(African American film) (Negro league baseball) THE BINGO LONG TRAVELING ALL-STARS & MOTOR KINGS (Jul 11, 1974) Film script

Hollywood: Motown Productions, 1974. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm), 153 pp. Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated July 11, 1974, with credits for screenwriters Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins and novelist William Brashler. 155 leaves, brad bound, with last page of text numbered 153. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Near fine.

Based on the 1973 novel by William Brashler about a team of Negro league baseball players who break away from their teams in order to start their own team and hopefully break the color barrier. This film was an important one in the careers of Richard Pryor, James Earl Jones and Billy Dee Williams, and an early cinematic attempt to recapture elements of African American history on celluloid. (Wikipedia)