Savages : typescript of a screenplay.

Shooting script of approximately 105 leaves (typed on the rectos and a few with typed or handwritten additions on the versos) heavily annotated and by James Ivory. There is no title page but the first page is headed "Savages and Swans." Enclosed in a manila file folder labeled variously "Ivory," "Savages," "Savages 1971," and "Continuity & Reg...?" and with additional notes and telephone numbers.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to interior of the manila folder enclosure: ""Savages" J. I.'s script 1971."
Film was shot at the Beechwood estate in Scarborough-on-Hudson.
The screenplay for Savages was written by George Trow and Michael O'Donoghue based on an idea by James Ivory. The last third of the screenplay is primarily the work of O'Donoghue (Cf. Robert Emmet Long, James Ivory in Conversation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), p. 121.).
Savages was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States on 27 June 1972.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.