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Carson McCullers (source) THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (Aug 26, 1963) Film script by Thomas C. Ryan
$1,500.00[New York]: The Landau Company, 1963. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm.), leatherette wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, 127 pp. Wrappers creased, with small loss at bottom of spine and in two extremities of back wrapper. A name is written at top of title page of a James D. Pasternak, who is not a credited crew member. The screenplay by Thomas C. Ryan is dated 8/26/63. Internally near fine, a few pages show very slight marginal handling, wrappers very good.
A very early draft for this classic 1968 film, adapted from Carson McCullers’ 1940 debut novel. As with the underlying book, this is a film about alienation, racism and misery in a small Southern town. Star Alan Arkin and supporting actress Sondra Locke received Oscar nominations.