Nigel Kneale QUATERMASS AND THE PIT Original screenplay for the 1967 #162979

  
Quatermass and the Pit (Original screenplay for the 1967 film). Author: Nigel Kneale (screenwriter); Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, Barbara Shelley, Bryan Marshall, James Donald (starring); Roy Ward Baker (director) Title: Quatermass and the Pit (Original screenplay for the 1967 film) Publication: London: Hammer Film Productions, 1967. Description: Draft script for the 1967 film. Working script belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout, largely noting deletions. A gathering of ancient human remains and a mysterious metallic object are discovered buried beneath the site of a planned extension to the London Underground. Renowned scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to investigate. Based on the successful 1950s British science fiction serial "The Quatermass Experiment, " and a follow-up to the films "The Quatermass Xperiment" (1955) and "Quatermass 2" (1957). Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style on the front wrapper.

Title page present, dated 25th January, 1967, with credit for screenwriter Nigel Kneale. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Roneograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with undated pink and green revision pages (mimeograph) laid in throughout. Pages Good, moderately worn, with foxing on some revision fore-edges, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two silver brads.

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