Butler (John K.) & Leigh Brackett

THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST. [Screenplay]

      Legal sized, two brads, no wrappers, 71 mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, slightly soiled. Undated, production #1471. The 1945 film was directed by Lesley Selander and starred John Abbot and Charles Gordon. The 1945 film was the first scr ipt by Leigh Brackett to be produced and immediately preceded the production of her script for the Noir classic, THE BIG SLEEP. Brackett's other screenplays include RIO BRAVO (1959), EL DORADO (1967), and the first version of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BAC K (1980) which was unfinished at the time of her death.