Original March 25, 1981 crew-annotated MISSING Costa-Gavras - Screenplay Oscar

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The screenplay that won the Best Screenplay Oscar of 1982. Perhaps a unique survival: a working script that accompanied political film-maker Costa-Gavras ("Z", "State of Siege") throughout the shooting of his famous thriller (Oscar-nominated for Best Picture) starring Jack Lemmon and Cissy Spacek (both Oscar-nominated, Best Actor & Best Actress) who played the parents of a young journalist who disappears in 1970s Chile where a right wing military coup is taking place. MISSING ("Working Title" but actually ended up being the final title) FINAL DRAFT SCREENPLAY by Coast-Gavras, Donald Stewart and John Nichols. Based on the book by THOMAS HAUSER. 140 heavily-revised mimeographed pages in original blue covers listing Costa-Gavras' production company with Universal Studios info on the cover page. This script belonged to Bette Iverson, crew member (credited hairdresser) who tromped through Mexico with the rest of the crew in the making of this extraordinary film; her annotations concern the hair and make-up of the female cast members and fill this working document as well as providing incidental hand-notated information about location-changes, set-changes, shot-changes, et cetera. Also includes a call sheet (including production requests for military vehicles, 100s of extras to serve as soldiers, and a coffin) and three pages of her personal read more

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