Marcel Pagnol Screenwriter (2 results)

Treatment script for an unproduced film. Translated from the French, a Stone Age tribe which values men above women, and fears fire conducts the yearly ritual of having young girls run to the hills and the men to chase after and catch them to impregnate them. A man with no hair known as the Pale Man raises an axe against his brother The Hawk in order to save a woman named Fair Girl, and for his crime, is banished from the tribe. Set in the Stone Age. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 22, 1975, with credits for screenwriter Marcel Pagnol, translator Robert Wyler and commentator Paul Davids. Eight leaves, with last leaf of text numbered eight. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads.…

Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film, showing the fish stand in the Marseille harbor. With a manuscript pencil annotation on the verso, noting the number 8. A young fishmonger's daughter discovers she's pregnant, with little chance of marriage to the father, who has departed overseas for a sailor's life. The second film in director Marc Allegret's delicate, lyrical Marseillaise trilogy, preceded by "Marius" (1931) and followed by "Cesar" (1936). Set and shot on location in Marseille. 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus, slightly wavy at the bottom edge, with some soil on the bottom half of the recto only. Criterion Collection 883. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.…