Umberto Lenzi FROM HELL TO VICTORY NEITHER LOSERS NOR WINNERS Original #140769

Description

From Hell to Victory [Neither Losers Nor Winners] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)
Author:
Umberto Lenzi (director, screenwriter); Anthony Fritz (screenwriter); George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz, Anny Duperey (starring)
Title:
From Hell to Victory [Neither Losers Nor Winners] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)
Publication:
Madrid: Jose Frade Producciones Cinematograficas S.A., 1978
Description:
Draft script for the 1979 film. Here under the temporary title, "Neither Losers Nor Winners." With annotations throughout in holograph ink. The film was released in Italian, though with American actors Peppard and Hamilton dubbed in Italian. The text of this draft is in English, created for consideration by the US cast and crew in the film's pre-production phase.
Noted Italian director Umberto Lenzi ultimately directed the film under the pseudonym Hank Milestone.
In 1939, six friends who met at a Parisian cafe vow to meet there again at the end of the war. They are of different nationalities, one is British, another German, two Americans and two Frenchmen. Only three survive the war and the Liberation of Paris to return to the cafe.
Set in Paris, shot on location there, as well as Spain.
Blue untitled wrapper. Title page present, dated February 1978, with credits for screenwriters Umberto Lenzi and Gianfranco Clerici. 55 leaves, with last page of text numbered 54. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound.
Seller ID:
140769
Subject:
1970s Cinema, Directors, Film Scripts, Italian Cinema, War Film, World War II
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