BIB_ID
89637
Accession number
MA 22009
Creator
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (16 pages) ; 30.3 x 22.8 cm
Notes
"FLYING THE MAIL / by / Ralph Graves and Bernard Fineman / Continuity Treatment / from / William Faulkner / June 3, 1932"--Front wrapper.
"Unproduced" and "Salary" written in unknown hand in pencil on front wrapper.
Based on a series of magazine articles by airmail pilot Bogart Rogers, was to have been a vehicle for MGM stars Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler. Faulkner's job was to bring heightened dramatic tension, especially in the rivalry between the "Wally" figure, an early airman of the 1910 vintage, and his adoptive son, Bob, who becomes the pilot under his tutelage.
Faulkner's task was to revise "Flying the Mail" after it had already passed through the hands of four writers.
The studio was still unsatisfied that the story would make a successful movie, so for the fourth time in a row, a property Faulkner worked on was scrapped. It ultimately rejected the screenplay and the film was never made.
"Unproduced" and "Salary" written in unknown hand in pencil on front wrapper.
Based on a series of magazine articles by airmail pilot Bogart Rogers, was to have been a vehicle for MGM stars Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler. Faulkner's job was to bring heightened dramatic tension, especially in the rivalry between the "Wally" figure, an early airman of the 1910 vintage, and his adoptive son, Bob, who becomes the pilot under his tutelage.
Faulkner's task was to revise "Flying the Mail" after it had already passed through the hands of four writers.
The studio was still unsatisfied that the story would make a successful movie, so for the fourth time in a row, a property Faulkner worked on was scrapped. It ultimately rejected the screenplay and the film was never made.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
16 pages of 31 proposed changes by Faulkner to enhance the screenplay by Ralph Graves and Bernard Fineman.
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