Description: THE BIG NOISE (1943) Laurel & Hardy Fox File Early Title "Good Neighbors" First Draft Continuity Script + COA! *The Museum is pleased to present scarce material from a large private archive of previously untapped original material. *GUARANTEED Vintage and Original - Comes with COA from THE MUSEUM OF MOM AND POP CULTURE! *Stiff, oversized Fox File / Studio Covers - Script has "962" Production Number on Cover with hand-stamped "60" script distribution number at bottom right on cover. Propaganda Slogan Cover - First page of this Fox File piece is a hand-stamped "60" Steno-Dept Loan-Out page - Square release form has not been used, but serrated edge at left of form is separated. *Screenplay is 125 White Pages - First Draft Continuity dated Nov. 2, 1943 - Written by Scott W. Darling. Script is loaded with hand-written notations, along with gag and joke elements. A wonderful look into the process. *CONDITION: See Photos. Script is in overall VG/Fine and Better Condition. As with many oversized covers, there is light wear and tear on covers along with creased edges as shown and rippled back cover - Some page staining at top right tips. You won't be disappointed in this classic old-Hollywood Laurel and Hardy comedy! *HISTORICAL INFORMATION: The Big Noise is a 1944 comedy film starring the comedic duo Laurel and Hardy. It was produced by Sol M. Wurtzel and directed by Mal St.Clair. The Big Noise was the fifth of six feature films Laurel and Hardy made at 20th Century Fox during the 1940s. During the film's production, Stan Laurel told an interviewer that efforts were made to support the American World War II domestic effort to conserve materials. "We cut out automobile chases and food wasting-gags when the war first started, and with The Big Noise we decided to slash every gag that might conceivably have bearing on wartime wastages and destruction," he said. Scenes and gags used in previous Laurel and Hardy films turned up in The Big Noise. Among the earlier films to have their material reused were Berth Marks, Wrong Again, Block-Heads and The Flying Deuces.Laurel would later recall that he attempted to convince producer Sol M. Wurtzel to recycle the Berth Marks scene involving the duo in a claustrophobic train berth by changing the location of the berth to a transcontinental airplane. Laurel felt having the airplane hitting turbulence with the pair bouncing about in the berth would be funnier than recycling the train-based gags. Laurel's request was rejected, but the film did improve on the original setup by adding comic actor Jack Norton as an inebriate who shares the berth with Laurel and Hardy. *PLOT: While cleaning the office of a detective agency, janitors Laurel and Hardy answer a telephone call from an inventor who claims to have created a destructive bomb he calls "The Big Noise." Posing as detectives, the duo move into the inventor's home, where they must contend with his eccentric behavior, oddball widowed aunt (who takes a fancy to Hardy) and his misbehaving nephew. The inventor's neighbors are crooks who are eager to steal the new bomb. Laurel and Hardy hide the bomb in a concertina and steal an airplane to bring it to Washington. However, the airplane is a remote control target used by the U.S. Army for gunnery training. Laurel and Hardy barely escape by parachuting to safety over the Pacific Ocean, and they dispose of the bomb by dropping it on a Japanese submarine. *SEE MORE CLASSIC SCRIPTS FROM THIS AMAZING ARCHIVE IN OUR OTHER AUCTIONS - AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME! PLEASE NOTE: Poster Art Screen Grab not included in auction - Added for visual reference only - Thanks! *BUYER'S NOTE: Faster UPS shipments are available as is Local Pickup in the LA area. 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Price: 199 USD
Location: Topanga, California
End Time: 2024-11-16T15:40:09.000Z
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