Private Lessons

Alan Myerson (director)
Dan Greenburg (novel, screenplayer)
Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown (starring)

Century City, CA: Barry and Enright Films, 1979. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited actor who played the banker in the third act, with manuscript marker annotations on pages 81-82, calling out all the character's action and dialog.

Based on the 1969 novel "Phlly" by screenwriter Dan Greenburg. A 1980s coming-of-age sex comedy, wherein fifteen year old Phllip Fillmore is left alone at his millionaire father's mansion for the summer with his sexy Dutch maid, played by Sylvia Kristel, and chauffeur, played by Howard Hesseman, who appear to have nefarious plans for the naive teenager.

Shot on location in Arizona and New Mexico.

Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated December 24, 1979, noted as REVISED DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Dan Greenburg. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

McPadden, Teen Movie Hell, p. 217.


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