The Target

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Eight-page Treatment script for an unproduced film. Attached on the front wrapper is a handwritten note from producer Anthony Unger to casting agent Paul Kohner on Academy Players Directory letterhead introducing the script.

A veteran posts an ad in the newspaper offering to perform any service—especially seeking out risky and problematic endeavors—for $107,941.72, which he intends to give to the family of a friend killed in the war. According to the final page of the script, based on a real ad posted in the International Herald Tribune in February 1970.

Set in Southeast Asia and London.

Navy titled card label wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Ted Strauss. 9 leaves, with last page of text numbered 8. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three silver brads.

[Book #146525]