Sail a Crooked Ship

by Irving Brecher, Bruce Geller Ruth Brooks Flippen, Nathaniel

$95 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. First Estimating script for the 1961 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Benchley. A screw-up comedy in which a ship intended to be scrapped is instead commandeered by crooks as a getaway vessel in a bank heist, their two hostages left to attract the attention of the Coast Guard. Kovacs' last film before he was killed in a car crash. Gray titled wrappers, noted as FIRST

• Binding: Wrappers

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