Kidnapped

Hollywood: Lindsley Parsons Productions, 1948. Lined Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to uncredited script supervisor Ilona Vas, with her extensive annotations on rectos and versos throughout. Bound in after the script are three form pages in which Vas lists each major character and the script page in which the character first appears.

Based on the 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in the May to July 1886 issues of Young Folks magazine. Adapted for film and television ten times, first in 1917, directed by Alan Crosland and starring Raymond McKee, and most recently in 2005 as a television movie directed by Brendan Maher and starring James Anthony Pierson.

Young heir David Balfour's greedy uncle Ebenezer conspires to have the boy kidnapped at sea and sold into slavery to keep him from his birthright.

Blue titled wrappers, with credits for author Robert Louis Stevenson. Distribution page integral with title page, with receipt removed, with credits for author Robert Louis Stevenson and screenwriter W. Scott Darling. 130 leaves, with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, undated. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #155586]