The Condor and the Serpent (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Author: Nick Hurk and Ben Roberts Davis (screenwriters), Nick Hurk and Ben Roberts Davis writing as Hurk Davis (novel)
Title: The Condor and the Serpent (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
Publication: N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s

Description: Draft script for an unproduced film. Bound in before the script are seven pages of xerographically duplicated photographs of the French Foreign Legion, as well as two laid in copies of the front wrapper title and image on salmon stock.

Based on the 1968 novel "Legion of Outcasts" by Nick Hurk and Ben Roberts Davis co-writing as Hurk Davis. A Dutchman living in Paris joins the French Foreign Legion, where he is shipped off to fight in the Algerian Civil War, quickly captured by enemies, and held as a prisoner of war for six months.

Set in Algeria, the Netherlands, and France.

Beige pictorial titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Nick Hurk and Ben Roberts Davis. 175 leaves, with last page of text numbered 165. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with black Velo binding.

Seller ID: 146496

Subject: 1980s Cinema, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Unproduced Films



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