969 film 1968 #147068

  

Desert Battle (Original screenplay for the 1969 film). Author: Mino Loy (director); Ernesto Gastaldi (screenwriter); Robert Hossein, George Hilton, Frank Wolff, Rik Battaglia (starring) Title: Desert Battle (Original screenplay for the 1969 film) Publication: N.

Description: Draft script for the 1969 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the first leaf reading Di Lorenzo. Laid in with the script is a typed summary of the screenplay, with a typed note attached, likely from a casting agency reader, explaining his choice to pass on the screenplay to a younger reader.

An early version of the script, wherein a group of GIs take over an Italian-controlled North African desert town by posing as Italian soldiers. Lacking front wrapper, with blue rear wrapper intact. 345 leaves, with last page of text numbered 343. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus overall, with a small tear to the upper left of the front wrapper, bound internally with three gold brads. Subject: 1960s Cinema, Film Scripts, Italian Cinema, War Film, World War II. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1996, we have specialized in rare books and paper relating to twentieth century literature, genre fiction, the arts, and popular culture, with a particular emphasis on cinema. All books noted as First Editions are also First Printings unless indicated otherwise. Should go directly to them. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.