Sleepers East

Frederick Nebel (novel) Kenneth MacKenna (director)
Lester Cole (screenwriter)

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Shooting Script for the 1934 pre-Code crime film. With a single manuscript pencil notation on the front wrapper.

Based on the 1933 novel by noted crime novelist Frederick Nebel. An ex-convict is escorted via train to a murder trial in New York, where her testimony is the only protection the defendant has from impending execution.

Green titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated 10/10/23, with credits for screenwriter Lester Cole and novelist Frederick Nebel. Title page integral with the wrapper, as issued. 91 leaves, with last page of text numbered 90. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated 10/18/33. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with edgewear, bound internally with three gold brads.


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