Sinners in the Sun [The Beachcomber]

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Final Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film, here under the working title "The Beachcomber." Incomplete as stamped, with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper.

A New York fashion model must decide between her poor but faithful mechanic boyfriend and a rich but untrustworthy libertine. Although William C. De Mille was initially slated to direct, his growing dissatisfaction with the conditions on set led him to leave the picture two weeks in, eventually to be replaced by Alexander Hall.

Set in New York.

Tall white titled self wrappers, noted as FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 1646, dated January 27, 1932, with credits for screenwriters Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young, and Samuel Hoffenstein, and story credit to Mildred Cram. Title page integral on the front wrapper. 73 leaves, with last page of text numbered E-26. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, side stapled.

[Book #145944]