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1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin

1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin

$ 818.4

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Topic: Literature, Screenplay
  • Condition: VERY GOOD Condition: paper covers have light wear, some staining, and tape ghosts, TYPEE is penned to the bottom page edges (of the closed script), internally, just some light wear and age toning, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Special Attributes: Original 1956 Screenplay
  • Year Printed: 1956
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Publisher: ALLIED ARTISTS
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Binding: Softcover, Wraps
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Place of Publication: Hollywood, CA
  • Author: HERMAN MELVILLE & NIGEL BALCHIN
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Subject: Literature & Fiction

    Description

    1956 Herman Melville SCREENPLAY Typee Rare UNRECORDED Script JOHN HUSTON Balchin
    TYPEE, Original 1956 UNPRODUCED Vintage SCREENPLAY by NIGEL BALCHIN, DIRECTED by JOHN HUSTON, Starring GREGORY PECK, Produced by ALLIED ARTISTS, Adapted from HERMAN MELVILLE.
    An UNKNOWN SCRIPT, not mentioned in the AFI Catalog or IMDB.
    TYPEE, Screenplay by Nigel Balchin, from the novel by Herman Melville. Nigel Balchin’s 2nd Version Dated August 3, 1956. Allied Artists Productions, Inc., Hollywood, CA. Original typescript screenplay, typed carbon copy on onion skin paper, 8.5” x 11”, grey paper covers, 3-hole punched, bound with 3 brass brads, 134 pages, printed on rectos only. With the purple inkstamp “Property of Allied Artists Productions Inc. / 4376 Sunset Drive / Hollywood 27, Calif. / Please Return This Script” on the inside front cover, and printed Allied Artists Productions address label adhered to the bottom of the title page. VERY GOOD Condition: paper covers have light wear, some staining, and tape ghosts, TYPEE is penned to the bottom page edges (of the closed script), internally, just some light wear and age toning, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.
    In 1955, while John Huston was editing his film “Moby Dick,” he was approached by Producer Harold Mirisch about joining Willy Wyler and Billy Wilder in making films for Allied Artists. Wyler agreed to make “Friendly Persuasion” and Wilder “Love in the Afternoon.” Huston agreed to make “Typee,” a Herman Melville adaptation staring Gregory Peck, which would be filmed in Tahiti and British Samoa. English writer Nigel Balchin wrote the screenplay. In 1956 Allied Artists sent Huston location scouting in the South Pacific and although Allied spent a reported 0,000 developing “Typee” including a 0,000 advance to Peck, the budget prepared after the reconnaissance trip was too high for Allied Artists and the project languished. In the end, Huston never made the film for Allied.
    Nigel Balchin (1908-1970) bestselling English novelist, famed satirist, and award winning screenwriter.
    About Melville’s Typee from Wikipedia -
    Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891), published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, liberally supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books. The title is from the province Tai Pi Vai. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; it made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals"
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