No Down Payment [Down Payment]

N.p. Jerry Wald Productions, 1957. Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film, here under the working title "Down Payment." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. All photographs, except for two cast photographs, with text in margin struck at the production company (Twentieth Century Fox) and title ("Down Payment"), with correction stamps of "Jerry Wald" and "No Down Payment" adjacent.

Based on the 1957 novel by John McPartland. An examination of the intertwined lives of four married couples in a newly constructed suburban Los Angeles community and the issues they harbor, such as alcoholism, marital infidelity, racism, and religion. Script written by uncredited and blacklisted screenwriter Ben Maddow, and fronted by Philip Yordan.

Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles.

Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather finding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 143. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 4/17/57 and 6/17/57. Pages Near Fine, binding Near FIne.

Selby US. Spicer US.

[Book #161410]