The Great Bank Robbery

Hy Averback (director)
William Peter Blatty (screenwriter)
Frank O'Rourke (novel)
Kim Novak, Clint Walker, John Anderson (starring)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Revised Estimating script for the 1969 film.

Based on the 1961 novel by Frank O'Rourke. A genre-bending film combining a heist feature and a comedy Western in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly, Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West.

Tan titled wrappers, noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 99, dated August 1, 1968. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated August 1, 1968, with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 136 leaves, with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph on yellow stock, with pink Confidential page and white distribution page bound in at the front. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.

Pitts 1631.


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