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Auction History Result 8k185 MESSENGER OF DEATH shooting script September 15, 1987, screenplay by Richard Sale! Date Sold 6/8/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 114 pages) (Learn More) Messenger of Death, the 1988 J. Lee Thompson crime action revenge thriller ("based on the novel 'The Avenging Angel' by Rex Burns") starring Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett, Charles Dierkop, Jeff Corey, and John Ireland. Note that there is an oddity about this movie that we can't find the answer to! We have seen the "shooting script" for the movie and it is credited as being "screenplay by Richard Sale", yet the IMDb says the screenplay was by Paul Jarrico, the legendary screenwriter of the 1940s, who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era. Does anyone know the explanation for this discrepancy? If anyone knows, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this script is the shooting script from September 15, 1987 and the screenplay was written by Richard Sale. Note that this item comes from the estate of Paul Kohner, who as an agent for hundreds of actors, writers, directors, etc., was constantly sent scripts to "pitch" to his clients or to the studios, and therefore we are 100% certain that this is an original script created at the time it was written. Kohner had a remarkable life! Kohner was born in Czechoslovakia in 1902, and he was a journalist working at his father's newspaper. He came to Hollywood after interviewing Carl Laemmle, who gave him a job as a publicity man. He became the head of Universal's European department in Berlin, and returned to the U.S. in the early 1930s, and left Universal in 1938, becoming a publicity agent. Among his clients were some of the greatest film stars ever, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, and also great directors such as John Huston and Billy Wilder. He had close personal friendships with many of his clients, and he saved every bit of correspondence and paper work from his agency! He was married to actress Lupita Tovar from 1932 until his death in 1988. Amazingly, after his death, few institutions showed interest in his immense files, and only a small amount ended up being saved, with a lot literally thrown away! Our consignor purchased the item offered here from Mr. Kohner's estate in 1989, and he has held it until now, when he has consigned several items from Mr. Kohner's estate to eMoviePoster.com, and each item is being auctioned separately. Note that we are also auctioning the "revised script" in a separate auction. Condition: very good. There is scuffing on the generic covers. Learn More about condition grades 
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