Ravagers [The Ravagers]

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Ravagers." Copy belonging to uncredited producer Walter Mirisch, with his name in blue manuscript ink on the title page, and with a manuscript note in the same blue ink paper-clipped on the front wrapper.

Based on the 1966 novel "Path to Savagery" by Robert Edmond Alter. A grim "Mad Max" style film set post-World War III nuclear holocaust, in which Richard Harris plays a man whose wife was raped and murdered by a brutal gang and who eventually seeks a home where he may live in peace.

Shot on location in Alabama.

Olive green titled wrappers, dated October 14, 1974. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Donald S. Sanford and novelist Robert Edmond Alter. 104 leaves, with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper about Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.

[Book #142679]