They: The Assassins

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With Bloch's annotations throughout in manuscript ink, noting changes to dialogue.

A crime drama set in Mexico, about an American woman who becomes involved with a controversial political revolutionary.

Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, Bloch received the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970.

Beige card wrappers with the title and the name of actor John Ireland in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present, with credit for Bloch. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 120. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with leaves torn at the holes and laid into wrappers.

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