The Gunfighter [The Gun Fighter]

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper as "RECEIVED / NEW YORK LEGAL DEPT / APRIL 18, 1950." Laid in with the script is a double weight reference photograph of director Henry King and actor Gregory Peck on the set of the film.

A reformed gunfighter travels to reunite with his estranged wife and son, but is confronted by an aspired gunfighter hoping to find fame by killing him. A turning point in cinema as one of the first Westerns targeted primarily to adults, and the second collaboration between Peck and King.

Red titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 113 and production No. 308, dated August 31, 1949. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated August 31, 1949, noted as Revised Final, with credits for screenwriters Bowers and Sellers. 135 leaves, with last page numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 9/9/49 and 11/16/49. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.

Photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine.

Photograph and script housed together in a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box.

Pitts 1704.

[Book #156792]