Mario Zampi MR POTTS GOES TO MOSCOW Original screenplay for the 1952 #142323

Description

Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (Original screenplay for the 1952 film)
Author:
Mario Zampi (producer, director); Jack Davies, Michael Pertwee (screenwriters); George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk (starring)
Title:
Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (Original screenplay for the 1952 film)
Publication:
London: Mario Zampi Productions / Stratford Pictures, 1952
Description:
Shooting script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John O'Gorman, with his signature on the front wrapper and annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil.
Known in England as "Top Secret," a British plumber travels abroad for vacation with plans he believes to be for his new sanitation invention, but are actually blueprints for a top secret weapon. He is contacted by the Soviet government to do research on what he believes to be plumbing.
Set in Moscow.
Pink titled wrappers, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 52, dated March 12, 1952. Title page present, dated January 2, 1952, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriters Jack Davies, and Michael Pertwee. 113 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound with string binding.
Seller ID:
142323
Subject:
1950s Cinema, British Cinema, Cold War, Comedy, Espionage, Film Scripts
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