Bound for Glory

Woody Guthrie (novel)
Hal Ashby (director)
Robert Getchell (screenwriter)
David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Randy Quaid (starring)

Los Angeles: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film. Actor David Carradine's manuscript ink signature and annotation reading "This land is your land!" and a yin yang symbol on title page. Manuscript ink annotation on verso of back wrapper.

A fictionalized account of Woody Guthrie's life, based on Guthrie's autobiography. Guthrie hitchhikes from Texas to California during the 1930s dust bowl to find a job to support his family. When he realizes how bad wages and conditions are he begins to pursue music as a means of fighting for worker's rights. Director Hal Ashby's version of Woody Guthrie is a complex one, showing the legendary proletarian singer and activist as a man with contradictory virtues and faults.

Set in Florida, California and New York, shot on location in California and Tucson, Arizona.

Brown titled wrappers, with an annotation noting copy No. 23 on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated August 11, 1975, noted as Revised, with credits for screenwriter Robert Getchell. 132 leaves, with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.


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