Hombre

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Final script for the 1967 film.

One of the great Westerns, and one that epitomizes the revisionist trend sparked by Elmore Leonard's early novels of the 1950s and 1960s. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and has since had to straddle two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While riding a stagecoach, he is subject to the racial bias of banker Fredric March and March's snooty wife Barbara Rush. In truth, March is an embezzler, a fact that comes out when the coach is held up by murderous bandit-chief Richard Boone. When the passengers fight back, Boone takes Rush as a hostage. Newman proves himself the bravest of the passengers, systematically and intelligently outwitting the bandits one by one, invoking Leonard's brilliant "white flag" scenario from the novel in the process.

Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, marked production No. 76, dated December 27,1965. Title page present, dated December 27, 1965, noted as FINAL, with credits for screenwriters Frank, Jr. and Ravetch. 131 leaves, mimeograph on eye-rest green stock, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 4/18/66 and 6/23/66. Pages about Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.

Hardy, The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: The Western US. Hitt US. Pitts 1908.

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