NIGHT WORK - Elliott Kastner’s film production archive relating to an unmade feature film based on Irwin Shaw’s novel Night Work. Includes original screenplay scripts and memorabilia

Elliott Kastner was an American film producer who headed up Winkast Productions alongside Jerry Gershwin. His best-known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976) and Angel Heart (1987).

2 X original screenplay scripts including:

1 X original screenplay titled ‘Nightwork, (From the novel by Irwin Shaw), Screenplay, Part One by Irwin Shaw.’ Dated Feb 21 1984. Typed including occasional minor hand written annotations. Bound to spine by 3 metal pins. 60 pp. In very good condition.

1 X original screenplay titled ‘First Draft, Nightwork, screenplay by Henry Rosenbaum and David Taylor’ created for CBS Theatrical Films, dated 1983. Typed, unannotated, bound to spine by 3 metal pins. 137 pp. In very good condition.

Correspondence including:

Legal documents pertaining to disputes arising regarding the production rights between Irwin Shaw, Cinema Seven Productions and CBS Theatrical Films.

Contractual signed agreements outlining the acquisition of the motion picture and television rights by FP Films Ltd and Frankovich Enterprises.

Legal documents from the office of Hess Seagall, NY dated 1981 pertaining to Elliott Kastner v Frank Perry, Supreme Court, New York County.

Correspondence between Colombia Pictures and Frankovich Enterprises.

Producers and writer’s agreements.

Hand drawn Chain of Title diagram.

Additional memorabilia include 2 X first impression 1975 copies of Night Work. Both in very good condition, endpapers unmarked, bound in blue cloth, collated and complete. One copy missing dust jacket.