13 Hours by Air [Twenty Hours by Air] (Original screenplay for the 1936 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1936. Continuity and Dialogue script (pre-production) for the 1936 film, here under the working title "Twenty Hours by Air." With faint manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Typescript in black and red type.

What should be a routine transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco is complicated by its shady passengers, which include three jewel thieves, a strange nobleman, and a beautiful socialite.

Brown untitled wrappers, rubber-stamped Paramount Production No. 1801. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Kenyon Nicholson. 146 leaves, with last page of text numbered 145. Black and red typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus with yapping on the front wrapper's right edge, bound with two gold brads. (Inventory #: 146032)