Sorcerer

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. At 200 pages, this draft is 36 pages longer than the longest of the three we have encountered, meaning almost certainly that it is a First Draft or very close.

Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. A group of men are all in hiding from their previous lives for various reasons in a remote village in Colombia. Under the promise of money and citizenship, they are hired as truck drivers to transport a very unstable shipment of dynamite.

Set in Veracruz, Mexico, Jerusalem, Israel, Paris, France, Elizabeth, New Jersey and Porvenir, Colombia, shot on location in Paris, France, Veracruz, Mexico, Alto Gracia, Dominican Republic, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Jerusalem, Israel, and Bloomfield, New Mexico .

Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Walon Green. 204 leaves, with last page of text numbered 200. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

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