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American International Pictures, 1969. Final Script for the 1970 Hammer horror film, "The Vampire Lovers," directed by Roy Ward Baker, based on the 1872 story, "Carmilla," by Sheridan Le Fanu, written for the screen by Tudor Gates, Harry Fine, and Michael Style (with only Gates credited here), and starring Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole, and Jon Finch (in his first screen role).
Possibly the screenwriter's copy, with authorial holograph corrections to dialogue and screen direction throughout, along with tipped-in changes to same. Le Fanu's legendary story of a female vampire was a major influence on Stoker's "Dracula," and was first adapted to the screen by Carl Theodor Dryer as "Vampyr" in 1922. Hammer Productions, having pretty much exhausted the "Dracula" franchise by 1970, turned a corner with this film by introducing a superior script and production values, new elements of eroticism, and of course the angle of the principle vampire being a ravishing female.
Red studio wrappers, with a die-cut window to the title on the title page. Title page present, with a date of December 15, 1969, a holograph notation of copy No. 18, and a credit for screenwriter Gates. A "rainbow" copy, 120 leaves, mechanically reproduced, with blue, pink, and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between January 9, 1970 and February 3, 1970. Pages Near Fine, wrappers Very Good plus with some brief fraying to the left edge of the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. [Book #116110]
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