Robert D Webb CARIBBEAN MYSTERY Original screenplay for the 1945 film #137082

  
The Caribbean Mystery (Original screenplay for the 1945 film). Webb (director); Jack Andrews, Leonard Praskins, W. Scott Darling (screenwriters); James Dunn, Sheila Ryan, Edward Ryan, Jackie Paley (starring) Title: The Caribbean Mystery (Original screenplay for the 1945 film) Publication: Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Description: Revised Shooting Final script for the 1945 film. Brief notation in manuscript pencil on the versos of three pages. Vandercook's 1933 novel, "Murder in Trinidad, " and a remake of two films, "Murder in Trinidad" (1934) and Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939). Smith (Dunn) is a Brooklyn detective who travels to a tropical island to locate some missing geologists. He uncovers an elaborate murder scheme, survives being shot at, alligators, and quicksand. Tan titled wrappers, noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 8, dated January 8, 1945. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated January 8, 1945, noted as Shooting Final, with a credit for screenwriter Darling. 98 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96.

Mimeograph duplication, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1/10/45 and 1/17/45. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads. Subject: 1940s Cinema, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Mystery and Crime. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland.

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