The Dark Wind

N.p. N.p., 1990. Archive of material from the 1991 film belonging to carpenter Jamie Upham. Included in the archive is a Shooting script dated 8/15/90, and approximately 150 pages of production ephemera, including memos and notes regarding housing, filming locations, transportation, and catering, contact sheets, and call sheets.

Based on the 1982 novel by Tony Hillerman, the fifth in the Navajo Tribal Police series, and the second in the series to feature Jim Chee, about a Native police officer who is drawn into a web of theft and murder after a small plane crashes on the reservation. The feature film debut of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris.

Shot on location in Tuba City and the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona, and in New Mexico.

Screenplay:

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 8/15/90, noted as 1st Draft Shooting Script, with credits for novelist Tony Hillerman and screenwriters Eric Bergren, Neal Jimenez, and Mark Horowitz. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated 8/17/90 and 8/22/90. Pages Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads.

Ephemera generally Very Good plus to Near Fine, with occasional creasing and wear.

[Book #160838]