Dangerous Paradise [Victory]

Joseph Conrad (novel)
William A. Wellman (director)
William Slavens McNutt, Grover Jones (screenwriters)
Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz (starring)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Draft script for the 1930 film. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel, "Victory," the second of ten feature adaptations, preceded by Maurice Tourneur's 1919 film.

Heyst (Arlen) is a hermit on an island who offers shelter to a redhead named Alma (Carroll), and the two live somewhat harmoniously. That is, until Mr. Jones (Seyffertitz) shows up looking for buried treasure.

White self wrappers, noted as Final White Script on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 370, FILE COPY, and MASTER FILE, dated September 11, 1929, with credits for writer Conrad, director Wellman, and screenwriters McNutt and Jones. 91 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Near Fine overall, side-stapled.


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