COPS AND ROBBERS (1972) Shooting Script dated May 30, 1972 by Donald Westlake

Donald Westlake (screenwriter) New York: The E K Corporation, 1972. Vintage original film script, leatherette Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, brad-bound, mimeograph, 11 x 8.5″ (28 x 22 cm.),107 pp., with many pages laid in loosely of revisions on blue and pink paper dated up through 8/3/72. There is occasional wear to blank edges of loose pages, overall near fine.

Master crime novelist wrote this as an original screenplay. The film was directed by Aram Avakian and was released in 1973. Westlake subsequently developed this into a novel. The film is a crime comedy about two disillusioned cops who decide to pull off one huge robbery in their uniforms and retire off the proceeds.