Double Take

Los Angeles: Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment, 2000. Draft script for the 2001 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member, with two manuscript leaves bound in after the title page, listing special effects and audio elements of the film, and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the script, underlining the same.

Loosely based on Guy Elmes' 1957 film "Across the Bridge," based in turn on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene. After he is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel for flagging a transaction as illegal, an investment banker decides to swap identities with a fast-talking con man.

Set in New York, Texas, and Mexico, and shot on location in New York City, Los Angeles, CA, and Needles, CA.

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 2/17/00, with credit for director and screenwriter George Gallo. 98 leaves, with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with a single white revision page dated 2/18/00. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #163706]