Lyn Fairhurst (3 results)

Draft script for the 1965 film. With several substantive manuscript emendations to dialogue throughout. A British "teen" comedy, with a title that borrows the title (and spirit) of Conrad Hilton's 1957 autobiography. A family inherits a seaside hotel and has trouble filling it up until their son's rock group begins bringing in the crowds. One of several British films from the mid-sixties which offered the added inducement of a guest appearance by "The Killer," Jerry Lee Lewis (who had more success in the UK than the USA after marrying his teenage cousin in 1958). Magenta titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated 6-11-64 in manuscript pencil, with credits for screenwriter and composer Fairhurst. 108 leaves, mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock, with pink revision pages throughout, dated 23.11.64. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.

Draft script for the 1965 British horror film. A cult of satanic worshippers led by a magnetic 400-year-old vampire prey on the Romani living in a small town in Brittany. OCLC locates no holdings. Shot on location in Finistère, France, and in Buckinghamshire, England. Red titled wrappers. Title page present, dated April, 1964, with credit for screenwriter Lyn Fairhurst. 94 leaves, with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two silver brads.

British front-of-house card from the 1965 British film. Provenance stamp on the verso on two labels obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A secret vampire cult, which has a headquarters under a graveyard in the small village of Brittany, searches for human sacrifices. Shot on location in Finistere, France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing, edgewear and faint toning at the extremities.