Splinter Fleet: Two Screenplays, 20th Century Fox, 1938, Together in blue cloth clamshell, later retitled Submarine Patrol comprising of a 130 pp, mimeographed Manuscript, first draft continuity screenplay of Splinter Fleet, dated December 22, 1936, in orange Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers, mild toning to leaves, spotting to first two leaves, upper right corner of upper wrap excised. With the 160 pp mimeographed manuscript, shooting final screenplay of Splinter Fleet (crossed out and re-titled in pen Submarine Patrol), dated June 23, 1938, in tan Twentieth Century-Fox wraps stamped #1. RARE DRAFT OF EARLY FAULKNER SCREENPLAY, ALONG WITH COPY OF SHOOTING FINAL. each 8 1/2 x 11 in. Footnotes: Provenance Serendipity Books, receipt laid in; The Richard Manney Collection of Faulkner Screenplays. In September of 1936, Darryl Zanuck assigned Faulkner to work on the dialogue Splinter Fleet, while Kathryn Scola was tasked with keeping an eye on the story line. Faulkner told Scola that producer Gene Markey had told him to 'follow the story line, but I can't find the story line' (Blotner p 373). Scola told Faulkner's biographer that the dialogue was 'Good Faulknerian dialogue,' but that it had little to do with the story at hand, as it seemed to relate more to aerial than naval warfare (ibid). The presence here of the shooting final script offers a rare chance to assess how much of Faulkner's work made it into the final script (Blotner claims nothing did). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing