Torrid Zone (Original screenplay for the 1940 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald) James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, George Reeves (starring); William Keighley (director); Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay (screenwriters) 1940s Cinema,Adventure,Comedy,Film Scripts,Specially bound scripts

Draft script for the 1940 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board, and his name in manuscript pencil on the title page. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). A fruit company executive hires his former enemy to stop the South American revolutionaries from vandalizing his company's banana plantation. Bound in red cloth with red quarter-leather binding and five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, dated February 1, 1940, with credits for director William Keighley, and screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. 166 leaves, with last page of text numbered 159. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 2/10/40 and 2/28/40. Pages about Near Fine, with light offsetting on the page edges, binding lightly toned, else about Near Fine.