Laughter in the Dark (Three original screenplays for the 1969 film)

by Vladimir Nabokov (novel); Tony Richardson (director); Edward Bond, Derek Marlowe, George Bluestone (screenwriters); Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Drouot (starring)

$3,500 · Offered by Biblio

Paris: Les Films Marceau, 1968. Three Draft scripts for the 1969 film by three different screenwriters. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and "Heat" (Michael Mann, 1996). The first script is an undated draft script by screenwriter George Bluestone, who previously adapted Winston Graham's 1967 novel "The Walking Stick," for the 1968 Eric Till film, with copied annotations throughout, striking, adding, and adjusting dialogue. The second is a Second draft script, dated 1st April, 1968, by novelist, playwright and screenwriter Derek Marlow, with copied annotations striking scenes or pages on nearly every page. Marlow said in an interview that he was asked by director Tony Richardson which book he'd like to adapt for a screenplay, and Marlow suggested Nabakov's "Laughter in the Dark." Two or three months afterward Marlow received a call from Richardson asking him to write the adaptation. At the time Richard Burton was to star alongside Marianne Faithfull. Marlow then went to the US to promote his 1968 novel "Memoirs of a Venus Lackey," and upon his return to the UK, found out a new screenplay by Edward Bond had been written, and Burton and Faithfull had been replaced. The third is a draft script, dated 24th June 1968, by Edward Bond. IMDB shows the filming date as starting June 1968, thus likely a draft used early in the production. The first half o

• Publisher: Les Films Marceau
• Year: 1968
• Binding: unknown

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