A Stranger in the Kingdom

Barnet, VT: Caledonia Pictures, 1994. Revised First Draft script for the 1997 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Bound in ahead of the script is a xerographically duplicated "Los Angeles Times" review of Howard Frank Mosher's source novel.

Based on Mosher's 1989 novel, about the unexpected arrival of an African-American minister in a small, prejudiced town in Vermont in the 1950s.

Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018).

Shot on location in Chelsea, Guildhall, Orleans, and Vershire, Vermont.

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated November 28, 1994, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Don Bredes and Jay Craven, and novelist Mosher. 127 leaves, with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

[Book #164004]