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4g070 BLACK LEGION final revised draft script August 1, 1936, screenplay by Finkel & Haines!

Date Sold 1/21/2016
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An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 156 pages). Also included is an 8" x 10" still. (Learn More)

Black Legion, the 1936 Archie Mayo Ku Klux Klan-like lawyer legal crime thriller (Warner Bros. would not attack the Klan directly by having the group in the movie be actual Ku Klux Klan members, but everybody watching the movie knew what was intended; what is most interesting about the movie is that Bogart plays a pretty nice factory worker who loses his job to an immigrant, and he is convinced to join the Klan, and afterwards, he essentially turns into a really monstrous guy!) starring Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Robert Barrat, Joe Sawyer (billed as "Joseph Sawyer"), Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Paul Harvey, Dickie Jones, and Helen Flint. Note that the Breen office had many problems with the script for this movie (written by Robert Lord, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay), specifically because of the racial and religious prejudice addressed in the movie. It seems that Warner Bros. was unsure of how to best promote this movie. The few original posters we have seen have a very small image of Humphrey Bogart, and he is not billed on the lobby cards!
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Important Added Info: Note that this script is the revised final draft from August 1, 1936 and the screenplay was written by Abem Finkel, William Wister Haines, and Robert Lord. The bound portion of the script contains 140 pages and is parts 1, 2, and 3, and on the final page of part 3, it has "PART IV WILL FOLLOW", and there is a separate section which contains 17 pages of that part IV (dated 8/25/36), but it ends with "continued", and it is not bound into the script, so apparently, the rest of the movie was written at a later time, or there are pages missing. The cover of the main script has "PART I" stamped on it, and it was later crossed out with pencil when parts II and III were added. Both the main script and the part IV have a form that was to be signed by the person receiving the script and it had perforations in the bottom one-third of that page (and they are true perforations, and NOT a photocopied page). This was the way the studio kept track of who had these scripts! Also note that there are blue revision pages from 8/4/36 and 8/18/36.

Condition: good. The main script contains parts I, II, and III. There is a separate part IV, which does not go to the end of the movie (the final page is missing). Please bear this in mind before placing a bid on the script.
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