Original Film Script

Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426

Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426
Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426
Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426
Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426
Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426
Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426

Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426    Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426
Ghost Story (Original screenplay for the 1981 film). Author: Peter Straub (novel); Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter); Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (starring); John Irvin (director) Title: Ghost Story (Original screenplay for the 1981 film) Publication: Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1980. Description: First Draft script for the 1981 film.

Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto, with his name in manuscript ink on the title page, and his annotations in manuscript ink throughout. With a five page cast and crew contact list bound in after the script, and a single green revision page dated 2/20/81 laid in.

Based on the 1979 novel by Peter Straub, about a group of elderly men who find themselves haunted by the ghost of a woman in whose death they were involved years prior. Set in the fictional town of Milburn, and shot on location in Woodstock, Vermont, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Green titled Universal City Studios wrappers, dated December 3, 1980, noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY and production No. Title page present, dated December 3, 1980, noted as First Draft Screenplay, with credits for novelist Peter Straub and screenwriter Lawrence D. 159 leaves, with last page of text numbered 152. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 12/30/80 and 3/11/81.

Pages about Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with a tide mark on the front wrapper fore-edge, bound with three gold brads. Subject: 1980s Cinema, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Horror, Mystery and Crime. 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.

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Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426    Peter Straub GHOST STORY Original screenplay for the 1981 film 1980 #161426