Professional Soldier

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1935. Revised Final Draft script for the 1935 film. With manuscript pencil annotations indicating removed scenes.

A mercenary is hired to kidnap the young heir to the throne of a small European country for the prince's own safety.

Green titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 1642, dated SEPT. 24, 1935. Distribution page present, with receipt intact, rubber-stamped copy No. 130. Title page present, dated September 24, 1935, with credits for screenwriters Gene Fowler and Howard Ellis Smith, and story credit to Damon Runyon. 149 leaves, with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated September 27, 1935. Pages Very Good plus, front wrapper Poor (dry and detached to the right of the brads), rear wrapper Very Good and intact, bound with three gold brads.

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