*CIVIL WAR John Ireland Screenplay Based On Julius Horwitz's THE MARRIED LOVERS

Description

Vintage original screenplay
from an unproduced motion picture entitled
CIVIL WAR
. Based upon the novel,
The Married Lovers
, by Julius Horwitz,
this screenplay was written by John Ireland
. It consists of 109 pages on cream stock that were 3-hole punched and bound with two brass brads between a canary cardstock front and back cover. A sticker from Mr. Ireland's representation (Merriliy Kane Agency) was affixed to the bottom right corner of the front cover. This screenplay/script is complete in overall very fine condition with light discoloration along the left edge of the front cover with light signs of wear on the left corners and top right toner; a 3 in. diagonal crease on the bottom right corner; and the back cover has a small tear on the center of the left edge and light random wear along the top edge.
Novel synopsis
: This rather humorless but tenacious examination of a marriage, in fact marriage in general, takes place in the minds of David, a surgeon and now resident of a psychiatric bed after his suicide attempt, and of Anne his wife of seventeen years, Anne who has "emptied [his] life with the precision of an embalmer." Or so at first he thinks as he picks away at some of the arid areas of their corporate life with some of the irritability you might apply to a hangnail -- the lack of mutuality, of communication, and so forth. Anne, by the way, gives her side of the story via letters -- sort of written reports on what has long remained unspoken. Much of the book, unfortunately, comes down to his and her behavior in the bed with a final admission on how active (really a passive word for what she's been up to) she's been elsewhere.
John Ireland
was born on May 18, 1942 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for
Battlestar Galactica
(1978) and
Slumber Party '57
(1976). He was the son of John Ireland and Joanne Dru; brother of Peter Ireland; and nephew of Peter Marshall.