Sam and Ron Ormond Newfield OUTLAW WOMEN Original screenplay for the #135865

  
Outlaw Women (Original screenplay for the 1952 film). Author: Sam and Ron Ormond Newfield (directors); Orville H. Hampton (screenwriter); Marie Windsor, Richard Rober, Carla Balenda, Jackie Coogan (starring) Title: Outlaw Women (Original screenplay for the 1952 film) Publication: Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures, Circa 1952. Description: Draft script for the 1952 film.

Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso of the last page of text, and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod (Windsor) runs a town where law states that men are illegal. The tough McLeod is soon caught in the lusty lasso of Woody Callaway (Rober), a handsome and persistent cowboy.

Notable films produced or distributed by Lippert include "Jungle Goddess" (1948), "I Shot Jesse James" (1949), forgotten films noir like "Radar Secret Service" and "Motor Patrol" (both 1950), Samuel Fuller's "The Steel Helmet" (1951), Sam Newfield's "Lost Continent" (1951), and Terence Fisher's classic Hammer noir, "Man Bait" (1952). Title page integral with first page of text, undated, with a credit for screenwriter Hampton.

115 leaves, with last page of text numbered 115. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads. Subject: 1950s Cinema, Film Scripts, Gambling, Poverty Row Film, Western, Women's Interest. 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. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.