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The Killer Elite, the 1975 Sam Peckinpah martial arts kung fu C.I.A. crime action thriller ("Men Wanted: Private company with C.I.A. contract seeks men willing to risk life. Perfect physical condition. Experience with weaponry, incendiaries, Karate/Judo. No loyalties. No dependents. Long career doubtful."; "Pain is only a side effect, death is the cure."; "They protect us from the enemy. But who protects us from them?"; "Every country in the world has these nameless, faceless mercenaries. They commit the unspeakable acts that a government cannot commit in its own name. They are masters of the martial arts who can kill instantly with a .357 magnum, a ritual samurai sword or a flick of the finger to a vital pressure point. And perhaps more frightening, they are loyal only to money, And they believe only in murder."; "No man knows this world and these people better than the director of 'The Straw Dogs,' 'The Wild Bunch,' and 'The Getaway.' He is Sam Peckinpah. He has made a movie starring James Caan and Robert Duvall about the most dangerous men who have ever lived. They are THE KILLER ELITE."; "From the novel by Robert Rostand") starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako, and Gig Young
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Important Added Info: Note that this English script is by Reginald Rose. This script was rejected and a new script was commissioned by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant, and that new script was used for the Sam Peckinpah movie (we don't know if Peckinpah was connected to the movie when Reginald Rose wrote this screenplay). The screenplay is a photocopy of an earlier version, and we don't know when it was created, but it seems that it was surely created in the 1970s. Also note that this is a script for a screenplay that was sent to agent Paul Kohner (see below), and it is 100% certainly an original script that was created at the time we indicate above, and it is NOT any sort of copy or later creation. The person who purchases this script is solely purchasing the script itself, and NOT any right to reproduce it in any way, or publish it. This script comes from the estate of Paul Kohner, who 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.

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