Souls at Sea

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1936. Draft script for the 1939 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil and red pencil of "File Copy" and "#1," along with "Master File" stamp, "Return to Story Dept." stamp, and production number "1698" stamp on front wrapper. 18 pages with annotations in manuscript red pencil or pencil, usually marking scenes, camera setup, and action. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period.

Sailor and abolitionist Michael "Nuggin" Taylor (Gary Cooper) is on trial for the deaths of nineteen people on the slave ship William Brown in 1842.

Nominated for three Academy Awards.

Shot on location on Santa Catalina Island, California.

Self wrappers, rubber-stamped production No. 1698, dated November 10, 1936. 169 leaves, with last page of text numbered G-4. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11-27-36 and 12-23-36. Pages Near Fine, saddle-stapled with two staples.

[Book #148647]