Script by Bonett John Emery (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Name on flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Paper tanning along edges. Dust jacket has tears and crease. Edges of boards scuffed. Bindinf square & firm. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A London film crew is on location in a small town when a murder occurs, setting everyone against the other, until Professor Mandrake sorts it all out. Published in the U.S. as Not in the Script. Gently bumped and rubbed, pages lightly tanned, with the previous owner's name on the front end paper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. LIKE NEW. The book is almost FINE with some foxing to the pages. The unclipped dust jacket has some minimal wear at the corners and spine ends; a more serious, closed tear at the head of the spine has been internally repaired (with no loss of material). A film crew on location in an English village, a set designer accused of murder and the local girl who helps him solve the crime.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Crime Club/Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York. 1951. 187 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Two letters present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A fractious and intrigue-laden set of London film people invade the sleepy English village of Steeple Tottering. While on location, a murder occurs which sets star against star, members of the film crew against each other, and the whole contingent against the local inhabitants. Action, temperament and romance flourish, on screen and off, as the story builds to a splendid denouement.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Studio Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Manuscript / Original. [Format: TS (Typescript) / MS (Manuscript)] An exceptionally rare, original 1954 pre-production Full Shooting Script for the quintessential post-war British village comedy "Children Galore" (ultimately released theatrically in 1955 under the direction of legendary Hammer Films icon Terence Fisher).Provenance & Invaluable Working Annotations:This archive-quality production artifact captures the film's evolving development. The title page bears the original typed working title "THE BOBBY DAZZLER" underlined and neatly crossed through, with the final theatrical title "Children Galore." added contemporary by hand in blue fountain pen ink. The script is precisely dated "5.5.54." (May 5, 1954) and credited: "Full Shooting Script by Peter M. Plaskitt from The Original Treatment by John and Emery Bonett" (the famous husband-and-wife crime fiction writing duo).Further establishing its use as an active production tool, the internal Sequence and Scene Breakdown Index (mapping out Scenes 1 to 278) has been boldly deleted with a manual blue ink diagonal "X" and bears a prominent contemporary handwritten production marker reading: "no need for this", alongside multiple ink revisions to scene intervals.Pagination & Textual Style:Comprising 78 numbered leaves of crisp, black top-copy/studio-duplicated typescript on vintage heavy paper stock, typed on rectos only. The script layout utilizes a clean character-over-dialogue format with explicit studio direction indicators (e.g., "STUDIO. INT. TUSSOCK HALL. DAY" or "M.S. An express train tearing along the tracks at night"). The narrative concludes cleanly on page 78 with a final comedic exchange between characters Zachy and Emily, a closing cue for "MUSIC UP", and the centered markers "END TITLES FADE IN. / T H E E N D". Characters appearing in dialogue blocks include Lord and Lady Redscarfe, Miss Finch, Miss Prescott, Pat, and Bert.Binding & Physical Presentation:Securely bound in its original mid-century muted teal-green studio protective card wrappers. The script is structured in a classic landscape flip format, held firmly at the top edge by a heavy paper header flange and secured with two original wire staples. The front leaf shows a light handling crease across the sheet from historical studio use, and the outer wraps display minor edge wear matching its archival history.Condition: Very Good.The top-edge structural binding remains stable and holds all 78 leaves completely secure. The vintage wire staples show typical, minor natural oxidation but no degradation. Internal sheets remain remarkably clean, crisp, bright, entirely unmarked (outside of the designated pre-production hand edits), and free of tears or heavy foxing. A pristine, museum-level artifact documenting a fascinating transition point in postwar independent British comedy filmmaking.…