DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (1975) Adapted screenplay by Waldo Salt

Nathanael West (source), John Schlesinger (director) Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, [1975]. Vintage original film script, USA. Mimeograph, 118 pp., no wrappers, quarto, newspaper clipping and synopsis written in ink on final leaf identifying printer, JUST ABOUT FINE.

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST, John Schlesinger’s adaptation of Nathanael West’s dystopian novel about a crushing and monstrous Hollywood, is often considered one of the finest of all Hollywood films.