The Triumph

N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green manuscript marker.

From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996).

Canadian economist, diplomat and noted author John Kenneth Galbraith's adaptation of his 1968 novel "The Triumph," a political satire of a myopic and inept US foreign policy response to a revolution by a moderate liberal in a small Central American country.

Title page present, dated 29 May 1969, noted as Revised Draft, with credits for author and screenwriter John Kenneth Galbraith. 168 leaves, with last page of text numbered 167. Carbon typescript on onionskin, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, envelope Very Good plus with some small closed tears, unbound.

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