Script: Original Screenplay / Scenario for the Tod Browning/Lon Chaney film West of Zanzibar ; MGM, 1928.
Published by Metro Golden Mayer Studios, 1928
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used




Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Burns' Bizarre, IOBA
AbeBooks seller since May 12, 2015
Condition: Used - Very good
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Scenario by Elliott Clawson [Cover dated June 14, 1928 ; on page 1 dated June 7] Pale yellow covers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped file copy ; two-hole punched, brass brads. No. 1666 stamped upper right corner; no. 3580 on the label. Lower right corner: Script Okayed by [producer] Mr. [Irving] Thalberg. June 14. 1928. 85 pages mimeographed in black ink. Title page integrated with first lines of text. West of Zanzibar is a 1928 silent film directed by Tod Browning. The screenplay concerns the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (Lionel Barrymore). The film is based on a 1926 Broadway play called Kongo starring Walter Huston. This appears to be a first draft scenario with dialogue, no revision pages, and Chaney s character [Phroso] yet to be named; he is referred to throughout as Chaney. Also a somewhat different ending than was filmed, with the notation on page 85: There will be twenty additional scenes in which, in his effort to save the girl, Chaney sacrifices his life and is burned upon the funeral pyre. The film was released in Nov 1928. Condition: Covers fair; numerous small chips along edges; 1/3 of spine paper missing. Remnants of erased pencil markings on front where someone had written the name of the production team. Interior pages fine; clean with no markings.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Script: Original Screenplay / Scenario for the Tod Browning/Lon Chaney film West of Zanzibar ; MGM, 1928.
- Author
- Elliott Clawson
- Publisher
- Metro Golden Mayer Studios
- Publication year
- 1928
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Burns' Bizarre, IOBA
Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since May 12, 2015
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Books, Historical Documents, Autographs, and Ephemera -- Burns Bizarre specializes in the eclectic. We are a merger of two former booksellers 'Books on Main' [Ventura CA] and Armadillo & Dicker [Sacramento CA.] Most of our stock is rare or out-of-print - dating from the 18th century to the present. We do not sell reprint editions or book club editions unless they differ from the original in some way that makes them independently collectible. The name Burns' Bizarre comes from one of our father's enterprises in Chicago during the 1930's -- we are proud to continue his tradition of what is now eighty years of selling things people could easily live without.…
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