Green Grass of Wyoming

Louis King (director)
Martin Berkeley (screenwriter)
Mary O'Hara (novelist)
Peggy Cummings, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who play Ken McLaughlin, with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil.

A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion, angering the mare's owner, Beaver Greenway, a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile, Ken McLaughlin (Arthur) returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award.

Set in Wyoming, shot on location in Wyoming, Utah, and Ohio, USA.

Blue titled wrappers, noted as Final on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 84 and production No. 133, dated April 7, 1947. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated April 7, 1947, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 129 leaves, with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining at the edges of a few leaves, wrapper Very Good with some dampstaining on the front and rear wrappers. Bound internally with three gold brads.


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