Pardon Our Nerve [Samson and the Ladies]

H. Bruce Humberstone (director)
Robert Ellis, Helen Logan (screenwriters)
Lynn Bari, June Gale, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Michael Whalen (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film, here under the working title "Samson and the Ladies." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper.

Two out-of-work city girls take jobs as escorts to an up-and-coming boxing champion.

Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 177, dated SEPT 6, 1938. Title page present, dated September 6, 1938, noted as Final Script, with credits for Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. 140 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 9/13/38 and 9/20/38. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.


[Book #149251]