Cry of the Banshee

Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Hugh Griffith (starring)
Gordon Hessler (director)
Tim Kelly, Christopher Wicking (screenwriters)

London: American International Pictures [AIP], 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper, and their annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout, underlining props.

In Elizabethan England, the leader of a coven of witches conjures a vicious spirit to enact revenge on a cruel magistrate for murdering her fellow witches. Animated title sequence designed by Monty Python member Terry Gilliam.

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Shot on location in Middlesex.

Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated September/October 1969, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking. Approximately 170 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with undated pink and blue revision pages laid in throughout. Pages Very Good plus, with light yapping on the fore-edges, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two silver brads.


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