Cry of the Banshee

London: American International Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 British horror film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his initials in rub-on transfer letters on the bottom of the front wrapper, and his name written on the top of revision page 31. With manuscript pencil annotations thoughout, and clippings of scene directions and props (often noting Provis' supplied props) affixed to the versos of the opposing page or laid in, throughout.

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.

Vincent Price stars as Lord Whitman, who is waging an unending war on witchcraft, and massacres a coven, whose surviving member, Oona, played by Elisabeth Bergner, calls upon a banshee to destroy the lord's family.

Shot on location in Middlesex, England.

Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, dated September/October 1969, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with undated blue and pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two flat metal brads.

[Book #166101]