Night Train to Paris

Shepperton, UK: Lippert Films, Circa 1964. Draft script for the 1964 British film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his name and the date "8th May 1964" written on the front wrapper.

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.

Leslie Nielsen stars as a former OSS officer living in London who travels to Paris, disguised as a photographer's assistant, in order to deliver a secret tape reel after a former colleague with a decoy of the tape is killed.

Shot on location in London.

Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 84 leaves, with last page of text numbered 88. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two flat metal brads.

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