Scarecrow

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to production accountant Gordon Kee, with his name in manuscript ink on the first leaf.

Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh, hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood era and one of the best proletarian-minded works of the 1970s. Winner of the Palme d’Or.

Shot on location in Denver and Canon City, Colorado, in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, and in Reno, Nevada.

Yellow titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 97, dated August 16, 1972. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated 8/16/72, with credits for screenwriter Garry Michael White. 115 leaves, with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication on eye rest green stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.

[Book #160169]