The Sky Falls

by Albert Band, Humphrey Slater, screenwriter, novel

$75 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink notation to page 21.Loosely based on the 1946 novel. A bleak retelling of the somewhat apocryphal, failed 1212 Children's Crusade —a Christian campaign to regain Jerusalem from the Muslims, led by a young boy who claimed to possess prophetic powers, followed by thousands of children. In screenwriter Albert Band's version, following Humphrey Slater's novel,

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