The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice

N.p. N.p., 1971. Draft script for the first segment of the 1971 film. With copied manuscript ink annotations throughout, noting substantive revisions and deletions. Incomplete as issued.

"the Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins" is a seven-part anthology based on the seven deadly sins, satirizing contemporary British society. In "Avarice," this first episode, a wealthy man orders his chauffeur to retrieve a 50p coin inadvertently dropped down a sewage drain, but fires the servant after seeing the unpleasant mess created by the effort.

Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper, dated 16th February, 1971, with credits for screenwriters Bob Larbey and John Esmonde. 17 leaves, with last page of text numbered 16. Thermographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, with last leaf detached from the binding, side stitched with five staples.

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