The Pruning Hook

N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Treatment script for an unproduced film, based on screenwriter P.E. Lapide's 1963 novel. Laid in with the treatment script is a letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner, as well as a typed synopsis from screenwriter P.E. Lapide discussing the success of the Portuguese, Brazilian, and German editions of his book.

After being freed from a concentration camp, the stationmaster of a Prague railway station becomes a pro-Israel militant and gardener.

Set in Prague, Czechoslovakia and Jerusalem, Israel.

White, lacking titled wrappers and title page, housed in a beige folder. Nine leaves, with last page of text numbered 7. Typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, partially bound with one staple.

[Book #147071]