Switching Channels

Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve (starring)
Ted Kotcheff (director)
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (play)
Jonathan Reynolds (screenwriter)

N.p. N.p., 1987. Revised First Draft script for the 1988 film. From the collection of Philip Leto, hair stylist on the film. Copied punch holes on some pages but not other, from internal studio duplication prior to having been issued to Mr. Leto.

Based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 play "The Front Page," which also served as the basis for the classic 1940 film "His Girl Friday."

Set in Chicago, shot in Ontario and Québec, Canada, and in Miami and Chicago.

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated February 20, 1987, noted as Re-Reviesd First Draft, with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 127 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between April 17 and 28, 1987. Pages Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.


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