Tales That Witness Madness [Witness Madness]

Donald Pleasence, Joan Collins, Kim Novak (starring)
Freddie Francis (director)
Jennifer Jayne writing as Jay Fairbank (screenwriter)

London: Paramount Pictures / World Film Services, Circa 1973. Shooting script for the 1973 British horror film.

An anthology film featuring four horror stories, starting with a young boy befriending an imaginary tiger in order to escape his unhappy home life, and ending with a virgin sacrifice to a flesh-eating Hawaiian god. The final screen appearance of veteran British actor Jack Hawkins, who died shortly after filming his scenes in the film.

Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, undated, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credit for screenwriter Jay Fairbank (the nom de plume of Jennifer Jayne). 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only. Pages about Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.


[Book #165391]