Heart of a Child

Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios, 1957. Revised and Final Shooting script for the 1958 film, copy belonging to Production Designer George Provis. Laid in are over 30 pages of notes, shooting schedules, and call sheets, including four pages of original pencil storyboards, as well as several clippings of handwritten notes, all in Provis' hand, as well as seven letters written to Provis, most typed letters signed from Production Manager "Freddie" Pearson, all dating from 1957.

George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films.

Based on the 1940 novel by Phyllis Bottome. Set in Austria during WWII, a young Austrian boy is forced to sell the family dog to pay for food, rather than have his abusive father, played by Donald Pleasence, sell the dog to the butcher.

Shot on location in Innsbruck, Austria.

Tall titled orange wrappers, noted as Shooting Script on the front wrapper, dated 26.9.57. Title page present, dated September 12th, 1957, noted as Revised and Final Shooting Script. 61 leaves, with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with a prong binding.

Laid in materials, Very Good plus to Near Fine overall.

[Book #166064]