PINTER, Harold.

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The Pumpkin Eater. Filmscript, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Clive Hirschhorn from Harold Pinter". This copy (noted as number 30 on the title page) is stated as being the "second draft script" on the first page of script. There are significant textual differences from the version first published within Five Screenplays in 1971.Pinter's film, based on Penelope Mortimer's 1962 novel, was released in 1964. Shot in black and white, it was directed by Jack Clayton and starred Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, and James Mason. Bancroft was nominated for an Academy Award, and the film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards (winning four)."The first gift a playwright has is to write for actors. The better the playwright, the better the roles. This is as true of film as it is of theatre. Harold Pinter regularly offers actors what will become the opportunities of a lifetime: to Meryl Streep, obviously, in The French Lieutenant's Woman; to Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft in one of the most overlooked of all British films, The Pumpkin Eater..." (Hare).The title page to this copy includes the name, address, and telephone number of the production company, Romulus Films Ltd. The pages are numbered consecutively, with one leaf numbered "53/55", and the sequence continuing from leaf 56.

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